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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27

Hardly an individual lives that IS not
appealed to daily for Help, and the
man or woman who is growing and
storing up usefulness to his or her
credit is acquiring the>happiest of raj
men when he or she answers sincere
call for Help.
No appeal is quite so nonpartisan, no
appeal is quite so bereft of selfishness
as the fair, open appeal for Help. Help
s0ueezes it's way into every fiber or
the makeup of every human being and
every organization of every nation.
If you want TO be happy, and If you
want to be healthy and if you want TO
be glad that you can breathe, Help
somebody.
Help those who Help you. Help out
in the crowd-Help where courage and
character, privation and self-sacrifice
make no outward demand for Help.
Help others and others will instinc-
lively want to Help you, although, as
a matter of the plainest truth, every
time you Help somebody else you are
Helped.
Help is the unvarnished human feel
ing that touches every live being. It's
the principle which enables the world to
run smooth. Help.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27
Americas First Traitor,
Banished to West Indies,
Meets Death While at Sea

Benjamin Church. graduate of Har-
ward and member of distinguished
New England family, was the first
American traitor Church became emf
nent as surgeon and as writer of
verse and was one of the leading Wings
in the years just preceding the Revolu-
ton. At one time he was a member
OF the Massachusetts provincial con-
gress and became a member of the IA
nous Boston committee of safety.
The committees plans were consist
emily revealed to General Gage. gov
ernor of the province, but the source of
the leak was not discovered until after
the Revolution was fairly under way.
At the time of the actual break be-
tween the colonies and England,
Church was assigned to an important
colonial hospital. In September, 1875,
letter from Church to British army
officer, containing secrets of the colon
list army, was intercepted. Church had
intrusted the letter, written in code,
TO woman, to be conveyed to one of
General Cages staff officers. The wOm-
an confessed her share of the treason
able move and implicated Church.
The traitor was taken before coun-
Gil presided over by Washington and
he there practically admitted his guilt
Congress, acting ON the suggestion of
the trial council, ordered Church kept
in close confinement in the Cambridge
Jail without the use of pen or paper,
and that no person be allowed to con-
verse with him, except in the pres
ence and hearing of colonial officers
until further orders from this or a fu-
ture congress-"
Churchs health failed rapidly and
he was permitted to undergo Danish
ment to the West Indies. He sailed in
merchant vessel in May, 1776, and
neither the ship nor Church ever was.
heard of again.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27
Housewife Wealth Producer.

The wife who conscientiously exc
cutes her duties in the home is as
great a wealth producer as her hus-
band, according to Prof. B. r. An
drews of Columbia university. A
woman who takes care of the some
gives her husband many comforts that
would cost him twice as much to get
anywhere else. The time will soon
come, he predicted. when the house
wife's value will be realized more
fully, and many wives now earning
wages outside the home will prefer to
spend their time in the home instead.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27

It paws better to feed well, house
well and keep strong, healthy hens
than to be careless about these things
and have to doctor the fisck to keep
it in condition.
There is no reason why standard
bred poultry with attractive shape and
beautiful color cannot be more proflta-
BILE for eggs and meat than mongrels
or poorly bred purebreds.
If the mash for decks is mixed with
milk or buttermAk, it will help them
to lay earlier, if early eggs are wanted
to raise the early and most profitable
ducklings.
Be sure that the turkeys and geese
have dry, well-bedded floors in their
houses, for dampness will soon cause
trouble and trouble will cause loss of
profit.
Be sure that the turkey shed is kept
clean and is disinfected frequently, be-
cause turkeys will not stand filthy
quarters and are easily affected by
disease germs.
Be sure that the fowls exercise Wig
orously every day scratching for grain
in litter, and while they are scratch
ing be sure that they have plenty of
fresh, pure air to breathe.
Chicken pox starts with little erup-
tons on the face and comb which de-
velop into scabby sores. 1t is very
contagious and the comb and face
should be frequently treated with car
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27
sIidinu for Base in kimono.

