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New Britain herald., 1917-09-17

The restrictions placed by the h. dian government on Mrs Besant and lent home rule agitation which evoked a storm of adverse comment in the press of India. Mrs. Besant was expelled from the presidency of Bom- bay last year for preaching revolt and later she was forbidden by the Indian government to participate in any meetings, deliver lectures or pub fish her writings in India. She and her assistants were prohibited from residing in Madras City and were or dered to remain within certain areas
New Britain herald., 1917-09-17
FEDERAL WORKERS ORGANIZE

Washington, Sept. 17.-Organization of a national federal employees union was begun here today by delegates representing federal workers in every section of the country. It is expected that the organization will have 15, 900 members. Speakers listed for today's sessions included Samuel Gompers and Miss Jeannette Rankin, member of congress from Montana.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-17
Most Old People
 Are COnStipated

The wear of years inpairs the action of the bowels. As people grow older they restrict their activity, neglect to take sufficient exercise, and indulge natural disposition to take things easy. The digestive organs become more sensitive to the demands made upon them and rebel more quickly.
 It is of special importance to the health of elderly people that the bowels be kept normally active. A mild, yet effective. remedy for constipation, and one that is especially suited to the needs of old folks, women and children, is the combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin sold in drug stores under the name of pr. Caldwelps Syrup Pepsin. It costs only fifty cents bottle, and should be in every family medicine chest. A trial bottle, free of charge, can be obtained by writing to Dr. w. B. Caldwell, 456 Wash ington St., Monticello, Illinois.
New Britain herald., 1917-09-17
MRS. BESANT FREE
 FROM EXPERIMENT
ThcoSophist Leader Had Been De. taincd Because of Campaign for
 Indian Homo Rule.

Bombay, India, Sept. 17-Accord- ing to a private telegram Mrs. Annie Besant, head of the Theosophical so- ciety, and George Arundel, and B.. Wadea, two male associates. have been released from internment by the Madras government. They had been held for political agitation.
 It was recently announced that the Indian government was prepared to recommend to the Madras govern ment that the restrictions placed on these people be removed if the gov ernment were satisfied that they would refrain from unconstitutional and violent methods and political agitation for the remainder of the war.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
ENHANCE THE BEAUTY OF
 HOME-GR0UNDS
By L. M. BENNINGTON.

Copy nature by sowing seeds of per ennials as they ripen. Provide some sort of shade for the seedbed. A screen made of lath or one of unbleached muslin will answer
 The robust-growing plants will need some sort of support. Let the support be painted green or oiled to bring out the grain of the wood. and you will find them more pleasing than rough sticks and far more satisfactory. Drive the stakes fast into the earth little lower than the plants, so that they are inconspicuous.
 The plants needing supports are such hardy perennials as delphniums, giant foxglove and snapdragons. Do not overlook giving stakes to dahlias, cos mos, hydranges and gladioli.
 To maintain continuous blooming make habit of cutting flowers freely, and remove all the fading blossoms, and nature will reward you with n lavish hand.
 If you want yAur bed of eannas or border of caladiums to make q grand tropical showing give them q frost like covering of bonemeal; then stir the soil, water thoroughly, and mulch with lawn clippings. Be sure to re- move the fading flowers.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
LOOK OUT FOR ROSE PESTS

To do away with rose pests mix by rapid stirring tablespoonful of kero- sene with pint of very hot, strong soapsuds, and when well mixed add this to enough hot studs to make gal lon. Mix pint of unsaked lime with quart of water and when settled pour the clear limewater into the kero- sene emulsion, adding to this tea spoonful of paris green, stirring it all rapidly and thoroughly. Keep this mixture well stirred when using and spray or syringe the leaves under the upper side with plenty of the mixture It will be good for the bush. if not healthy for the bugs and slugs.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
Eouaht With hessians.

