THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
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10 EXTEND
DRAFT AGE LIU
Enlarged Military Program
Complete, Says Baker.
FOR EARLY CONSIDERATION
Age Limits To Be Extended In Both
Direction! 19 to 40 Forecast Not
Correct Presentation Of Bill
In Congress.
Washington. Hans of the War De
partment for an enlarged military pro-
Cram, Including extension of the draft
age in1 both directions, have been vir
tually completed, Secretary Baker an
nounced. Ha eipects that the War
Department bill will be Introduced In
Congress this week enabling the mili
tary committees to begin considera
tion without delay.
Mr. Daker would not reveal the age
limits to be recommended by the de
partment. He said, however, that
published reports that the limits were
to be set at from 19 to 40 years were
Incorrect The 19-to-40-year sugges
tion was among those considered and
rejected, be added.
The age limits most generally dis
cussed heretofore as being the most
acceptable to the War Department
were 19 and 36, Inclusive, but Mr.
Baker would not give any Intimation
that this had been accepted.
Mr. Baker said be did not Intend
to Issue any statement explaining his
plans, and that so far as the Depart
ment was concerned presentation of
the bill In Congress would be the only
publicity given it The purpose of the
extension of ages for draft liability, he
said, was to provide an adequate num
ber of men In class one to meet the
enlarged army program. The Secre
tary would not say, however, how
large a manpower reservoir It was
desired to create.
Secretary Baker has heretofore an
nounced that his policy In recom
mending any change in draft ages
would be to seek a sufficient number
of men to meet the Army's needs In
such ages as would least disturb the
economic situation at home. The bulk
of the new forces, In his view, should
be drawn from the youngest class of
men physically able to stand the
strain of modern warfare.
From the purely army standpoint,
this has been a boy's war from the
Start The quick recuperative powers
of youth have been vitally necessary
to the military machine under the
conditions of modern warfare.
Older men are slower to recover and
are, therefore, of more limited use to
the Army.
On the other hand, however, there
are a great number of men who could
be called out of the higher ages, even
cp to 45. A far greater proportion1
f the men between 31 and 45 have
Independent Incomes than Is true
with men below 31, reducing the de
pendents factor for exemption to that
extent.
As to the size of the army for which
(his increased class one is necessary,
no official has dropped a hint, with the
exception of General March, who In
announcing the creation of a July
schedule of six new divisions, followed
by an August schedule for the same
number, has Indicated the embarka
tion upon such a monthly program.
At this rate approximately 250,000 men
a month would be sent overseas, their
places In the home cantonments to be
taken by 250,000 new men. Under such
a schedule, with provision now exist
ing for the housing and training of
1.750,000 men In the United States, a
full six months of training on this side,
both In divisional and replacement
camps, before men were sent over to
complete their courses behind the
lines would be possible.
It Is not certain that the department
Is aiming at the creation of a force of
any definite size. There are now up
ward of 1,300,000 American troops
either overseas or enroute. Secretary
Baker said the shipment rate of the
early part of July had been main
tained throughout the month, although
he did not have available the total
shipment Under the 250,000 a month
suggestion and without mishap to the
supply line. October should see 2,000,
000 Americans overseas and the open
ing of the spring campaign of 1919
when many officers believe the final
scenes of the German defeat will be
gin In a great combined drive against
the German lines, might easily see
1000,000 ready for action, with an
other force of substantially 2.000,000
organized at home, That would repre
sent the army of 5,000,000 men for
which, in a general way, the War De
partment may be aiming.
FRIENDLY ALIENS TO FIGHT.
forty In New York Vote To Waive All
Exemptions.
New York, Forty "friendly aliens,"
within the Jurisdiction of local draft
board No. 152, most of them Italians
nd Russians, volunteered at a meet
ing to waive all exemptions and take
places In Class 1 of the draft Many
of the men who attended the meeting
were accompanied by their wives.
61milar meetings will be held In other
districts, It was announced. '
KAISER'S PORTRAIT BURNED.
Oyster Bay Vigilantes In At Death Of
Gift To Roosevelt.
