The Otis Reporter from Otis, Kansas • 5

An Otis jgirl Jbought enough mistletoe so she can put a sprag of it above every chair in which she is likely to sit down while entertaining company. r- RETORT CATTISH. Xell I am so worried about mj hair. It is coming out. Belle "Why you use more Libert Items.

"Here's where a few of our people spent Christmas: The Spain family took dinner with Mr. and IJrj. John Blackburn, L. Worde-i and wife, A. R.

A New Horse Plague? 4dber," Dec' 23. -A new and mysterious horse disease has developed near here which is baffling all efforts of veterinarians, according A. C. Wagner, a wheat man. Seven of Wag- EFFECT OF VARIOUS COLORS.

The following figures (retten-kofer) will give an idea of the relative effect the rarious colors of clodding -produce the human bod regards heat when exposed to tht direct rays of the sun: White, 10'1. pale straw, F.jdark.vellov. 140, F. light green, 155, El; dark green, 165 Turkey red, 1G8, blue, 198 black, 208 E. It will be seen that white product the least percentage jt heat black, the largest.

Js ail fe, M. L. Worden family and Mr. E. W.

Tullis toook. dinner with th-3 Winget family; G20: Everett and family; of Hizer, H. G. Gallon and family and the 1. V.

Parker families dined at the Floyd Arnold home; the F. W. nd C. B. Haas families and A.

F. jlCuhls autoed to Larned to spend day with the J. A. Haas family; the B. F.

Butler family speftt the day in Great Bend Seebers; Fred Starr and wife came.down from Scott City Tuesday to visit with their son G. F. Starr and family, and they took the train at Otis for Clafjin to ner's horses have been sick sev eral weeks. The ailment differs from fae horse plague this fall as the animals eat, though they mope around in dazed con dition and lie down as did those stricken with the plague. Though subjected to constant treatment, no change has been noted in any of the cases during the last Mr.

-Wagner says the horses of several farmers in his vicinity also are affected. Ex. Ed. Robinson the mail carrier lost one of his horses this week, which had symptoms very sim ilar to those described above. At Rest.

Jennie Weiser died at her home in Pleasantdale township on Saturday, Dec. 21, 19X2, after a short JUnes of only a few days. She was born June 21, 1873, in Austria and at the time of her death was 34 years and 6 months old. With her parents she came to this country when she was1 1 Ty Dli lilt, IW lAtJ young and on of liarv penetrat. farm one mile east jf Otis, In- toneffte knife mier clap 1893, she was married to Joseph three, blbcks of iron together and the Jr.

of Pleasantdale Bvller of charcoal announces his com-township. To this union seven jng by a repeated tap, tap on a block-children were born, the oldest of wood. visit another son there; Miss Kattie Martin -of Salina visited here several days with her sister Mrs. I. L.

Worden and jthen accompanied her brother Sam Martin to Tribune, to pend Christmas. The Christmas program at the church Tuesday evening was attended by an enormous crowd. The children performed their parts everyone's satisfaction and then came the gifts and the treats. Considering the crowded condition the order was splen did throughout. There are several cases of chicken-pox "amoung the children of the town.

The Auction sale at the Worden jewelry store was well attended. A great deal of jewelry and chinaware was disposed of. Some of it went at rather low prices but not all. The ice on the creek is in fine condition and the boys of the hairpins? QUICK AND THE DEAD. voun man who corneg to eee you is certainly a live one.w "Yes, he's a live one, all right; bat he'g dead in love." PROVING THE CONTRARY.

"Vary yonr means for different "But look at ourtcook! She beats eggs to make them still and steak, to make it tender." EXPERT. "Tiiey tell me Anna is.shidying Esperanto." "Studying it! The speaks it like a Judjre ACCOUNTING FOR IT. "That man has quite a reptilian "He probably acquired it from se often seeing snakes." HiS CLASS. "llus jour friencl any histrionic ri i i. .1.1.

.1 1 im, no con i noincr any aoour history. lie wants to be actor." EVASIVE, '15o yon Kh'mk we will have a scarcity of coal this season?" "Sure, we'll always have coal to burn." ITS DEFINITION. "Why, after ell, is it called leap year?" suppose because it keeps the aicn on th iumr." REASONABLE RESULT. "Why does Talkit get so heated when he makes a speech?" "I suppose it is because it i3 generally full of hot air." AS THEY LOOKED. "How does that man write hi3 pork quotations?" "From his copy, it looks as though he might write then vilh pigpens." REAL CAULE.

