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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
WELDING GLASS.

Welded glass suitable for certain
optical instruments and other appa-
ratus is a novel material that is
stated to be Of great practical value
An well as much interest. Al the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11
INSOMNIA ONLY A HABIT.

One of the reasons why insomnia is
so much dreaded is that it is wrongly
conceived by many of the laity to be
a disease. There is no such disease
and in its simple form, where there is
no positive disease in the background,
it is merely bad cell habit, kept alive
by some fault in the manner of living,
some breach of brain discipline, or
some disturbance in the functions of
the body that results in insistent mes
sages being sent to the brain centers
during sleep or while we are trying to
sleep. Trying to sleep is a pathetic
and futile task, and much better re-
suits usually can be obtained by not
trying to sleep.
Worlds Work.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-08-11

With a strong will and prayer can
do everything. Courage and conf
dence always spite of all.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02
AUSTRIA REPORTED VERY ANX.
IOUS TO AVOID BREAK

Berne, March 20 (via Paris, March
3O)-A neutral diplomat who arrived
here from Vienna today asserts that
Austria is almost feverishly anxious
to retain good relations with the Unit
ed States, but is even more DESTROYS
and determined to support Germany.
The continuance of friendly relations
between Washington and Vienna de-
Ponds almost entirely, he believes, up
on the outcome of the crisis between
Germany and the United States. Ac-
cording to the diplomat it America
and Germany go to war Austria will
follow the lead of her ally but If
peace is preserved Vienna hopes to
avoid break with the United States.
The economic situation in Austria
is described by the traveller as very
bad and getting steadily worse, al
though perhaps not worse than that
In Germany.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02
L. s. Is ASSAILED BY ZIMMER.
MANN

London, March 3O-Reuter's Ans
terdam correspondent sends the fol-
lowing concerning the address on DR..
Alfred Zimmerman, minister of for
eign affairs, with regard to Germany
attempt to embroil Mexico and Japan
with the United States:
Hugo Haase, leader of the Social
list minority in the Reichstag, remark
ed the German offer of an alliance
with Mexico had aggravated the sit
uation with the United States, and DR..
Zimmerman, replying, said;
81 wrote no letter to General Car
rama. was not so naive. mere
ly addressed, by route that appear
ed to me to be safe one, instruc-
tons to our representatives in Mexico.
1t is being investigated how these in
structions fell into the hands of the
American authorities
81 instructed the minister to Mex
leo, in the event of war with the
United States, to propose German
alliance to Mexico, and Simultaneous
ly to suggest that Japan join the al
lance. declare expressly that, de-
spite the submarine warfare we
hoped America would maintain neu-
trality.
"My instructions were to be car
ried out only after the United States
declared war and state of war SUI
pervened. | believed the instructions
were absolutely loyal. AS regards
the United States, General Carranza
would, up to the present, have heard
nothing of it if the United States had
not published the instructions, which
came into its hands in a way which
was not unobjectionable. Our be-
havior contrasts considerably with
the behavior of the Washington gov
eminent.
President Wilson, after our note
of January 81, 1917, which avoided
all aggressiveness in tone, deemed it
proper Immediately to break off rela.
tons with extraordinary roughness.
Our ambassador no longer had the
opportunity to explain or elucidate
orally our attitude. The United States
government thus declined to nego-
tate with us. On the other hand, il
addressed itself Immediately to all the
neutral powers to induce them to joir
the United States and break with us.
Every unprecedented person must
see in this hostile attitude of the
American government, which seemed
to consider it right before being a
war with us. 1t can not deny us thu
right to seek allies when it has itsel
practically declared war on U.S."
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02

of the Pacific ports will be approxi-
mately IL cents higher per hundred
pounds than rates by way of New York.
1.-THE quicker service, reduced war
risks and lower insurance rates"
reads the commissions decision, tend
however, to equalize the rate disad-
vantage. Chicago, with the proposed
rate of 40 cents would get through
rate to the Orient via the Pacific coast
of $1.3O, or cents less than Pitts
burgh would pay via the Pacific Coast
ports"
Little If any, diversion of this traf-
fic from Pacific coast ports to Atlantic
ports is anticipated by the commission
because of the increased rate.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF
Which is Better-Try an Experiment
or Profit by q Maysville
Citizens Experience.

