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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-10-22
WOMAN REFUSES
OPERATION
Tells How She Was Saved
by Taking Lydia z. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.
Louisville, KY" think IL moresuf-
fering women would take Lydia e.

|Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound they
would enjoy better
health. / suffered
from . female trou-
BILE, and the doctors
decided ] had q
humorous grow tn
and would have to
be operated upon,
but I refused asI do
not.believe in opera
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-10-22

Clothes make the actress and the
lack of them makes the chorus girl.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-10-22

When you meet man with 9
scheme, proceed to get in a hurry.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-10-22

And many single man is guilty of
double dealing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-10-22
Rest Rutter LadIe.

A hardwood butter working Iadle
Is the best to use.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-10-22
TOUCHES OF ECZEMA
At Once Relieved by cutlcura Quite
Easily. Trial Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal. Nothing
better than these fragrant super
creamy emollients for all troubles af-
fecting the skin, scalp, hair and hands.
They mean clear skin, clean scalp.
good hair and soft, white hands.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura. Dept. ky,
Boston Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Just Gave It to Him.
You're looking sort of upset, old
man. What's on your mind p
"A piece of my wife's."
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-06-18

Il ~ss NJ prisiitre 70 ATTEND the
District meeting q ne aiedseui 50
cfssy q this discreet vhieh coaIened
n ths coansy codrt rocrs on Wetne-
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citizens -srr prrsrrf 10 ne uutiesr
q alr.os' thirty
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lives u ne peoqIe todar aat thsfr
,rsss-s-s 80 40 rhis wts very
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III rf-i, nrst % shsrr iiaifors 81
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h.ra % visitors vhsnsTs- ne orfer-
tusi,y prpsenis ifseif
20 CLARK
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-06-18

%. p 0arhv cana home Tuesday
rom Hot 5urfnEa. Arkansas. Ara
Darby nouued On Tor 4 risit n Mans
Held. They eft Mr. and Ara. aazs
a Hot surfuEs. szpretinE % start
nome lafur this week
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-06-18

f-r leautiful entral Texas a
reet no or ne soldpn West lus
fhr,e ras 10 Ind he sold n be
West as 20, IRE
re,ainr 1u, q Fort Nofrh over
the q ass surrrsed md
greatly ale,sea lind diversity q
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thr AZ iamea renic routes n Colo
RADIO av miles and miles n soid-
~ rain limosf inr INTO harvest
D go nirrs M "a 'clds cotton ma
con- md at attic GALORE md from
the uHnrss ~ learf 20 cried
Great Texas rron ,osros To-
SNYDER encountered .he arosd pratt
fs nd ifp fre'ch NJ 'rnirf mine
pol zee md m ~ 0nssomenrss
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towns raras Casting ~ roy man
.rr sid as fid boz yrlor'r 1f olt
4a-t e -frf Hrt rto 'rli -esi
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The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-06-18

Ar " 4. Stamps and family =
Wednesday Tor PARIS. raxna 70 reside
Ar. Stamps gous thsra 10 assume
position n Manager Of ne credit o.
narfmsnt Tor ths Pariin q 0rrndorf
Implement COMPANY
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-06-18

DIP ana 1irs A. R Ponton u Pos,
Ciiy re-e Guests q SNYDER lnends
thls week
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-06-18

AIoar the Ione traIi- me long
horn thsy sonxas
Here the ocwboy dsgitsted 70
roam,
We fine in corrais. school huiidinrsi
horsis.
Bsnhs churches ans comforts q
hs-ss
The lons covbog's whistle 70 onrer
card.
Sof the strains q the wiid 'round
W Tell.
For today the taxed 1lainr IS o
rich 0ssd q Erniu
with ,hafcurhhredt me cof.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09
1T CAN'T BE DONE.

The vast change that has come over
the Democratic policies, of late, the
busting activity in behalf of nation
al defense, the renewed rumors OF
something to be done in Mexico, the
limitations that congress will be sum-
moned In extra session, and the
vague whisperings of tariff revision
upward as means to help the pros
trate treasury-all Of these things in
dictate no fundamental changes Of
heart on the part of the administers
ton or of the Democratic party In
their inmost souls the Democratic
leaders would even now far rather
spend ten millions on creek improve
ments in the south than on a battle
ship. They care no more for out
ragged American women and murdered
American men and pillaged American
property in Mexico than they ever did
And as for high tariff, it is te
them as abhorrent a thought now al
ever.
Democratic solicitude is reserved
for the Democratic party exclusively.
1t is not the nation, but the Demo
cratic party that seems to them i'm
perilled. TO save their places, to CON
tinue the administration with all its
patronage, means everything to them
and they hope, by show of activity
by formal change of policy, with
no real intent in it, to convince the
country that the Democratic party is
worthy of a continuance in power
Their shift of policy comes late, re-
luctant and unimportant. The coun-
try has already passed its judgment
No Democratic administration garb-
ed in the stolen clothes of Republi-
canism, can deceive anybody now
They couldn't do it even if they were
sincere.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09
BEER FOR GERMAN SOLDIERS.

