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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-12-14
BY WILLIS BROOKS
NUMBER SO

Copyright, 1917. Western Newspaper Union.)
NUR village paper had issued a very
~ c%reditable Christmas edition. I
was looking over the news Sec
ton by the front window. My wife
sat near. absorbed in the story part.
whats that" she asked, listening.
She was always on the lookout for
more eggs. What she heard certainly
did sound like a hen announcing the
arrival of one-twelfth of a dozen.
'"That." l answered, sis Ezra Barn.
stable in q state of amusement"
We looked through the window, and,
sure enough, here he came down the
street, an expansive smile illuminat-
ing his moonlike face.
what on earth can the man be
laughing so about all alone?" my wife
wanted to know. She was that way
never content to let a nan be happy
unless she knew the reason why.
So I went to the door and sang out
to Ezra. isn't it kind of stingv to en-
Joy it all by yourself?"
When he had unwound the wool tip
pet from his neck and taken the rock
ing chair which the missis had set be-
fore the fireplace for him he leaned
back and cut gaShes in the atmOs-
phere with another flourish of his
sharp cachinnnti0ns. Give heard o.
Sautn Claus playin' tricks before now"
said he, but l don't guess he amt
acver played zone no i'unnier than
this.
I'll was like this: Three, four days
ago my boy Chef come home with a
rabbit-One O them big white critters
with the pink eycs-that he'd snapped
off one O his mittenS to the one armed
Mayhem boy fer. When he come in.
lucgin' the thing in his arms, his ma
asst him whose it was, an he said it
was his'n an its name was Jimmy an
Eddie Mayhem give it to him.
"'Them. Mayhem boys amt givin'
nothin' away fer nothin'," says she.
'Whnt'd you give him fer it.?
"Chet knowed he was cornered, so
he owned up that he'd give Eddie one
O. his wool mittens. I don't never
wear but one much anyhow says he.
sun. besides, IIddie's n poor, n armed
boy, an his hand was cold, an it was
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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-12-14

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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09

ulotlO0 OF C0pllaI IN 0fo0t brlc0ln. Wnetn.
er the same relative position will be found
in tho future l would not venture to pre-
dict.
The accumulation of capital in England,
carried on m 1t has been through 30 many
generations. has been enormous. and even
the portentious strain upon It through the
war nj and expenses may not seriously
shatter its sources. In the nature Of the
case. 1t IL unlikely that even under ordi-
nary conditions the financial Importance
OF London would nave remained indef-
nitely what 1t has been during the past
century. Here also the. sort of change
which was likely to have come in any
event will be accelerated by the war. But
whether It will 30 so far as to revolu-
|tionise completely the mechanism Of In
|ternational exchange remains to be seen.
Dollar exchange may replace sterling exc
change: or 4 may rise to . position Of
equal Importance n range; or We may
lnd . situation In which New York and
London and Berlin md Paris viii all be
important centers for International remit
|tAnce, and ZACH of th~em-surely, In the
end!-win deal with each m remit to
each other with peaceful indifference
|concerning the monetary standard In
which the transactionss are uettled.
Al 0uessss OF.
A.Word. oe warning Ia conclusion: A
will known banker, 10 whom I put .
Equeeta6is n tho pfobablo coufss g certain
go -narrstVt4t
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09
Deported to End
Vice and Continue ldleness;
Germany Explains in U.S. Note

