FOR THE mm MEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON BE COMPASSED. MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Me»« and Foreign Intelligence Con densed Into Two and Four Line Paragraphs. WASHINGTON. Tl» tw.Ue federal reserve hank* •tere.dn :.!»-d on tsenty four liour* Miivi nti.etjr-day loan to the govern ment $.*<> <#«».*»■• al the rate <>f 2 |m-t 4-etit a year . • • » The .tuuual toinl hill of the average fai...i> ha» r:o*li from in 11*1 o la. ftX-\U4 at i-re-MHil. the department of hl»r iiitwoiirsl in a review of ftrui |>n<< * - • • • llea-i ng matter for a literacy lest for al- ns tinder 1lie new Immigration las will Is- taken from the l*il*lc. the dej.jirtnieut of ialr.r announced. I*a*»ates Wilt to- selected in more flu.:. ..no ti"udre.. ushout the country. asking for as sistance in making .■ffe.llve the order Issued l.v the president, that the navy he tin. ght up to its full war strength of v7 W# men. • • • f'r. '. let.? Wilson indorsed the rais 1’ . of a ft0.i>o«» fund for the re t . . ..' Jewish w ar sufferers and s;,td •*ti»e Ku's.uti revolution lias opened the d.ssr of freedom to all oppressed and urged that they l>e en couraged. • • • Tlie ...vernment ha« lncludevl in its prepared*»••» for war the .wiling Into the ft . rrice of thirty-two Na tl. *ual Guard regiments for police »e'vice throughout the country nnd an < r.:-r for the it:.! ediafe recruiting •f the marine corps to full war Mrengf t. of 17 men. a ■ • Germ: ay's *• lear violations*' of the treaties 17;m i.nd 1k> and her "dls fegard of the cannon* of international morlest were assigned l.v the Amer ican government as reasons for re fnaal to retifflrm or extend these agrr* .licit* Tlie note of refusal dis closes -hat the I'nited States **i« «eri 1 at the disfn,*al of the I'nlted btates governtuebt for use in ...nne. loii with national defense • • • -m* at the rate of almost l.isiti • i-ci.lh are Iwting turned out nt the tireat l-ake- naval training state at Lake Hi tiff III according to re|*»rts. • • m Three people were kille tie- ke>n I'alitt river at Brocka |.t:rg in keys I'aha county. Nebraska, was wrecked hy an ice gorge. • • • The highest price ever Jiuitl for • TV yen. ng moil clip is that received hy the Scotch outfit of Johnson county for its 14*1 T i li|> of 4* ».*■■• pounds, this |»rW being 44 cents |x*r pound. • • • TV ’ the except ..n of the floods of 1P1? Indiana never has suffered from the cl-tr.etiTs as In the week of March 11 to IT. Kstltnates of the financial damage place the losses as high as pawn— • • • The IV.orndo state senate passed a bill prohibiting the importation of liq uor into the state even for niedleinit! or sacramental purports!. The meas nre g-*e- t«> the house, where it proh nldy Will lie passed. • • • A general increase from It* to 1.1 per cent In all freight and passenger gate* to cover the Increased cost of upmitlnti utid r the Adamson law is a-i • -! hy all the railroads in a i>e»ii|on laid before th*- interstate commerce commission • • • II • •‘r.-d« of applications from men etcl youths In Oregon. Washington and California who desire to enter the army aerial reserve corps have been received at the aviation training grfcool at San IMego. Cal. • • • In a special message to the legisla ture Omrrnor NVvIlle of Nebraska asked for an a|pnvri.i! ion of $100. (Mi fie mobilization . xjiense of the Fourth regiment of the Nebraska na tlotial guard, which ha* »*•*«» «»«1 to the colors. • • • A swindle hy which Hie entente al Be* have been mulcted of $400,000 by Colorado horse dealers was reveal* Bt I leaver following dlaHamire of thi arrest at a Scotland Yard detective _:_:_’_ At least eleven live* were lost In a storm which destroyed many houses iu central Alabama. Six of the vic tims w ere negroes. * * * Three persons were killed and two Injured when their automobile was hit by a fast liurlingion train at a grade crossing at Fairfield, la. • * * Forty thousand acres of land re I cently excluded from Crook national ! forest in Arizona by executive procla mation will lie subject to entry May 23. • * * Two men were killed and a third was wounded in a pistol battle in one of the principal streets of Cleveland, Ohio. The battle is believed to have lesiilted from a gambling quarrel. * • • President