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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-06-14

CONGRESS still dallies with the import
ant measure desired by President Wilson
providing for government control OF the
food supplies OF this country. Why
should any sensible man obstruct a meas
ure such as this? Can there be any
other reason than that he is DESTROYS of
promoting the fortunes OF food specula-
tors ? Action should be taken-and
quickly--to put the food supplies under
government control. 1.-THE crop OF wheat
now almost ready for the harvest shall
fall into the hands OF greedy and COM
scienceless spectators, not only will all
The people be faced with distress and
privation, but the government itself the
largest buyer, will be forced 10 pay a
scandalous price for its needs.
1t is criminal to delay passage of the
food bill.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-06-14
BILLMYER'S
Bargain Store.

Billmyer can save you money.
Then why don't you let Billmyer
help you along in this economic
crisis of the high cost OF living?
Billmyer sells no iuxurieS or fool
iShneSS-onIy articles OF wear
and household necessities at mon
ey-saving values. All of the trade
who knows us stays by us; and
to you who don't, we would be
glad to have you come see us, and
dope out the following:
Mems Blue Work Shirts. .65
Mems $500 Khaki Pants, $3.50
Mems Shirts and Drawers. from Is
Mems Union Suits, from 80
Mems and Boys Summer Caps, 25and 80
Mems and Boys Tennis Shoes, 50
Ladies' Muslin Drawers, Is and so
Ladies' Muslin Skirts, 90 and 10
Ladies Muslin Towns, oU dnu 10
ChiId's Muslin Drawers, .l3
Child's Knit Waist Bodies, .l3
Ladies' Gauze Ribbed Pants, 80
Ladies' Gauze Ribbed Unions, .35
Mems Pad Carriers, 10
Dress Snap. Fasteners, dozen, .O5
Card Case Bill-folds, 10
81 x 90 Bed Sheets, rs
AZ x Sc Pillow Cases, Is
White Bed Spreads, from 100
Sweet Talcum Powder, box %
Seick's Perfume, bottle, %
Ever-Ready Safety Razor, II blades, .98
Shaving Brushes, 10
Shoes - Rugs - LaceS - En-
broideries - Ribbons - Always
Cheaper Here.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-06-14

ALTHOUH so far as the public is inform
ed, The movement OF an American army
10 the battle front in France has not ye.
taken place, General Pershing, who will
command our forces there, has arrived on
ne other side with his official staff. He
has been heartily welcomed by the British
and French officers, and there is no ques-
ton Of the fact that the Allies are heart
ened and strengthened by the anticipation
OF substantial American help. The Ger
mans sheer at the aid that our soldiers
may be able 10 give, but they will I'm
doubtedly discover that American pluck
and resourcefulness will have its effect
even upon German efficiency.
Imperialism is doomed in Germany,
though il may be a long time before the
finishing blow shall finally be struck.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-06-14
3 Burner Coaloil Stove and Baker,
PUBLIC SALE.

The undersigned Administrator OF Frank q.
Lucas, deceased will offer at public auction. at his
late residence about four miles south oil Shepherds
town. in Jefferson county. w. Va. on
Saturday, June 16, 1917,
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-06-14

drop-leaf table. mahogany; dining. table, stands
chairs rockers. hat-rack. mirror and pictures; also
COOK STOVE and FIXTURES, kettles and pans;
stone jars and Jugs. glassware. queensware and
cutlery, androns and tongs, lantern, lamps. tub.
teakettle cedar bucket water keg also
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-06-14

1T is desired that the sum of $3.50 shall
be contributed in Jefferson county for
Y. M. c. A. work in connection with the
army. There should be no question as
10 the raising OF this fund. Good men
propose with the 100000 10 be raised
in the United States to use the Y. M. CA.
organizations in providing comforts and
healthful and wholesome recreation for
the young men who will find time hang
ing so heavily on their hands in the army
camps. The practical benefit of provid-
ing wholesome amusements as an anti
dote for the enticements and temptations
OF camp followers is apparent, and there
should be hearty response TO the appeal
for funds that will be presented by our
local county committee.
Be liberal and "do your bit" when you
are asked TO help this worthy cause.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-06-14
Executors Sole.