An ancestor of Count von Bernstorff, the dismissed German ambassador, fought against America in our war for freedom. The fact is brought out by a passage in the "Souyenirs du Che valier de Cussy." Among the acquain- tances made by the chevalier in 1920, when he joined the staff of the French embassy in Berlin, was the court chamberlain, Count von Bernstorff, grandfather of the former ambassa- dor. "Countess Bernstorff,' wrote De Cussy, "bears a singular forename, America This was bestowed on her because she was born in that country during the war of independence. Her father was in command of one of the regiments hired out to the English by the elector of Hesse."
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
TIE WAY TO RAISE DALLAS
By E. VAN BENTHUYsEN.

If you want dahla roots for next year, plant them in small pots and let them remain all summer Keep them over winter like the old roots; and start them again in the spring. l do not say this is the only way. but 1t is a good one
 A good dahlia must bloom from July it.
 It is claimed by dahlia growers that dividing the roots will degenerate al most all the varieties; that is the req son we have such few good flowers.
 Of course a good many will believe that cutting will not flower and make roots to keep over the winter, but if is not true they were raised that way many years ago, and that Is the way they are raised today in England, France and Germany Chat is If these countries were thinking of planting in- stead of warring) and other countries except the United States.
 It is the reason too, the Americans do not care for dahias; they have been deceived too much. They buy old roots and get an old degenerate plant, sometimes six feet tall and more and not a blossom in sight.
 In October, when nights are cool, the degenerate shows buds, and if the frost does not catch them, they will flower maybe two weeks, and the flow CT be deficient in color and size They blame the weather, etc, it is not the weather altogether, but the method of planting
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
It Sounds Ridiculous.

Joseph H. Choate said. at lunch con in New York:
 "When the Germans talk about pro tecting little nations, freeing the seas and championing international law, it sounds so ridiculous that it reminds me of the tramp.
 Lady, said tramp to farmers wife, could you oblige me with the loan of cake of soap?
 .'The farmers wife threw up her hands.
 'Soapr she said. Do you mean to tell me you desire soap?'
 Yas'm.' said the tramp. Me part ner's got the hiccups and I want to scare him.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
NOTES ON GARDEN WORK

It is just us important to rotate gar den crops as field crops. and 1t is cer- tainly great mistake to plant the same crop on the same ground three or four seasons in succession.
 A tight-wire fence around your gar den will do more to promote harmony between neighbors who keep chickens than anything else.
 Cut out the market man when you market your garden stuff. You can always get full retail prices, and if selling vegetables is regarded as an honorable business for the grocer, why not for you?
 It's the early vegetable that brings the big price, and the man who sticks to his hetbed and makes use of it al- ways gets to market first.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
Backdche

In spite of the best care one takes of oneself, any part of the human machine is liable to become out of order. The most important organs are the stomach, heart and kidneys.
 The kidneys are the scavengers and they work day and night in separating the poisons from the blood. Their signals of distress are easily recognized and in- clude such symptoms as backache, de- pressions, drowsiness, irritability, head aches, dizziness, rheumatic twinges, dropsy, gout.
 "The very best way to restore the kidneys to their normal state of health, /" says Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y, is to drink plenty of pure water and obtain from your favorite pharmacy small amount of Anuric, which IS dispensed by almost every druggist" Anuric IS inex- pensive and should be taken before meals. You will find Anuric more potent than hthia, dissolves uric acid as water does sugar.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
CALOMEL WHEN BILIOUS? NO! STOP!
 ACTS LIKE DYNAMITE ON LIVER
Guarantee Dodsons Liver Tone" Will Give You the Best Liver
 and Bowel Cleansing You Ever Had-Doesn Make You Sick!

spoonful and if it doesn't straighten you right up and make you feel fine and vigorous I want you to go back to the store and get your money. Dod- sons Liver Tone Is destroying the sale of calomel because it is real liver medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore 1t cannot saliVate or make you sick.
 I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and consti- pated waste which is clogging your system and making you feel miserable. I guarantee that bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire fam fly feeling fine for months. Give it to your children. It is harmless; doesn't gripe and they like it's pleasant taste. Adv
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
Matches Illuminated Town.