Hempstead of Ibe New j York National league baseball club announced that Manager John J. Mc Grow lias signed a five-year contract i calling for a salary of $50,000 a year. • • • The Rev. Billy Sunday has just completed an eight-weeks revival cam paign at Buffalo. X. Y. The offering be received was approximately $43, 01)0. There were 25.000 trail-hitters. • * * Although the railroads contend that Increased operating expenses have reduced net earnings, the January es timate of the net income of the lead ing roads showed a gain of $7.0110.001) | over a year ago. ' • • Tin* presence of the foot and mouth disease among sheep in Lander eoun , rjr, Nevada, has been reported by ranchers of the state laboratories at 1 Reno. Over two hundred sheep have died from the disease. • * * One community — Redfiehl. Spink county. South Dakota—applied to the Omaha federal land bank for loans totaling JkluO.tioi. This is the largest total asked so far hv any single farm loan association in the Eighth district. FOREIGN. It is re|Nirted that approximately ; ‘itt.oOO bales of cotton at Vladivostok was destroyed by tire. The loss is -jrtimuted at $10,000,000. » * • Thirty thousand cases of smallpox rage in Germany, and the disease is spreading, according to the speech of Socialist Reichstag Member Hoffman. • • * All clocks in Great Britain will be moved forward one hour at 2 o’clock in the morning of April 8. The clocks will he tuored back again Sep tember IT. • * • The German government announces that all grains and legumes still in ! the hands of consumers above limited ■ luantitles will lie seized for the ben efit of the public. • • • The retirement of Grand Duke Nicholas from lbs post as command er-in chief of the Russian armies is officially confirmed, according to a dispatch from Petrogrnd. • • • For the fir«t time in the history of the German reiehstag a woman is to appear before the committee as a rep resentative of the government. She is Miss Elsie ladders, and will present her views to the ministry of war re garding the protection of female la i bur in munition factories. WAR NEWS. Entente losses in warships anve j now reached a total of Sot),000 tons. : savs the Berlin Overseas News ' i agency. » * • Two Britisli torpedo boat destroy i ers have been sunk, one by striking n mine and one after a collision witli u steamer, its is officially announced. • • • The British hospital ship Asturias was torpedoed without warning, the admiralty officially announced. Thirty one persons were killed and twelve I ' are missing. * • * Toklo reports the sinking of a Japanese warship in the south Pacific ocean by a German raider. The fact ! that a German raider has been operat I ing In the south Pacific and Indian ; oceans has been known for some time. • • • Berlin reports that the raider Moewe. which has returned to a home port after operations in the Atlantic. ha« on Iwuird .'93 prisoners taken from vessels destroyed by the Moewe. Whether any of these men are Anier irans has not been stated. * * • Germany never had the slightest in tention of attacking the United States, does not have such intention now and it never desired war against ihe United States, declared the Ger man imperial chancellor. F>r. von Bethmann-Hollweg. in a speech in the reichstag. « • • The predicted great offensive against Italy by the Central powers continues to he the chief topie of dis ! mission In military and political cir cl-s in Home. Field Marshal von Hin denbttrg is credited with aiming at an i invasion <>f France across a prostrate | Italy. • * • In the sinking of the Freneh battle ship Pan ton In the Mediterranean on March 19. says a statement from the French admiralty. 286 men were drowned. The Panton was torpedoed by a hostile submarine. • • * The spring thaws are holding the Russo Roumanians and Teutonic al ; troops In check in Roumania. In Macedonia near Mnnastir much artil lery activity prevails. The usaul ar tillery duels and small infantry ac tions continue In the Austro-Italian theater. • • • The sinking of twenty-five more steamships, fourteen sailing vessels and thirty-seven trawlers with an ag gregate gross tonnage of 80.000 In the last few days is announced by the MINOR NOTES FROM ALL PARTS JF 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 23-25—Annual Meeting State Aerie of Eagles ut Nebraska City. 