THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
GERMANS
REACH
0
OBJECTIVE
Program of Drive Found Upon
Prisoners.
AIRE A RAILWAY CENTER
Splendid Work Of British Gunners
Many Artillerymen Work For
Hours Shooting Point-Blank '
At Close Range.
British Array In France. With the
exception of Mervllle the Germans
thus far have not reached their ob
jectives In part for the present drive
north and south of Armentleres, but
latest developments indicated that the
enemy had no intention of abandon
ing the assault immediately. A cap
tured German document reveals that
there were to be three smashes on
the front north and south of Armen
tieres. One had Dailleul as its main
objective, the other Mervllle and Arle
and the third Bethune.
Not less than 28 divisions had been
employed by the enemy in this pre
tentious program which has meant
that at some places the British have
been very heavily outnumbered. A
German division aggregates 13,000 to
14,000 men, including 7,500 rifles.
St. Venant, between Mervllle and
Aire, was heavily attacked by strong
forces of Germans after their success
which gave them possession of Mer
vllle. The enemy seem desirous of
reaching Aire, a railway center, ana"
were throwing large numbers of troops
into the conflict in an attempt to
drive the British back. The German
threat in this direction undoubtedly
Is of considerable Importance.
Fighting continues to be of the bit
terest nature, not only In the Mervllle
neighborhood, where the main assault
was made, but ajno northward from
GIvenchy.
Meanwhile, steady pressure was
maintained In the Estaires sector be
yond which lay Mervllle and Aire.
During the night the enemy pushed
back the defeness at Lest rem and cap
tured Calonne-Sur-Lys, Just southwest
of Mervllle. At the same time they
pre!sed down through Neuf Berquln,
a little above Mervllle, and these two
converging forces hurled themselves
on the town.
Giving way before greater numbers,
the British fell back toward St. Ven
ant. fighting doggedly all the way
against the closely pressing Germans.
A sanguinary battk was proceeding
east of St. Venant with the British
making a determined etand. During
the night the British counter-attacked
west of Steenwerck, west of Armen
tieres, and reoccupled La Bacque after
hard fighting.
The German attack about GIvenchy,
on the southern end of the battle line,
was pressed by some nine divisions.
There has been virtually no cessation
In the fighting here since the begin
ning of the battle. Thus far the Brit
ish have maintained a stone wall de
fense, against which the Germans
have flung themselves with heavy
losses.
The work of the British gunners at
GIvenchy has been noteworthy. On
the first day, when the Germans swept
forward In masses and the situation
was very grave, many artillerymen
worked for hours shooting point-blank
at close range. One gunner sergeant
stood by his piece firing with open
sight at a range of 200 yards and held
the enemy off for a considerable time
before he was compelled to fall back.
The British troops who have been
making such a gallant stand just
r.bove Givenchy also distinguished
themselves by holding the Germans up
for hours at a certain point la the
battle before Cambrai on November
30, when the enemy counter-attacked.
S3 INSANE DIE IN ASYLUM FIRE.
Reports State 37 Are Missing From
Oklahoma State Hospital.
Norman, Okla. Thirty-three bodies,
burned and charred beyond recogni
tion, have been taken from the ruined
building that housed Ward No. 14 of
the State Hospital for the Insane here,
ravaged by fire. The list of missing
stood at 37. Three frame buildings
were destroyed and a fourth badly
damaged. The fire started from de
fective wiring in a linen closet.
AMERICAN AIRMEN DECORATED.
Capt Hall And Lieutenant Balr Given
Service Cross.
Paris. James Norman Hall, cap
tain of an aviation section, and Paul
Frank Bair, a lieutenant, are the first
American aviators to win the distin
guished service cross of the American
' army. Captain Hall's home Is In Col
fax, Iowa, and Lieutenant Bair's In
Fort Wayne, Ind.
COL. HENRY WATTERSON ILL.
Editor In Louisville Hospital Condi
tion Not Serious.
Louisville. Henry Watterson, edi
tor of the Louisville Courier-Journal,
Is 111 here .at the Norton Memorial
Infirmary. His condition, however Is
said by the attending physicians not
to be serious.