Rather exaggerato reports seem to
have gained credence in America rel
alive to the temperance wave which
has spread over Europe as result OF
the war. One report which has gained
circulation is that the German soldier
has been denied his beer American
newspapers quite generally published
a statement to the effect that "A letter
had been issued to all German COM
mandants warning against the use of
alcohol in any form. This letter was
said to have been part of pamphlet
issued to officers. The pamphlet has
been said to have official sanction
of the kaiser and the war office.
Advices by mail to prominent Amer
leans who have made an effort to get
at the truth of the matter, show that
no such letter has been sent out to
German commanders either as >
warning or as an order from the war
office.
The greatest secrecy has been main
tanned regarding German war orders
and those Americans who have been
interested in the subject have not been
able to get direct statement from
anyone in authority. Letters have been
received, however, from prominent
Germans who are in a position Ia
know the facts, and these letters con-
vey the information that beer has moi
been withdrawn from the German SOL
dier's rations. A prominent German.
American in Rochester, N. Y, has re-
ceived letters from Germans in
Schwetzingen, Baden, from Nuremberg
and Berlin, saying that no such warn
ing to German troops has been heard
Of there. On the contrary, these
letters tell of large orders for beer
given by the German military depart
ments, the presumption being that the
beer is for the use of the troops. The
breweries in these cities are said to be
running as usual but the local con-
sumption is somewhat less, doubtless
due to the lack of spending money in
the hands of the people, and the large
exodus of men to the front. The ex-
port business in German beer has
suffered from the war and the curtail-
ment of German shipping. But the
German soldier has not become a tee
totaler either by enforced order or on
his own motion.-Des Moines Capt.
tai.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09

year beyond a doubt" Apparently
there is absolutely no escape. Hav-
ing honestly ascribed the present and
future prosperity-in-spots to the war
and the bumper wheat crop, he back
tracks, and adds: There is not much
doing in the lumber line, due to the
W." The ex-senator plays both ends
against the middle. Up to date every
rainbow of promise painted for the
purpose of dispelling the blue gloom
Of the administration has been the
work of some impressionistic artist
who sports the black eye of defeat.
1mpressionism was once defined by a
celebrated painter to be painting
things as they amt" The definition
is applicable in this instance.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09
ADVERTISING TROUBLE.

From the Fort Collins Review.
Il never knew a town." remarked
reader of newspapers yesterday,
where they have so much trouble or
so much continual pickering between
public officials and political cliques
as in Denver"
The truth is that Denver really
doesn't have much more of that sort
of thing than any average city where
politics reigns supreme. The differ
enee is that newspapers of Den
yer tell everything down to the most
minute detail, concerning the city's
political troubles, where the papers Of
other cities, recognizing the greater
news value of other events, devote
but little space to the jealousies and
chichanery of political circles.
Advertising has given Denver a ma
tionwide reputation as the city where
everybody always is quarreling with
the administration. 1t was so during
the days of Speer and before the days
of Speer, and il has been so since he
retired from office. His retirement
was hailed as the end of squabbling
over the city government, but it never
made a ripple on the surface of the
general discomfort.
Let petty official stub his toe on
the way home and both the official
and the deplorable condition of the
sidewalks come in for first page pub
licity the next morning. There is no
squabble too petty for the Denver
newspapers to air, and, by airing, to
encourage and embitter.
If the press of the city would cease
publishing any stories of minor politi-
cal struggles for the period of one
month, the general public would for
get that there were such animals as
city officials and would settle down in
a degree of contentment which they
have not known for 20 or 30 years. It's
all in the publicity, for Denver people
differ in no way from the rest of the
nations inhabitants.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09

An attempt is being made to
shoulder off onto Bryan the respon-
sibility for Sullivan, late American
minister to Santo Domingo. 1t was
somehow in connection with Sullivan
that the deserving Democrats" came
into public notice; but the fact is
that Sullivan was not Bryan's man.
He was a White house pet. From
the White house that one found the
stoutest support for him when he
came under charges. So far as Sui
livan is concerned Bryan can prove
an alibi, Doubtless the president
and his private secretary could tell
an interesting tale about Sullivan
if they were so minded.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09

