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CHAPTER XV Continued.
The jubilation with which the news
of the sinking of the Lusitania was re
ceived by the German people was gen
eral. It was so significant that I be
lieve America would have declared war
Immediately had It been known. I
have failed to find a single German
who did not exult over the dastardly
crime, and the activity of the Zep
pelins in their raids on open towns
evoked similar demonstrations.
That the views which the people
held regarding the conduct of the war
vere strongly influenced by the public
press, which was absolutely controlled
by the government, was only to be ex
pected. The fact that In peace time the
press of Germany was perhaps the
most reliable In the world, made. of it
a particularly valuable tool in the
hands of the government in time of
war.
The German newspaper is gospel to
the people.' The last word in any argu
ment was always furnished by proof
supplied by some newspaper article.
"Es steht In der zeitung," liberally
translated, "The paper says so," was
always final and conclusive. Nothing
the papers declared was too preposter
ous to be believed.
The press was used to excellent ad
vantage to conceal reverses and to
make the utmost capital out of suc
cesses. Right from the start the news
papers declared that Germany was
fighting a defensive war; that the na
tions of the world had jumped on
Germany's neck because they were
jealous of her growing power.
The importance which the kaiser
and his leaders placed in public opin
ion among the German people is clear
ly illustrated by the announcements
they made and the measures they re
sorted to from time to time, for home
consumption.
When In December, 1916, for in
stance, the kaiser realized that the re
sumption of unrestricted submarine
warfare, which he had determined
upon, might bring neutral nations, In
cluding the United States, Into the
war, he felt that It was necessary to
do something to uphold the spirit of
his people. It took the form of a pro
posal of peace to the allies.
This proposal was designed to ac
complish two distinct purposes: First,
it was to convince the German people
that their kaiser was really the peace
loving monarch he had always pro
fessed, to be ; second, it was to demor
alize the allies by dividing them
against themselvesl
This much is certain : The kaiser
never intended the allies to accept the
proposal he made. lie admitted that
much to me, as did also the
Prince von Pless, his most intimate
advisor. It was termed in such a way
that the allies could not possibly ac
cept it. But it served one of the pur
poses which it was intended to achieve,
and nearly accomplished the other.
CHAPTER XVI.
Germany in Wartime.
"While the German people have al
ways been in thorough accord with the
kaiser's ambitious project which Is so
significantly described by the popular
slogan: "Deutschland uber alles!"
' achieve Germany's aims, commenced.
It came almost as much as, a surprise
to the Germans as it was to the rest of
J- the world. They knew it was inevl
" table and they looked forward eagerly
to "Der Tag," but when it arrived the
bustle and excitement, not to say
panic, which developed throughout
VTtri 111 till j w no piuuuuuvcvi iuufc
some cases It approached the ludicrous;
Obviously the people were kept in
ignorance of the plans of their war
barons in oraer mat nosuiiues migui
come as a complete surprise to them
: and give color to the government's
upon Germany.
So little thought did we give to the
complexities or toe political situation
that on Friday, July 31, 1914, my wife
ana i siarieu uu uu n luijiui uii. c
had heard so many rumors of war
within th previous ten vears that we
saw no reason why an amicable solu
tion should not again 'be found as It
had always been before.
Vn our, way uui me unnuneuuuiger
Chaussee we passed the kaiser and the
kaiserln driving to Berlin from Pots
dam .at about sixty miles an hour, and
there were other indications of ac
tivity but we attached little impor
tance to them.
When we reached Potsdam, how
ever, ami saw tnousanas 01 tons 01
. coal heaped up between the railroad
tracks which were ordinarily kept
clear, we realized that preparations.ror
war were being made in earnest and
we stopped to consider wnetner ir
would not be better after all to return
home. Such was our ignorance of war
that we decided that, even though it
wire not advisable to motor in Bel
gium and France, where we were
bound, we might safely plan a tour in
the Black forest in Germany.