In a Midland town a number of persons were flned for strlKlng matches in the streets on the night of an air raid. The offense may appear to be trivial one on the face of it, but it is really not so, says q writer in Flight In a recent series of visibility tests with certain kinds of fight it was noted that on dark night ghe light of an ordinary match was easily visible at a distance of mile. Hostile aircraft do lot, as a rule, fly It as low an altitudeas mile, and on the basis of the tel just noted the striking of a single match would be without import. Bit, according to the evidence of police superin- tendent, although he street lamps were all extinguished during the raid, there was almost as much light as though they had been 1t, owing to peo- ole striking matches to light pipes and cigarettes
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
Productive Years and Others.

Insurance men have figured out that the most productive years of mems lives are those between the ages of thirty and forty-five; that. the danger line for reverses begins at the age of forty; that 75 per cent of men at that age have setbacks; that after reaching fifty years only one man out of each 5000 can recover his financial footing, while at the age of sixty, 35 per cent of men are dependent upon their daily earnings or on their children or some one else for support.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10

Stop using calomel! It makes you sick. Don't lose a days work. If you feel lazy, sluggish. bilious or consti- pated, listen to me!
 Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. ealomel. when it comes into contact with sour bile, crashes into it, breaking 1t up. This is when you feel that aw- ful nausea and cramping. If you feel all knocked out" if your liver is tor pid and bowels constipated or you have headache, dizziness, coated tongue. if breath is bad or stomach sour just try a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone.
 Here's my guarantee-Go to any irug store or dealer and get 50-cent bottle of Dodsons Liver Tone. Take a
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
ABOUT COSMOS

If you want to get some satisfaction out of the cosmos, SOW it early and push it along as fast as you can. It does not transplant easily, therefore grow 1t in pots. Shift it along until il is growing in 9-inch pot. Then sink the pot in border and from the time the plants are inches high until the end of July the shoots should be pinched off. This will keep the plants low and stoeky. Long after severe frosts, your cosmos will be giving you your beautiful flowers for the winter.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
VANISHED

ter. Salt-rheum, Erysipelas, Boils, Car buncles, Enlarged Glands, and Swell lngs, and every kindred ailment, are benefited and cured by 1t.
 Cut this out and mail to us with the name of the paper-we will mail you free a medical treatise on above dis eases. Address Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel. Buffalo, N. Y.
 Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowelsp Sugar-ooated, tiny granules, easy to taks, as candy.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10

after three doctors said I never would stand up straight again. was mid wife for seven years and I recommended the Vegetable Compound to every wo- man to take before birth and after wards, and they all got along so nicely that it surely is godsend to suffering women. If women wish to write to me will be delighted to answer them. " Mrs. JENNIE MOVER, 342 E.North St., Lima, Ohio.
 Women who suffer from displace- ments, weakness, irregularities, ner- vousness, backache, or bearing-down pains, need the tonic properties of the roots and herbs contained in Lydia E.. Pinkham' Vegetable Compound.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
One Nurse to Ten Patients.

One nurse to every POO soldiers is the requirement. in modern conflict, as the war in Europe has demonstrated The proportion of sick and wounded to the entire army is about , per cent That is, if we throw 100000 soldiers against an enemy, at least 50,000 of them will be in the hospitals eontin. ually. In war hospital the average proportion of patients to nurses is ter to one.-Red Cross Magazine.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
Classified.

Patriot-One who goes with his wife to buy hat and enjoys himself
 Martyr-One that goes with her, but falls asleep in the store.
 Hero-One that goes with her and flirts with all the cashgirls.
 Coward-The sneaky character that always remembers he has an engage ment.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
The Children,s Poet.
In the St. Nicholas Magazine Hide garue Hawthorne glves u syInpalnell.

