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TWTOINT . Vf ACT A' Prints All Official County News WA-KEENEY, KANS., FEBRUARY 1. 1913 34th Year Number 48 WES Bank Your Surplus With The Wa-Keeney State Bank Which combines capital, confidence, consistency and courtesy. The man with the big roll are alike welcomed. Our doors are open to borrowers and depositors alike. Our purpose is to make our bank a mutual benefit to the community in general and its patrons in particular. We invite you to start a checking account with us. THE Wa-Keeney Mrs. A. R. Tabor, of Crider, Mo., had been troubled with sick head ache for about five years, when she began taking- Chamberlain's Tablets. She has taken two bottles of them and they have cured her. Sick head ache is caused by a disordered stom ache for which these tablets are es pecially intended. Try them, get well and stay well. So'd by all deal ers Adv. 1 WHITE ELEPHANT FLOUR THE BEST BY TEST Other brands recommended to be "Just as Good" usual ly prove unsatisfactory. Why " run, the risk? Every sack guaranteed to make perfect bread. Cur Price is Right The ST AM Grocery $12.50 Snappy new spring suits $12.50 and up "We make old clothes look like new." Phone 92 PIERSON'S SUITATORIUM, w5sr- LU M BER COAL GRAI N S Particular people have learned that there is a lot of difference in the quality of lumber, and as we make QUALITY our "long suit," you take no chances in buying what you need from us. The most complete stock of the BEST LUM BER in Trego County i3 at your disposal, in fact anything you might want from a lumber and coal yard. Estimate Cheerfully Furnished GOOD WEIGHTS AND GOOD PRICES FOR YOUR GRAIN The Hardman State Bank Do Not Understand it Purpose. Rural route patrons up in Vermont and elsewhere are accused of a woeful want of understanding relative to parcels post. They attach calico samples to notes asking carriers to bring them so many yards: also a -mop-wringer, etc., etc., all-to be paid for when brought. Another wanted some patent medicine and five lengths of stove-pipe brought the same way. GIVEN Lumber Co. -8-E.g-g.B-B.l LEGISLATIVE NEWS. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 21, 1913. Editor World: As this is my second week of legislature I will write you again. Well, I suppose you see by the papers, just what we are doing. They killed my bill in the com mittee asking a rebate on the taxes on the horses that died of the epidemic, but I got busy to day and went after them and brought it up again. If I get it up in the" house I will, thresh it out, but the fellows here in the eastern part of the state will fight it but I will make a hard fight for it as I think it right; oniy ror tins one year but no longer. we are in a great ngnt over the marriage bill, it will come up tomorrow for debate, this for bids the whites and colored peo pie from marrying; it is only a stepping stone to the jim crow law. Every Democrat is in favor of it and every Republican is against it, it will be a hard fight as party lines are drawn and drawn tight. I expect to get in on this for the reason that if this law passes they will start some thing else some time sooner or later and we will try to nip it in the bud. Now, I want my people at home to let me know what they want and I will try to get it for them, they can send me a bill and I will get it before the house and fight for what my people want, but the best thing to do is to repeal about one-half of the laws we have as there are some we do not need. You would be surprised at some bills that are in here and I am on some four or five com mittees, we got through with one on mileage, and one good old Democrat brother wanted about 250 more miles than was due him and another Democrat want ed 100 more miles than was. due him, and you know "what I think of that kind of work, and they talk of coming in the house with it. I only hope they will for I want a chance at them as you know the holler they have always made. Iron Jaw Brown is making us a good speaker and he is fair, is giving us more of the commit tees than we expected and when we want an explanation on any matter he is always willing to give us advice. We all get along nicely only when we take a vote then friendship ceases. Now, I will say once .more to the people of our county not to be afraid to ask me if there is anything they think they need lat me know. Don't wait until the pie is all gone and then ask for a piece. Well. I will try and keep the readers of the World posted as to what is going on here. Kind regards to all. Yours, O. L. Cook. