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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

This MongoI was a good boy, but
he's a modern compared to the rest of
this"
81 said we weren't always alone"
Only a few stones were here in
view, and a river-bed long dry; yet
Con peered about uncertainty. Old
violence Iurked in the sunshine
The sand was changing in tint as
they rode westward, and to the north,
showing patches o. rust color. Small
cliffs raised above the shadows, their
strata bronze and a f1aky blue.
Through long days they traced out
the route indicated upon the map.
The moon diminished and darkened
again, and still they were able to cross
off the angles of the parchment only
a bit at a time.
On certain evenings the northern
horizon seemed to shift and crawl
Far flying shapes peOpled the hills on
the worlds rim. Smaller presences
too, darted away from the watch-f1re
like shadowy butterflies. Con never
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16
CHAPTER V-Continued.

When the night was well advanced,
near eleven by a white mans reckon
ing. they vent into camp, and the
drivers were still sUIlen.
'Win they get used to it?'' asked
Con.
March shook his head, and at dawn,
before camp was broken, reused him
self from a light sleep to find the
drivers in secret activity. It rather
looked as if they were trying to get
away with the camels. a gun cracked,
and March turned sharply to see Con
sitting up from his blanket, his carbine
smoking. He. too, had been watching
the preparations. He had shot in the
air, but both the yellow men fell face
downward upon the sand. March went
to them at once, paid them well in
gold, gave them two big draws at the
water-bags. and started them OF to-
gether, eastward. Shan-sung was
within waIking-distance.
al should have known better" he
said.
They did not see the old Chinese
who would no doubt make a wide de-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16
NEWS ITEMS FROM
ALL over KANSAS
Happenings of More or Less
interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
FARMERS SEEK FULL VALUE
State Agricultural Board to Name
Committee to Study Cooperative
Marketing and Buying.

A special committee is to inTesti-
gate cooperative marketing and buy
for farmers in Kansas in the coming
winter. This was the result of the
conference at Topeka of the state
board of agriculture with Bernard NJ.
Baruch and the heads of various farm
organizations in the state. The presi-
dent of the board of agriculture is to
name a commission of the board and
representatives from the various farm
organizations to study the cooperative
problem and present some legislation
to make cooperative marketing and
buying easier and to safeguard the
interests of the state and the people
Mr.. Baruch told the members Of
the board and the representatives Of
the farm organizations that his in
Vestigations during the time he was
the head of the war industries board
led him to believe that the middleman
obtained too large a share Of the
products of the farm.
MY investigation" he said, LEADS
me to believe that some method must
be devised by which the farmer can
obtain the full market value of his
products. l think that we must elm
mate the possible profits on products
from the time the product reaches the
terminal elevator until it reaches the
mouth of the consumer.
Just how this can be done, or what
steps should be taken to do it, l can
not say at this time. 1 am trying to
obtain some information that would
lead to a solution of the problem
feel confident that there is a solution,
and when we work out some plan
am willing to help complete it. II
we are told that the plan is impossible
1 will stick on the job until it is dem
onstrated that it is possible
During the course of the conference
it was pointed out by W. Nj. Jardine
president of the agricultural college
| that the farmer now received for his
wheat an equivalent of SO a barrel
for flour, but when it came back tC
him in the form of a loaf of bread he
paid at the rate of $29 a barrerl fol
flour.
Suggestions of central warehouses
&c store farm products, the creation
Of farmer Organizations TO finance
| their crops so they could be held and
thus prevent selling on falling OF
low market. and the creation Of addi
tional cooperative marketing and buy
| ing institutions, were mentioned a:
steps looking toward a solution Of the
problem. One of the chief point:
| brought out at the conference was
that every manufacturer knew exact
| ly just what every item of expense:
amounted to in producing an article
and that the farmer seldom If eve
knew exactly how much it cost hin
| to produce anything.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

