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WEEKLYCOUWER BEN CD. DOANE, Publisher JASPER INDIANA wnr Hindenburg resign as many tlmes as.ii has died? Spare moment Idlers probably can be used by the draft boards. u.ne problem or saving daylight now gives way to the problem of saving coal. Men who enlisted to lick Germany do not purpose to be delayed by Span Ish Influenza, Again a sultan's dream of a life of cigarettes, rose leaves and sherbet has been shattered. It's hard to tell whether a man with nine suits of clothes Is a hoarder, fore handed or a dude. There is so much good news from the front these days it Is hard to ap preciate all of It. Bribers are charging 50 cents and $1 for haircuts. It's time for bald headed men to laugh. "Why worry about sugar?" queries nn advertisement. Nobody does.- One worries about no sugar. The only difference between the Hun and the skunk is that the skunk doesn't .pretend to be something else. Wouldn't it be dreadful if that.lnllu enza should make it unsafe for legis l latures to convene this winter? Archaeologists have discovered a safety pin 3,000 years old. Evidently there Is' nothing new under the son. General Foch smokes 2-cent cigars. So do many people in this country, but they have to pay G cents for them. Women's hats costing above ,$15 will be tnxed. But crushed and bleeding father will have to pay the tax, too. Orders prohibiting the further manu facture of fancy shoes also are remind ers that originally feet were not orna ments. A clergyman says that kissing is a relic of the dark ages. So is sleeping, but we could never find a satisfactory substitute. If the new influenza originated in Germany, Spain has a good libel suit against the person who christened it "Spanish." The food board says we should save our prune pits. Most of us are willing to give up the entire prune, if that will help any. 4 Some good will have been accom plished by the influenza If it brings about the induction of fresh air into public vehicles. "Germany is using liquid air to take the place of high explosives." So runs the news. A change to mere hot air may be anticipated. Ii 'Flu" masks Improve the appearance of many men, but when worn by wom en they take much of the joy and beauty out of life. German soldiers complain that the Yanks "yell so barbarously when they charge." That's not barbarism it's the battlecry of freedom. decent corrections in the map of Greenland show that It contains 150, 000 more square miles than It has hith erto been credited with. However, it Is not thought that this will help fu ture potato crops. British aviation officials concluae that bachelors make the best air fight ers. Married men fight better when they can get behind something. The London Chronicle doesn't llkt the English the American soldiers speak. The American soldiers do not speak English but plain old United States. From the esteemed woman's page one gathers that some of the winter hats are poke shaped. That may be the kind that pokes one in the ear on n crowded car. Turkish atrocities are doomed to dis appear. Even the time-honored custom of tyinA- ladies of the harem in sacks and throwing them into the sea must be abandoned. Should it become necessary for peo ple to wear influenza masks in public it will not be the first time that the natural appearance of numerous faces have been concealed. And masks are less expensive and more quickly ap plied than cosmetics. Now that the price of shoes is to be reduced we shall have less to kick about and more to kick with. Some of the boys in Prance say the trench rats are as big as cats. If other tilings are on a proportionate scale cooties must 'be.about the, size of mud turtles. Garry Hermann says if the govern ment decides against baseball next season, the magnates will obey. Oh, Indeed? Weil, now, that's mighty mag nanimous of them u, S, MISSION TO MEET GERMANS Gen. Foch Sends American Offi- . -r , , . , utns 10 leuion neauquar- ters at Spa. VAUlf VCDO JU Pill fiPUr IHMl iLlLttü 111 OULUUNl American Airmen Land In the German City on the Rhine German Army Evacuatlna Poland - Naval Terms of Armistice Being Carried Out. London, Nov. 18. -An American mis slon commanded by Major Generul Rhodes left Saturday for Spa, Ger man headquarters, Marshal Foch an nounces in a wireless message to the German high command. The mission consists of six ofllcers and j.9 soldiers. The German command was asked to give Instructions to allow the mission to pass. The wireless message reads : "From the allied high command co the German high command at Spa: American mission, consisting of six ofllcers and 10 soldiers in nine motorcars, with General Rhodes as chief of mission, will leave for Spa on the morning of the 10th by the way of La Capelle, Beaumonte, Philllpovillo, Liege and Spa. Please give lustruc tions to allow the mission to pass." American airmen