MEXICANS CROSS AFTER "SPY."
Texas Rangers Rescue Fugitive From
Armed Band.
El Taso, Texas. Six armed Mexi
cans crossed the border Into' the Unit
ed States near Fabcn and tried to
'abduct Miguel Hernandez, whom they
accused of belns a "spy ror the Amr-r-leans."
Hernandez fled and barri
caded himself in a house npar Monu
ment IS, the advices stated, the Mex
icans demanding his surrender, stat
in they had a warrant from the "Gov-
U.S. TROOPSREPEL
GERMAN
ASSAULT
Sammies Rout Enemy and In
flict Heavy Losses.
THE TEUTONS OUTFOUGHT
U. 8. Troops In Front Trenches Fought
Gallantly; Advancing Enemy
Mowed Down First Real
Test
American Army in France. Ameri
can troops on the front northwest of
Toul beat off the heaviest attack yet
delivered against them when the
American lines were assaulted by 800
"shock" soldiers. The enemy wai
completely routed and suffered heavy
losses.
It was the biggest operation in
which Americans had taken part and
was marked by terrific artillery fire.
The Germans were everywhere out
fought. The action lasted two hours and
was prefaced and followed by the
heaviest artillery exchanges in which
American artillery had yet taken part.
The Americans in the front-line
trenches fought with the utmost gal
lantry and refused to yield a single
foot of ground.
The attack was delivered early in
the morning, under cover of a heavy
barrage fire, and the Germans were
favored by a thick mist, which ham
pered observation.
The Germans advanced in mass
formation, but were mowed down by
the fire from the .Americans' rifles
and machine guns.
When day dawned a number of
bodies could be seen lying in "No
Man's Land." Two wounded Ger
mans were captured. ' One died from
his wounds and the other Is In a field
hospital in a critical condition. He
had been shot through the eye.
The action followed a number of
minor raids directed at a point where
German prisoners were captured on
Saturday.
The fight was the first real test of
the American infantry and the Yan
kees proved more than a match for
the enemy In every branch of the
service engaged. The attacking brig
ade was made up of crack troops that
had been picked for an effort to break
the American lines.
The signal to the American gun
ners for a counter-barrage, when the
attack commenced, was answered so
quickly that the enemy's strategy was
upset and the shells that plowed
through the advanced ranks did great
execution.
During the night the enemy's guns
had cut the wire entanglements, but
when the Teutons advanced .to the
attack they met with stlffer resist
ance from the Americans than they
had anticipated.
Throughout the entire night the
sectors defended by the Americans
had been bombarded with gas shells
and high explosives from German
guns of all calibers.
The fortitude displayed by the
American soldiers won the praise of
their commanding officers and the
French Army experts. The spirit of
the men was so high after the German
attack that they wanted to pursue the
enemy.
It now develops that one of the Ger
man prisoners captured last Saturday
was a sergeant who had won the Iron
Cross.
U. S. NAVAL BAST ON AZORES.
Portugal Consents To Protection Of
The Trade Routes.
Washington. For the protection of
the Atlantic trade routes to Southern
Europe, the United States, with the
consent of Portugal, has established
a naval base on the Azores Islands.
Guns have been landed to begin fortl
cation of the station, which, in addi
tion to being used as a naval base for
American submarines, destroyers and
other small craft, also will serve as an
Important homing station for Ameri
can airplanes, a number of which al
ready have been assembled there.
FRANCE TO AID U. 8.
Will Help Hasten Movement Of
Troope Across The Sea.
Washington. France has been
called upon to aid In hastening the
movement of American troops across
the sea by sending additional officers
for the training camps In the United
States. General Vlgnal,' military at
tache of the French Embassy, after
a conference with Major-General
March, acting chief of staff, cabled his
Government suggesting that any offi
cers that can be. spared be detailed
for duty In America.
HUN SHELL HITS ASYLUM.
Long-Range Bombardment Of Parle
Kills Four.
