Nebraska Newspapers

    PAYS FOR 160
ACRES OF LAND
From the Crop of Wheat on 53
Acres in Western Canada.
tb> story of paying for your land
out <>f one year's crop is fully authen
ticated by a great many farmers in
Western Canada.
And now. all that the farmer makes
la velvet and you find him going more
extensively Into stock raising, for all
authorttie* agree that in a short time
there will he a demand for live stock,
•web as even will tax the vast re
source* of Western Canada. They
will go Into stock raising because of
the adaptability of the country to pro
fvndr food and bslder without feeding
grain if necessary. They will go into
stock and improve their places. They
•sill Install *team and Imating plants—
la fa«-t. many are now doing it. They
wit! have automobiles, in fact in many
districts there Is not a farmer hut ha*
one. They will beautify their homes
and erect line barn* until the whole
country will to- a* attractive as runny
of the counties in the lest states in
the Cunm. Itul we started out to tell
yon of the farmer who paid for lt»
acre# ..f land fr.ua the crop of wheat |
off <>f 53 acre*. The Ibddcn district
<>9 the line of the tlratid Trunk Pacific
d«r* not apfear to *he ordinary ob
server lo he any loiter than many
other dUtrb-t* along that line, and
probably isn't. It was in this district
that John LamMO*. a settler, pur
chased iu 1315 ltjn acres of raw prai
rie land. He broke and seeded 53
acre*. Hi* crop turned out well, and
he Mkid the greater portion of it for
lO* Hi* land c.*t him $1«JS0 per
s-Tr. or $'J.64o. So that the crop from
the ra acre* paid for the land and left
a balance of over STM*, which with
|«rt ft the crop left over would just
pay for the cost of operation. This
1# not really an unusual case, hundreds
of other farmer* In Alberta and Sas- '
kab’bewan having l-e.-n able to do the
name.
Sales ttf land are being reported
fr> iii many district- in Manitoba. Sas
katchewan and Alberta at good prices.
And values are yet low. but with the
fi-w at any value that will take place
after the war. no doubt they will be
nwtiirrsUy increased. The home
stead* In the Park section* which are
to be hid actually free are having
the attention of a good class of Bat
tlers. wiio muiit to go into mixed fann
ing.—Advertisement.
The Speech>eu Wives.
“What are the wild wave* saying?”
murmured the woman, a* *he stood on
the sliver lining of the mighty main.
“Nothing M:.ria." r.-plied the man.
hoarsely ; “they are like *otne people
we kt. Tie-y make a great deal of
n*H*.- t.ut ii<*? *ay anything.”
CASCAfiETS" AGI
ON LIVER; BOWELS
No sick headache, biliousness,
bad taste or constipation
by morning.
Get a i'Meat bo*.
Are r<w keep-ng your bowels, liver,
and stomach clean, pare and fresh
with Cas- »ret» or merely forcing a
paaaagc-wsy every few days with
Salts. Cathartic Pills. Castor Oil or
Purgative Waters?
Stop tav.ng a bowel washday. Let
Caararc-ta thoroughly cleanse and reg
ulate the stomach remove the sour
and fermenting food and foul gases,
tete the excess bile from the liver
aiid carry out of the system all the
coast jutted waste matter and poisons
to the bowels
A Cavaret tonight will make you
few! great by morning They work
while you sleep never gripe, sicken
or cause aay inconvenience and cost
oa.'y 14 cents a box from your store.
M . .'ess of men and women take a
Cucartf - now and then and never
have Headache TJiitouaneea. Coated
T"t •• ledigc-Mloa. Pour Stomach or
Const.pat ion Adv
The Oest Lancer.
I irsel I eupfMMe drafticu is a
•eesrew ccf ani.iivMMw t>* yc«i.
I*--' &1..1. «h am-tieHy. Last night,
fee bSuicr I drmeed with a iimiM
c?i. n ng jr.hia* lady :,od 1 w.culd give
a gi«*l 4r«l it* Lbmv whether »he com
(cared my 4u» mg to a ’BPpbyr' or m
‘heifer.'" New York Time*.
