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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-03-27
HIGH SCHOOL GIRL
Rundown, Weak and Nervous Made
Strong by VinOL

For the benefit of Maysville school
girls who overwork and get into high
ly nervous, weak and rundown condi-
ton, we publish this letter from Doris
COplier. of Fort Worth, Tex
II go to the high school and take
music lessons, and become rundown,
weak and very nervous, so l could
not do anything. would shake all
over and could have screamed at times
and was really unfit to keep on with
my studies. Mother purchased a bot
tie OF Vinol for me and within a week
was better and in two weeks | had
gained five pounds and felt fine"
Il is the curative strengthening
elements Of the true cod liver ex-
tract. aided by the blood making. re-
yitalizing effect of peptonate of iron
and beef peptone. contained in VinoL
which made II so successful in build
ing up health and strength and over
coming the nervous condition Of Miss
Coplier, and We ask every school girl
In Maysville who Is in like condition
10 try VinoL ON our guarantee 10 res
turn their money II ID fails 10 benefit
Pecor DRUG Company. Mayaville, Ky.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-03-27
MASON COUNTY WOMAN'S SUI
FRAGE LEAGUE THANKS SEN
ATOR RAYBURN AND REP.
RESENTATIVE PURNELL

The following letter has been sem
to the members from Mason county
and the Thirty-first Senatorial district
of the General Assembly of Kentucky
Maysville, Ky, March 20, 1916.
Hon l.. n. Rayburn, State Senator
Thirty-first district of Kentucky
Head-of-Grassy Ky.
Hon Harry p. Purnell, Member from
Mason County, General Assembly OF
Kentucky, Maysville. Ky.
Dear Sirs:
At a meeting Of the Mason County
Woman's Suffrage League March %,
1916, the official board were unani-
mously instructed to extend to you the
high appreciation of the league of your
vote on the Woman Suffrage Amend
ment Bill.
In the judgment of the league in
voting yes" you showed a just con-
ception of democratic principles and a
fuller sympathy with the principle Of
majority rule than did those of your
fellow legislators who voted nay
while claiming to represent the party
that spells its name with a capital d.
With high regard and grateful ap-
probation of your service to the suf-
frage cause, to the cause of govern
ment of the people, for the people, by
the people, most respectfully.
Alice Lloyd, president: Mary A.
Finch, first vice president; Mrs. S. NJ,
Blatterman, second vice president !;
Mrs. s. f. Reed, third vice president I;
Mrs. c. f. Owens, fourth vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Abner Hord, recording sec
rotary; Mrs. G. w. Hook, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. T. NJ Russell,
treasurer; Mrs. John w. Power, au-
ditor, and Sallie NJ. Rains, assistant
auditor.
Senator Rayburn's vote was for sub
1ission Of the amendment to the vot-
ecs at the general election, Novem-
her, 1917 The bill passed the Senate
oy vote of 26 for to against
Representative Purnell's vote was to
call the bill from the committee that
the House might vote on it. Because
Of the activities of the administration
and the third house" the motion lost
by vote of As for to as against.
At the session OF 1914 the largest
vote in the House for the suffrage am
endment was 80. The 1916 vote shows
steady, wholesome growth. Friends of
the suffrage cause feel that they have
reason for congratulations only.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-03-27

stingaree was quick 10 see lt-as
quick TO turn the knife around In the
wound.
what a bushranger" he jeered.
"Put your plucky little mother In a
side saddle and she'd make two Of
you-ten Of you--twenty Of puny,
Mandy PANTY, conceited young idiot
like youl Upon my word Melvin, II
had a mother like you I should be
ashamed Of myself never had,
may tell you, or I shouldn't have come
down to a dogs life like this"
The bushranger paused to watch the
effect Of his insults II was not quite
what he wanted. Stingaree glanced
up the road once more. but only for
an instant.
ut is a dogs life" he went on,
whether you believe It or not. But
It takes n bulldog 20 nve II, and don't
you forget It. It's no life for q young
poodle like youl It requires something
more than a six shooter, and a good
deal more than was put into you, my
sonl But you shall see for yourself;
look over your shoulder"
Oswald did so and started In n fash
ion that set the bushranger nOdding
his scorn. II was only a pair Of lamps
still close together I'm the distance up
the road.
"The coachr' exclaimed the excited
youth.
Exactly" said Stingaree, land I'm
going TO stick 1t up"
an help your
Ito be continued)
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-03-27
WE'D LIKE TO KNOW THE SANE
THING.
(Cynthiana Democrat.)