Paris. The bombardment of Tarls
by the German long-range gun was re
sumed. One shell struck a foundling
asylum. The total victims of the
bombardment were I killed, and 21
wounded.
BILL TO PREVENT LYNCHINGS.
House Measure Would Fine Counties
In Which They Occur.
Washington. A bill to preevnt
lynchlngs by Imposing a penalty of
from $3,000 to $10,000 on counties in
which they take plnce was Introduced
by Representative Dyer, of Missouri.
It would provide drastic penalties for
county or municipal officers who fall
to make effort to prevent lynching
and for prosecutors who fail to prose
rute lynching cases.
LANSING
ANSWERS
DUTCH
PROTEST
Defends Taking Over of Hol
land's Ships.
A BENEFIT; NOT INJUSTICE
Memorandum Made Public In Wash
ington To Show That America
Only Followed Out
Agreement.
' Washington. America's reply to
the recent statement of the Nether
lands government bitterly protesting
against and denouncing the action of
the United States In taking over Dutch
ships in Its ports was made public In
the form of a memorandum by Secre
tary Lansing, a copy of which has
been sent to the Netherlands lega
tion. Pointing out that the Nether
lands government itself does not ques
tion the legality of the act, Mr. Lans
ing devotes himself to a demonstra
tion that it was an act of necessity
resulting from Germany's menacing
attitude which prevented Holland
from fulfilling her engagements and
that instead of an injustice the step
results In retl benefits to the Dutch
shipowners and people.
The memorandum follows, in part:
"The Netherlands government first
declares that the very presence of
Dutch ships In our ports resulted
from our detention of them with an
unfriendly hand. While our right to
refuse bunkers and cargo licenses is
conceded, friendship, it Is said, should
have led to the garnting of special
privileges In favor of the subjects of
a friendly state. Our own supply of
bunker coal at seaboard has been In
adequate for our pressing national
needs. The cargoes which were de
manded were largely of grain, of
which our own reserves are all too
low. The bunkers, If granted, would
have served to carry this grain to
the Netherlands, where, as events
have served to carry this grain to
the Netherlands, where, as events
served to release equivalent foodstuffs
for the enemy. Such action upon our
part, whatever Its intention, would
In fact, have been an act beneficial
to the enemy and having no relation
to our friendship to the Netherlands.
"One year ago the United States
abandoned Its neutrality and pledged
its entire resources of life and treas
ure to insure the triumph of democ
racy over autocracy and to assist to
save the world from the blight of
militarism. As a result of a species
of naval warfare directed against bel
ligerents and neutrals alike which
the Netherlands government have
themselves declared to be illegal,
there has during this period existed
a shortage of shipping which threat
ens to postpone at frightful cost the
ultimate victory. This has created
an emergency which In magnitude
and significance has seldom if ever
before been equaled.
"During this period there have been
lying In ports of the United States
and subject to Its Jurisdiction and
control approximately 500,000 tons of
ships of Netherlands' registry. At any
time within a year the United States
might have exercised its right to put
these ships Into a service useful to it.
Yet it forebore and for many months
patiently negotiated, first la Washing
ton and then In London, until finally
the temporary agreement of January
25 was entered Into. No sooner was
this- agreement concluded than it
oroke down under German threats of
violence which overruled the will of
the Netherlands government eoc
pre?ed therein.
"Then, and only then, did the Unit
ed States take step? to accomplish
through the exercises of Its own right
that which It was hoped could have
been accomplished by agreement, and
which the Netherlands government
had been willing In part so to accom
plish. GERMAN ALLIANCE DEAD.
Finally Dissolved At Meeting In
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia. The German-American
Alliance was finally dissolved
here, when, at an adjourned meeting
of the executive committee, a resolu
tion was unanimously adopted to dis
band. The resolution stated that the mem
bers consider It the supreme duty of
every American citizen to give his
unqualified support to the government
In the aucceseful prosecution of the
war.
The organization's education fund,
of $110,000 will be given to the Red
Cross chapter at Wilmington, Del.
35 HUN PLANES DOWNED.
British Aviators Also Bomb Station
At Metz.
