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THE CELINA DEMOCRAT, CELINA, OHIO
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IT'S TRULY AN ILL WIND
THAT BLOWS NOBODY
GOOD AND THIS WIND
BRINGS LUCK TO THE
PARSONAGE.
Mr. Slurr, widower Methodist
minister, Is assigned to the con
gregation nt Mount Murk, In.
He lias live charming daughters.
1'riiilenee. tile eldest, keeps
house for him. Fairy is n col
lege fresliiimn. Carol unci Lark,
twins, are in high school. Con
stance is the "baby." The c
livities of the Starr girls Pru
dence's work, I'airy's school uf
fairs, the pranks of the young
sters and the family perplexi
ties make the story; it Is simply
a recital of glorified homely In
cidents. This installment de
scribes the capture of u burglar
in the parsonage.
CHAPTER VII Continued.
Mr. Starr liad (.'one to I'urlington
that morning to attend special revival
services for three days, and l'rudence
had fifty whole dollars in the house,
pa unwonted sum in that parsonage!
And the dungeon was not locked. With
out ll word, she slipped softly out of
the room, ran down the stairs, making
never a sound in her bare feet, and
paw, somewhat to her surprise, that
the dungeon door was open. Quickly
fhe thing it shut, pushed the tiny key
that moved the "catch," and was rush
ing ui the stairs again with never u
pause for breath.
A strange sight met her ojes In the
twins' room. The twins themselves
vere In each other's arms, sobbing bit
terly. Fairy was still looking hurried
ly through the dresser drawers.
I -"They are gone," wailed Carol, "our
beautiful ruby rings that belonged to
grandmother."
"Nonsense," cried Prue with nervous
anger, "you've left them in the buth
fcwuu, or on the kitchen shelves.
You're always leaving them somewhere
over the place. Come on, and we'll
Search the house just to convince you."
"No, no," .shrieked the twins. "Let's
lock the door and get under the bed."
I; The rings were really valuable.
'Their grandmother, their mother's
another, whom they had never seen,
1uwl divided her "real jewelry" between
Ver two daughters. And the mother of
these parsonage girls, had further di
vided her portion to make it reach
through her own family of girls !
"Our rings! Our rings!" the twins
were wailing, and Connie, awakened
by the noise, was crying beneath the
(.overs of her bed.
-. "Maybe we'd better phone for Mr.
Allan," suggested Fairy. "The girls are
so nervous they will be hysterical by
the time we finish searching the
house."
"'Well, let's do the upstairs then,"
raid l'rudence. "Get your slippers and
kimonos, and we'll go into daddy's
room."
But inside the door of daddy's room,
with the younger girls clinging to her,
ind Fairy looking odd and disturbed,
l'rudence stopped abruptly and stared
about the room curiously.
"Fairy, didn't father leave his watch
tinnging on thut nail by the table?
fcccais to me I saw it there this morn
ing. I remember thinking I would
tease him for being forgetful."
' And the watch was not there.
"I think It was Sunday he left it,"
Jinswered Fairy in a low voice. "I re
member seeing it on the nail, and think
ing he would need it but I believe it
(was Sunday."
Prudence looked under the bed, and
u the closet, but their father's room
was empty. Should they go farther?
l'"or a moment, the girls stood looking
lit one another questioningly. Then
they heard a loud thud downstairs, as
of someone pounding on a door. There
was no longer any doubt. Someone
was in the house ! Connie and the
twins screamed again and clung to
Prudence frantically. And Fairy said.
"I think we'd better lock the door and
stay right here until morning, Prue."
But Prudence faced them stubborn
ly. "If you think I'm going to let any
one steal that fifty dollars, you are
mistaken. Fifty dollars does not come
often enough for that, I can tell you."
"It's probably stolen already," ob
jected Fniry.
t "Well, If it is, we'll find out who did
It, and have them arrested. I'm going
Vlown to telephone to the police. You
(girls must lock the door after me, and
fctay right here."
; The little ones screamed again, and
jFalry said: "Don't be silly, Prue, if
you go I'm going with you, of course.
We'll leaye the kiddies here and they
(can lock the door. They'll be perfectly
teafe la here,"
But the children loudly objected to
hiK, If Prue and Fairy went, they
tvould go! So down the stairs they
rooped,. a timorous trembling crowd.
