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The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Never
 Suspect It
Applicants for Insurance Often
 Rejected.

Judging from reports from druggista who are constantly in direct touch with the public, there is one preparation that has been very successful in overcoming these conditions. The mild and healing influence of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for it's remarkable record of success.
 An examining physician for one of the prominent Life Insurance Companies, in an interview on the subject, made the as- tonishing statement that one reason why 50 many applicants for insurance are re- jected is because kidney trouble is SO common to the American people, and the large majority of those whose appliea- tions are declined do not even suspect that they have the disease It is on sale at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medium and large.
 However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,, Binghamton, N. r.. for sample bDttle When writing be sure and mention this paper.-Adv.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
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HAS MANY IMPORTED TREES
No Other Country in the World Said to Possess Such a Variety as
 Does England.

The Portuguese boast of their forest at Basaco, where there are over two hundred kinds O. imported trees in full and gigantic growth. But there is no other country in the whole world where so many varieties of imported trees flourish as in the British isles. and Kew has specimens of nearly all of them. Not only original, or, rather, natural varieties are to he seen at Kew, but others which owe their being to the cunning of man. The latter are graft-hybrids of extraordinary interest. In the year 1926 a French gardener grafted purple-fiowered cytisus on laburnum stock. A branch developed, which produced flowers intermediate between the stock and the scion. You can see a specimen of this hybrid among the laburnums. It bears not only the hybrid flowers but also flow CTS and leaves characteristic of both its parents. The Laburnum Adami is it's name. In another case union be- tween the common thorn and the medlar has produced a similar strange result. Three separate types of branch, flower, and fruit are to be seen on the same bush. - Montreal Herald.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15

ment; went on. "Tm going to tear down the old cabin at Fallen Rock. clear out the underbrush. lay out grounds. and build a house. Why should l leave the Flatwoods? All that l care for in the world is here {: my father. my mother. and-you."
 The last word came hard for him. The girl lifted a hurried. shy half glance to his face; dropped her eyes again to the quiet water
 "The Blue Moon," he went on, "is- somehow-well, it oughtn't to pass from band to hand for just-money ! Mother spent her life for it. l now know why" There came a pause. "Pll never need that five thousand dollars, and maybe Louie Solomon's widow does. I've arranged with the sheriff to send her the draft, and I've kept the pearl"
 The girl softly clasped her hands together and looked up at him with beaming eyes.
 And maybe I'll get to see it, after all"
 IllIIlh udyDo you VIII
 He reached into the pocket of his blouse, drew out the small velvet box, raised the lid. lifted the girls hand, and laid the Blue Moon in her palm. The sunset, the green of the leaves, the glory of silver-edged cloud float ing across the sky-the wonderful gem caught them all, and lay laughing them up into her face.
 "Wfld Rosel" Her eyes left the pearl and rose to his face. What she saw there brought little catch to her breath. And there was a note in his voice that had never been there be- fore. "I reckon there's nobody left but just-you. and-me. And noth- ing in the world counts to me but you. The pearl is your birthday pres ent"
 "It's your birthday, too." she stam- mered, her face bowed and turned away. "And I have no present."
 "The most wonderful man ever re ceivedl A Wild Rose"
 He held out his unwounded arm. His heart had leaped to his eyes. His voice held the note that makes all voices musical. The girl lifted her face-like the dawn of day; her eyes glorious with the light not of star or sun; the light it is given a man but once to see. Her hands came toward him, found their way about his neck. The sunset stole softly through the hushed branches and touched their heads, and bound the two together the gold and the brown-with shaft of living bronze. A little breeze came by, lifted a strand of her hair, laid 1t across his face and slipped away to tell the trees.
 CTHE END
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
6be Blue Moon cA Tale of the FlatWoods

and each cradle housing lusty baby the weak gone back to earth, the fit that survive beginning to test wing and claw. Streams and woodland pools grow languid with millions mat ing. Each leaf has reached it's maxi mum of lung expansion. The trees breathe deep. The forest has settled down seriously to the business of full filling its promises. Cocoon and chrys- alis have opened and flung forth their glittering mysteries. Furnished bodies through yellow sunshine and soft shade, like flakes of star dust sitting down out of the sky.
 But if the woods have many cradles, they also have many graves. There was new one this placid June evening at Fallen Rock-a new one beside the one that was almost new. There were orchids upon them both. A man and ! maid had together hunted the woods tor them. Only such as they could n.lve found so many. Only to her fav- or'tes does nature show the way to her treasures
 The stanch old Boss and hard-faced Bull Masterson were back at their vats and clam rakes. Billy's grand motler was staying at the cabin of the three gables few days for com pany.
 The Pearlhunter came from the will lage in the still evening. Along the dim slim path through the woods he came. against the face of the sunset.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
Simple Trick of Artist.