In the St. Nicholas Magazine Hide garue nawtnorne glves syInpalneu. sketch of the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, whose "Child's Garden of Verses is perhaps the most popular book of poetry ever written. His pas sionate attachment to children is ex- pressed best by Andrew Lang, whom Miss Hawthorne quotes:
 'There was q very pleasant trait in Stevenson's character which, per- haps, does not display itself in most of his writings-his great affection for children. In an early letter he writes: Kids is what is the mat ter with me. Children are too good to be true He had natural infatuation, so to say, for children as children little boys and girls were his delight, and he was theirs"
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
Proved Ills Identity.

Previously to joining the army he had been a lawyer. Getting back to camp rather late one night, he was challenge by the sentry. Obtaining no response, the latter lifted his rifle and roared: If you move you are a dead man." Allow me to remark, my good man." said the lawyer-soldier, that your statement is absurd. If I move 1t is excellent proof that I am alive. To my mind 1t is incomprehen- sible that" Pass, Mr. Blackstone" said the sentry.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
Men Alaska Can Furnish.

The nature of the Alaskan territory, like that of all virgin and semi-virgin countries, makes 1t fine field for the fostering of manhood. It seems likely that from Alaska there will come min CTS, and road builders, blasters, trench diggers, chasm spanners, and men gen. erally used to the overcoming of nat ural obstacles, to a service already vir- tually equipped without much prelim- mary training for that kind of field work which seems to be inSeparable from the methods of modern warfare.
 It is to be wondered if the Ameri- can people have thorough apprecia- ton of what the development of Alaska by the road builders has meant in the way of hard work. It is rec ognized that hard work is compara- tive term. In recent statement con corning this great territory of Uncle Sam this was said:
 "The task of building roads through out this vast wilderness of Alaska to meet the rapidly growing demands and to aid in q systematic development of its resources cannot be adequately de- scribed by any less comprehensive term than colossal, and the hope can not be to make more than q beginning during the official life time of the mem- bers of the board now engaged in the road building"
 Years ago the writer of this article was schoolmate at West Point of Col. Wilds r. Richardson. He knows how this army officer has met and overcome abuse and criticism as he has met and overcome the hard, grind ing difficulties of road work In Alaska. "Diek" Richardson always has been a fighter.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
GET RID OF THE FLY

Sprinkle the fresh manure pile with common borax at the rate of one ounce to the bushel. It has always been se- rious question with the amateur gar dener as to how he was to have per manent manure pile for the good of his plants and not have it a breeding place for the horse fly. The above Is an answer to the question.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10

aoyIrlends came Uo see me and she ad- vised me to com- menee taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg etable Compound and to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash. I began talk ing your remedies and took $5. 00worth and in two months was a well woman
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
Men and Women

Women as well as men are made miser- able by kidney and bladder trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney medicine. is highly recommended by thou sands.
 Swamp-Root stands the highest for the reason that so many people say 1t has proved to be just the remedy needed in thousands of even the most distressing cases.
 At druggists in DOC and sf00 sizes. You may receive a sample size bottle of Swamp-Root by Parcel Post. also pam phlet telling you about 1t. Address Dr. kilmer & Co.,. Binghamton, N. r., and enclose ten cents, also mention this paper.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10

duty. The records of the revenue cut ter service. now known as the United States coast guard service, contain true stories of valiant deeds, written briefly and without boasting, that equal any recital of stern duty well done in the records of either of the great armed services of the country.
 Harder Than in Spanish War.
 The work which the revenue cutters are doing today is much harder than that which they did so valiantly and effectively when this country was at war with Spain. In that conflict a few of the cutters were used to guard mine fields laid in the approaches to our harbors, but most of them were used for patrol and in part blockade service of the coast of Cuba. Today these cutters, which in 1896 because of their service were compelled to hug the shore, are now in the open sea watching for submarines, ready to give them battle and at the same time to notify by the air routes the destroyers and the battleships of the approach of the enemy
 These cutters of ours that are pa trolling the seas are taking chances It has been asked whether or not they will be effective against enemy sub marines because the cutters, some of which are as ancient as they are hon. orable, are not as fast as the law of logging it" on the seas demands in this modern day.
 There seems to be little fear in Washington that these vessels will not do their duty up to the handle, and lit tie greater fear that one of them will not be able to cope with q submarine if it appears above the surface to give battle One of our coast guard yes ses can stand good many shells without going to the bottom unless, of course, one of the projectiles shall hit a vital place below the water line.
 When it is travelling on the surface a submarine uses it's guns, and not it's torpedo tubes, which are for service under water While the coast guard vessel can stand up after being wound ed, such is not the case with the sub- marine, for the U-boat is frail crea- ture and one small projectile well placed will do for it. Moreover, slow as the cutters are they can make as good time as the average submarine can make when travelling on the sur face The speed of a submarine un- der the water is four or five knots less than when travelling above 1t.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
IVES. IThINk SO"