Washington. ID. c.. Special-Deporta-
don mo compulsory employment OF
Belgian work men is vigorously defend
ed by the German government in "a
memorial presented to the state depart
nlelt today by the German embassy.
The text of the document, which also
has been delivered To the foreign ofil-
ccs of other neutral governments. fol
lows:
The compulsory employment of Bel
sian workmen in German establish
meats is being seized upon by our enc
mics as a welcome opportunity for m
flaming public opinion in the neutral
ana hostile countries against this al
legged latest violation of the Belgian
people.
Those who wish to comprehend
these facts VIII first of all have to gain
II clear conception of the extent of an
employment i'm Belgium and its conse-
quenccs. The principal cause for this
unemployment is to be found i'm the
ruthless application of the British
blockade even as against Belgium.
Belgian industries are dependent on
tho Importation of raw materials and
the expectation of manufactured goods
to such AN extent that the almost COM
plete throttling of Belgium's foreign
trade by England was bound to lead
automatically to the closing down of by
far the greater part of the Belgian fac
tories.
but of 1900 900 men and women who
before the war were working in Bel
gian Industrial establishments, COM
prlSlng approximately one-half of the
total population of Belgium engaged in
galnful pursuits. 505,00O people (includ-
Ing 15S,000 women) are totally unem-
ployed. while 100000 (including $4,000
Women are only partially employed.
Ihus In all Gas, 600 persons who for
merlN were earning their living as in
dustrlal workers are now dependent on
public charity. If, moreover, $685. 900
wives and 612,O 600 children of the UNI
employed are added, the figure rises to
l,o60,oOo people in need of assistance
approximately one-fifth of the total
Belgian population"
ut is obvious that in a highly devel-
oped Industrial country like Belgium
the conditions described. which are
without parallel in history, must of
necessity lead to the gravest economic
ana social evils. The sums so far eX-
pended in procuring the minimum of
subsistence for the unemployed and
their dependents reach a total of 3OO,-
ooo,ooo francs, and they promise in fu-
ture to amount to no less than 90, OOO,-
V0o francs monthly. And although
foreign countries undertook to finance
burden must be borne by the national
non of Belgium. Not only are the
values thus nnproductively expended a
total loss to B~elgiun's economic life,
but they also do it much harm. Owing
TO the relief granted them. the work
ers are tempted into continued idle
sS"ss. with the result that today Bel
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09
The New British War Loan.
From eache's Now York Review.

The great British war loan, the most
s~tupendous financial operation in the his
tory of the world, was ushered in on
Thursday by a trumpet call to the Brit
lsh nation, at the mass meeting at the
Guildhall.
Premier Lloyd George, in the course of
MS Hrst great speech. said:
This loan is a good investment now. Tt
VIII be better after the war. Before the
war began we had many shortcomings in
business and industry. The war is setting
things right in a marvellous way. Our
factories are s%crapping old machinery, dis
cardlng old slipshod methods and disc6n-
tlhtllng hampering customs. 1 dc not
Know what the national debt will be at
the end of the war, but l venture the pre-
dlction that whatever is added will be a
real asset to the real riches of the nation.
The nation has been developed, disci-
pinned and braced up. The Prussian men,
ace was a running mortgage which depre-
clated the value of our national security.
mat mortgage will now be cleared off
forever. After the war the world will be
able to attend to it's business in peace,
ana IN the future the best security for
peace will be found when the nations of
the world band themselves together to
punish the first peace breaker"
The terms of the loan were outlined at
the meeting by the chancellor. Mr.. Bonar
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09
London On tn. Note.

I. UYVkSs
Ihe Following London special tells of the
note OF the allies to Germany and COM
menus In suggestive phfase upon the note
TO President Wilson. The last paragraph
OF this special is given italfc emphasis bv
ourselves:
Inc city heartily approves the reply OF
sIe alaes to Germany. The position il
.naoe stiil more clear. in connection with
..e ioftncomlns answer Of the allied gov
eEnments to Mr.. Wilson.
~ is considered here that MIR. Wilson'S
n1te, with the subsequent Developments.
ras made the situation somewhat delicate.
lnfs - especially SO since VIC had re-
peaIediy emphasized. at the commence
Hient or the war. the Importance of Amer
.ca 3 investigating the rights and wrongs
~ the conhitt. Our people in fact chai-
lsnseu inquiry, publishing ths full off,
III eHtsience. The danger, as we see it
moW. Is that President Wilson may quite
~ ninsehtaonaiiy proiung rather than hast
: q tue entltag OF the war.
city believes decie.ve Developments
20 oe impending. which will hsfo towards
bringing the war to an early and sue.
esessut conclusion, and the earnest de.
sire - that, before such q .lcraent ar.
rsves. Hmericass noral, though not ma.
ssrsas farce be displayed unraista!Sably
on tne side OF the allies. This would At
leaee make possible close co.ooeration
ooIin0 the next fe~ mcnths in "a. move.
MenS 90 Insure continued psace-a CO.
VSers1oa on which the d~sveispn7enfy Of
tns sutuse may depend.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09
Back to Europe?