Everybody has noticed that the eyes in some portraits follow one wherever he goes in the room. It Is a bit un- canny to move about an apartment and have the eyes of a picture always upon one. Some superstitious persons are afraid to go into a picture gallery where portraits of their ancestors are to be found. The effect is simply an optical illusion and is secured by hav- ing the eyes in the portrait looking directly toward the front. Under such circumstances the pupil Is necessarily in the middle, with an equal amount of "white" on each side. This rela- tion does not vary at all with the position of the observer. No matter where you stand the pupil will be in the middle of the eye and the eye will seem to be looking at you.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
Real Hiahbrow.

"It certainly does pay to have an education," said the man in household goods to the man from the rugs, over their lunch.
 'As to what?" asked the ruggeur.
 wy, this morning a woman came in and put her lorgnette to her eyes and asked me for refuse chalice.'"
 Good night Whats that?"
 "See-I told you it paid to have an education. I happened to recognize the woman and to know she had just moved here from Boston. So I got her a garbage pail, which was exactly what she wanted. d."-PhiladelpEia Pub- lie Ledger.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15

earth, for this baby is now four months old and healthier baby you would not want. I am sending you a picture of her. Everybody says, That is some healthy looking baby You have my consent to show this letter. Mrs. C. w. BENZ, 131 3rd Ave, Altoona, Pa.
 No woman can realize the joy and happiness this healthy babe brought into the home of Mrs. Benz, unless they have had like experience.
 Every woman who suffers from any ailments peculiar to her sex, as indica- ted by backaches, headaches, bearing down pains, irregularities, nervousness and ''the blues" should not rest until they have given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound trial.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
Virtues of Bare Feet.

Eve was reputedly barefoot. and Nausicaa played ball all the better because she went unshod.
 Helen of Troy at the most wore san dals, and the sandal is the compromise between the shoeless and the shod. It Is easier to make sandals than to make boots.
 In Ireland and Scotland the children have run barefoot for many day, and the wit of the one and the en- terprise of the other show that there is nothing really demoralizing in go- ing without shoes and stockings London Chronicle.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
"The Boy-stands Before You"

The swing and spring of a master of men was in his stride, for he carried in his pocket a telegram addressed to a man with a name at last, to David Wulf Warbritton. The telegram told of two fortunes awaiting down the river, of houses and lands, and advis- ing that Judge Eskridge was on his way.
 Near the turn of the path he stopped and stood listening. The song of a thrush was charming the silence. Only, the song carried a certain delicious, elusive witchery that no bird throat ever knew. He stole along the path. stopped and stood with barred head.
 Upon the fiat rock at the pool stood the Wild Rose, the tears running down her face, her lips and throat alive with the magic of song. A lady cardinal perched upon her shoulder. A king cardinal fidgeted and twitched his crest on an overhanging twig that almost brushed her hair. A pair of shy thrushes futtered and fitted in reach of her hand. Other birds walked up and down nearby branches, or darted down for hurried peck at the crumbs she had scattered over the rock.
 The tears drowned the blue; the song ceased. The birds f1uttered away one by one. The girl bowed her head and stood with clasped hands, gazing down at the quiet water.
 The mans step reused her. She turned, and her hands unclasped as if to reach toward him-but instantly clasped themselves again. He turned from the path, stepped out on the rock and came to- her side. A moment her eyes met his, and then went back to the placid water, and she stood crying softly.
 She turned back to him after time. a poor little half-drowned smile strug- gled out and brought suggestion of the dimples back.
 q had to tell them p she said.
 "It was wonderful l'' he answered very softly, as if his voice might dis turb the spell of the music before the echoes had finished carrying it to the rest of the woods.
 The leaves nuDS InOIlOnIeSS, dS II waiting for the song to start again. The tinkle of the rifle where the wa ter walked up at the lower edge of the pool came out of the silence.
 "The telegram came" he went on after a long time. 'It says"-he hesitated, as If pondering the next words before giving them speech, as if half dreading to give them speech that Judge Eskridge is coming for you"
 The words strangely carried the girls thoughts back to mother driven forth to die in loneliness and poverty to a grave on a hill overlooking the river. where the hand of friend had laid her; to a great, silent house; to a stern old man relenting in his last hours
 q shan't go back with him." she said. Some day I'll go back to the grave on the hill, but not-now."
 The man stood weighing the words h his slow way.
 q shan't either." He paused mo
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
BREVITlES

