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The Washington herald., 1917-05-24

Ginning the Wind.
They're coming back-those whiskers
that they wore in long ago,
When stocks were seen
Upon the green,
With hoop and furbelow.
dearth OF soap Is causing them. For
we the day must save,
Although we realize fun well It means
we cannot shave;
AND so, to win the victory, ere long no
doubt we'll see
Some type OF wind-chIme scandalous dis
gracing you and me.
suppose you pick "shoemakers" that en-
circle your whole face
The crooks for you,
Without ado.
VIII start to fight and race.
II you should choose a butterfuly, like
Kaiser Wilhelm sports,
You'll find yourself in durance vile
banned to the foreign ports.
And II in style Partisan you wear those
whiskers new,
Some dreadful plotting German spy may
stick knife in you.
And then the English mutton chops
are sure to get your goat
Though they're your pride,
Folks will deride
"hen once that style they note.
There's not chance for Van Dykes. for
the whtskers keep on growing
Upon your chin until they form Iambre-
quins, long and flowing;
While there Is life, there's hope" they
say; but in the present sad age
when theirs no soap. there's whiskers''
seems to paraphrase the adage.
There's but one thing long to see, If
frca
Is bound to fall
On each and all
or masculine condition
Let wilson choose the muttonchops. Let
Newly Baker bear
A beard trimmed in the Lincoln style
Let Joseph Daniels wear
Glengarrys on his cheek and jowl. And,
though / think he's wiser.
I'd like to see how Teddy'd look mis-
tached a la the kaiser
-HARLowE R. HoYT.
Yesterday Bill came homo from the war.
He was thin and pale,
And his hand shook when he lifted the
tea-cUp
My mother and my aunt were glad to see
him.
It was refreshing. so they said, to meet
a man
Who did not dwell upon horrors and NOR
bid things.
But who realized that war must have its
brutal side
And who saw things in their true per-
spective.
And forgot about them
Then later, in my room.
Bill showed me his war trophies and told
me tales.
paper for gallantry in action;
A German majors field glasses:
German bullets of brass;
A French helmet with three shrapnel
holes in the top of II.
Wounded infantrynen in an ambu-
lance
An American ambulance, by the way
The road was visible from the Boche
trenches.
II was a dull day.
They placed shells fifteen feet behind the
ambulance
All the way down the open road,
Then hit 1t just before II reached cover.
Some of the wounded called for help
And the Boches could hear them.
So they turned a machine gun on the
wreckage,
Until there were no more cries"
Bin looked at me with his fine smile.
when are you going across?' he asked
CAS-. in New York Tribune
THE SKIPPER.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-24

The food bill is very important
item in every household at least once
every month and just now the sd-
ministration food bill is the all i'm
portant matter in the House of Rep
resentatives
The Washington herald., 1917-05-24

The Federal Trade Commission
tackles the problem of reducing the
price of coal at the beginning of
summer and If it can be successful in
its work before the snow flies again,
the public will be grateful
The Washington herald., 1917-05-24

In spite of the song writer's tribute,
Ireland will never be Heaven until
the Sim Feiners, Obstetrics and Ma
tionalists come to some common
agreement as to how it will be gov
erned-
The Washington herald., 1917-05-24

Rev. Billy Sunday suggests to the
Treasury Department, "a bond for a
bone" as a slogan for the liberty loan
that would appeal to the masses.
Like trail hitters, the baseball evan
eslist believes bondholders should
be large in numbers.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-24

Maybe there are no food pirates
but that 90 per cent increase IN the
price Of cornmeal just after the De
partment of Agriculture advises its
use as a substitute for wheat flour
leaves grave room for doubt.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-24

With a high mark of oo,33, and
first honors for the smallest cadets
in the Washington High School
Corps, Capt. Edmund K. Ellis is
probably firmly convinced its the
little things in life that count"
The Washington herald., 1917-05-24

Two Illinois inventors have patented
bracket with which It is possible to hang
both shades and curtains at windows
without using nails or screwA
The Washington herald., 1917-05-24
NETHERLANDS

New York svenue, 50 yards from BoErduGIk; over
lookng lawn and oceNn; oApacty. zoo; elevator; pm
VHte baths Over % outside Rooms haW bot and
= DAILY. spe1al Pre- Fsatures: Bathing Priulezs
from Hotel Lawn Tennis Court Dance F1cgr.
Booklet Points OF Interest IN Atlantic CITY.
AUGUST RUHWADEL PruprlefoT
The Washington herald., 1917-05-24
A LINE o. CHEER
EACH DAY o. TIE YEAR

