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The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1916-07-20
NED W0ODMAN OPERATES
FOR BLUES

Ned Woodman, the jolly Chicago
cartoonist, who invented and drew
those funny full page puzzles which
appeared several years ago In the Chi
cago Record Herald says he has been
operated on for appendicitis but that
was to remove the appendix. He oper-
Ates on his audiences for "blueitis,"
and that Is to remove the blues. He
gives laughing gas while the opera.
tion is in progress and his operations
are always successful. He has not
1ost patient for years.
Wholesome instructive features are
not omitted during these operations,
for his appreciation OF serious things
is as deep as his sense of humor; but
whatever ne compels his audiences to
take in the way Of sober material Ia
generally so pleasantly favored as to
be decidedly easy to take"
Whenever this genial operator gets
The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1916-07-20
Elects Delegates

The Republicans of Webster county
held their county convention at the
court house, on Tuesday afternoon
and elected the following delegates
to attend the state convention, at Lin
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-05
UNITED DOCTORS

Corner Ninth md Hr0nd streets.
Consultation Errc. Terms foe Trent
mcnt within tho HcRrh " All.
I1Ours; From u 4. VI. 10 \ r.. n.
hHtty' sunday, from 10 TO q. ".
FOR private appointment. cnI MadI-
sOn 1850.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-05
DEATH RATE IN
NORFOLK INCREASES
Large Number Of Cases During
November Responsible for
assurance OF Warning.

Pneumonia is due almost entirely 10
intcupcrancc aud indiscrction in eat
I"G - drinEing, says Or. Powhatnn
SchcnN. IN his health report for No
vcmb"r for Norfolk. just published
ZEN p"aIrc, colds. improper dress anG
dissipation prcdiSDose paeumonia--in
temperance particularly So" nc says.
Ana often when people arc sick or
in u weakened condition they arc ~.
TO contract q disease more readily.
Tn" BODY must he strong and vigorous
I" stand M against the daily ravaccs
Of sickness
Mrs T.. l.. DcEcrry, or "0t West
Clay street, Richmond. recently said:
AN accumulation o! gas affected IN"
heart with pains all thru my left side
and shoulder. | had headaches aud
dizziness, and everything ate dis
agreed with mc Even water would
cause Il severe pain and shortness Of
breath. My mother ordered bottle
rf Taulac from Norfolk, and since tax
ing !: my indigestion has improved
aud my appetite increased. ! eat any
thing wan, with a relish, and tho
headaches and pains have all gone
aud am much stronger. Tanlac will
do all that - claimed for ii, ana is 4
splendid - .icinc do not believe
~ patent medicines, as rule. bu;
Tau!at certainly has proved 10 he an
exception in my case
Now that grip and other diseases are
prevalent around this section, il Is
N"ur duty 10 Yourself and community
to fortify Yourself against sickness.
II YOU feel weak or run down. or suf-
fer Fl, IN 81 nnach. kidney. liver o.
hlad Ter trouhic. constipation, indi
."Stioa or any like ailmcnt. go to -day
- onr 81 til: FOLK Miller drug stores
and Ect a bottle Of Tanlac. y Tanlac
representative is always at tho Broad
aud Third street store. where he win
cour'c"ns!r explain Tanlac. Price. 81
per bot tie. Advertisements
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-05

man well known in Richmond ha.
ihc following to say about rho treat
mcnt he received from the Cnitcd Doc
tors: u had been suffering with Sciatic
rheumatism Tor long time. aud 50
treat Was my suffering that thought
that no relief was To b" found. The
condition that was IN was such that
! was unable 10 put on my shoes and
had 10 depend on my wife To assist mo
in dressing. tried many remedies
and doctors without relief. Tho advcr-
tiscments OF the United pocto"s causcd
me as last resort to try them and at
the beginning | had but very little
faith with their treatment. hut can
now truthfully say that il is irnpossi-
bic for me to recommend their ser
vices and treatments too highly to All
sufferers OF similar troubles. | rccoins
mend the United Doctors, as they have
entirely cured me OF the aboyc-mcn-
toned trouble"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-05
"'Ihc Ilirth of II Nation"