From the Boston Advertiser.
An official of one of Il large trans
continental railways il our authority fol
the almost incredible statement that al
ready there nave beer sold to foreign
born wage earners, now in the United
States. 100. 600 Storage tickets to Europe
good as soon as peace is declared there.
This is a pretty serious question
for the United States, and it is one
that deserves careful and pretty
prompt investigations. What il going
to become of American industry?
What is the farmer going to do, who
now raises the food for those wage
earners? What is going to happen
to American trade, industry and
commerce generallye II from 100000
to 1000 600 of foreign born residents
Of this country suddenly take it into
their heads to quit their work here
and rush back to their former homee,
where they can now realize the am
bition Of their lives and acquire land,
and an independent living on the soil,
for themselves and their families?
All over the United States. today.
private banks are. taking the money
of the foreign born laborer, with the
understanding that II Is to be sent
back to Europe n invested In farm
property there. SO that these thrifty
citizens can become land owners.
In the past two years considerably
more than a Ound $1,000. coz. 1000
has been handed over to these pri-
vate banks for that purpose.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09
The Rose Fairy.

Once upon a time the Rose Fairy
climbed up into n of the flowers i'm
the southern garden where she was
the winter and went fast
curled up in the flower that when the
sun to grow hot the flower drew
us petals together to keep the sun out
OF the fa1ry's eyes. SO she could finish
ner nap. for the flowers all loved the
little Rose Fairy.
The wee little fairy slept on and
didn't know when a little girl came
along and picked the flower, took it
nome with her to her mother who was
SICK. When h fairy woke up she was
sun IN the flower and the flower was
IN q pitcher of nice cool water.
Now the Golden Bumblebee missed
the Rose Fairy and wondered where she
could be. He asked ali Of the flowers
but none of them know where She was
uhtll at last n of them said it was
sure she vent to sleep in one Of the
fiowers N 80 the bee went off in
search of the Rose Fairy.
AT last he came to the place where
the Tower had been picked and he felt
very sure that this was where the Rose
FAIRY had been asleep and he felt very
sure that his little friend had gone too.
He began to fly aroun the garden
ana then out into the road and soon
ne was flying in the room where the
iioWer INC the fairy were. AS soon as he
saw n little Rose Fairy he began to
scold her for running away and getting
lost, ~ the fairy told him ali about
how It had happened and then she told
him how h had heard the little giri
talking with her mother and how much
they both loved flowers. They were
quite poor and couldn't afford to buy
Towers and thel little girl was 50 pleased
With the flowers she had picked that
ne fairy said that when she got back
10 tne wos sc'nS to ask the
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09


Law. The bulk of the issue will be 5 per
cent bonds sold at 90. thus yielding approx
lmately 5A per cent. There will also be
4 per cent bonds. free of income tax, to be
sold at par. The S per cents will be issued
Tor a period of 80 years, with the option of
redemption after u years. The 4s will run
for % years, with the same option.
Five per cent of the subscriptions must
be paid with the application and the re-
malnder will be payable in equal install
ments before May 30. The previous war
loan may be converted into the new loan
at par. A similar provision is made for
conversion of various types of short term
paper issued in the last few months.
"A sinking fund provision is an innoya-
tion which has been introduced for the
first time in any British loan that has
ever been issued. 1t provides as follows:
n government agrees to set aside
monthly one-eighths of I per cent Of the
total amount OF issue. This sun. repre-
senting an annual sinking fund appropria-
ton OF w per cent. will be allowed to ac-
cumulate until a fund of $40, o00. 600
@So,ooO,OOO is in hand, which will then be
used for purchasing bonds in the omen mar
ket whenever they fail below the issue
price.
The bonds will be issued in d~enomjna-
ions Of ESQ $3.50 and multiples thereof.
while through the postoffce subscriptions
as low az G6 VIII be received.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09
Confession.