, K Wo hfll left Berlin late in the after-
X -'-V-oon. In the evening, when we arrived
t fAt Gotha, we found that the younger
-waiters in tue restaurants ana noteis
iad already left and that the older re-
, serves expected a general call the next
lay.
f The next morning we started for
ankfort. As we passed through vil
" fage after village, war preparations be
suae more and more evident. Measures
: Were being taken everywhere to arouse
j enthusiasm young men- gathered on
-school steps were singing patriotic
songs, students were marching and
speeches were being made in the mar
ket places. .
' About five o'clock that afternoon we
" arrived In Frankfort, The wbole place
Fourteee Yew
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was in a fever of excitement over the
mobilization posters and their resent
ment against the French was being
aroused by "extras," which were
handed out without charge, announc
ing that the French had already
dropped bombs on the railroad at
Nurnberg and that French officers .in
autos had over-ridden tire borders.
The ridiculous statements about
French flyers dropping bombs on the
iailroad at Nurnberg had not the
slightest foundation, of course.
The older people who had lived
through the war of 1870 had interested
audiences for once while they related
past experiences and gave advice as to
what preparations to make. A possi
bility of food shortage seemed to be
uppermost in all minds, and the gro
ceries were stormed with eager buy
ers. Salt suddenly jumped to 75 cents
a pound and other things in propor
tion. On Sunday, August 2, all the gaso
line in the country was commandeered,
and we heard of many American tour
ists being put out of their cars in the
cities and even on country roads, no
matter how inaccessible to trains they
might be. We accordingly decided to
stow our car away in an old wagon
shed attached to a hotel and sought to
returnv to Berlin by train.
At the railway station there was
such a tremendous crowd that it was
quite impossible to get anywhere near
the ticket office, and anyway no prom
ise could be given as to trains to Ber
lin. Trunks and bags were piled high in
every available space and It was
months before that enormous pile of
baggage was finally sorted out.
We decided to defer our effort to
reach Berlin until Monday, since there
seemed no hope of getting away that
day.
Qn Monday morning, the streets
were filled with excited crowds de
stroying every sign with a French
word on it and looking for spies. The
papers had announced that the coun
try was full of French spies, women
as well as men. I saw the crowd stop
an automobile, take a woman out and
literally tear her clothes to shreds be
fore the police succeeded in rescuing
her from the mob and took her to the
police station. The general supposi
tion was that all the man spies were
masquerading as women and the first
thing the mob did was to pull out hair
pins to see whether the hair was real.
On Monday evening, we managed to
edge our way into the last through
train to Berlin. We were side-tracked
innumerable times to allow troop
trains to pass through, and we were re
quired to keep our windows closed so
that no enemy passenger . could drop
bombs on the bridges we crossed. It
was a hot August night and the lack
of ventilation was most oppressive.
Our compartment was crowded with
officers on their way to join their regi
ments and very grand and important
they felt in their new field-gray uni
forms which may have long been put
away in moth balls for just this oppor
tunity, but which took the German peo
ple as well as the allies completely by
surprise.
At Naumberg, which is about half
way between Frankfort and Berlin, a
company of soldiers boarded the train
and guarded the corridors while a non
commissioned officer questioned the
passengers.
My wife, who was asleep in a cor
ner of the coupe 1, was the only wom
an in the compartment. Believing that
her sleep might be feigned and she
might, In fact, be a man In woman's
clothing, the officer yelled at her:
"Where are you going?" Her Ameri
can accent, revealed when she an
swered him. Incensed him the more
and he demanded angrily : "What right
have you to use this train? Where Is
your passport?"
By that time I had produced all the
papers of identification I could find and
tried to tell him that my wife and I
were returning to our home in Berlin,
but he was too excited to listen and
would have dragged us off the train
had not an officer, with whom I had
been talking en route, intervened and
said : "Ishall make myself personally
responsible for these people." I was
glad I had admired his new uniform.
From the coupe next to ours I saw
soldiers drag six Russians, throw them
down and kick them in the face, and
one was a woman ! The train pulled
out as the crowd closed in on them so
that I was unable to ascertain the fate
of those Innocent but helpless passen
gers. When we finally reached Berlin,
about five the next morning, it seemed
like a dead city. There was not a
droschke, a taxi or a tram in sight.