Soldier. games are the most pre-
ferred by young Japan; fencing with
bamboo swords. "jiu-jitsu,' or wres-
fling. and drilling. But baseball. trans
planted to this far-away land by Amer
lean teachers in the universities, has
made great hit and is played every
where. Ii is a strange sight TO see a
shaye-headed youngster sliding fer
FIRST In blue and white cotton kimono
It certainly 4oesn't do the kimono
any good.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27
Around the World.

Chile is twice as large as Cal
ifornia.
Italy is buying American hard
ware.
Italy's army eats 10000 cattle
every month.
Portugal is to have steam
ship line to Brazil.
Japan is to advertise products
in the United States.
Texans will shortly make pa
per pulp from cotton stalks.
Spain is unable to supply the
Greek demand for lumber.
Papermakers have recently
planted 100000 trees on cutover
lands in Maine.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27
THINGS THAT ARE NEW

Short telescopes take the place of
lenses in spectacles of German inven-
ton for extremely near-sighted per-
sons.
For ironing laces and other light
fabrics an Englishman has invented a
polished steel roller, heated by cleo
tricity.
A new type of incandescent lamp
has the filament concentrated into
small spiral to give greater vertical
distribution OF light.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27

The word "plate" is often incorrectly
applied TO vessels of gold. 1t is de-
rived from the word plata, which in
Spanish means wrought silver.
Electric automobiles have been
adopted for garbage collection in Paris
after a series of tests showing them
more economical and flexible than 9TH
er vehicles.
A small steam generator for medi-
cal purposes that has been invented by
German can be used to treat an en-
tire human body or any single limb or
organ.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27

An inventor has combined an auto
mobile horn and headlight, the sound
being produced back of the lamp and
issuing around it.
The United States leads the world
in the production of corn-known
abroad as maize-producing more than
two-thirds of the worlds supply.
Manila hemp, from which the best
rope is made, is known in the Philip
pines as abaca. 1t is true banana
plant and in appearance closely re-
sembles the banana grown in Cali
fornia. The species is musa textilis.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27

GoIDeFtd. 1t rs tie udWn OI new udy
for which they have worked and hoped
with pathetic eagerness for many
years, always believing it was just
ahead, just within sight. Many polit-
Ical prisoner, sentenced to Siberia for
life, kept hope alive by the belief that
the revolution would cut short his SEN
tence.
The story Of Marie Sukloff, Jewish
girl sentenced to Siberia, is not an I'M
usual one, though it is fraught with
horrors calculated to make the West
ern mind reel. Three years ago the
story of Miss Sukloffs experiences was
published in America by the Century
company under the title, "The Life
Story of q Russian Exile"
Marie Sukloff was born of peasant
fourteen years old she could not read
or write. Then the daughter of a rab-
bi, q child of seventeen, began to read
revolutionary pamphlets to her, and
Marie learned TO read that she might
know more of this strange new learn
ing. She and the rabbits daughter and
a few other children held secret meet
ings, sometimes in the woods, to read
together and talk over the wrongs and
sufferings of the working people. 1t
all had to be done secretly, for their
parents feared what such activities
would lead to. Once the two girls
slipped away to q nearby town and
helped stir up strike among stock
ing makers of that town. They made
speeches, urging revolt, and came near
falling into the hands of the police.
Marie's father sent her to Odessa
to get her away from her revolution
airy friends. She ran away from the
uncle to whose home she was sent
and went to work in a candy factory !;
her real business in life was revolu-
tiOnary propaganda.
There were six of US living in a
sort of commandments, a factory
girl of twenty-five, who was most
ardent agitator and strike organizer !;
David, clerk; Grigory, bookbinder
who had already been in prison for
distributing prohibited literature Mich
OLAF. painter who became socialist
and joined our circle after his re-
lease from prison, where he was put
for preaching Tolstoyism; Ivan and
myself. 1t seldom happened that we
all had work. sometimes the whole
circle lived on the earnings of one or
two" Thus she speaks of her fellows.
Secret printing offices were eStab-
iished and thousands of proclamations
printed and distributed; educational
work was done among the factory peo-
pie.
"Of course" Miss Sukloff says, leach
one of them knew that prison, solitary
confinement and exile were their In
evitable lot, but this did not deter
them in the least. Although they
awaited arrest at any hour of the day
or night, they spent their spare time
as merrily as If nothing special We're
going to happen to them"
This went on for two years: Zhenia
and Ivan went to prison, Grigory to
Siberia and Nicholai was sent TO serve
in the army. Marie Sukloff went TO
The neighboring city of Kishinev to
establish a printing office. She was
arrested and taken to prison. She was
her were taken the two innocent old
people in whose house she was staying.
They kept her in prison for more than
q year, before her trial. Il began to
suffer with insomnia. The twenty min
utes' daily walk in the prison yard be-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27

