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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-11
NOTICE.

We cordially invite the ladies to
call and inspect our line of suits and
dresses. We are anxious for you to
see them. whether you want to buy
or not. Do not feel any hesitancy
about shopping on them. they are
here for you to see and we want you
20 see them. WEBB BROS.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-11
LADIES'.

We have just received a beautif'-
showing OF ladies' waists In the
georgette and crepe de chine. also
tailored waists. Webb Bros.
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certain to receive excellent prices for
 these commodities.
 One of the suddenly developed, but
 very important features of this increased | commerce is discovered in the reports which come from the Pacific slope. It
 may be that the Pacific commerce which
 was so speedily created by the necessi- | ties of Europe will prove to be the stimu- | Jus which has since 1908 been needed for | an increase of the commerce of the Pa cific ports.
 | One of the chief causes for complaint voiced by the late James J. Hill when | speaking of influences which prevented | the increase of Pacific commerce, was
 the fact that by reason of the attitude of | the federal government with respect to rates it was found necessary practically | to abandon the attempt to create a great oriental trade. That trade had increased with amazing rapidity in the 10 years between 1895 and 19O5 It was secured be- cause the railroads, in cooperation with steamship lines, made rates which were so low that American products could en- ter the markets of the orient in compe- tition with those of England and Ger
 many. But the interstate commerce com
 mission decided that these rates were il- legal. They were therefore abandoned and Pacific commerce immediately fell off. The falling would have been larger had there not been created heavy com merce between the United States and
 Alaska.
 Now the demands of the allies, SUD- plemented by demands from Australia,
 Africa and the far east which were due
 to the inability of Germany and England to meet these demands, have greatly in-
 creased our Pacific commerce. The
 Panama canal when it is again navigable is sure further to increase that com merce, and it is now deemed certain that
 California and, to some extent, Oregon,
 will secure a very large foreign trade, with which other nations cannot com
 pete, in hardy fruits, as well as dried and canned fruits and vegetables. The
 statesman of the past seemed to have
 better idea of the possibilities of the Pacific commerce in which the United States would be the chief participant than do some of the statesmen of the present day. Perfect prosperity for the United States, they thought cannot be assured until Pacific commerce balances or is equal to Atlantic commerce
 In the reports which tell of our ex- port trade in the year 1915 and 1916 are to be discovered, some of the experts think, factors which point to very great increase of Pacific commerce from the Pacific ports
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THINGS DID NOT DRAG

Paris, July Ave were sent against Dompierre and Becquincourt," said a young colonial infantryman who was wounded in the battle of the Somme Things did not drag. The signal was given at oc clock and off we went. Two hours later we had Dompierre and Bee quincourt and were pushing on toward Herbecourt. We had taken seven lines of trenches. It was real fine. There were few hand-to-hand fights. We marched with fixed bayonets but at- tackled the trenches with bombs. I never could have believed we should have gone
 so quickly. I felt so good that when my wrist was broken near Herbecourt didn't even feel it.'
 I Another wounded man of the same regiment said:
 While we were marching forward we | saw to the right of us several tent flaps 1 begged down to the ground Hello | said. the man beside me. the Germans
 are drying their washing.
 | Well forward but tludged on, shots
 came from behind us," he continued,
 "and the Germans appeared from under | heath the flaps and they were shooting | into our backs. We fell upon them
 pretty quickly. Twenty were killed, and
 60 others threw up their hancs."
 For a month past the Germans have | been on the alert around the Somme, and oiueTS Hdu DeeH gwen III d ScCiCl CiiS | lar to construct special entrenchments. | Saps had everywhere been pushed to | within 25 yards of the French barbed- wire and numerous passages were cut in | the German wire entanglements to en- able patrols to spy out every suspicious | movement on the part of the French. | Extra shelters had been dug 30 feet | benin the trenches so that the men could | get into the trenches more quickly when | the French bombardment ceased. Exits were made in the rear of these shelters. l Numerous listening saps were made in such a manner as not to interfere with | either frontal or flanking fire from the trenches. Woods whenever well placed
 as was that of Mereaucourt were turned | into formidable redoubts with especially | constructed shelters with iron girders | over the entrances. Concrete protec- tions were erected to resist the big shells.
 At frequent intervals there were
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NASHVILLE MAN HAD STRANGE FEARS ID COME OVER HIM
Was Extremely Nervous and Had Dread of Future.
 Says Tanlac Saved Him