landed at Cologne on the Khlne, Thursday, according to a Cologne dispatch to the Copenhagen Politiken and transmitted by the Ex change Telegraph company. The German army has begun a gen eral evacuation of Poland, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen, quoting reports from Berlin. German troops In War saw have been disarmed and arrested, as have all German civilians In the Polish capital. The Berlin soldiers' and workers' council has de'eided to dissolve the Bed guards, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen. Paris, Nov. IS. The naval terms of the German and Austrian armis tices are being carried out rapidly. Ad miral Hugh Rodman will be the Amer ican representative at a meeting Sat urday with German navy delegates at a British port. The French cruiser Admiral Aube left Brest for the Firth of Forth, Scot land, where it will be placed at the disposal of Admiral Grasset, the French delegate to the interallied com mission intrusted with the carrying out of the naval conditions of the arm istice. Two French torpedo boats ac companied the cruiser. Field Marshal Hindenburg and the German general headquarters staff, ac cording to the Frankfort Gazette, have arrived at Wilhelmshohe, near Cassel, where in 1870 Emperor Napoleon was kept prisoner after the surrender of Sedan. The following message has been for warded to Secretary of State Lans ing: "I believe I am not appealing in vain to the humanitarian feelings of the president if I ask you to submit to him the request that, in order to save the German people from perishing from starvation and anarchy, he will as quickly as possible send to The Hague or some other place plenipoten tiaries." TROOPS CURB REIGN OF REDS Reports Reaching Copenhagen From Germany Are of a More Hopeful Tone. Copenhagen, Nov. 18. All report reaching here from Germany are of a more hopeful tone. A good impression has been made by the socialist gov ernment's pronouncement concerning the constituent assembly. The Vor waerts declares that the pronounce ment "makes the constituent assem bly a certainty."-. The Berlin correspondent of the Hamburg Fleradenblatt Is encouraged by the events of the last few davs. He reports that a large part of the members of the soldiers' councils have removed the red bands from their sleeves. 211,358 CANADIAN CASUALTIES 34,877 Killed in Action Since Begin ning of ConflictI 52,779 Wounded. Ottawa, Nov. 14. Canada's casual ties In the war up to eleven days be fore the capture of Möns on the final morning of the conflict totaled 211,358 men, It was announced here. These are classified as follows: Killed in action, 34,S77; died of wounds or disease, 15,457; wounded, 102,779 ; presumed dead, missing in ac tion and known prisoners of war, S,245. Riot Occurs in Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Nov. 1G. A demonstra tion by the syndicalists here against the Imprisonment of some of their par tisans resulted in rioting. Some street cars were wrecked and at places the tracks were torn up. Situation" Nears Anarchy. Washington, Nov. 10. Reports have reached the state department that the situation in Germany and Austria Hungary approximates a state of an archy on account of the conduct of re turning soldiers. STATE NEWS Indianapolis. Dr. Herman G. Mor gan, secretary of the city board of health, said that the Influenza-pneumonia situation In Indianapolis Is not en couraging, from forty to fifty new cases are developing dally and between five and ten deaths from pneumonia are be ing reported each day. "Unless the public takes special care we may ex pect to have Influ6nza and pneumonia with us all through the winter," said Doctor Morgan. "The careless spltter, cougher and sneezer should be ostra slzed. Every precaution should be tak en against the spread of nose and throat Infections." Twenty-five coun ties reported 470 new eases of Influen za to the state board of health In the reports to the state board. Conditions have become serious at Frankfort and Vlncennes, where emergency hospitals wore again established. The epidemic still rages In the coal mining district about Linton. Indianapolis. W. W. Winslow, sec retary of the state council of defense committee on building and new con sirucuon, is nouiying former unsuc cessful applicants for building and con struction permits of the ruling an nounced by the war industries board, removing In a great degree restrictions on construction projects. Mr. Winslow estimates that millions of dollars of new construction and building contem plated by private and public interests may now proceed In Indiana through the release granted by the war board. Governor Goodrich, especially, was pleased over the fact that building may proceed again in a. nearly normal man ner, for he believes that the new work will be of the greatest use in supplying employment to returning soldiers and to