Est prfshng .af N or4nnai poem. urittso 40
Tor rAs washinstnn HsralA
The Washington herald., 1917-05-24
HOTEL KENTUCKY

WITH FiREPRooF ADDITION
ksstUety SVs-, Near Bsaeh caaelty, 4oO
% rooms with hot and cold running Water q
with private hath. Telephone and eleciric hghts IN
every room. ElcFatoT from street level send fuf
booklet and points Of interest American Plan
Rates inclDding 5000 mealG
81 10 - oHily: SIC ts ft7.SO Nsskly.
n. Q. KENkApN, PropristoF
The Washington herald., 1917-05-24
Says Avistors Are Needed.

1t is perhaps not generally appreciated
by the American people" said Mr. Cam
men, that the chief need of our allies
The Washington herald., 1917-05-24
HOLLAND LETTER
The Biggest Daily
Financial News Feature
Of the cOuntry's Best Newspapers.

No Secretary OF the Treasury, until the
administration of Secretary William q.
McAdoo, ever appeared before the Ameri-
can people as a soliciting agent in be-
half of an offer by the United States gov
ernment Of an issue Of bonds. Today
there are living three or four who recall
the several visits of Salmon p. Chase to
New York at the beginning of President
Lincoln's administration. Secretary Chase
came to New York so that he might per-
suads bankers to buy government bonds.
He did thus persuade them to buy upon
three separate occasions. fifty millions in
bonds, but the last purchase was in part
due to his implied threat that unless the
bankers helped the Treasury he. Secre-
tary Of the Treasury. would issue paper
money in such amounts that in time IL
would take a thousand dollars to buy a
breakfast
In the second administration Of Presi-
dent Cleveland, John G. Carlisle visited
New York three times so that he might
persuade bankers to buy bonds and pay
for them in gold. wherewith the Treas
ury vaults which were depleted of gold
might be replenished
These' however. were campaigns made
by Secretaries of the Treasury with hank
ers and not with the public. They en-
tailed no more travel than a trip from
washington to New York and then a re-
turn "trip. But Mr.. McAdoo has set a
new precedent and It is new because the
conditions are new and because he he
heYes that campaign OF education in
Volving real soliciting is necessary in
order to persuade the people that they
should come forward with abundant Of
ferings for the so-calIed liberty loan"
of s2,oOo,oooOoo
Treasury Was Depleted.
secretary McAdoo's predecessors So
hcited the bankers OF New YORK pbiIo-
delphia and Boston because the treasury
was depleted and they did this at a time
when business prosperity was greatly
impaired ana when there was no conf
Gehee among the people. Secretary Nc
Adoo has gone forth at a time when
business prosperity is Of unprecedented
VoIume' when money is very plentiful.
when wages are high and when the de-
mand for labor is in excess of sunnIy
ana when deposits in banks-whether Ma
uonal or state chartered-are in the az
gregate OF stupendous amounts
The campaign that Secretary Meade,
s now making is in full co-operation
WIN ths men OF great financial influence
IN the United States and with many Of
the leading men OF our Industrial life
we are to have cooperation from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and from the
cur OF Mexico to the Canadian boun-
uary upon far greater scale than any
cooperative effort has attained bither-
70 This was remark made by one of
the leaders in the financial district this
morning when calling attention 10 the
tact that the Secretary Of the Trea sury,
the president Of the greatest OF Ameri-
can banks and a partner in the house OF
j. P. Morgan & Co. are, with others
who are OF great authority but who are
not perhaps so well known TO the public
now conducting campaign of education
with intent so thoroughly to inform the
people that they will not reluctantly out
with enthusiasm subscribe TO the liberty
loan
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