War plays "f the stage such "a
shenandoah Held by the Enemy"
and the like. seem tame after seeing
tho Splcrdors OF The Birth OF a Ma.
ton which returns to tho Academy
Of Music on January 10 for Il weeks
engagement. In tho Griffith spectacle
many of the scenes ARE Of IIomcric
grandeur. The night riding Of the llu
kluN Khan looks like company Of
aNcn.iuE SpcctrcS sweeping along tho
m""rlt roads. There is pictorial
punch III every sccpc. This realistic
picture of history III the making a. az
valn" Ia both old and young. Iicsidcs
tire historical worth Of this great
spectacle. the constant emotional throh
Of tn" romantic story thrills the hearts
If all
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-05
ADJUSTMENTS
MIIIInn rn.cr.hum. In .rh. ua.l !.

considerable interest is bcin. mani
rested In the engagement Of William
FaHcrsltam-wh whom his agent persists
IN announcing as MIR. William Eaycr-
Slaiii and his company In rho
Hawk for Friday and Saturday. with
saturday matinee. at the Academy OF
Music. Tile Hawk" was produced in
New York early last, fan and was there
proeIaiinc" one OF the best French
plays that had come to our stage II,
recent years. The story has 10 do
with gambling. and shows how cxtray-
aSsncc and cards may make wrack
and ruin OF the lives with which ,hcv
come in contact. IT is said that ,ho
dialogue Is brilliant. the story told
with touch of mciodrama. and tho
appeal OF the play one which reaches
all classes OF playgoers.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-05
COLD GONE! HEAD
AND NOSE CLEAR
First dose of "Pnpc's Cold Com
pound" relieves all
grippe misery.
Don't stay stuncd-up.

GUT blowing aud snuiIling, A dose
81 "iape's cold Compound" taken
every two hours until three doses ,,o
taken VII end Iripp" misery and
hrc;tN up !, severe cold either in the
mead. chest body or limbs
~ promptly opens cloggcd-up nos
iris and AIR passages; stops nasty lie.
charge OF nose running: relieves aick
headache. dullncsS. feverishncss sor.
throat. sneczinS. soreness and stir
ness.
tapes cold Compound" Is III.
quickest. surcst relief known and
costs only - cents at dru;: storcs. i,
acts without assistance. tastes nice
ana causes no Inconvenience. Don't
accept = substitute.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-05
Expert Specialists

In chronic. nervous. blood, skin and
drcp-scntcd discusses. rheumatism,
ncuritis. inmc hnrk. ncurnISin, Jum-
hnI0. cHInrgcd joints. ulcers, cntnrrb,
nsfhmn' bronchitis. nervousness. g0itcr.
hrons!. pilcs. rupturcs. rectal Jiscuscs
aud MI diseases Of mrn f'opsuJ,ntIon
free. Terms for treatment within The
reach of MI.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-27
HOPE OF DEMOCRACY.

To make the newspaper the hope
of democracy was the purpose which
ran through the address at the con-
ference of the American Association
of journalism Teachers which met
at~the University of Kansas last week
Every speaker emphasized the neces-
itysity of the press becoming the
guardian of the public interest and
urged that journalism students be i'm
pressed with that fact; also, that
schools of journalism devote most of
their attention to the training of pub
lie spirited and deep thinking news
paper writer's rather than make an
attempt to teach them merely to make
money
1T is not the purpose of schools Of
journalism to teach men advertising
and business management" said Deal,
.Talcott Williams of the Pulitzer
School of Journalism at Columbia uni
.yersity. Money making can be taught
in the commerce departments of the
but we should devote our
attention to developing young men and
women who can go out into newspap-
er work with a sense of social respon-
sibility and who have the knowledge
and skill necessary to make them real
leaders in reform. When all reporters
and newspaper owners come to think
in public terms rather than in dollars
the evils of American life will rap
idly disappear. Our salvation lies in
Intelligent publicity. Complete pub
licity is a more effective deterrent
than criminal punishment, and if the
Subscriptions financiers knew that
they would be shown up In the even
ing papers, they would break their in
ferlocking directories far more
quickly than they are doing at pres
emit"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-27

