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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-17
(By Theodosia Garrison Of the
Vixilantes,)

Every now and again some Inter
esting, revolving, Of gruesome tale
makes it, appearance. is seized upon
with avidity, retoid with alacrity and
promptly spread. over a sullible COM
munity that for some strange reason
seems to resent close inquiry into facts
and details. No human has ever been
able to trace mi Of these thrilling
stories to its source. though strangely
enough 1t always happens to ones
first cousins oldest friend, or q rela-
ton Of IN. acquaintance's husband;
always; in fact; to, somebody vhc
never Is on the spot to tell the, tale
first hand:
For instance. M can easily recall
the story Of The lady (she lived at
various times in Maine and always
had a different name) who, went to a
luncheon. was beguiled into playing
bridge, lost q vast sum which she
couldn't pay and at night with many
tears. confessed her sin to her hus-
band who promptly sent a check for
his wffe's losses with an extra sum
like hostess who had shorn his lamb.
Why this narrative of two short
sports should, have enjoyed the pop
'ularity it did is a mystery, but it went
the rounds blithely wherever human
kind did assemble.
Then came the thrilling romances
of White slavery,-none 80 obscure
who hadn't a friend, distant relative,
or an ac~quaintancess friends hnanc4e
pierced by the Poisoned Needle Of the
SLAYER. None who WHISPERED these
tales had ever, Hersonally beheld,
communicated with or knew the Vic
Tins in question, but the faith Of the
relator was invariably sublime To
endesvor to trace the stoH to its
source was to find oneself in q maxe
|of believers who triumpkAntly point
cd to someone beyond with whom you
never catch up. You recall the
story Of the beautiful girl Giving at
the time in Brooklyn; New York, Los
Angeles and Chicaeo) who went into
the little Armenian shop to buy .1acee
and vas discovered, hours later, by
q frenzied fiance, in q sub-cella1,
|drugged and neatly wrapped in Ha'rug
(like Cleopatra of old)~ waiting to- be
spirited away. to- untold horrors.
Ono Of the fAtest stories going Its
thrilling rounds has been told me al. a
fact twice. and once as . story pub
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-17
BILE !
tBy Rena Cary sheald ~ tho
vtgilante6.) !. 81

(By Rena Cary sheMldsso ~ tho
HigilanteS.) l#
A Gunner was Bill CLANCY. d
A. nan Of nerve and Drawn;
Tho first into the Fighting Limo
When swords for war were drawn.
The Stars and Stripes he made his
knights shield Of heraldry, s,B1 &
They waved above tho cannon -
OF the Field Artillery. "a 8
So Ho! for Gunner Clancy
Who halls from Texas Statess
Who pinned his colore on his heart
And dared for..sany fate!a
He braved the SehrapneTs tall0ns,
The blast Of iron and change ~
To take the old Red. White and Blue
Through Vimy Ridge Ia Francel N
A hero Yves Bill Clancy
He bore the colors on; "
He felt the breath Of Victory
That scorched his face at dawn.
A heritage of %noblenesst
He loft the u. 8. A.
And put his Texas On the map -
As first into tho fray. $50
So Ho! for Gunner Clancy
Who ear his c0lors still ~s4 =
Above the scars Of sovereign worth
He won on Vimy Hill.
Hail! to you. Gunner CLANCY.
Who met the Huns advance
With glory and with valor
On that shell-torn field of Franoel
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-17
""Absolute Evidence Have l None"

Remember when you hear *his-as
you will,fthat the policy of this Red
Cross prevents II. right to accept gifts
for individual soldiers-also that any
mother alfye would send her gift to
her o direct. ~ { 5
There are many tales of this cali
Der, one Of the more prevalent being
that the Red Cross gifts are,sSin many
cases. not given, but sold to the SOL
,diers. This startling 'untruth : may
have its weak foundation in! tho fact
:thst +. soldier y, possessing sast two sweaters we
trade one Of them Is q sxesterless,
sockless mate. An honorable trans
action, in no fashion affecting the
RedfCross except in the implied de.
inland for more and ever more ar
tcles. Surely, one cannot be too en-
phatic in urging that nc attention
be given to these fantastic tales. Re-
member the Bridge story; the Poison
Needle Mysteries and the rest-and
call to mind that game. popular in
recall that the players sat in a circle
and each repeated in his right hand
neighbor's ear q statement Missed in
his own left ear,-the object Of this
intellectual entertainment being to
see how mutila&ed a simple. sentence
might grow by repetition. I have
no doubt that many a Red Cross tale
has developed in this fashion.
I cannot imagine any woman TAX
ing these stories seriously. I mean
to the extent Of stopping her work
for that fine organization that seeks
to mother Ito the best Of its ability
every mothers sen in our army. But
a malicious lie, even . 1nischievous
one, ISIS germ Of evil in the wind and
the community ID the better for its de-
struction.
May I quote in conclusion ths last
lines of some clever verse published
recently in the London Spectator as q
protest to various fairy-tales anent
spies and their doangs, going abou,
London? It Ii . q~Notatien that ]
think the REALTORS of Red Cross scan
dals might be edited to hear.
Absolute evidence have I none.
But my Aunt's charwoman's sisters
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to 9 housemaid ip Downing
street,
That b had a brother. who had a
friend
VINO knew for 4 fact when the wal
4 would end"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-17