the thousands of workers soon to leave munitions industries'. Indianapolis. Federal food admin istrators in Indiana counties will meet in Indianapolis for a conference with H. E. Barnard, state administrator, who has returned from Washington, D. C, with information as to the program of the food administration. Mr. Bar nard conferred with Herbert Hoover, national administrator, and adminis trators of other states while at thena tlonal capital. Information reaching the Indiana state council of defense from Washington Is that the United States department of agriculture will not take over food administration, as has been rumored. It is pointecj out that the food administration will con tinue by law until "legal peace is de clared." Meanwhile the administration is not to relax its efforts to conserve food, it is asserted. Indianapolis. Coal dealers in In dianapolis will not be restricted to a fixed gross margin in selling coal to consumers here. The margin limit of $2 a ton which has been in effect since March 18 was removed by Evans Wool len, state fuel administrator, following a conference In which a committee rep resenting the Itetail Coal Dealers' as sociation presented the claim that its members havt not been making money while restricted to the gross profit of $2 a ton. Domestic consumers proba bly will be asked to pay 50 cents a ton more for coal. This will change the price to householders from $5.50 and $5.65 a ton to $6 and $6.15 a ton. Hammond. Now that the world war is over business and financial men of the Calumet region, which includes the steel cities of Hammond, Gary, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Whiting, In Indiana, have begun to turn their at tention to problems of readjustment. These will arise as industries, on which the greater part of a combined 200,000 population is largely depend ent, settle down to a peace-time' basis. The principal industrial activities of the region include production of steel, building of railway equipment, refining of oil and manufacture of chemicals. In addition the operation of railway terminals results In the employment of large numbers of men. Indianapolis. Governor Goodrich will confer with Washington (D. C.) authorities to learn what is to be done about continuing the war agencies in T.. ,1 1 r 1 i.1 1- -L x "I 1 J.UUUUUI, 5uuii us uie siuie, county anu township councils of defense, fuel and food administrations and the like. There must be no letup in the steps being taken for the conservation of coal, the officials of the state fuel ad ministration were warned in a mes sage from H. A. Garfield, federal fuel administrator. The message pointed out that it is just as essential that the fuel supply be conserved now as it has been at any time since the beginning of the war. Terre Harrte. The oldest medical society west of the Allegheny moun tains, the Aesculapian society of the Wabash Valley, recently held its seventy-second annual meeting, at which Dr. Joseph Hail of Westfield was elect ed piesident. The society was formed when doctors rode horseback, with sad dlebags filled with medicine and surgi cal instruments in Indiana and Illinois, and was the first to foster Bush Med ical college of Chicago. Anderson. For the first time in 30 years the Madison county jail is with out a prisoner awaiting trial in the cir cuit court. The only persons in jail nro being detained while awaiting ad mittance to a hospital for the insane. Evansvllle. Sale of the real and per sonal property belonging vo Charles Kahn has brought the total of his gift to the American Bed Cross society up to $110,000. according to Phelps F. Darby, administrator of his estate. Mr. Kahn died several months ago In a sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich., and he left ail his property to the Bed Cro&s. He was a bachelor. Indianapolis. William Howard Tuft, former president of the United States, will be one of the speakers of the sixty-fifth annual meeting of the Indiana State Teachers' association, which will meet in Indianapolis November 28, 29 and 30. He will deliver an address at Tomllnson hall the morning of Novem ber so. The date of the annual meet- ing as originally announced has been changed to the last three days of' this montn. m addition to the general meetings at 2 p. m.. November 28 and 20, and at 0 a. in., November 30, there will be numerous sectional meetings in the morning and afternoon of Novem ber 29 and 30. There will also be vari ous luncheons and breakfasts. It prom ises to be one of the most notable of the many educational symposiums con ducted by the Indiana State Teachers' association. Noted educators and pub lic men of other states, as well as of Indiana, are on the program. At the first general association session, the evening of November 2S, at Tomllnson hall, Frank O. Lowdoii. irovornnr nf Tl- llnois, will make an address, and