''I actually believe I would have lost my mind if it hadn't been for Tanlac, said Charlie Eanes, a well known barber at Latzer's barber shop at SO6 Cedar street, Nashville, Tenn.
 T suffered from nervous trouble for several wears, and completely broke down five years ago. My trouble was of a peculiar nature" he continued. My mind was in a constant strain and I was always expecting some awful calamity to befall me. No one can hardly imagine the awful strain I was in.
 Being a barber by trade, my work requires the nerves to be steady as well as the head to be clear of dread, espe- cially the kind I had. Many a time 1 would begin a job and would get so nerv- ous and shaky I would have to quit and sit down and another barber would have to finish the work.
 'I was also very restless at night and never knew what it was to get a good nights sleep. Many and many a night I would lay in bed and imagine a thou sand calamities were going to happen. Sometimes I wouldn't get to sleep at all hardly and would just turn and toss until daylight. had doctors to treat me from time to time, but I frankly state
 
 ever.
 My wife had been reading about Tan lsc-what wonderful medicine it was and I went and got a bottle and begun taking 1t. I first took the sample tab lets and then took a dose of Tanlac and I can truthfully say that by the next morning I could feel a difference I just continued taking it and improved right along each day.
 Now it may sound strange and all that but by the time I had finished that one bottle every symptom of my trouble was gone That was last December and on except just a few occasions when felt just little symptoms of it. I have had no trouble whatever, but these little spells didn't amount to much and only lasted a short while.
 T am going on every day now with my work and just can't describe my feelinfs of gratitude. It may sound unreasonable, but from money standpoint, positively state that a thousand dollars would be no inducement for me to be placed back in the shape I was in before taking that bottle of Tanlac, and this statement ought to give some idea of which can't explain of how bad off I was before taking it"
 Mrs. Eanes, who was seen at a neigh bors house, said that she had never seen or heard of anything like the way Tanlac got her husband up and out of his trouble and is most enthusiastic in its praises.
 Tanlac is sold in Birmingham exclu- sively by Eugene Jacobs Drug Store and Patton-Pope Drug Co., In Ensey by D. w. Morris Drug Co, in Bessemer by Pe- gram-Patton Drug Co.,. in Pratt City by Gale Drug Co. and in North Birmingham by Walker Drug Co.-Adv
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Chickens Feed Themselves
From the Popular Science Monthly

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 An ingenious citizen of Illinois has invented contrivance by means of which his chickens feed themselves thus saving him the trouble of early rising and feeding them himself. AS the man remains in bed his chickens walk around the contrivance in the barnyard and inadvertently step on the ends of a projecting board. The weight of each chicken is sufficient to tilt the board so that the grain placed in the receptacle at the top of the apparatus the evening before is thrown to the ground.
 When the first chicken walked on the projecting board and discovered that the faster 1t walked the faster the grain fell in front of it, other chickens fell in line and it wasn't long before the whole barnyard flock was mara = thoning around the contrivance, eating up the grain as it fell and working up appetites for the next meal at the same time.
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armored concrete machine gun tur- rets. In addition villages were trans formed, houses were pulled down in or der to give a uniform aspect and to prevent aviators from spotting the guns placed in the cellars. Finally. all the men were given four emergency ,ra- tions of bread and coffee and 50 cart ridges and two bombs. Each section had also a flare pistol with 300 flares and two signal cartridges
 When the French attack began July l the Germans were so hard pressed that they were obliged to fall back upon Frize. They hoped to be able to cling there on account of the marshy loop of the Somme, but the German regi-
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 OF GREAT OFFENSIVE
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day went over the territory previously taken by the British from the west of Montauban through the famous Dantzig alley where the German nest of machine guns gave the British their greatest trouble in their first days attack on Mametz and Fricourt, which now are be- ing steadily shelled by the Germans. Officers and men who have been all through the fighting said they had been regularly supplied with food, but that they needed "a good wash" and that water was unprocurabe.
 The soldiers in Dantzig alley were ex- cited over one of those theatric scenes which this rolling country affords in this close in fighting when the British closed in upon the trenches at Poodle woods and the German sections already surrounded came out holding up their hands, Thus body of more than 800 men after being hammered incessant- ly with shell fire for four days dramatic ally surrendered before the eyes of the correspondents.
 The British gunfire so far as could be seen was much heavier than the German
  front line the Germans have withdrawn all their guns from the valley which is now controlled by the British to positions son the ridges.
 VILLAGES ARE LEVELED
 Both Mametz and Fricourt virtually are leveled. The earth and brick buildings were kneaded by shell fire thrown into y through these villages. Where the prefa- tory bombardment was most severe strong German positions in dugouts 30 feet deep did not save their defenders from the big shells and trenches became formless heaps of earth. Bits of the green Ger man uniforms, flesh and accoutrements were mixed with rags and churned sand bags in uncanny horror.
 British soldiers were gathering the Ger man dead and burying their own In com munication trenches. At one spot where the British suffered in charging a ma- chine gun position the battalion mascot, black and tan mongrel dog, lay dead beside his human companions all of whom had fallen with their face toward the German trenches.
 Officers met on the front line agree that the new army battalions conducted themselves with the same gallantry as the regulars Everybody there on the new ly won ground close to he enemy was expecting at any moment to make an- other effort When not digging in' they slept in the genial sunlight which was not so hot as yesterday.
 Germans lately taken prisoner when interviewed indicated that battalions were rushed from as far as Rheims and Lille to meet the Anglo-French attack.
 The village of Boiselle, recently so hot ly contested, was observed this afternoon to be shelled no longer by British, but by German guns, which told of the success of the British attacks. Taking refuge in deep cellars, protected by house floors, layers of sandbags and debris the Ger mans brought out their machine guns after the bombardment and resumed the fight. There was small siege, but the survivors now have capitulated
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ments holding that position were SC