Snow. either fallen or falling. is a great obstructOr of sound.
 New York city has more than 11.0OO miles of paved streets and sidewalks.
 Field crops of Canada last year are estimated to represent $17O per capita.
 A pine tree in New Zealand is esti- mated by scientists to be 1900 years old.
 Fewer persons were killed on rail roads in 1919 than in any year since 1898.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
And she couIdn,t penx Ut.

I wear "stuffings" In the sides of my hair to make my 'pufrs" fluffier than they otherwise would be. One night in crowded street car I was stand ing in front of a nice-Iooking young man when one of my rats" as they are sometimes called, fell out of my hair and into his hand. It would not have been so bad if he hadn't bel lowed out, "Young lady, I think this rat belongs to you" u."-Exchange.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15

Wireless messages. it has been dis covered. have an effect on plants.
 Licenses to beg may be granted to the needy by the local authorities in Italy.
 Nearly 90 per cent of the soil in Bedfordshire, England, is under culti- vation.
 About 5000 varieties of fish have been found in the waters of the Gulf stream.
 Eskimos eat the stomachs of deer, with their contents. to supply the wit amines in their diet.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
Picturesque Custom.

A unique and picturesque custom in Korea is the handing down of fam fly hat from father to eldest son. This hat, made from the hair of family an- cestors, is a priceless possession, and is so carefully handled that it does not wear out for generations.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
Ten There Was Trouble.

'Robert," said his spouse, father writes me that he is going to get typewriter. What's the best kind. do you think?"
 "Well," he replied unthinkingly. T like them about twenty. with soft brown eyes"
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
Sigh for the Good Old Days"

Jud Tunkins says he sometimes wishes we could get back to the old times when the average person was not expected to make a speech except on his birthday or when he got elected to something.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15

mas done for me. We have h ad six children
 die almost at birth.
 From None hour to nineteen days is all they have lived As
 1 was going to have another, I took a
 dozen bottles of your
 We ge ta ble Com pound and I can say that it is the great net ma1ioina nn
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
Plants Grow Best TranspIanted.

Plants do not always select the most congenial habitat, for it has been found that some specimens found growing modestly on the mountain top flourish to a marked extent when transplanted at the sea level.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
CHAPTER xv.

The Song of a Thrush.
 Twentieth of June. and the world at high tide; the woods full of crad2esL
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
JOY BROUGHT
 INTO HOME
By Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound, Restoring
 Mrs. Benz to Health

Altoona, Par am writing to teIl you what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15
mt German city in the

Eugene V. Debs, recent Socialist can didate for president and serving a 10-year sentence in Atlanta peniten- tiary for obstructing the draft during the war, called on Attorney General Daugherty in Washington by request. He made the round trip from prison alone and was not recognized. His other.
The Holbrook news., 1921-04-15

sss FOR IDEAS. Photoplay Plots accepted any form; revised. criticized. copyrighted. marketed. Advice free Universal Scenario
The Topeka state journal., 1921-10-07