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 28, 1913. Editor World : I was sorry my last communi cation, was received too late for publication as I mailed it on Wednesday night. Well, we have had some lively times since I wrote you last. . I am on some five committees and chairman of one. I am on a committee to smell around and find out some of the leaks of the last two years, will try to look into the Larned affair and see if they had a right to. squander the people's money as they have been doing, and to see if there is no way to stop it, and see if we can't stop some of the grafts that now exist; as I am making oat a list of some of the - unnecessary help . around j some of these institutions willj try hard to show the committee where some of the leaks are and there are plenty of them. I ex pect we will have to visit most of the institutions so as to find out just how to act in regard to them as there is no doubt but what we can cut down some of these ex penses. Today was the day to elect United States senator and at noon the election took place. btubbs got three votes, Allen one, Thompson got the rest of the House votes. And yet they talk about the legality of Thomp son's election; even a very prom nent Democrat said it was not legal, but I hope they won't start anything. Let them have it all, it belongs to them, it would do us no good to start anything. We slipped one over them in the start on the postage they still chew it over in the House almost every day as they tried to get fifty dollars apiece and we got busy and won out, but in the afternoon they reconsidered the vote and amended the bill and wori out against us, but they dontt get any telegraph or tele phole money. Iron J aw Brown, the speaker, seems to have the confidence of the House as to being fair and I think he is fair in his rulings and he has done us right on com mittee appointments. Well, I hope this will reach you in time. Yours, . O. L. Cook. Cheer Up. If you have an old lead dime. Pass it on. Do. not fuss and waste good time, x ; V-Pass it on. " ' "'" "" You may feel real mean, it's true, But in jast a week or two, It will come right back to you. Pass it on. Cincinnati Enquirer. If you liave a cure for grip, Pass it on. Do not let your chances slip, Pass it on. Do not fear that you'll forget The prescription that's your pet, 'Twill drift back to you, you bet Pass it on. Denver Repnblican. If you have a rhyme like this. Pass it on. Never mind how bum it is Pass it on. Some scribbler will glance through it; On copy paper glue it, . And add a worse one to it Pass it on. Fairmant Times. If you have a package large, Pass it on. Uncle Sam wiH take full charge, Pass it on. If "Dull Care" you wish to send, To the broad world's other end Pay full postage to your friend, Pass it on, Clarksburg Exponent. If you have a pleasant smile, Pass it on. It may cheer some heart the while, Pass it on. If a sorrow you possess, Name it not as your distress May some pain to others press Pass it on. Weston Republican. If you have a grouch on hand, Pass it on. Root it out, release, and Pass it on. Far as East is from the West, Separate your old soreness; Rid you of it, get some rest, Pass it on: - ' -Ex A Here In a Lifhthoft For years J. S. Donahue, South Ha ven, Mich., a civil war captain, as a lighthouse keeper, averted awful wrecks, but a queer fact is, he might have been a wreck himself, it Elec tric Bitters had not prevented. "They cured me of .kidney trouble and chills," he writes, ."after I had: taken other so-called cures for years. without benefit and they also improv ed my sight. How, at seventy, I am feeling fine." For dyspepsia, indi gestion, all stomach, kidney and liver troubles, they're without equals,' Try them. Only 50c at Gibson 'aAdv. - A WORD IN CLOSING There are two kinds of lies, harmless, and vicious, and the editor of the Keporter is just a sort of a gay deceiver on of the poetical kind our readers will note. Berwick can stsraKcolumn after column of editorial matter as well as shorter articles and never credit one of them without blinking an eye. 'Berwick has never written a genuine editorial since he has been in 'Keeney and mjghty few locals are his own get up, but if he can steal a nice little article and pass it off as his own what's the odds half the people don't know it and the other half don't care, but straws show the way the wind blows. - Its true we bought coal and its also absolutely true that we have not received all the money back that we spent for it not withstanding the jaunty little squib which appeared last week, The signature of William Wal lace Gibson in an article need not deceive any one regarding the Fair transaction. Gibson had no chips in this game and would perhaps have done better to stay out of it, for Berwick told us with his own lips that he was not spending his time and work ing as hard as he did just for glory. He asked us this very pertinent question: "How does anybody know how many tickets are handled, rehandled and lost out there?" "I'm not in this for my health," he very humorously stated. Our readers may draw their own conclusions; When brother Berwick infers "the World is not honest all we ask is that he keeps an eye on his own doorardTt-S;-:v-'" isext weeK there will oe no article concerning this matter This issue closes it and we real ize to a certain extent we have attached more importance to the affair than is due to a man of his caliber notwithstanding his sig nature is the most desired one of any other person except Con