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Arizona republican., 1917-12-26
OUR PosToFFIcE IN FRANCE

You may think of the postoffice unsentimen- tai sort of an institution but let tell you that this year the department is putting sentiment into it's work. Its sentiment is that not single American soldier shall be disappointed by receiving his Christ parcel late--if it is humany possible to get it to him on time. The Christmas mail must be sent through the waters infested by the German subma- rines before it be trucked otherwise transport ed to the various "somewheres' where soldiers have their billets cantonments in France; but it is now our expectation that every card, letter and package that reaches French soil will be delivered before Christmas day is past.
 No doubt the readers of St. Nicholas will be in terested in the system that have built up for handling mail for American troops in France. How many of you know that now have a Paris postoffce occupying whole building in the French capital and flying the stars and stripes? Scattered throughout France wherever bodies of American troops stationed the Paris posoffce has it's sub stations corresponding to the branches of larger city postoffices. In fact the organization there is quite similar to the city postOffice organization United States, except that postal employees in France all military uniforms. Our flag floats over each substatiOn in France. It would be a rev eation of the extent of American progress in the if 1 could tell you about the volume of mail handled each week by our French office-Postmaster General Burleson, in the December St. Nicholas
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26
D|G OWN GRAVES
 BEFORE BEING SHOT.
 HANGED OR BURNED
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

LONDON, Dec. 25.-Compelled to dig their own graves, drowned, burned alive, hanged, or shot down with ma chine guns, the Serbians of Herzego- vina, Bosnia, Istria and Dalmatia were the victims of Austro- Hungarian atro- cities, surpassing the human imagina tion, recently declared Dr. Tresic Pa vicic, a Slav member of the Austro- Hungarian chamber of deputies. Mar ratives of Serbians made prisoners in Austrian jails and fortresses were re- lated in detail before the Austrian par liament by the Slav deputy.
 According to Dr. Pavicic, these out rages were practiced upon the civilian population, old men, women and chill dren, when orders were given by Gen. eral Potiorek, described as the autocrat of Bosnia, to remove all the Serbians from the frontier districts.
 The inhabitants of the village of Svice, young and old, were all led away and on arrival at Mount Rudo, were compelled to dig their own graves and to lie down each in his own. Many women, the deputy said. lay down in their graves with children in their arms and the soldiers then shot them one after another, the living putting earth over the dead until their own turn came.
 The ordinary method of executing these civilians who should have beer interned. said the Slav deputy, was to | hang them, but instead the whole Serbo- MontNnegrin frontier had beer transformed into desert. Eighty-twt | persons. he said, were hanged without | trial at Zubac, 103 at Trebinjo, T al | Foca and 300 at Tuzla. He gave tho names of victims and the dates ant localities of the outrages.
 | Of those who were not executed, ht declared, the very young and the aget
 died of destitution. It was the vigor. ous, competent and courageous wht
 were arrested falsely accused. con demned, tortured and executed. Tn, deputy was informed, he sai, that 5,00' persons had been arrested in Dalmatia
 Istria and Carniola. pr. Pavicic wal | one of those arrested, herded with bri
 gands, insulted by Hungarian soldier
 and beaten with rifle butts. Many o
 his fellow prisoners lost their reasol and he saw one hurl himself from ; | train under the wheels of anothe ! which was passing. Thousands o
 Serbians, he declared, were taken fo internment to Mostar, Herzegovina, t
 Doboj, Bosnia and to Arad. Hungary
 Upon these unfortunates their jail
 CTS inflicted peculiar punishments, ac cording to the narratives of two sur l vivors related by Dr. Pavicic. One o these jailers at Mostar was character
 ized in the speech as a ''ferociou.
 beast" who beat his prisoners. With {
 hooked baton of iron which he called
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26
POTATO GULL S|LACE WARTIME MEASURE