quite saw these things. They always
moved just out of range Of vision, and
he could never turn sharply enough.
They were like the nimbIe hands Of
old Chinese Bill.
'fWhy are you staring at me?" he
asked of March.
what do you seer" countered the
other.
Nothing" said Con.
THAT'S what I thought" laughed
March.
But his laughter was empty, and 1t
seemed oddly to be caught up by the
breathing Of the camels, and then toss
ed out overhead.
ST suppose that rushing cloud on
there is the dust" said Lexington af-
ter a while.
"No doubt" replied March, ''but I
don't see It"
In the fifth week they found water,
a little greasy marsh. Thus far there
had not been one glimpse Of Chez
Ming, and there were no signs here.
Eight more days westward, some
times TO the north, and they reached
a spring OF clear water. The beasts
cried and sucked and trembled. Other
camels had been here before them, re-
Gently; their marks were In the mud.
If the map had been gagged properly,
Con perceived that they were nearing
the end.
A starving wolf sfdled in toward
the .wafer-hole. He had never learned
fear. He stalked the led camels and
lazily found his position to leap, when
they shot him. The camels were in
frenzy.
Beyond, there were no more ruins
above the surface. The sky belonged
to another world. These plains and
ridges of red sand were the husks Of
the planet. Levington's eyes ached
with the distances In the glare of day
sun. Two of the camels were killed,
to provide sustenance for the others,
and the two men shared with the
beasts.
Now the high winds came in a br1is-
ing torrent. as If the elements had
turned enemy, and this was their
threat. The beasts gave up. and were
driven into q roaring gully where the
blast was broken somewhat. It whined
and rushed overhead, and began to
bury them with sand
In this choking confusion the cap
ture came quickly brief affair in
which the white men were too late
with their guns. Riders were down
upon them, an avalanche Of ferocity.
The storm had obscured their coming.
On horses demoniac and primal they
had sped down through the sandstone
as if it were an April rain These
were monster men with silvery eyes.
Their boards were hanging mats of
sand. their mouths caked with dust.
Close-dtting leather helmets enlarged
their heads.
Leather thongs whipped out and
circled Cons arms, and he was help
less. In a moment strong hands were
undressing the white men. The
frightened camels were being driven
away. The strangers worked In a
nervous heat, chanting song or prayer,
their voices mingIing with the savage
wind. Everything was taken from the
prisoners. and dagger points were sent
ripping through their garments
March was shouting. pleading with
rich offers. but he received no reply
only his ruined clothing. Then the re
mainder Of the party leaped and spur
red their hairy beasts I'D the slope.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

A colored preacher. one of the men
who are never at a loss for words,
was commencing to his congregation
one Of the organs of the church, and
this Is how he did it: 1.-The mission
airy bulletin Of this church needs sub
scribers. 1t is young and unflnancial,
but through the fundamentally Of
backbone and grit it win become an
ideal. 1t was ushered into existence
out Of purely innocent contemplation
Of moral and religious good, which
would. in all probability, result from
carefully agitated principles Of rigf t.
eousness. The bulletin will be OBJ
served mingling in social conyolutions
to furnish with sheaves OF harvests
Of those reasonable products common
to social contingencies. The tone OF
the whole will be missionary work"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

The showering sand hid them again.
Levington's face and shoulders were
numb with the pelting Of little stones.
1t was all finished in a moment.
Are you all right?'- asked Marsh.
eyes. They didn't leave anything"
With extreme difficulty the two
travellers stepped into and adjusted
their rags. The map was gone, along
with guns, gold, camels, provisions,
water, and all sense Of direction.
Their eyes were red with pain. The
wind clustered in dry fury, as If. the
riders might materialize out of 1t a
second time.
''They must have had US In view all
day, perhaps yesterday, or they could
not have found US in this weather.
said March, hitching the remains of
his trousers to a bit of shirt.
''Those horses weren't real" said
Con. "And how did they get me all
tied up with leather before I could
drawn"
They spoke with levity that was not
felt, each hoping by his calmness to
cheer the other The actual situation
was too plain. Lexington added:
"At least we seem to be in the right
neighborhOod,'
I'VE can wait here until we get
straight by the stars" said March. 81
maintain that we did fairly well, to
have come this far before they found
u.s."
Eyes"
March pretended not to notice the
trembling of his voice. Both were
busy with new ways of assembling
tattered garments. Then Con saw
that his friend was smiling.
BOY" said March, Eve may not find
much. to eat or drink, but we are not
quite done for"
Lexington nodded without compre
bending, and his companion added
1--WE are not altogether lost"
How is that2''
For answer, March balanced himself
against Cons shoulder, and lifted W
| one foot, as If to look at a bruise
and busted IT carefully. a duplicate
of the map was clearly tattOoed or
| the sole Of his right foot.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16
THE DESERT GUARDS.

