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THE HAYS FREE, PRESS
-A. L. CLARK & SON.
Publishers and Proprietors
Issued every Saturday, and.entered
at the Pcstoffice at Hays, Kansas, as
second class matter.
Subscription
Per Year in Advance - - $1.50
Established 18S2
HER PRIVATE
By ESTHER R. HARRINGTON.
"Wi r
Edna Sheridan 'turned away from
the ticket window with a frown on her
usually sunny face. "No Pullman
seats and a five-hour ride," she sigh
ed as she directed her steps toward
the waiting train. "It's tiresome
enough riding, but to be in an ordinary
day coach, probably so crowded that
I'll have to sit beside a lady with two
wailing youngsters " but here she
broke off her reflections to smile at
this alarming situation.
Fortunately, she was early enough
to secure a seat by herself. The train
filled up rapidly and at the last minute
people were hurriedly looking for
seats, stowing away baggage and re
moving wraps.
Edna slipped out of her heavy coat,
procured a current magazine from the
suitcase at her feet and was settling
herself to read when a pleasant mas
culine voice Inquired, "Is this seat
taken?" Edna ganced up into the
tanned face of a soldier, evidently a
recent arrival from across the water.
Upon Edna's statement In the nega
tive, the young man started to place
his grip in the rack above. Edna no
ticed his face suddenly whiten and a
look of pain pass across it, replaced
immediately by a grin, as the grip fell
Into place.
"I guess you must have been a lit
tle too close to Fritzle at some time or
other?" she ventured, smiling at her
companion.
t The soldier turned with a look of
surprise, and then apparently compre
hending "Oh. did I look hurt?" Then,
with an amused grin, "No, Fritz didn't
do it just a bump." '
"But," persisted the girl, "you have
been scrapping with him, haven't
you?"
"Bather," grimly replied the soldier
lad. "I'll say so at any rate. Why,
back in July, when and he started
In to relate an adventure bringing him
within close range of the barbarous
Hun, The girl at his side was en
grossed at once.
Many questions asked by Edna
brought forth intelligent stories until'
finally the soldier exclaimed: "Why,
Til talk you to pieces, I'm afraid. But
you see, you are the very first person
that I've had a chance to sit down and
talk with since I reached this side
of the water, and it just seems as If I
must get some of it out of me."
"I don't believe you could bore me
at all. Why. lust think, we have been
riding nearly three hours and it
doesn't seem three minutes. But you
haven't told how or why you obtained
. the wound stripe on your sleeve. Did
you get a bullet in your arm?"
"No, Mr. Boche gave me a taste of a
bullet in my leg which laid" me up for
a while, but the fact that my arm
hurts well, really, really now, I'm not
a bit proud of that bump. Why, I
could have fallen out of our grocer's
truck right at home and broken my
arm, but to continue; after recovering
from niy wound I was one day riding
along in a motortruck, sitting at the
rear with my feet Jacked up in front
of me. Suddenly the car went over a
good-sized stone and I was thrown out.
Striking on a sharp rock caused the
fracture of my right arm. And al
though it's pretty well fixed up now,
once in a while I twist It so that it
bothers a bit. Now. that isn't half as
heroic as why, gracious, girl, what
are you looking at me like that for?"
"Why I know who you are. You're
Private Paul Crane aren't you?"
"That's me, all right."
"You are the soldier who received
my Christmas package and letter sent
through the Red Cross in 1917, and
we've been corresponding ever since.
For positive proof I can quote your
last letter : Tm writing this with my
left hand, as I fell from the rear of a
motortruck -and broke my right arm.
This is too much like work, so don't
worry if you fail to receive a letter
from me for a little while. One or
two of your other stories sounded very
familiar, but I couldn't exactly place
them."
"And you're Edna Sheridan!" ex
claimed the soldier, almost too sur
prised to speak.
" Suddenly, without warning, both
young people began to laugh, as If it
were a huge joke.
"What what are you laughing at?"
gasped Edna, tears standing In her
twinkling eyes.
Paul composed himself long enough
to say : "Now that I think of it, be
cause in your last letter you refused
to accept my invitation to let me call
on you when I returned, and here I am
sitting right beside you. Do you still
stand by your statement?"
Soberly Edna said : "To tell you the
truth, after I wrote that letter I was
sorry, because when I found out where
you lived, I write to my auntie In the
same town, where I am on my way to
visit now, and she said she knew your
mother very well and had seen a pic
ture of you, which oh, well, she said
your picture certainly looked well on
the piano, and that you weren't -any
over forty anyway." And her big eyes
twinkled gayly.
"Is Mrs. George Sheridan your aunt?
If so, I guess 111 have to come over
some night and tell her that I owe her
a-vote of thanks for the box of candy
she sent me once and perhaps you
will be there"
'Perhaps, teased the girl, as she
buttoned her coafabout her for the
conductor had announced the name- of
their station and the ve hours had
fled, almost unheeded.