Silage made from culled potatoes was found to be equivalent to corn silage as feed for diary cows and of value also as hog feed, in preliminary tests
 conducted by the bureaus of chemistry and animal industry of the United States department of agricul- ture. As potato silage will keep as well as other silage, such utilization of |culls and small potatoes would take |care of a considerable annual waste, department specialists say, and would |enable farmers to carry this feed through until a season of scarcity.
 To Make Potato SiIage
 Any receptacle that will contain the |potato juice may be used for putting | up the silage-barrel, vat, or an above |ground or pit silo. To make the silage l the potatoes are first washed, using ! large vats in which the potatoes are stirred by a homemade device, and then ground either by hand or by power. A hand grinder such as is used in making cider has been found to work satisfactorily for making small
 amounts of silage, while a power apple grater modified by substituting rows of blunt spikes for the grater knives is
 adapted to larger amounts.
 After grinding. the potatoes are put
 at once into the water-tight receptacles and about per cent of corn meal sprinkled in evenly throughout the mass. The use of the corn meal in sures an acid fermentation which con- .verts the ground potatoes into silage The mixture then is tamped down cov- cred to depth of several inches, pre- Iferably with fermented corn silage, or nstraw, cornstalks, or leaves, and the Ureceptacle fitted with board cover
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26
BE TE WATCHFUL,
 THE HOUR HAS COME

Save the oil with more days lightless: Arm the gunner Save the meat with more days meatless, Shoot the Hunner. savs the wheat with mere days wheat
 less,
 Save the crackers Make the Hun spy hand and feetless Hang the slackers. What care we for trousers seatless, Clothe the sighters- Glory in bed that's sheetless, Back our fighters. AS the kaiser's days are nightless, In his fighting We should surely make them mightless In the fighting. With the lessons we are learning, We'll be wiser Even now Gods wrath is turning, On the kaiser.
 CLINTON DARLING
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26

when search of her person revealed to the police a pair of flesh colored silk stockings with azure blue tops, be- heved by the authorities to have been surreptitiously pilfered from the down town shopping district, when she was taken into custody night before last.
 Amelia is expansive of girth, with other portions of her anatomy to match. HencI the quizzical looks on the faces of the police officers when they spied the diminutive proportions of the hos iery, which was several sizes too small for Amelia. It appears" said one, that these were not made to measure, or, perhaps were obtained in haste"
 The woman was imprisoned in the city jail to await trial this afternoon an charge of petit larceny.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26
FROM woMANs WORLD ALMANAC PAGE

There's much bad in the best of us, And so much good in the worst of us That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us. Each day woman does the work of a horse a mule and man, and breaks no bones in her tongue bragging about it.
 "Hats-when the Flag goes by; Hats-as it's cOors fly. Red for the blood in it, White for the love in it, Blue for the God in it.
 The Flag" Life is the mirror of king and slave Iris just what we and do; Then give the world the best you have And the best will come back to you do thing Oh, troubles a ton or a troubles an ounce Or trouble is what you make it; And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts But only how did you take it.
 Tn Woman's World for January
 PATRIOTIC GIRL
 Said the pretty girl
 To her sweetheart: "Son,
 For goodness sake
 Don't call me Hun''
 Florida Times Union
 HE WAS SATISFIED Did you ask Miss Green to sing for us?" Yes and she refused" But you didn't her" No. I satisfied to let well enough alone :" Detroit Free Press.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26

|''Kromprinz." A priest named Tichy ]afterward died at Arad, Hungary, as the result of the tortures this jailer in- Fflicted.
 If those gathered at Mostar survived they were transferred later to Arad, where thousands of living skeletons were congregated from Bosnia and Herzegovina" said the deputy. Fam |ished. naked, half-dead from the blows ! of rifles and bayonet thrusts, they were driven to the easements of the Arad fortress. In it's subterranean corridors they died in masses from typhus. As the days became colder" said j pr. Pavicic, they took clothing from ! the dead to clothe the naked. The number of deaths at Arad is estimated lat between 5000 and 4,000."
 At Doboj things were worse. Along | with Serbian and Montenegrin prison
 CTS came crowds of civilian old men, women and children driven from home land forced to travel in open cattle trucks. Hunger was found to be the simplest and cheapest means of send < ing these people to another world Often the mother would be dead when |her little child shook her to ask for bread. Trustworthy figures show that more than 5000 innocent victims met ! their death in those places
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26

We of this region learn with deep regret of the death of Senator Newlands to whom the Hansbrough- Newlands act creating the reclamation service will be an everlasting monument, marking great change in governmental policy, and establishing a new and more intimate relation between the government and the people
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26