London. Thirty-five German air
planes, 21 of which vcre destroyed,
were brought down by British avia
tors on Thursday. The official state
ment on aerial activities reports the
dropping of bombs on military targets
behind the battle front and on a rail
way station at Metz.
U. 8. OFFICER BELIEVED SPY.
Major J. M. Blrkner Arrested A
Camp Cody.
Deming, N. M. Major John Tft
Blrkner, of the One Hundred and
Twenty-eeventh Field Artillery, was
arrested at Camp Cody charged with
violating the Espionage act.
Payment of Income and excess pror
Its taxes in two Installments instend
of one, as now required, Iz provided
'ii a bill Introduced In the House.
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS
The plant of the Marietta Casting
company, nt Columbia, was seriously
duinugod by lire which started In the
boiler room, and which spread to the
cleaning department In un adjoining
building.
The General Manufacturing com
pany plant on the Delaware river
front In Philadelphia, manufacturers
of fertilizer, was damaged by fire to
the extent of uhout $100,000.
Mrs. Peter Miichunnn, of Shenan
doah, committed suicide by drinking
carbolic odd.
A dog poisoner " is at work In the
boroughof Marietta and efforts to lo
cate him are in vain.
The store of Peter Grecnburg, a
Shenandoah grocer, was closed for al
leged violation of the food law.
Kleven applications for divorce were
filed on the first day of the divorce
term of court nt Lancaster.
Wllllum Hell, sent to Camp Gor
don with the first draft contingent
from Hazleton last September, was
A number of Hazleton department
store window dressers have applied
to the draft hoard for enlistment In
the camouflage section of the army.
The 1U0 pupils of the Weatherly
public schools were organized to con
duct corn-seed testing clubs, prepara
tory to forming corn dubs.
When Howurd Llngefelter, a yard
brakeman, was crushed to death at
Altoonn, the first man to rcuch his
side was his brother, Bruce, un en
gineer. Itev. Floyd Tompkins, of Philadel
phia, wus the orutor at the commence
ment exercises of the I'arndlse High
school, when a class of fifteen receiv
ed diplomas.
Charged with fulling to send his
son to school, George Christine, of
Tyrone, was fined by a magistrate,
notwithstanding his defense that the
hoy eurned more working than he
did.
Sliamokln council voted to Invest
S.'(HX) of the borough Kinking fund in
Liberty loan bonds.
His head crushed by a falling rock
In a mine, William Stephens, of Tn
maqua, is In a dying condition ut the
Conldalo hospital.
Bishop llobun, of the Scrnnton dio
cese, has announced the transfer of
Itev. E. J. Gnffney, of Freelund, to
Klkland, Susquehanna county.
Dr. John It. Dyson, the first Hazle
ton physician to enlist In the war,
from Hazleton, has been promoted
from lieutenant to captain at Camp
Wheeler, Georgia.
Hazleton council will employ an ex
pert to determine whether the wuter
pressure was reasonably adequate at
the fire which destroyed the Church
street school recently at a loss of
$1.10,000.
Arriving at Shomokln to assume the
pastorate of the Lincoln Street Meth
odist church, Ilev. Dr. Simpson E.
Evans was tendered a reception by
more than 000 members of his congre
gation. Fish Warden W. Acker, of Allen
town, has discovered n large number
of poachers who are fishing for trout
in advance of the opening of the sea
son. Mrs. Emma Itubrecbt, of Midway,
near York, was notified by the war
department of the death of her son,
Wilford Itubrecbt, a member of a
trench motar company, who was
wounded In action April 3d. Young
Itubrecbt enlisted at Gettyhnrg last
June and left for France shortly be
fore Christmas. He was nineteen
years old.
The Franklin County Home for the
Aged, located nt Chainbersburj;, will
come into possession of almost .$1C0,
OtiO by the death of Mrs. John II.
Shook, of Greencastle, neur Chum
berslinrg. At his death, almost two
years ago, Shook left his entire es
tate to the home upon the death of
his wife. Her death occurred last
week.
