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TKE NEWS OF SEVEN
DAYS IN ALL LANDS
, War News.
"'- Realizing his danger, the German
commander is fighting for Lens like
a wolf in a corner. Lens gone means
that a large sector will hare to be
abandoned. So inside a salient some
what resembling the shape of a dog's
bead the Germans are hanging on ap
parently determined to hold until the
last hope goes.
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' Three Bgtish naval airplanes fought
tover Flanders recently. An official
account of the fight says one and
tprobably three of the Germans were
ivan ifnvn All t Vi a Tlritissri airmen
xeturned safely.
" : An official report from British head
quarters in France reads: "Our suc
sa southwest of Lens Was followed
tip on both banks of the Souchez river.
Progress was made by our troops in
this area on a front of about two
miles. A raid attempted by the enemy
southeast of Ypres was repulsed by
our machine gun fire."
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The Belgian army is larger, better
equipped and more determined today j
than it was at tne Deginning 01 me
war, Lieutenant General Leclercq,
military member of the Belgian mis
sion, - said in' a recent address to the
National Press Club.
The massing of German troops on
the Aisne front means the coming o.t
a new offensive launched at the French
by the forces of the crown prince, ac
cording to the view nem Dy tne Desi
military critics in London.
, . The war situation at the present mo
ment is one of possibilities rather than
activities notwithstanding the big
guns are still busy. The Belgian re
port of considerable activity in tie
Dixmude region gives rise to all sorts
of speculation. Whatever the future
holds, it:' is - well assured that the
French are prepared for almost any of
fensive that the crown prince may at
tempt. 4 fr
A hostile raiding party was re
pulsed by the British east ef Epehy.
The enemy left several of their dead
on the wire entanglements and a few
wounded Germans were made prison
ers. An attempt to capture one of
the British posts near the Guillemont
Farm, in the same neighborhood, also
failed.
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Heavy attacks by the Germans
north of the Aisne have been repulsed
by the French troops with severe cas
ualties, an official communication
Bays. In the attack along a front of
one and one-fourth miles the Germans
only at one point succeeded in pene
trating the French trenches.
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WastJnsrfon.
The administration Food Control
bill, giving the President broad author
ity to control the distribution of food.
feed and fuel for war purposes, and
appropriating 152 million dollars for
its enforcement and administration,
was passed by the House after far
reaching prohibition provisions had
been written into it.
President Wilson has requested and
received permission to place a me
morial tablet to his father in the First
Presbyterian Church at Staunton, Va.
The United States cruiser, Olym
pia. Admiral Dewey's flagship at the
battle of Manila Bay, ran aground in
the fog off Block Island, R. I. She
was reported in -a bad position with
considerable water in its hold.
served this year with a solemnity re
flecting the sober determination "of a
democracy at war for its ideals and its
existence," was made in a statement
recently issued by the public informa
tion committee.
Sixteen companies of national guard
engineers have been ordered into ac
tive service by the War Department.
The engineers will lay out and pre
pare camp sites for the reception of
the national army and the national
euard.
Major General Pershing has ap
pointed Frederick Palmer of New York
to his staff in the 'intelligence depart
ment as a major. He will have charge
of the army's relations with the Amer
ican press.
Domestic '
- .. The Nation's contributions to the
Red Cross in response to the call for
a 100 million dollar war fund were es
timated at 114 million dollars by
Henry P. Davison, chairman of the
7 Red Cross war council.
Tabulations at Red Cross headquar
ters in Washington showed $100,313,-
AAA In ronnrtMl nlMTrao nf whtMli 5 .
993,000 was from New York City and
$64,320,000 from the remainder of the
. country.
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One or more of nineteen shots
which the gun crew of an American
armed freighter fired at a periscope
when three dayB out from Liverpool
on her voyage to America, are be
lieved by the crew to have reached
their mark. The captain said he be
lieved the U-boat was sunk.
Current retail prices oil canned vege
tables are nearly twice the prices paid
canners by wholesalers for this sea
son's output, the Federal Trade Com
mission, reported in connection with,
its Investigation into food prices. The
inquiry into canned goods, the com
mission explained, is to "forestall
speculative prices.