If General Alenby's victory the Turks yes terday resulted in such decmation of them as cured in this country, his way to Consantinople is unimpeded A difference between AIenby's gagement with the Turks and ours is this: when he has conquered them he on In our case we have to wait for the pepsin reserves to be brought up.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26

Our attention has been called to an error in statement yesterday that yesterday the third Christmas of the world war when it the fourth. That is so, but still insist that even three war Christmases are too many.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26

. Although he is naturalized Brit ish subject, Phillip de Laszlo, famous portrait painter, has been interned as an alien enemy because he was bern in Hungary. De Laszlo painted Roosevelt's portrait and those of more members of royalty than any other painter.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26

When only two nations have been involved dis nearly all great wars have involved many nations jealous of their rank Even among friendly beliger- ents clashes of interest in the final peace terms which were expected to fix ter ritorial boundaries or new spheres of influence.
 The determination of precedence occupied many months of the conference preceding the peace of West phala which terminated the Thirty Years war. Like wise many other months were filled in with much pickering concerning at the Utrecht peace ference by which the of the Spanish Succession was ended There were first decided questions as to where the various representatives to sit, the order of their coming and going and a hundred points of what apparently matters of etiquette but which really placed the representatives some at a an advantage and some at a disadvantage in the final discussion. The various treaties of Paris except that ending the Franco Prussian war, and the treaties of Berlin and Vienna were all marked by struggles for place.
 7 But this matter at Brest-Litovsl has been dis posed of in a simple almost humorous, and we sus- pect Teutonic way The alphabet has been em- ployed. The various countries take precedence ac- cording to that. This have Austria Hungary, Bull garia, Germany, Russia and Turkey. The three cen tral powers take rank. Germany third unless it has used it's ancient name, Alemaine, in which it would have the first rank. But inasmuch as Germany is Austria Hungary and Bulgaria and Tur- key it is rather mmaterial where it may be found in the list This is time saving arrangement, cal cuated to keep down national jeaousies. The Ger who probably devised it point innocently to the letters of the alphabet and dsclaim having had any part sinister otherwise in the order of their arrangement
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26
HOSE
 PRINCIPAL CLUE

Compounded chagrin. modification and rage were the emotions registered on the countenance of Amelia Jaurez
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26
A Most Decent Thing

The tender by Governor Hunt to former Governor Campbell of the former place of Mir Campbell on the state tax commission a non-partisan action which must commend it all Arizonans. It will do much, or ought to much to aay partisan feeling in the state and with partisan sentiment reduced, business would be reassured The tender was evidence of the high esteem in which Governor Hunt holds his pred ccessor.
 Moreover, it recognition of the will of the people expressed in the substantial majority by which Mir Campbell. a republican had been elected to the tax commission in a strongly democratic year. when no other republican candidate nearly approached election. Mr. Campbell owed his election not only to his strong personality but in large measure to the record he had already made a student of taxation and as an administrator in his county of taxation laws.
 This tender with other incidents of the change of administration is augury that the state is to be relieved for tme at least of the curse of partisan politics which rested upon it for years to the repression of it's development in full measure. The purpose of Governor Hunt in this respect further forth in his brief statement accepting the good wishes his predecessor and the proffer of his personal services that at this time, in the face of the great struggle in which the country engaged there should be harmony of action and oneness of purpose
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26

You cannot push man up ladder unless he is willing to do a little climbing himself.
 Andrew Carnegie.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-26
Precedence at Peace Conferences

Our readers may have noticed in the dispatches the other day the statement that the preliminary question of precedence at the peace conference at BrestLitovsk had been settled that the taking up of the real problem at hand. Precedence would seem to us rather unimportant matter, but in all peace conferences it has played considerable part if not in arriving at agreement in getting down to discussions
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-07-21
sCHooLeoY FARMER KILLED;
FELL UNDER HAY RAKE.

MIDDLET0WN, Del, July 19-
The first death OF sehoolboy farm
er doing his war bit was reported
yesterday. The victim was Harry l.
Stats, OF Townsend, VINO. while
WORKING on the farm Of his brotaer
jn-law near here, was fatally injured.
While operating . nlg rake young
Stats fell to the ground and one Of
The prongs OF the rake entered his
body. First ala treatment was rend-
cred at once, but blood poisoning DE.
veloped. The boy was taken to the
Medieo1ghi Hospital in Philadelphia,
where he died last night His body
will be taken to Townsend for bur
ial.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-07-21
A NERVOUS WRECK
From Three Years Suffering. Says
Cardui Blade Her Well.