THE 3 D’S IN DODD'S
Mr Kdett W t'ergUMSi. Hingham
II***.. write*: ! *uffered from kid
ary «fi«<*rder for years. Had in<-e*»ant
bac-ksebr nod trouble. Nearly diet!
fr«ai it at time
white in
I»ut overraaae It by
a [«ervi*t*t)t use «if
lMir« Kidney piil*.
Finally I nan raai
jjeteiy mr«l. 1 oc
•-aai-Hially uw the
retnetty lwi» in «r
<ier to keeft ibe kid
ney* reirolntetl. I
t 't upf ‘i praise for |h«w *. Be
i re to ref '1» *I the name with
tla- three !*’* for deranged. disordered
d- kidneys. ja<t ax Mr. Kerpu
a a did No similar named article wrlll
4b. Adr.
At First Glance.
\ r What ia a man like that do
me twee la Jail?
Warden Time. mum.
important »• *om*rs
ri.aiM carefully every bottle of
fnfftiMA. that famous old remedy
infanta and children, and see that It
la l ae for Orsr M Tear*.
Onldnm Cry for Fletcher* Caitona
Crrdulwca people, like musical lD
ayed upon.
NEWS OfJE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
II BOILING GOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Other
Matters in Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
WASHINGTON.
IT. sid. hi Wilson has called con
gress to convene in extraordinary ses
sion on April instead of April lti.
• • •
Secretary Houston appealed to the
country to conserve its pulp wood re
sources as a means of insuring a fu- .
lure supply of news print paper.
• • •
The farm loan board announced that I
the interest on all loans made to far- ;
mere throughout tiie country by fed- |
ernl hind loan banks would lie live per
Cent.
• • •
American consular officers, with
drawn from Mexico when the border j
situation was acute, have been order- j
ed back to their districts, the stale j
depa rt meat am wuuced.
• • *
<'.instruction immediately at the
New York navy yard of sixty subma
rine chasers, deliveries to begin in
from sixty to eighty days, was order
ed by Secretary Daniels.
• • •
Approximately will he.
Issued in farm loan bonds during the
next twelve months, according to esti
mates made by the farm loan board |
on the number <>f applications re
ceived.
• * *
Forma I and full recognition by the
United States of the new government
of Russia was announced at the state
department. America was the first
power To rei-ogiitiit* the new Russian
government.
• * *
The United States sent General
Carranza a formal notification that
It cannot participate in his proposal
to cut off munition and food shije
meats to the Kuropcan belligerents,
with a view to forcing peace.
• • »
American Consul Muhin, at Amster
dam. cabled the state department ;
that The American steamer Haldton.
■ unk by a submarine March off
Terselielling. Holland, was torpedoed j
without warning and that twenty of
her crew were drowned.
• • *
In preparation for any demand
noon the German crisis, the militia
bureau of the war department has
sen* precantionary instructions to nil j
state ndiu'ant generals, outlining the I
plan to t.e followed should the na- j
tlonal guard he called for federal ser- j
vice.
• • •
The Adamson eight-hour railroad
law w - held constitutional and valid
In all respe.-ts by the supreme court.
T’ • d :-ion makes eight hours the
at:.' lard of a day's work and wages
f..r men In operation of trains and
legalizes ft.-- wage increases which
went in!** tentative effect on its
passage.
DOMESTIC.
Tin- Ohio senate passed an eugenic
marriage tiiil which requires male a[e
filleaiits f..r marriage license t<> under
go a physical examination and present
• certificate of good health.
• * *
Thcsnlore Roosevelt announced at
Oyster Pat that lie had accepted an
invitation to attend the eeleitralion of
Nebraska s inlniissioii to the union, to
Ik- held at l.iiK'oln June 13. 13 and 14.
* # «
orders were Issued at San Antonin, i
Tex Icy Major Io-nern 1 John .1. Per- '
slnug ph-cing troops of the- regular j
ertt in the Southern department on
a t.eid ,rtny lucsis effective at once.
• • •
With the exception cif the- floods of
1913 Indian never has suffered from !
tl elements ;,s in the* week of March
11 to IT. Iimales (if the financial 1
damage- pla*-*- tin* l*iss*-s -m high as
$3.i«si non
* • »
Samuel P Pie-hards eli.-d .if poison
ing al Carey Idaho, his death mak-I
Ing a total of six victims of a poison- |
ous root e-atin.sl by mistake for spin
n.-i'-li greens in the Pie-hard-' kitchen
List fall eaten In the fuluilv.