History Teacher What happened to Charles Pupil He found his way blocked, so he lost his head. NATURAL SUGGESTION. "Jiggers has a continual itch foT for oftice." "That is why they are always scratching him on the ticket." REBUKED. He See here, waiter, I want some' demi-tasse. She Well, can't you order the stuff without swearing about it? ACCOUNTING FOR IT.

"I wonder why it is so hard to gefc loose change?" 1 "I euppose it is because money is tight." SATISFIED, "So you succeeded in getting a piece of sausage for your breakfast?" "Yes; I hoped for the best ahd got the wurst." NO RECOMMENDATION. "Do 2 know of lhe lcadin ftss oman ever didif 1 a- Sne led her family a. I aance. WHY, THE IDCAI "My typewriter needs some new-ribbons." "Very well, sir. Blondtr or brunette Frinceron Tiger.

QDNTRADICTION. 'Wjgs-' stories whet your 1 desire for more- "Possibly because his is, such. dry lutiriort: i J. G. Brack wa3 in Great Bend on basines Monday.

STREET NOISES IN PEKIN "Every Street Vender, I a the Chinese Capital Has a Racket All His Own. An analysis of the street noises of iPekin has Ibeen made by the corre spondent of an American newspaper and ought to be useful when the anti-noise, crusade reaches the Orient. The cause of confusion, he 'is the various street venders, each of whom is armed with a noise-producing instrument by which he advertises las trade. The barber has two prongs of steel through which he draws a spike and makes a iloud wliir. The seller gt sweetmeats holds in his right hand two brass I cuns wrucn ne tansies logeiner.

ine buyer of old dothes taps a 'small drum with ibit of bamboo, getting by' this combination a plunk, plunk attracts trade. The man who has wicker baskets to soil beats half the' 1 a mira WIIft arumsrich, me ninthne cnimr swmora nn wnicn 1 I 1 llJJIIJ.Ti: iias two Dirs or moral anacnea 10 The watchman introduces a little variety. He is armed with a wooden measures to mars ine uiiLcreiiL nuure i 1 of the night SHE SUPPORTED THE! i. 1 Id Mr. Eich Do you have any trouble in supporting your family, -No, sah, but mah wife ex periences some trouble in dat responsibility, sah.

HAD TO LOOK AHEAD. Cliaacellor S. B. McCormick of the University of Pittsburgh, who occasionally makes a visit to New York, declared on his last visit tb.ai (he one thing 'about New-York that caused him the greatest wonder was how the well-known men ever managed to keep all their dinner en-, gagements and at the same time, oc casionally find be at home. "Take my own case in Pittsburgh," he said.

"My dinner engagements come so. fast and furious that the only time I can get any spareribs, my favorite dish, by, the way, I have to notify my butler a month ahead." New. World. FAIR" WARN NG. rvcsnnt reading over his accident insuranco- to his powerful wife)- Look h.ro, next time you fall out nn Ti.ja Wlli IV; )UU 11 kl, LH, LUlit ai.

.1. ill-? policy says thnt wl-on I suiTer from circimsfances over which I have no control 1 don't get fiende' -Flic- "Gaddy is in no danger of a Bhoclc" i "Why not Too, much rubber buatnen9. about A -tij 1 i ii OTHER EXTREME. "Don't you long for a life broadens one all the time?" "Good heavens, I am trying my best to reduce now." GOOD REASON. "That man is continually grunt- ing about something." "That's caused by lus business.

He deals in pig iron." JTS PLACE. "Where ought one to keep his coli cash?" "Where particularly?" "Ja the snow banks, of course. 1 Geo. Scheuerman of Topeka, Kans came in Sunday night for an extended visit with his brother Conrad near Bison and a lot of other relation in and around Otis. siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiuiu I A HIGH GRADE 1 I WATCH 1 Is not put together more care- 5 I fully than 1 The Riverside Base Burner I Has more direct and indirect radiating surface than any other 5 Base Burner.