the Inaugural address will be made by Horace Ellis, president of the general association. Indianapolis. The public service commission authorized the Wabash Wateiumd Light company, Wabash, to add a 15 per cent, surcharge to all bills for electric light for commercial and municipal purposes In the city of Wa bnsh and a surcharge of 80 per cent to all bills for power and light for the town of Roann. It authorized the com pany also to Increase its water hydrant charge to the city of Wabash from $3S The cabinet considered questions to ?o0 and its water charge to the C, concerning the organization of Alsace C. C. & St. L. railroad from the pri- Lorraine under French occupancy, mary rate of 4 cents o the primary Three high commissioners were ap rate of 0 cents a 1,000 gallons. The - Pointed. They are: George Maringer, commission authorized the Washington commissioner general of national se- Water, Light and Power conmnnv. Washington, to increase its gas rate to the primary charge of $1.40 and to col lect 10 cents a 1,000 cubic feet on de linquent bills. It increased the city's lire hydrant bill from $35 to $55 a hy drant Indianapolis. Praise for the way in which the Indiana state penal farm is conducted and suggestions to the Hoos ier authorities relative to the possible construction of a new reformatory for men are contained In a letter received by the board of state charities from John L. Whitman, superintendent of prisons in Illinois. Mr. Whitman, who has had 20 years' experience in prison work In Illinois, visited the state farm and the woman's prison several weeks ago. In the letter he refers to the In diana state reformatory at Jefferson ville and the plans now being consid ered for the enlargement or removal of the institution to a more central loca tion in the state. Mr. Whitman sug gests that the labor of constructing the new buildings be done by the inmates. Indianapolis. The Central States Broom Manufacturers' association, of which Grant Shearer of New Bremen, O., has been president, held a special meeting here recently. Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa were rep resented. The meeting was called to elect a president, as Mr. Shearer has transferred his business to Oklahoma and is no longer a member of the or ganization. J. D. Valentine, Urbana, O., was elected president and John G. Reinert of Indianapolis vice president. Harry Jennine of Greenup, 111., is sec retary. Manufacturers say that al though they are unable to make enough brooms to supply the trade there will be no increase In prices. Valparaiso. Circuit Judge Loring handed down a decision in which he held that a person divorced in Illinois and ordered by a court not to remarry within a year cannot be married le gally in Indiana before the year is up. This decision holds hundreds of mar riages wherein couples have crossed from Illinois and have been married here to evade the Illinois law to be Il legal. Judge Loring held that the mar riage would be illegal even though the couple did not return to Illinois. Indianapolis. The Indiana reforma- fnrr nnmmlcclrm onnrtinfo1 1tt flnrmy- n , , u , it, . , , , nor Goodrich met at the statehouse and I selected WInfield Miller to be chair- man; Robert Bracken, vice chairman and Amos W. Butler, secretary. Other members of the commission are G. A. H. Shldeler, superintendent of the In stitution, and Dr. S. E. Smith, superin tendent of the Eastern Hospital for the Insane. The commission will visit the reformatory and determine a basis on which to begin its investigations. Petersburg. Home-grown potatoes sold here at $2 a bushel until several cars of imported potatoes arrived. These sold at $1.35. Home growers then cut the price to $1.50 a bushel. A good crop of turnips is being harvest ed. Turnips are selling at $1 a bushel. Kokomo. Howard county voted by a majority of 2,732 to establish a tu berculosis hospital. The project was pushed by the chamber of commerce, which was actuated by a desire to care for returned soldiers sick with the dis ease as well as community cases. Greenfield. During the last few months T. H. New & Son of this city have bought and sold 1GG.000 bushels of inferior corn. all of which has been converted into food by a process of hulling and drying. Much of it was made Into glucose. Indianapolis. Further selective ser vice work having to do with draft regis trants thirty-seven years old and over is called oft In directions which Maj. Robert C. Baltzell, state draft execu tive, has sent to local draft boards In Indiana. Major, Baltzell savs that recr- istrants within the ages specified and having questionnaires to be returned to the boards should fill them out and return them. He is acting on Instruc tions from the secretary of wa-r In the matter. He Instructed also that local boards complete the classification of registrants eighteen to thirty-seven