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Baxter Springs News
CH1S. L. SMITH, Editor & Owner.
BAXTER SPRINGS - - KANSAS
Spain Is trying very hard to b up
to date. It now bra a bullfight trust
If woman Is to have a buttonless
dress, why don't man have a- button
less collar?
It Is going to be a hard winter for
the poor. The price of automobile
tires has gone up.
Gold worth $11,000,000 is coming out
of the Tanana Valley, Alaska, this sea
son. It should suffice to fill quite a
number of teeth. - .
' Servla seems bent on looking for
trouble. The little kingdom will dls
cover trouble is a thing much euslei
to find than to lose. -
This country is not captious and
carries ho chip on Its shoulder, but It
dares any foreign navy to Ball up to
the north pole and take It
The Mbors have caught anothei
Spanish force unawares. That war
seems to be conducted by the hostile
tribesmen on the surprise-party plan.
Western crop and trade reports con
tinue highly favorable. And big har
rests and good business in the west
mean general prosperity for the coun
try. A Chicago man shot a motorman
because he laughed at him. Oi
course, motormen should be taught
manners, but there may be methods
less drastic.
While it is true that the poor we
have always with us, it Is lso a cer
tainty that some of the rich hardly
ever allow us a respite from their di
vorce troubles.
Another man has been mistaken for
a deer in the Adirondacks. He is
dead .now. This Is the open season
for deer, but It should be the closed
season for humans.
The amateur hunters are already
getting in their crop of human game.
And it is part of the Irony of fate that
no matter what bad shots they are,
they can always hit a man.
The latest triumph of surgical
science is successfully to remove a
man's stomach. Some cynics say,
however, that to the vast majority of
masculinity death Is preferable.
Glenn. H. Curtiss appears to be the
reigning aeroplane favorite. His vic
tory at Brescia, Italy, supplements
that at France, where he won the in
ternational championship. Curtiss also
receives $6,000 of the prize money,
and this, in addition to the sums given
in other contests, makes a total of
$15,000 f rom -these sources alone. And
it is added that the Curtiss aeroplane
cost only $1,000. That invention ap
pears to have been one of the best
investments on record.
A New York judicial authority has
been called on to decide whether a
man's grave can be seized and sold
for his debts. Whatever the abstract
justice of the proposition, there is
something so revolting to human na
ture's most sacred instincts in busi
ness which carries its claims beyond
the-grave that no one was surprised
to find the court forbade the desecra
tion of the dead. There was some
thing too ghoulish in the mere pro
posal. Earthquakes, fires, floods and tidal
waves have been especially numerous
angl destructive in Mexico this year.
The latest of the visitations is a tidal
wave along the coast of Lower Cali
fornia, causing the 'loss of several
lives and the demolition of many
buildings. As the wave swept Inland
for two miles something of the force
and extent of the flood may be con
ceived. Mexico will have reason to
' remember 1909 because of the ..fre-
Quency of calamities during that pe
riod. The Spanish press has rebelled
against the strict censorship of news
by the authorities and announce they
will publish new true news of the war
In Morocco. The policy of withhold-
v Ing. Information from the public Is on
a par with that of the ostrich who
bides its head when seeking to con
ceal its whereabouts from Its enemies.
. The eventual truth cannot be sup
pressed in this age of information, and
the nations can no longer be treated
- as children to have only what their
rulers think is good for them.
The dull silence that hung over that
New England dinner table has been
- lifted of late, says the Delineator. It
Is gone like the dew In the sunlight
of the new social influences. , The isolation-
of the farm was the chilling
cause that drove men into the cities.
Now, by telephone and free mall de
livery, all, the warm world currents
are being carried to the country and
are vitalizing the rural community
Into a life that is rich and abundant
la the variety of its interests. A- rtpl
Seeing France with
Uncle John
By ANNE
UNCLE JOHN
VopjriigtU, by
"Come lnt Come on! Well, don't
you hear? -Qan't you understand any
Oh, it's you, child. I thought it was
one of those darned waiters.
"Sit down; pull up a chair by the
bed. It's so long since I sent for you
that I just about thought that you
were not coming. I suppose you were
surprised at my sending for you; but
It was the only way to do. It's a hard
thing to break to you, Yvonne; but
you'd have to know in the course of
the day, and I always do everything
light off that I've not decided to wait
and see about Now don't look fright
ened, my dear; nobody's dead it's
only that I'm paralyzed!