Oyster Bay, N. Y. The portrait of
emperor William, originally presented
9y him to Theodore Itooscvelt, which
was seized and mutilated last Sunday
alght by "Vigilantes" at the home or
C. H. Pollutz, who had purchased It at
fair for $5, was burned at a celebra
tion in the village square. The Oyster
Bay band and nearly 1,000 "mourners"
turned out for a parade that preecded
the cremation.
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Hard Fighting But No Attack
in Force
AMERICANS FOOL THE HUNS
All Efforts Of Germans To Advance
Their Lines Against The Amerl
can Fail The Yankees
Content
American Army on the Alsne-Marne
Front Efforts made by the Germans
to advance their lines against the
Americans on this front are fruitless.
The Americans, for their part, were
content to hold their positions along
their slightly advanced line for the
time. The German line, however, Is
reported gradually giving way both
to the right and left.
There Is hard fighting going on, but
no concentrated attack In force by
either side.
The Americans made a pretense of
retiring from a part of the town of
Serlnges. The Germans advanced
Into the town, on observing the sup
posed evacuation. Two companies of
Americans then closed in and en
veloped the German force, killing or
capturing every man of it.
Both high explosives and gas shells
were sprayed by the Germans over a
wide area. The air forces on both
sides are busy. One of the American
observers was attacked by eight
enemy machines, but escaped and re
turned to bis base.
London. Although the Allied gains
during the last twenty-four hours may
seem small, some of them have been
exceedingly significant, at the Amer
ican front in France. The chief fea
ture of the recent fighting, Is the
French advance from Oulchy Lb
Chateau which carried the villages of
Grand Rozoy and Clgny and swept the
Germans otl the Butte of Chalmont.
This hill was a center of enemy ie
distance along the western side of
the salient.
German guns situated on the Butte
of Chalmont had been able to rake
the Solssons-Chateau-Thlerry road al
most as far as Vltlemontoire and hurl
a cross fire upon he advancing French
and American troops In the valley of
the Ourcq. The French now are able
to harass from this hill the enemy's
retirement and should be able to clear
the angle between the Solssons-Chateau-Thlerry
road and the railroad
between .Oulchy Le Chateau and
Flames and bring much needed as
sistance to the Americans In the vil
lage of Serlnges.
It will be a costly task to take the
Nestles Forest but there are alterna
tive possibilities In the comparative
ly open ground to the westward. The
railroad, which is the key to the
Ourcq valley Is In Allied hands.
The enemy may certainly plume
himself on his retirement, according
to plan but It can scarcely be accord
ing to plan that he left hundreds of
tons of ammunition behind him. There
Is as yet no conception of the enor
mous figures to which these losses In
materials of war will run. When the
vast numbers of shells actually cap
tured are added to the millions of
shells exploded either by himself or
by the Allied fire some Idea of his loss
may be gained. The enemy has moved
his guns wonderfu! well but his gun
ners have been warned to be sparing
of ammunition and to fire only when
necessary to support his Infantry.
CARING FOR THE NURSES.
First Convalescent Home In England
Opened By Red Cross.
London. The first convalencent
home for American nurses in England
wns opened by the Red Cross In I'ut
ney at Colebrook Lodge, formerly the
home of C. W. Yerlies, of Chicago.
The foundation of the building is 30)
years old. Three acres of gardens
surround It and there are accommoda
tions for 25 nurses, mostly 111 from
duty in France.
TAIL OPIN PROVES FATAL.
Cadet Killed By 1,500 Foot Fall At
Texas Camp.
Fort Worth, Texas. Going Into a
tall-spin at a height of 1,500 feet,
William V. Weir, of Gadsden, Ala., a
cadet at Carruthers Flying Field, fell
to the ground and was killed. Cadet
Weir was 23 years old and was the son
of William A. Weir, or Gadsden. He
attended the ground school at Austin,
Texas, and came here the latter part
of June. He would have received his
commission In short time.
AMERICAN STONE SAMMIES IIP
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STANDS
in the U. S. A.
THE BAVARIANS
Pershing's Men Resist Fierce
Counter-Attack.
HELD LIKE STONE WALL
Whole Fourth Division Of Bavarian
Guards Thrown In The Desperate
Counter-Attack Against The
Americans.