Attorney General Logan has con-
strued the Hutchcraft law to mean
that saloons on Sunday must be closed
and have a clear enough front for the
wayfarer, though a fool, to see clean,
smack to the back door. Cynthiana,
being a dry town. is not especially in
terested in the construction. What
We want to know is how to see through
the eye of a blind tiger.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-03-27

Another plank from the Baltimore platform has been thrown
the Democratic furnace raging in WaSmgOn Eve believe in
the preservation and maintenance in their full and integrity
of the three coordinate branches of the federal
eeutve tn legislative and the udciaac keeping within its
bounds and encOachg upon the powers either of the
others said that relic But Congress forced by President vii
son TO vote ON the armed merchantmen question
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-03-27
Stingaree
BY y. W. HORNUNG.
Copyright by Charles Scrlbncr's Sons
THE VILLAIN woRsHIPER.

THERE was no more fervent I'd
mirer OF stlngaree and all
bushrangers than George Os-
,.-ofl AI.-.sa.. Na.f.t.. ~
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
HARD WORK AHEAD.

# was about two years ago when Sernor Colquitt of Texas wanted Resemble a host of those famous rangers, for which the Lone Star Be was once famous, and cross sr the Mexican border line. Now 2 successor, Governor Ferguson, Hs "it would be the widest folly #ttempt the pacification of MeXi- @oy force" this because the present Ne of the American army is not Nt Governor Ferguson thinks 1t &uld be. After that assertion, wha t &oing to happen to those Senators & Representatives from Texas who #e been lining up against the &ainistration' preparedness pro- &nme? The people of the border #es have been having their share %trouble from Mexico and realize 8 value of the United States army #a when it does but mere police &. They know too that any army
 goes into Mexico must be pro- N equipped because of the nature Xhe country. Any invaders in that H would get. worse than the Eng troops suffered at the hands of I Boers. The men must be trained Withstand the hardships of guer- N warfare, the brand that was born nurtured in Mexico, and the Ages of unfamiliar climate. They Bnot fight like soldiers down that N, but rather like bandits and &nd-story workers. Our troops have their hands full when the
 e comes for them to cross over & line. It was so in 1846-48 and it x be so in any part of the twentieth &ury.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
HENRY GUSSMAN.

It is upon such occasions S the that city must pause for the moment and reflect upon the character of those who go to make up it's population. And having thus mcditatcd it must necessarily go on it's way with sorrow in it's heart at their departure but with consolation that they lived their lives as men should, for the better ment of their community, for the up- Luilding of honorable citizenship, for the greater honor and glory of the nation. Henry Gussman was such a man. His life contained all the elements that go to make men worth W nile. As a result, he was honored hy the land of his adoption, he was bestowed with official responsibility by his fellow townsmen. For seven years he served his city as police commits sjoner and he served well. As a councilman he looked to the future of the city and laid his plans according ly and he goes to his final reward leaving the place better than when he found it. No man could do more, all men should emulate his example and do as much. Henry Gussman will be missed.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
THE COURAGEOUS DUTCH.