Something new is an experiment.
Must be proved to be as represent
ed.
The statement of manufacturer Is
not convincing proof of merit.
But the endorsement of friends is.
Now supposing you had bad back,
A lame, weak, or aching one,
Would you experiment on it?
You will read of many so-called
cures.
Endorsed by strangers from far
away places.
It's different when the endorsement
comes from home.
Easy to prove local testimony.
Read this Maysville case:
Ben. p. Fleming, constable Of Ma
son Co., 2l7 E. Lee ST., Maysville, says:
II have used Doans Kidney Pills off
and on for several years, getting them
at Wood G. Sons Drug Store, and they
have been of great benefit. At times
my kidneys have been out of order
and | have suffered from a dull, con-
slant ache through the small of my
back. The kidney secretions have
been irregular in passage, too A box
or so of Doan's Kidney Pills have
never failed to relieve me of the COM
plant in short time"
Mr.. Fleming is only one of many
Maysville people who have gratefully
endorsed Deans Kidney Pills. II
your back aches-if your kidneys
bother you, don't simply ask for a
kidney remedy-ask distinctly for
DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS, the same
that Mr.. Fleming had-the remedy
backed by home testimony. SOC all
stores. Foster-Milburn Co., Props,
Buffalo, N. Y. When Your Back is
Lame-Remember the Name"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02
HIGHER RATES ON STEEL

Washington, April Increased
rates on iron and steel from Chicago,
Pittsburgh and other points in the
East to Pacific Coast terminals for
export went into effect today, at the
order of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. The increases author
lied are from 30 cents, the present
rate, to 40 cents from Chicago and
from AZ to As cents from Pittsburgh.
The rates apply to shipments destined
for Japan, China and Manila. With
the authorization of these increases
the rates on iron and steel from pro-
ducing points to the Orient by way
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02
RAILROAD TIME TABLES
f1[1 q "a s 1|11d

No. II departs 5:35 .. M, daily sx-
cept Sunday.
No. 9 departs 100 p. m, daily ex-
cept Sunday.
No. 10 departs $40 p. m. daily.
No. 10 arrives $3.50 q. m, daily ex-
cept Sunday.
No. IS arrives 2:05 p. m. daily.
No. II arrives $3.50 p. M. daily ex-
icept Sunday.
No. 10 arrives 1880 q. m, daily -
cept Sunday.
No. II departs 1850 q. m, daily sx-
cept Sunday.
Schedule effective Sunday, May ~.
subject to change without notice
H. 8. ELLIS, Agent.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02

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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02
CINCINNATI MARKET

CINCINNATI MAkkET
GRAIN
Wheat-$.17@2.19.
Corn-$1.24@1.25.
Rye-$1.7O@1.73.
Oats-72@12hc.
Hay-$l75O@1S.O0.
CATTLE
Shippers--$9.00011.25.
Butcher Steers-s10.25@10.75.
Heifers-$l0.00@10,25.
Cows-$S.7509.O0.
CALVES
Extra--sl3.50@l3.75.
Fair to good-$1l.50@13.50.
Common and lnrge--$6.00010.50
HOGS
Choice Packers and Butchers -
1856 @1O.40,
Stags--sS.00@ll.0O,
Common to choice sowa - $500
ti4,10.
Light shIppers-.$ia,2501l.00.
Plgs--s7oo@iI60,
sHEEp
sheep--sii,000ii.6o.
I.Amba--tit,5oQlt7b'
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02

Chicago, April 2-The Sears-Roe-
buck Company today paid dividend
of 50 a share on the stock of the cor
poration, putting it on an IS a year
basis. There was also distributed a
stock dividend of S15,OOO,OOO, the new
common, on the basis of one new
share for each four previously own
cd
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02
FOR SALE!.

