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The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-17
The Woodiot.

The farm woodlot can furnish work
for men and teams during the winter
months when other work is scarce BE.
sides aiding the farmer on the labor
question, the woodlot can supply por-
ton of the building material, the bulk
of the repair maternal and large part
If not all, of the fuel used on the av-
erage farm. In addition, the well-kept
woodlot may be made a source of out
side income through sales of timber,
ties or fuel wood.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-17

z ASTER SUNDAY is less than
l. a month away now, and this
great style sale offers exceptional
chances for the selection of your
spring suit. All the newest arrivals
in the fashionable colorings, patterns
and fabrics are includedIin this offer
ing, and we guarantee the style and
fit of every suit, making no charges
for necessary alterations. Remember
Saturday is the last day of these price
concessions.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-05-18

1850 H. W. Coffield, Treasurer,
inquest fees body OF Ella
M Daniely ................... 299
ISL II. w. Coffield, Treasurer,
inquest fees body of ]. w.
Moore .,............,......... 22.Oi
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-05-18

pepdlIS OH county BuHulnBS, ana tuel.
A Tetley-Klein Lumber Co.,
supplies for improvement
Co. Jnfirmary .................$ $50
SO Mccarthy Lbr s, Const. Co.,
CRATES for boilers ut Inf. 1884
166 Tetley-Klein Lbr. Co, sup
plies for improvement Co.
Inhrmary ......,.,,............ 2z52
3A T. N. Henderson, Supt.. la
Dor and material at Co. Inf. $50
402 4. N. Henderson, Supt., la
Dor and material at Co. Inf. 279OI
409 Boswell & Helber, labor and
material at Co. Inf....... 1905
6H 7. ", Henderson, Supt., la
Dor and material at Co. Inf. 1915
GA Mccarthy Lbr. & Const Co.,
building addition at Co Inf. 1,191O5
$50 Tetley-Klein Lbr Co., sup
plies for Improvement at Co.
Inf Observation-Disclosures. eOS
S3l Mccarthy Ibr. & Const Co.,
supplies for improvement at
Co. Inf. Observation-Disclosures. 3.55
04S Tetley-Kelin Lbr. Co, sup
plies for improvement Co. Inf $40
200 Schramm Bot. & Ice Mfg.
Co., coal for Co. Inf. 400
S3S u L. Swink, wood for Co.
lnilrmary ...................... 5000
OS3 Mayberry. Byington & Tul-
lock, coal for Co. Inf. 1852
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-05-18

Warrants.
Warrant
No.
. D. $. McGlashon, Treas,
support poor persons at
Bonnie Terre ,......... ....,..$ $500
10 Clint H. Denman, Treas,
support poor persons at
Pennington .,.,,............ 1000
II Mrs. f. M. Horton, Treas,
support poor persons at
Flat River ..............,... 800
II Mrs. Otto Skaggs, Treas,
support poor persons at
Desioge ......,.........,...,.... 25.00
13 Mrs. Nan Dosing, support
John Dosing, Jr. ......,.. 400
IA s. A. Ashburn, beef for Co.
lnHrmary ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 9.36
Is w. M. Brumfieid, relief -. 400
16 Drs. Weber &c Eugas ex-
animation of Ida and Harry
POstlewaite ......,.... .....-.> 1000
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21
U. s. Officers And Mexicans Exchange
 Calls of Courtesy

E1 Paso, Texas, March 21.-An ex- change of courtesies has taken place between commanding officers of the United States troops at Ell Paso and the de facto government commanders of Mexico. Brigadier General George Bell, Jr., commanding the United States troops in the Ell Paso district, and his staff, attended a luncheon given in their honor at Juarez by General Jose Murguia. After the lun- cheon General Murguia and staff ac- companied General Bell to Fort Bliss to attend the review of United States troops and a polo match. General Pershing told General Nurguia that he was highly pleased at the era of good feeling which is being establish ed.
 The seventh United States infantry, ordered by the War Department to Fort McPherson and Oglethorpe, Ga, to guard interned German naval pris- oners, today started entraining at Camp Newton D. Baker.
 The First Kentucky infantry has left for Louisville, Ky. to be mustered out. The First Brigade headquarters,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21
PRUSS|AN PEOPLE
 MUST RISE NOW, SCHE|DEMAN SAYS
Why Postpone What Is Nec- essary Asks Reichstag
 Leader.