The undersigned Executor OF John L. William
son, deceased, will sell at public auction, at the
former residence OF said deceased, located near
Swan Pond, Berkeley county, West Virginia. on
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-06-14
HEAD OF HORSES.

HEHD UT IIONOLO.
Two mares with colts by side, three 3-year-old
colts.
BROOD SOWS.
One two-horse wagon and bed, top buggy and
set OF harness, sets Yankee harness. plow gears,
chains, plow double shovel plow, double and
single trees hand saw. x-cut saw, forks, scythes.
hoes, shovel -bushel measure, potatoes. corn,
locust posts and sundry other articles too numer-
Gus TO mention.
TERMS OF SALE.-Under So cash on $40 and
over a credit OF six months will be allowed, upon
purchasers giving notes with satisfactory security
bearing interest from day OF sale, payable at the
Jefferson Security Bank. Sale TO begin at CLOCK
: ''' GEO. NJ. BELTZHOOVER.
Administrator.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-06-14
MAHOGANY SECRETARY,

the following personal property belonging TO said
decedent VIZ:
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-06-14
PUBLIC SALE.

The undersigned will sell at public sale at heT
residence on Washington street. Shepherdstown
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-04
BENSON MAY
QUIT PARTY

YONKERS, N. Y, June q
Allan l.. Benson, socialist presi-
Dental candidate at the last cleo
ton, will resign from the party
If it does not, as whole, repudi-
ate anti-draft resolution adopted
at it's st. Louis meeting.
Benson made this statement to
the United Press today. He de-
clared a referendum vote was now
being taken on the st. Louis reso-
buttons. The result will be known
early in July.
The st. Louis resolutions pro-
posed resistance to the draft by
mass action" Benson believes
this could be construed as mean
ing the use of force against con-
scription.
Benson said he was not sur
prised at the resignation from the
party OF John Spargo, former
socialist national executive COM
mitteeman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-04

are rarely consigned to parch-
ment; since, for the mere ordinary
purposes of drawing or writing,
it is not nearly so we'll adapted
as paper. This reflection sug-
gested some meaning-some rele-
vancy-in the death s-head. ! did
not fail to observe, also, the form
of the parchment. Although one
Of its corners had been, by some
accident, destroyed, it could be
seen that the original form was
oblong. 1t was just such a slip,
indeed, as might have been chos-
en- for q memorandum-for a rec
ord of something to be long re-
membered and carefully pre-
served"
Continued i'm Our Next Issue.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-04
COUNTY ExPERTDESCRIBES
HOW TO CAN VEGETABLES
Following a second canning article written for The
n and girls club organizer:

All vegetables may be canned
by following out these directions,
even those that are usually con-
sidered impossible to can.
Let US take beans, peas or as
paragus, for example. They are
usually considered the most diff
ficulty to can by the old process.
There are three steps:
l. Boiling dip.
2. Cold dip.
3. Cold pack and sterilize in
lars
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-04
LABOR PAPER
FACES SUIT

r. II. Fincher, formerly employ
ed as advertising solicitor for the
Tacoma Labor Advocate, filed suit
Saturday against the Central La
Dor Council and the Tacoma La
Dor Advocate for $413.77, alleg-
ing this amount is due him for
commissions.
The suit names the Labor Coun-
Gil, Roy Harrison, Mira. Harrison,
Y, 70. Patton. Rea Last. Thomas
Bishoff and others.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-04