breasts, and there the clouds are born
that bring the summer rains"
The following paragraphs are taken
from an old unpublished manuscript:
MANY years ago, before the first
white man stepped ashore, even before
the alliance of the three Kingdoms,
Alcolhua, Aztec, and Tepance, gold
was already an eagerly sought article"
But it was not coined in those days,
nor was it used in barter; it was
offered to the Deities only, and with it
the. shrines of Huitzilopochtli were
decked"
"The bulk of it was brought from the
double mountain of Huajatolla sixty
days travel to the north, and it was
taken to the cities of Mexico, Tee
cuco and Tlacopan.
But when Nezahuatcovotle reigned
in splendor at Tezuco, the gods per-
cence of his court, for they placed
demons at Huajatolla to guard the gold
and altho invisible, they manifested
their power in many was"
And on another page of the same
old manuscript we read quantity the
following words:
"All the country became a desert,
with the exception of Huajatolla, the
Breasts of the World with sustenance
for all, Huajatolla, the abode of the
gods, who have power to lock and
unlock the gates of rain.
"There only, far away in the north
and towards the rising sun, where the
world ends and limitless plains meet
the sky, there only, it rained on the
eve of every day; and trees grew with
fruit upon them, the birds sang, and
the air was heavy with the sweet per-
fume of the flowers.
at is the abode of those above and
iealously they guard the sacred noun
tain; it is the abode of the gods of
rain, who have power to move the
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
LEGENDS AND OLD TRADITIONS
OF THE TWIN MOUNTAIN PEAKS

THE white man has known the great
i double mountain of Huajatolla for
three-quarters of century as the
Spanish Peaks, but according to now
almost forgotten legends of the In
dians, the Huajatolla is the name by
which these gigantic Twin Peaks We're
received from almost immemorial
times.
In the archives of the city of Mex
leo are ancient records which give de-
tailed description of Gigantic dou-
BILE mountain situated in the northern
most limits of the Empire" And
among the tribes that inhabit the
painted desert" there are traditions
which relate to "Huajatollo the
Breasts of the World" situated to-
ward sunrise, where the world ends
in limitless plains"
Less than hundred years ago tales
were still told by old Pueblo Indians
of the place where the Rain Gods
dwell-a great and double lofty noun
tain. "Huajatolla," so they said, "are
two mountains, as round as woman's
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
and scatter them all over the

clouds and scatter them all over the
world.
"Huajatolla, the breasts of the world
they are, two breasts as round as a
woman's and all living things on earth,
mankind, beasts and plants, derive
their maintenance from thence, for the
clouds are created there, and without
clouds there is no rain, and when the
rain fails we have no food, and with
no food we would perish ALL"
These legends, still current among
the Indians when the first white men
entered the country nearly one hum
dred years ago, are corroborated by
indications that point to a wonderfully
rich vegetation that once must have
flourished at the base and on the
slopes of these mighty mountains.
Other traditions make mention of
vanished race that inhabited the val
leys of the Huajatolla, traces of which
can be readily found to the present
day.
All in all, the Huajatollas, or Span
ish Peaks, as they are now generally
called, will remain for many years to
come, an interesting field, not alone
for the tourist, but also to the ethnolo-
gist and scientist.
Opportunities are not lacking here
for chronological and archaeological in
and scientific research.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
SHE WASN'T so CRAZY.

Catherine Alsopp, a washerwoman
of Sheffield, England, hanged herself
with a clothesline in her bedroom. The
coroner's jury rendered verdict of
Suicide during temporary insanity
even tho the following verse, written
by the woman just before she hanged
herself, was read for the benefit of
the jury:
Here lies a poor woman who always
was tired;
She lived in house where help was
not hired,
Her last words on earth were: Dear
friends l am going
Where washing amt done, nor sweep
ing, nor sewing;
But everything there is exact to my
wishes.
For where they don't eat there's no
washing of dishes.
I'll be where loud anthems will always
be ringing,
But, having no voice, I'll be clear of
the singing.
Don't mourn for me now; don't mourn
for me never
I'm going to do nothing for ever and
ever"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
GERMAN NAMES IN U. s

