BOY CAPTURED THIRTY GERMANS SINGLE-HANDED !■ Kicliard Allen Blount, son of R. E. Blount of North Carolina, who cap tured 30 Germans single-handed while fighting with the foreign legion at Ver dun. Young Blount joined the foreign legion over a year ago and has seen heavy fighting. At the time he enlist ed his father said he wanted him to account for five Germans. The young American has far exceeded his fa ther's expectations and is still going strong. He was awarded the croix de guerre with palm for his heroic ex ploit at Verdun. DRUGGIST CLEANS PENNIES He Thinks It Will Prevent the Spread of Sickness. R. M. Floyd, a druggist of Shelby- Ville, Ind., cleans all of the pennies he takes in during the day. Mr. Floyd has been doing this for some time, and says he will continue to do so. s| "In these days of uncertainties, when everything comes high and sick ness higher than any other condition, too much care cannot be taken," he said. "Pennies come from all sorts of people, just as do all other kinds of money. There is a difference, however. Hundreds and thousands of pennies are spent by children —tots who want a penny's worth of this or that. Many of the children have the habit of put ting the penny in their mouths. What can happen to a coin when placed in the mouth is well-known. A penny or a nickel or a dime could carry a mil lion germs. These coins pass from hand to hand, and only too often from mouth to mouth." Mr. Floyd cleans his coins by rub bing them with Spanish whiting, which he says is the cheapest method. Any substance that scours will do, he says. COFFIN BLOCKS SPEEDERS Victim in Road Gives Mute Protest to Motorists. Chinese coolies have devised an ef fective means of protesting against speeding automobiles. A few days ago an automobile belonging to a promi nent Chinese official killed a child near the summer palace at Peking. The driver was arrested, but released upon payment of a very small fine. In expression of their disapproval of the court's action the parents of the child and their neighbors erected a mat shed in the middle of the road, on the very spot where the child was killed, under which the coffin was placed. Inscriptions were frosted on the sides of the coffin denouncing the injustice of the court. Since then the main road has been abandoned by traffic, but olficials ap parently have not dared to remove the body, which is watched constantly by friends of the bereaved family. NEARLY DIED IN TRUNK Little Girl Was Hidden There by Play mates to Prevent Whipping. Sadie, the five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Topper of York, Pa., nearly lost her life from suf focation when her playmates, to pre vent her from being whipped by her mother, placed her in a trunk on the second floor of the home of Mrs. Diejil. Sadie, Mildred Diehl and Beatrice Bookmyer, were in the To' ->er yard helping themselves to peaches when Mrs. Topper returned home. Sadie became scared and the chil dren placed her in a trunk, covering her with a blanket and closing the lid. When discovered three hours later the child was unconscious. BOY TRAVELS ALONE Little Lad Made Long Trip to New York City. Eleven-year-old Christy Stigmaier left Klamath Falls, Ore., the other day for New York city, where his father is awaiting him. The little fellow is making the trip all alone and carries a note with explanations regarding his Identity and destination and request ing the aid of the train officials in get ting him safely to his father. The boy came here two years ago with his mother to visit his grandfather, James Malone, postmaster of Langell Valley, and the mother died some time ago, so the boy has to make the return trip alone. PARISIAN IDOL SEEKS CONVENT Actress Tires of Vanities Amid War's Horrors. IS CONVERTED BY PRIEST Eva Lavalliere, Late Star of the Vari eties, Turns Over Her Wealth to the Poor—Found Shallowness of Stage Contrasted Too Strongly With Boundless Sufferings of the Soldiers in the Trenches. Paris rubbed Its eyes and sat Tip with a shock when it read in the morning papers recently that Eva Lavalliere was about to give up the world and retire to a convent. Laval liere, who for almost twenty years has been the joy of Paris theatergo ers; she whose verve and sparkle had made of her one of the most popular actresses of the capital—whose spe cial talent always gave you the feeling of biting into a sour-sweet apple with its particular and delightful tang. Rumor has it that Lavalliere —like her famous namesake —tiring of the pomp and vanities of the world, has decided to seek peace and solace be hind the walls of a cloister. At all events, the late star of the Varieties said when asked if the report was true: Made Vow to Quit. "When the war began I made a vow that I would never act again. Then managers begged me to change my mind, and I consented. I played a short season of "Carminetta," but the shallowness and artificialities of the stage contrasted with the boundless sufferings of our soldiers in the trenches sickened me and I gave up the part. "Last spring I went into the country for a rest, and there one day the vil lage priest called upon me and asked me whether I would not come to mass the following Sunday. I smiled—can you imagine me at