Poor Holland! Her neutrality has
 actual participation in the great war.
 she has had to keep her army mobl-
 lized, ready for action, lest some
 transgressing army violate her terri
 tory. She has lost her ships one after
 another until her merchant marine
 has been reduced to almost nothing.
 What remains of her trade is not
 worth keeping on the books. Her
 people have been for more than a
 year in a state of nervous tension be- cause of the booming of shot and shell around her borders. And now in the midst of all this the treacherous storms from the North Sea have driven the tide down to the region near the famous old Zuyder Zee with the prospect that the country will be inundated. The waters have risen to the greatest height they have attained in more than a quarter of a century. In some places the dikes are threaten HIS to give way. Tool Ilolldnu. Her people have ever had to battle against the sea. While all the world was at peace they had ever to wage war with their greatest foe, old Father Neptune. All their loyal admirers in the United States will watch with anxiety their struggle against diversity and, if they need help, the purse strings will be loosened from generous American pocketbooks to help them as they de- serve. They are a courageous people, the Dutch.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

Washington, D. C., Jan. 15.-"San Giovanni di Medua, the. gateway to Northern Albania, is a seaport by courtesy of geographers. It is merely a curve in a low, sandy shore, and in itself, suggests no reason why any vessel should ever touch at such a place. However, at the beginning of 1913, Albania, hitherto unknown, found itself grown famous over night as founding state of the European great powers, and San Giovanni di Medua shared in the rame. At this point in the world-war, Medua bids fair to add materially to it's import ance by having business thrust upon it surpassing that of it's 2,000 years of sleepy desolation."
 Thus begins a primer on war geo. graphy by the National Geographic society, which describes the strategic entrance into Northern Albania, and Montenegro, a port which, in view of reports may soon be used as giving the most direct line of communication with the Montenegrin and Serbian fronts. With 5O,000 Serbians warning on the Serbian-Albanian border and with the Montneegrins heavily en- gagged on every frOnt-both entirely dependent ow on their Allies for ma terials-, it is most probable that, whether Allied troops land here or not, San Giovanni di Medua will blos- som under an undreamed of rush of business, handling munitions and food supplies. The primer continues:
 Despite it's unmpresslve appear ance, Medua has been coveted by Ser bla and Montenegro, both of which countries demanded it as a prize in the war of the Balkan league. The port lies at the head of a wide bay
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

And now has come the parting of the ways. Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House fame, bids her old friend and former admirer. Theodore of Arma- geddon, a fond farewell. She has be- slowed upon him a William Jennings Bryan God bless you," and all be- cause her hero did not talk in 1912 as he does in 1916. And we had always thought the Colonel was just as strong in his remarks then as he is now, that he handled William Howard Taft as carelessly as he does Woodrow Will son. But then we possess not the dis corning powers Cor is it intuition?) of woman. Miss Jane Addams is prob- ably right. Theodore is losing his forcefulneSS.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
(New London Day.)

There IS a woman named Gurus in New York who didn't raise her boy to be a soldier, though she thought she did. The boy, who is nineteen, joined the militia battery. Soon after ward he shifted to night work and missed a drill because he didn't want to lose his pay and perhaps his JoD; he failed to get parole from his commanding officer, which he could have done upon application, because, as he says, he expected to get leave to attend the drill. His excuse was accepted Soon he missed another drill and had the same excuse to of- fer. He was court martialed and fined two dollars and a half. Rather than pay it the youth has gone to jail Ion principal.' His mother, 1t appears, urged him to refuse payment of the fine. She says he intends to write to President Wilson and Theo- dore Roosevelt about the matter.
 The country is full of just such boys and just such mothers. They constitute the base of truth underly- ing the assertion that it takes a con siderable length of time to make a soldier out of a raw recruit. II the recruit is of ordinary intelligence and enters the service filled with reali- zation of the necessity for obedience, if he is mentally disciplined at the outset, a very few weeks will suffice to make a soldier of him. He can learn to shoot and to hike and most the tricks of the trade in a little while. But to instill the real spirit of sold iery in him, to make part of him the understanding that he must sink his own personality in the common pur- pose of his fellows to serve their country-that is the thing that takes time and patience and much wisdom
 A country full of spoiled boys who do not propose to be bossed by any body, has a deal further to go in the matter of prepardedness than one in which the individual has a less lofty notion of his own importance
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

know is pledged, with Russia and Japan, to make no separate peace. Serbia and Belgium have no hope save in fighting on. Germany and Austria long ago cast the die together and together have no alternative but to go on. They cannot stop now. No matter what they really want
 So with Miss Addams, who is needless of these potent facts, the wish is father to the assertion quoted in the foregoing. There is no data of evidence to support her statement. Everyone who is aware of her fine qualities and achievements in the social settlement at Chicago wishes she might see her way clear to drop this idea of running Europe and act ing as adviser extraordinary to the President of the United States on our foreign relations. She should let Henry Ford do it. He can afford to make himself ridiculous.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