. . .
Hundred' of applications from men 1
• •id eiitlis in tir.-gein. Washington
riel •'.-ilifei ilia v.ho desire to enter the
army a.-ri I reserve- corps luive hern !
rc.-cjted a* ft aviation training -
•* h--o! t S.-.ii I >ii-gi*. Cal.
• • •
A • :is cm was caused at Red
Cak I I th- grand jury is in
c.-s- gtefia-.- the- Viliise-a ax murder
ca-c. when Pc\. J. J. P,urn's of Ter
r-l'to-i tilla.. said that a dying man
rt a eiote-i In Uadershurg, Mont., con
fessed to him in July. 1913. that he
killed the Moore family at Villisca.
3 • •
The Hock island railroad has or
dereel thirty locomotives from the 1
American l.e»*-i.motive- company, and
the Union Pacific lias ordered sixteen.
All arc of the UT»0-ton type.
• • •
Provisions will be made for 3.V)
women at the Utah civilian training
camp this summer. Hugh A. McMillan,
head of the camp committee, announc
ed at Salt I.ske City. The women will
wear the regulation array hat and a
shoe (tillIt along the lines of the army
"hiker."
• • •
Reduction of 41 per cent—from
lTl.OUTe ears to 99.774 cars—has been
made in the last three weeks by the
railroads of the country In the number
Five persons were killed and four
others seriously injured in the torna
do which swept a small section near
Delurk, Ark.
• • *
Five thousand switchmen on the
New York Central railroad will be
gievn the benefit of the Adamson law
dating from January 1.
* * *
William Hale Thompson, mayor of
Chicago, offered his yacht. Tringa.
seventy-five feet long, with a speed of
thirteen knots an hour to the govern
ment for use in case of war.
* * *
A mammoth fleet of 5,000 standard
ized types of aircraft to augment the
present aerial forces of the United
States is planned by the national ad
visory committee of aeronautics.
• * *
The services of many thousand al
umni and specialized training, repre
senting fifty of the leading universi
ties. colleges and technical schools
thruout the country, were tendered to
the government by Dr. McClellan, di
rector of tlie intercollegiate intelli
gence bureau of Philadelphia.
• * *
To determine whether his opposi
tion to the armed ship Dill represented
the wishes of Nebraska, Senator
George W. Norris, in a letter to Gov
ernor Keith Neville, asks that the gov
ernor recommend to the Nebraska
legislature the passage of an not for j
a special election before May 1 which |
will permit the people of tlie state to j
recall Mr. Norris if they wish.
_
FOREIGN.
A decree lias been promulgated di- 1
reefing all clocks throughout Italy to
in- advanced one hour from April 1 to
September :>0.
* • *
Thirty thousand eases of smallpox
rage in Germany, and the disease is
spreading, according to tlie speech of
Socialist Ileichstag Member Hoffman.
• * *
Extensive railway construction in
Russia during the next ten years, ag- j
gregating almost 60,000 miles, recom
mended by a special commission, has j
been approved Dy the Russian council j
of ministers.
* * •
Reports have reached Amsterdam |
that serious riots have broken out in
Berlin in connection with tlie scarcity J
of food. Frontier regiments are re- j
ported to have left for Berlin to main
tain order.
• * •
The German minister to China and
his staff and also all the German i
consuls in tlie country have been
handed their passoprts. A note ac- j
rompanied the passports explained
that the German reply to China's sub- j
marine warfare protest was unsatis
factory.
• • •
Madame Catherine Breshkovsknya. j
who is known as “the grandmother of
the Russian revolution." has been In- j
vited by M. Krenski. minister of Jus- j
tice in the new cabinet, to return to
Petrograd. Madame Breshkovsknya
lias spent thirty years in exile, most
of the time in prison. She escaped ;
twice, only to he recaptured.
WAR NEWS.
The total amount of French terri
tory liberated from the German in
vaders by the Somme offensive up to
Mareli 21 is 853 square miles, accord
ing to 1'aris reports.
• • •
Nearly 500 square miles of territory
between the Arras sector and the riv- 1
cr Oise have been added to the allies'
holdings by the success of their last
“push” on the western front.