London. The Americans met Ger
many's finest regiments in battle
south of Sergy Sunday night where
the enemy threw In the whole Fourth
division of Bavarian Guards in a des
perate counter-attack. Advices reach
ing London show that the Americans
stood like a stone wall; brought the
Germans to a clean stop and Inflicted
the heaviest losses upon them.
The dispatches praise the work of
the Americans highly, but give no de
tails beyond Insisting upon the heavy
losses which the Bavarians suffered,
particularly from the American ma
chine gunners.
The fact that the Germans picked
the Americans as opponents for the
choicest battalions In the German
Army Indicated that they have learned
to respect the men from the United
States In the fighting of the last fort
night The heaviest fighting of the
last 24 hours occurred in this sector
last night against the French and the
Americans. Sergy, after having been
taken and lost four times, was in Al
lied bands today.
American Army on the Alsne-Marne
Front. Reinforced by two crack divi
sions of Bavarian Guards, the Teutons
settled down to the hardest resistance
they have yet displayed against the
American forces north of the Itlver
Ourcq.
Although heavily hammered, the
Americans replied in like along the
river, and the fighting shifted back
and forth through Sergy, three miles
southeast of Fere-en-Tardenois.
From niielms the line now extends
almost straight southwest to OUzy-et-Violalne.
The forest of RIs Is now
behind the Allies and they are holding
Chanipvolsy, to the northeast of the
forest. In this region the Germans
have the higher ground and have some
advantage in the artillery duel.
SUGAR TO GO UP.
Cubans Declare They Cannot Produce
It At Present Price.
New York. The price to be paid In
the United States for Cuban sugar
next year has been referred to repre
sentatives of the two governments for
determination at a conference of
American and Cuban sugar interests
to be held in Washington this week,
according to a statement Issued here
by George M. Rolph, chairman of the
International Sugar Committee.
While the International Sugar Com
mittee recognized the need of meeting
the Increased cost of production in
Cuba, shown In a brief filml with the
committee by Cuban representatives,
to amount to more than half a cent a
pound, Mr. Rolph's statement said that
"on account of the divergence of views
of the members of the Cuban mission
from the views of the members of the
International Sugar Committee as to
the price, it was decided to refer the
question to both Governments in the
hope that an early and mutually satis
factory adjustment of price may be
made."
ALLIED RETIREMENT CLAIMED.
Vienna Reports Successes In Albania
And Italy.
Vienna. An Allied retirement In Al
bania is reported In the ofllcl.il state
ment Issued by the war office. The
statement reads: "In Albania the
enemy, early this morning, evacuated
his front lines at many points. In a
successful raid In the Sasso Rosho
region, In Northern Italy, we captured
25 prisoners."
TO CUT TIRES ONE-HALF.
Rubber Industry Asked For Big
Reduction.
New York. A 50 per cent, cut In
production of pneumatic tires in Au
gust and September, as compared with
the same months last year, was asked
of the rubber Industry in a letter from
George N. Peek, commissioner of fin
ished products of the War Industries
Board, read before 400 members of
the trade at a meeting here today.
This restriction would be exclusive cf
Government business
CONGRESSMEN SEE
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Thrilled By Our Brave Boys
Pluck at Sergy
NOT FAR FROM FIRING LINE
Would Remain Longer Than They Did
But For German Shells Bursting
Over Their Heads Visited
Austro-ltallan Front.
American Forces on the Alsne-
Marne Front. Six war-tlrexl American
Congressmen are on their way back
to Paris after having witnessed from
a hillside the tussle for possession of
the town of Sergy, two and a half
miles southeast of the former Genuan
base at Fcre-En-Tardenols, In the Sols
sons-Rholms pocket.
The Congressmen saw American In
fantrymen in action, witnessed the
firing of Entente Allied big guns and
heard the rattle of German machine
guns and the crashing of the heavy
cannon of the Gorman Crown Prince.
The Congressmen probably would
have remained on the eminence longer
had not the German heavy shells be'
gun exploding overhead. That ended
the sightseeing trip In that vicinity,
one Congressman remarking that the
Germans could quit that sort of busi
ness right then so far as be was con
cerned.