"There what do you think of that?
YeB, it's true for a fact My legs! I
had some premonitory symptoms yes
terday going up that cursed old tower,
And I had some very advanced ones
coming down from It, and this morn
ing, when 1 started to shave, the truth
juBt burst In my face. Now, don't
try to say anything, for I've read too
many patent-medicine advertisements
not to recognize paralysis when I feel
it up and down the back of my own
legs. I'm not the man not to know
my own feelings, and I want to tell
you that when I got up this morning
I couldn't stand up, and then, after I
stood up, I couldn't sit down; and if
that isn't a clear case of having com
pletely given out I don't know what
you would call It
"Now, my dear, the question Is,
what's to be done? Of course our
travels have come to a full stop, for I
shall probably never walk again. The
curious thing is that I don't feel any
particular Inclination ever to walk
again. You've no conception of the
sentiments that I feel in my legs; but
If you roll the fatigue of a lifetime
into either the left or the right you
can get some faint inkling of the
first freshness of paralysis. I tell you,
Yvonne, it is awful. Every cobble
stone I've gone over seems to be sing
ing in my calves; but that neither
here nor there. What I want you to
do Is to go to the pocket of my valise
get out the cable-code book and look
out a word that means 'Both legs par
alyzed. What shall I do with the girls?'
You'll find a word that means It If
you look long enough. They've got 40
pages of words that mean every fool
thing on earth from It's a boy' to Im
possible to lend yon ten dollars.' I
was reading it over In Paris the other
day while I waited for my money at
the bank.
"Well, ain't you going to get the
code-book? I don't want to be impa
tient but I want some one to be doing
something. You don't know how rest
less It makes me to think of lying still
for the rest of my life. While I was
waiting for you, I was thinking that
probably I shall live right here in
Caen till I die. Tm very glad we got
here too late to. see anything, because
now I can take it bit by bit and drag
It out through my remaining days..- I
shall have a wheeling-chalr and a man
to push me around, and well, maybe
It's In the little outside pocket I
3f 9
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Dreux.
know I had It in Paris, anyhow; I
remember. I was just reading that 'sal
sify means Tour mother-in-law left
by the ten o'clock train,' and that 'bsJ
Ifry means that she didn't -when
they brought me my money, and-1 was
free to go.
"Well, now you've got It I thought
maybe It would be In the little valise
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PARALYZED
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nesses begin with 'Salt I remember
'Salt-fish' means 'have got smallpox;
keep away,' and 'Saltpetre' means
'have got a cold; come at once.' You
look along there and find 'Paralysis.'
I'll just keep quiet while you're look
ing. I'd better be learning to keep
quiet Keeping quiet must be the
long suit of the paralyzed, I should
fancy. But you see what It Is now to
be an optimist Here's my life prac
tically over all of a sudden, and, in
stead of being blue, I'm as cheerful as
a cricket No need of fussing over
the candle-grease on my hat now, for
I Ehall never wear a hat again, I shall
wear a soft felt tied over my ears
with a plaid shawl as they always do
in rolling-chairs; as for the umbrella,
I'm actually glad I left it It would
only have been an aggravation to
have seen It lying around. But all
the same I can't see why you didn't
lnHice it lying down there. It must
have been in plain sight I remember
pointing over lit Mont Mirat with it
and saying the rock looked as if it had
been dropped there front above.
Yvonne, I tell you when 1 think Of all
we did these last two days I feel per
fectly content to be paralyzed. . I'm
glad to think that I've got such a good
excuse to stay right in bed; I'm happy
that it will be out of the question for
me ever to travel again. I feel as if
I've traveled enough to last me for
ever; I actually don't want to see any
thing more. No more catching trains
and climbing castles for your Uncle
John not In his life. You can put
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" 'I'm Happy That It Will Be Out of
the Question for Me Ever to Travel
Again."'