• • •
Paris reports that the Germans ai>
pnrently are ending tlielr retreat
along the front in France and are pre
paring to give battle everywhere to
their oncoming foes.
* * *
A British destroyer and a mer
chant vessel were sunk, and another
destroyer was damaged in the Ger
man naval raid at Ramsgate, the
British admiralty announced at Lon
don.
• • *
Germany has started a new and
elaborate recruiting campaign in Po- !
land. Fnder the new scheme 17 main
recruiting offices. 74 district offices j
and 400 local bureaus have been j
opened.
* • •
The German auxiliary cruiser.
Moewe. lias returned into a home port
of the navy from a second cruise in j
the Atlantic ocean. The Meowe cap- j
lured twenty-two steamships and five j
sailing vessels, aggregating 123.100 :
tons gross.
* * *
A British official communication ;
says that for the week ending March j
18. sixteen British slops, each of a
tonnage of more than 1.000. and eight :
smaller ships, were sunk by German !
submarines.
* • •
A British torpedo boat destroyer
struck a mine in the English channel
recently and was sunk, says an offi- '
cial announcement. One man was I
killed and twenty-eight sailors are |
missing. It is presumed these men
were drowned.
• * •
Reports from Plymouth, England,
are that fifteen members of the
crew of the American steamer Vigi- !
lancia lost their lives when the steam
er was torpedoed by a German subma
rine.
• * *
Berlin military men declare that i
the German evacuation of Rapantile,
Roye, Noyon. and Peronne on the
western front is hut part of a great
strategic undertaking which promises 1
to revolutionize warfare on the en
tire western front and constitute one
of the most decisive moves In the
war.
* • *
The Berlin war office reports that
merchant ships of an aggregate gross
tonnage of 781,500 were destroyed In
MINOR NOTES FROM ALL
PARTS OF NEBRASKA
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
April 9-14—Annual State Bowling
Tournament at Fremont.
April 21-22—Missouri Valley Chiro
practors’ Association Meeting at
Omaha.
April 26-27— Nebraska Association of
Elks Annual Convention at Lincoln.'
May 4—Group No. 2 Nebraska Bank
ers' Association Convention at Co
lumbus.
May S-9—Knights of Columbus State
Meeting at Alliance.
May 16-17-18 — Annual Encampment
Nebraska G. A. R.. Ladies of the G.
iA. R.. Women's Relief Corps; Span
ish War Veterans and Sous of Vet
erans at Columbus.
May 22-2“i—Nebraska Sportsmen’s As
sociation Annual Tournament at
Fremont.
The Omaha Structural Steel com
pany was awarded the bridge con
tracts of Buffalo county. The figure
quoted gives the county a saving of
2*i per cent over the last year's con
tract price with the same firm.
In a speech before the democratic
city convention at Fremont, Con
gressman Dan V. Stephens said the
people of this country are unduly ex
cited over the prospects for war.
Because of an epidemic of small
pox at Oakland the Third Nebraska
District of tile Federation of Wom
en's clubs’ meeting was transferred
from there to Norfolk.
Tlie Geneva Community club annual
banquet was attended by the biggest
crowd of any similar affair in the his
tory of tlie city. Congressman Sloau
was one of the speakers.
A contract with the French govern
ment, calling for as many over 600
head of horses weekly, as is possible
is the task two Omaha horse contrac
tors have set out to fulfill.
Voters of Tekamali will pass on a
proposition to issue $4.<K*0 in bonds at
the spring election, to extend tlie |
mains of the water system into parts j
of the town not now being served.
Wayne is bestirring itself and many ;
of its prominent citizens are working
towards improvements. Several new
streets in the business district will lie
opened at once.
Price of corn continues to move
skyward, the white variety selling in
car lots on the Omaha exchanged the
past few days at $1.04 to $1.11 a |
bushel.
Prof. .1. W. Norman, chief musician
of the First Nebraska regimental
band, lias been engaged as leader of
the Gothenburg concert band, just or
Mayor Pahlinan of Omaha says if i
tho country wants it. he will organ
ize a regiment of picked men and go
wherever directed hy the government, j
Cage county is planning to build j
fifty miles of highway this year. The 1
county has already completed 202 i
miles of public road.