The Congressman who had visited
e Austro-ltallan front said their
observations showed to them the first
actual fighting worth talking about
The party was conducted by Lleuten
ant Freeman Light, of South Norwalk.
Ct, and It consisted of Representa
tives Thomas A. Chadler, of Okla
homa; M. Clyde Kelly, of Pennsyl
vania; Louis C. Cramton, of Michigan;
Thaddeus H. Caraway, of Arkansas;
John A. Elston, of California, and
Joseph Thompson, of Oklahoma.
The Congressmen had luncheon on
the hillside of Chateau Thierry
amidst the ruins of numerous fine
homes, the lazy Marne creeping along
through a great gap in what was
Chateau Thierry's finest . bridge and
now destroyed by the Germans.
While the Congressmen were sit
ting down to a basket luncheon a
fashionably attired woman from
'arls came to the rulni of her old
home where she found a group of
American soldiers In possession. The
woman explained her misnlon In
broken English. She went to the
basement, requested the aid of the
American soldiers, and had a private
dig a hole In the basement at a
point Indicated by her. Tle soldier
soon uncovered a basket full of
bonds, securities, nd other valuables.
Among them were a lot of five per
cent, gold $100 bonds of the defunct
St. Louis, Oklahoma and Gulf Rail
road. The woman gave the soldier
three bonds for his troubles.
The Congressmen visited the shat
tered houses In Chateau Thierry and
also the hillside dug outs formerly
occupied by the Germans, gathering
numerous souvenirs. They then pro
ceeded toward the battlefield, event
ually reaching the hill southeast of
Fere-en-Tardenols.
When the Germans besan replying
to the Allies' fire In earnest the con
gressmen decided that It was about
time to adjourn and did so, leaving
behind the souvenirs they had gath
ered at Chateau Thierry. On their
way to the rear, however, they passed
through the forest of Fere, visiting
additional former German dugouts and
camps and gathered up another assort
ment of rilles, helmets and various
articles, which they took bark.
The congressmen also visited a field
hospital, having seen stretcher-bearers
bringing in wounded men from the
field. They were satisfied that every
thing possible was being done for the
men on the front lines and for those
who fell in the fighting.
U. S. FORCE GIGANTIC.
Amsterdam Correspondent Says It
Can't Be Beaten.
Amstedam. Returning here from a
visit to France, a correspondent of the
Handelsblatt writes a long article of
admiration for American achievement
and continues:
''From America Issues a force
against which no European nation can
stand. It is a gigantic force, which
is developing calmly and scientifically.
"The German people are told that
the U-boats will be able to conquer
the American danger, but the German
people have not seen what I have
seen."
MARINES KILL BANDITS.
Dispatch Twenty In Encounters In San
Domingo.
Washington. Three encounters be
tween United States Marines nnd
Dominican and Ilaytlan bandits In
Santo Domingo were reported in dis
patches to the Navy Department.
Casualties among the Marines were
one corporal and two privates slightly
wounded. One Dominican guard o Ul
cer was also wounded. About 20 of
the bandits were killed.
AIRPLANE FLARE.
To Be Used In Night-bombing Expedi
tions. Washington. Perfection of an ai.'
plane flare for use in night bombing
expeditions over enemy territory was
announced by the Ordnance Depart
ment. The flare Is released from the
plane In a parachute and is set off by
air friction. At a height of 2,000 feet,
It was announced, it will oast a light
of more than 400,000 candle-power
over an area 04 and one-half miles In
diameter.
what wore CAN
DOTOWiNTHE WAR
Conserve Food and Buy Liberty
Bonds Two Ways They
Can Help.
WOMEN OFAMEMCAvWAKEUP!
Pour All Your Savings Into Uncle
Sam's Lap Keep on Saving and
Pouring Until the World
Is Free.
By INEZ HAYNES IRWIN.
What eun the women of America
do to help win this wur? Two things
are certain; one that they can do a
great deal nnd another that, unless
the war lusts ten years longer, they
cun never do so much as the French,
English uud Itullan women have done,
they tun never suffer so much as the
French, English und Itullun women
have suffered.