man Dfthb 49,
gets so big that
he doesn't need
Help from some
where. Most sue
cessful men, as
well as most I'M
successful men, at
some time or
other need Help,
and the greatest
service that any
body can render
to anyone else is
to give them
Help.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27

bolic vaseline or some other germ
killing ointment
There are very few flocks of fowls
on which there are not some lice, UNI
less the owners are constantly using
preventive measures; and lice will not
only torment the fowls but spoil the
profits.
Be sure that there is a deep litter
of clean hay, straw or something of
that kind on the floor of the henhouse,
out of which the fowls must scratch
the whole or cracked grain of their RAJ
ton to obtain exercise.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27
Wilson Among Oldest Presidents.

President Wilson is the Oldest ex-
ecutive of the United States for the
last 60 years. He is sixty years old,
span of years that no president has
crossed since the inauguration of
Buchanan in 1857.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27
Wise

Don't think its
BILE TO your faults1
Good liars are scarce
are very skillful.
A small boys idea of gf11l(l
play ball in a uniform.
There was once a polite street
conductor. He died young.
Laugh little more at you'd
troubles and little less at your \
boris. -
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27


Among the political prisoners re-
leased from the Hertchinsk prison
in Siberia was Maria Spiridonova.
Upon her arrival. at Chita she was
recognized and carried through the
streets on the shoulders of the
crowd. She is the daughter of a.
Russian general. She shot and
killed Chief of Police Luzhenoff-
sky of Tambov in 1906 and was
sentenced to death, but the SEN
tence was committed to twenty
years imprisonment. While in Jail
she was terribly tortured by two
police officers who for eleven hours
kicked her back and forth across
the cell, tore her hair, and burned
her flesh with lighted cigarettes.
Both of her torturers were after
ward murdered.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27
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HELP
esy GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This is one of the biggest little
words in any language-Help. No hu-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27
AID Astra.

An unstable patron of Broadway's
gay places was lacking his way north
ward the other night when he caIae
upon the telescope man at CoIup1Hl $
circle, who let's you look at - =
for nickel The bibulous
at the telescope in anna
'Sh-a-gun J" he SO
He put his fingerS
watched. Present.
fell from the 81
his ears and pa
"'Sha good 4
and wobbled q
York Evening"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-04-27

HE downfall of the car Of
Russia means liberty and a
chance of happiness for thou
sands of men and women in
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-13
TRY II! SUBSTITUTE
FOR NASTY CAL0MEL
Starts your liver without making
you sick and can not
salivate.

Every druggist in town-your
druggist and eEerybody's druggist
has noticed a great falling-off in the
sale of calomel. They all give the
same reason. Dodson's Liver Tone
is taking its place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know it, while Dodson's Liver Tone
is perfectly safe and gives better re-
Suits" said prominent local drug
gist. Dodson's Liver Tone is per-
sonally guaranteed by every drug
gist who sells it. a large bottlg
costs so cents, and if it fails Is give
easy relief in every ease of liver
sluggishness and constipation, YOU
have only to ask for your money
back.
Dodson's Liver Tone is pleasant
tasting, purely vegetable remedy,
harmless to both children and adults.
Take spoonful at night and wake
up feeling fine; no biliousness, sick
headache, acid stomach or consti-
pated bowels. 1t doesn't gripe or
cause inconvenience all the next
day like violent calomel.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-13
Montgomery News.