1 could be devised. Under AS sepa-
 rate jurisdictions, how could it be ex- l pected to become an effective national | weapon? With 48 governors as com- manders-i in chief assisted by staffs as numerous and as variegated as the native princes of India, the national guard is subject to every political
 wind that blows, and effective only in so far as the individual soldier ig- nores the ties that bind him. But the national guard need not be
 extinguished in order to create a con- tinental force. Let it live. It is
 useful in purely local duties, and it
 keeps alive the embers of militant
 patriotism in the hearts of few thou sand young men.
 When the nation is considered, a
 continental army should be considered also. If the nation should be at- tackled, it is not the Massachusetts or the Arizona National Guard that should come to the rescue but the United States army, the arm of the nation itself. If an invader were con- fronted only by the national guard he could help himself with impunity while the national and State authori- ties were adjusting the implications Of conflicting Jurisdiction.
 So far as national safety is consid- cred, it would be just as unWise to rely upon little natives controlled by each State as to rely upon the national guard. Who would pin his faith up- on the teamwork of navies with AS directing heads?
 The navy cannot be so constituted as to remain in reserve, ready for or ganization in time of war It must be ready for war always in order to be efficient. But the army. being composed of men, can be so organized as to be an industrial force in time of peace and an armed force in time of war. Since the people do not care to keep a huge army always in camp under arms, it is proposed to create force of continentaIs who shall be trained for war, but normally employed in industry. The cost of this force, which can be transformed into an army very quickly, would be virtually only the cost of arms and drill. It would be purely national force independent of State lines.
 The nation must decide whether if shall remain undefended or 5e de- tended by a large standing army o,. by force of reserves. Common, senA-- calls for the creation of a s,,s- tenn whereby American citizens nor mally engaged in industry durino times of peace shall be so trained that they can be immediately effec+i,.. as soldiers in time of war.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
WHAT WILL HISTORY SAY?

&There will be no surprise evinced the exposure of Captain Won Pa &n's activities in this country because #e nation as a whole knew this man Ever would have been sent away un- Ks the insinuations against him were Nie. It was no wonder he waXed $grv against government that &ught him at his dastardly acts. It not surprising he vent his wrath #on the administration at Washing Nl and the American press. By the #ters seized from his handbag and #w on their way to the State De- #rtment, both the press and the ad- Illustration are vindicated. Had &n Papen been other than whom he Ns, military attache' at the en- &ssy of a government friendly to the Fitted States, he would have been #nmarily landed behind prison bars. IS rank alone saved him. Such Nor devils as Werner Horn, who, un- N the Captains direction, attempt to blow up bridges and murder in #eent people, must go their way un- #alded and unsung. For them &re will be no crosses of iron, un- KS they can take satisfaction from %brnments of this metal encircling
 
 Ere shall be no hero's grave. Ra- @r will they suffer an ignominious &e and go to their final resting Nee knowing full well they merited # they got, but with rancor in their & rts because the master mind went M @ouched The whole affair is @hing more nor less than a repeti- #h of what happened to New York's &l ous gunmen,-"Lefty" Louie, Mp the Blood" "Dago' Frank and #hitey" Lewis,-with the exception &t the man "higher up,''-Becker,- # what he deserved. Yet, the four men never knew. Won Papens #Y punishment will be the chagrin #having his check book stubs, off, # papers and other records, brand @ him as the director of dynamite # $ and the paymaster of assa ssins, # #osed to the relentless gaze of . #ch imposed on people. And yet, # of the goodness and generosity of # American heart he will be for #en and forgotten. But what will # ory say?
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