New York, oct. 7.-Waite Hoyt.
youthful pitching hero of the second
worlds series game, was happy today
IN the realization of a secret ambition
to beat the club that turned him
loose on his first venture into the big
leagues. A mere schoolboy just out
of Erasmus Hall high school, Brook
lyn, in 1916, Hoyt was signed by
Manager McGraw of the Giants, but
WAS quickly released to the minors.
The Giants chief sat on the bench
Yesterday sadly watching the cast-oft
turn the National leaguers back with
two scant hits for to victory. The
Young twirler, now only p years old,
was as cool and sure of himself as
MathewSOn.
But his father. Ad Hoyt. who had
Shared the secret of his sons ambition,
was as excited as Waite traditionally
should have been. The elder Hoyt
saw his boy win everlasting fame in
basebau's hall of records, and was one
of the first to congratulate him in the
club house after the game. Surrounded
by a crowd of fans, the father told
and retold of the boys early career
so often that he almost forgot to go
home for supper.
Hoyt after his release by the Giants,
was sent to the Rochester, n. Y, club
but he did not stay. He decided to
5oin the Baltimore Dry Rocks instead
There he was a sensation. Later he
played with the Memphis, Tenn, club
and from there went to the Boston
Red Sox. The latter club traded him
to the Yankees last year.
Yesterdays game was all Hoyt.
Waite's curve, his slow ball and his
fast breaking drop behaved them
selves admirably, and the boy tWirler
from Brooklyn let the Giants down
with two hits-one of the greatest
pitching feats in world series history.
Not a Giant occupied the second sack
until the ninth inning, and that Giant
happened to be frankie Frisch. who
turned in a perfect batting average in
the first game. Frisch got the only
clean blow of the game off HOyt, a
single to right, and he moved to sec
ond when Young drew free transpOr-
tation to first. The other hit, gar
nered by Rawlings. in the third. was a
short floater to left which dropped
between Peck and Ruth.
Aside from Hoyt's wonderful twirl-
ing, the bright spots of the game were
the steals by Ruth ana r. Meusel,
and a sensational stab of MeuseIs S
liner by Frisch in the first with Ruth
and Miller on. Bob's drive looked
good for two sacks before it crashed
into Frisch's unraised hands. He
doubled Miller at second. The Ford
ham flash evened the days work up
in the eighth, however, when he in
Naueu Bancroft territory and dropped
an easy pop fly off Peck's bat.
Ruth aroused the spectators in the
fifth, when, after drawing a pass, he
stole second, and on the next ball
pitched dashed for third, beating
Smiths throw to Frisch. MeusePs
steal of home in the eighth was exc
cuted after the manner of Mike Nc
Nally's theft in the first game. Aaron
Ward and Captain Peckinpaugh per-
formed as brilliantly afield as they
did in the opener. Ward figured in
no less than nine plays, without a
double. and Peck was at one end of
number of brilliant plays Artie
The Topeka state journal., 1921-10-07

Nehf hurled excelIently for the Giants,
allowing only three hits, but he was
wild, issuing many passes.
Analysis of yesterdays pitching duel
in the second worlds series game
shows that Waite Hoyt, the former
Brooklyn school boy had the better of
his older opponent, Arthur Nehf, in
every angle of the game.
Hoyt delivered the ball 11S times to
the Giant batters in nine innings-an
average of a trifla more than thirteen
deliveries per inning. He sent up "A
balls, 80 strikes, l 6 foul strikes and 4
fouls. Nineteen deliveries resulted in
infield outs and two were outfield
outs. Two were hits. Hoyt struck out
five and gave five bases on balls.
Nehf threw the ball to the Yankee
batters 121 times in eight innings for
an average of about 3 deliveries per
inning. The umpire called 81 of them
balls, 25 went as strikes. as foul
strikes and as fouls. Infield outs
were made on 20 others and were
recorded as outfield outs. Three times
the American league batters turned the
ball back as safe hits and two resulted
in errors. Nehf gave seven bases on
balls and had no strikeOutS.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-10-07
EAST SIDE NEWS
Notes and personals by Mrs. II. d.
WadleAgh. Call Blue 1921 or $3.50.