Every available means of locomotion
had been mobilized for the time being.
As we had heavy bags, we simply
had to find something to take us home
and after half an hour's search far
from the station I found an- old cab
driver who thought he could take us
for the liberal bonus I agreed to pay
him. We had hardly got seated when
an officer tried to force us out, and
only my wife's quick plea of illness
saved him a black' eye and me Iron
bars or a large fine.
Alter England declared war, the ef
forts to capture spies were doubled,
and the mob had a new lot of signs to
tear down. We were forbidden to talk
English on the telephone or on. the
street. We kept to our homes rather
closely. Most of the buses, taxi cabs
and horses had been commandeered,
and the only signs of life in Berlin
were furnished by the officers driving
madly about in high-powered cars
which exceeded all speed limits and
other traffic regulations. N
After a few days, things began" to re
turn to normal again. The food "sup
ply seemed ample and the headlines in
the newspapers were so encouraging
and the reports of victories upon vic
tories so convincing that every one ex
pected the war to be over within a
very short time and they began to eat
up the stores they had so excitedly
collected.
Bread cards were initiated, it is true,
but the amount allowed was more than
adequate for all except, perhaps, the
very poor who depend almost entirely
upon bread."
The press began advising the peo
ple to conserve food but at the same
time said that if care was taken there
was no danger of there not being
enough for all. School teachers gave
daily talks to the children to eat every
thing on their plates. One went so far
as to announce: "I' always lick my
plate, children, and you should do the
same !"
The result of these warnings was
merely to increase hoarding and buy
ing from food speculators. " I never
knew of a single German who volun
tarily deprived himself of a single
article of food out of patriotic mo
tives. The only sacrifice a German is
willing to make for his country is the
one he cannot escape.
As time went on and England's
blockade became Increasingly effective,
the internal condition of Germany
went from bad to worse, and long be
fore I left Berlin, on January 22, 1918,
conditions had become well-nigh unbearable.
CHAPTER XVII.
The Economic Situation In Germany.
By the spring of 1916. butter and
meat had become extremely scarce in
Berlin. My wife had remained in
America, where she had accompanied
me in the summer of 1915, and during
her absence I dined at hotels and res
taurants where the food was still
rather good. In June, 1916, I left for
America again and just as I was leav
ing meat cards were issued Vor the
first time.
I returned to Berlin with" my family
In October, 1916. Conditions had
changed considerably for the worse
during the summer. I found that
every one who had the money had
bought up every available pound of
food and soap which had not already
been commandeered by the govern
ment. Butter, potatoes, eggs, milk,
flour, sugar, soap, bread and meat and
dry groceries were all rationed and it
was now no longer necessary for wom
en to stand in line In front of the
shops, sometimes all night, to await
the morning opening.
Shopping by the card system was
very complicated and the quantities
permitted by the ration cards so small
that a well-balanced meal was an im
possibility. To dine In a restaurant It
was necessary to take a whole pocket
ful of cards and make a careful analy
sis of them before ordering the mea
ger meal which the law allowed.
Empty boxes were used to decorate
the depleted show windows of the
shops. The fact that they were empty
was not known to the public and very
often the windows would be broken by
hungry mobs who couldn't resist the
sight of what appeared to be so much
food. This led the government to or
der the shopkeepers to label the boxes :
"Empty Boxes" in order to avert such
disturbances and riots.
. There was simply nothing to buy In
the food line except substitutes, and of
these there were hundreds, each worse
than the last. The remark: "If things
get much worse, we shall soon be eat
ing rats as the Parisians did in 1870"
brought the rejoinder: "Well, that
wouldn't be so bad ; what Tm dreading
is the time when we shall Have to be
content with rat-substitute!"
WThen we finally had cards for coffee-substitute
I gave up interest In
substitutes and commenced to patron
ize the speculators, figuring that it was
better to risk the penalties imposed by
the law for such violations of the food
regulations than to ruin our health
through undernourishment.