Theodore Shafer, aged sixteen, son
of Mrs. Ellen Shafer, of Nazareth, ex
perimented with a dyniltnlte cartridge
which he found, and was taken to the
Easton hospital, with a badly mangl
ed hand.
The Northampton County Dry Fed
eration has adopted resolutions nsk
Ins the court to change polling places
to private homes In all Instances
where they are located In places
where liquors are sold.
Seeing two dogs chnslng a deer
down the mountulnslde from the win
dow of her home nt the foot of the
mountain, near Chnmhershurg, Mrs.
James V. Sheprad grabbed a gun, went
out and fired on the dogs. One was
killed by a shot from her gun, but
the other escaped. The deer was ex
hausted after Its long run.
Mayor Daniel L. Kelster, of Harris
burg, filed a petition to be cnndldate
for member of the Hurrlshtirg Repub
lican city committee. The mayor will
take nn active part In the coining cam
paign. Herman Hoke, junior member of
the firm of S. O. Hoke & Son, of
Spring Grove, sustained serious In
juries when a mule he was leading
across a small stream tell on him.
Register of Wills William Arner, of
Slauch Chunk, having refused to pro
bate the will of the late James M.
Arndt, mndo in JOUS, an nppeal was
taken by tho beneflclnrles, Thomas M.
Arndt, a brother of the deceased, mov
ed to dismiss the appeal, but the court
denied it. The case will now he tried
by Jury, the first ense of the kind ever
tried in that county. The estate Is
valued at about $25,000.
Salt for 8oft Corn.
When tho weather worms up a lot
of soft corn will spoil if not enred for
promptly. Salt It or dry It artificially
or feed it out quickly.
A reasonable amount of farm work
with careful handling will enable a
mare to foal a colt easier nud will
produce a stronger colt
Tho throe substances which must be
considered In making up the ration of
the dulry cow are protein, curbony
drutcB and futs.
MEN MUST HELP
E
Lovers of Home and Country
Called to the Colors.
ALL CAN BUY LIBERTY BONDS
Wives, Sletere, Mothers, Sweetheart.
Never Before Called Upon to Play .
Such a Vastly Important Part
Lend Your Money.
(By DOROTHY DIX.)
Buy a Liberty bond, ladles. No mat
ter how many you have bought before,
stretch a point and buy another.
You can't shoulder a gun and go ofJ
and fight for your country, as the men
are doing. You can't put on a nurse'i
uniform and go and nurse wounded
soldiers or drive an ambulance or work
In a munition factory, as many othee
women are doing, but you can do your
bit by backing up these other men and
women, who are risking their Uvea to
defend you with your money.
Without guns and munitions, with
out food and clothes, without hospital
supplies, the army in France Is Just
so many sheep led to the slaughter; It
we let them die for the lack of the
things that money buys, their blood
Is on our heads, and our crime against
them will bo blacker than the Boches,
because they trusted us.
It takes money, money, money and
yet more money to carry on war, and
this war Is to be the war of the long
est pocketbook. It Is the Inst ton of
bombs, the last load of shrapnel, and
the last big gun that will thunder out
victory. Therefore, If we wnnt to win
this war, we must find more money,
and It is particularly up to us women,
who can fight with our hands, to
fight with our dollars, and pour them
like water at Undo Sam's feet.
Women's Greatest Sacrifices.
In no war In all history have wom
en been called upon to play such a tre
mendous part as In this war. Never
before have women had to give so
many of their husbands and sons and
brothers to be cannon fodder. Never
have women before gone- Into the
trenches and fought side by side with
men. Never have they gone Into fac
tories to make munitions of war with
their own hands. Never have they
had to tuke upon their shoulders the
heavy burdens of hard physical labor
that men laid down when they went
forth to battle. And never before did
their country call on women to make
such sacrifices as they are called oa
to make now.
It Is because this war touches wom
en more nearly in every way than any
other war has ever done, because more
women's hearts have been broken by
It, more women impoverished and
made homeless, more mothers have
seen their babes slain before their eyes,
more mothers have beheld their young
daughters ravished, that women must
use their utmost effort to put an end
to war.