A dispatch from Syracuse, N. Y.
states that Christopher Schlatcher
Syracuse university gridiron hero, has
been rejected as prospective member
of the university ambulance unit be.
cause of his German name.
A reader calls our attention to this
as another glaring and fragrant ex-
ample of the unreasoning prejudice
against everybody and everything
German, from Goethe, Gagner and
Schiller to hamburger, sauerkraut and
potroast, on the part of certain groups
and associations of professional pa
tr1ots in this country whose ignorance
of American history and want of un-
derstanding of American ideals have
led them into the mistaken notion that
the only real Americans are the peo-
pie with English names.
They do not seem to recall, if they
ever knew, that large percentage of
Revolution were Tories, who gave aid
and comfort to the redcoats fighting
against American independence. 1t
is possible that some of the present
day haters of everything German, in
spite of their English names, are the
descendants of Tories. On the other
hand, there are in this country many
descendants of early German settlers
who fought for American independence
in the Revolutionary war, and there
are thousands of others who have come
from the great American melting
pot" with only faint trace of German
lineage that their names indicate.
There are also thousands of native
Americans with English names whose
maternal ancestors were Germans.
The population of the country is
too cosmopolitan, too polyglot, to al
ow the making of an English name the
sole test of patriotism. You cannot
judge a mans Americanism by the
fact that his name is John Smith, or
John Schmidt, Mike Cohan or Ike
Cohen.
Theodore Roosevelt comes of Ger
man ancestry, and even his most bitter
political opponants dare not question
his Americanism. Surgeon General
Sternberg, of the United States army,
was of German descent.
Washington's army was trained by
General Steuben, who came from Ger
many, just as Lafayette came from
France, to fight for the cause of |
American freedom.
One of the first companies to join |
army in the Revolution |
was the York County regiment, COM
pOSeu Ol L ems ylNdnld GermdnS, uHuer |
of Captain Heinrich Miller, |
and one of the first regiments to an
swer President Lincoln's call to arms
in 1861 was made up of the descend
ants of those same German patriots. |
Over 100000 Americans of German
birth or descent, 5000 of whom were
officers, served in the Union army.
Such men as Franz Sigel and Carl
Schurz won distinction by their valor
n that service.
There are millions of native Ameri-
,ans with German names who are just
as ready to give their lives and all
they possess to the service of their
as any of their fellow coun-
.rymen bearing English names.
The failure to distinguish between
native Americans with German names
who are absolutely loyal to their coun-
try and few scattered so-called Ger !
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

man-Americans who are rabidly pro-
German in this war between democ-
racy and autocracy should be depre-
Gated and discountenanced by all news
papers and public officials who care to
be fair, just and impartial toward all
true Observation-Disclosures Fedora
zionist.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
OLD TIME STANZA.

The poem of Polumathes, the
Shrewsbury boy of the Tudor days,
shows that the cherished tradition of
the English public school was the same
400 years ago as it is today. Says
Polumathes:
These be the rules that are taught in
schools
Since first my days began:
To learn to serve ere you learn to rule;
Not to serve yourself, but to serve
the school;
And he that keepeth them not is a
fool,
AS / am learned man!
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

The brotherhood of man idea would
get along faster if the doctrine meant
giving Of good TO others instead Of
standing in the receiving line.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
NO WONDER.

She's the daughter of a bank pres
ident"
mo wonder she draws so much in
terest. Purple Cow.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
MAYBE IS WAS A FOLDING ONE.

Pilfering had been going on among
the men in an engineering works. The
master spoke to the foreman, who was
an Irishman, in respect to the same,
telling him il he had any suspicious to
search the men before leaving.
One evening Pat had occasion to do
this, and while in the act of telling the
men to take off their coats the master
came by.
"Well, Pat, what is missing now?"
"a wheelbarrow, sir."-O. p. News.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

There never was a man as great
as the average dog believes his mas
ter to be.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

Opportunity knocks once at every
mans door; better be home when the
lady calls.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-02-01
Getting Well.

Ben Mastin, of Waltersville,
who hOvered between life and
death for a number of weeks last
summer, after being brought
from Cincinnati in what was then
thought to be the last stages of
tuberculosis, has so far recovered
as 10 be able 10 walk about his
home, and bids fair to complete
ly recover This will be glad
news for his many friends.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-02-01
Down With the Taxes.

A friend of ours from Hard
wick's Creek, one dav this week, ,
coming into town with his team
besmattered all over with yellow
mud, remarked when he saw us
that the road he had travelled
over was a sample of the turn.
pixies "Johny Burghy" was going
TO build last winter.
We plead guilty. We were al.
ways for good roads so strong
that we did last year bring in ev.
cry conceivable argument to get
the bonds voted to build them
with, confidently expecting the
court to do as it promised-co-
operate with the people and build
them. But since then we have
learned, we thi nix, why some
people were so anxious TO get
the bonds voted, and, seeing that
with the bonds, roads are farther
off than ever, we are moved 10
remark that 1t is our opinion now
that never again will We be in
favor of the county incurrlug
any form of Indebtedness unless
we see IN advance what we are
getting, and never favor high
taxes, for it is plain to be seen
that we get no more when taxes
are high than We do when taxes
are low.
Then we say "down with our
taxesn and let the people, by
private subscription, build their
own roads just like they have to
do when the-taxes are high.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-02-01
Gard Of Thanks.