The count of the greatest board of
gold ever stored in one place in, the
history of . the world, consisting of
English, French and American coins
and bullion, totaling 765 million dol
lars, has just been completed at the
United States assay office in New
York "without a penny missing."
Marion M. Ballew, Frank Lucy and
Edward Neely, all cattle men of near
Cookson, Cherokee county. Ok.," are
dead as the result of an old feud that
flamed into deadly action in that sec
tion recently.
Suspension during the war of all
cannon salutes to visiting dignitaries
at army post fortifications or encamp
ments has been ordered by tie War
Department.
Control of American exports, au
thorized in a clause of the espionage
bill, has been assumed by President
Wilson, with the appointment of an
exports council comprising the secre
taries of state, agriculture and com
merce, and the food - administrator.
An executive order creating the coun
cil directs the departments of com
merce to administer all details - of
operation.
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Liberty loan subscriptions totaled
$3,035,226,850, an over-subscription of
nearly 52 per cent Final tabulation
has been officially announced showing
that more than 4,000,000 persons
bought bonds. Ninety-three per cent
of subscriptions were for sums vary
ing from $50 to $10,000, while twenty
one subscribers applied for allotments
of $5,000,000,000 each, or more.
.
Southwest.
El Tigre, an American owned' min
ing camp about seventy miles south
east of Douglas, Ariz., has been'taken"
over by Mexicans, it was learned re
cently. All Americans at El Tigre
came out some time ago.
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Chester Sawyer, a negro accused
of criminal assault upon the wife of a
dairyman, was taken from the county
jail at Galveston, Tex., about 2:30
o'clock in the morning and hanged at
the western boundary of the city.
An explosion at 10 o'clock at night
wrecked the residence occupied by
Sidney G. Cooke, governor of the Na
tional Military Home, south of Leaven
worth. William J. Squire of Kansas
City, son-in-law of the governor, who
was sitting in the library when the ex
plosion occurred, was severely injured.
With tears streaming down his
cheeks Dr. J L. Perrine, 75 years old,
told a coroner's jury at Felsenthal,
Ark., that he was obliged - to shoot
and kill his only son to save his own
life. He said that his son, Otis, 38, a
printer, who recently returned from
Mexico, was intoxicated and attempt
ed to kill him.
Henry Slade Goff, author, pioneer
resident of the Northwest, is dead at
his home in Minneapolis, after a brief
illness. Mr. Go ft", who was a Civil war
veteran, had written several books on
American history. He was 75 ' years
old.
Foreign.
The Cossacks' congress has passed
a resolution expressing full confi
dence in the provisional government
and assuring the government that the
Cossacks throughout Russia will
strongly support its efforts to sup
press anarchy and attempts at a coun
ter revolution.
The Spanish government has de
cided to suspend the constitutional
guarantees. Premier Dato' went to the
palace to obtain the king's signature
to the decree authorizing the suspen
sion. The Greek cabinet, beaded by Alex
ander Zaimis, has resigned. King
Alexander has informed M. Jonnart,
the high commissioner representing
France, Great Britain and Russia, that
he will ask ex-Premier Venizelos to
form a new cabinet.
The seizure of a quantity of explo
sives which has just reached Chris-
tiania, Norway, from Germany and the
arrest of three foreigners has been of
ficially confirmed, according to a Co
penhagen dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company. The police are
continuing the investigation.
'. An explosion in the magazine of
Cabanas fortress, across the bay from
Havana, Cuba, at 9 o'clock at night
shook the entire city. One person is
known to be dead and many were in
jured. It is believed a bomb was ex
ploded.
The Argentine steamer Toro has
been torpedoed off Gibraltar, accord
ing to news received by "the govern
ment. The Toro was bound for Ge
noa with a cargo of Argentine prod
ucts.
Sixteen children, only two of whom
were over 5 years of age, the victims
of the last German air raid on Lon
don, were given a public funeral the
other afternoon and their bodies were
laid in a common crave in an East
End cemetery over which a monu
ment will be placed.
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LANDS IN FRANCE
Advance Guard of Mighty Army
Slipped Across Atlantic
Unannounced.
PICK OF SEASONED REGULARS
General Pershing Will Have a Fine
Body of Fighting Men in
- Trenches Soon.
