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y i 1 WEEKLYCOURIER IN CD DCANI, Publisher JASPER .... INDIANA win Hindenbm-g resign as many times as ho has died? Spare moment idlers probably can be used by the draft boards. u.ne proniem or saving daylight now gives way to the problem of saving coal. Men whq 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. Bibers are charging 50 cents and $1 for haircuts. It's time for bald headed men to laugh. "Why worry about sugar?" queries an 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 influ enza should make it unsafe for legis latures to convene this winter?. Archaeologists have discovered a safety pin 3,000 years old. Evidently there Is nothing new under the sou. General Foch smokes 2-cent cigars. So do many people In this country, but they have to pay 0 cents for them. Women's hats costing above $15 will be taxed. But crushed and bJeedlng father wiU 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, hut wo could never find a satisfactory substitute. If the now 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. 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. "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 Tanks "yell so barbarously when they charge." That's not barbarism it's , the battlecry of freedom. Recent 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 flght better when they can get behind something. The London Chronicle doesn't likt 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 a crowded car. Turkish atrocities are doomed to dis appear. Even the time-honored custom of tying ladles 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. N?qw tli at 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 France say the trench rats are as big as cats. If other things are on a proportionate scale cooties must be about the size of mud turtles. Garry nermann says if the govern ment decides against baseball next season, the magnates will obey. Oh, indeed? Well, now, that's mighty mag Hanlraous of them I U.S. MISSION TO MEET GERMANS Gen. Foch Sends American Offi- cers to Teuton Headquar ters at Spa. villi ri VCDC III PHI flOUr I A HIV iLIlKo IN UULUbNt American Airmen Land In the German City on the Rhine German Army Evacuating Poland Naval Term of Armistice Being Carried Out. London, Nov. 18. An American mis sion commanded by Major General 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 xQ 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 ct Spa: American mission, consisting of six ofllcers and 10 soldiers in nine motorcars, with General Rhodes as chief of mission, wlllfeave for Spa on the morning of the 16th by the way of La Capelle, Beaumonte, Phillipevillo, Liege and Spa. Please give Instruc tions to allow the mission to pass." American airmen landed1 at Cologne on the Rhine, 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 decided to dissolve the Red 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, thoN 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 nppoaling 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 reports 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 Flemdenblatt is encouraged by the events of the last few days. 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 Conflict 152.779 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 211,35S men, It was announced here. These are classified as follows : Killed in action, 34,S77; died of wounds or disease, 15,457 ; wounded, 152,779 ; 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. 1G. 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-pnoumo-nia situation In Indianapolis Is not en couraging, from forty to fifty new cases are developing, daily 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 influenza 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 479 new cases of Influen za to the state board of health In the reports to the state board. Conditions have become serious at Frankfort and Vincennes, 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 struction, is notifying former unsuc cessful applicants for building and con struction permits of the ruling an nounced by the war industries hoard, 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 wilTbe 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 adminls trators of other states while at the na tional capital. Information reaching the Indiana stale council of defense from Washington Is that the United ötatos department of agriculture will not take over food administration, as has boon rumored. It is pointed out that the food administration will con tlnue by law until "legal peace Is do 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. cft'ect since March 18 was removed by Evans Wool len, state fuel administrator, following a conference in which a committee rep resenting the Retail Coal Dealers' as sociation presented the claim that its members have not been making mone while restricted to the gross profit of ?2 a ton. Domestic consumers probn- 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.G5 a ton to $G and .$0.15 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 Indiana, such as the state, county and township councils of defense, fuel and food administrations and the like. Therf? 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 Haute. The oldest medical society west of the Allegheny moun tains, the Aesculapian society of the Wabash Valley, recently held its seven ty-second annual meeting, at which Dr. Joseph Hall of Westfield was elect ed president. 