mass—but he was such a delightful priest, and to please him I went. I returned again and again—and now I have decided to give up the rest of my life to relig ion." Lavalliere looks strange without her makeup. She no longer hides the fact that her hair is white. She has given up her handsome apartment, sold her furniture, her furs and her jewels, turned the proceeds over to the poor, and has declared herself ready for her new vocation. Some skeptical persons insist that the reason for this change of heart is that the actress feels her powers are waning and that she has lost her looks. Some even declare that all this is only the prelude to the announce ment that she is to appear in a new play this season. The Soldier Understands. But the soldier in the trenches un derstands. Through three years of war, side by side with death, he has learned to look into men's hearts. By his own descent into the darkness of his fate he has discovered the shining brightness of spiritual ties. He seems to have grown antennae with which he can probe into the mysteries of a soul. He is not astonished that a woman, finding her existence an empty one, has gone boldly forth into the great adventure of discovering a new and finer life. With the disappearance of Eve Lav alliere from the world's stage it seems as if a part of Paris had put on mourning for the dead in sympathy for the living, as if she had under stood the terrible lesson of today and had decided to expiate, to pay with her devotions the fearful price ofl blood. , FLY AMERICAN FLAG BEHIND THE LINES ©eO«o®G®©oQ®C®G»©eCe©*o<»C* • • if : . ,S : . . = > : : M ■ ■ v> •'Vv , The American flag brings trade to this tobacconist somewhere behind the lines in a French village. A board also • nnounces the fact that cakes, chocolate are among the • . telapt flush soldiers to buy. This Is Our Winter of Test I SERVING food Is a lo cal problem for each i community. Prices and definite rules for : every one cannot be formulated. It human body Qealthy and strong. This winter of 1918 is the period when is to be tested here in America wheth er our people are capable of vol untary individual sacrifice to save the world. That is the pur pose of the organization of the United States Food Administra tion—by voluntary effort to pro vide the food that the world needs. U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION NEED HERBS Europe's Meat Supply Must Come From America. Warring Nations Have Depleted Live Stock at Enormous Rate, Eve.i Killing Dairy Cattle For Food. I American stock breeders are being asked to conserve their flocks and herds in order to meet Europe's tre mendous demands for meats during the war and probably for many years afterward. The United States food adminis tration reports that American stock raisers have shown a disposition to co-operate with the government in in creasing the nation's supply of live stock. Germany today is probably better supplied with live stock than any oth er European nation. When the Ger man armies made t*heir big advance into France and then retreated vir tually all the cattle in the invaded territory approximately 1,800,000 head—were driven behind the German lines. But in England—where 2,400,000 acres of pasture lands have been turn ed into grain fields—the cattle herds pre decreasing rapidly. One of the reasons apparently is the declining maximum price scale adopted by the English as follows: For September, $17.76 per 100 pounds; October, $17.28; November and December, $16.08; Jan lary, $14.40. The effect of these prices was to drive beef animals on the mar ket as soon as possible. In France the number of cattle as well as the quality have shown an enormous decline during the war. Where France had 14,807,000 head of cattle in 1913, she now has only 12,- 341,900, a decrease of 16.6 per cent And France Is today producing only one gallon of milk compared to two and one-half gallons before the war. Denmark and Holland have been forced to sacrifice dairy herds for beef because of the lack of necessary feed. Close study of the European meat situation has convinced the Food Ad ministration that the future problem of America lies largely in the produc tion of meat producing animals and dairy products rather than in the pro duction of cereals for export when the war will have ceased. BRITISH GOVERNMENT KELPS PAY FOR BREAD Then* has been much misunder standing about the bread program in England. It is true that the English man buys a loaf of bread for less than an American can, but it is poorer bread, and tlie British government is paying $200,000,000 a year toward the cost of it. All the grain grown in Great Brit ain is taken over by the government at an arbitrary price and the imported 1 wheat purchased on the markets at I the prevailing market price. This is | turned over to the mills by the govern ment at a price that allows the adul terated war bread loaf of four pounds to sell at 18 cents, the two pound loaf at 9 cents and the one pound loaf at 5 cents. In France, under conditions some what similar, but with a larger ex traction, the four pound loaf sells for 16 cents. MAKING MEATLESS DAYS PERMANENT. in the meatless menu there Is a fer tile held for developing new and nour- ' ishing