(Prudence went at once to the tele
phone, and called up the residence of
the Allans, their neighbors across the
street. Aftur a seemingly, never-ending
Hi
watt, tha kind-hearted neighbor left
his bed to answer the InMlstent tele-
phono. Falterlngly Prudence explained
their predicament, and asked him to
com and search the house. He prom
Ised to be there lu five minutes, with
his son to help.
"Now," said Prudence more cheer
fully, "we'll Just go out to the kitchen
and wait. It's quiet there, and away
from the rest of the house, and we'll
be perfectly safe." To the kitchen
then, they hurried, anil found rea
comfort lit Its smallness and secure
tiess. Prudence raked up the dying
embers of the fire, and Fairy drew the
blinds to their lowest limits. The
twins and Connie trailed them fear
fully at every step.
Kvery breath of wind against the
windows drew startled cries from the
younger girls, and both Fairy and Pru
deneu were whltu with anxiety when
they heard the loud voices of the Al
bins outside the kitchen door. Pru
dence began crying nervously the mo'
nieut the two angels of mercy up
peared before her, and Fairy told thel
tale of woe.
"Well, there now," Mr. Allan said
with rough sympathy, "you just got
scared, that's all. Kverylhlng's sus
plclous when folks get scared. 1 told
my wife the other day I bet you girls
would get a good fright sometime, left
here alone. Come on, Jim, and we'll
go over the house In a Jiffy."
lie was standing near the dining-
room door, lie lifted ins nenu sud
denly, and seemed to sniff a little.
There was undoubtedly a faint odor
of tobacco in the house.
"Been any men In here tonight?" he
asked. "Or this afternoon? Think,
now !"
'No one," answered Prudence.
was ulone all ufternoon, and there has
been no one In this evening."
He passed slowly through the din
ing room Into the hall, closely followed
by his son and the live girls, already
nuch reassured. As he passed the
dungeon door he paused for n moment,
istening intently, his head bent.
"Oh, Mr. Allan," cried l'rudence,
'let's look in the dungeon first. I want
to see If the money is sufe." Her hand
was already on the lock, but he shoved
ler away quickly.
"Is there any way out of that closet
iesides this door?" he asked.
"No. We cull It the dungeon,
atighed Prudence, her self-possession
unite recovered. "It Is right under
he stairs, and not even a mouse could
maw its way out, with this door shut."
"Who shut the door?" he inquired,
still holding I'rudence's hand from the
ock. Then, without waiting for an
answer, he went on, "Let's go buck in
he other room a minute. Come on, all
f you." In the living room he bur
ied to the telephone, and spoke to the
perator In n low voice. "Call the po-
ice headquarters, and have them send
wo or three men to the Methodist par
sonage, right away. e ve got a bur
glar locked In a closet, and they'll have
o get him out. Please hurry."
t this, the girls crowded around
im again In renewed fear.
"Don't be scared," he said calmly,
were all right, lies in mere sate
enough and can't get out for a while.
Now, tell me about It. How did you
et him In the closet? Begin nt the
eglnning, and tell me all about it."
Carol began the story with keen rel
ish. "I woke up, and thought I heard
someone In the room. I supposed it
was Prudence. I said, 'Prudence, and
nobody answered, nnd everything was
ulet. But I felt there was someone
n there. I nudged Lark, and she woke
p. lie moved then, and we both heard
Im. He was fumbling at the dresser,
nd our ruby rings are gone. We
heard him step across the room and
into a closet. He closed the door after
him, didn't he Lark?"
Yes, he did," agreed Lark. "His
hand was on the knob."
So we sneaked out of bed, and
went Into Prudence's room and woke
er and Fairy." She looked at Connie
nd blushed. "Connie was asleep, and
we didn't waken her because we didn't
want to frighten her. We woke the
girls and you tell the rest, Prudence."
"We didn't believe her, of course.
We went back Into their room and
there was no one there. But the rings
were gone. While they were looking
at the dresser, I remembered that I
forgot to lock the dungeon door, where
we keep the money and the silver
ware, and I ran downstairs and
slammed the door and locked it, nnd
went back up. I didn't hear a sound
downstairs."