vention in Geneva In 1914, its object
being to bring about. international CO.
operation In behalf Of dck or wound
ed war animalA and to secure the
naturalization OF those engaged in
such work BY International agree
ment.
Thousands Of war animals In
France are in the hospitals at one
time.
They must be cured q quickly a.
possible TO take the places Of sfhe In
jured which n certain to reach the
hospital the next day,
Behind the British lines animal
hospitals are everywhere.
The Royal Society for. the Proven.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-17
Star VIII Conserve
Horsedesh To Win War

The American Red Star Animal Re-
lief issto the war horse what the Red
Gross 10 to the soldier.
The Rsd Star has saved the LIVES Of
thousands Of horses.
p e doing It has aided n vtnains
6avtng horses ahso saves nves for
more horses are 1t the front for use
in hauling war supplies to allied nght-
The Rsd Star movement came In
to sxiGeonCo 1t m inkeenat4oaal con-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-17

in some magazine (name un-
knewn), always with a different geo
graphical setting and q. new set of
names. This is the tale of the gypsy
who was laughed at by a certain lady
(residing at the time in Detroit,
for stating with conviction that the
war would end in November, 1917.
AYE. laugh II you like" said the
seeress,-''but it is as true as that
your chauffeur lies dead unde- your
car this minute" The lady, 1t seems,
had left her. car by the curb while she
returned,-behold! the chauffeur was
dead under the cara victim of heart
disease!
The trusting soul who first told me
this tale even gave me certain details
but when I endeavored to trace the
story to its source, I found myself
promptly revolving in the mystic cir-
Gle Of "so-and-so told me. that a
friend who knew someons who was
there told her"
Well, all this by way Of preamble
to the fact that at the present mo-
ment a series Of calumnies concerning
the Red Cross are being repeated AND
whispered with the, same conviction
that enhanced the foregoing. fibs Of
yesterday. But there is 9 difference.
Some moral might possibly be de-
,duced from. the asinine stories I have
quoted, at least no harm beyond =
straining Of u gullibility and a blow
to u simple faith, but these tales
that have to do with and bring the
Red Cross Organization into disreppte
are mischievous and malicious and
tend to do inca)culablG'harnn. Heaven
knows where or when they. started
and no one>can foresee the end. It Is
precisely AZ though some malencent
imp whispered In a willing ear. 'sTell
this ridiculous lie concerning the SELL
ing Of Red Cross gifts to the soldiers,
to sever gullible friends and soon
and soon; to the end that a noble
organization may fall into disrepute
and be looked upon with suspicion.
Do not break the chain!" You knoT
the stories that are going the POUNDS
now of the woman Gin an hundred
different cities) who recognized a
sweater she had made for her son
worn by somebody in authority in a
Red Cross work. room. After q heated
afgunient the mother t~riumphantly
proves her claim by. producing in the
pocket of the sweater the ten dollar
or one dollar, Or fifty dollar bill she
had placed there the week before.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-17
LONG WINTER
EVENINGS
(From Minneapolis Journal.)

Weather such az dropped in on us
last week tends to prevent the auto-
mobile from interfering with these
plans for reading which so many have
laid u for themselves. Every appar-
ent hindrance has its vetled blessing,
and the peculiar blessing Of the long
winter evening is the time it gives for
the pleasures Of the inner life.
Thousands buy books or draw them
from the libraries, but comparatively
few read the real books or enjoy them
.as they would a motion picture show.
Yet there are books which, perused
by the light Of even the Imagination.
rival the nos thrilling pictures
shown or the screen.
Such a wonderful book as Boswelrs
Life of johnson taken in c~onnection
with Madam a'Arblay's diary, Own
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-17

Lord LAnsdovne explains that his
lettof, which caused 90 much criticism.
was entirely his own. What's the mat
ter. nyone trying b share tho ig-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-17

Emperor Charles Of Austria ought
to reaHse that while he may BE- an
right personally, Uncle Sam has de-
clared war on him bscstse % tbs bad
company no has besn kssping.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
M. A. C. ONe-WEEK SESSIONS
Will Conduct Study Sessions for Rural
Citizens on Up-to-date Agriculture
al Methods.