The administration continues to
run behind at the rate of about
three-quarters of million dollars per
day. By strenuous efforts to induce
early payments of income taxes and
by urging prompt remittances by
collectors, the treasury department
was able to make book showing of
balance of about $s2,000,0OO on
July /. That this fas forced show
ing for effect at the close of the
fiscal year is now proven by the
fact that from the first day of the
new fiscal year, the expenditures ex-
ceeded the receipts and the balance
dropped to s67,OO0,OOO at the close of
business Saturday, July "a On the
corresponding date two years ago,
with Republican revenue and appro-
priation laws in effect the balance
was $129, 453,000.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09

The Chicago Herald, neither APP
plauding nor condemning the proceed
ure, 'jrst predicts that the incoming
congress will find it necessary "either
to curtail expenditures severely or to
seek other sources of revenue" The
one best bet is on the latter course.
A Democratic congress never cur
tails expenditures severely or any
other wey. 1t spends money like a
drunken sailor, regardless of the con-
dition of the treasury, and its favor
tie pastime is to issue bonds or TO
issue new taxes which will be paid,
almost in full, by the northern Re
publican states.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09

Will wonders never cease? a re-
tired Kansas newspaper man has gone
into the banking business. W. q.
Weaverling, who lately sold the COT
feyville Journal, together with Gus
Ehler, formerly president of the
Farmers & Merchants bank, of Kins-
lev. have bought the Security State
bank. of Rosedale, Kansas from the
Commerce Trust company. They
have also taken out a charter for the
State Bank of Merriam, Kansas Mer-
riam is another suburb of Kansas
City.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09

would be put to death simply as pun
ishment for a murder in which he APP
peared to have no active part. New
York's most powerful criminal law
yers could not save him from the pen
atty imposed by the New York Grim
inal laws.
Behind the execution Of Becker,
however, is the purpose which does
not appeal to people at this distance.
AS matter of fact, it was not Beck
err that was executed, but a power
full criminal bureau of Americas
greatest metropolis. Becker was a
police officer but he was also the head
of powerful graft machine which
as the Rosenthal murder shows, did
not hesitate an any crime to stifle
opposition to its exactions
Efforts to crush this criminal or
ganization have been made from time
to time. The Rev. Charles Park
hurst tried to expose it. Theodore
Roosevelt, when police commissioner,
tried to break it up. Other reform
ers have tried to break through the
impervious criminal armament, but
only the surface was scratched. Rosen-
thai, gambler, thug, and the lowest
type of New York's tenderloin dis
trict, chatting under the unjust and
growing tax which the police graft
ers were collecting threatened to ex-
pose the gang and give away inside
facts.
He was becoming so menacing that
he began to be feared and his murder
was planned to save the police depart
nlent from exposure, Reorganization
and possibly states prison. Organized
to protect society, the metropolitan
policeman is brought into association
with criminals of every description.
He sees the stream of foot" and falls
into the temptation of becoming a
partner of the criminals. A toll is
exacted for silence and protection and
the criminals work unmolested unless
crime is now and then committed
which attracts too much public at
tention. In New York this tax had be
come unbearable.
Rosenthal was murdered to silence
him, but his death uncovered the put
rid police conditions existing in the
tenderloin district. Becker was caught
in the legal web that the criminal de-
partment of New York began to spin.
Efforts were made to save the real
criminals by sacrificing some of the
thugs and puppets lower down, but
the day of reckoning had arrived.
uniformed and brass-buttoned crime
in New York City.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09
A PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR

Ex-senator George Turner, of Sc
attic, Washington, scattered few
phony pearls of wisdom recently,
while on visit to the national cap
ital. He prophesied billion bush
el wheat crop and two dollars bush
el for wheat this year if the war in
Europe continues. of the war con-
tinues," said Mr.. Turner, 81 believe
the country will demand the reelection
of the president; if it should end this
fall, the prosperity that is at bend
will insure Democratic victory next
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09

Secretary of Commerce Redfield has
made public correspondence which he
had in the latter part of June with
the owners of the steamer Eastland,
which capsized and sank at its dock
in Chicago, the latter part of July.
In that correspondence Secretary
Redfield called attention to the fact
that due provision for the protection
of the lives of the passengers and
crew had not been made. If it is
pertinent for Mr.. Redfield to make
that correspondence public now, why
should he not have made it public
prior to the catastrophe, SO that the
public would have had due warning
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.