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 8-9—Knights of Columbus State Meeting at Alliance. May 16-17-18—Annual Encampment Nebraska G. A. It.. Ladles of the G. A. It., Women's Relief Corps; Span ish War Veterans and Sons of Vet l eruns at Columbus. May 22-25—Nebraska Sportsmen’s As sociation Annual Tournament ut Fremont. Buffalo and Kearney county far mers declare that reports sent out that winter wheat in the two coun ties was in bad shape and the major ity of it would be a total loss, are greatly exaggerated. It is the belief now that the grain will come forth in good shape. The 1917 state high school basket ball tournament in Lincoln set a new record for attendance. Total receipts amounted to $2,195.95, which will be apportioned among 115 schools. Last year the receipts were only $1,500. The T. V. Atkinson ranch in Holt county, consisting of 960 acres, has been sold for $12,810 at referee’s sale. A few years ago this land was consid ered almost worthless, as it lies in the "sand hill district.” Nearly 250,000 pounds of beans, representing six carloads, discovered in several Omaha warehouses, have become mildewed and order destroyed by federal inspectors. The beans are valued at $57.500.. The farmers in the vicinity of Bruning turned out en masse the other day and hauled gravel onto the streets of the town and in apprecia tion of the work the Bruning com munity club gave them a banquet. •T. B. Miller, a Spanish war veteran of Alliance, has undertaken the task of organizing a company as a member of the Fourth infantry Nebraska Na tional Guard, in which a vacancy exists. By a vote of 2S7 to 20 bonds to the amount of $22,500 were voted at Mil ford to erect a new school house in place of the one destroyed by fire last November. Fremont has a community garden club. Its purpose is to aid in a finan cial way those who are unable to buy seed for their patches. Adams county farmers are consider ing the planting of sugar beets in fields where winter wheat lias been killed. First spring lambs sold on tlie So. Omaha market brought SIS a hundred pounds. They were milk fed. and about eight weeks old. Guards have been placed at every important railroad bridge in Nebraska ns the result of the international sit uation. Excavation for the new Dodge county court house at Fremont, to be erected at a cost of $250,000. has be gun. The annual convention of the Buf falo county Sunday schools will he held at Ravenna May 10 and 11. Experts, after examining the fields of Hamilton county, declared 00 per cent of the wheat was dead. Torn reached SI.11 a bushel on Beatrice markets the other day, the highest on record. Wilbert Piper, a Polk county farin ! cr. was Instantly killed when bis auto upset near York. •Tune 1 is the date set for tlie com pletion of Fremont’s now $250,000 h« i tel. the “Pathfinder.” The conversion of existing farm loans in Nebraska to loans from the federal farm land hank will save the farmers of the state $3,405,515 an nually. according to figures compiled by the farm loan hoard. Farm lonns in Nebraska are computed at $165. I 015.000 and an average interest rate. according to the hoard, is 7.1 per ; cent. Tlie federal farm loans will bear only 5 per cent interest. With new hanks established at I t'arleton. Belvidere and Alexandria, Thayer county has a total of seven j teen banks. l>r. .1. L. Fort, of Chicago, speaking at the district efficiency convention of the First Methodist church at Fre mont, declared that nearly twice as much is spent in America for seeing “the movies” ns is contributed to the church for all purposes. Wrestling fans over the state arc keenly interested in the coming match at Omaha April 9. between Joe Steelier of Dodge and Ear) Cad dock of Anita. Iowa. Both men are in the pink of condition and a lively exhibition is anticipated. Never before has such a splendid array of talent been secured for a Sunday school convention ns will ap pear before the workers of Nebraska at the Golden Jubilee celebration in Omaha June 19-20. Seward’s new $05,000 high school building was dedicated a few days ago. The building is fireproof and is splendidly built and has all the latest school equipment. Fire at the Johnson