Texas CITY, Tex.-ln an interesting
statement, Mrs. @. II. Scllili, Of this town,
says; F'For three years ! suffered untold
agony with my head. was unable 70
do any Of my work.
/ Just wanted to sleep all fhe lime, for
that was the only ease ! could gel, when
| was asleep. ] became q nervous wTecl;
Just from the awful suffering with my
head.
/ was 50 nervous that the least noise
would make me Jump OH CT niy bed.
had no energy, and was unable 70 do
anything. My son, yorng boy, had TO
do all my household dgdes.
Twas MOI able 70 Go anything until /
took Cardui. took three bottles in all,
and If surely cured ME Of those awful
headaches. That has been three years
ago, and ] know The cure is permanent,
for / have never had any headache since
taking Cardld.
Nothing relieved naeuntil I took Cardui.
II did wonders for Tie. +"
Try Cardui for your tgoubIes--made
from medicinal ingredients recommended
in medical books as being OF benefit il
female troubles, and 10 yeats Of use has
proven that ti.e books are right. Begin
taking Cardui today. Nc-l34
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-07-21

any party in interest may require,
tho same being pertinent, or such
other matters as the Commissioner
may deem pertinent whether so re.
CURED or not
You will therefore, take notice
that on FRIDAY, THE 18th DAY Or
AUGUST, 1917 at ten O'clock u. M
az my office in Mar paburg, West
Virginia, l viii proce 70 execute
the said decree, and e u9 same be
not completed on that day Will adj
iourn the same from time to time at
the same place until completed.
Given under my hand this Ord Gay
Of July, 1917.
p. II. HARRISON,
Commissioner In Chancery
z II 10 Is.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-07-21
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

Notice is hereby given that Il N.
Hess a Special Police Officer OF the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company,
residing in Martinsburg Berkeley
County, w Va viii apply to the Cir
cult Court Of Berkeley County, w
Va at a special session to be held
on the 9th day Of August, 1917, at
10 O'Clock A. a.. for a license to
carry weapons under the provisions
OF the act Of the legislature OF 1909,
emitted IAN act to amend and re-
enact Sec. OF Chap. AS, OF the Code
OF West Virginia, relative to onenses
against the peace
z 10 19t. II. N. HESS.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-07-21
value thereof;


SIXTHt-irhe liens, IL any, ur Z
said real estate, by whom held, ard
their respective amounts and prIoris.
les;
SEVENTH Sucir other matters
as any party in interest may requs-e,
the same being pertinent, or such
other matters as I may deem 1er
tineDt, whether so required or not.
You will therefore, take notice
that on Friday, the 18th day OF Aug
ust 1917, o. zen o'clock q. M, Ut my
office I'm Martinsburg, Berkeley
County West Virginia, / will proceed
10 execute SAID decree, and IL the
same by not completed on thet day
( viii adsoa-n tho same from Lse to
cine at tna Same place until aen-
pleted.
Givon unde2 my hand this Bird dag
OF July 1917.
P. r. HARRISON,
Commissioner in Chancery.
7 5 II 10 &c @H
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-07-21
He SUFFEREDP PAIN
FROM RHEUMATISM
Feels Perfectly Well, But to Please
His Wife Buys One More Bottle
nf nrnrn .ltsA "a MALI sure