I ate too nue. roast turkey, upon
Thanksgiving day. and now my works
are jerky. the gears are out Of play.
! swallowed Christmas chickens, and
Christmas pies and cakes. and like the
well known dickens. my stomach bucks
and aches. / swallowed New Year
candy. all day. in my abode. until my
legs grew handy beneath the grievous
load. All winter I've been eating. with
this excuse OF that. and now I'm sadly
bleating because I am SO fat. Within
mo there's q riot, my works are out Of
plumb. and i win have to diet for weary
months to come. I'll have to get up
early. and walk a hundred miles: what
wonder II I'm surly. and short on sum
NY smiles? For months I'll have to
swallow the doctors noxious pills. and
his instructions follow. and also pay
his bills. The grief 10 eve lasting that
festive reasons bring; 'twere better IL
with Tasting we'd celebrate and sing.
e we would YEAS to swallow the
Christmas cakes and pies, an0S keep
Y persons hollow, methinks 'twould
be more wise.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09
South American Trade.

Great Britain is evidently taking good
care of her market for cotton goods in
South and Central America despite war
conditions. A compilation by the foreign
trade department of the National City
bank Of New York shows that British
exports OF cotton cloth to South and Gem
trail America in the IL months ending with
November, 1916, amount to Ala, O00.M yards
against 275, W0 600 yards in the game
months OF 1915. 49, 0o,M GOO To- the correspond
ing months IF 1914, and 54a,00O,G0 in the
same months OF 1918. This shows a very
large increase in British exports of cotton
cloths to South ano Central America in
1916 when compared win 1914 or 1914, and
but slightly less han In 1915. the high rec.
ord year of import trade In South and
Central America. South American am.
ports of all classes of merchandise aggre-
gated over $1,000. OGG, 600 in 1913 against
about $500, 200. 200 In 1914 and 1915. while the
stimate for 1916 is about $3.50, 900, 600, which
would seem to indicate that the British
exports Of cottons to South America in
1916 are i'm an even larger proportion tC
the total imports from the continent than
in the earlier years. To Argentine alone
the exports of cotton piece goods for the
10 months ending with October, 1916, Were
172, 100000 yards against $4,000 NO yards for
the same months of 1918. S1,0O0,ON yards
in 1914 and 174,O00, 600 in 1913, the high rec
ora year or Argentlne imports. exports OF
cotton cloths from the United States TIC
Argentina I'm the 10 months ending with
October, 1916. We're but q. 00O,00O yards as
against British exports to Argentina OF
172,O00,OOO yards I'm the same period. To
South and Central America as a whole our
exports OF cotton cloths in the II months
ending with November are about 1870. 600. 600
yards against British exports of 475, O00,OO 100
yards to the same territory In the same
period, the II months ending with Novem.
Der, 1916.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09
Military s.rvie. Cur. For Dyspepsia

From the.Milwaukee Journal.
Got dyspepsia? Ever feel that tired.
headaching, can't-eat-anything sort of
feeling? Well, worry no more. A sure
cure has been discovered.
When Sergt. Charles C. Benson was in
Milwaukee as chief deputy clerk of the
municipal court, he took many meals at
the Press club. He was there every noon,
but his appetite was moi. He kept five
brands Of dyspepsia pills in his pockets,
and before he ventured a heavy meal OF
clear soup and three crackers he would
sample all of them.
When the order modifying the Wiscon-
sin National Guard came. Benson WAS "A
member of the First Machine Gun COM
pany, and went to the border. For six
months he hasn't slept in a house or in a
regular bed and his fare has been army
grub. He returned to Fort Sheridan with
his company last Sunday, and Wednesday
night appeared at the Press club.
Some of his friends followed him into
the dining room. They expected to see
him produce three or four kinds of pills,
eat "A few and then attack some soup and
crackers. But they We're mistaken. Ser
Geant Benson apparently has forgotten
that there is such a thing as dyspepsia.
He pored over the menu for a minute and
then ordered everything nh it.
For his excellent appetite, robust app
p%earance, splendid physical condition and
the healthy tan on his face. he gave all
credit to the experience of the past six
months.
AN office man with a poor appetite can
get a cure by Joining the national guard
when 1t is ordered SOUTH he declared.
Every man i'm the Wisconsin National
Guard is in splendid health. The months
spent I'm the open, the regular hours and
exercise, and the wholesome army food
will cure. 1 am positive. any case of dNs-
pepsia."
When the guard Is mustered out, Ser
seant Benson will resume his position
In Judge Backus' court under Clerk john
w. Woller.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09
NEEDS $15o.ooo.ooo in 1917.