ments holding that position were SC
 badly punished by. the bombardmen' that the reserves were ordered there
 This order was received at o'clock in tile morning. According to prisoner
 they immediately assembled and in companies marched through Peronne One after another they reached Biaches
 Flaucourt and then Herbecourt. Thence progress was difficult.
 When they entered the communica- tion trenches leading to Frize they came
 under a terrible shell fire which caused heavy losses and once or twice panic slalreG and was with great difficulty al,s.yed by the officers.
 Finally, towards o'clock the rein
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forcements which already had suffered

forcements which already had suffered severely reached the trenches and were posted between the second and third positions behind Frize. where they were subjected to terrific lombard
 ment. The men crouching in shelters 10 feet below ground, could hear the explosions of the heavy French shells knocking their defenses to powder and now and then one shell would tear through the roof of their shelter and bury the occupants under mass of earth and beams.
 Three hours late rthe French infantry
 made fresh attack upon Frize. Their
 attack was so sudden that the Ger mans lost their hold on the positions.
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The German officers ordered two conj panies of endorsements to advand along the Somme canal, where theI were cut up by the French. OtheI
 companies were sent to Frize an} Mereaucourt wood to await events, b,I in less than two hours the French occrI pied Frize and the whole German linI began to fall back, closely pressed bs the victorious French.
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Figures for Fiscal Year Will Reach StupendOus
 Figures
GREAT DEMAND EVEN
 AFTER CLOSE OF WAR
Copper Shipments Will Be Probably As Great in Peace as During
 War Period
RV HOLLAND

New York, July -(special)-What- ever the exact figures may be which tell the story of the international trade of the United States in the fiscal year which ended on Friday of last week, they are sure to report an unsurpassed money value of that trade in that fiscal year. Some time in July the Washing ton statistcians are likely to make a report of the general result of that trade, measured in dollars. The details of it, however, will not be known probably for some months. Our International trade in the past fiscal year is sure to exceed 5, 600 coo, 900 in money value and much the greater part of it will represent our ex- ports. It has not escaped notice that our foreign trade has steadily increased since the beginning of the year. The latest figures-which were those for May-re- port an unparalleled outgoing and in coming trade for that month June will probably be found to have matched or surpassed that record.
 A year ago some who are of good judgment were inclined to predict that after January 1, 1916, our exports would CV 1OullO lO D6 d6CllllllS. Iu6y DdSCd that view upon information they claimed to have received that the allies, at least England and France had so far in creased their capacities for the output of munitions of war that it would be 1In- necessary for them to buy as largely in the United States as they were com pelled to do in the first year and half of the war.
 In spite of these predictions our ex- Opf f1.oI hoe eaI ;e possible to deduce from some of these statistics what the probabilities are for the maintenance, even as increase of that trade for two or three years.
 If we do maintain or increase that trade one of the effects will be found in the maintenance and increase of domestic prosperity. This will be well distributed through the entire country and the farm CTS of the northwest, as well as the in dustrial leaders of the Pacific coast, will share in that prosperity.
 One of the best of the reasons for sur missing that this export trade will be maintained for year or a year and a half at least is to be found in the cer- tainty that from this time on there are to be heavy shipments of commodities which represent what are called war or ders. year ago, shipments of this kind had only begun. It takes a good deal of time to manufacture commodities of the kind ordered by the belligerent nations Not many of these commodities were ready for shipment until recently The estimate is that the total money value represented by war orders since the war began is about $2,000, 0O0, ,000 Probably the greater part of these commodities will be exported within the present year, but many of the manufacturers have orders for commodities not to be delivered until
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OUR OCEAN COMMERCE

We shall continue to ship enormous quantities of copper and those shipments will be made even though the demand for copper to be used in the manufac- ture of munitions should be ended within a year. It is a metal which will be used to an enormous extent in the upbuilding of the devastated industries of the bel ligerent nations. So also we shall be called upon to export vast amounts of food commodities. The men who are preparing to harvest the crops which were sown in the winter and spring are
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GALLSTONES

Avoid operations. Positive Stomach Liver remedy-(N| 0IL)-Results sure Tear this out. mail 1t to nI with your address now for health and happnes| |. E. Bewers. Dept D.i. 2is S. Dearborn St., chcao
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-10-12
LOCAL NEWS