East Lansing-In furtherance Of its
efforts to carry schools TO the farmers
where the farmers can't get away to
the schools, the extension department
OF NJ. A. e. has scheduled a series OF
one-week study sessions for rural citi-
zens. These schools will be conduct
ed in country towns. Members of the
college extension staff will preside at
the meetings on up-to-date agricultur-
al methods.
During January and February
schools will be conducted as follows:
Jan, 9-12, Gilead, Lowell, Hudson,
Freeport. China township; Jan. 1926,
New Richmond, Big Prairie, Colon.
Beerlin; Jan. 30 to Feb. s, Hartford.
Rockford, Dublin, Saginaw; Feb. 60,
Brookside, Algonac, Benton Harbor,
South Haven, Kent City; Feb. 1915.
Springport, Allegan, iceland, Reese.
Coloma Feb. 1923, Etna, Holland,
Marcellus, Three Rivers, Scots; Feb.
q TO March Z, Athens, Ironton. Au-
Claire, Paw, Paw; March 1876, Char
levoix, Bingham. Victory township,
Harbor Springs.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
BILIOUS, HEADACHY,
SICK "CASCARETS"
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get a 1O-cent box.

Sick headache, biliousness, dizzi-
ness, coated tongue, foul taste and foul
breath-always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed, fermenting food in the
bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the in
testines, instead of being cast out
of the system is re-absorbed into the
blood When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con-
gestion and that dull, throbbing, sick
sning headache.
J Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 10-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. ADV.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Live stock.

DETROIT-Cattle, Receipts 2,184;
Best heavy steers, SS.5O@9; best han
dyweight butcher steers, $I50@S.50;
mixed steers and heifers, S748; handy
light butchers, $6.50@7.5O light
butchers, $5.5OQ6.5O; best cows, $3.50
al; butcher cows, S5.50q6; common
cows, $5q5.5O; Gamers, S3.5OG4S5;
best heavy bulls, $6.5O@7; bologna
bulls, $5.50q6.5O; stock bulls, $4.50q
3; feeders, 6.5OqT; stocfers, $5.5OW
6.75.
Calves-Rece!pts las best S12G
1850; mediums, $9Q1I5O; heavy, So
as.
Sheep and Lambs Receipts 6,O54;
best lambs, $13.S5; fair lambs, S12m
1850; light TO common lambs, $50
Il; fa'r 10 good sheep, $808.75 culls
and common, S6d650.
Hogs Receipts 7.1O1. In the hog
department the quality was generally
on the common order. Pigs bringing
S9.5c and mixed grades from SO 80
5000.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
FALLING HAIR MEANS
DANDRUFF Is ACTIVE
Save Your Hair! Get a 25 Cent Bottle
af Danderine Right Now-Also
Stops Itching Scalp.

Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy
ha'r is mute evidence of a neglected
scslp; of dandruff-that awful scurf
There is nothing so destructive TO
the hair as dandruff. 1t robs the hair
of It's luster, its strength and its very
life: eventually producing a feverish-
ness and itching of the scalp, which
If not remedied causes the hair roots
to shrink, loosen and die-then The
hair falls out fast. A little Danderine
tonight-now-any time-will surely
save your hair.
Get a % cent bottle of Knowltons
Danderine from any store, and after
the first application your hair will
take on that life, luster and luxuriance
which is so beautiful. 1t Will become
wavy and fluffy and have the appear
ance of abundance; an Incompatible
gloss and softness, but what will
please you most will be after just a
few weeks use, when you will actual
ly sec lot Of fine, downy hair--new
hair-growing all over the scalp. Adv.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
LAWSON SURPRISES
MANY IN LEAK QUIZ
NAMES REPRESENTATIVE r. L.
HENRY CHAIRMAN OF THE CON-
MlTTEE AS LEAK IMFoRMER.
M'ADOO AND TUMULTY NAMED
Lawson Sprung One Sensation After
Another AS He Was Being ouized
BY the Committee.