New York Special.-The giving of an
extra daily mean to 25O,O0O Belgian
school children was the greatest ac-
complishment of the American Com-
mission for Relief in Belgium, in the
opinion Of it's chairman, Herbert c.
Hoover, who has just arrived here from
Liverpool. Mr.. Hoover today began
with his colleagues t o devise relief plans
for another year.
Mr.. Hoover said there were 5000, 600
destitute persons in Belgium and 2,OO0,-
900 in France, and it will take approxi-
mately $3.50, 600, 900 TO carry on the work
of the commission another year
The situation is far worse than it
has been at any time since the war
started" he declared. ut is a result Of a
steady degeneration among the peo-
pleS.'
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09

flowers to 9 a bunch every day to
'ne little cottage for the sick fady.
was a fine plan and he said hat he
would see that they were taken to the
q each morning. The sick lady and
sne little girl think the flowers come
rom the owner Of the flower garden,
out We Know who sends them, don't
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09

operations after the war. answered.
-"Such-and-such will be the way the Trims
VIII work out: butt kLow just as much
about it as the first niger you meet on
the street, n no more Let the reader
kindly bear in mind that it is i'm some
such unpretentious spirit as this that the
foregoing reflections and semi-predictions
are submitted,
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09

I gian employers are with difficulty able
to obtain the workmen necessary to
keep their concerns going.
I'm view of the great number of the
unemployed, this fact throws into
strong relief the economic evils which
have arisen in Belgium because of UNI
employment. But from the social point
of view the present state of affairs
must he characterized as absolutely
intolerable, if tile consequences are
bound to produce among the laboring
people themselves. Morally, the con-
tlnuance of present conditions would
have truly disastrous results. The la
boring classes would end by losing en-
tirely the sense of humiliation which
all morally sound people fee! when they
are obliged to appeal to the charity OF
strangers for their s~ustenance; they
would lose their pride in being able to
support their families by their own eff
forts. The old proverb that idleness is
the fruitful mother of vice is being
confirmed to an unusual degree i'm the
Belgian w-orllingman, who is inclined
to consider life from the materialistic
aspect. I'm wide circles of these
classes of the population ~idleness is
resulting in drunkenness and moral
abandonment, which engender manifold
dangers to the family life.
The unemployed are given opportu-
nifty to enter of their own will into re-
munerative labor contracts, and coer-
Give measures are resorted to only in
cases OF obstinate refusal, which in
most instances are found to he the re-
suit of i~nstigation. The unemployed
who are sent to Germany are placed
there on the same footing with the Ger
man laborers and are receiving higher
wages than were aver given in Bel
I GUM. Provision has been made that
a part of these wages be turned over
to the relatives who have remained at
home. The lahorers are also permitted
to correspond with their families, and
they are granted home leave at regu-
lar intervals. On request, they may
even take their families with them tC
Germany. Religious services are pro.
vided in their native tongue.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09

Within the LID OF q new pancake dish
are contained . syrup cup an0 . but.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-23
Tri-County Corners

Frank Cornell has moved onto Clark
Powell's farm.
Delight Richardson is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. VIM. Halves. this week
Dell Rundett and wife have been at
Maple Grove the past week.
Mrs. James Parker has recovered
from her recent illness.
Ruth Nickless was a week end Wis
itor at Tuscola.
Doris Parker visited Vera Ferman
last Sunday afternoon.
March 25 you are invited to come to
Pine Grove to help organize a Sunday
school at o'clock. Please, come.
Delight Richardson and Glacia Fer
man visited school at Pine Grove last
Monday.
The Mutual improvement society
met with Mrs. Charles Montell, Jr.
March Ia A good time reported. The
next meeting will be held April IL at
the home of Mrs. Kate Wilson. All
are cordially invited.
Mr. and Mrs. Verdette visited at the
home of Elmer Murphy last Sunday,
Peter Newvine, of Saginaw, visited
relatives in Arbela over Sunday.
John Loomis will soon move into the
Madison Murphy house.