( Herpes, or cold sore, occurs upon
the lower part of the face, about the
mouth, cheek or chin. The patient
first feels a singing, burning seasa-
ton, OF itching. At the same time
group of little pin-head sized bis
tiers form. These are filled with
clear yellowish fluid, and they are
surrounded by Redeemed area of
skin or mucous membrane. Herpes
may come upon the lips, or upon the
eyelids. There may be one patch or
several, and sometimes large area
of skin is covered with herpetic
eruption. After few days the lit
tie blisters dry UP into a crust
which soon falls off and leaves red
spot that disappears after several
more days.
Upon the lips or eyelids, when
mucous membrane is involved. the
crust is apt to leave superficial
ulcer which is very painful and ir-
ritable.
Something like thousand read
ers have asked us to tell what is the
cause Of herpes, and in our skilful
way we have evaded the issue by
springing Latin or medical terms to
cover our stupendous ignorance
| Unfortunately the authorities, who
generally serve us in good stead
when we are thus pinned down
have nothing to offer in the way Of
cause of herpes, and in our skillfu
to give our own little Theoretical
conception and let it go at that
Herpes or cold Sore or fever
blister" then-the oracle now
speaks-is a reflex signal thrown uF
by the system to indicate. rumbly
that something has gone wrong in.
side, Herpes on the face is almost
a classical symptom of pneumonia
Herpes on the cheek recurs agar
and again in certain children when,
ever a tooth becomes carious, and
only careful attention by the dentist
will clear up the frequent and an
noying attacks of herpes.
Herpes on. the lip is common in,
cident of an acute coryza or trachei,
tbs.
Some people have an attack oil
herpes whenever they indulge in
over eating.
A good many women have about
thirteen attacks OF herpes annually
The treatment is simple. The
lesion will clear up rapidly If left 10
itself. A small spot on the skin
may be protected with collodion, or
painted with compound tincture OF
ben2oin, or gently smeared with
zinc oxide ointment Touching
herpes on the lip frequently with
spirits of camphor dries 1t up,
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
tanker Sores In Month.
Please give some suggestions re-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-27
THE FIGHT Is ON.

: Reno Journal: Hon. Charles s.
Deneen and the Hon. Roy o. West,
erstwhile holders in escrow of the
stock of the republican party in ILL
nois, emerge from the path of the
Lowden Sherman Thompson steam
roller, initiate their fattened forms
with Indignation and declare war to
the hilt. They will not only break off
diplomatic negotiations with the en-
tente powers, it is fatty announced,
but will open immediate hostilities
with all the resources at their com
pand. The first grand offensive will
be an early summer drive. with re-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-27
Men and Women Converts,

Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph;
EVangellsts, as rule, are addicted to
the habit Of making declarations in
tended TO startle their hearer, Rev.
Billy Sunday being conspicuous In
this respect. But fully as surprising
as any that he has made is that at
trlbuted to Rev. Bob Jones of Ala
bama, who delivered an address in
Pittsburgh recently. The southern
evangelist Is quoted as saying: How
10 reach the vast mass Of women who
are year by year falling into ways of
sin and unrighteousness will REQUIRE
the efforts of the ministry to solve.
Our men are coming into the church,
Two men come to Christ for one
woman. Out of every 80 CONVEX
sions | got in Connellsvile 50 were
men. Christianity is reaching the
men"
To say that this assertion is surpris-
Ing is putting it mildly, for many men,
probably the majority, will regard il
as little less than shocking. Women,
like men, have their failings and their
weaknesses, but it Is hard to believe
a vast mass Of them ARE year nv
year falling into ways of sin and I'm,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-27
IMPORTANCE OF VERDUN

road that goes straight as an arrow
flight from Metz to Paris, has been a
great fortress. A Benedictine abbey
was RACED to put on its foundations a
royal keep. Vauban planned its de-
lenses. 1t was the one great place
of arms in the north which, in 1870,
made an honorable surrender. The
republic has put about 1t an encircling
ring of forts.
Its plateau rises a steep 400 feet
above the valley of the Mouse on the
west and on the east has short pitch
of 200 feet above the plain dotted
with lakes feeding the stream, Lou
vols. This plain the German army in
the fourth week Of August occupied
with a rush which carried the crown
prince down to st. Mihiel on the
Mouse, some 20 miles above Verdun.
The fortress whose outer works to the
north look out on plain dotted with
hills carved out by the streams that
seek the Meuse was the screen behind
which the French army, driven back
IN defeat after it had cut the railroad
| between Strassburg and Metz, was
able to reform on the line of the
Marine. But for the delay this fort
ress caused, the three army corps
| under the crown prince On the south
east OF Verdun, and the four army
corps under the king of Wurttem-
burg, would not have been delayed
leaving Won kluck in the air. in his
swift advance, thus forcing his head
long retreat"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-27
PROFESSIONAL CHARITY