Berlin, via London, March 21.- Philipp Scheideman, socialist leader in the Reichstag, says in the socialist newspaper Vorwaerts:
 ''It does not require many words to explain why almost the whole world is arrayed against us. The answer is given quickly. The whole world sees among our enemies more or less de- veloped forms of democracy and in us it sees only Prussians.
 we have always answered by re- ferring to the absolutism of Russia, but now Tsarism has gone and the Emperor's successor is to accept and the throne only R the representatives sentatives are to be elected on the basis of universal, equal. direct and secret suffrage.
 ''In Asia the Empire of the manda- rins opposed every reform. They desired an Emperor with absolute power as long as he did their will, and thereby undermined the monar- chy and laid the foundation of a Re- public. In the European Central Elm pire similar spirits seek to build sim- liar Chinese walls and hinder every reform. The clock shows five rnin- utes to twelve. They imagine they hold up the time when they move back the hands to eleven.
 "Why does the Chancellor shrink back now from unconditional neces- sity? Always the hesitator, the pro- crastinator. Bethmann- -Hollweg wants to begin to cure Prussia after the war. Russia also promised all reforms af- ter the war, but the war lasted too long for the Russians.
 .'Why postpone till tomorrow what is absolutely necessary to-day, what ever the King himself declared years ago was one of the most urgent mat ters of the business of the State? Now is the time for decisive action. The difficulties which might arise if the government adopts the Reichstag sys- tenn of elections for Prussian elections are as a featherweight as compared with the difficulties which will come if it does not do this.
 'The Chancellor should not delay one day. The Prussian people, as we'll as the other German states, will stand as one-man at his side if he acts decisively."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21
Propose Aerial Line for
 Prince Edward Island

Charlottetpwn. F. B. l., March 21.- A proposition for an aerial service to break the isolation of Prince Ed ward Island in the winter was made public to-day. The project is advo- cated by F. w. Hindman, president of the local branch of the Canadian divis- ion, Aerial League of the British Elm pire.
 Continuous communication with the mainland in cold weather, prevented by ice foes in the Northumberland strait, has been sought for. At the narrowest point of the strait the isl- and is about six miles from the New Brunswick coast and IA miles from the northern end of, Nova Scotia. Ice breaking steamers have been unable to keep channels open at all times. A proposal to bore a tunnel under the strait has received serious considera- ton.
 The aerial service is proposed as far less expensive means of insuring transit of the mails. Government ownership or subsidy will be sought.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21

"At present it looks as though Hin da1burg means to go back to the Douai- -Cambrai-St. Quintin-La Fere- Soissons line, keeping as wide a circle around Lille as he can till we force him to contract it, and clinging to the Aisne as long as the French will let him. This is only surmise, and devel- opments in other parts of the front may interfere with the field marshal's plans, but he has got to fight some where, as he knows. by this time, and if he offers battle on the suggested line he will, do so without risk to his communications with Belgium when he is compelled again to retire.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21
WANTON DESTRUCTION MARKS
 PATH OF GERMANS RETREAT THROUGH FRENCH VILLAGES