The York Commercial club has of
fered prizes aggregating $100 for the 1
best two strips of roads three miles
long lending Into the city.
Over $4,000,000 in loans on Ne
braska. Iowa. Wyoming and South Da
kota farm lands has been applied for
at the Omaha Federal Land bank.
York citizens voted $225,000 for tho j
construction of a new high school
building and two new ward schools.
The Commercial club of O'Neill is
working on a proposition to start a
$30,000 canning factory there.
Henry .Tung of Tecumseh. who has
received an appointment to Annapolis,
has passed the examination and will
enter the academy.
Contractors are asked to submit bids
for the construction of a $100,000 ho- i
tel at York. The new hostelry is to i
be built by the York Hotel company.
A valuable colt belonging to Clinton
Phillips of Lyons was killed the other
day hy timber wolves.
Instead of meeting at York in May
the Nebraska Association of Klks
lodge will go to Lincoln, it is Tenta
tively announced, as York's new hotel
will not he completed in time. Due to
the Scottish Rite mowing at Lincoln
on the May date the Elks will gather
there April 20 and 27.
A corits of government game war
dens are at work along the Platte !
river, and a number of eases of illegal
shooting have been recorded at Cozad.
Gothenburg and Lexington, in viola- 1
tion of the federal migratory bin!
law.
An indignation committee of the
Logan Creek Farmers" club appeared
in Fremont and offered $100 reward
for information revealing the starting
point of a story which said the Ameri
can flag Itad been substituted hy a !
German emblem on the club building.
Rev. Easton, pastor of the Baptist j
church at Wayne, and secretary of the j
Commercial club, preached a sermon i
recently on the net'll of a community !
house in that town. A movement to j
establish such an institution is ex- j
peeted to start soon.
The Masonic lodge of Wymore has I
purchased property at that place and
will soon begin the erection of a
$25,000 Masonic temple. It is tho in
tention to have the building ready for
occupancy by fall.
Senator Norris of Nebraska is mak
ing an “explanation campaign” over
the state regarding bis stand on the
“armed neutrality" Dill recently killed
in the Cnited States senate.
Millard Fillmore Funkhottser. sixty
years old. former Omaha city council
man and prominent Scottish Rite Ma
son. died at his home in Omaha.
Following a recent entertainment
given in the high school building at
North Platte, it was decided that
everyone was so happy that municipal
entertainments will lie a regular
monthly feature.
York county’s Sunday school con
vention will be held in Tliayer. March
30 anti 31. Several good speakers will
be present and a large attendance is
expected.
Plans are In progress at Gothen
burg for the organization of a Com
munity club. An expert in forming
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There is a feeling among Omnhj
commission men that the potato bar
ons of northwestern Nebraska, who
have been holding the crop for higher
prices are going to be forced to hold
the stick. It is not believed that they
are going to he able to dispose of
their holdings at $3 and $4 per bush
el, as they expect. In the vicinity of
Hemingford. it is asserted that there
• e 12.*NN> bushels of potatoes in stor
age. while along the Northwestern,
from Valentine to ('hadron, there are
not less than 20,(KX) bushels of pota-‘
toes now held in pits and cellars.
They are for sale, hut owners are
holding them at S3 per bushel, f. o. h.
Potato growers front all parts of
Nebraska met at Alliance in the in
terest of the industry which netted
them millions this season, and organ
ized the Nebraska Potato Growers'
association. The object of the socie
ty is to promote mutual co-operation
of till agencies interested in the pro
duction. transportation, distribution
and utilization of Nebraska potatoes
and the extension of the potato in
dustry in the state. The next meet
ing of the association will lie held at
Alliance next fall, tit which time a po
tato show and an entertainment pro
gram will he arranged for.
A Nebraska postmaster in com
menting on the rapidly deplorable con
dition the country's postal service is
becoming, to friends at Lincoln the
other day. said that the taking off of
mail cars on his line <>f road had had
the effect of delaying delivery along
lines running out of his town from
five to six days. It is said that all
mail cars on lines called ‘'one-man
lines" are to be taken off as soon as
IMissthle.’*
Thirty-three hea<\ of White Face
Shorthorn cattle, averaging 1,581
pounds each, sold for $12.40 per hun
dred pounds on the South Omaha
market a few days ago. They were
shipped by W. L. otto of Superior.