For a long time we were permitted
to receive "presents" of bacon, ham,
sausages, eggs and butter from Den
mark, but this was finally prohibited
through the influence of the Central
Einkaufs Gesellschaft (The Central
Society for Buying Food From Other
Countries) which found that it was
Interfering with their graft.
This society was formed by a com
pany of clever Jewish business men to
buy food from foreign countries and
sell it to the people, a small percent
age of the profits going to the govern
ment. It not only developed Into a
most successful enterprise from the
standpoint of profit, its prosperity be
ing augmented by graft, but It provided
a haven for the slacker sons of the
proprietors and stockholders. Just be
fore I left Berlin, this company, to
hide their war profits, bought a build
ing for three million marks, which they
claimed was needed for the business.
One of the subterfuges resorted to
by some of the war profiteers to con
ceal the extent of their gains and es
cape taxation was to invest their sur
plus earnings in works of art and other
expensive luxuries. As the tax assess
ments were based principally upon the
Individual's bank deposits and the tax
collecting machinery was very much
out of gear it was comparatively easy
to evade the law by careful manipula
tion xt one's bank account, and by dis
bursing profits received without hav
ing them go through the bank. A Ger
man whom r knew told me that he had
disposed of an oil painting which had
cost him $300 for no less than $85,000,
the price of works of art and antiques
having increased to a remarkable ex
tent because of the demand for them
from tax dodgers.
Under the. stress of the changed
food conditions the hungry German
By
Arthur N.Davis,D.D.S.
American Dentist
to the Kaiser from
1904 to 1918
soon replaced the honest German. Ger
mans had always had a reputation for
honesty, but their claims to such dis
tinction disappeared with the food sup
ply. Necessity soon brought out all
that was worst in the German char
acter. Although the government decreed a
high fine and imprisonment as pun
ishment for buying or selling anything
which had been commandeered, specu
lators sprang up on every side and
people bragged openly of what they
had stored away.
The worst deprivation was In the
lack of fats. The people showed It
very plainly. One seldom saw a fat
man or a fat woman, although before
the war fatness was almost character
istic of the German physique. Indeed.
I saw a rather stout woman being fol
lowed by at least twenty boys who
were jeering at her and making slur
ring remarks about the manner In
which she had retained her avoirdu
pois. A fat person In Germany today
is regarded with suspicion.
Naturally the weakened condition of
the people makes them all easily sus
ceptible to disease. Epidemics spread
rapidly and I am inclined to believe
that little care was taken by the au
thorities to protect the older people
from infection. ; I know that my sec
retary's mother fell and broke loth
her legs last summer (1917) and was
taken to the accident ward of a hos
pital where her fellow-patients were
all crippled. Ten of the inmates of
that ward died in a single day from
dysentery, and the following day the
death list was increased by twelve,
the old lady with the broken legs be
ing one of them. Twenty-two more
bread cards saved at the expense of
twenty-two useless women in one hos
pital alone a fair record for two
days! I have no proof that these un
fortunate victims of disease were de
liberately infected by the hospital au
thorities, but the mere fact that twenty-two
patients in an accident ward
died from dysentery in two days Is
certainly evidence of gross careless
ness if nothing worse.
To buy new clothes it is necessary
to secure a certificate from the gov
ernment to the effect that you are ab
solutely in need of clothing, and. even
then, you are compelled to give up the
suit you are discarding.
Branch offices for investigating the
necessity of replenishing one's ward
robe have been established all over
the cities and they are always crowd
ed. Women are In charge and they
seemed thoroughly to enjoy, their au
thority and their power to deny an
application for new clothing.
When I left Berlin the law permit
ted a man Just two shirts, two collars,
two pairs of socks, etc., a year. Since
soap had disappeared from the mar
ket so many Inadequate substitutes
had been tried that one's laundry in
variably came home full of holes.
In November, 1917, I paid $100 for a
suit of clothes which if it had been
made out of cloth of good quality
would have been worth about $35. As
It was, the tailor frankly admitted
that the goods was made of re-worked
yarn, and because of the lack of cotton
thread, the seams were worked with a
material which looked like paper
string.