To all the good people of Clay
City who SO patiently and kindly
ministered to the aid of dear one,
little Aileen Vaughn Shimfessel,
in the sad hour of sickness, death,
and bereavement, we desire 10
extend our sincerest thanks and
trust that the same devotion of
friendship may be manifest in
similar ordeals Of our friends.
THE FAMILY.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-02-01

.Kentucky's corrupt practices
act, a product of the 1915 Gener.
al Assembly, limits candidates
for Office in the amount of mon
ey they may spend in making a
race. 1t is not so much in the
smaller counties as in the larger
ones. In Powell county the
amount to spend IN any race can
not exceed 81 600. State Sena-
tors can not spend more than
$500, while Representatives are
limited to $3.50. 1t would he
wise for candidates and pros
pective candidates to be sparing
In their expenditures IN the be.
ginning of the campaign, that
they may have a reserve later in
the race when it is always worst
needed. But, by the way, re-
member that none of this money
can now be legally spent TO buy
Votps
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-02-01
Death of w. r. Coosey.

Mr.. w. F. Goosey, aged SO
years, died Tues lay at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Abram
Merritt, following an illness of
about four months, of nephritis.
Mr.. Goosey was wIdower and
is survived by seven children,
five sons and two daughters.
Messrs. Frank, John, George,
Warren and Ben Goosey, of Clark
county; Mrs. Carrie Merritt, of
Ford, and Mrs. Polly King, of
Lexington.
The funeral services were held
on Wednesday afternoon at the
grave in the Log Lick cemetery
where the body was interred.-
Winchester Sun.
Mr.. Goosey formerly lived in
Clay City with his son, A. r.
Goosey, deceased, where he was
well known.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-02-01
Next Will be the Advertising.

City Tax Collector g. Z. McIn-
tosh has given the delinquent tax
payers of Clay City final warn.
ing before levying and selling
property Tor the collection of tax
due the city. Claude is IN earn
est about this, so to avoid fur
ther trouble it will be best for the
delinquents to see the Collector
and pay UP.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-02-01
Six-Dollar Corn.

J. b. Eaton, who each year
raises considerable corn, has re-
fused an offer of $500 per bar
rel for all the corn he will put on
hoard the cars at ClayCity. Hav-
ing a use for the greater portion
of his crop, he has declined the
offer. Such prices are bound to
keep the cost of living still up in
the air.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-02-01
Want Depot.

The people interested in a de-
pot at Harg, a station in Estill
county, eight miles from Irvine,
on the w. d |. branch Of the l..
d N, are circulating a petition
to have "a depot built at that
place.
There is no depot on this new
line from Irvine to Winchester,
and persons going to Harg are
compelled, when trains are late,
to seek accommodations from
neiehbors, and often when trains
at night are late-and' there is
no way telling how late train
may be-passengers must stand
in the cold and ram waiting the
coming of the train. And TO get
the accommodation of a depot
passengers would have to go
eight miles to Irvine, or come
eight miles to Clay City.
This depot would be of value
to many Clay City folks, as they
frequently must 90 TO Harg to
make certain connections or else
be away from home several hours
longer to make the trip, and,
when we must 60, it would SUIT
us to have a depot to rest in
while waiting for the train, es.
pecialIy when it happens to be a
night train and 1t is late, and it
is cold or raining.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-02-01
Mrs. Skidmore Dies Suddenly.

Mrs. Elizabeth Skidmore died
very suddenly at the home of her
brother, VIM. Shimfessel, on Lit
tie Hardwick's Greek, some time
last night. Death was due to
heart trouble of which she had
been a long sufferer. At the
time of going to press we are un'
able to learn of the funeral ar.
rangements. Mrs. Skldmore's
husband, who was former po'
liceman at Clay City, died sever
al years ago.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-02-01
Boyle the Banner County.

The Sheriff of Boyle county
has succeeded In collecting every
penny of tax due in that comfy
and has announced there will be
no sale of land for taxes this
year. This is the first time in
the history of Kentucky that II
county has been able to make
such a report, which entities he
county to bear the distinction of
being the banner county from at
least the prompt payment of all
taxes