To me, returning to America after
two years In the wur countries, the un
touched guyety of the American people
came as a terrific shock. I hud left a
world as black and silent as night; a
world in which I had seen no dunclng,
a world in which I hud henrd no snon
tnneous luughter or except (n the case
of military bunds no music. At first
Ihe atmosphere of America was almost
unbearable. I was obsessed with the
desire to get buck to the allied coun
tries, to suffer with them, rather than
enjojr the contpurutlve comfort of a
comparatively unuroused America,
The luxury everywhere appulled me.
Those hundreds of motors gliding
through our streets for Instance I
Private motors huve long ago disap
peared from allied Europe. The benu
tlful fabrics, the furs and laces, the
gorgeous sport clothes and the dazzling
evening dresses which still distinguish
the women of America.
Ban on Evening Clothes.
The first time I wus invited to a
dinner party on my return, I wore a
long-sleeved high-necked gray-und
black gown nnd found myself a wren
among birds of parndl.se. No woman
of Frunce would think of wearing eve
ning clothes. Indeed, both men nnd
women are prohibited by law from np
pearlng In evening clothes nt the theu-
ter. On the few soclul occasions In
which they take, part, French women
are dressed in bluck gowns with a lit
tle lace nt the neck nnd sleeves. Eng
llsh women still wear evening clothes,
w hen their men return on their rare
eave from the front, they cover their
aching hearts with as much gayety ns
possible In order to send them back to
the filth and the vermin and the rats
and thu dump und the cold nnd the
wounds nnd the constant sight of death
psychologically refreshed. But most of
the evening dresses that the English
women are now wearing date back to
the beginning of the wur. And strong
est of all, perhaps, for a country nt
war, those lustrous streets with their
rows of electric lights and their vivid,
flushing, changing, Iridescent electric
signs. In Purls, you plunge Into a
deep twilight when you leave your res-
uurant, and In London you grope your
way home through n dangerous Sty
glnn gloom. Then the careless spend
ing In American hotels nnd restau
rants. In Purls those places close at
half-past nine. And food! Food con
ditions huve never been so bad In
Frunce as In flie other allied coun
tries, for France has always fed her
self and is, moreover, the world's best
cook. But In Italy and England, moat
Is a rure luxury to be obtulned only
once in a great while; butter nnd
sugar are long-forgotten dreams.
See Their Homes Destroyed.
And then In the case of France and
to some degree of Italy, the allied
women have seen vust stretches of
cnrefully emed-for ancient forest and
enormous sections of softly-benutlful
furmlng country turned Into metul-rld-
den dumps; they have seen dozens of
small cities and hundreds of little vil
lages transformed to ash heaps; they
have seen so much old Hucred beauty
in the form of churches, cuthedrals
and historic monuments reduced to
hills of rubble thut the whole world
must seem a desert to them. Thev
huve even had to endure the extra
affront of an exhibition In Berlin of
the urt treasures looted from northern
Franco.
The allied women huve nursed the
wounded, the tubercular, the under
nourished; they huve taught new
trades to the crippled nnd blind nnd
those who are invullded for life. They
have taken cure of thousands and
thousands of refugees from Belgium,
northern France nnd Siberia. They
have hud to provide for the bringing
up of thousands of orphan children.
his has not come upon them gradual
ly, but all the time and in Increasing
proportions.
But, after all, these things are ns
nothing to the death of the (lower of
lelr male youth. England and Frnnee
and Italy have lost so much In man
power that no member of our genera
tion looks for happiness again during
his own lifetime! They hope only
for one thing to Jnsuru the freedom
of thu next generation.
Sons All Gone.
"My husband Is a Parisian," said
beautiful American woman married
to a Frenchman. "Ho bus always
lived In Paris. He bus many friends
here. lie Is forty-five venrs old. His
Facts About Ship's Speed.
A ship Increases her speed more
rendlly over deep water, but on the
other hand, the faster a ship runs the
more depth of water she requires to
prevent the hindrance caused by the
dragging Influence of the friction
which is always felt when the ship's
eel "senses bottom. Running ten
knots' an hour, a ship must huve be
tween 20 and 27 feet of depth, or she
Is dragged from below. If running
20 knots she needs a depth of 104 to
103 feet, and when running 30 knots
friends range In ago from forty to
sixty. Not one has n son left."