This paper string was In general use
at that time, the department stores all
displaying notices warning customers
not to carry their parcels by the string.
Many purchases were no longer
wrapped, to save paper, and no pur
chase amounting to less than $5 was
delivered.
Before I left Berlin, artificial silk
was the principal fabric obtainable for
ladies' wearing apparel. Almost every
woman in the land, princess or maid,
was attired in art taffeta. It sold for
$10 a yard. In normal times It would
have been worth from 75 cents to $1.
In the fall of 1917, a cloth suit was un
obtainable for less than $300. It would
have been worth $25 in normal times.
All fur skins were needed for sol
diers' wear and the -few that were still
obtainable for home use In the form
of fur sets sold for $1,000 up.
Through speculators, we obtained
some Imitation soft soap at $4 per
pound. People said It was made from
human corpses, but It was the only
thing available outside of the substi
tutes which were soap only in name. A
small cake of toilet soap easily brought
$3. A servant's plain wooden ward
robe, formerly costing $5, was unob
tainable for less than $50. We paid
as high as $8 a pound for butter, from
a speculator, and my last Christmas
dinner in Berlin consisted of a small
goose, just enough for one meal for
three persons, for which I paid $25.
One of the things the people missed
most, of course, was their beer. While
it was put on sale at 8 p. m. every
night, only a limited amount was avail
able and as soon as it was disposed
of, only coffee or tea substitute, with
out sugar, milk or lemons, could be
had.
The scarcity of metals required for
munitions was evidenced early in the
war when the interiors and exteriors
of houses throughout the country were
thoroughly ransacked and everything
In the way of copper, brass or alu
minum fixtures or cooking utensils that
wasn't . absolutely' necessary was
seized.
Horses were gradually disappearing
from sight when I left early this year.
One saw them lying about the streets
where they dropped from exhaustion,
and what disposition was made of their
corpses can well be imagined. It is
quite certain that no part was wasted.
Dogs, too, nearly vanished from city
life. A man I know, who had kept a
fine Newfoundland dog, told me that It
had disappeared one night . and the
next day Its skin was found hanging
on the fence with a sign reading:
"Died for the fatherland."
One of the principal articles of fresh
meat to be seen in the butcher shops
consisted of black crows. They were
selling at 75 cents apiece. There was
something ludicrous in the thought of
the Germans being compelled to "eat
crow," but there was little to laugh at
in eating It oneself.
To obtain oil, prizes were offered to
the school children to collect fruit
seeds, from which it could be extract
ed, and veritable mountains of the
seeds were thus obtained.
The last meal I had in Berlin was
on January 21, 1918, when I dined at
the Hotel Adlon. It consisted of one
sardiae, three thin slices of cold
smoked salmon, soup which was hard
ly more than hot salt water, two small
boiled potatoes and as a substitute for
cornstarch pudding. No butter and no
sauces of any kind were served. Black
bread I took in my pocket. The check
for this elaborate table d'hote meal
amounted to $4J"0.
To sum up" the situation as I was
able to observe it, living conditions in
Germany in January of this year were
rapidly becoming absolutely unbear
able. How much worse they can be
come without bringing on internal
troubles which will bring about the
collapse of the German empire can be
only a" matter of conjecture.
The twentieth century has seen such
radical changes in world conditions,
views and aspirations, that I am afraid
history will prove but a poor guide to
the future. In the past few centuries
Germany has experienced several more
or less serious social revolutions, but it
would be dangerous to predicate very
much upon those abortive uprisings.
As long as the officers remain stanch
to the kaiser little may be expected
in the way of a successful revolution,
no matter how discontented and rebel
lious the people at large may grow, but
I believe that the time will surely come
when the officers themselves will turn
against their government.
There may be two revolutions. The
civilians, consisting of women, old men
and youths and others who have not
been called into the army, may rise up,
but their effort will be In vain. The
defeat of such an uprising, however,
may be. the signal for a greater one in
which a portion of the army itself will
take part, and then a civil war will re
sult which will have no counterpart in
the world's history.