Most any good soap will do, but Red Cross Ball Blue is the only blue. Makes the greatest difference. My clothes are a dream-snowy white I can't use liquid blue. No, not me. Give me Red Cross Ball Blue and I'll show Jou some beautiful clothes.-Adv.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
A Chord Of Wood.

"Percy has voice of wonderful tim | bre"
 It's not surprising he's such a blockhead."
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
W. N. U., LITTLE ROCK, NO. 1e--1e17.

humors, and eruptions, by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery For 8 poor complexion, and for the poor blood that causes 1t, this is the best of all known remedies.
 In every disease or dis order of the skin or scalp, in every trouble that comes from impure blood, the "Discovery" is the only medicine sold that does what it promises.
 Scrofula in all it's vari. Ous forms. Eczema. Tet-
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10

Frequently a young man has so much common sense that college education doesn't unfit him for use full career.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
DON'T CAMRIE

that your hearts all right. Make sure. Take "Renovine'-a heart and nerve tonic. Price 50c and $1OO.-Adv.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10

By keeping everlastingty at it man aceomplishes a lot of things that are not worth the effort
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10

It costs more to avenge a wrong than it does to let it go by default
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
SAVE A DOCTORS BILL

by keeping Mississippi Diarrhea Cor dial handy for all stomach complaints. Price 25c and 50c.-Adv.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
BROKEN DOWN
 IN HEALTH
Woman Tells How $5 Worth of Pinkharn's Compound
 Made Her Well.

Lima, Ohio. .-"I was all broken down in health from a displacement.O One of my
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10

Prosperity gives us friends and ad- versity proves them.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
NO MAIARIA-NO CHlJUS.

Plantation" Chill Tonic is guaranteed to drive away Chills and Fever or your money refunded Price 5oc.-Adv.
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
The Right Way.

The Right Way. "How did you get to be college presi- dentf" By degrees"
The Monticellonian., 1917-05-10
Count on Much From Alaska.

Alaska, as the 'ordinary geo. graphically locateds resident of the United States looks at it, is long way ment expects much to come in the way of high-class men and material for the great army which is to be raised for service in the present war.
 Alaska is a hardy country. The men who live there, or who have seen service there. are n en who have met life in both it's hals sh and in its ap- pealing features. Alaska, however, is recognized as being ugged rather than harsh and rugged .haracteristics are soldier-making char cteristics.
 The government his been at work in Alaska for great any years. It has been represented tn rA by soldiers and civilians. Men of le service and of civil life together ht e built roads and trails through the s1ca, territory .4 order to make the means of communi- cation easy through a country the face of which at one time seemed to be set forbiddingly against access and transportation endeavor.
 For twenty years in Alaska an army officer has been stationed and for the greater part of that time he has been at the head of the board of road com missioners engaged in the construc- ton of wagon roads, bridges, trails and military and post roads under the direction of the secretary of war.
 Col. Wilds F. Richardson, U. s. A, has been president of this board of commissioners for a long time. Now with war upon us it seems certain that the field of operations of Colonel Rich ardson will be changed from the great territory of the United States to the field of military operations. Nearly all the colonels of the United States service today before long will be wear ing the stars of brigadier or major Opppra1