Miss Olive Bussey went Monday to
Gardiner.
Sheriff Frank Thompson went to
Augusta yesterday on the midday
train.
Members of Company E arrived in
Augusta last night and will probably
be stationed there until a week from
Saturday.
Rev. H. G. McGlauflin of Berlin, N.
Fl. has been in town the past week,
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harry A.
Dinsmore.
Mrs. Sophia F. Marble arrived home
yesterday forenoon following stay
of several months in Harmony, which
was her former home.
Mrs. A H. Gee of Lewiston has
been in town this week. She had
previously visited with her brother,
Fred s. Burrill of Hartland and ar
rived here, Tuesday evening.
Albert Libby is candidate for the
Office of Deputy Sheriff and is under
stood to have petition signed by a
large percentage of the French voters
]. H. Murray is also reported as being
DESTROYS of the same office.
Another in the series of pre-nup-
tial parties for autumn brides which
have been SO much in vogue this
fall was given Thursday evening by
Miss Celia Packard and other friends
at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Pack
ard on Turner Ave. On this occas-
sion the guest of honor was Miss
Edith Nutting whose marriage to
James Gilfillan will probably occur
in the near future Miss Nutting
was supper guest of the Packard
family and was genuinely surprised
when number of friends called and
1t was determined the party was for
her. As the result of much diligent
hunting, cut glass pitcher and
twelve tumblers were found in diff
ferent parts of the house which were
given Miss Nutting as souvenirs of
the happy event. The refreshments
were ices and waters.
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Surprised Their Friends

Alth4 acquaintance We're conyinc-
ed that an engagement existed be-
tween Miss Margaret Annie Young of
skowheean and George A. Jones of
Durham. they were not aware that
the couple were TO be married on
Saturday last. This occurrence hap
pened at ] o'clock at the Parsonage
Of the First Baptist Church on Bap-
list Hill. Dr. o. II. Tracy Phi. d. be
ing assisted in performing the nup-
tails by Rev Eta G. Tracy and using
the double ring service. The couple
were unattended and the bride was
beeomingly gowned in travelling
costume of blue cloth with hat to
match.
Mr.. Jones has for some years been
a resident of Skowhegan and is at
present employed in the finishing de-
partment of the Arms mill, plant of
the American Wooden Company here.
Mrs Jones is the daughter of Roy
E. Young of Belfast, but has spent
much of her time in the home of her
grandmother, Mrs T. B. Barrett in
Skowhegan. She is a graduate of
the High School in the class of 1914
and since then has been engaged as
a bookkeeper. At the time of her
marriage she was numbered among
the clerical assistants at the office of
the Independent-Repo office. po-
sition which she is still filling. Many
friends of the contracting parties are
wishing for them a bright future.
Their home for the present will be
at the Barrttt residence on Cross st.
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friends as they came from the par
sonage and given a liberal shower of
rice and confetti Mr. and Mrs. Gee
left town Thursday morning on a
honeymoon trip to Portland and Bos-
ton.
Miss Cinda Savage has returned
from a several weeks stay in Port
land.
The pulpit of the Free Baptist
Church was supplied Sunday by Mrs.
Susie Savage of Fairfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. a. Morse and Dr.,
Sawyer went to Bangor Sunday to
see Maryland Morse, a student al the
L. of NJ. Law School, who was operat-
ed on for appendicitis Saturday
Thomas Bateman and son John are
UP river on a hunting trip.
Ed Brewster is i'll at his home on
Spear Hill.
DR.. W. G. Sawyer has returned
from a hunting trip at Moxie.
Miss Alice Hendley of this town
was operated on at Somerset Hospital
in Skowhegan Monday of this week
by DR.. Pepper.
Miss Helen C. Powers was i'll with
the grip the first of the week.
Stephen Gavin is in Boston this
week to attend the big games.
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MADISON

The first meeting of the Sorosis
was held at the home of the Presi-
dent, Mrs. r. G. Stanwood Maple st.
After the business meeting delicious
refreshments were served by the di-
rectors, after which a social hour was
enjoyed.
Buy this paper at Gilmans
Mr., and Mrs. l.. o. Powers of Hal
lowell were In town Sunday calling
on relatives.
GEE-CAVANAUGH
The Methodist parsonage was the
scene of a quiet wedding Wednesday
evening of last week when Harry Gee
was married to Mrs. Ellen Cavan-
augh. The single ring service was
used and Rev. VIM. Wood officiated.
The groom was attended by A B.
Head as best man and brother of
the bride. Mrs. Head acted as
bridesmaid. Mr.. Gee is a we'll
known employee in the machine shop
of the Great Northern Paper mill.
Mrs. Gee is also well-known resi-
dent of this village. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gee were met by large company of