county poor ! farm, near Tecumseh. destroyed sev ernl barns, burned six hend of horses and 200 bushels of corn. The Masonic lodge of Wymore has purchased property at that place and will soon begin the erection of a 125 .000 Masonic temple. It is the in tention to have the building ready for occupancy by fall. The South Omaha market received more cattle on March 27 than did any other live stock market in the world that day. Top prices were $12.50 per hundred pounds. The patrons of four school districts in Island Grove township. Gage coun ty. held a meeting and voted In favor of the consolidation. Beutrlce was selected for the 1918 meeting place of the conference of the Nebraska Daughters of the American Revolution at the close of u two-day convention at Fremont. The Gothen burg chapter won the silk flag for the chapter making the largest percent age gain in membership during the year. Mrs. (\ B. Letton of Lincoln was endorsed as a candidate for the office of national general vice regent. The following officers were elected: Regent. Mrs. E. G. Drake, Beatrice; vice regent. Mrs. Frank I. Ringer. Lincoln; recorder, Mrs. Elizabeth o'Linn Smith. Children; treasurer, Mrs. C. E. Spencer. North Platte; auditor, Mrs. A. E. Bryson, Fullerton; registrar, Mrs. .1. .1. Stubbs. Omaha; historian. Mrs. Hosteter. Shelton. Two persons drowned, one died from injuries received, and another was hurt so badly she is expected to die. when a bridge over tlie Keya Paha river at Brocksburg. in Keya Paha county, was smashed and torn out by tlte combined force of a heavy ice gorge ami flood waters. Forty persons were on the bridge when it collapsed. They rushed in panic to the shore, two were drowned, some receiving slight injuries. The dead: Mrs. Wakefield. 70. Brocksburg; Sylvia Wales. 1(5, Gregory, S. D.: .Tud Stewart, 41. farmer near Brocksburg. Six other bridges In Keya Paha coun ty were destroyed by ice gorges and high water. Two hundred farmers, bankers, members of the Omaha grain ex change, soil experts, railroad repre sentatives and representatives of the University of Nebraska at meeting in Omaha appointed a committee to se cure and furnish at once to farmers I sufficient wheat to reseed damaged : winter wheat fields in the state. The seed can he purchased at cost by cotn ■ municating with the Omaha Grain ex | change. Eighteen hours from the time lie at tempted to rob a bank at Talmage. a .voutb lk years old giving his name as .lames Johnson and ids home as Kan sas City. Mo., entered a plea of guilty in tlie district court and was given an indeterminate sentence of three to fifteen years in the penitentiary. Tlie mile-long wooden bridge over tlie Platte river at Kernay lias been undermined by the current of the stream and has been closed. As the new bridge is still incomplete. Kear ney has no means of crossing the river. The Nebraska Electric company of Cedar Rapids, la., has taken over the light and power plant at Emerson. Elgin good roads boosters have started a movement to improve the highways of Antelope county. Six thousand employes of the South Omaha packing houses received wage increases of from 5 to 12^» per cent. Tlie boost in salary was given as the result of the high cost of living heads of the big packing firms say. E. \V. Splittgerher of Wayne had a shipment of hogs on the South Omaha market a few days ago that sold for $14.85 per hundredweight. The load consisted of 67 Dttroc .Terseys. aver aging 274 pounds. As the result of slow recruiting and tlie inability to fill its ranks Company G Nebraska National Guard of Stan ton. lias disbanded. Company G was a unit of the Fourth regiment. The Holdrege Auto show held re cently proved a great success and will he made an annual alTair. Tlie to tal attendance at the four-day exposi tion was 5.000. There will lie no winter wheat in Thayer county. Farmers are putting in oats and spring wheat on ground sown to winter wheat, and what re mains will he put in corn. Mrs. John Sitnpson. aged 60 years, of Alliance, was instantly killed when a wagon in which she was riding was struck hv a switch engine near that place. Nebraska City is preparing for the annual convention of the State Aerie of Eagles which will lie held there April 23 to 25. i The American Berkshire association