Washington, June 28. The advance
guard of the mighty army the United
States is preparing to send against
Germany is on French soil tonight.
In defiance of the German subma
rines, thousands of seasoned regulars
and marines, trained fighting - men
with the tan of long service on the
Mexican border or in Haiti or San Do
mingo still on their faces, have been
hastened overseas to fight beside the
French, the British, the Belgian, the
Russian, the Portuguese and the Italr
ian troops on the western front.
General Sibert in Command.
News of the safe arrival of the
troops sent a new thrill through Wash
ington. No formal announcement
came from the war department. None
will come, probably, until Major Gen
eral Pershing's official report has been
received. Then there may be a state
ment as to the numbers and composi
tion of the advance guard.
Press dispatches from France, pre
sumably sent forward with the ap
proval of General Pershing's staff,
show that Major General Sibert, one
of the new major generals of the army,
has been given command of the first
force sent abroad under General Per
shing as commander-in-chief of the ex
pedition. '
"Was a Big Task.
One thing stands out sharply, de
spite the fact that the. size of the task
that has been accomplished is .not
fully revealed as yet. This --is that
.American- enterprise has set a new
record for the transportation of
troops.
Considering the distance to be cov
ered and the fact that all preparations
had to be made after the order came
from the White House the night of
May 18, it is practically certain that
never before has a military expedition
of this size been assembled, conveyed
and landed without mishap in so short
a time by any nation. It is a good
augury of future achievements. The
only rival in magnitude is the move
ment of British troops to South Africa
in the Boer war, and that was made
over seas that were unhampered by
submarines, mines or other obstacles.
SENATORS VOTE OUT BEER
Agricultural Committee Favorably Re
ports Substitute for Food Bill .
Passed by the House.
Washington, June 28. With drastic
prohibition - amendments to prohibit
the manufacture of beer as well as dis
tilled liquors and giving the President
discretion to permit the manufacture
of wine only, the administration Food
Bill was agreed on today by the Senate
agriculture committee and favorably
reported as a substitute for the House
bill. The vote was 8 to 7.
Senator Wadswortii of New York
proposed to wine exemption. Senator
Sheppard .of Texas, a leading prohibi
tionist, made the fight in committee
against the subcommittee plan of al
lowing, the President to determine
whether further manufacture of beer.
as well as wine, shall be allowed.
The committee also approved ex
tension of federal control to steel and
iron products, petroleum and its pro
ducts, farm implements and machin
ery, fertilizers and binding twine ma
terial, as xecommended by its sub
committee.
EXPOSED A GERMAN
AGENT
A Speech In Petrograd Shows Up the
Russian Agitator in a,
Bad Light
Washington, June 28. That King
Ludwig of Bavaria, commanding Ger
man forces, had conspired with the
Russian agitator, Lenine, toward get
ting a general peace without annexa
tion or contribution was the deduction
from a State Department message re
ceived today. ,
The message said Lenine had spoken
before the Russian Workmen's and
Soldiers Congress June 22, in favor
of a general peace. M. Vierensky
then spoke, announcing he would re
peat Lenine's speech. Reading from
a manuscript, he practically duplicat
ed the agitator's utterances, whereup
on he announced that the document
was in reality an intercepted wireless
signed by the King of Bavaria.
Woodmen Arrive . in England.
London, June 28. Ten companies of
American woodmen sent over by New
England states and organizations to
turn various forests of the United
Kingdom into lumber have arrived on
English soil.
Liner Hit Mine Off Bombay.
Bombay, India, June 28. The Penin
sular and Oriental liner Mongolia
struck a. mine off Bombay June 23.
The passengers and crew have arrived
at Bombay. The mails are believed tc
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KANSAS FARMERS SPEED UP
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Record .Acreages ef Corn and Sorghum
Planted in State This Year,
Says Mohler.
Every spring crop grown in Kansas
has broken every record for acreages
the state has ever made. J. C. Moh
ler, secretary of the Kansas Board of
Agriculture, has compiled the figures
on corn and the grain sorghums and
they, too, have beaten every record.
The corn acreage went to 9,200,000
acres, the largest ever known. Dry
and vaett weather in different sections
of the state have cut down the con
dition in some counties, but as a whole
it looks like the biggest corn year the
state has ever known.