Women must see to it that there is
never another war to lay waste to the
world and drench it with women's
tears, and this can only be accomplish
ed by our winning this war.
And to do that we must have money.
So, let every woman who has some
loved one at the front buy a Liberty
bond. Let every womnn who has a
hearthstone that she would keep safe
buy a Liberty bond. Let every wom
an who has a babe that she loves, or
a young daughter whose purity she
would guard, buy a Liberty bond.
Reasone Are Numerous.
Let every womnn who has a particle
of sympothy In her soul for the for
lorn women and children of Belgium
and France buy a Liberty bond. Let
every woman who believes In Justice,
and freedom, and right buy a Liberty
bond. Let every woman who hates
war and craves for peace buy a Lib
erty bond.
Tho trip that you hod planned, the
new frock you were going to get, how
pitifully small Is the sacrifice of these
for the sake of those who are sncrl
flclng their lives to protect you and
yours.
Buy nil the Liberty bonds you can,
end then go In debt for somo more, so
shall you prove yourself a worthy
daughter of Uncle Sum.
This Is a time when money talks
and tells the kind of a pntrlot you are.
The woman who hasn't a bunch of
Liberty bonds If she's rich, or who
Isn't pnylng on a Liberty bond If she's
poor, Is a traitor to her country and
should hnng her head In shnme every
time she passes a mnn In khnkl or
feels the fold of the red, white, and
blue floating over her unworthy head.
The Badge of Citizenship.
The Liberty Bond button Is no longer
a mark of liberality or even of patrio
tism; It is the badge of citizenship.
Are you wearing one?
War and the Weather.
The Almighty makes tho weather,
not man, and if tho wenther doesn't
suit us, we hove to wait. Tho farm
er knows what a day's ruin will do In
the way of upsetting plans. One can't
plow In the mud and a cutting of hay
or wheat may ho damaged or ruined
by one night's downpour.
The war department, too, Is up
against the weather In France. Three
inches rainfall may make the country
Impassable for half a million men and
horses and motortrucks and ruin the
chances of victory or bring defeat.
Be a Fighter and Buy a Bond.
It Is time that we all realize the
country Is at wnr. Tho rollroods faund
themselves-relieved of the mnnugement
of their properties overnight. Prices
hnve been set for food nnd steel and
coal. The draft Is In full operation. It
Is no longer a question of patriotism
in supporting the government; It is a
matter of absolute necessity.
If the soldiers refuse to fight, the
war Is lost. The man who refuses to
buy bonds In this grcnt crisis Is In a
class with the soldier who refuses to
fight.
HAS
FUNDS
TempeiaiKE
'Notes"
(Conducted by the National Woman's
Chrlatlan Temperance Union.)
A QUE8TI0N OF HEALTH AND OF
DOLLAR8.
"For every dollar the federal govern
ment collects In liquor taxes, the local
tuxpaycrs of the country spend $10 to
repair the damage done by liquor,"
points out Haven Emerson, health
commissioner, New York city. "Is It
the federal government that maintains
the alcoholic wards of hospitals, sup
ports tho Inebriate farms, pays the
costs of the police, the courts, the pris
ons and asylums or poor farms?
"Come with me to the hospitals and
the clinics, visit the homes of the poor,
and see where the public must spend
Its money to rescue the remnants that
liquor bus left Can you not see that
it Is worth a greater sacrifice than
$500,000,000 a year to liberate a coun
try from the bondage of the alcohol
habit? There Is no need to drag ethics
Into the matter. It Is a matter of
lives, bruins, health, bread and dollars
and our promises due to our allies.
Nothing so practical, nothing so patri
otic, nothing so logical can be done by
this country now as to face thc&sue in
a manly way. As Lloyd-George said,
'England is fighting Germany, Austria
and drink.' Let us finish the drink
first, nnd free ourselves forever from
tho most hnblt-formlng of drugs, and
then go ahead and show our allies our
effectiveness, our self-control, as only
a nonalcoholized country can. The
world has never seen a nonalcoholized
nation In war."