Cattle of this caliber, stockmen said,
have not been on the Omaha market
for a year or more.
At a citizens' caucus in Falls City
W. S. Ley da. the present mayor, re
ceived 375 votes to his opponent's 125.
Mayor I.evda has incurred the ill will
of local coal dealers because of hav
ing sold about twenty carloads of coal
to the poor at post. He asked for ap
proval of ills course and received it.
Nebraska lodge Koval Neighbors of
America, at the triennial state conven
tion at Fremont, selected Lincoln as
the meeting place in 1020. The new
officers elected are: Mrs. Mary Al
len. Omaha, oracle, re-elected. Mrs.
Ella White. Sterling, vice oracle. Mrs.
Hattie Carson. Lincoln recorder.
riii> tii'MoniiM nwiuii.-t i.
paid for a thirty-year lease on Palmer
lake, near Alliance, hy Alliance cap
italists who are interested in the pot
ash industry of western Nebraska. Tt
is supposed the holding company will
contract with one of the operating ,
plants to take eare of the alkali prod
ucts in tlie lake.
The auditors in the ease of embez
zlement hy County Clerk Charles
Hudson of Adams county, who is now
serving a term in the state prison,
turned in a report of a shortage of
$7.(571 .(50.
R. A. Lovelace, assistant iminigra- .
tion agent of the Burlington railroad
made the assertion a few days ago at
Omaha that hundreds of western Xe
liraska farms were paid for with a
single crop during 101.7 and 1010.
Representatives of the Farmers' Ed
ucational and Co-operative State !
T’nion of Nebraska have filed articles j
of incorporation for the Farmers'
Fnion State exchange, which will j
have its headquarters in Omaha.
\Y. A. Bauemieister of Hoskins sold
three steers averaging 1.402 on the
South Omaha market for $12.10 per
hundreds pounds, the highest twice
ever paid for cattle on that market.
Lawrence Griswold, aged Ml years,
a farmer living northeast of Have
lock. was instantly killed when
struck hy lightning.
A company with a capital stock of
$70,000 will build a hotel at Superior.
Domestic troubles were responsible
for a tragedy at Central City the
other day. G. 1Y. lluff. it laborer, shot
liis wife in tlie head as she was enter
ing their home after attending a re
vival meeting. Later be turned the
gun ttpon himself and inflicted
wounds from which he died. Airs. •
Huff is not expected to live.
Tito week of July 2M lias been set :
as the time for holding the Nebraska !
State Tennis turnament. Tennis fans
<>f Superior, when* the tournoy will be
held, are already making preparations
for the occasion.
Nebraskans who won prizes at
Omaha during the Merchant Market
Week early this month arc: Mrs.
.Tolln Diers. Fullerton, a $270 Yiotmla
and $70 worth of records: Mrs. I'r d
D. Weber. Arlington. $70 wrist watch,
and Frank Andre. Petersburg. $77
plate glass display ease.
Mayor Rawlings of Wymore hits an
nounced his candidacy for the fourth
term. He has been elected three
times and defeated three times .*nd is
willing to take his chances In winning i
at the spring election.
Charles Luker. who was convicted
in district court at Columbus of a
statutory crime, was sentenced by
Judge Thomas to serve not less than
twelve nor more than fifteen years in
the penitentiary at hard labor.
Omaha citizens are making an ef
fort to have one of the new battle
cruisers, which the government is to
build, named “Omaha.” Six are to he
built at a cost of $(5,000,000 each.
Both republicans and democrats of
Plnttsmonth have placed In the field
complete tickets for the municipal
election this spring.
Final arrangements have been com
pleted for the launching of the
Triangle club, the men and boys' or
ganization that is to have quarters in
the basement of the Baptist chnreh at
North Platte.
The Dnvid City baseball club has
been organized. An attempt will be
made to schedule games with Wshoo,
York. Reward. Sehnyier. Columbus,
Fremont and other cities and towns.