The nearest approach to the corn
acreage was 8,589,700 acres in 1910,
while last year less than T million
acres were devoted to the crop. Ap
proximately 2,800,000 acres of aban
doned wheat ground was planted to
Corn.
The average condition of corn for
the state is 78.4 per cent. Until re
cently the weather generally has been
too cool, and the corn in the main is
small and backward. In many east
ern counties the soil was for a time
entirely too wet, while in nearly all
the western counties it has beep too
dry. Throughout the state much re
planting has been necessary, amount
ing in the Kaw river counties to more
than one-half the area, while now and
then comes reports of fields that have
been planted as many as three and
even four times. In the more moist
eastern half of the state, where the
larger acreages are found, recent
warmer weather has been beneficial,
although conditions in the western
part continue unfavorably dry. For
corn, rains would be welcomed in all
sections. Cultivation' is progressing
and as a rule the fields are reported
clean of weeds.
The same conditions that retarded
corn have likewise been unfavorable
for the sorghums, which require warm
er weather than prevailed when much
of the planting was done and after
ward. Considerable was replanted,
and growth generally has been slow.
TO SAVE NEXT YEAR'S WHEAT
Government Issues Warning to Farm
ers Against Hessian Fly Precau
tionary Measures Are Urged.
To save the wheat crop next year
from serious and possibly complete
loss by Hessian flies, farmers of east
ern Kansas are urged by entomolo
gists of the United States Department
of Agriculture to-take immediate meas
ures against this pest. , Reports reach
ing the department from eastern Kan
sas indicate that the next wheat crop
in that region is in serious danger
because of the abundance of flies now
in" the wheat stubble. Briefly, these
are the preventive measures recom
mended:
1. Plow under deeply all wheat
stubble before August 15. It is very
important that the stubble be buried
as deeply as possible, in order to pre
vent the flies from reaching the sur
face of the ground.
2. Destroy all volunteer wheat by
cultivating, with a disc-harrow or oth
erwise, all plowed fields where such
grain appears. A second shallow cul
tivation may be necessary to accom
plish this. One neglected field car
rying over volunteer wheat stubble
may serve to reinfest an entire neigh
borhood with the pesj.
3. Sow wheat this fall at the fly
free date. This information may be
obtained from the county agent, the
Btate entomologist, or the specialist
in charge of the federal entomological
field station. The state leader of
county agents in Kansas is E. C. John
son, and the.state entomologist.
George "A. Dean, both at the Kansas
State Agricultural College, Manhat
tan. ' E. O. G. Kelly is in charge of
the Federal Entomological Field Sta
tion at Wellington, Kansas.
A Kansan Dead at 98. Oxford's old
est citizen, Alonzo Roe, who would
have been 98 August 12, is dead. Mr.
Roe was a personal friend of Presi
dent William Henry Harrison, often
talking with him during his campaign
ing tours for President down Lake
Erie. His first vote was cast for
President Harrison.
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Kansas Editor Under Knife. W. G.
Anderson, owner and editor of the
Free Press, was operated on for ap
pendicitis. He is very weak, but he
is expected to recover.
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Girard Enterprise Sold. The Craw
ford County Enterprise has been sold
by H. W. Bouck to W. H. Shidler,
publisher of the Girard Press.
To a Magazine Staff.- Nelson Craw
ford, professor or industrial journal
ism at the Kansas State Agriculture
College, has been appointed associate
editor of the Midland Magazine, es
tablished three years ago for the pur
pose of presenting the literary ideals
of the Middle West.
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An Abilene Captalist Dead. Hiland
Southworth, a. wealthy capitalist at
Abilene for twenty-five years, died the
other morning after a year's illness.
Degrees to 189 Kansas Aggies.
Degrees were granted to 189 seniors
at the annual graduation exercises of
the Kansas State Agricultural College
recently. In addition, eight received
the degree of master of science and
five received - professional degrees.
W. O. Thompson, president of Ohio
state university, . delivered the com
mencement address.
TO.::;:zXtEC0iU
Warden Codding Would Close
State Brick Plant to Re-'
, lease the Men.