Mr. Allan laughed heartily. "Well,
your burglar was In that closet after
Quickly She Flung It Shut.
the money, no doubt, and he didn't
hear you coming, and got locked In."
In a few minutes they henrd foot
steps around the house and knew the
officers had arrived. Mr. Allan let
them Into the house, fonr of them, nnd
led-them out to the hall. Tlwre could
be no doubt whatever that the burglar
was in the dungeon. He had been
busy with his knife, and the lock was
nearly removed. If the officers hud
been two minutes luter, the dungeon
1 1 j
would have been empty. The girls wer
sent upstairs at once, with the Allan
boy as guard as guard, without re
gard for the fact that he was probably
more frightened than any one of them,
The chief officer rapped briskly on
the dungeon door. Then he clicked Ills
revolver.
"There are enough of us to over
power three of you," he said curtly.
"And we have men outside the house,
too. If you put your firearms on the
floor, and hold both hands over your
head, you'll be well treated. If vour
hands are not up, we fire on sight. Gut
your revolvers ready, boys."
Then the officer opened the door,
Evidently the burglar was wise enough
to appreciate the futility of lighting
against odds. Ills hands were above
lils bead, and In less than a second be
was securely manacled.
The chief irtllcer had been eying him
closely. "Say '" he exclaimed. "Aren't
you Llnher-I.lmh tjrant?" The burglar
grinned, but did not answer. "By
Jove!" shouted the ofllcer. "It Is I
Call the girls down here," he ordered.
and when fhey appeared, gazing at the
burglar with mingled admiration, pity
and fear, he congratulated then with
considerable excitement.
"It's Llmber-Lluib Grant," he ex
plained. "There's a reward of five
hundred dollars for him. You'll got
the money, as sure as you're born."
Then he turned again to the burglar.
"Say, Grant, what's a fellow like you
doing on such a fifth-rate job as this?
A Methodist parsonage is not just in
your line, Is It?"
I.imber-Liujb laughed sheepishly.
"Well," he explained good-naturedly,
"Chicago got too hot for me. I had
to get out In n hurry, and I couldn't
get my hands on any money. I had a
fine lot of Jewels, but I wns so pushed
I couldn't use them. I came here and
loafed around town for a while, be
cause folks said Mount Mark was so
fast asleep it did not even wake up
"Aren't You Limber-Limb Grant?"
ng enough to read the dally papers,
beard about this parsonage bunch,
nd knew the old man had gone off to
et more religion. This afternoon nt
the station I saw a detective from Chi
cago get off the train, and I knew what
that meant. But I needed some cash,
nd so I wasn't above a little Job of
this kind. I never dreamed of getting
done up by a bunch of preacher's kids.
went upstairs to get those family
ewels I've heard abcat, and one of
the little ones gave the alarm. I al
ready had some of them, so I came
down at once. I stopped in the dun
geon to get that money, and first thing
knew the door banged shut. That's
11. You're welcome to the five hun
dred dollars, ladles. Someone was
ound to get it sooner or later, and
m partial to the ladies, every time."
i .
Now what do you suppose the
girls will do with that five hun
dred dollars? How much will
they devote to church purposes
foreign missions, for Instance?
ITO BIS CONTINUED.)
AVE AFFECTION FOR TREES
Writer Tells How Lumberman Wept
Bitter Tears When Ordered to Cut '
Down a Fine Hemlock.
That one should feel affection for
great trees is nntural. In the Minne
sota forests I met a lumberman who
told me he wept bittef tears when he
got orders to cut down a flue hem
lock. Every stroke of the ax seemed
to him to be felt by the sturdy mon
arch whose life he was taking, writes
Julius Chambers In the Brooklyn
Eagle.
When I have revisited the "woods
n which as a boy I gathered nuts, I
ave fancied the trees I used to climb
recognized me. They looked the same.
hey hadn't aged. The shellback
ickory trees seemed a trine more
angerous to climb than of yore, and
le walnuts had gained noticeably In
girth, so that my lengthened arm hud
barely kept pace with the expanding
hark. I could still encircle their
trunks and could have climbed them
if necessary, but the rewards of a
winter's store of nuM no longer ap
peal to me. The walnuts and hickory
nuts one buys do not taste like those
gathered with one's own hands.
Sixty Millions for Furs.