The New York World, reviewing re-
cent reports compiled by the New
York School of Philanthropy, finds that
more than 1000 men and women in
New York city make a living in social
work supported by private philan-
thophy. One society worker is paid
$4,000 a year, eight receive $4,000 or
more. and the salaries of 1853 subordi-
mates aggregate SS59,000 annually.
Altogether the salaried workers in the
private charities of the city are as
numerous as authors, editors, report
ers, civil engineers and surveyors, and
they form larger group than clergy
men, architects, dentist or chemists"
In other words, charity in New York
alone carries an overhead" Of ap-
proximately a million dollars year
And this is only small fraction of the
tremendous sums paid out by chart
table organizations of various kinds
In addition to this vast expenditure Of
privately furnished funds, the cities,
counties and states pour out for char
liable purposes huge sums derived
from taxation. Altogether, the char
ity bill of the average community will
doubtless be found equal to the sum
expended for educational and govern
mental purposes.
We are learning new methods" in
charitable work, although there is still
colossal waste even in the most
efficient" systems But the strange
thing is that a nation should develop
charity to a point where il employs an
army of workers and spends millions
of dollars annually, while all but ig-
noring the basic evils in society and
government which make charity nee
essary. Future generations, having
learned something about how to catch
poverty at the source, will doubtless
regard our great charity enterprises
as one of the most absurd paFadexes
conceivable,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-27

capture Of sector OF the state COM
mittee, seizure of the gubernatorial
nomination and command Of strategic
positions dominating the spoils dis
tributed in Illinois as its principal OBJ
jectives.
Several advance columns from the
Deneen-West headquarters deployed
through the Chicago newspapers Sun
day and Monday, and scouts are re-
connoitering downstate on combined
military and diplomatic missions.
Heavy guns, loaded with high explo-
sive charges mostly of personal ma
ture) are being trained on the entente
entertainments and a bombardment is
expected to be in full swing within
forty-eight hours. The ammunition
caissons Of the Deneen-West artillery,
according to wireless reports, con-
tain vast quantities Of dangerous
shells marked Sherman Vote on Allen
Bill" "Lorimer-Lowden Combine, y
"Lowden Pullman Company Gold, -
'Lowden-Liquor Mixture" etc, etc,
which will be hurled against the
enemy at short range 1t is also an
nounced openly that the dual alliance
will make free use of poison gases
In their assaults, having secretly &C
cumulated vast supply of this material
during the last II years.
The entente powers, it is intimated,
will press a counter offensive with
yigor and will make prompt reprisals
in the way Of poison gases and liquid
fire. 1t is said that they have fore
seen for some time that the imperial
ambitions of the dual alliance must
sooner or later be crushed as a mat
ter of elf-preservation.
| In the meantime, General Sullivan
and his forces are maintaining armed
neutrality and preparing diligently tc
seize large area of disputed territory
as soon as both combatants are re.
duced to helplessness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-27

The principal interest In the Euro
pean war centers at present in the
battles around Verdun. That historic
fortress has been the scene of many
thrilling events in French history,
some of which are mentioned in an
article in the Review of Reviews for
April, by Talcott Williams. The Ger
mans have made it the objective point
for Herculean efforts for It's subjec-
ton since the beginning of the pres
ent war, and for nearly nine weeks
having been strenuously attempting
TO capture 1t at cost of life that per-
haps can never be accurately stated.
Mr.. Williams in his Review of Re-
views article says:
"Verdun is a prize, visible to all,
conspicuous to the world, appealing
to the imagination of every French
man. 1t is the last of the great fort
resses with which France has sought
to defend its northern frontier. There
too, France was born. There, in S43
Charles, Louis and Lothaire, the sons
of Louis |, the "Debonaire," the Pious
divided the empire CT Charlemagne
brought France and Germany into ex-
istence, began the modern map of
Europe, and sOwed the seeds of war
from that day to the present hour.
Awarded To Germauy than II o,,,o
back to France under Henry II in
1862. From that day on, this place
the junction Of the road that runs
down the Mouse to Belgium and the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-27
Civilization at the Crossroads.