"Thank you for your kind letter,
wrote an English girl to 11 woman who
bad Just sent a letter condoling wit
her on the death of the lust of three
brothers. "We find the country 'a lit
tie dreary now and we are returning
to town the last of the month. We
shnll be at home Sunday evenings. Be
sure to como to us often. We want
to see all our friends and bear what
they have been doing In the lust three
months. Mother nnd father look for-
ward with special pleasure to meeting
you all ugnlu. Pit-use bring any sol
dler friends; we will try to make
gay for them."
"What news do you get from Fre(
erick," a friend of mine asked of the
mother of Frederick, a beautiful mid
uie-ugcu r.ngiish woman who wus
making a greut success of n dance
given for some convalescent Tommlt
"Oh, you haven't henrd, have you," the
mother of Frederick answered. "Ho
was killed two months ago." And sho
turned to answer with her ready ay in
pathetic smile the Inquiries of a group
of Tommies gathered ubout her.
Fight Same as Men.
But thut Is not all. In a manner of
spinklng, the women of Europe are
fighting the war Just ns the men are.
They have not, except In tbo ense of
tho famous Battalion of Death, died
In battle; and yet a hulf to three
quarters of a million women have been
killed as the direct result of war ac
tivities. More women have been kill
ed In this war than men on both the
Northern nnd Southern sides in our
Civil war. That nearly three-quarters
of a million Includes the women inns
sacred by the Turks In Armenia, by
the Austrlans in Serbia, by the Ger
mans In Belgium and northern France
It Includes army nurses and women
munition makers; It Includes civilian
women killed by shells In the war
zone or near it, women killed by Zepr
pelln and airplane raids and by sub
marines.
What can the women of America
do to equal all this service and all
this suffering?
For three years, the French nnd
English, nnd for two years, the Ital
lams, huve' stood between us and tho
denth of our democracy. What can
we do to make up for thut long, best;
tatlng neutral Inaction of ours? The
men of our 'nation have responded gal
luntly. We have a reul army In Frunce
now. As Lloyd George said In parlla-
ment to a listening empire, "The Amer
icons ore in." We are in and of;
course we are In to stny, in for a
century If need be, until the safety of
the world democrucy is assured. The
men of America are doing their part-
doing It with suffering und denth,
What can the women do?
What Women Can Do.
It is tho geographical misfortune of
us women of America that we cannot
possibly give the personal service thai
the women of Europe have given.
They are near and we are fnr. They,
so to speak, are In the front trenches
nnd we have not entered the war zone,
Only a very few of us. In proportion
to our numbers, can work in the hos
pitals or canteens there. Only a few;
more in proportion to our numbers can
do Red Cross work or Y. M. C. A.
work here. There are, however, two
things we cun do all the time and
with all the strength that Is in us.
One In to conserve food. The other
Is to buy Liberty bonds. We can help
the government by buying bonds. Yet
again we have nn advantage; It Is our
peculiar misfortune that most of us
can help the government only by help'
ng ourselves. For the purchase of
Liberty bonds nt the generous rnte of
Interest which the government grants
Is not self-denial but In line with self-
interest legltlmnto of course, but still
self-interest.
Women of America, wake up I Pour
all your savings into Uncle Sam's lap.
Then save more, and pour them Intd
his lap. Keep on saving nnd pouring,
pouring and saving, until the world
is' free. You hnve given generously
of the sinews of wur in those mag
nificent boys you hnve sent to France.
Give as generously In the money which
will keep them well and happy there.
EXIT THE GERMAN DACHSHUND
Marine Poster Causes German Dog to
Be Driven From Street of
Cincinnati.
Cincinnati. Exit theOermnn dachs
hund from the society of Cincinnati
dogdom.
A United Stntes mnrlne corps postel
was responsible for the German dog
gie's social demise here. The postet
depicts nn American bulldog chasing
a Germnn dachshund with the words:
Teufel bund (devil dogs), German
nickname for U. S. marines." Since
the appearance of tho poster the loeul
dachshunds, of which there are n great
number, huve led a miserable existence,
ns small boys have "sicked" bulldogs,
terriers, bounds and every other cn
nine breed on the poor "Frltzles," un
til nt last they have been virtually
driven off the streets of Cincinnati.