The basis for this belief lies in the
fact that the officers of the German
army realize the extent of the distress
prevailing throughout the country.
Their families, as well as thoee of the
rank and file are suffering from under
nourishment and privations, and tltey
know, even better than their inferiors,
the extent of the reverses which the
German army has suffered and will
continue to suffer and how the govern
ment has misrepresented actual con
ditions. If the German officers 'consisted en
tirely of men of the old school men
who were willing to fight for fighting's
sake and who would rather continue
the war until the last German had
dropped than give In we could not
look for much In this direction.
But the ravages of war have dis
posed of a large percentage of these
bred-in-the-bone officers and their
places have been taken by civilians
who have been raised from the ranks.
Therein lies the hope pf a successful
revolution.
I will not venture a guess as to when
that will be, but I feel sure that it will
certainly come about. Fortified by a
large portion of the army, the German
people will at last turn on their rulers
and destroy the throne and the whole
Hohenzollern regime.
In this connection, I recall a
prophecy made early in the war by an
honored colleague of mine of Dresden,
an American dentist who had lived and
practiced in Germany for forty years
and understood the German people and
their rulers as well, perhaps, as any
man alive. He was a leader of his
profession and a man whose judgment
on all things was most accurate. He
was in close contact with many leading
figures of the German nobility.
"Germany. will lose the war because
her cause is wrong," he declared. "She
will fight it through to the bitter end
until the foundations of the empire are
absolutely destroyed!"
THE END.
Breaking Class Barriers.
If classes already mingle more free
ly than they could do forty years ago.
It Is largely because the elements of
education are common to all, and the
door has thus been opened to the able
and ambitious to educate themselves.
But if the normal course were much of
a muchness for all classes till the end
of adolescence there would be an edu
cated community wherein certain gen
eral standards would be as common a
possession as reading and writing are
at the present time, and lnsuch a com
munity class distinction could only
take a secondary place. General
education is. In fact, the most per
vasive and the best of democratic
agencies, because It levels all up and
pulls nothing down. That Is Its con
tribution to social democracy. Man
chester Guardian.
Daylight Saving.
Ben Franklin thought of saving
daylight a long time ago. In the year
1784 he r wrote from England to a
friend In America:
"In a walk through the Strand and
Fleet Street one morning at 7. o'clock
I observed that there was not one
shop open, although It had been day
light and the sun up about three
hours ; the Inhabitants of London
j choosing voluntarily to live by candle
light and sleep by sunshine; and yet
' often complaining a little absurdly
j of the duty on candles and the high
! price of tallow."
Caterpillars' Intelligence.
If caterpillars cannot actually think.
It appears that they have a degree of
sense not generally recognized. In a
London Institution lecture some time
ago Frederick Enoch, who has been
' studying the insects for half a cen-
tury, showed that they really seem to
be conscious of their marking and col
I oration and are able to use the knowl
edge In protecting themselves from
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How Acid-Stomach, with its day-after-day
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out of lifel Not only that Acid
Stomach is always undermining one's
health. Think of what acid does to
the teeth how the acid eats through
the enamel, causing them to decay.
Is it any wonder, then, that Acid
Stomach saps the strength of the
strongest bodies and wrecks the health
of eo many people?
You see ACID-STOMACH victims
everywhere always ailing. They can't
tell exactly what is the matter; all
they say ia, "I don't feel well ' "I'm
all in; tired, sickly." If they only
knew it, nine times out of ten it is
Acid-Stomach that is ailing them.
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One of Little Faith.
The old farmer had no faith In
"physic,' but he became so sick that
he was eventually Induced to see a
doctor. A few days after his visit the
doctor met him and remarked that he
looked better.
"Yes, mr," said the farmer. I am
a lot better than I was."
"So the medicine did you some good
after all, then?" said the physician.
"I dunno, zur, I dunno," the farmer
went on. " TIs like this 'ere, you see.