the Baedeker in the fire right now
I never want to see a red cover or a
green string or an index again 88 long
as I live. What's that? No, I sha'n't
want it to look oveMmdrecall things
by; I can recall more than I want to
just by the way I feel. I don't need
any guide-book to remember what I've
been through since I left Paris. I re
member too much. I remember so
much that I am rejoiced to think that
muscles over which I have no control
will prevent my having to go out to
day and see anything else. It seems
a little hard to think of having sight
Been so hard that you never want to
see another sight but I'm perfectly
content - And I don't want a doctor,
either; I've no faith in French doc
tors. It would be just like one to
hypnotize me and set me going again,
and I don't want to go. I want to He
right here, and I thank the Lord that
I have money enough to allow me to
lie here forever, if I -feel like it I was
thinking this morning what a horrible
existence a tramp must lead always
going on to new "places. Thank
heaven, I can just 'settle down in this
old one and stay on indefinitely. I
want you to go down to the office and
ask what rate they'll make for this
room by the year. I want this same
room right along. It's the first restful
spot Tve struck since my trunk went
smash into that ship. Yvonne, did
you notice the way they handled those
trunks when we landed as if they
were eggs? I tell you, the baggage
system at home is a burning disgrace.
That's one reson I like Europe so
u's quiet and peaceful. I beard, some
goats go by this morning; Td like to
know a hotel In America, where you
can listen to a goat And then that
wallpaper, what a tranquil pattern
a basket of sunflowers qpside down al
tenurtely with a single palm upside
up! What a contrast to the paper on
that room I sailed from! It looked
more like snakes doing physical cul
ture than anything else, r
"Yvonne, I was thinking It all over
as I lay here this morning waiting for
you, and the truth is, we've been trav
eling too fast . I wanted yon to' see
all there was to see, and I overlooked
myself completely. Don't feel badly,
child, because I know you never
meant it; but It Is the truth, and, as a
masses
we've beon travellnx too fast It's tho
vice -of the Amorlcan abroad; It's the
terrible secret drain upon tho strength
of our better classes. We come over to
rest, and If we don't do two countries
a week we feel we've wasted our
money. The Idea of leaving Paris In
the morning and doing Chartres and
Dreux and getting to Argentan that
night! Why, Hercules himself would
have been used up. And then that
castle at Falalse. No, I'm not sorry.
Yvonne, there was something about
that castlo that I'll never get over. I
tell you those were the days to live
In! I was thinking about it while 1
was waiting for you this morning.
Will you consider what it must have
been to put on a suit that you couldn't
be punched through, and then get out
with an ax that faced two ways and
have full freedom to hack at people
yon hated. I tell you, child, I should
have been one of those who barricaded
themselves behind the dead bodies
they had killed and kept on firing over
the top. And to-day my armor would
be hanging up somewhere all full of
dents and rust? blood-stains, and I'd
be a sight In some cathedral with your
Aunt Jane wearing a funnel and an
accordion beside me. We'd both be in
marble, of course, some worn by time
and chipped by tourists ah, well!
"Can't you find anything suitable in
that code-book? Here, I've been
waiting a quarter of an hour for you
to hunt hand me that book. I re
member 'Shell' is 'have broken my left
leg,' and 'Shell fish' is 'have broken
my right leg, and 'Shawl' Is wait a
bit keep still, Yvonne; no one In the
wide world can study a code and
listen at the
"Oh, well, HI leave it till to-night.
Nnt that I'm irritated at your inter
ruption, for I never let anything ruffle
me, and when you write home the
first thine 1 want rou to tell your
mother is that being paralyzed has not
changed me one particle, same even
disposition, same calm outlook on life,
same disinclination to ever bother any
one. I want you to make them under
stand in particular how cheerful I am.
Some men would turn synlcal at
waking up paralyzed, but not me. I
feel as If I might get about quite a
little in Caen, maybe, even get to
Falalse again some time; but you can
bank on one thing, and that is that if
I ever go back to Falalse I won't go
up that tower again. I was wondering
this moraine as I lay here waiting for
you how in thunder you were holding
that candle to spill so much grease on
my hat You can't say that didn't
know I was there, for every second
step you took your foot hit me in the
small of the back. You ought to have
gone first anyhow. I know the rule
is for a man to go first going down a
staircase, but I don't call that business
we were on any staircase; it was more
like a-serles of cascades with us form
ing the merry, leaping part I tell you
what Yvonne, the next time it's up to
your Uncle John to play the chamois
that springs-from crag to crag over an
old middle-aged salrcase while "his
niece pours candle-grease on his hat,
you can excuse me.