The surprise of the season was given
last Monday evening by Miss Tommye
Harrison ahd Mr. Odes WAcii ow, OF
Montgomery. when they took a joy ride
to Coifax and got married at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Mccain. 1t
created quite sensation, since they
succeeded so beautifully in running
one" on everybody. The whole town
unites in congratulating them and wish
ing them nothing but incessant happi-
ness.
Mr.. .. e. Taylor, a resident of. Mont
gomery, died at the North Louisiana
Sanitarium in Shreveport on last Sat
urday morning, October g. Mr.. Taylor
was, at the time of his death, working
in the gin of Mr.. w. o. Harrison. and
attempting to remove some cotton from
part of the machinery, and accidentally
got his arm into the machine. He was
taken to the sanitarium Immediately
and his arm was taken off, since it was
so badly mangled. Blood poison set In
and the arm was cut off again, but
blood poison began second time and
besides pneumonia developed in both
of his lungs, so nurses and doctors soon
decided that it was no use to entertain
hopes. He was perfectly conscious un-
til the last minute, confessing his Saw
Tor before he went to be with Him. He
was buried in the Montgomery Gene
terry on Sunday, October, Bro. Bryant
conducting the services.
Mr.. Taylor is survived by wife,
four boys and two brothers. We share
with them the sorrow which they must
bear, and hope that the coming reward
that will follow this life shall be SOL
ace to them in this hour of grief.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-13
How TO Secure a Liberty Bend.

You are satisfied that It is your duty
to yourself and your country to buy a
Liberty Bond. Now you want to know
Just how 10 secure one. Go to any
bank, sign the application form for the
bond of the value desired. The bonds
are of the following values: $50, $lOO,
$500, 81, 900, So, 900 and 5000
Your banker will take your check fol
per cent of the amount of the bono
you decide to purchase. The remain
ing payments will be made as follows;
Is per cent on November Is, 1917; AZ
per cent on December Is, 1917; 40 pei
cent on January l5, 1918.
You can pay in full al the time of APP
plication for any bond up to the value
of 81 900, if you wish. Ii you care to
pay for your oond in iuil at the time oil
application, you can have your bond by
about October 10. If you pay by in
stallments you will receive your bond as
soon as YOU have finished paying for it.
The bonds are tree from Federal.
State or local taxes. In case of veal
thy people who pay income surtaxes,
and hold bonds of over $4,000, there is
a small tax, bat as far as the average
man is concerned they are tax free.
Any banker will handle your appiica-
ton and charge you nothing for the
trouble. The interest on the bonds is
per cent payable to you on May is
and November 10 OF eacn year.
The bonds will be redeemed in full
by the government on and af ter Novem-
Der Is, 1927. In the meantime the
bonds may pass from one person to an
other just as dollar bill does. There
is very little difference between giving
your check for $500 bill and giving it
for Liberty Bond.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-13
Married Men Ordered Discharged.

Provost Marshal Crowder has ruled
that married men with dependent fam
lilies are to be exempted from the ma
tional army, and will be discharged.
He saws: .If the family at the time
of the registrant's summons or prior
thereto were and had been mainly de-
pendent upon his labor for support, he
should be discharged, regardless oil
whether his parents or relatives, or
those of his wife, are financially able
to support those dependent during alb
sence in service.
This Interpretation will be of special
interest to the Western Louisiana ex-
emption board, whose rulings on this
point were challenged by Senator Brous-
sard.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-13
FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK
BY r. L. Sloan
AGENT FOR GRANT PARISH
Orchards Neglected.