I facing away from the line of British nd French fire, had great squares blown through them, differing strik- ingly from the round holes made in other buildings by shells.
 The beautiful old 16th century church of St. Jean was pitiful mass of ruins but one of it's oil paintings still hung on a bit of wall in the touched. The statue of Catherine De- voix, which had adorned the great square, had been taken away bv the Germans and a gaudily clad dummy left in it's stead.
 The railroad station was complete ly wrecked, including the tracks and crossing bridges. German signs had been substituted throughout the sta- ton and on a bulletin board was a time table of trains for Lille, Munich and other points within the German lines. The Germans left many relics behind to show their occupancy of the French military barracks. In some of the rooms Christmas trees, gaily decorated with tinsel, were still stand ing. It was strange to find in some of the shattered and partly burned houses remnants of chi1dren's toys, in- cluding doll carriages and bits of dolls themselves. These toys had been left behind with all other household be- longings when the French inhabitants first fled before the German invad- CTS. In some of the finer residences the libraries had beGn wrecked, the books. torn to pieces and scattered in the streets.
 The Germans had left several foot bridges across the Somme which were apparently intact, but on closer ex- animation showed that false sections had been inserted which gave way at the first foot pressure. The cores >pondent, Investigating one of these bridges too closely, had an icy bath in the Somme. On the blank walls of the city there were many printed proclamations to the soldiers, includ- ing the entire text of some of Chan cellor Won Bethmann Hollweg's la ter speeches in the Reichstag.
 At a chateau just outside Peronne and stuck them on the sharp points of the iron posts at either side of the en- trance. T suppose that signifies some German curse or sign of bad luck" said the British subaltern as he went whistling gaily on his way ito find, as he said, where the war has taken it. self off to-"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21
''The Morning After''
(By DR.L. w. BOWER.)

One of the characteristic head. aches due to uric acid in the system, which acts as a poison when 1t ac- cumulates, is due to alcohol taken the night before. The kidneys do not succeed in throwing off this poisonous accumulation, the stomach is nause- ated, or the blood congests in the head, causing throbbing pain. called headache-the heart is depressed. circulation of blood poor to the exs tremities, the muscles feel tired, or twinges of pain here and there are felt, and when this uric acid is de-
 posted in the tissues or joints 1t causes rheumatism or gout. always advise the drinking of hot water, a half pint in the morning, and @ little Anuric. Sometimes the 'blues," or a sort of rash, or a pimply face. gives warning of an "uric acid storm" At such times always take Anuric (double strength), which can be ob- tained at almost any drug store, and which you will find dissolves the uric acid almost as hot water does sugar.
 Avoid too much meat, tea and al- cohol. Drink an abundance of water, both hot and cold. Take Anuric three times a day until the bad symptoms all subside. This X is the best way to avoid rheumatism Aed many of the pains and aches due 'toa uric acid condition. If you drink any alcoholic beverage you sho,,.n s-eep the kidneys and liver active with Anuric, so as to throw off the poisons which accumulate. If your tongue Is coated-a dark brown taste breath foul, followed sometimes by colds, in- digestion, biliousness. constipation or sour acid stomach, you should take some vegetable laxative. Such a one is made in sugar-coated form from the Map-apple, leaves of aloe, and root of alap, and commonly sold by almost all druggists as Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, They are standard and have been in ready-to-uss form for nearly fifty years.-Adv,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21
jAPANLAND OF INFINITE DETAIL
 AND INGENUITY
Each Available Square Foot of Soil Made to Yield Ev-
 cry Possible Return.

Japan might well be called the land of infinite detail. Perhaps nowhere on earth may one see detail carried to such extremes as in that land, where every available square foot of soil must be made to yield every possible return. Farms of one or two acres producing six, eight, ten or a dozen different crops are common sights, the soil being fertilized and handled in such a manner as to bring results in every month of the year.
 One peasant who obtained some overflowed land turned what in this country would be waste ground to porfit. Converting the marshy over- flow into ponds, he bred and raised snapping turtles, which in Japan are considered as much or d cercacy as diamond back terrapin here. The farm now produces tens of thousands of the snapping turtles annually, these being shipped to Tokio and Yo- kohama markets by the ton.
 Certain of the ponds are set apart as breeding grounds for the turtles, and once day men go carefully along the banks with little wire bas- kets with which they cover all newly deposited turtle eggs. Sometimes IllO uSStuuS O1 l11G WH0 Uo1OhOLo o1 III sight at one time marking the places where the eggs lie and preventing the turtles from scratching the earth from them.
 Matching consumes from forty to sixty days, according to the weather. The young as soon as they appear are put in separate small ponds and are fed with finely chopped fish. They eat this during September and October and late in the latter month burrow in the mud for the winter, coming out in April and May.
 Most of them are sold In the mar ket when they are from three to five years old, at which time they are most delicate.
 Japan also has an oyster farm.
 Tn the Bay of Ago there has been established a plantation from which a harvest Is obtained.
 In May or June stones weighing from six to eight pounds are sunk in shallow water and in August the tiny shells being to appear on them. The stones ,remain for two months, but since the young oysters cannot endure cold in November all rocks in less than five feet of water are moved further out where the tenn perature is more even. At the end of three years when the shells are about two inches across they are talk en from the water, nuclei for pearls inserted in them and replaced in the water, thirty of them to every six square feet of bottom.
 There they are left for four years. Then being seven and a half years old. they are removed and searched for pearls.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21
ART
 PROVIDES SHOCK
 FOR PROFESSORS
Pictorial" Editors Censur- ed for Printing
 "Disgraces."