His Wife Buys One More Bottle
Of Dreco Just to Make sure.
Mr. ~ B. Harstcck, Of 81 Baltl
more avenue, Cumberland, Md,
well known carp inter- Of that city 10
busy these days telling his friends
how the new root and herb remedy.
Dreco, has freed him from his rhsu-
matte pains, and some other troubles,
that he has had for some time. lie
says For some time l have suf-
fered from severe pains in my. back
and limbs, especially the joints. It
struck me first in the hips, then the
knees got painful, then the should.
ers and elbows. My back gave me
great deal OF trouble, especially
when I got up in the morning, and
also when / would make a quick
move or bend. / was also troubled
with constipation, headaches, ner-
yousness, so | did not sleep well, and
my appetite was about all gone
was attracted by the statements
read in the papers about what Drsco
had done for SO many people and
decided to try it, with the result
that by the time ! had finished ons-
half OF the first bottle my pains had
left me and the stiffness was wear
ing away. can now jump out ef
bed without the slightest pain at al,
can stoop about and elm stairs
without any trouble The constipa
tion is entirely gone. never have
ard my wife says | am
about to eat her out of house ami
home. since my appetite has impros-
ed 50.
81 feel perfectly well now, but my
wife insists that | keep it up SO I
am going to take another bottle ilAt
to make sure I'm we'll
Statements like this should do
much to convince people Of the true
merits Of Dreoo. This remedy does
not contain any mercury potash or
any harmful mineral or anything
that effects the heart. but is com
posed OF the juices OF many differ
ent roots ami herbs
Dreco is sold and recemmend by
Leap Worthing drug store.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-07-21

Edmund r Hunter, Administrator
Nancy G stephens. ct oil.
In Chaneery.
office Of Commissioner in Chan.
Gerry, Martinsburg. West Va, July 3.
1917.
To all parties in interest in the
above entitled cause
BY a decree Of the Circuit Court
o. Berkeley County. West Virginia,
entered IN the above entitled cause
on the oath day Of April 1917, the
structions TO make q report showing
same was referred to me with in
the following.
FIRST-What personal estate the
said Thomas Stephens owned at the
time Of his death its quantity, loca
ton, and its fee simple and annual
rental value;
sECOND--Nhat disposition was
made If any Of the said personal
estate by Edmund P. Hunter. Admin
istrator Of said stephens, and how
much, IL any. Of said persona. es
tate is now in the hands Of the said
Edmund P Hunter as administrator.
available for the payment Of any
dphfs oWfpr, from the ESTATE az the
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-07-21
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

To the creditors Of Benjamin X.
Sanders, deceased;
In pursuance OF a decree OF tue
Circuit Court Of Berkeley County,
West Vtrg mia, made in a cause
therein pending, to subject the real
estate OF the said Benjamin Il. San
ders to the payment of his debts,
you are required to present your
claims against the estate of the said
Benjamin Il. Sanders, for adludica-
ton to p. r. Harrison. Commiss oner
in Chancery at his office in Mar
tinsburg, Berkeley County, West
Virginia, on or before the nth day
OF August, 1917.
Witness L. Dew, Gerhardt, clerk
Of the said court, this 9rd day OF
July. 1917.
l. Dew Gerhardt
Clerk Of the Circuit Court off Der.
kelley County, w. Va.
z - 10 &c; 8 2.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-07-21

w G. Kilmer. Executor OF Benjamin
Is Sanders, Decd.
vs..
Nellie V. Harris, ct al
In Chancery
Office Of Commissioner in Chan.
Gerry Martinsburg, w. Va, July 3rd.
1917.
To all parties in interest in the
above entitled cause:
BY decree OF the Circuit Court
Of Berkeley County. West Virginia,
entered on the 4th day Of April, 1917
in the above entitled cause the
same was referred to me with in
structions to ascertain and report as
follows:
What personal estate the
said Benjamin r. Sanders owned at
Tie time OF his death; the character
and value thereof;
sECOND-What disposition ii any.
was made Of said personal estate by
w c Kilher Executor Of the Estate
Of Benjamin r. Sanders. deceased
and how much, if airy. OF the said
personal estate now IN the hands
Of the said w. @. Kianer, Executor
aforesaid, available for the payment
Of debts owing against the estate of
the said Benjam z. Sanders. De-
ceased:
THIRD--A sett ement OF the adj
ministration OF the estate of the
said decedent by w. C. Kilmer Elk,
eeutor;
FOURTH What debts the said
Benjamin r. Sanders owed at the
time Of his death, to whom payable
their nature, and their respective a.
mounts and priorites;
FIFTH What real estate was
owned by the said BENJAMIN r. San
ders at the time OF ,i9 death. it's.
quantity description. location. fee
simple. value and annual renta val
ne;
sIXTH-The liens e any upon
said real estate. by whom held their
respective amounts and priorities
SEVENTH such other matters as