Navy Bean Lauded.
The nnvy bean, besides being plenti
ful in tbnt branch of the war service
which bears Its name, is also well
stocked In the army. It follows the
flag to the front nnd Chicago food nd
mlntstrntors say it should be used lib-
rally nt home to snvo other foods for
the soldier boys.
Guests Provide Own Sugar.
When friends go "u-vlsitln"' at A!-
on, III., they bring their own sugar
ulong for sweetening the refreshments
served. A two-pound sugnr ration to
each family compels it. Sugar has
been unusually scarce for some time.
she feels the drag over a depth of
nearly 324 feet.
In the Library.
"Would you mind changing this book
for me? It's the second edition, and
I haven't read the first" Boston
Transcript.
Looking for Excitement
Dorothy was driving with her father
one day when a tar wagon passed on
a cross street In front of them. 8h
said, "Let's knock the tar out of that."
MOTHERS
111 II
Should Read Mrs. MonvW
uuci uuusnea by
Her Permission,
Mitchell. Tnr!. "T tvlt. v ..
veeetame Compound helped m Z
WaslookincC!.!
tothecomineof,
little one that l S
recoramendinw?
ower expect,"
mothers. Be f,1
1 suffered with?
ralRla so badivftj
i n L DUt tt
taking three bottk
ham's Ve'
Compoun(l?WMkij
tlrely rellev
neuralgia, 1
gained in atrenk
end was able to 2
my housework. My baby when itv
months old weighed 19 pounds and I Q
better than I Eave for a long time, 1
never bad any medicine do m .
much good." Mrs. Pearl Monyhii
Mitchell, Ind.
Good health during maternity u ,
most important factor to both moth
and child, and many letters have bee
received bv the Lvdia E. Pint,!!;
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., telling f
health reetoredduringthli trying py
by the use of Lvdia . Pinkham?t Vej
In the Bath
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Another Thing.
"Whnt do you think of a wife t
order?" "No experienced married muo
ever nttemptod It."
duiiiihgi uiMTnuni
tan be eontmUi.,1 mnr qnlcklr with. OBOTR
UABY BOWHL MUDICINB and It la abvlnl
c m i
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Children.
PRICE FOR FAME TOO HIGH
Modern Poet Not Willing to Undergo
Martyrdom for Sake of Living
In History.
Uncle John, the gifted poet of the
Excelsior Springs Standard, has been
studying tbo lives of the old masters
and Is much discouraged. He writs:
Old John Bunions told his rihrlni
piece while in the penitentiary duin'
time for some little offense. Nearly all
of 'em wrote their best stuff while Id
gront distress.
Nearly all of em had sore eye
some was totally blind, nn' the com;
nion run of wrltin' mnterlnl was po"'
a sharp stick an' a gourdful of home
made Ink was the best they had; In
spite of them handicaps they managed
to compose stuff that will llvo long af
ter my best poem has went the route.
Still you never can tell. It Is Inter
esting to ponder on the possibility of
one of my war poems beln' In tho fifth
render of A. D. 2153.
But If I hnve to be socked into the
calubooso nn' write with nn old bugtl
spoke for a pen, before I can get off
anything famous, I am afenred I shall
never make the rifflo. Kunsns City
Times.
She Was a Fighter.
Everyone knew thnt Lieutenant
Thorlelgh nnd his pretty young wlffl
had failed to agree during the few
years of married life, but no one quite
liked to nsk him where she was living
during bis last months of trnlnlng In
this country. So when nn Innocent
newcomer Inquired polnt-blnnk where
she wns, there was n rather Intense
moment before he said, calmly:
"Jly wife Is in France."
"Whnt is sho doing?" wns demanded
further.
"Fighting," he nnsworod, enlmly.
"Fighting!" everyone exclnlmcd.
"Well," he replied, "perhaps she
rsn't actually fighting, but I'm sure
roe's qunrrellng." Harper's Miignzlne-
One little domestic storm mnv sour
he milk of human kindness.
for warm weather
t No fussing
round a
hot stove
if you cat
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