In all this country there is no one
phase of agriculture more sadly neglect
ed than.th orchard. 1t is believed by
many that fruits will not do well here.
In driving through the country home
after home is passed where only a few
old snags stand as mute evidence of a
feeble effort on the part of someone in
the remote past. Many other places
show signs of more recent effort in a
display of young trees, unprun-d, I'M
cultivated and unsprayed. Very rare
are the trees showing signs OF proper
treatment at the hands OF their owner.
The kind of fruit displayed by iruir
stands in cities never was, and never
could have been, grown under the con-
ditions of neglect prevailing in most of
our orchards to-day. 1t is true there
was time when fruit could be grown
successfully without spraying. and with
little pruning, but that time is past and
the change has brought better fruit.
More fruit and better fruit is grown
now than at any previous time in the
history of the world.
To have good fruit four things are
necessary, the omission of either one
of which may result in failure. The
four essentials are, first, good varie.
ties; second, cultivation; third, pruning;
fourth, spraying.
| Concerning the first, it is false econ
omy to plant a seed from an old time
tree, because it stood the ravages OF
insects and diseases, unless it be sim
ply for stock to bud to. There is .
prejudice against nursery stock be.
cause it is short lived under conditions
of neglect. Neither is old time fruit
worth very much under similar condi-
tons. The ripening season has been
prolonged from May until October, o
blessing our forefathers never enjoyed.
the purchase of good standard varie-
| ties is a good investment.
Most fruit trees profit from cultiva.
ton the same as corn. The surest way
to cultivate young orchard is to plant
some crop between the rows of trees.
For this purpose it is best to plant
some legume that will enrich the soil.
Trees need pruning at the time OF
setting and once a year afterwards.
After the first year they should be
sprayed regularly. If you are interest.
ed in putting out new orchard or in
renovating an old one write or consult
your parish agent.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-13
Notice to Teachers.
Colfax. La. {

Colfax, La, Oct. 10, 1917.
In conformity to ruling of the par.
ish school board on October 5, 1917,
hereby declare October II, 1917, le-
gal holiday for all of the schools of the
parish.
You will please report at your re-
spective school houses at the regular
time for opening school and render
such service in the registration of all
ladies eligible for registration that it is
possible for you to DO, and in the event
that the place of registration is not
your school house, as such will be the
case possibly in two or three town COM
munities. you will please report there
for duty.
In the event that any teacher or
teachers shall fail to comply with the
above, you will be required to make up
the time or be locked therefor.
j. N. WARNER,
Supt. of Education.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-13
LIFT YOUR C0RNS
OFF WITH FINGERS
Tells how to loosen a tender corn
or caIius so 1t lifts out
without pain.

You reckless men and women who
are pestered with corns and who have
at least once week invited an awful
death from lockjaw or blood poison
are now told by q Cincinnati authority
to use a drug called freezone, which
the moment few drops are applied
to any corn or callus the soreness is re-
lieved and soon the entire corn or cal
lus, root and all, lifts of with the I'm
gers.
Freezone dries the moment it is ap-
piled, and simply shrivels the corn or cal
lus without infaming or even irritating
the surrounding tissue or skin. A small
bottle of freezone will cost very little
at any of the drug stores, but will posi-
lively rid ones feet of every hard or
soft corn or hardened callus. If your
druggist hasn't any freezone he can get
it at any wholesale drug house for you.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-13
Notice For Publication.
PROOF UNDER ACT JUNE 6, 1

fROOr UNDEh All JUNE U, 1917.
u. S. Land Office at Baton Rouge, La
Sept. %. 1917.
Notice is hereby given that Curtis H
Woodruff, of Colfax, La, who, on Aug
ust 81. 1914, made Homestead Entry
No. 07235 for South Half of Northwest
Quarter Is ! of NV II Section IL.
Township north, Range west, Lou
isiana meridian, has filed notice of in
tention to make Three-Yea Proof. to
establish claim to the land above de-
scribed, before James j. O'Quinn,
Clerk of Court, at Colfax, La, on the
7th day of November, 1917.
q Claimant names as witnesses: w. o.
Hutchinson, w. E. Murry. Oscar Rich
ardson, Wyley Faircloth, of Black
Creek, La.
E. D. GIANELLONI,
Register.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-10-13
Letter Postage 3 Cents After Nov. 2

Ion Friday, Nov. 2, 1917, the new
rates of postage on fi.st-class mail be-
comes effective.
1.-The rates on letters and other first
class mail Except drop letters) will be
three cents .03) an ounce or fraction
thereof
ION drop letters the rate will be two
cents COZ an ounce or fraction there
of. drop letters are letters mailed
for delivery from the Office at which
posted, that is to say, lettres mailed in
New Orleans for delivery in New Or
leans).
Postal cards are required to have
prepaid postage of two cents COZ per
card. To the one-cent con postal
card now in use an additional stamp of
lone cent { CD must be aft ed.
Post cards (priya,e mailing cards)
bearing open written messages must
have two cents COZ prepaid postage
thereon.