in a position so they can thrive and The law was first intended to break up interstate traffic in women It helped crush out this evil to a large extent, but it placed in the hands of interruptions women a weapon that proved the downfall of many men, because under it's first workings the woman could not be punished as the man. Now that has been remeded. The amendment now needed, it would seem, should have to deal with viola tions committed in the past, making it impossible to prosecute after a cer- tatin number of years have elapsed. It is always some back number that the blackmailer brings to light, or threatens to expose, some deed com mitted when the victim was young and wild, when his waywardness meant nothing to him, when he failed to see the light ahead. Because hu- man nature is frail, it is not very diff fcult to rake up the past of some wealthy men and find therein a few flaws. They may be slight, but an expose means social ostracism and disgrace and the blackmailer knows this,-that is why he makes the play. Many millions of dollars have been expended on this expensive para site and he should be squashed once and for all, even at the expense of the Mann law. The federal states can take care of many of their own cases without the everlasting help of the national government through it's De- partment of Justice.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
Albania Discovered Hself
 Grown Famous Oper NiQht

; formed by the estuaries of the River Drin. A range of frayed, unkempt dispirited hills, stretching from Boiana to Alessie, constitutes the background. To the south, lies a melancholy waste of swampland which reaches toward the sea that there is no line of demarkation between land and salt water
 There are no harbor works, piers, wharves, warehouses or docks at Medua. A line of stones piled into the sea has served the ports full purpose , for many a year. The shore shelves gently out, and the bay is very shal- low. Landings of travellers and freight , were made by lighters, in the days before the war when the steamers of the Austrian Lloyd called here. Boat ] men, like opera -bouffe brigands, ami mated arsenals and true Albanians, served the places traffic.
 From Medua the road runs to Scutari, or Scodra as the natives call l 1t, the Albanian capital It, like the it's principal property of being a road
 is that of direction. For a short dis tance out of the port, and, at the 1 other end, for a short distanc out of Scodra, roadway is apparent. In between, however, lies the uneven Aadr1ma plain, the crossing of which IS complicated in all by dry weather, by the inconsistent wanderings of the Drin River.
 "Medua could be made into a sea- port of some importance; and it's use by the Allies might bring a blessing : in disguise, a blessing of the nature
 of army engineers, a nucleus of har- bor-works, and the beginnings of a sound roadway to the ancient capi- tal."
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
Janc AddanS.
(New Haven Union(


 Jane Addams of Hull House, Chi cago, who has spent her life in that magnificent work of social service there is anxious to lead the Europ- can nations to peace now by getting the United States government to in tervene for a truce and terms of set clement of the war. She says: Even at this time a conference of neutral nations to formulate peace prOpo- sals would be well received by the belligerent countries of Europe. Miss Addams is afflicted by the same trouble which beset MT. Ford, lack of knowledge of her limits.- tions. Her life experience has been entirely apart from statecraft dip lomacy, in international affairs, and her recent excitement is occasioned by the fact that she went as a dele gate to the futile woman's peace meet ing at The Hague. Her statement quoted above is nothing but a per sonal opinion from one not at all qualified to judge the situation. This is evident to the rest of us who have only what Miss Addams has, a mere surface knowledge of the situation in 1 Europe. Unlike her, however, most of us understand that President Will SOu, through Llle Illdny CIdun6lS or the state department which is in touch with our ambassadors and con- sular agents daily throughout the world, and in conference with the represe entatives of the belligerents at Washington, knows infinitely more about the situation than he can state or we can guess He says the time is not ripe for suggesting cessation of war and. unlike Miss Addams, most of us are willing to abide by that judgment, knowing that her desires that the bloodshed stop as much As she does.
 But even to those of us who have only what Miss Addams has, the surface facts, from which to form 9 judgm ent, it is evident there can be no peace now because the peoples of Europe are not ready for it. The French ministry and chamber of deD- uties is without a dissenting voice in accord with the popular determ1n- ation to make no peace until the last ounce of gold is expended, the las1, bullet fired, the last man gone as they express it. England is mud ding through" with no intention any, where manifest that either the off clals, the people, or the troops want to stop short of the end. Italy we