Synopsis = John Lexington.
poet, visionary and impractical.
and Mary Martin, the daughter OF
rich and worldly parents, hear the
call of love and unite their nVes-
They go to a small Michigan city.
where John finds work in stove
factory and on Sundays writes
verses The Martins try in vain TO
get the happy wife TO leave her
husband. Mary begins to breathe
for two. John loses mis- job. He
appeals in vain to the Martins
Mary goes to the hospital and
never returns. Thus comes into the
story Cornelius Lexington. The
father leaves town and the city
farms out the child After two
years the father returns and takes
his little son with him on his world
Wanderings. The father becomes
the slave of a mysterious drug.
koresh, with odors of wine and
cinnamon, and returns with little
Con to die on his Wife's grave. Con
is again farmed out, grows up in
the underworld and is saved for
better things by Andrew March.
So much by way of Introduction to
the hero of the strange adventures
of yellow Men Sleep These be-
small leather sack from Chez Ming,
the Chinese cook Of an acquaint-
ance. This sack contains q Chi
nese map Of the Cobb desert, which
Is precious beyond price to Andrew
March. Eighteen years before
armed men in the Cobb had taken
March's wife and infant daughter
from him. Now he sends Con in
search of them. On the voyage
Con finds Chez Ming a fellow pas
senger. Chez Ming drugs Con and
steals his map, but Con presses on
toward Shan-sung. Con Is shot by
a poisoned dart. and while he is in
the consequent stupor his map Is
stolen. On the river boat to Pc
king he again sees Chez Ming, and
realizes they are seeking the same
destination. Con keeps faith with
mission westward with a caravan
After weeks of difficult travel
he reaches the little settlement OF
Shan-sung and reads instructions
from Andrew March to the effect
that Con has been made a federal
agent to search out Chez Ming,
who has brought quantities of ko-
resh, deadly drug, to San Fran
cisco. At Shan-sung Con is unex-
pectedly joined by March. The two
Americans press forward into the
desert.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16
Cornish Tin Miners

The men who work in the Cornish
tin mines are a class by themselves,
and all their differences are adjusted
by the stannary courts, as they are
called from the Latin word stannGm.
These curious courts have existed in
their present form since the middle Of
the thirteenth century, and. In a sim
pier form, much earlier; and the min
ers claim to be free from all other
Jurisdiction, except In matters az
fecting the land, life or limb"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

Emporia and other towns in the
Neosho and Cottonwood valleys will
unite in a fight to protect the rivers
and creeks from pollution by oil and
salt water. Mayor J. c. Brogan OF
Emporia will write letters to the may
ors Of ten towns on the Neosho below
Emporia, asking them to support a
bill which will make it unlawful for
oil drillers to allow refuse from oil
wells to drain into the streams of Kan
sas.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

One policeman was killed and anoth-
er wounded at Winfield recently by q
man in a motor car. The dead police
men is Richard Kreuger. who had been
On the night force for fifteen years.
The wounded officer is George Mich
OILS. negro. who has been policeman
for about twenty years. The two Off
GERS had been called to put a stop TO
the efforts of a man who was said to
be trying to compel a girl to get into
his car The officers approached the
car and ordered the man to let the girl
go. The man opened fire.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16
A Feeling Of Security