Milady is spending $GO,tXX),000 a year
to gratify her fancy for furs. Practi
cally nil furs sold to the women of this
country are of American manufacture.
Returns to the bureau of the census
show thut only $3,000,000 worth pf furs
were imported during the past year.
The American fur Industry Is now rep
resented by 1,241 establishments em
ploying 11,927 wage earners with an
annual production worth more than
$50,000,000.
Trees Affected by Lightning.
No particular species of tree la more
susceptible to lightning stroke than
any other except in so far as the spe
cies determines the height of the tree.
1 gMLljj " '
Hi
HVERYSH,GH1IS
f
Inquiry Shows Almost No Butter
and Sugar, With Short
Potato Crop.
LITTLE AID FROM ROMANIA
8upply From That Country Almost
Negligible Big Cities Suffer the
Most Perfect Organization
Regulates Food Supply.
Berlin (Correspondence of The As
sociated Press). A summary of the
German food situation today shows
very little butter with little If any
prospect that there will be more In the
Immediate future. An equally small
amount of margarine or other substi
tutes for butter. A supply of meat
thut does not bid fair to lucreuse be
cuuse there Is so little feed on which
tho cattle can be nourished and fat
tened. A minimum amount of sugar,
since less than the usual supply of
sugar beets was raised In 1016, and a
part of the supply hus to go towurd
making chemicals. An almost com
plete failure of the potato crop, ao
that the bread ration Is to be
"stretched" with barley Instead of po
tato flour, to the consequent diminish
ing of the beer production. An almost
negligible supply of coffee, and a very J
slender amount of tea.
On the credit side of the ledger
stand the vegetables that were raised
in great quantities during the last sum
mer, and that with German thoughtful
ness and system hnve been dried In
greut quantities, and will be avalluble
for the winter. Likewise there are
great quantities of marmalade, or near-
marmalade, which have been stored up
as a substitute for butter. The sub
stitute Is very poor, but better than
nothing.
The average German will Insist that
Roumanla stands on the credit side
of the ledger, too, and thnt It Is a
big item. But It Is extremely probnble
thnt the amount of food found In Rou
manla Is far smaller than had been
anticipated. " Turkey, Bulgaria, Hun
gary and Anstrln, all also have a claim
on whatever there may be. Although
Germany Is running the military situ
ation In Roumnnln, Germany Is very
far away. Her authorities hnve
known for weeks that there was little
to expect from Roumanla, nnd hnve
tried to break the evil news gently.
First came the announcement thnt the
size of the supplies captured was un
known, then the word that whatever
might be found would not be used but
kept as a reserve.
German Cities Suffer.
It Is, of course, the big German cit
ies that are suffering, and thut nre go
ing to suffer Increasingly ns the war
continues. Lack of transportation fa
cilities is an increasingly important
factor.
Germany, which before the war had
somewhat more than ample freight
cars for its own needs, now has to
make the same number of cars, ap
proximately, do for all of the German
empire, nearly all of Belgium, north
ern France, all Poland, and a big
piece of Russia, In addition to Serbia,
Montenegro, and the biggest half of
Roumanla. Only a relatively small
number of cars captured in Belgium
HIS SALARY TREBLED
William P. Malburn, formerly an as
sistant secretary of the treusury, has
left for New York to begin his duties
aa chief National bank examiner for
the Second federal reserve district of
New Tork, succeeding Charles Stnrek.
Mr. Malburn la a son-in-law of
Senator Thomas of Colorado. His
home Is "in Denver, where he was an
attorney and later a banker. His new
Job pays $15,000 a year instead of the
$5,000 he drew as assistant secretary
jf the treasury.
FRENCH USE GERMAN BOTTLE
Exported Through Holland, Cuba and
the United States They Finally
Reach France.
Paris. A short time ago a wine
trade Journal, the Vigneron Cham
penols, pointed out that champagne
bottles made In American glass works
were being offered to the French in
dustry. America had never before sup
plied champagne bottles, but as the
price was high enough, to allow a pront
" f
fill Wimm&WMmk
have been added to the German rolling
stock.
As the wnr hns gone on the condi
tion of this rolling stock has deterior
ated steadily, nnd scarcely any of It
hns been replaced. A shortage of oils
has not allowed the proper care of
what cars there are; hot boxes on both
passenger and freight enrs are every
day occurrences. The engines hnve
now to draw such heavy loads thnt
they nre going to pieces faster than
they used to.