hington-Thomas W. Lawson,
hailed before the house rules
committee to tell what he
knew or had heard about a stock mar
ket leak on President Wilson's peace
note or be punished, calmly declared
that the mysterious congressman who
told him a cabinet officer, a senator
and a banker were engaged in a stock
gambling pool, was none other than
Representative Henry, chairman OF
the committee.
Then, before his hearers had time
to recover from the shock, Lawson
sprung ore sensation after the other
by declaring that the cabinet officer
referred TO was Secretary McAdoo;
that the banker was II. Pliney Fiske,
OF New York, and that he knew the
senator only by the initial 90"
To complete the explosion lawson
went on 10 charge that Paul NJ.
Warburg, of the Federal Reserve
board, had knowledge of the leak"
machinery; repeated rumor that
Count Won Bernstorff, the German am
bassador, had made $2,OOO,OOO in the
stock market, and to mention list Of
we'll known men whom he thought
should be questioned The committee
promptly issued subpoenas ,or all Of
them.
Mr.. Lawson said he had been told
that Malcolm McAdoo. the secretary's
brother. knew of the leak" as did c..
d. Barney & Co., and Stewart G.. Glib
honey, Of New York. A Mrs. Ruth
Thompson Visconti, OF this city. he
said, had declared to him in the pres
ence OF her attorney, that Secretary
Tumulty received his bit" and that
w. w. Price, one of the White House
correspondents. was 1.-The go-between
for Tumulty and others" H. Pliney
Fiske, Lawson said. was the banker
he referred to previously as dominat-
ing cabinet officer, and Archibald
White, he said, had given him this in.
formation.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
Cruiser TSuBUKA
SUNK BY EXPLOSION
THE CRUISER WAS OF 1880 TONS
DISPLACEMENT CREW NUM-
BERED s17 OFFICERS
AND MEN.
SINKS IN YOK0SUKA HARBOR
One Hundred and Fifty-Three Were
kilIed-Warship Was Pride Of the
Japanese Navy.

Tokio-The Japanese battle cruiser
Tsubuka was sunk in the harbor at
Yokosuka by a. explosion of her mag
azine caused by fire. The killed total
153 and 157 were injured. The cause
of the explosion is a mystery.
The cruiser was of 1880 tons dis
placement. measuring 440 feet long
with a beam of 75 feet. She carried
a crew of 81 officers and seamen.
The Tsubuka was completed in
1907. AS the newest and largest bat
tie cruiser in the Mikados feet, she
was sent to the United States to take
part in the naval pageant in Hampton
Roads, which attracted thousands of
spectators attending the jamestown
exposition in May, 1907.
She came to New York later, being
the first modern warship to bring the
Japanese bag past the harbor forts of
the city.
The Tsubuka made the trip to Am
erica in company with the cruiser
Ghitose, both being under command Of
Vice-Admiral Sir Zero Ijuin, then COM
mander of the second squadron of the
Japanese navy.
The warships reached Hampton
Roads on May Z, in time for the pag-
cant, in which warships representing
nearly all the powers took part.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
Grain, Etc.

DETROIT-Wheat-Cash No. red,
1894; May opened with a decline OF
1c at 1914 IL and advanced to S1.98
IL; July opened at 1854 and advanced
to s1.5S; No. l white, $1.89.
Corn-Cash No. 8, $1.O2; Now 8 yell
low, $103; No. yellow, $1.O1 1-2
Oats-Standard, SO 1-2c; No. g..
white, soc; No. white. 5Sc.
Rye--Cash No. 2, $1.48.
Beans-Immediate and prompt ship.
ment, $6.4O; January. 1925.
Seeds-Prime red clover, $19.65;
March, 5000; alsike, $11; timothy,
$3.50.
Flour-Per 1876 lbs. in eighth paper
sacks; Best winter patent, $3.50; Sec
ond patent, $3.50; straight, $40;
spring patent, 5000; rye -four, $3.50
per Dbl.
Hay-No. / timothy, s14.5O@15;
standard timothy, S13.50@14; light
mixed, $1350@14; No. 2 timothy, $12
G1S; No. l mixed, $13.5O914; No. .
mixed, $10Q11; No. l clover, $40
1850; rye straw, 5000; wheat and
oat straw, $S50Q9 er ton in CARROTS.
Detroit.
Feed-In 100-fb. sacks, jobbing lots;
Bran, S32; standard middlings, s33;
fine middlings, $35; cracked corn, $40;
coarse cornmeal. SAP; corn and oat
chop, $3S per ton.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
U. S. CRUISER AGROUND
Abandoned by Her Crew, She Is Left
at Mercy Of the Waves.