You naturally feel secure when 20
know that the medicine you are about 20
take Is absolutely pure and contains n
harmful or habit producing drugs.
Such = medicine Is Dr.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
The same standard Of purity, strength
and excellence 10 maintained, In every
bottle of SWsmp-Root.
It il scientifically compounded ho8
vegetable herbs.
It is not . stimuIant and il taken =
teaspoonfui doses
It II not recommended for everything.
It Is natures great helper N relieVin8
and overcoming kidney. liver and bad
der troubles.
A sworn statement Of purity u With
every bottle Of Dr.. Klmers Swamp
Root.
II you need . medicine, you sh0zld
have the best. On sale at al drug store1
in bottles of two sizsa, medium and krSs-
However. If you wish first to Try this
great preparation send ten cents TO D.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, n. Y, for 9
sample bottle. When writing be Eurs -
mention this DaDer.-Adv.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

A little girl stood at the bottom ef
the stairs calling:
Here, Fidoi Here, FidOi"
A man who likes puppies stopped =
moment to see what kind OF pet the
little girl had.
When the pet made its appearance
he exclaimed in surprise:
Didn't 1 hear you call it FidOT
yes" the little girl replied CON
pIacently. 81 know IL Is a cat, but ]
am having it for a dOg."-YoungstoWn
Telegram.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

Francis Bruney, So, was fatally in
jured when a motor car in which he
was riding with Dr. Riley Ereiling was
struck by an eastbound Union Pacific
freight train at a crossing in Victoria
Bruney was removed to a hospital in
Hays. where he died two hours later.
DR.. Ereiling jumped from the motor
car and escaped injuries. Both men
lived in Victoria.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

A bequest Of $4,000 to Devaux col
Iege, Niagara Falls n. Y, is made in
the will of the late Mrs. J. L. Berry.
filed for probate at Atchison recently.
She left a trust fund of $4,000 for
her husband, Judge J. L. Berry, $1,000
each to the Atchison hospital and the
local Y NJ. c. A, and $1,000 to the
William Small memorial home for
aged women at Leavenworth
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

L 7. Hussey. state fire marshal, be-
gan work on regulations to try to re-
duce the number of fires in garages in
Kansas. In August there were two
big garage fires, at Liberal and Man
haitian, which caused losses in excess
Of 4 million dollars. and it is believed
the total losses from garage fires for
the state for the month were nearly
double that amount
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

John z. Clark Of Ottawa, who was
struck by Santa Fe train No in En-
poria after the train had killed five
persons, when it hit motor car near
Sylvia, is not fatally injured Clark
was struck at EmpOria station when
he stepped in front of the train. Pas
sengers on the train claim it was
linked"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16
KANSAS FEEDIHG BIG HERDS
With Assurance of a Bumper Corn
Crop the Cattle Raising Business
In State is Booming.

With the largest corn crop in sew
eraI years and plenty Of other kinds
OF rouhness, there viii be more cattle
fed in Central Kansas this year than
in ten years before, it is said. The
farmers have been buying young cat
tie for several weeks, ever since the
corn crop has been assured and every
farm now has nice bunch on pasture.
In every county in Central Kansas
corn will make from thirty to forty
bushels to the acre, and the more ex-
tensive cattle feeders now are filling
their silos Many farmers Will have
two and three silos filled to capacity.
Men who have used the silo for some
years claim that the heavy yield this
year will make from ten to fifteen tons
to the acre. and the cattle faisers and
feeders declare the outlook is unusual
ly bright.
The corn at this time is in the
dough stage, the farmers say. The en-
silage, containing thirty bushels Of corn
to the acre, makes the proper balance
the farmers say. and there will be lit
tie or no need for other corn. or cake,
" AudhC II a PC1ACSN ACC0- -SO~~--S
storms, including hail, have left the
fields in a very much tangled condi-
ton, but it all can be gathered with
little difficulty, although the labor
from harvesting the crop will be more
expensive than usual.
Every county has had some cattle IN
past years, but there now are more
cattle in each county than at the heav-
lest part of the season heretofore in
several years. Some of the cattle
were brought in as soon as the pas
lures began to make good from the
spring rains.
The farmers say that the men who
fed cattle last year lost some money,
but they stand good to make it back
with extra profit this year Many more
attic will be shipped into each cOun-
ty later in the fall.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

Neighbors Of Mrs G. W. holland, q
widow, are this week preparing one
hundred acres Of wheat land for her
while she and her daughters are visit
ing in the East, as a surprise for her
on her return home. The neighbors
also will cut the corn and take care
Of other fall crops as another surprise
Mr.. holland, whose farm is in the Kipp
neighborhood, died few weeks ago.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16
Reaeaned EarIr EaIIure.