ENFORCING NATIONAL PROHIBI
TION. Tho champions of the liquor Unfile
advance this argument against nation
al constitutional prohibition. They say
In effect, it would not be wise for the
American people to do a thing that
the federal government couldn't en
force If they did It. Is that the chal
lenge? Is thnt the Issue? Are we to
drive this thing from the field of
morals, are wo to drive It from tho
domain of economics, are we to drive
It from the domnln of decent civics
nnd then have It turn to us and sny
to us : "All you say of me Is true, but
you can't Inhibit me, bad as I am,
for I nm greater than your govern
ment, and your Institutions!" Men,
women, It Is thnt Issue that summons
me to such conflict as with my poor
powers I am capable of waging. For
I am not willing to confess that there
Is anything beneath the stars or under
God Almighty himself greater than the
sovereignty of my countrymen I Ex
Gov. J. Frank Hnnly of Indiana.
A MODERATE DRINKER.
It was at the bedside of a very sick
man. The physicians gravely watch
ed the struggle between life and
death. All depended upon the heart.
Could It cope with the crisis? Life
hung by a thread. The thread snapped.
The newspapers said he d'ed of pneu
monia, and so he did. But the physi
cians remarked, "Too bad he used al
cohol, otherwise he could have passed
the crisis."
Yet this mnn was no drunkard
Just a moderate drinker. He could
"take it or leave It alone, Just as he
liked," and all the rest of It; was a
highly respected citizen, and a stnunch
supporter of "personnl liberty" to
take a drink when he wanted It.
THE USUAL 8TORY.
"You need not talk bone-dry prohibi
tion to me," says County Commissioner
Chnrnock of Sioux Falls, S. D. "If
from no other thnn n strictly business
basis, I would be strong for It. The
county charges hnve dropped one-half
In the past six months. Many of the
floaters, who were always asking aid
In the winter, have gone nnd the fel
lows who used to drink up their wages
nre now spending their money for ne
cessities. There nre only about ten or
twelve county prisoners In the Jnll
now and our bill for their Jail main
tenance will he about $250 this winter,
as against $1,000 last winter."
PROHIBITION MAP OF THE UNIT
ED STATE 8.
There are twenty-seven prohibition
states. The District of Columbia,
Alaska and Porto Klco are also dry.
More than 88 per cent of the country's
area Is dry territory and more than CI
per cent of tho people live under pro
hibition. IT'S THAT KIND OF BUSINESS.
I am shouting happy to think that I
am going to live long enough to prench
the funeral sermon of the liquor busi
ness In America. I am overwhelming
ly glad that I can see the end of this
lawless, anarchistic, pimple-making,
vice-producing, Subbath-breaklng, pocket-emptying,
honor-wrecking, rag-bedecking,
blood polluting, rlot-mnklng,
Infamous, corrupt, God forsaken busi
ness. Billy Sunday.
Watch the approach of the water
wagon as the nutiouui vehicle!
TRY IT OUT.
War prohibition 1 needed, not only
as essential to early victory, but to
test the advisability of ratification of
tho federal omendnrvnt. If prohibition
Is a bad thing war prohibition will con
vince the people of It and they will not
make tho mistake of ratifying a bad
amendment
Nine states hnve by legislative en
actment provided for an annual Tem
perance dny In the public schools. In
most of these It Is designated as Fran
ces E. Wlllnrd day.
WHERE FARMING
IS PROFITABL
The Future of Great Possibilities,
Some Idea of the great wealth that
the Western Canada farmer had ii
view a few years ago Is now being reel.
ized, Tho amount received from th
sale of wheut, oats, barley, flax anil
rye In 1017 was $270,000,000, while tin
sales of live stock at Winnipeg alont
netted $40,000,000 additional. Of thlt
sum hogs nlone gave over eleven rail
Hon dollars. The Increases at Culgarr
nnd Edmonton were over 0'4 million
dollars.
This money, so easily earned, Is b
Ing spent In Improvements In farm
property, purchasing additional land,
buying tractors, automobiles, and la.
proving home conditions, providing
electric light, stenm heat, new furrjJ
ture, pianos, buying Victory bonds,
paying off old debts, etc.