CONTINUED From Our Last Issue)
When, at length, We had con-
ciuded our examination, and the
intense excitement of the time
had, in some measure, subsidized
Legrand. who saw that was dy-
ing with Impotence for a solution
of this most extraordinary riddle,
entered into a full detail OF all
the circumstances connected with
1t.
"You remember" said he, the
night when / handed you the
rough sketch l had made OF the
scarabaeus. You recollect also
that | became quite vexed at you
for insisting that my drawing re-
sembled a death's-head. When
you first made this assertion,
thought you were testing; but
afterward called to mind the
peculiar spots on the back of the
insect, and admitted to myself
that your remark had some little
foundation in fact. Still, the sneel
at my graphic powers irritatet
me--f0r | am considered a good
artist-and, therefore, when you
handed me the scrap of parch'
ment, | was about to crumple II
up and throw 1t angrily into the
fire.
1.-THE scrap of paper, you
mean" said !.
mo; 1t had much OF the ap-
pearance of paper, and at first
supposed 1t be such, but when
came to draw upon 1t / discov'
cred 1t at once to be a piece OF
very thin parchment. 1t was
quite dirty, you remember. Well
as / was in the very act of crump-
ling 1t up, my glance fell upon
the sketch at which you had been
looking, and when | perceived, in
fact, the figure of a death's-head
Just where, II seemed to me,
had made the drawing of the
beetle.
For a moment / was too much
amazed to think with accuracy. ]
knew that my design was very diff
ferent in detail from this-al-
though there was a certain SINH
larity in general outline. Present.
ly took a candle, and setting
myself at the other end of the
room, proceeded to scrutinize the
parchment more closely. Upor
turning 1t over, I saw my owl
sketch upon the reverse, just as
had made 1t.
"My first idea, now, was mere
surprise at the really remarkable
similarity of outline-at the sin
gular coincidence involved in the
fact that, unknown to me, there
should have been a skull upon the
other side of the parchment, i'm
mediately beneath my figure OF
the scarabaeus, and that this
skull, not only in outline, but in
size, should so closely resemble
my drawing.
81 say the singularity OF this
coincidence absolutely stupefied
me for time. This is the usual
effect Of such condolences. The
hAhu otiuS6lCb W CoNdbilou d COu-
nection-a sequence of cause and
effect-and, being unable to dc
80. suffers species of temporary
paralysis. But, when l recovered
from this stupor. there dawned
upon me gradually a conviction
which startled me ever far more
than the coincidence. l began
distinctly, positively, to remem-
Der that there had been no draw
ing upon the parchment when
made my sketch of the scara-
baeus. | became perfectly certain
OF this: for I recollected turning
up first one side and then the
other. in search of the cleanest
spot. Had the skull been there
OF course could not have failed
to notice it.
Here was indeed a mystery
which I felt it impossible to ex.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-04

Many doubt read "Ihe Man Without Country" be-
But like few other of classics it be read again
with interest The story will appear in six install
mens the first appearing Monday and the last Saturday
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-04
TODAY'S
MARKET
PRICES

o . @ @ o D q q . o o y o o @ Q
. WHAT RETAILERS PAY .
o . o q D o q 3 = o o o o y = 3
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-04
Local Improvement District No. 1926
Fifth Annual InstnIIment
Local Improvement District No. 1913
Fifth Annual InstaIlment.
NnIAN,S EInstp AnnIuI N =

r. A. Parent. East so of /, g. 3 & 4.9S
PAIIIEs ADDITION.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-04
LEGAL NOTICES.
LEGAL NOTICES.

L. OF the
Hall South 18th
O'clock the 18th 1917 following described
Of
Local Districts
lnus nsalmen of Local Improvement
nstament
District
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-04

Soiu
3. Cold pack and sterilize in
jars.
First. clean and grade the vege-
tables for size and ripeness. Throw
out the withered or old vegetables
only fresh, young and evenly ma
tured vegetables are suitable tc
can. Then put them into cheese
cloth and dip in boiling water fol
five minutes. This washes Out
Objectionable flavors and starts
the color running.
Second, dip Immediately into
cold water and remove at once
This sets or coagulates the color
of the vegetables and 1--WE can our
color"
Third, pack solidly into jars
Over top of vegeta les add one
teaspoonful of salt to each quart
jar of solid pack. Then poui
hot water down center of pack
over the salt until the jars are
filled up to the top.
Do not fill jars quite full OF
beans, peas or corn, because they
swell a little and are liable to
break jar If it is packed too full
Screw on the lids. leaving them
about one-quarter turn from tight
Then place jars in boiling water
battle and cook in the jars for SO
to 12O minutes at an even jump
ing boil. DO not allow the fire
to go down or the container to
boil dry. Keep water above the
top of the jars. Do not allow jars
to touch bottom of wash boiler or
other container, but make a false
bottom out of sticks of wood, OF
several folds of cloth.
Test for Tightness.
Improvise some method of lift
ing the jars out after the vege-
tables have.sterilized three hours
by this boiling bath. Corn re-
auires 80 minutes cooking in jars.
At the end of this time, remove
jars, tighten lids, invert jars, and
test for tightness. II any jars
leak, tighten lids further and the
contents will still keep.
Meats are canned in the same
manner as vegetables, but do not
undergo the five minutes boiling
dip or the cold dip. They are
washed clean and packed raw into
clean Jars. Be sure jar covers
are boiled 10 minutes, If they have
been used before. Add one tea
spoonful salt to each quart OF
meat, and pour little boiling
water in to fill up air spaces and
make a weak brine.
Boil Three Hours.
Then give the three hours boil
ing as with vegetables, and treat
the same as vegetables from this
point on.
Among the meats that may be
canned economically are fish, Gull
poultry, rabbits, beef, pork, and
other meats at times when the
price is lower then in the winter
Further information regarding
canning may be obtained by re-
ouesting "canning literature
from the extension department OF
the Washington State college at
Pullman, Wash.
Fruits, tomatoes and rhubarh
may be canned by process de-
scribed in preceding article.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-04
|"THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY

with higher patriotism than ever The Man Without
try will find appreciation It is the which will ap-
pear The Times next week. beginning Monday June H. Don't
miss it. You will find Hale author well worth knowing
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-04

The Man Without Country" has stirred the world It is
story written by Edward Everett Hale For
has held enviabe place In literature.
these days. when every breast must stir
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-27
LARGE BRIDGES ARE
SHIFTED QUICKLY.

There is something more than pass
ing interest to be CLEANED from an
engineering feat that has been exc
cuted at Omaha. A few weeks ago an
old four-span, 1,000-foot, 2,750-ton rail-
way bridge extending over the Mis-
souri, River and connecting the Ne.
braska and Iowa shores was replaced
with a new one weighing $500 tons.
The time actually spent in moving
the original structure out of the way
and slipping the other one onto the
piers amounted to fifteen minutes,
while traffic was actually suspended
for less than an hour The operation
is noteworthy because OF the size and
weight ot each of the bridges involv
eG $3.50 The fact that they were handl-
ed intact instead Of In sections. On
the upstream and downstream sides
Of the piers, falsewOrk was erected,
in one case to receive the old bridge
when il was lifted from its supports,
and in the other to carry the new
structure during the course OF its
erection. Five stationary engines and
200 men accomplished the work. Illus
trations in the Poular Mechanics Mag
azine show the two bridges resting on
the falsework, the old one having been
moved TO the left; and also the new
bridge in place on the piers.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-27

What are the smart women wear
ing? And what are the tempting bits
of finery exhibited in these glittering
windows that cast such spell about
them?
Straw hats are quite the accepted
thing now. One can count the hats
that are not springlike, so few and far
between are they. The number Of
people who still cling TO the idea that
a straw hat is out of place before
Easter, grows less and less daily. In
fact, the tables are entirely turned,
and and it is hard to believe that the
lout-of-place hats are those bright,
springlike creations all a-bloom with
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-27
RIGHT.oF.WAY
TO BE USED FOR GARDENS

The Nashville, Chattanooga & st.
Louis Railway, i'm an effort to reduce
the high cost of living to it's mainten
ance of way employees, has rendered
them the use of its right-of-way for cul-
tIvation. 1t is believed that this action
on the part of the road will enable
hundreds of its employees to raise a
garden this year who might otherwise
be prevented.
The fact that in many places the
right-of-way was susceptible of cul-
tivation, and that many of the sec
ton forces would be glad to avail
themselves of the opportunity, was
brought to the attention of the man
agement recently, and orders were at
once issued that the men should be
accorded the privilege of the use o.
such lands.
There are $50 sections on the sys.
tenn, and during the spring and sum.
mer seasons each section is looked az
ter by a force of from ten to twelve
men. The use Of the right-of-way for
gardens would enable several hun
dred families to have vegetables dur
ing the summer and, in many in
stances, the gardens along the right
of-way will be the only reliance these
forces will have for garden truck.
The land has never been in cultiva
ton, and along some stretches of the
road should bring splendid results.
The orders are to the effect that
section men and other maintenance of
way employees may cultivate the land
wherever such cultivation does not in
terfere with the operations of the
living TO several hundred families is
apparent.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-27
ky!'l[l
Winter
Tourist Tickets

Round-trip Winter Tourist Tickets
on sale daily Oct. /, 1916, until April
80, 1917, with final return limit May
81, 1917, to all principal tourist points
in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisi-
ana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and
Havana, Cuba, allowing liberal stop
over privileges on both going and re-
turn trip. Also low round-trip Home
seekers Tickets on sale first and third
Tuesdays Of each month to points in
Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and
Mississippi, with final return limit
twenty-one days from date of sale.
For further information, call on or adj
dress,
w. V. SHAW, Agent,
or ]. X. SMITH, T. A.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-27
MINES AT vERDUN.