has voted special premiums amount ing to $1,200 to be awarded for prize Berksliires at the National Swine show in Omaha next fall. This amount, with $S00 offered by the Na tional Swine Growers' association, mokes a total of $2,000 for prize Berksliires alone. Custer county cattle topped the South Omaha market the other day. selling for $12.50 per hundredweight. The shipment consisted of S3 head, averaging 1.500, nnd was shipped in hy G. IV. Mulligan of Walworth. Norfolk suffered dninages that will run Into thousands of dollars as the result of the worst flood in the town’s history, caused by the overflowing of the North Fork river. The water was a foot higher than It was five years ago when the cilty suffered what It thought then to be a record breaking flood. A firm which will manufacture steel spring auto wheels has been or ganized at Dishler, with a capital stock of $100,000. A factory will be erected at once. A mile a minute for 100 miles was the record established by Expert Pi lot Leo Stevens and four army offi cers taking aeronautic instructions at Fort Omaha, in a flight in one of the government’s free balloons. Lincoln secured the annual meeting of the medical society of the Missouri valley next September at the close of the semi-annual meeting of that so ciety at Keokuk, Ta. More than $5,000 Is being expended building a “bog httek” road through the Pine Bldge. north of Harrison, oil the Deadwood-Denver highway. The Beemer Times has changed owners, D. B. Mayfield of Stanton having purchased the plant. H. H. Pease retiring editor, has been ap pointed rural mail carrier on Route No. 1, out of Beemer. Celebration of Nebraska's semi-cen tennial and a Fourth of July celebra tion will be united in one event In Hebron this year, according to plans made by the Hebron Commercial club. Miss Halleen Schiller of Central City was In the class that was grad- j uated from the American Academy of Dramatic Art, New York, last week. .■ - VILLA ARMY ROUTED LOSE 850 MEN IN EFFORT TO TAKE CHIHUAHUA CITY. BELIEVE WHEAT WILL GROW Experts Who Examined Nebraska Fields United in Opinion Part of Crop Can Be Saved. Chihuahua City, Mexico.—Francis co Villa, at the head of a cavalry force of 3.500 men. made a determined attempt on March 30 to capture Chi huahua City, but was driven back with the loss of 500 prisoners and 350 in killed and wounded. The attack, which hud been ex pected by the garrison, was launched in the direction of Quinta Carolina, north of the city, and spread rapidly to the Santa Nino railway station, the storehouses of the Pierce Oil company, and the abandoned city cemetery. From an order of the day found on a prisoner. Villa's expedition is shown to have numbered 3..itH) men. all cavalry, which was only half the size of the defending Carranza forces, whose losses in dead and wounded amounted to the compara tively small number of 120 men. The Carunnza officers here do not assert that the victory was decisive, although it caused the enemy to flee in disorder. Villa was reported to be in person al command of the attack, but re mained at a safe distance from the scene of tire. Villa's men were well provided with ammunition, but lacked food and clothing and suffered on the battle field front need of water, as all of the streams are dry at this season of the year. Think Most Wheat Will Grow. Lincoln, Neb.—Agricultural experts and farmers of many years experi ence. who have been making critical examination of the winter wheat acre age in the southern half of Nebraska, east and west, tire nearly united in the opinion that conditions are not as bad as supposed and that with an early rain a half to two-thirds crop is indicated. While they found some fields were being ploughed up their advice is to delay further activity in | this direction for a week or so. Raider Sinks Vessels. Rio Janiero.—The French bark C’ambronne has arrived here with 200 men of the crews of various steam ers and sniling ships sunk by a Ger man raider off the island of Trinidad. They reported that many sailors front the sunken vessels were drowned. The rescued sailors, who are French. Knglish and Italian, report the raider is an armed sailing vessel with a gas oline motor. They say the raider showed the Norwegian flag and when it sighted a ship signalled it to ap proach. As soon as the ship obeyed the signal, the raider hoisted the German flag and opened tire. Ihe firing was continued until the crews surrendered. Then the raider would : take the sailors aboard and sink the j ship. Determined to Apprehend Spies. Washington.