years old. YANKEE TROOPS ENTER GERMANY American Troops in Triumph ... .H muiiujn Maren into Alsace On Way 10 Metz and Strassburg. RETREAT BY HINDENBURG Marshal Foch, Commander In Chief of Allied Armies, Will Make Trium phant Entry Into Cities on Sunday. Paris, Nov. 10. American troops have crossed the German frontier to- WJml Metz and Strassburg. Marshal Foch, commander In chief öf the allled armies, will make solemn L;ntrIcs into Strassburg and Metz on Sunday in the presence of President nearo and Premier Clemenceau. Tho Flnch cabinet held an extraor- meeting Thursday, the Matin announced. Important military and administrative questions concerning Alsace and Lorraine were discussed. The government intends to appoint two governors with headquarters at Metz and Strassburg as soon as the allies occupy the two provinces. curily for Ktrassbunr ! Albert Tlrmnn . state councilor for Metz, and Henry Poulet, state councilor for Calmar. Geneva, Nov. 10. The greatest en thusiasm prevails in Alsace-Lorraine. Thousands of Germans are leaving those provinces. The German authori ties are being hooted by the crowds. French and American troops are ex pected daily. deceptions on a huge scale are he- ing prepared for the allied troops un der the noses of the German officials. There also is joy in the Rhine towns because of cessation of allied air raids. London, Nov. 1C Field Marshal von Hindenburg remains at the head of the supreme German ,army' command, ac cording to a German wireless message received here, which gives the text of a message lie litis sent to army com manders ordering them to lead their troops home in order and discipline. London, Nov. 1G.A wireless mes sage has been sent to the German high command warning that pillaging in violation of the armistice must be stop ped. It reads: "From Marshal Foch to the German High Command Information has been received by the allied high command that at different points, especially in Belgium and more particularly in the lirusseis region, the German troops are committing acts of violence against the inhabitants and acts of destruction and pillage which are clearly contrary to the conditions of the armistice. "The allied command expects that the German high command will, with out delay, take measures necessary to stop these violations of the convention which has been signed. If the acts do not cease within a very short period the allied command will be obliged to take steps to put an end to them." Amsterdam, Nov. 16. German troops are in full revolt at Antwerp and Brussels. A hundred officers have been killed in mutinies. Soviets have been established at both places. Ninety persons have been killed or injured in street fighting at Brussels, the Belgian capital, according to an announcement made here. Paris, Nov. 10. More than 2,532 American prisoners in German camps were released immediately by the s gn , , . .. , ing of the German armistice, accord ing to the latest figures prepared by the American Red Cross in Switzer land. This number includes all the Ameri cans captured to November 1. It Is estimated that only a few hundred more Americans were captured after that date. Of the total number of prisoners to be released 2.3S0 are army men, 12 are from the- navy and 140 are civilians. In the camps were 241 army officers. Republic of Germanic Austria. Vienna, Nov. 14. The state council (the recently formed Austrian govern ment) proclaimed a "republic of Ger manic Austria" to be part of the Ger man republic. Dutch to Redeem Prisoners. Paris, Nov. 15. Holland has con sented to carry on the work of repatri ating allied prisoners of war now held In Germany. K. of C. Secretary Dies. Paris, Nov. IS. William O'Connor, secretary of the Knights of Columbus, is dead here, aged fifty-four. Heavy Guard for Kaiser. London, Nov. IS. The Dutch gov ernment has Interned the former Ger man kaiser at Anierongen castle, which is under a triple guard of troops, said a dispatch from The Hague to the Daily Mail. Telegraph Censorship Lifted. Washington, Nov. 18. Discontinu ances of press censorship in connec tion with cable, postal and land tele graph lines, effective at once, was an nounced by the government censor ehip board. THAT CHANGE IN WOMAN'S LIFE Mr. Godden Teil How It iMay be Passed in Safety and Comfort. Fremont, 0. 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Farther back still in the first half of the eighteenth century, there is in his pedigree an untitled Englishwom an, a mere Miss Maria Bruce, a con nection of the then Earl of Ailesbury. Debts to Uncle Sam. "Do you realize what you owe your country?" "Yes. And I'm thankful that some of it is for Liberty Jbonds." ervous People who drink codRPee -find substantial ' relief when they change TOSTUM puxe.whole someiaeuVink does not contain caTxeine or any other harmf ui, nerve disturb ing ingredient. "There's a teascx?