SHORTAGE OF FUEL THE CAUSE
State Prison Head Believes That Situ
ation Will Be Serious Next
Winter in Kansas.
So serious has become the situation
in regard to coal production that War
den Codding will ask permission of the
new board of administration to close
down one or two departments at the
penitentiary and put all the men pos
sible at work in the prison coal mine.
"The mine is not conducive to good
discipline," said the warden, "but it
is now a question of getting coal, and
all other considerations must be
shoved to the background for that."
One department that will close, if
the warden has his way, is the brick
yard. It takes 500 tons of coal a
month and fifty-five prisoners to oper
ate the plant. The brick go into the
new buildings at the various state in
stitutions. 'But we do not get enough for our
brick," said the warden. "For in
stance, we were only allowed $4 a
thousand for them at one institution.
while we could probably have sold
them right at the prison gate for $7.50.
It is almost a scandal to make brick
under such circumstances. If the brick
plant is closed down we will save that
600 tons of coal a month. The fifty
five brick makers can be put to work
in the mine and they will mine 1,700
tons of coal - a . month. This would
make 2,200 tons of extra coal we could
be piling up each month this summer
at the state institutions as a buttress
against a coal shortage next winter.
It ought to be done by all means and
I believe the new board will grant me
permission to do so." '
The twine plant will be kept in oper
ation even though the brick and other
departments are closed down. A big
purchase of sisal has just been made
and the warden wants to manufacture
as much twine as possible. "It takes
twine to save the crap after we raise
it," said he, "and Hoover is pounding
Kansas on the back to raise all it can.
not only this year, but next and the
next. It would be unwise to shut down
the twine plant. Everything else at
the prison could be closed except the
mine and the farm and the men could
be used to good advantage in those
departments."
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Eldorado Gets City Manager. Bert
C. Wells, for several years city engi
neer of Wichita, announced that he
will resign his office at once and be
come city manager of Eldorado, Kas.,
on July L Mr.. Wells is a native of
Butler county, near Eldorado. His sal
ary there will be $4,000 per year.
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Kansas Postmaster Dead. Joseph
R. Kerley, 50 years old, who has been
postmaster at Peck, Kan., for the past
fourteen years, died in a hospital at
Wichita after , a short illness.
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Kansas Farmer Badly Injured. J. F.
Henderson, a farmer living near Bur
den, was seriously - injured, recently
when thrown out of a buggy in a run
away. His recovery is doubtful.
Put Towns in Darkness. A crow
tried to roost on the electric lighting
wire to Wellington the other night and
was electrocized. The body fell across
the alternating wire, completing the
circuit, and Argonia and other towns
fed by the Wellington plant were in
darkness until the sun came up. '
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. Raze a Wing of Prison. The north
cell wing of the Kansas state peni
tentiary at Lansing, the oldest por
tion of the prison, is being razed in
preparation for fhe erection of a mod
ern dormitory. This part of the in
stitution was built in -1864. It has
been- responsible for most of the criti
cism directed at' the penitentiary by
reform workers. ' The cells are barely
four feet wide and the entire structure
is antiquated and insanitary.
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Dexter Sapp Dead at Galena. Dex
ter Sapp, 25 years old, son of the
ex-judge of the Cherokee County Dis
trict Court- and nephew of the late
William F. Sapp, Democratic national
comitteeman from Kansas, died recent
ly in his law office at Galena of heart
disease.
A Kansas Home Blown Up. The
two-room house of G. W. Jones
near Treece, was blown up the other
night. Of the five occupants, Willie
Jones, 6 years old, is dead; his brother
Earl, 11 is probably fatally injured,
and the other members of the family
badly bruised and cut. .
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K. U. Loses Engineer Dean. Kan
sas University must look for a new
dean of its engineering school as the
result of the appointment of Dean
P. F. Walker as a major in the engi
neering corps of the "United States re
serves. -.
Sells Hay Thirteen Years Old. W.
T. Hines, who owns a-700-acre farm
near Potter, sold 13-year-old timothy
hay recently. It was placed in a hay
barn oh this farm in 1904 and was in
fine .condition when he brought it to
town.
ma THE SOURCE
OF WEALTH
Careful Tillage, Good Manage
ment and a Beneficent Soil.