(By Rev Martin D. Hardin of Chicago)
Yes; the close of this war in Europe
will see America the one great, rich
nation of the world, leading all ma
lions in wealth, commerce and indus
try. The question above every other
for us to answer is this: VIII the
United States extend its leadership
also to the realms Of morals and
ideals? Are American ideals of inter
national good will and justice to pre-
vail? Is real Christianity to spread
until it embraces the nations In their
! intercourse, or are we to confess that
during the past 80 years, when we
were relying on the business of our
actions and our moral ideals to save
us from conflicts with other nations,
we were wrong and the European ma
tons alone were right when they
spent vast part of their energies and
resources in planning for war? is
America now to be dominated by its
suspicious military minds, or is Amer
conquer the deadly militarism which,
| because of its hellish rule, has swept
Europe into her present horrors? Be
cause of our leadership, our wealth,
our resources, and relative strength,
our conservation Of that which Europe
has thrown away, Europe's only hope
of rehabilitation lies through us; and,
whether we want it or not, we are to
have an enormous world influence, and
| it has come to us at an hour when
very literally civilization is at the
crossroads The world is at that point
in its life when either Christian ideals
are going to take hold of the nations
and make them see the utter insanity
Of civilized men fighting like wild
beasts, and spending the hard-accum-
ulated earnings of the people for that
misery are universal. or we are in but
the first chapter Of retrograde move
ment wherein the light of civilization
fades into another period Of dark
ages. The present deluge of blood
and misery produced by the power Of
the military mind in Europe Is going
to be the last thing of its kind among
highly civilized nations and lead tC
the complete overthrow of the doc
trine Of military preparedness, or it IL
going to lead to such hatreds, tyran-
MES, and fears, to such unbelief In
human nature, to such universal sus-
picion, to such bold, open profession
of supreme faith In force, to such q
mania Of ornamental rivalry, thai
what Europe has been for the last Al
years, an armed camp, that the whole
world is going to be. An armed world
world given over in every country
to the leadership of its military minds
is a world headed for chaos as much
beyond that In which Europe is a
present engulfed as the present Euro
pean state surpasses in misery all the
preceding wars of the ages.
No generation of men, therefore
, were ever called upon to decide {
more momentous moral question, {
question so fraught with good or evil
so rejecting the whole destiny of hui
mainly for ages to come, as that which
, confronts the people of America owe
, the problem of increased armament
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-27
FOR UP TOWN TERMINAL.

Moline business interests value the
trading possibilities of a connection
with the Rock Island Southern line SO
highly that they are contributing to-
ward establishment of a taxicab SER
vice to be maintained between the
terminus of the road at the foot OF
Fourth avenue, this city, and their
town. This interest on the part of the
neighboring city has aroused local
people to advisability of some united
move to have the Southern terminus
extended to the center of the business
section Of the city, where it now has
its general Offices established.
1t is, known that officials of the
road practically have abandoned any
thought of bringing the cars up any
other route than First avenue. 1t has
sought way rights through the resi-
dence section of the city, but such
routes as have been considered have
been dropped for various reasons,
chief of which is the natural objection
Of property holders against unsightly
freight traffic.
Owners of the Southern long have
hoped that they might effect an ar
rangement with the Rock Island road
for electriiCation of its right of way
from Fourth avenue to Twentieth
street, but have met opposition from
the officials Of the latter line, legal
objections having been advanced
when the proposition was first made
three years ago. Since then. however,
railroad lines In many Of the larger
cities have been electrified.
This being the situation, people here
feel that possibly the Rock Island
road and the Southern might get to-
gether and solve the predicament OF
the Southern, one that Is not only
| proving hardship to the interurban
line, but TO its patrons. Inasmuch as
the Rock Island tracks, from Southern
/ Junction to Fourth avenue, in this city
/ are electrified to carry the interurban
cars, 1t would seem to be simple
matter to extend the electrical equip
ment to Twentieth street. The Rock
| Island road has it within its power to
/ do good turn, one that would be duly
/ appreciated by the business interests
and people generally of Rock Island
and its neighbers along the line OF
| the Southern.
| There is no possibility of the Rock
| Island Southerp mr. any other road
| getting an Independent right of way
/ up First avenue. That much is set
| tied, and properly settled. The use OF
| the trolley on the Rock Island from
Fourth avenue in would solve the
question happily.