Feed and fodder conditions for Ger
man live stock Improved somewhat
through last year's harvests, bnt only
somewhat. The cattle are still thin
nnd scrnggly. The milch cnttle give
less than ever, nnd there Is little milk
that can be spared for cheese. Tho cat
tle, when slaughtered, give less meat
than they used to, and so horse meat
hns hnd to be resorted to In a degree
that Is unprecedented.
The available supply of swine has
never recovered from the original Ger
wan mistake of 1914 and 1015, when
millions of pigs were slaughtered to
save the food that they devoured, only
thereby reducing the supply of fat' to
a dangerous point. The Germans have
never forgiven themselves for that
shortsightedness.
The snine In n mpnniira hnlila trna
of sugnr. There hndeen an oversun-
ply In 1014, and solemn warnings went
out not to plnnt so much land to sugar
beets nnd more to grain. The peas
antry foUowed the advice too literally,
and Germany awoke to find thnt she
hnd hurdly more than enough sugur
for purposes other -than food. So the
big cities are In part living on succha
rine now, and there Isn't enough
of that.
The coffee-stretching process began
BRITON FIGHTS TWELVE GERMAN AIRMEN
Lieutenant in Scout Machine
Dives Into Squadron, Firing
as He Flies.
DARING STUNTS IN WEST
Teutonic (and Allied Aviators In Thrill
ing Shyjm Falls Out of Control
Work Is Useful and
Vital.
With the British Army in France.
The announcement that "improved
weather conditions permitted Increased
aerial activity ulong the entire front"
Is the laconic und prosaic wuy in
which the official communique dis
misses some of tlie most spectacular
episodes of the war.
To those who have once witnessed
this "Increased aerial activity" such
an announcement conjures up at once
a picture of countless alrplunes in the
nlr scouting, fighting, diving, spin
ning, hovering over enemy tnrgets nnd
calmly sending wireless signals
through the fountains of enemy fire,
photographing the enemy lines, bomb
ing his ammunition dumps and sheds
nnd supply columns, nnd otherwise
"carrying on" in the sky In a manner
wholly bewildering to the onlooker, but
typifying in supreme degree the Indis
pensable part aviation Is playing In
this war.
Work Is Useful and Vital.
In the aggregate the losses in the
flying corps ore as nothing compared
with the useful and vital work the
"wings" accomplish. Without them
the big guns would have no far-seeing
eyes to correct their shells. Without
them and the hundreds of photographs
they daily take the map makers could
not trace each detail of the trench po
sitions. Without them the general
staff could not accurately know Just
what Is going on by day and night be
hind the enemy lines. Without them
modern war would lose Its most fas
cinating phase.
The "good flying" of a single day on
the British front nlone mny represent
u day of a hundred fights, a day of
four-score airplanes in wing to wing
combat, a day of a thousand personal
incidents and deeds of during In the
once strange strata of high, thin air.
It might tell, for Instance, of how
Lieutenant A In a fast-flying scout
machine encountered a squadron of 12
German Rolands. The odds were one
sided enough, but the young Britisher
decided to take a chance. He climbed
swiftly and surely until he got far
above and to the rear of the hostile
craft Evidently the Germans were in
tent upon some errand which they pro
posed to carry out In force, for they
paid no heed to the khaki-clad airman
until he deliberately dived into them,
firing as he came. This threw the
12 Into a panic, and their formation
was entirely broken up. Meanwhile
Lieutenant A got beneath the near
est machine and fired an entire drum
of cartridges Into It at 5 yards. The
hostile machine . collapsed and
f "crashed."
After seeing his particular enemy
"crash" Lieutenant A drew off to
think things over. He was somewhat
amazed to see- still more hostile ma
chines coming up In formation. But
he dashed at the leader of the new
comers and sent him In a spiral nose
dive to a "crash." This led to still
more complications, and the intrepid
little pilot soon found himself engaged
with three machines. His fight with
these was indecisive.