Copyrtsht, 1319, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
Knife Weeders for all Listed Crops
The Weeder Factory, Hill City, Kan.
Experimental Project 4n Wallace
County
The Fort Hays Experiment Station
and the Kansas State Agricultural
College have extended their service to
Wallace County in' a very definite way
by the placing of experimental plots
on the ranch of Mr. M. R. Baker, fif
teen miles southwest of Sharon
Spring. The Fort Hays Experiment
Station is placed in western Kansas to
be of the greatest service possible, to
western Kansas people. Since: Wal
lace county is on the extreme western
end of the state, Superintendent
Weeks of the Fort Hays Experiment
Station is willing to bring a small
part of the Station out to this county
where the "farmers can see the results
for themselves.
Last year a similar project was
placed on the farm of Mr. H. P. Iken
berry of Quinter, Kansas
Arthur F. Swanson has been ap
pointed to take charge of the Cereal
-Crops investigational work at the.
Fort Hays Experiment Station, Hays,
Kansas to suceed F. A. Kiene, Jr.,
who resigned April 1.
Mr. Swanson is a native of western
Kansas having grown up on his fa
ther's farm in Norton County. He
is thoroughly familiar with the pro
blems of the western part of the
state.
After graduating from the Norton
County High School in 1912, Mr.
Swanson located at Portland, Oregon,
where he was connected with a large
contracting concern. Being deeply
interested in agriculture he resigned
in 1915 to take up his college work at
the Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege, graduating in June of this year
with a degree of Bachelor of Science
in Agriculture. He took up his work
at the Fort Hays Eyperiment Station
immediately after his graduation,
The Cereal Project at the Fort Hays
Experiment Station, with which the
United States Department of Agri
culture co-operates, comprises eighty
acres of silty clay loam upland soil
favorably located for investigational
work. At the present time 165 dif
ferent varieties and strains of wheat
are being tested out. 200 varieties
and strains of corn and sorghum are
being .tested. Each year new varie
ties and strains, which have proved
sucessful in other regions, are added
to Western Kansas conditions.
The New York "World." Attack On
Senator Reed '
About the most contemptible thing
in partisan politics which has come um
der our observation for many a long
day is the malicious attack by the
New York World on United States
Senator Reed of Missouri, simply be
cause, he will not obey the party lash
and fall into line in the support of a
proposition which he believes fraught
with danger to the country whose
Constitution and laws he has sworn to
obey and maintain.
Senator Reed has pointed out the
different dangers which his clear vis
ion sees will follow as the result of
the acceptance of the League of Na
tions Covenant as the supreme law of
the land. -That is exactly what it
would be if adopted in its present
form
It would be superior to the Constitu
tion and the League of Nations would
be a super-government, to which we
would owe a higher allegiance than we
do to the government af the United
State. And that government would
be under the control of alien people
of different races. Thi3 Senator Reed
points out.but since it is not in har
mony with the views of the World,
that paper descends to personal abuse
and says that Senator Reed "touches
nothing that he does not taint."
It must be a mighty poor cause
which requires such billingsgate to
support it. A cause can generally be
judged by its supporters and its sup
porters by the methods they employ.
We must say that we prefer the pat
riotism and manly independence of
Senator Reed to the disgusting sub
serviency and degrading abusiveness
of the New York World. American
Economist.
Where the Flag Has Been
,The flag that has never known de
feat has been raised over every sec
tion of the globe, says the New York
Evening Sun. Since its origin the
path of the American flag has been:
1777, June 14 Created by the Con
tinental Congress, in these terms: Re
solved, That the-flag of the United
States be thirteen stripes, alternate
red and white, that the union be thir
teen stars, white in a blue field, rep
resenting a new constellation.
1777, July 4 First thrown to the
breeze on a vessel of war, the Ranger,
by John Paul Jones, at Portsmouth.
1777, August 3 First fired upon,
on land at Fort Schuyler.
1777, September 4 First carried
into action at sea by John Paul Jones.
1778, Feburary 14 First official sa
lute received by a foreign country,
France.
1783 First displayed in an English
port by the schooner Bedford of Mas
sachusetts. 1790 First carried around the
world by American ship Columbia.
1805 and 1815 Raised atTripoli,
Straits of Magellan by a merchant
ship.
1824 First carried, through the
Antartic Cicle by pilot boat Flying
Fish of the Wilkes expedition.
1829 First raised in California by
Capt. James P. Arthur, a seafarer
from Portsmouth, Mass.
- 1844 First carried around the
world by an American steamship. -
1845 Unfurled in Mexico.
1848 First displayed upon th Sea
of Galilee by the expedition of Lieu
tenant Lynch.