WOULD YOU GIVE NINETY
CENTS FOR A GOLD DOLLAR? OF
COURSE YOU WOULD. WELL WE
ARE GOING TO MAKE YOU EVEN A
BETTER PROPOSITION THAN
THIS. WE WILL SELL YOU THE
BEAUTIFUL NEW HOME OF THE
CHANSLOR'S ON EAST SECOND
STREET FOR $50 LESS THAN
FIRST COST. NOW If YOU WANT
A HOME GET BUSY, THIS ONE Is
GOING TO CHANGE HANDS.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02
"FAGGED.OUT" women
Will Find a Helpful Suggestion In
This Letter,

This Letter.
Overworked, run down tagged out"
women who feel as though they
could hardly drag about, should pro-
fit by Mrs. Carter's experience. She
says: 81 am the mother of six chill
dren and got so weak and rundown
that couldn't eat anything and it
seemed almost impossible for me to
get around and do my work. tried
different doctors remedies without
benefit. l saw Vinol advertised and
decided to try 1t, and received so much
benefit from the first bottle that | con-
tinued to take 1t, and 1t has built up
my strength and made me strong and
we'll. ! consider Vinol the best medi-
cine have ever taken, and advise all
weak, rundown women to try It,"
Mrs. Bessie Carter, State Road N. c.
II all the tired, overworked, run
down women In Maysville could only
realize how our delicious Vinol, which
contains beef and cod liver peptones,
iron and manganese peptonates and
glycerophosphates, supplies the vital
elements necessary to build up blood
and strength. we wouldn't be able to
supply the demand. ]. c, Pecor Drug
Co., Maysville, Ky. Also at leading
drug store In oil Kentucky towns,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02

1t is recognized that a matrimonial
knot is the most serious tangle of all.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-04-02
MARKETS.

NASHVILLE PRODUCE MARKET
Following are this mornings quota
tons on country produce telephoned at
8 o'clock by the Z. L. Manchester Pro-
duce COmDany:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-08-21
Two Omaha Women Each Adopt
Two Nebraska Soldiers to Look Ahe,

The motherless boys in the Fifth
regiment machine gun company are
to have real mother at last.
One day last week two sweet-faced
women appeared in the headquarters
at the armory.
I'VE want to adopt two boys
apiece" they told Lieutenant Rouse.
Two boys that have no home and
no mother. We want to be good to
them during the remainder of their
stay in Omaha and keep in touch
with them all the time they are at the
front.
They will be Our boys until they
are mustered out. We want to give
them chicken dinners and automobile
rides while they stay. And be sure
we'll be on land to tell them good
b. at the train; We want to write
them often and send them papers and
nice mysterious little packages of
goodies and such things very often
at the front"
Can you find us four such boys"
Lieutenant Rouse could-and he
did, in a moment. Four fine young
lads filed in, little embarrassed at
the call, but all that vanished as they
met the anxious motherly eyes of the
two visitors.
The two kind-hearted women were
Mrs. A. S. Williams, 1916 Douglas
street, and Mrs. William G. Fuller,
I708 North Forty-ninth street. The
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-08-21
EXPECT NEBRASKA
TROOPS TO START
SOUTH WEDNESDAY
Reports Current at National
Guard Headquarters Indicate
Cornhusker Brigade Will
Entrain in 48 Hours.

Reports current at National Guard
headquarters in both Omaha and Lin
coin last night indicated that all COM
panies of the Nebraska brigade still
in the state would entrain at their
home stations Wednesday for the first
lap of their journey to the training
camp at Deming. N. NJ.
The Omaha battalion of the Dandy
Sixth" yesterday received orders to
prepare for entrainment within forty
eight hours. Members of Company
D, located at the Auditorium, were
instructed to have their baggage packed
and be prepared for departure upon a
moments notice.
Take Phone Numbers.
Guardsman who live at their homes
were ordered to keep in close touch
with headquarters and officers tabu-
lated the telephone numbers of all
surh troopers in rase the rail- to get
under way comes when they are abb
sent.
General Harries, commander of the
Nebraska brigade, left for Deming
last night.
At Lincoln last night, it was re-
ported the troops would all leave
Wednesday for Kansas City where
they would assemble as unit for the
journey to Demlng.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-08-21
General Strike ofi. WV. in
Northwest Is Not Called