Princeton, N. J., March 21.-Every once in while the editors of the Princeton Pictorial decide to do some thing naughty and shock the campus and in the last number they have suc- ceeded so we'll that their neighbor the Princetonian declares that they have disgraced the college, asks the edito- rial board dismiss the members re- spnosible, and hopes the faculty will do something to prevent 8 recurrence of what they call the outrage.
 The faculty members haven't taken it up seriously so far. Those of them who have seen the magazine lay its outburst to the feeling of spring and the spirit of restlessness which is abroad on the Princeton campus. But there is no doubt that the 'ludicrity'' number, as it's editors have dubbed it, leaves little to the imagination, and it has stirred up a rumpus among the students who doubt the good taste of many of it's attempts at humor.
 '"The Pictorial has ceased to be the Princeton Pictorial" says the Prince tonian editorially. "It has disgraced the university. It is a cause of utmost
 
 personal vulgarity of one man or a small group of men should be used to represent Princeton to outsiders.
 ''The tendency toward indecency ir the recent issues of the Nassau Lit may possibly be excused as being art. But the Pic cannot use even, this time worn excuse for it's crudity. The Pic is not art, it is barnyard vulgarity, Bow cry indecency, prep school wit, coal heavers' humor.''
 And it has stirred up quite a rum pus From the moment one opens it to find the picture of a young lady climbing telegraph pole in high heel ed pumps and = CT - we'll, black ones, over the motto "Keep we'll post ed,' one just turns the pages over and over and doesn't have to guess twice at what the ardent minded undergradu- ates who did it had in mind. Their efforts range all the way from the dis cussion of the advisability of having wife in college, making it truly CO., educational institution, to 8 so-called matrimonial page, which is rightly en- titled "Hot Stuff'
 It must be spring, for there are just ncdpS anu heaps Ol plCluI co OA pA SI- ty girls in the Pictorial-some of them on the matrimonial advertisement page-on whom one can look without tiring. Somewhere an ambitious art editor got hold of some pictures of a girls college and printed them under the caption ''When Princeton is Co., ed.' There are some things on the page, however, which are not so mildly frivolous and which the post office authorities might refuse to pass.
 A large part of the number is given up to pictures of the faculty supposed to have been taken when they were near the tender age of one and a half. There is a little photograph of a nice chubby child labelled "John G. Hibben," the president of the UniVer- sity; a coy picture of Prof. Henry N. Russell as little girl named Lillian. Dean West of the graduate college, Dean McClenahan of the university and many other professors are handled similarly.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21
Camp Fire Girls Aid
 Children of Europe