"For," says the official record, "hav-
on the double voyage from the United
States to Europe and back the new
departure was put down to the credit
of the American manufacturers and
considered a proof of their quickness
in realizing that the war had opened
up a new market
This Journal, however, made further
Investigations and now announces that
these bottles are of German manufac
ture, being made at Geresschelm, near
Dusseldorf, In the glass works of F.
Heyes. They ere shipped to the United
States or to Cuba, and return aa Amerl-
Inst spring, nnd Im continued so dili
gently thnt real coffee la an almost un
obtainable rarity, and the aversgo "cof
fee" that Is avalluble Is so poor ns to
be undrlnkable for the person used
to real coffee. Substitutes such as
chicory, herbs, mixtures of all kinds,
have taken coffee's place.
Regulates Food Affairs.
The most perfect organization and
system in the world hits stepped In nnd
so regulated food affair that every
adult In the empire Is pretty well as
sured of half n pound of meat a week.
But nearly every ounce of that half
pound Is leuu meat. The fat, rarely
reaches the purchaser, for It Is Jealous
ly hoarded by tho government.
System likewise hus provided thnt
there shall be no more butter riots, or
bread riots, or meut lines. There Is
now n so-called "customers' list,"
whereby each resident of any lurge
city Is registered 'with one dairy store,
and one baker, and one butcher. The
customer has a number, nnd on stated
days mny purchase his or her quota
of food by number. Government
secret-service agents have been busy
ferreting tut cases of extortion and
overcharging, nnd heavy lines nnd Im
prisonments have been sulutary in
their effect. Likewise tho custom of
hoarding, which the Germans call
"hamsterlns" ufter the animal "ham
ster" or groundhog, has been discour
aged to a greut extent by lines uud
other punishments.
During the finnl months or 1'Jio ir-
mnns of the wealthier class helped out
their gaunty larders with butter, eggs.
cheese and the like which they procured
from convenient "relatives" whom
they discovered In Holland and Den
mark. Now that has been done away
with. From the flrfct of January on,
the German government, through Its
central purchasing company, will buy
all the food In udjoinlng foreign coun
tries thnt those countries will or niuy
sell, und will distribute It equully In
Gertuuny.
YO PROTECT EYES
OF OHIO RABBITS
Columbus, O. Representative
Baker of Ashland has Introduced
In the Ohio legislature a bill
which makes it unlawful for the
hunter to shock unsuspecting
rabbits at night with the bright
glare of a spotlight, and then
fhoot them down.
Baby carriages are exempted
from the necessity of carrying
lights at night in a bill fathered
by Senator Terrell, which re
quires lights on all vehicles, "ex
cept those drawn by hand, and
hay wagons."
ing expended nil his ammunition, Lieu
tenant A set off for home."
A few days later. It Is related, he
took a running dive Into a formation
of 20 hostile machines with ull the
self-assurance an eagle might have In
the midst of a flock of spnrrows. Be
fore he wns through he hnd sent three
adversaries "crashing."
"This time," says the record, "he re
turned to one of our aerodromes for
more ammunition and returned to the
scene of battle, where he engaged nnd
dispersed such enemy machines as re
mained In the vicinity. One was seen
to crash upon a housetop."
Airmen Shamming Falls.
The Germans lately have adopted
the ruse of "stalling" and shamming
a fall out of control. It Is a thrilling
but not uncommon thing to see a Ger
man machine when closely pressed
turn Its tall straight up in the air and
dive toward the earth for a dlstanco
of 2,000 or 3,000 feet, and Just as th
uninitiated onlooker would expect a
"crash" It flattens out and starts pell
mell for Its own lines. One does not
always get away with this bit of aerlul
strategy, however, as Is shown by the
Record of Captain B . After attack
ing three hostile machines he saw one
of them going down In a spinning nose
dive. He suspected the honesty of
that dive and decided to do a little div
ing "on his own." This dramatic
downward duel continued for full 5,000
feet, until the German was driven Into
a splp "and seen to crash."
EUROPEAN WAR IN PEKING
Austrian and Italian Legation Guards
t Meet In Streets and Battle
Ensues.