dishes, according to E. H. Niles, i writing In the Hotel Gazette, who be lieves that the present shortage of meat and fats will not end with the coming of peace, but may grow more acute and continue for five or six years, thus making it worth while to develop menus of grain, vegetables and fish on a more or less permanent ! basis. Meat can be replaced by cereals and other protein foods, or may be served in very small portions as a fla voring for other food. In making up meatless menus this author finds car American Creole and southern cuisine a broad field for investigation. CORN WILL WIN DEMOCRACY'SWAR America's Greatest Cereal Crop Is Now Moving to Market. MAINSTAY IN NATION'S CRISIS. Surplus Wheat of the United State# Has Been Sent to Famine Threat ened Europe. America's great corn crop, exceed ing 3,000,000,000 bushels, will save the world's food situation, officials of the United States food administration be lieve. Corn is the nation's best food cereal, housewives are beginning to realize. It contains all the elements needed to keep the body in a state of health and when used according to the scores of tried recipes, especially when com bined with an added portion of oil or fat, will sustain life indefinitely. In dian warriors in colonial days lived on parched corn alone for many days at a time, and at Valley Forge parched corn was at times the sole ration of the Continental soldiers. Owing to transportation difficulties caused by the war the corn crop moved more slowly to market this year than ever before. Now, however, the cereal is reaching the millers and consumers. In the meantime the nation's surplus wheat has been sent to Europe. Today there are approximately 30 bushels of corn for every American. This quantity is greater by five bush els than in former years. Corn has become the nation's main stay in the crisis of war. Just as this cereal saved the first American colonists from famine on many occasions, just as it served as a staple food during the War of the Rev olution and during the Civil War, King Corn has again come to the front in the nation's battle with autocracy. Corn meal is finding greatly increas ed use in the making of ordinary white bread. Hundreds of housewives and many of the larger bakers are mixing 20 per cent corn meal with wheat flour to make leavened bread. This kind of a mixture is worked and baked in the same recipes and with the same methods that apply to straight wheat bread. Corn bread —using corn meal entire ly—is gaining a greater popularity than ever before. Housewives are coming to realize that every pound of wheat saved in America means a pound of wheat released for shipment to the nations with which America is associ ated in the war. There are a score of corn products that today possess unusual importance for Americans. Corn syrup for sweet ening corn cakes and buckwheat cakes and for use in the kitchen instead of granulated sugar is one of the leading products made from corn. Corn oil, excellent for frying and for every other purpose filled by salad oils, is appearing on the market in large quantities. It comes from the germ of the corn. —I MADE-IN-GERMANY LIES CIRCULATED IN CANADA Canada is also having trouble with Made-in-Germany lies calculated to hinder Canadian food conservation ac cording to an official statement re ceived from the Canadian food con troller by the United States food ad ministration. The stories bothering Canada are of the same general character as those the United States food administra tor recently denounced in this coun try, such as the ridiculous salt and blueing famine fakes and the report that the government would seize housewives' stocks of home canned goods. The Canadian food controller esti mates that when the people listen to and pass on such stories, each one has the power of destruction that lies in a battalion of soldiers. "Stories without even a vestige of foundation have been scattered broad cast," said the Canadian statement "Nor have they come to life casually. They have started simultaneously in different parts of the country and in each Instance have been calculated to arouse public Indignation. "They are insidious, subtle, persist ent. Bit by bit they dissipate public trust, the great essential in the work of food control. "It lies with every individual to for bear from criticism; to refrain from passing on the vagrant and harmful story, and thus the more effectively to co-operate In work which is going to mean more than the majority of people yet realize." THE UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION SAYSt There is no royal road to food conservation. We can only ac complish this by the voluntary action of, our whole people, each element in proportion to its means. It is a matter of equality of bur den; a matter of minute saving and substitution at every point in the 20 000.000 kitchens, on the 20. 000 000 dinner tables, and in the 2,000,000 manufacturina whole sale and reta»l establishmen ia o the country I I | Xsw< The man f 11^, j ® § Fate voi il vostro dovere verso vostra moglie ed i vo- •* igi -:!> stri figli? La raoneta che voi spendete va' a beneficare la ® •ot I famiglia di ai ire persone. 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