Three-fourths of the 90,000 girl members of the Camp Fire Girls, inc, are to become mothers some day &C., cording to census experts and life in- surance statisticians- In the mean while many of them are acting as vi- carious mothers of little French and Belgian babies Four different ways have been offered to them of helping to support baby.
 The first was by the American Girls Aid at 293 Fifth avenue, New York, which offered them the opportunity to be a Godmother for $6 a month. The Godmother undertakes to send this amount monthly for the support of a particular child. The Camp Fire, of from six to twenty girls, which elects to become a "Godmother' can correspond directly with it's God child"
 The second opportunity came through the Orphelinat des Armees, which has committees in every part of France and in many states of the Un- ion, and by adding s73 a year to the $3 month allowed by the French Government to mother for her fath- erless child, enables it to be cared for at home.
 The third way in which Camp Fire girls can become vicarious little moth CTS is by sending baby kits, second hand clothes or materials not made up to Europe through the British War Relief, 542 Fifth avenue, New York, the American Girls Aid, or the Bel gian Relief Commission at the Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, N. r.
 The fourth way is to help a baby locally by helping a mother support her own baby which would otherwise go into an institution because of lack ofS funds, or to take special interest in a baby in some institution by mak- ing fts clothing or otherwise. The Child Placing Agency at 105 East 22nd street, New York, finds homes for babies for donations of s5.42 a month.
 All these things the little Camp Fire Mothers are doing in increasing meas ure, and they have already contribu- ted money, care and Hbaby kits to many suffering little ones
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21
British Rush Arming Of All Merchant Ships
 Leaving Their Ports

London, March 21.-A visit around the harbors and docks of London. Iiv- erpool and Manchester, undertaken with view to observing how the Ger man submarine blockade has affected them, shows that t'Dusiness as usuaP' is the rule in the British ports.
 There has been no apparent slack ening of trade at any point and the slightest holding up of neutral ship ping has not yet had any reflection in the weekly tonnage and trade re- ports of the port authorities.
 In each of the three ports visited the figures of arrivals and departures make favorable comparison with the figures of three months O. a year ago, and in each of these ports the stocks of foodstuffs and other mer- chandise stand at better than peace time basis.
 A few Dutch and Scandinavian ships have been held in port under their owners orders, and some of these have now been paying dock charges for nearly a month. Most neutral ships, however, after a few days delay at the outset of the sub- marine blockade, decided to lift their anchors and go on with business. 1OCh C1loI6O oA C IoO hCcS'Js N@AAo pi " fits in trade too large to allow ship owner to hesitate, especially when in- surance is easily obtainable.
 There is plenty or evidence on the other hand, that the British admiralty is taking up the submarine question with the greatest energy. The arm ing of merchant ships goes on under rush orders at every port, and few British ships are now leaving without guns and gun crews.
 ''We have practically ceased to worry about submarines,' remarked the superintendent of one of the big London docks. We don't see many American ships here, but we shall be surprised if the few that visit us don't appear before very long with a can- opy of canvas owed the stern covering a suspicious looking package with a AT muzZle. And the Americans are pretty good marksmen generally.
 tEvery. ship that comes in has a few stories to tell about the excellent markmanship of theiri gun crew There is great rivalry among the crews, and if their reports about hit ting floating barrels at fabulous dis tances in practice on the open sea are correct, there is little chance for the submarine that shows it's periscope within sight of any of our ships lock- outSn
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21

This map shows that the German retirement on the French front in- wolves giving up the extreme point and western flank of the "e1bow" of their position in France--the point where the German lines were nearest to Paris.
 The shaded portion represents the approximate area so far surrendered in the retreat, the heavy solid line the battle front before 1t began, and the dotted line the battle front on July 1, 1916, the>day the battle of the Somme began.
 The military critic of the London News writes:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21

of Ohio, commanded by Brigadier General William McMaken, and the Sixth infantry left today for home.
 Major General John J. Pershing has been presented with a medal by the Legislature of New Mexico in re- cognition of his services in Mexico The event was made a gala day here. Hundreds of New Mexicans were here to witness the presentation of the medal
 General Pershing states he has re- ceived no official orders for a change in the schedule for the departure of National Guard troops from the bor- der
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-21
WOULD SUPPLY OFFICERS

Middlebury. Vt, March 21. - The Middlebury college has recommended unanimously that the board of trus- tees apply to the war department for the formation of unit of the federal offers reserve training corps at the college. The students already have formed a military company and have requested that it be made the basis of the proposed unit.