Saves enough fuel 5 5 to pay for itself in a few seasons. Ej We are exclusive agents. 5 Pefer Rothe Kans 3 Oti NEW YORK CLIFF THE CREATEST TIEiTEICAL AND S1W PAPE3 IN THE WORLD PUBLISHED WEEKLY, $4.00 PER YEAR. BEST NEWS AND BEST ARTICLES OH- AVIATION BY WELL-KNOWN EXPERTS SAMPLE COPY FREE Address NEW YORK CLIPPER tidvt York, H. V- For Made to Measure Clothing I I CLEANING and PRESSING Sec the good clothes man at clack's Barber Shop ty'if 4 5 'S 4 4 1 ji 'S1 3 J1 4 5 5 Dr.

D. H. Nothdurft Physician and Surgeon Galls answered' day or night Phone 15 Otis, Kan. mMm own are putting in their vaca-on skating. Sowing Wheat In Kansas.

Wheat still is being sown in Western Kansas." Owing to the 'horse plague during the summer and fall the plowing was delayed and many farmers are just getting their wheat into the ground. That condition, never before known in Kansas, is shown by the crop condition reports of railroad station agents made to officials in George Hewes, a big wheat grower of Gray countv, and his sons are put boy 13 years. All of the chil- dren survive her. Besides her fnmilv. rVip.

leaves to mourn her loss her parents Mr. and Mrs. E. Scholler, four sisters an three brothers and a host of other friends. Mrs.

Weiser was a true Christian woman belonging to the Catholic church of Olmity, Kans. Funeral services were conductedby Father Huneh of the Olmitz church. After the" services at the church, the re mains were laid 'to rest in the Catholic cemetery at Olmitz, Ks. The bereaved husband and children have the sympathy of the entire community. Otis now has one of the best painters in the world Schadal-ous Charles a natural born art ist with the paint brush.

Will do your job in allthe colors of the rain bow if you want him to. --T J-4 1 1 1 1 Henry liisicK, wno nas oeen attending the E. at En terprise, came home Saturday to spend Christmas at home. Miss Tillie Hoffman spent Christmas with friends in Hois-ington. Miss Hannah and Emma Rothe spent Christmas with friends in Bushtpn.

Henry Niedins of Lcahie, is here visiting friends. Last call for prcjcsing-tarly Do-y "Boys," says a Kansas grcache "should aim to be better men tlian their fathers." The plan may be all right, but it doesn't give tha. boys much of a mark at MhWi to shoot. The Pratt Republican carried 2.7'0 nches of display advertiising in its last issue. Some ten or fifteen merchants carried, half-page ad vertisamenfcs half a dozen or more full page and one or two of them carriel double, page advertisemarits, winle a great many smaller advertisement ule up the The Pratt imrn uit live bunch and say tl ey know.

that newspaper advertising pays them; qiS There is no doubt in our mind but what the Pratt merchants, sse it a paying Propisition Chandalous Charles, the doboer of world-wide fame, has finished painting the scenic, work in the Maize Theater-in pueblo andi is now. ready job. for yo ting in one thousand acres of wheat at present, using a steam tractor outfit- They are putting in sixty acres a day. Last sea son they had 460 acres of wheat which averaged seventeen bush- els an acre. Mr.

Hewes finds the steam tractor a good sUb- stitute for horses. His 8 -year- old boy runs the engine, John Hoppe of Finney county is drilling his wheat now. Many Gray county men have not yet finished wheat drilling. John Miller of Gray county has 135 acres yet to The same conditions prevails throughout the southwestern counties. WASHINGTON, Dec.

24. A new variety of durum wheat which promises to Be valuable for the cereal growers of the Northwest has been imp-prted by the Department of ure It comes from Bezenshdqk in Southeastern Russia, where it was originated at the Russian government experiment station. Frank N. teyer, agricultural explorer of the oreign seed and plant introduction diyision of the department discoyered the new wheat last summer on his trip through Central- Asia. He de- scribes it as being, a new and valu- able variety of black-bearded durum wheat, having very long open eafs.

is called Teiskaia' and is proving extremely hardy, hiving survived nirlacia ajinr.arj vchui nHlor whflt eifr were killed or severely injured.