San Francisco. The war In Europe
has been fought over on a reduced
though bloody scale In the streets of
Peking, according to C. A. Jauregul, a
young millionaire from the Argentine,
arriving here with his bride after a
wedding Journey through the Orient
The conflict was staged, said Jauregul,
who obtulntd his information from the
Spanish ambassador at Peking, when
the legation guards of the Austrian
and Italian legations, marching
through the streets met
The commands came to an abrupt
halt, and then, before their officers
could stop the men, a battle occurred
In which rifles, swords and bayonets
were used. The combatants were fin
ally parted by their officers after
many had been wounded.
As a result of the battle, the em-'
bassies agreed to set apart certain
days of the week on which the troops
of one of the belligerents may go out
into the streets, while the other side
stays within the embassy walls.
can goods. As Holland has offered the
same kind of bottles there Is no diffi
culty In telling how they leave Ger
many. '
Wear Cheap Watches.
Memphis, Ten, Fearing highway
men will relieve them of valuable time
pieces, hundreds of men in Memphis
who are compelled to work at night are
wearing dollar watches and leaving
their good watches home. Holdup
and robberies have been so coramoa
as almost to cause a reign of terror.
A FRIEND'S
ADVICE
Woman Saved From a Serf
ou Surgical Operation.
Louisville. Ky. "For four year 1
suffered from female trouble, head
aches, and nervousness. 1 could not
sleep, had no appetite and It hurt me to
walk. If I tried to do any work, I
would have to lie down before it was
finished. The doc
tors said I would
have to be opera
ted on and I simply -broke
down. A
friend advised me
to try Lydift E,
I'inkham'i Vege
table Compound,
and the result is 1
feel li ke ne w wom
an. 1 am well and
strong, do al! my
own house work and
tiave an eight pound baby girf. I know
Lvdia E. I'inkham'a Vegetable Com-
Lpound saved me from an operation
wnica every wumtui urrnuu. um
Nellib Fihhback, 1521 Chmty Ave.,
Louisville, Ky.
Everyone naturally dreads the aur
geon'a knife. Sometimes nothing else
will do, but many times Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound has saved
the patient and made an operation un
necessary. If you nave any symptom about whicn
you would like to know, write to the
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co , Lynn.
Mass., for helpful advice given f
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PATENTS i
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The Masculine Way.
He Men never gtsslp.
She Of course not. They merely
Investigate rumors.
A MINISTER'S CONFESSION
Rev. VP. H. Warner, Myersvllle, Md,
writes: "My trouble was sciatica. My
back was affected and took the form
of lumbago. I also had neuralgia.
cramps in my mus
cles, pressure oi
Bhnrp pain on tho
top of tny hvad,
und nervous dizzy
spells. I hnd oth
er symptoms show
ing my kldneya
were at lauit. so I took Dodd's Kidney
Pills. They were the means of saving
my life. I write to say thut your
medicine restored me to perfect
health." De sure and get "DODD'S,"
the name with the three D's for dis
eased,' disordered, deranged kidneys;
Just as I lev. Warner did, no similarly
named article will do. Adv.
Will Be Notable Eclipse.
The solar eclipse of June 8, 1913,
with n total phase of n minute nnd a
half, will he notable on account of Its
long path over a region favorable for
observation. Striking the earth off,
the coast of Japan, the moon's shadow
will arrive at Columbia river, Wash
ington, at 2:55 p. m. Pacific time, and
will cross to the Atlantic in a south
easterly direction In 47 minutes, leuv-
lng the coast of Florida at 0:42 east
ern time, nnd vanishing 400 miles at
sen three minutes later. A roup pre
pared by Washington college observa
tory shows ubout 85 Important towns
on the direct route. I'ror. ii rem
points out that by co-operation a sup
posed discovery may be telegraphed
ahend for verification.
Jutt to Show Them.
'So you have been on a visit to your
boyhood home?"
"Yes," replied the prosperous-looking
citizen.
" 'How dear to my henrt nre the
scenes of my childhood when fond rec
ollection presents them to view.' '
"I know thnt's what the poet wrote,
but my principal object In going back
was to show the people there that 'that
dirty-faced good-for-nothing Johnson
boy' hns amounted to something in the
world."
Alaska supplies the world with
$60,000,000 worth of salmon an
nually. SPEED
combined with
good judgment
counts in business
now-a-days.
Grape-Nuts
FOOT
supplies balanced
nourishment for
sturdy muscles
and active brains.
"There's a Reason"
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or jUi of pacKfltf. '
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