Thomas Chambers. the noted mis-
sionary and preacher, was the despair
OF his school teacher. Another IA
nous preacher, Isaac Barrow, was so
slow and quarreIsome that he was
counted q disgraee % the school.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16
Failure In Life

A sad story reaches Us from South
west London. It appears that a girl
Of twenty attempted suicide because
she realized she was too old to write
either a popular novel or q book OF
poems.-From Punch, London.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

His Blanket, His Gun Smoking.
tour before touching the real trail.
The country, although perfectly open
and without trees. was irregular.
From the hillocks Of naked earth one
could see for leagues in the four direc-
tons. but no Chez Ming.
They paced the camels through the
morning. halted for a long noon, and
continued into the evening. At sun
down of this second day on. the wind
rose, with its menacing rattle OF sand,
but 1t died before dark.
At dawn they started again. The
desert was less hiily, but great rocks
emerged from the sand, and here were
Slittering lizards In the morning light,
stin asleep. The heavens were CLASSY.
a wind held from the northwest, and
the nostrils Of the beasts were stung
TO bleeding by the sand. Grit had
sifted into Cons clothing, next to his
skin, and riding was hardship. Dust
grated in his teeth.
That night Andrew March lit the
watch-fire and 1t was Cons time for
sleep. Their world was empty, sound
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

Mrs. ]. r Rathbone was killed and
her son, Emmett, slightly injured,
when a westbOund Frisco passenger
train struck a motor truck driven by
the latter at HaIlowelI, six miles east
OF OsWego recently
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

Joseph w Moots OF Louisville, KY,
beating" his way home from the Kan
sas harvest, fields, was probably IA.
tally injured when q broken wheel
caused tEentyfOuT cars OF a north
bound freight train to go into the
ditch about three miles south Of
Olathe, on the cutoff branch of the
Santa Fe.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

Asserting it is losing money on its
Atchison investment, the Southwest
ern Bell Telephone Company has filed
an application with the Kansas indus
trial court for rate advances, it was
announced by the company.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16
segf-centered.

"fOu have always been one Of thess
skepticaI people" remarked the Re-
proacbful friend
Il must admit" replied Mr.. Grow
cher.
you even said the flying machine
would nOt he q success"
well. so far as my own comfort
or peace of mind is concerned. IL
Isn'fn
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

". F. Muenzenmaier, a Junction
City banker. has sold his 36O-acre
farm east of town TO John Hummer
and Charles Munson fol a price ex-
ceeding $4,000 Mr. Muenzenmaier
acquires the Central hotel in Junction
city through the transaction.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

Two 4O-acre tracts in Eastern John
son County, left to Olathe by the late
George Moore Of Lenexa, were sold
for sig, 500. The tracts were sold at
auction at the old settlers picnic.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

The Merry Mercy Maidens. compos-
ed of tEenty-four high school girls,
had a tag day at Garrett the other
day to obtain funds to equip and main
tain an Anderson County bed at Mercy
hospital, Kansas City. The girls col
lected S1S5.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

A H Ward, attorney of NeOdosha.
has been selected by the Republican
county committee to be the candidate
ty TO succeed J. n. shannon, deceased.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

The Kansas rate case was continued
until September 1, in order TO obtain
from the railroads additional infOrma-
ton about the Kansas business. Dur
ing the course OF the hearing the in
dustriaI court announced that the big
mass OF evidence submitted 10 the in
terstate commerce commission was not
sufficient because Of its general ma
ture, and that the court desired infor-
nation about the value OF the Kansas
properties, the freight and passenger
revenues and the values of the lines
in the state compared with the total
values and revenues of the entire
systems
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-09-16

Mrs. Katherine Wirth, IS, who died
IA Saline County recently, was the
mother OF the first white child born in
Mcpherson County The family came
to Kansas from the East in a prairie
schooner and after two years resi-
dence In Mcpherson County, home
steaded a farm in Saline County In
1868, where she lived until her death.