Fremont Is making strenuous effort*
to land the state Travelers Protective
association convention. The local
» - *-* - L.VImJ tMAKAmnn*
U. S. TO STRIKE HARD
PREPARING FOR AGGRESSIVE AC
TION AGAINST GERMANY.
WAR DECLARATION EXPECTED
Government Decides (to do More Than
Merely Attempt to Protect Ships
—Unsparing in Money.
Washington.—The American govern
ment has decided upon sweeping meas
ures to lie put into effect following
the expected declaration hy congress,
soon after it meets, April g. that a
slate of war exists between the United
States and Germany.
Fully appreciating Germany's policy
of acting in war rirst and talking
afterward, the government lias deter
mined to provide against every possi
ble emergency.
Broad questions involved were dis
cussed at a long cabinet meeting, to
which heads of departments carried
reports on preparations already made
and others contemplated. Details are
being taken up between President
Wilson and the individual cabinet
members.
Regretfully the government appar
ently has decided that since Germany
is making war upon the United States
through its ruthless killing of Ameri
cans and destruction of their ships,
tlie issue must he met with steps
much more far-reaching than mere at
tempts to protect individual merchant
(•raft.
If anything is ahead to prevent this
it is not now foreseen. Once a state
of war is declared to exist, aggress
ive measures are expected to be taken.
The exact measure of American par
ticipation in the war is not expected
to lie revealed until after the presi
dent addresses congress and until
public sentiment ervstalizes. So far
as is known no political alliance with
ilie entente allies is contemplated, al
though military as well as naval co
operation is possible and the govern
ment will lie unsparing in both money
and supplies for the allies.
The president in tils address to con
gress. is expected to make clear that
tlie American government and people
have no quarrel with the German peo
ple. hut cannot tolerate the acts of
the German government.
Whether an army will he sent
abroad is one of the questions of the
future. It would take many months
to train an army for such service and
many things may happen in that per
iod. But this possibility is being
taken into consideration and tlie gov
ernment proposes to he ready as soon
as practicable.
.Tost liow much money will lie asked
of congress lias not been revealed. A
movement is well under way for fur
nishing the entente allies with an en
ormous loan, either in tlie form of j
credits or money. It also is under- j
stood the supply of munitions for tlie i
allies will lie augmented, rather than
diminished.
Seven Americans Drowned.
Word has reached the state depart
ment that seven Americans were lost
when the American steamer Tlealdton
was torpedoed hy a German sub
marine in the North Sea. off tlie coast
of Holland. Tlie Healdtnn is said to
have been well inside the so-called
“safe channel'' of these waters when
it was attacked.
_
Roads Seek Rate Increase.
Washington-—The chief railroads of
the east have petitioned the interstate
commerce commission to amend its
rules to permit a general increase in
all freight rates. Western railroads
notified the commission that they, too.
would ask for a general increase and
probably will follow the eastern roads
in asking for a suspension of the
rules. Southern roads are expected to
take similar action. The proposed in
creases probably will range between
Id and 1-5 per cent, according to loca
tion of the roads, with indications
{tainting to a flat increase of 15 per
cent being requested in the case of
the eastern roads which carry the
great volume of the country's traffic.
—
Scores Perish in Tornado.
New Albany. Ind.—Between twenty
five and fifty persons were killed and j
probably 100 or more were injured by
a storm \\ hieh swept o' er New Al
bany. demolishing scores of residences
and several industrial plants. The
streets in the path of the storm are
a mass of wrockage. An appeal to
the eity authorities of Louisville
brought a large number of policemen
to aid in maintaining order and all
available officers from the Indiana
state reformatory at Jeffersonville
and from the Jeffersonville police
force were hurried here. A call was
made on the governor for state troops.
286 Men On Danton Die
London.—In the sinking of the ■
French battleship Danton. in the j
Mediterranean on March Iff. says a j
statement from the French admiralty
received here. 2S6 men were drowned.
The Danton was torpedoed by a hos
tile submarine.
Spent $300,000 Advertising.
New York.—Almost $300,000 was
spent by the railroads in newspaper
advertising during the recent eight
hour controversy with their men.
but not the $3,000,000 as charged.
March Good Recruiting Month.
Washington.—The navy is 13.514
men short of its present authorized
enlisted strength of 74.500 and efforts
to speed up recruiting are being re
doubled. This month's recruitment
was the largest on record, with a net
increase of 1.974.