Soon as I got outside your place I
d linked one-half and throwed away
the other but I can't tell which done
me the most good." Tit-Bits.
How's This?
V7 oSer $100.00 for any case of catarrh
that cannot be cured by HAIJfl
CATARRH MEDICINE.
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is tak
en internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the Bystem.
Sold by druggists for over forty years.
Price 75c Testimonials free.
J. Cheney A. Co Toledo. Ohio.
Bells Go to Rightful Owners.
Three huge bells formerly In the
belfry of Christ church, Wellington.
New Zealand, have been presented by
that government to France. The bells
were cast from cannon captured by
the Germans from the French In 1870.
and were presented to Christ church
by German residents.
Look out for Span
ish Influenza.
At the first sign of
a cold take -
CASCARA QUININE
Standard cold rwoedy for 30
ir tcr 20 yemru U tablet
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For Infants and Children.
Mothers l&tow 1m
Genuine Osstcria
Always
Bears the
Signature
of
Thirty Year
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DISTEMPER
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Cures the sick anfl acts aa a preventative for others.
Liquid given on the tongue. Sale for brood mares and
all others. Best kidney remedy. Booklet, "Distemper,
Cause and Cure, free. Consumers may order direct
from the manufacturer. Bend remittance with your or
der. 60 cnts and tl.15 a battle: $5.50 and S11.00 the dos
ea delivered. SPOHN MEDICAL, CO. Hfn. Ikm.
J yy. N. U, KANSAS CITY, NO. 52-1918
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Take EATONIO and get rid of yonr
Acid-Stomach. This wonderful mod
ern remedy actually takes the excess
acid out or the stomach. It quickly
and positively relieves bloat, heart
burn, belching, food repeating, sourr
gassy etom&ch, and the pains of indi
gestion. Makes the Etomach cool
and comfortable keeps it sweet and '
Etrong. Banishes all stomach trou
bles eo completely that yon forget
you have a stomach. Ton can eat
what you like and digest your food
in comfort, without fear of distressing-after-effects.
EATONIO helps you
get full strength out of every moc thiol
Eon eat and that is what you must
ave to be well and strong full
strength from your food.
Get a big box of EATONIC frora
your druggist TODAY. We authorire
him to guarantee EATONIC to please
tou. If it fails in any way, take it
back; he will refund your money. If
your druggist does not keep EAT0NIC,
write to as and we will send yon a big
50c box. Yon can send us the 50c after
vou receive it. Address H. L. Kramer,
President, Eatonic Bemedy Company
South Wabash, (Jhicago, uu
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ACID-STOMACH
Stop Losing Calves
Yea can Stamp Afccrtion Gzt
of YOUR HERD and Keep It Gut
By the nae of
OR. DAVID ROBERTS'
"Anti-Abortion"
" Small Expense
Easily Applied. Sore Results
Used socc rfuSy txx 3e years.
Consult XB. DAVID ROBERTS
about all animal aliments. In
formation free. Send for TREK
eopy of The Cttl Specialist with fnU Ju for
vastion on Aberboe is Caw. D&. DAVID KOXTS
VtT&RiNAK.Y CO, led Grass At, wsbsscss. Wise.
l Ideal far lb
atnyi efa tr at -Omim, C,C X, bm.
Liberty Bonds Bought
and sold for cash. Write for enotstiona. Send
Bonds by registered maU.
FRANKLIN INVESTMENT CO. ,
IIS. La Salle St Dept. K. CHICAGO. EX
VoU partienlars free bow to get quick, perma
nent reiief rl?ht at home. Just adore poetaJ.
Lwaars Scliea Ca, Ztll E. ZStk A Cia.fn'w
HAIR BALSAM
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TOBACCO f-rijcrt
us. Indole postage, i. aTkfeBlsx. FniXCa, Ky.
Coldo Grow Better!
rprlsLaslT soon, throat iTrflsnTns'Joa dsarp j
Peas. irritation is reliered and tiroat tUuc-
tis.s tops, wiea yon tne reliable, tiaieteste4 j
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