1853 First displayed in Japan at
the landing of Perry's party in the
Bay of Yeddo-
1861 Firsr raised and kept flying
on a public school by the high school
of New Bedford, Mass.
1867 First raised in Alaska on
the transfer of that territory from
Russia to the United States.
1868 Raised over the Midway
Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
1868 Planted on the summit of
Mount Baker, 10,613 feet above sea
level, on the occasion of the -first as
cent. 1871 Carried into the interior of
Africa by the Henry M. Stanely ex
pedition.
1873 First raised on the summit
of the Andes by a party of American
engineers engaged in railway survey
ing. 1877 Unfurled for the first time
in the far interior of China.
1898 Raised in Philippine Islands.
1909 Unfurled at North Pole by
Peary-
1917 Displayed on a European
battle field for the first time by the
France.
PLEA FOR MEMORIAL TREES
Committee Would Have One .Planted
in Baptist Churchyards as Tribute
to Roger Williams.
A memorial tree In every Baptist
churchyard in the United States to
commemorate establishment of re
ligious freedom and soul liberty is the
plan of the Roger Williams National
Memorial committee of the District of
Columbia. The committee, which is In
charge of the drive to raise a fund
for the erection In Washington of the
Roger Williams memorial, announced
It would ask every congregation In
the country to plant a memorial tree.
"The tree stands for life." says a
statement from the committee Issued
at the Washington headquarters, "and
as the American Foresty association is
urging the planting of memorial trees
In honor of the American sailors and
soldiers who gave their lives that po
litical freedom should not perish from
the earth, so we will ask that trees be
planted in honor of Roger Williams,
who worked and suffered that religious
liberty might be woven Into the na
tional fabric of America."
R. BROVra
x WILL BE IN
HAYS, THURSDAY, JULY 10th
at the Windsor Hotel, and at
Russell, Wednesday, July 9th at the
Russell Hotel
For One Day Only
On Hi Regular Monthly VUiU
HOURS: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
A person has health and strength
in just proportion " that the vital or
gans preform their functions pro
perly. There is something radically
wrong when one feels tired and dis
couraged, and unfit and unwilling for
their daily work. Humanity was
never intended to suffer with head
aches, coated tongue, pain in the back
or stomach, hollow eyes, pimply skin,
yellow complexion, week nerves and
the many symptoms attending the
half-sick conditions which attact so
many people. All the time some
chronic disease is making deeper and
deeper inroads, until in some cases
they are past curing, then they wake
up when it is too late.
HE DOES NOT USE THE KNIFE
Dr. Brown treats diseases of the
Stomach, Liver, Blood, Skin, Nerves,
Heart, Spleen, Kidneys, Bladder, Sex
ual Diseases, Diseases of Women,
Rheumatism, Diabetes, Catarrh, Bed
Wetting, . Leg Ulcers, certain : forms
of Paralysis, Weak Lunzs, Asthma,
Bronchitis, Appendicitis, Call Stones,
Goiters, Tumors, Cancers, Bilikms-
ness, Dyspepsia, Dropsy, Emaciation,
Epilepsy, Headaches, Sleeplessness,
Neurasthenia, Obesity, Pluxisy Scro
fulous Diseases, Diseases of Men.
If you have Kidney or Bladder
troubles bring an ounce bottle of
your urine for analysis.
The doctor furnishes all his own
medicines.
PILE
Itching, Bleeding Blind or Pro
truding Piles quickly and permanent
ly cured WITHOUT THE KNIFE.
No cutting, no chloroform or other
dangerous anesthetic used. He gives
a contract and. guarantee to cure
every case he treats, no . matter how
long sanding, or refund every cent of
your mony.
If you are aSicted with this pain
ful and troublesome malady it will
pay you to call and have a talk with
him.
The doctor is authorized by the
State of Kansas to treat all chronic
diseases cf men and women.
Examination and consultation free
and confidential.
Office Address:
T. C BROWN, hi. D,
418 Rids Eld. Kansas City, Mo.
Reference: Gate City National Bank
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Airplains Compasses Lose Precision
In a lenghty article regarding air
plaines Prof. Marvin says: Compasses
have been found to lose much of their
precision on airplanes, and on trans
Atlantic flights it is believed they
would be somewhere near useless.
The oscifiation of the plane itself is
a large deterrent factor, and others
are the attraction of the motor or
machine : material for the needle and
the impracticability of making cor
rections while making flights of high
observations make possible the correct
determination of positions, but in
cloudy weather the compass is the on
ly guide unless the aviator can fly
highenough to get above the clouds.
It is believed necessary that trans-Atlantic
airplanes, in the present stage
of development, should be in constant
touch with ships that could indicate
positions by wireless. ' Developments
in wireless have made it possible to
tell the direction from which an air
message is sent.