Food Exports Cut One-third.
Washington.—Food exports from
the United States in February were
reduced about one-third by Germany’s
submarine campaign, department of
ENDS DYSPEPSIA,
INDIGESTION, GAS
“Pape’s Diapepsin” cures sick,
sour stomachs in five minutes
—Time It!
"Really does” put bad stomachs in
order—“really does” overcome indiges
tion, dyspepsia, gas, heartburn and
sourness in five minutes—that—just
that—makes Pape's Diapepsin the lar
gest selling stomach regulator in the
world. If what you eat ferments into
stubborn lumps, you belch gas and
eructate sour, undigested food and
acid; head is dizzy and aches; breath
foul; tongue coated; your insides filled
with bile and indigestible waste, re
member the moment “Pape s Diapep
sin” comes in contact with the stomach
all such distress vanishes. It’s truly
astonishing—almost marvelous, and
the joy is its harmlessness.
A large fifty-cent case of Pape’s Dia
pepsin will give you a hundred dollars’
worth of satisfaction.
It's worth its weight in gold to men
and women who can’t get their stom
achs regulated. It belongs in your
home—should always be kept handy
in case of sick, sour, upset stomach
during the day or at night. It’s the
quickest, surest and most harmless <
stomach doctor in the world.—Adv.
New Conception of ‘Cultivation.'
Cultivation a generation ago meant
acquaintance with letters and fine
arts, and some knowledge of at least
two languages and literatures, and of
history. The term ‘cultivation’ is now
much more inclusive. It includes
elementary knowledge of the science*,
and it ranks high the subjects of his
tory, government, and economics.—
Charles W. Eliot, lu the Atlantic.
Great Demand for Good
Kidney Preparation
We have found a satisfactory sale for
your remedy ever since the market has
known such a medicine anil those who
have used it are satisfied with the results
obtained from its use and speak very fa
vorably regarding it. In gravel it has
met with great success and we believe
Swamp-Root to be a very meritor us
preparation and we are pleased to ren m
mend it for the ailments for which it is
intended. Verv trulv yours,
GOODYEAR DREG CO
Oct. 3. 1916. Lawson. Mo.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For Yob
Send ten cents _ to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample size bot
tle. It will convince anyone. You will
also receive a booklet of valuable infor
mation, telling about the kidneys and blad
der. When writing, be sure and mention
this paper. Regular fifty-cent and one
dollar 6ize bottles for gale at all drag
■tores.—Adv.
POLICE WHISTLES ON SALE
New York Venders May Peddle Them,
but Must Not Blow Them, Is Offi
cer's Edict.
When venders appeared in Park row
in New York recently, blowing whis
tles and shouting, “Get a police whis
tle—the kind the cop carries"—it was
not long before each peddler had a
crowd around him, according to the
New York Sun.
Business ran along smoothly until a
grizzled old sergeant of the men in
blue came hurrying up the steep grade
In Frankfort street in answer, as he
thought, to a call for help. Instead
he found a young man blowing and
selling his stock of police whistles.
A hurried survey told the experi
enced policeman that he was not need
ed, but he did give some unsought ad
vice to the young man who had hur
ried him up the incline on Frankfort
street. It, briefly, was:
“With a license you can sell them
things you have; but don't let me hear
you blow one, or in you go.”
The advice was passed along the
line, and from then on every salesman
was content with shouting his wares.
And the sales were good, too, as one
man explained, for everybody in this
town wants to have a whistle to call
a cop, even if he never uses it.
The Difference.
Mrs. Gay—I have a knocker on the
outside of my door.
Mrs. Grouch—I'll bet it’s nothing to
compare with the knocker I’ve got on
the inside of mine.
There are no professional female
divers. It is Impossible to talk under
water.
Have You Ever
Suspected
that the cause of various
annoying ills might lie in
the daily cup of tea or coffee?
A sure and easy way out
of coffee and tea troubles
is to shift to
Instant
Postum
There’s no caffeine nor
anything harmful in this
delightful, pure food-drink
—just the nourishing good
ness of wheat „
Postum has put thou
sands of former tea and
coffee drinkers on the
Road to wellville.
“There’s a Reason”