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 Rush 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 are being detained while awaiting ad mittance to a hospital for the insane. Evansville. Sale of the real and per sonal property belonging to Charles Kahn has brought the total of his gift to the American Red 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 all his property to the Bed Cross. He was a bachelor. Indianapolis. William Howard Taft, 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 2S, 29 and 30. He will deliver an address at Tomllnson hall the morning of Novem ber 30. The date of the annual meet ing as originally announced has been changed to the last three days of this month. In addition to the general meetings at 2 p. m., November 2S and 29, and at 9 a. m., November 30, there will be numerous sectional meetings in the morning and afternoon of Novem ber 29 nnd 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 28, at Tomllnson hall, Frank 0. Lowden, governor of Il linois, 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 Water and 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 bash and a surcharge of 30 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 .$38 to .$50 and its water charge to the C, C. C. & St. L. railroad from the pri mary rate of 4 cents to the primary rate of (J cents a 1,000 gallons. The commission authorized the Washington . water, ight and Power company, 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 fire 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- ler 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 JefL'orson- 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., hns 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. Valentino, Urbana, O., was elected president and John G. Reinert of Indianapolis vice president. Harry Jennine of Greenup, ID., 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 tory commission appointed by Gover nor Goodrich met at the statehouse and 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. Shideler, 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 106,000 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 ott in directions which Maj. Robert C. Baltzell, state draft execu tive, has sent to local draft boards in Indiana. Major Baltzell says that reg 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 war in the matter. He instructed also that local boards complete the classification of registrants eighteen to thirtv-seven years old. YANKEE TROOPS ENTER GERMANY American Troops in Triumph March Into Aisace on Way to Metz and Strassburg. RETREAT BY HINDENBURG Marina! Foch, Commander In Chief of 'Allied Armies, Will Make Trium phant Entry Into Cities on Sunday. Paris, Nov. 1G.- American troops have crossed the German frontier to ward Mete and Strassburg. Marshal Foch, commander in chief of the allied armies, will make solemn entries Into Strassburg and Metz on Sunday in the presence of President Poincare and Premier Clemeuceau. The French cabinet held an extraor dinary 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. The cabinet considered questions concerning the organization of Alsace Lorraine under French occupancy. Three high commissioners were ap pointed. They are: George Maringer, commissioner general of national se curity for Strassburg; Albert Tlrman, state councilor for Metz, and Henry Toulei, 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. Receptions on a huge scale are be ing prepared for the allied troops un der the noses of the German olllcials. There also Is Joy in the Rhine towns because of cessation of allied air raids. London, Nov. 10. -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 he has sent to army com manders ordering them to lead their troops home In order and discipline. London, Nov. 10. 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 rends: "From Marshal Foch to the German lligh Command Information has been received by the allied high command that at different points, especially In Belgium and more particularly in the Brussels 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. 10. German troops are in full revolt at Antwerp and Brussels. A hundred oflicers 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. 1G. More than 2,532 American prisoners in German camps were released immediately by the sign 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 ofllcers. 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 ofthe 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 Amerongen castle, which is under a triple guard of troops, said a dispatch from The Hague to the Daily Mail. Telegraph Censorship Lifted. Washington, Now 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 ship board. THAT CHANGE IN WOMAN'S LIFE Mrs. Godden Tells How It May be Passed in Safely and Comfort Fremont, O. "I was psinj? through tht critical period of life, being forty- , six years of age and had all the symp toms incident to that change heat flash es, nervousness, and was in a general run down condition, to it was bard for me to do my work. Lydia E. Pmkham'a Vegetable Com pound was recom mended to me as the best remedy for my troubles, which it urely proved to be. I feel better and stronger in every way since taking it, and the annoying symptoms have disap peared." Mrs. M. 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To begin with, King Ferdinand's mother, n Portuguese princess of the house of Coburg, was the granddaughter of the Countess Antonia of Kohary, a Hun garian lady of great wealth, who was raised to the rank of princess by the emperor of Austria to marry on equal terms Prince Ferdinand of Coburg. Queen Victoria's uncle. One of the king of Itoumanln's great-grandmothers was a Murat, a relation of Napol eon I's general, and another Stephanie Hcauharnai's, a niece of the Empress Josephine's lirst husband, whom Na poleon adopted Into the imperial fam ily. Farther back still In the iirst 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 Allesbury. Debts to Uncle Sam. "Do you realize what you owe your country?" "Yes. 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