"What I-ilke is clean, open-to-the-day-light
ruins like that old one at
Jumleeea! No nerll, no anxiety all
on a level, and time to look up at
what wasn't I tell you, I wouidn t
have missed seeing Jumleges for any
thing. I was thinking this morning as
I lay here waiting for you that I have
mod mind to write a book about my
travels, and that when I do I shall
have the frontispiece, me in front oi
Jumiezes. I could take..an artist
down there on purpose, and while he
wasn't doing me, I could look it an
over again. Maybe I could go there
alone with a kodak and get a satisfac
tory frontispiece, only those rocics
were so thick that most people would
think it was a defective plate. I
shouldn't like to have thenrlhlnk that
fnr if I was coin to have a book at
all, I should have it in good style-
gold edges, bevel-plate, and bo iortn,
don't vou know. I'd like to write a
book about "Europe, I vow. I haven't
been here very long, but ni swear I
know ten times more than any book
ever 'tells. It never said word in
Baedeker about there not being any
cabs at Dreux, or about the condition
of thoae steps In Talbot's Tower, and
such- things ought to be known.
"Wall, child. It - must- be nearlng
noon, and I feel like taking a nap be
fore, dinner. Suppose you go in ana
rit a to vour mother and' Mrs. Clary.
After your mother gets the cable,
rhell naturally be anxious ror aeians,
and she won't want to wait longer than
ten days to know alL I wish you'd
ring and tell them to bring .me some
hot water before you go; tell them I
want it in a pitcher. Make them un
derstand a pitcher. They brought it
last night in a sort of brass cylinder,
and I couldn't get the thing open any
wayhad to use it for a hot-water bag
in bed in the end. It wked fine lor
that : '
"There, now, yon go on and leave
me to sleep. You havent the faintest
idea of how osed-up I feeL Don't for
get to write your mother how, cheerful
I am; dont forget the hot water.. I'll
Bend for yon when I want you. Thero
there I'm all right child, dont you
worry. Just pull the f yrtajpf MS W
TBUTI2FUL iDnTi:i::3
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Since the Icredlenta EntfirhjPcnna
Are Known Its Power as a Catanir
Eemedy and Tonic is
Understood, ' v-
COLUMBUS, OHIO. The ae :
tlve Ingredients entering the most . .
popular household remedy In the ry
world have been made known to
the public. This means a new era
In the advertising of popular fam "
. 11 medicines Peruna leads.
Peruna contains arsons; other
things, golden seal, powerf ul In its .
effect upon the mucous mem
branes. Cedron seed, a rare
medicine and unsurpassed tonic
Cubebs, valuable In nasal catarrh
and affections of the kidneys and : '
- bladder. Stone root, valuable for
the nerves, mucous-membranes
as well as In dropsy and indk
gestion.
HAS ITS GOOD POINTS.
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"One nice thing Tout shootin' pheaJ
ants durln' th' open season Is that you
kin bring 'em home in broad daylight,
and you don't have to divvy up with
no gnme constable so's he'll keep
his mouth shut"
ECZEMA COVERED HIM.
Itching Torture Waa Beyond Words
Slept Only from Sheer Exhaustion
Relieved In 24 Hours and
Cured by Cuticura In - a Month.
'1 am seventy-seven years old, and -some
years ago I was taken with ec
zema from head to foot. I was sick
for six months and what I suffered
tongue could not tell. I could not
sleep day or night because of that
dreadful Itching; when I did sleep it
was from sheer exhaustion. I was
one mass of irritation; it was even in
my scalp. The doctor's medicine .
seemed to make me Vorse and I was .
almost' out of my mind. I got", a -set
of the Cuticura Soap, Ointment and
Resolvent I used them persistently
for twenty-four hours. That night I
slept-like an infant, the first solid "
night's Bleep 1 had had for six months.
In a month I was cured. W. Harrison f,
Smith, Mt Kisco, N. Y Feb. 3, 1908Jif.
Potter Drag Own. Coipn Sol Pnpt, Botfttt.
A man will coax his wife till she
gives In, and is pleased with himself
when he succeeds, but when the chil
dren coax her, and she yields, he Is . -dlegusted
with her. Atchison (Kan.)
Globe.
He that does a base thing in seal
for bis friend burns the golden thread
that ties their hearts together.
Smolters aleo Wee Lewis' Single Binder ""
cipar for its purity. It is never doped,
only tobacco in its natural state. -
Many a man suspects his neighbor
as he suspects himself. -
Tr. Plmee't Plenwnt Pxllet. rrgulato and Inrt. ' ''
omte ltoirmch, llrer and boweln. HnKar-egw4, .
Uaj , fnuiuLut, eai? to take. Ho not grip.
Procrastination is the thief of many -a
good time, -
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