Over five hundred tractors were o1i)
In Southern Alberta In ,1017. Oni
Implement agent reports that the In
crease In his business In 1017, ortr
that of 1010, was equal to the total
business In 101!). It Is the snmc story
nil over the country. And it is not
this evidence nlone which proves the
advancement and growth of the three
prnlrlo provinces, but the lurge In
crease In the number of settlers; the
k Improvement In the extent of the cnl
tivated areas and agricultural produc
tion; the Increase In value of which
over 1010 was $77,000,000.
This wonderful progress that hti
been made In agriculture In Western
Canndn Is but tho beginning which
marks the future of the greatest ngrl
cultural country on tho continent,
showing a future of great possibility
There are millions of acres yet un
filled, and of land as good as any of
that which Is now giving Its owneni
return of from twenty to thirty dollnrt
nn acre, figures that In many nisei
represent tho cost of the land, with ill
cultivation costs Included. It Is tra
that the cost of production has In.
creased during the pnst few years, but
the price of the product has also In
creased to a figure which leaves i
large balance to the credit of the pro
ducer.
The following tale shows how this
works out: 1013 1017
Trice I'rlct
FARM NEEDS, Inbus.Inbui
Machinery wheat wheat
Self binder 100 100
Mower 70 88
0 H. P. gas engine 250 112
Seed drill 122 CO
Cream separator 87 83
Building
Tiuthroom, sink and septlce
tank 300 127
Pressure tank system... 150 118
Steel shingles, per 100
sq. ft 7 4
Lumber, per 1,000 ft.
Hemlock 28 17
Pine 47 32
Pricks, per M 1(1 8
Cement, per 350 lbs 2.5 1.2
Steel fence, 40 rods 15 10
Paint, per. 10 gals 25 19
Pianos 440 215
Clothing nnd food
Sugar, per cwt 6.2 4.9
Cottonseed, per ton 50 21
Linseed, per ton 50 25
Itlne serge suit 31 17
Percentage Increases are shown to
In another way, leading to the snmi
conclusion, from consultation of thi
Pepartinent of Labor's review of
prices. Taking 100 ns the Index num
ber of normal production In tho a
cade from ISfK) to 1000, the Increase!
In prices of farm prducts Imt
slightly outdistanced the Increases In
his needs. Pet
1013 1010 3017 Int.
Grnlns nnd fodder.133 200 280 1M
Animals nnd ments.170 213 203 W
Dairy produce ....145 184 220 M
Itldg. materials.... 143 170 220 M
House fur'sh'gs.... 120 103 203
Implements 105 130 100 N
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Oratory Today.
In Mississippi they tell of a younj
lawyer retained to defend a nia
charged with the. theft of a pig. Th
young man seemed determined to con
vince the Jury thnt he was born W
shine, and accordingly he delivered
the following exordium :
"May it please the court and gentle
men .of the Jury, while Europe U
bathed In blood ; while classic Greece
Is struggling for her rights nnd liber
ties nnd trnmpllng the unhallowed li
ters of tho beardless infidels to dust;
while the United States, entering the
war, shines forth the brightest orb H
the political sky I, with duo dlffl
dence, rise to defend the cause of tali
humble hog thief." Case and Com
ment. Cuticura Beauty Doctor
For cleansing nnd beautifying ths
skin, hands and hair, Cuticura Soap
nnd Ointment afford the most effective
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druggists nnd by mall. Soap 25, Olnt
ment 23 and 50. Adv.
Mnn must take tho world as he tail
It and leave It In pretty much tne sam1
condition.
Dr. Pierce's Tlensnnt Pellets are thl
original little liver pills put up 40 yet"
ago. They regulate liver and bowels. Al
Words nre sometimes used to
press Ideas and sometimes the want or
them.
WrttrM'1 Indian Vegetable Pills art il
ply a rood, old-fuehloned medicine for
Iiitlnf the tom.ich, liver and bowels. 0,1
kox and try them. Adv.
One must be poor to enjoy the It
ury of living. George Elliott.
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