An expert with a taste for stats
tics has recently calculated that it will
be profitable to conduct iron-mining
operations on the great European bat.
tlefields after the war He estimates
that sixty million shells have been
fired in the long struggle for Verdun.
These shells, he says, represent three
million tons of steel Add to this the
barbed wire defenses, dsmantled guns
and other wreckage of var, and he be
heves that enough iron and steel have
been scattered ON the hundred square
miles of the field to make mining a
paying proposition when peace comes.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-27
HATS SEEN ON
FIFTH AVENUE
Straw Hats and Smart Gowns
Meet the Eye at
EWy Turn
GRAY A LEADING COLOR
NEW YORK, March 26, 1917.

NEW YORK, March 26, 1917.
The glamor Of Fifth Avenue acts
like magic always, even on the grayest
and dreariest days that March brings
with it. All outward gloom is quickly
dispelled by the glitter of the shop
windows. Shoppers on their way from
one store to another pause continually
to gaze and enjoy the wonderful dis
plays. On the great thoroughfare it.
self, a never-ending procession of linn
cuisines, taxis and omnibuses roll by.
with interesting occupants.
Here the very latest whims Of fash
ion appear, the very best dressed
women are seen; in short, all that
sums up the last word in fashion is at
ones command,
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-27
JEWS REJOICE OVER
REVOLUTION I'M RUSSIA

The Jewish race everywhere is
moved, thrilled, overjoyed by the Rus.
sian revolution, and we'll it may be. liz
The land which has the greatest mass
OF the Jewish population of the earth
all legal and even social distinctions
are to be removed at once OF the
100000 Jews all over the world, OF
the 100000 in Europe, 5000, 900 are
m Russia. The new government of
Russia enfranchises these all at once,
and removes every restriction hereto
fore put upon them.
Whatever Jews have in America
they are now, it seems, to have in
Russia. The letters are at once struck
from the hands of the greatest body
Of Jews in the world. One effect of
this great change, if it is maintained
I'm the future, will be TO diminish the
number of Jews who will come to this
country; for the breaking down Of this
pale, the removal of determinations.
the opening of all business and pro-
fessions, would give the Jews an OPP
pOrJunlly III husSld WHICH CeIIdlniJ
would not be surpassed in this coun-
try, for the extent Of Russia exceeds
our own, and in some directions its
resources also exceed, or at last equal
ours. There may even be a return
low OF Jews from America TO Russia
when peace comes.
1t may also be noted that the relaxa.
ton Of the illiterary clause in the new
immigration bill, for the benefit OF
those who are refugees from religious
and political persecution, which was
introduced for the benefit Of the Rus
sian Jews, would cease to be opera
tive after the removal OF such perse
cution through the present change in
Russia.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-27

flowers, and not those of darker and
heavier materials.
Even as early as this, hats Of satin
or satin and straw are giving place to
those of all-straw. Crepe and straw
combinations are very good style.
Sometimes the crepe is used for the
crowns of the small high-crowned tu-
bans with little straw around the
narrow brims, or else it is used for he
brims of the wide sailors which have
crowns Of straw.
Very high crowned and almost brim
less are some of the most populat
shapes, but the picturesque, wide
brimmed styles and fancy shapes are
also being worn.
Hats are not heavily trimmed this
season. A beaded ornament, or flow
ers worked in worsted or chenille, and
placed in front, often take all the re
sponsibility of trimming. Feather fan
cies and narrow velvet or picot-edged
ribbon arranged around the crown
with studied carelessness are othe'
simple forms of trimming. Very fire
ueuntly one sees the Chinese hats
round in shape and sloping down grad
ually from a point at the top.