San Francisco, Aug. 2O-Peace and
quiet prevailed today throughout the
northwest states of Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho and Montana, where a
strike of thousands of Industrial
Workers of the World in the con-
struction, harvesting and fruit indus
tries was scheduled to take place
under orders of the organization lead
ers.
A survey of the situation early to-
night showed that ever line of indus
try to be affected by the proposed
strike pursued its normal, orderly
way and so far as could be asserted
no attempt was made by any l. W..
w. leader to carry into effect the
strike order issued recently by James
Rowman, district secretary, with
headquarters at Spokane, who ad-
vised farm workers to "let fruit rot
on the ground" and calling on con-
struction workers to lay down their
tools.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-08-21
WESTERFIELD TO
MAKE UP FURTHER
DUNDEESHORTAGE
Former Treasurer Of the Wiz
Iage is Given Until Satur-
day to Put Back $500
Still Missing.

Demand has been made upon Ellery
Fl. Westerheld, treasurer of the vii
lage of Dundee prior to annexation
with Greater Omaha, for $500 addi-
tional shortage.
The demand has been made by the
department of public accounts and f.
nance and Mr.. Westerfeld has been
granted until next Saturday to pay in
the amount.
This additional shortage came to
light when interest coupons of district
improvement bonds were checked
back by John Fead, bond clerk in the
city comptroller's office.
Records Show Shortage.
The $500 was part of an issue of
$500 improvement bonds sold by the
village of Dundee on June S, 1915, two
weeks before annexation. The bonds
were dated May |. 1915. In the rec
ords OF Dundee finances as turned
over by Mr.. Westerheld, there ap-
peared memorandum showing dis
trlbution of only $4,000 of the $500
bonds.
Chief Clerk Charles Stenica of the
department of public accounts and f.
nance in the absence of Superintend-
ent Butler states that the shortage
exists and that Mr. Westerheld does
not question it and has promised 10
settle this week.
Shortly after the annexation Of
Dundee with Greater Omaha the city
comptroller discovered that Mr.. Wes-
terheld's books could not be recon-
ciled. The more the books were
checked the more evident is became
that shortage existed. An exhaus-
tive check disclosed lax system of
accounting and long list Of items
which went to make up total short
age of $4,000, which was finally paid
into the city treasury and prosecu-
ton abandoned.
When the shortage was made pub
lie Mr.. Westerheld left Omaha and
his friends reported that he had
sought a much needed rest;" that he
had suffered nervous breakdown.
Friends Come to the Rescue.
Relatives and friends went TO his
rescue and when settlement of the
shortage was arranged, he returned
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-08-21
MERCHANTS ''',ii AMI G.
FL0CkING FROM
SEVERAL STATES
Come Earlier Than Ever to
Take Advantage of the
Omaha Market Week
Offerings.

During no previous Merchants
Market eek hello in Omaha did so
many merchants arrive on the first
day as came today to buy their
stocks of goods on the Omaha
market.
BY II o'clock merchants were on
the market from fifty miles south of
Kansas City, from Montana, Iowa,
Nebraska, South Dakota and Mis-
souri,. Wives and daughters accom-
panied many of them, for more and
more the merchants throughout the
Omaha trade territory are depending
upon the judgment and taste Of their
wives and daughters in the matter of
laying in stocks of goods, especially
IN the line of women'S apparel
Come to Buy.
The nc chants are buying crowd.
They feel that crop conditions are
good throughout most of the terri
tory they will serve, and that conse-
quently business will be exceptionally
good this fall and winter.
Those who arrived early got TO the
big wholesale houses as fast as posi-
BILE and evinced a keen desire to get
lot of their stock laid in befort the
big rush of merchants arrives Tues
day and Wednesday. The result was
the business was exceptionally brisk
at the wholesale houses. Extra help
was employed to show goods and
help take orders.
Kansas Merchants Optimistic.
Kansas merchants, despite the re-
ports of failure of corn crop in parts
of the state, are optimistic for a good
fall and winter business, and they i'll
sist that the talk Of corn failure In
their state has been exaggerated.
They point out that Kansas is more
of a wheat state than a corn state,
anyway, and that the wheat yield was
good, anL also that there will be much
good corn in Kansas despite the fact
that there are spots where the corn
was damaged by the dry weather
which prevailed there some weeks
ago.
The South Dakota fellows are/very
optimistic, also, saying that the small
grain yield was excellent and that
there will be much corn in the state
despite the fact that some of it is a !
little late.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-08-21
U.S.PREP ARES TO
TREBLE NUMBER
OF DESTROYERS
Daniels in Conference With
ShipbuiIders With View to
Gigantic Increase in
the Navy.