The Olive. club met Thursday evening at
the home of Miss Nettie Peterson in Grat-
ton street The guests of the evening were
Mrs. A Haight, Miss Edna Cox Miss Flea
nor Shaffer, Miss Myrta Haight, Miss Ber-
nice Peterson, Miss Anna Johnson Miss
Frances Jones and Miss Nettie Peterson.
The next meeting will be held in two weeks
at the home of Miss Mabel Cremer in Grat-
ton street
Miss Marian Ayres of Wamego. Kan,
and Mr.. Walter Coon of Manhattan Kan,
were married Tuesday, October 4, at the
home of the Rev. j. w. r. Clardy in Lake
street.
The Clematis club met Thursday after
noon at the home of Mrs. c. C. Magee in
Norton street. The guests of the afternoon
were: Mrs. D. E. Young, Mrs. H. Earn, Mrs.
n. o. Craig, Mrs. L. H. Shields, Mrs. L. S.
Young, and Mrs. C. Magee
Mrs. r. s Kresge has returned to her
home in Sumner street from kanarado
Kan, where she spent some time the guest
White.
Mrs. ". II. Mayes was pleasantly sur
prssed Thursday evening at her home in
East Locust street, the occasion being her
birthday anniversary. The guests of the
child, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Stonequist, Mr.
land Mrs. Virgil Walker, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Lafferty, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Palmer
lMr. Ivan Mayess and Mr.. Willard Lafferty
III Mr. and Mrs Frank Lafferty, Mr. and
Mrs. c. F. Fairchild, and Mr.. Willard Laf
hay and spend the day the guests of rela-
tives.
| The Vest Embroidery club will be enter.
| tanned Friday afternoon, October II, at the
home of Mrs. D. 7. Thomson, S24 Madison
4treet.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-10-07
KANSAS PHONE co. TO COURT
Takes Action to Prevent Interference
by Utilities Commission.
1e Kansas Telephone company,

The Kansas Telephone company,
serving Lawrence, Ottawa and Gar
nett, today appealed to the United
States district court for an injunction
to prevent the public utilities COM
mission from interfering with hike
in rates. The company declares the
insignificant increases granted by
the commission after a year of wait
ing are not sufficient to enable it to
operate except at loss.
The company. according to- the petit
ton, filed application with the COM
mission for an increase october IA,
1920. The hearing was concluded
December 81, according to the petit
ton, but no decision was rendered.
After a further hearing July IS. 1921,
the petition recites. the commission,
on September 27. allowed an 'insig-
nificant increase"
The company asserts that it is un-
able to make necessary extension of
service, hire additional employees as
prescribed by the commission, or pay
any dividends on the stock issued for
the purchase of the Lawrence Home
Telephone company and the old Mis-
souri, & Kansas Telephone company,
which was completed some time ago.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-10-07
OAKLAND NEWS
Notes and personals by Mrs. II. d.
WsdleIgh. Call Blue 422I or $3.50.

Mr. A. W. Widegren of Grand Junction.
Colo, spent Thursday evening the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. T. Richardson in Winfield
avenue. Mr.. Widegren is on his way to
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Peery of Randall
Kan, will change their residence soon to
230 Oakland avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. r. Cole will leave the
first of the week for Walnut, Kan. where
they will spend a few days visiting rela-
tives
The meeting of the Oakland Rebeccah
drill team to have been held this evening
in the Oakland /. o. o. f. hall, has been
postponed Indefinitely.
Mrs. D. S. Brockway, OF Sheridan. Wyo.,
is spending few days the guests of her
mother, Mrs. George, and her sister Mrs.
The Fidelity class of the Oakland Meth
odist church met Thursday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. r. H. Weekes in Wabash
avenue. The guests of the afternoon were
Mrs. H. E. Allison, Mrs. H. V. Clayton,
Mrs. Arthur GeySh Mrs. I. c. Gardner.
Mrs. Roy Helm. Mn David Hettinger, Mrs.
Millard, Mrs. Morgan Washburn, Mrs. Bert
Edwards, Mrs. w. J. Williams and Mrs.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Harrington of Pueblo,
Colo, Mrs. NJ. A. Anderson, of Walsenburg,
Colo. Mrs. G. D. COttrell of lola, Kan,
and Mrs. Lillian Ermy, of Chanute, Kan,
have returned to their homes after spend
ing a few days in Oakland the GUT sts of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Cottrell in Oakland
EIwood Lesson is HI with diphtheria at
the home of his parents, in Forest avenue.
Mrs. Sarah Smelser entertained at dinner
Thursday at her home in Winfield avenue
in honor of Mrs. Lottie Blair of Weir City,
Kan, and Mrs Norah Sawyer of Howard,
Okla Covers were placed for: Mrs. Lottie
Blair. Mrs. Norah Sawyer, Mrs. Henry
Shuler. Mrs. W. B. Glenn, Mrs. Geo Hers
chell, Mrs. Joe Smelser. Mrs. Jesse Smelser,
Mrs John Smelser, Mrs viii Parkratze,
Mrs Sarah Smelser, Miss Dorothy Shuler,
Sarene Herschel and Grace Smelser.