- Reading the reports of the managers
of the chartered banks in Canada, one
Is struck by the wonderful showing
that they have made during the past
two or three years. They are careful
In their statements, and while they
attribute the success that they have
met with, together with that which hast
followed other- lines of business, they
are careful to emphasize the fact that
the condition of big business may not
continue. On the other hand, . they
point out that the material and funda
mental source of wealth is the farm.
While other lines of business may have
their setbacks, and while care and!
scrupulous care, will have to be exer
cised to keep an even balance, there
Is but little risk to the farmer who on
economic and studied lines will carry
on his branch of industry and endeavor
to produce what the world wants not
only today, but for a long distance into
the future, with a greater demand than
ever in the past.
Speaking recently before a Canadian
bank board at its annual meeting, the
vice president, once a farmer himself,
said:
"The farm is the chief source of
wealth. We have now three transcon
tinental railways with branches run
ning through- thousands of miles of
the very best undeveloped agricultural
land in the world. In the natural
course of things, these must attract
immigration. The products of the farm
are now commanding . the - highest
prices ever known, and in my opinion
even a iter tne euu oi tne war, mgn
prices for foodstuffs must continue to
prevail. With the mechanical appli
ances now available for farm work, the
farmer needs no considerable supply
of extra capital, but should be helped
to the extent needed upon good secur
ity. The 'food supply of the world is
short, the demand is likely to Increase
rather than decrease. Development
of mines, extension of factories and
the reconstruction of devastated Eu
rope must all call for supplies for the
workers. On the whole, the farmer
has been helped rather than hurt by
the war, and will continue to be, at
least for a long time to come."
Many men Of authority and intelli
gence support what the vice president
has said, and their statements are
borne out by the facts that readily pre
sent themselves. The different grain
producing countries of Europe have
been robbed of the man power that de
veloped their agriculture, the farms
have been devastated and laid waste.
Full and complete reliance will have to
be placed on the United States ano
Canada, and from what we see today,
it will take the combined forces of
these two countries to come anywhere
near meeting the cry that will go out
for food. The warnings and appeals
sent out by the heads of these two
countries are none, too soon nor too
urgent. Therefore, it becomes nec
essary for those who can produce to
exert themselves. Secure land, rent it.
buy it. Get It somewhere, some way,
and have it operated. The Canadian
Government sending out its appeal. Is
not selfish in, this matter. Thousands
of acres in the United States await
the tiller's efforts, and, none of It
should be Idle. Canada, too, offers
wonderful advantages, with its free
lands and its low-priced lands, to those
desirous of helping the nation, and im
proving their own condition at the
same time. Many are taking", advan
tage of this wonderful opportunity.
Advertisement.
His Wife's Support.
"Did your husband claim exemption
from war service when he registered, v
Mandy?"
" 'Deed he did, mam. He done told
them officers that if he was taken to
war Ah'd have nobody to take home
the washings Ah do every week."
CUTICURA HEALS SORE HANDS-
That Itch, Burn, Crack, Chap and
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In a wonderfully short time in most
cases these fragrant, super-creamy
emollients succeed. Soak hands on re
tiring in the hot suus of Cuticura Soap,
dry and rub Cuticura Ointment Into
the hands for some time. Remove sur
plus Ointment with soft tissue paper-
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv.
The Most Unkindest Cut.
A physician claims to have discov
ered an explosive so powerful tnai
five-grain tablet of it would wrecs iev
Tork's tallest building. All right, doc
tor! Just pass Into that dark room,
up the corridor of time, third door at
your left, and join the chap who dis
covered that mild green substitute for
gasoline that could be manufactured,
for a cent a gallon. Providence (R.
L) Evening Bulletin.
Always use Red Cross Ball Blue. Delights,
the laundress. At all good grocers. Adv.
Circumstantial Evidence.
"Is his word good?"
"I don't know as to that. I've never
taken his word for anything, but Tve
got four of his notes that weren't
any good."
When VouT Eyes Heed Car&
Try Murine Eye Remedy
aZZniu Jut Br Comfort. M eoata
nSASHm or 2lL Wrlto for rroo My Book.
T?ir mrm hduoi cow, ctucatto-