gressman Connelly in this dis trict, and as we arg a busy man we will neither give time nor space to further controversy no matter what appears in the other paper. TO THE BIGGEST GUN IN TOWN. Time's scroll has a list of famous names, They hit so hard they touch the quick, But not one is so great, so won derful, so grand As the meteor that has lately hit In the shape of S. Watson Ber wick. He knows the ins and outs of politics He sure is onto the ropes, Can name the next postmaster, Has the power to do it which is no joke. The new council is elected Next year's Fair is planned The moon and stars in their stately orbits obey his com mand. Our town was on the bum, Our business dead, Our schools and politics were lame, But zounds! how it all changed Jnst because Watson came. He tocts his horn from morn till night He blows and brags with might and main, Till his faithful - followers- are forced to steal away To rest their fagged-and weary brain. Oh! countless towns have famous ! men In . this wise 'Keeney town has some times seemed bereft, ! Bat at last we have a man who1 knows it all -Cheer up, dear friends, for Wat son is still left. " ' This little lay is unpoetical we know But is unstolen and original through and through Our satisfaction is great and we have pleased feeling in our pate Because every word of it is true. Rattlesnakes and Copperheads Only Poiseneua Snakes in Kansas. The timber rattler, the prairie rattler, and the copperhead are the only poisonous snakes in Kansas. Some persons would include the cotton mouth .moccasin, but those who are best informed believe that the moccasin is not found in this state. The prairie and timber rattlers are named from their habitat. The tim ber snake is. the larger of the two, but one is as bad as the other in re spect to poison. The copperhead is venomous, too. It gives no warning -as does the rattle snake and conse quently, It bites oftener. - AH the other snakes, of Kansas are harmless. Dr. R. K. Nabours, pro fessor of zoology at the Kansas Agri cultural college says "other than the three named, the bite of Kansas snakes is as harmless as the prick of a pin. The spreading viper which flattens out its head in such an ugly way and makes hissing noises would not hurt anyone. It is harmless." There are many other kinds that are innocent of injuring one by their bite. Among them are the garter snakes, bull snakes, blue racers, and black snakes. They all do some good by catching insects, but their preying on birds and fowls do more damage than their good deeds are worth. A queer snake of this state is the glass snake. It is sometimes called the joint snake, but in realitv it is not a snake at all it is a legless lizard. -More than one-half of its length is tail, and it is attacked or caught by the tail, it walks off leaving the tail in the hands of the enemy as a kind 'oTagoTd brick, and then grows anoth2 er in the place of it The Kansas In- dustralist. One Vote Makes History. A correspondent of the Richmond "Virginian relates a .story of how a squealing pig, caught in a fence an a Rhode Island farm, brought on the war of 1812, elected Andrew Jackson president and destroyed the Bank of the United States. The pig delayed a Whig voter and prevented . him from reaching the polls in time to vote. The result was the election of a Democratic legislature by a major ity of one vote, a Democratic Senator from Rhode Island by one vote, a de claration of war with Great Britain by one vo e, the war resulting evenfca-? ally in Jackson's election as president. Ex. Files an Early Protest Against It. Among the first protests against the parcels post to arrive in Washing ton, says the R. F. D. News, came from Irvinton, Ga. A carrier trans mits the following complaint: write you a few lines to let you know that you have played the devil with me. I am a star route mail carrier from Mclntire to Irvinton and took the contract to carry the mall three times a day, a distance of three and one-half miles, for $519 a year. At that time the express company was doing a pretty good business and I got ten cents for each express and ten -cents and a drink for every jug. "You fixed the' law- so-1 could not carry the jug, and now you have fixed up a thing called the .'possum post' and the express companies., don't handle any more small packages, nor do I handle any more dimes. "When I made this contract I could carry the mail in a cart and a Texas pony and haul the express on the side; now the express has shrunk and this 'possum post' business has swelled, so I have to get a mule and a wagon." Ex. ' Persons troubled with partial par alysis are often very much benefited by massaging the effected parts thor oughly when applying Chamberlain's Liniment. This liniment also re lieves rheumatic pains. For sale by , all dealers Adv. ' If your children are subject to at tacks of croup, watch the first symp tom, hoarseness. Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy aa soon as the child becomes hoarse and the attack may be warded off. For sale by all deal