—Virtually the entire force of the federal government's ci vilian employes, approximately 500, iHHi men and women, engaged in ev ery branch of service, has been sum moned to aid the bureau of investiga tion and the secret service in the de tection of persons engaged in plots, intrigues or other activities against the interests of the United States. In addition the government has sought the active co-operation of the police and the detective forces of every town and city of consequence throughout the country. Says Americans neia in Germany. Copenhagen. — More than forty Americans were among the prisoners taken to Germany by the German commerce raider Moewe, according to .Tack Benson, an American seaman who has arrived here. The Anieri* cans, he says, now arc held as pris oners of war in Germany. Fears Subsea Warfare Will Fail. Copenhagen.—Open skepticism as to the possibility of bringing Great Britain to its knees by a submarine campaign and through the direct pressure of starvation is expressed by Captain Perstus. the naval eritie of the Berliner Tngehlatt. Woman Sets Self Afire. Colome. S. I>.—Mrs. .Tames Chorte horosky. demented, saturated her clothing with kerosene, applied a match and was burned to death. Pro longed sickness affected her mind. Iowa Women May Get Ballot. lies Moines. Ia.—Tin* Iowa house of representatives, by a vote of 85 to 20. passed tlie joint resolution submitting to the people a constitutional amend ment which would provide for woman suffrage. The resolution already had passed the senate. Tlie state suffrage organization immediately began pre parations for a campaign which will extend over two years. The resolu tion must be voted on and passed by the next legislature before it can he submitted to the people of tlie state. Boy is Musical Director. Berlin.—Tlie Berliner Tngehlatt re ports that Wolfgang Martin, son of the farmer lord mayor of Frankfurt, has been appointed musical director of the municipal theatre of Kiel. The new director Is only 17 years old. but has already made a name for himself. Guarded Body of Lincoln. Clinton, Ia.—Andrew Jackson Pals grove. civil war veteran, member of the militia guarding the Springfield state house when Lincoln's body lay la state, d.ed here at the age of TT. [W. L. DOUGLAS “THE SHOE THAT HOLDS ITS SHAPE” $3 $3.50 $4 $4.50 $5 $6 $7 & $8 ANORWOM£N I Save Money by Wearing W. L. Douglas shoes. For sale by over9000 shoe dealers. Jr "m The Best Known Snoes in me world. WL. 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See if tongue is coated, then give a teaspoonful of “California Syrup of Figs,” and in a few hours all the constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passe*; out of the sys tem. and you have a well child again. Millions of mothers give “California Syrup of Figs” because it is perfectly harmless; children love it. and it nev er fails to act on the stomach, liver and bowels. Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle of “California Syrup of Figs,” which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Adv. Keeping Youthful. “She's a fascinating widow of only thirty-six summers.” “Umph! What became of the win- j ters?” “Oh. she spent those at such gay re- j sorts, they hardly added a day to her age.” CUTICURA HEALS ECZEMA And Rashes That Itch and Burn—Trial Free to Anyone Anywhere. In the treatment of skin and scalp troubles bathe freely with Cuticura Soap and hot water, dry and apply Cuticura Ointment. If there is a nat ural tendency to rashes, pimples, etc., prevent their recurrence by making Cuticura your daily toilet preparation. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura. Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. GOES FROM DESK TO LAUNDRY Stenographer Quits $12-a-Week Job and Is Now Making Several Times That Amount Washing Clothes. In writing on economy Thoreau once observed that mankind is apt to “con sider not what is truly respectable, but what is respected.” Most young peo ple consider that it is a more respect able occupation to sit at a desk in an office than to take in washing. A highly-educated Los Angeles girl thought otherwise and proved her point. As a stenographer she was earning $12 a week and. not satisfied with this pay, she quit not only her job, but the whole stenography business. She was not afraid of soapsuds or hard work and she had an idea that it was better to be a prosperous laundress than an impecunious stenographer. She con ducted the business with brains and efficiency and as a result is now mak- ^ ing $(>S a week without working longer j hours than she did at her desk. She | now merely does fancy work, expen sive and delicate fabrics for wealthy people; and the business grows. She makes something more than a respect able income. There is a lesson here for any who think any kind of honest work is be neath them. To quote Thoreau again: "The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why j should we exaggerate anyone kind at | the expense of the others?”—Los An- I geles Times. UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME THE REPRESENTATIVE IN YOUR LOCALITY OF A LAREE 6AS0LINE PRQDUCIN6 CORP. The corporation wil] back your effort*. *r th local advertising and give- you credit t- r all business secured in your territor through your efforts and theirs. On* .» part of your time necessary to earn !r. tiAJ.UG to I1UU.WJ weekly. Responsible m* only considered. Two references f>'cn:u treated conildentially. GASOLINE PRODUCING CORPORATION 50 Broad St. New York f WMVPMTO Wat*onE.Coleman,t\ W*R a f* N 1 ^ ingti-n. I).C. Books free 1: ■ I ■■ I w I W est references. Bev res a. “B0U6H on £ Fired! “Is this gun working now?" “No. sir. It’s discharged."— Han ;,n) Lampoon. ! YES! MAGICALLY! I I CORNS LIFT OUT ! ! WITH FINGERS j ... .■. ■>....». You say to the drug store man “Give me a small bottle of freezone.’ This will cost very little but will positively remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one’s feet. A few drops of this new ether com pound applied directly upon a tender aching corn relieves the soreness in stantly. and soon the entire corn or callus, root and all. dries up and car he lifted off with the fingers. This new way to rid one’s feet of corns was introduced by a Cincinnati nan. who says that freezone dries in l moment, and simply shrivels up the corn or callus without irritating the surrounding skin. If your druggist hasn’t any freezone tell him to order a small bottle from his wholesale drug house for you.—adv YEW YORK WANTS A CHANGE Desires Unsightly Post Office Build ng Erected Soon After the War Re moved From City Park. If the cracking of the walls of the unsightly downtown post office build ing which for a whole generation has been permitted to occupy the south, ly end of City Hall park turns on; ?• be serious enough to necessitate tb> removal of the building, it is to be hoped that enough public spirit will be manifested in New York to compel the return of the park land to the city anti the erection of a new federal building elsewhere, says the New York Times. The building designed by Mullet has always been regarded as an ill-favored specimen of architecture. The lower end of City Hall park had been seized by the United States government dur ing the war between the states as an encampment for volunteers and the shabby barracks did not disappear ui. til some time after the war. The ground was never repaired and it was transferred to the federal government for a post office and courthouse when the minds of public-spirited citizens vere wholly occupied with other mat ters. The courtrooms have always iteen ill ventilated. The building has been uncomfortable within and un sightly as to its exterior. Its rem-o has long been hoped for. Patient. “Is he a patient man?” “Very. Even the telephone service luesn't annoy him.” If an old shoe can't he mended, throw it away. Try the same method on your troubles. ■ - ~y There's a good way to keep growing boys and girls healthy and happy and that is to give them Grape-Nuts for breakfast. This wonderfully nourishing food has a sweet, nutty flavor that makes it popular with children. One of the few sweet foods that does not harm digestion, but builds them strong and bright. Jtt grocer* everywhere.