You can't avoid old age without dy-
ing young.
1t is pretty hard to find a person
who sings just enough.
Many man could do his best with
out doing so blamed we'll.
Optimism is a splendid thing, in
spite Of the lies told in its name.
Occasionally a man marries his
affinity and gets over that notion.
A lot of men make lot of need
less noise and think they are work.
ing like all get out.
Some athletes should be able to do
more work than they seem willing to
undertake.
Every town man imagines that if
he were a farmer he would be very
intense farmer.
A man is a pessimistc cuss who is
confident dinner will be late if he gets
home on time.
Probably the most clever jokesmith
is the candidate who says, 81 was
forced into this campaign.
Except for the prospect that it may
lead to fight, an argument is rare
ly particularly interesting.
What has become of the old fash
Toned man who read the congress
sional record as a means Of sav-
ng the countryf
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09

purchases of Argentine corn at
the seaboard exerted depressing
effect on the corn market here
says a press dispatch from Chicago.
Let every corn grower in the Unit
ed States who voted the free trade
ticket in 1912 and 1914 paste this in
his hat where he can see it every
time he raises the lid to wipe his
prespiring brow. The Argentine
farmer should have it printed in large
letter in gold and hung on the wall
Of his dining room opposite the motto'
Eat. drink and be merry.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09
FIGHTING TO RAG TINE.


The Interesting story of how the
British Tommies are fighting to Amer
lean rag time is told by writer in
Harper's Weekly. While the Germans
go INTO action generously chanting
Die Wacht am Rhein" and the spir-
itual Russian peasant dies with the
words of 20, Lord Save Thy People
and Bless Thy Heritage" on their
lips, the equally gallant, but not near
ly SO high-minded British Tommy
cheerfully goes into action singing
such American songs as "Oh, You
Beautiful Doll" Alexander's Rag Time
Band," and Everybody Works but
Father" 1t remained for one more
highly imaginative and gifted Tommy
than his fellows to make trench dig
ging a positive pleasure, lifting 1t
out of the sewer digging class and
making it true art by proposing
that as the work progressed the dig
gers sing the rousing Get Out and
Get Under" There was an exem-
plification of true and inspired gent
us, if ever there were one.
1t is interesting to note that Ameri-
ca provides the British Tommies with
most of their songs, both our rag time
creations and our patriotaic effusions
being borrowed, without so much as
by your leave" Thus, we find the
version of Marching Through Geor-
gia," their refrain running in this
fashion,:
We've had enough of trenches and of
shifting to and fro
And of waiting weeks together for
the enemy to go
But now he's on the move at last
and now for heel and toe
While we go marching through Ger
many.
Of course, there are some home
made British songs, for we are not
supplying the whole repertoire, though
we are providing the chief favorites.
Thus the British song writer's fur
nished this edification of the men who
die in the trenches:
Dye ken John French with his khaki
suit,
His belt and his CATERS and his stout
brown boot,
Along with his guns and his horse
and mis- foot,
On the road to Berlin in the morning.
Yes, we ken John French and old
Joffre, too,
And all his men of the tricolor true,
And Belgians and Russians, and Ital-
ians new,
On the road to Berlin in the morning.
1t is interesting to note that every
war brings some song into undying
popularity. Thus our own Spanish
war gave us "a Hot Time in the Old
Town Tonight" and the present Eu-
ropean war gives us, "It's a long way
to Tipperary." But the boys from
Tiperary and thersabout seem to pre-
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09

railroads of the country were com
PEELED to lay off 100000 men. These
men will prove exceedingly difficult
TO convince Of the administration
handmade prosperity" when the time
comes for voting next year.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09
WHEN THE WAR
SHALL BE OVER


The great war will close after a
while. We wonder if in the breasts
of the rulers of those countries there
is not an unspoken fear of what will
come then.
When those who remain make lists
of their dead, of those so manned that
they will be perpetual tax upon the
strong while their broken frames last;
of the debts which they have mort
gagged to pay interest on all their
lives, what will the summing up Of the
unspeakable wrongs which have come
to the people be?
One would think that evangels
would spring up in every land to paint
the pictures of those wrongs and to
demand a new deal.
A deal in which nevermore could
kings obsessed by love OF power, of
conquest of mearned loot and lands,
of glory reeking with blood; of fame
red with blood and Swallowed by
broken hearts; would be squelehed for
ever.
What year ago did the peasant
~ ms shed by the Don hoiG IN en-,
by the Danube?
Mhat emmy emmy oia inc rreh'Iiilia"
WIN nus niue vineyard on 'he i'oi'e
or Tue ita'lah On tne 70 no'a against
'ne GERMAN peasant an, WIN ms COWS
anu Roa'7 Oh 'i,e r'i'e
"ha' was Inere III an 'i'e con,
leh''ohs thaV distracted 'he rulers d
EUROPE 'na' " commission VI business
me" eouio MOI nave 'e'''e" justly "
year ago ...
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Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-09
WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT.

Charles Becker, former lieutenant
of the police of New York city has
paid the penalty for his crimes.
The details of the crime which fin
ally led to the death sentence of
the once popular officer have ap-
peared in the news columns.
During the last few days conside-
able sympathy was aroused in many
quarters over the fact that Becker