Samoa, Cal.-Abandoned by most Of
her crew, the United States cruiser
Milwaukee, aground in the surf two
miles west of here, is being pounded
and battered by the waves. That
she will be a wreck was the general
opinion expressed by the naval men
who patrclled the beach and watched
the hulk sway and plunge. The res
cue OF the crew of II officers and 317
men was completed.
From the tip of the cruisers fight
ing top to the beach stretched three
lines, and over these a brooches buoy
moved back and forth with monoton-
Gus regularity. Two men were saved
on each trip
simultaneously two surf boats op-
Grated by men of the Humboldt Bav
coast guard and members of the
stricken warship's crew made fire.
quent trips to the vessel. each time
bringing FIVE men. Every trip was
fraught with danger for the rescuers
and rescued, for the huge waves toss
ed the surf boats about like corks.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS

A movement has been starte to
celebrate the one-hundredth, anniver-
sary of the incorporation of Monroe
as a village July IA, 1917.
With coal prices out of sight, sew
eral hundred persons stood by while
fire consumed the coal docks Of the
Pere Marquette railroad at Flint. More
than 40 tons of coal were consumed.
Miss Edith Lindensmitt, IL years
old, daughter of Sheriff Herman Lin
densmitt, of Ann Arbor swallowed
three pins while playing with her doll.
Her mother patted her on the back
and she cCughed two of them up. A
doctor at the university hospital re-
moved the other and in an hour and
a half from the t.me Edith swallowed
the pins she was busy making a pin
cushion. The pin which lodged in the
girls throat was removed without in
juring the child.
Nearly a block OF the business Sec
tion of Riverdale. burned when flames
destroyed four buildings, two used by
stores. one by barber shop and one
by a cream station.
This woman is not dead. My SER
vices are not needed" declared Coro-
ner Simeon Leroy of Grand Rapids
as he looked at Mrs. Belle shannon,
80 years old, who had been found I'M
conscious. Coroner Leroy summoned
the family physician after administer
ing first aid. AS he prepared to go
the woman died. The coroner pro-
nounced death due to old age.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
G. W. WELSH WINS IN RECOUNT
His Majority Being IT'S Woes Over
Theodore VanderVeen His
Opponent.

Grand apids-Alderman George w.
Welsh, Republican, has been elected
the legislative recount his majority
being IT'S over Theodore Vandeveen,
Democrat, who on the face of the or
iginal returns won by 60 votes. Joseph
]. Front and Henry Schmidt. Demo-
Gratis, who were elected to the house
over William DeBoen and Adrian De-
Foung by pluralities of about 500 and
who Joined in the contest with Welsh,
withdrew when the early returns show
ed no appreciable change in their IA
vor.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
The New Method
az 1. W.. nowER, X. ID

Backache of any kind is often caused
by kidney disorder, which means that
the kidneys are not working properly
Poisonous matter aud uric acid accumu-
late within the body in great abundance
over working the sick kidneys, hence
the congestion Of blood causes backache
in the same manner as a similar con-
gestion i'm the head causes headache
You become nervous, respondent, sick,
feverish, irritable, have spots appearing
before the eyes, bags under the lids, and
lack ambition TO do things.
The latest and most effective means
of overcoming this trouble, is TO eat spar
ingly of meat, drink plenty water be-
tween meals and take single Anuric
tablet before each meal for a while.
Simply ask your favorite druggist for
AnurIc. Ii you have lumbago. rheuma-
tism, govt, dropsy, begin Immediately
with this novel treatment
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
AUDITORIUM SUPPORTS SELF
During Nine Years the Total Receipts
Were 81, 2se7e.

Saginaw - Saginaw's municipality
owned auditorium, which is the larg-
est and best equipped in the state,
having a capacity of 1000. has recent
ly had fits accounts audited for the
entire period since it was opened in
1908. The audit shows most crafty
ing results. During the nine year per-
iod the total receipts were S71.2S9.79,
and the expenditures S70,229.55, leav-
ing a balance in the treasury of ST.
O6O27. The expenditures include not
only maintenance and running ex-
penses Of all kinds but an outlay of
SS,077.42 for improvements.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-01-18
INSTITUTIONS LEFT S25,OoO
Mrs. Anna Sears in VIII Filed for
Probate Gives to Educational and
Religious institutions.

Ann notwithstanding to the will
of the late Mrs. Anna Sears. filed with
the probate court, more than half her
estate, or $4,000, was given to relig-
Gus and educational institutions for
the furtherance Of the work for which
each is designed. The First Congre-
gational church of Chelsea got $4,000
and like sums went to the Michigan
Home Missionary society; the Wo-
mems Board of Missions of the In
terror, and Olivet college. The latter
sum is TO be used as a loan fuld for
needy students at Olivet.