Washington. Aug, 20.--Immediate
expansion Of building facilities of the
United States to double or treble the
output of destroyers in the next
eighteen months was the object of a
conference today between Secretary
Daniels and representatives OF TWEEN
ty-hve or more ship and engine build
ers. i.
IF we get what we want" the sec
| retary said, "the United States will
have more destroyers than any other
power. They are the one thing that
submarine fears"
The secretary indicated that all de-
stroyers the builders could produce
would be ordered. Every effort OF
the department. will be laid upon
speeding up the many contracts now
pending.
Engines Are Scarce.
Every aspect of ship building that
bears upon destroyer production was
taken up at the conference. There
is no, shortage of material or plant
facilities, but difficulty in obtaining
high-power engines, boilers and re-
duction gear.
Secretary Daniels said no additional
submarine chasers would be ordered
at present The chasers are valuable
as harbor and shore patrols, but de-
stroyers are superior even for these
duties and have in addition sea-go-
ing qualities which make them of far
greater value in all other ways. \
Every suggestion that the ship and
engine builders had to make as to
additional motive power for destroy
ers was given close attention. Equip
ping some of the new vessels with
oil engines was among the sugges-
tions.
To Expand Plants.
As to the plants at which the new
destroyerG will be laid down, Secre-
tary Daniels said he favored expan-
sion of the plants already building
destroyers as the most efficient means
of speeding up. Experience gained
in previous building will enable such
plants to turn out ships more quickly
than would be possible for a plant
new to the work.
Another aspect is the problem of
furnishing conveys TO troops and sup
ply ships, which viii grow as more
Americans go to France. Many Of
ficers believe that destroyer conveys
guarantee a large degree Of security
from submarine attack.
No figures have ever been made
public as to the number OF destroy
eFs under construction. Secretary
Daniels said today, however, that they
represent the maximum present ca
pacity OF the country.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-08-21

lucky men who now have mother to
think of them were Sergeant William
Jones and Privates Sweeney, Schatz-
ley and Dingman.
How did | come to think OF it,"
said Mrs. Fuller. why, my heart has
just ached whenever | passed the
armory on the car. l felt that in
that company were surely some boys
without mother. / have no son my
self, but if | had, would be so proud
if he were soldier.
my friend, Mrs. Williams, has one
little boy of 7 who is a boy scout.
1t is because she knows how he would
feel if he were in the army and had
no mother to care about him. that
she wants to look after come of those
boys.
They are so fine and so brave.
They are protecting US and giving
their lives, it may be, that we may
be safe. The little we can do to make
their stay in Omaha and their life at
the front happy can but slightly re-
pay their great sacrifice"
Mrs. Fuller is tremendously inter-
ested in her boys. She is not great
worker in clubs, for she feels she can
DO SO much more for individuals than
collectively.
II wanted to make sweaters and
pack comfort kits for my own boys
boys ] knew. / wanted TO know their
(Conttnund nm pava T,yo CoI,,,.,x, nn.1
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-08-21
Government Loses Valuable
Oil Lands by Court Decision

san Francisco, Cal, Aug. 20,-The
government lost title to hundreds Of
acres of California oil lands in the
Midway fields held by the Consoli-
dated Mutual and the North Ameri-
can Consolidated Oil companies and
others, in an opinion handed down
today by the United States circuit
court Of appeals, reversing judgment
of the lower court.
The opinion, written by United
States Circuit Judge Z. NJ. Ross,
will affect other suits brought by the
government in its so-called billion
dollar" oil cases to recover title to
these lands. it was said. The opinion
held that those in possession of the
lands have legal right to the oil con-
tanned.