The difficulty of accurate flight
would be greater if the airplane were
aiming at a comparatively small
group of Islands, such as the Azores,
instead of Ireland or the coast .of
Europe.
Prof. Marvin points- out that it
would be quite possible for an avia
tor flying over the uniform serface of
the oeean to turn his machine uncon
sciously and fly away from his object.
Also, if his machine, making a hypot
hetical speed of 90 miles an hour,
should run into a head of wind of 90
miles an .hour, he might stay indefi
nitely, in the same position over the
ocean. On land an aviator can tell
whether a wind is aiding or retard
ing him, but over the changeless sea,
unless there were ships within his vis
ion, he would have little or nothing by
which to gauge his progress.
Earth's Motion Deflects Airplane.
Another factor the trans-Atlantic
aviator must reckon with, Prof. Mar
vin says, is the deflective influence of
the earth's rotation upon airplane
flight. Objcets moving freely over
the earth's surface are deflected con
stantly to the right.
All the knowledge on this and
other factors in the possession of the
Weather Bureau and effecting the
epochal under-taking has been placed
at the disposal of the naval aviators.
With the development of trans-Atlantic
travel by airplane the Weather
Bureau meteorologists hope there will
be opportunity for thorough study of
it.
"There is need," said Mr Gregg,
"for a comprehensive campaign of
meteorological and aerological obser
vations over the North Atlantic, in
order that aviators may be given data
for whose accuracy the meteorologist
need not hesitate to vouch, instead
of information based on so small a
number of observations, particularly
of free-air conditions, that the deduc
tions are assumed and not proved."
See the $100 Golden Throated
Claxtonola at Tholen's Jewelry Store.
The best value in phonographs any
where. j5-4t
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Nearly Cutting in two your tire expense,
Keep this in mind, you will save dollars and cents.
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Time saved, not waisted means money ahead,
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Steam vulcanizing done at this shop,
Here work is done that is strictly tip top,
Owners of autos will always find here,
Positive saving all thru the year.
FRANK LACY
First door east from Windsor Hotel, Hays, Kans.
The reliance that womeokind has
learned to? put in crackers is being
well Illustrated at the teas being
grren for returning soldiers a rig
sailors.
Every woman . In the raetropoli
has In ber pantry a generous sup,
Py cf the. National F
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Rural Carrier Examination.
,The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an exam
ination for the County of Ellis, Kans.
to be held at Hays on July, 26, 1919
to fill the position of rural carrier at
Victoria, and vacancies that may
occur on rural routes from other post
offices in the above mentioned coun
ty. The examination will be open
only to citizens who are actually do
miciled in the territory of a post of
fice in the county and who meet the
other requirements set forth in Form
No. 1977. This form and application
blanks may be obtained from the of
fices mentioned above or from the
United States Civil Service Commis
sion at Washington, D. C. Applica
tions should be forwarded to the
Commission at Washington at the
earliest practicable date.
Admission of women to this Exam
ination will be limited to those who
are unmarried and to the wives of
soldiers and sailors serving in the pre
soldiers and sailors serving in the
present war.
Mexico The Big Problem.
Instead of taking a mandatory, for
some petty European power, the Uni
ted States will be doing very well if,
under the Monroe Doctrine, she can
re-establish order in troubled Mexico.
For six or seven years past that coun
try has been trouble-torn and mussed
up life and property unsafe and no
semblance of order anywhere. Busi
ness of all kinds has gone to ruin and
the people have become thoroughly
demoralized. It is our bounden duty
to clear this situation up and there's
no doubt in the world that sooner or
later we shall be obliged to do so.
There will come a time when powers
of Europe will insist either that we
do it ourselves or that we allow them
to do it, an alternative that we can
not consider. The big problem
ahead of this country is the Mexican
problem, and our attention belongs
here rather than in interfering in the
affairs of Europe. Fort Wayne News
H. H. Winters
One Minute Washing
Machine.
Florence Oil Cook Stoves.
Hoes, Rakes and all
Garden Tools.
Oils, Paints and Varnish.
General Hardware
HAYS CITY, KANSAS
sugar-filled wafers which they sci
ported.
There was no question about the
complete success of Nettie's discor-
pry. as the fragrance of the fresh
L-ups of tea which she served addad
to the Inviting repast,
-V:1 ct' r. -favorite at the tea hour
-.t c-t them almost as much
it breakfast and luncheon is the
JX- B. C. GiUham Cracker. It seems
n ') lVI' si'l J y . oyii housekeep-w-.w
. ..... 3o thoroughly
'red about ' the thousands of
ies in Graham flour that
Ible food value is a mat-
knowledge.
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or the busi-
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waa had fonnd it very difficult,
to procure bread that was either
palatable or dlzestible. He Lad re-
cours to N. B. L Graham Cracker.
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