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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

you say your life is empty and
without purpose?"
That's the way / feel" replied the
pessimistic person.
"Then why don't you go in for up
lift work and be professional reform
err"
ooh, I'm not quite disgruntled
enough for that"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30
POULTRY WANTED.

We will pay 20 cents Id. delivered
in Spokane for live hens weighing
over four pounds. Block hogs Is cts
Veal Ia cts. Butter fat Al cts. Com.
merciaI Creamery Co. Spokane, Wn
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30
PAINS SHARP
and STABBING.
Woman Thought She Would
Die. Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Ogdensburg, Visit suffered from
female troubles which caused piercing

pains A1h0 q hLlll0
through my back
and side. I finally
lost all my strength
SO L had to go to
bed. The doctor
advised an oper-
alton but I would
not listen to it. I
thought Of what ]
had read about Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and
tried it. The first
hottie L~1,-~l,l
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

I'm afraid these Louis XIV heels
are much too high for me. Perhaps
you nave lower ones-say about Louis
x would do, / think. "-London Opin-
ion.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

The Great American Birds! May we
have them where we love them best
the Turkeys on our tables, the Eagles
in our pockets.-Gimlet.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30
KNOW THYSELF !

Read all about yourself, your system,
physiology, anatomy, hygiene, simple
home cures, etc, in the Common Sense
Medical Adviser" Il book of zoos pages.
Send to DR.. V. M. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y,
three dimes or thirty cents in onc-ccnt
stamps for cloth bound copy.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

Use Murine afser Exposure in Cold,
Cutting Winds and Dust. 1t Restores
Refreshes and Promotes Eye Health
Good for all Eyes that Need Care.
Murine Eye Remedy Co.. Chicago.
Sends Eye Book on request.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

Pure blood is essential to good health
Garfield Tea dispels impurities, cleanses
the system and eradicates disease.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

Garfield Tea, taken regularly, will cor
rect both liver and kidney disorders
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

Japan's Philippine trade grows. The
islands are paying for cotton. goods
with hemp.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

FREE Pretty Transfer Dolly Pattern
and 20 ways to cut high cost OF living.
Send stamp. AUNCO. Box 1856, Butte
Mont.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

Chinese brass coins more valuable
as metal than as money.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

Good health cannot be maintained
where there is a constipated habit. Car
field Tea overcomes constipation.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

Lady-Good gracious, what would
your mother say il she saw you smok-
ing?
Bily-She'd have a fit, cause they
are her cigarets-Philadelp Eve
ming Ledger,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

Summerer-That bull keeps follow
ing and looking at me so funny.
Farmer-Cuz of yer red sweater,
plless
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

DR.. Pierces Pellets are best for liver
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet
for a laxative-three for a cathartic
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

summerer-My, l know it is two
seasons out of date, but didn't think
a bull would notice it.-Judge.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-30

British retrenchment economies at
Berlin's expense.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-13

by Broadstairs as one of it's own peo- pie: and the green upon which she would not permit her donkeys to set hoof is now shown on the Fort. Broadstairs; but she developed no such affection for the place as Dickens did and her name is given scant re-
 gard: for Broadstairs continu n to feel that Dickens sounded the acme of it's praise when, writing from Albaro, Italy. he said:
 "T have never yet seen it so clear, for any long time of the day together, as on a bright, lark singing, coast of
 France discerning day at Broadstairs i; throughout as is very common there Lord Holland sought to commem- = crate the ancient battle of Broadstairs by suitable Gothic structures. the chief of which now remaining is Kingsgat te Castle, on the edge of the cliff: but
 none of them carry the verisimi.itude of antiquSy, and they emphasize the
 criticism of Walpoe. in one of his in
 terminably gossiping letters. when he says they are in no style of architec-
 ture that ever appeared before or has
 since. and in no connection with or to
 any other
 ''Near the harbor are the remains of
 the old flint gateway, called York
 Gate. which was part of the defences
 Of the ancient town. and where the
 portcuuis grooves are plainly to be
 seen: Nearby. but much altered by
 ruildlng stands the mediaevaI chapel
 Of St. Mary, which was so much ven erated in connection with it's image of
 Our Lady of Bradstow that passing sailors lowered their sails by way of saiutation.
 TO the north, between Broadstairs and Margate stands the NorthInad Lighthouse, whose structure dates from 1883, when the light was no more than a fire burning upon the roof It was off this spot that Prince Rupert fought de Ruyter, in 1866. when the British fleet was compelled to seek refuge in the Thames and when the Dutch complained that the English could be killed but not beaten The first regular lighthouse here was erected in 1636 by Sir John Meldrurn. who was empowered to levy a penny a ton on all British and two-pence on all foreign shipping that passed In return he paid e20 a year to the may be judged from the fact thai when the light finally passed to the Elder Brethen of Trinity House-as the British lighthouse service is so quaintly named-they gave to the Greenwich Hospital, which then re- ceived the fees from North ForeIand Light. the most inconsiderable sum of 5000 in amortization of the right.
 Seven miles at sea from Broad stairs lie the Goodwin SaAds. of sinis ter record in maritime annals, and by tradition supposed once to have been an island, Lomea, in the estate of Earl Goodwin, and to have been destroyed by the. sea in the Eleventh Century. Lambarde. skeptical English chron- icler: however, disputes this legend, as he does also another which te.Is of the Earls choking himself with a morsel of bread because he had said May this bread choke me if I caused my brothers death.' when, in point of fact, he had procured 1t.
 "A lightship has been maintained on Goodwin Sands since 1795. but mar inc disasters still occur there. and som etines even in. clear weather"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-13
HOME GARDENS
Sprayers.

The most economical way of using insect sprays is in some sort of a spray pump says today's bulletin from the National Emergency Food Garden Commission cooperating with this newspaper to help those planting gar dens this year for the first time. Every good gardener is prepared to use sprays in his garden to combat the insects which may otherwise make his crop his failure. The garden may escape, but should the insect horders come. the gardener should be prepared. A sprayer for scattering insecticides as the sprays and mixtures are called. is not an abSolute necessity, but it is
 highly desirable for the gardener to have one. The prices range all the way from fifty cents to seven or eight dollars. Where they are many small gardens in the same locality. several gardeners may continue to purchase a good spray pump, as one pump is sufficient for several gardens.
 However, if the gardener feels that he cannot afford to buy a pump. he can apply the sprays in various other ways. Che sprinkling pot is very wasteful. but its use is better than not touse sprays at all. Before spray pumps were invented wisk broon1s were used to sprinkle on spray mixture. This method can still be followed.
 The cheapest sprayers are the small a.tornizers. These cost from fifty cents to two dollars and are entirely >satis- garden sprays are the bucket pump, which sells for s4.50 and the small. compressed air spray an implement which costs from $500 to ss.50. These sprays are supplied by seedsmen or hardware dealers.
 Where poisons are used dry they should be applied in some sort of sitter A cheap flour sitter does very well for this. You can also make sitter at home by punching holes in &le bottom of a tin can.
 Tn usias powdered arsenate of lead or any other dryy poison, it should be mixed with road dust or sifted ashes. Early morning is the best time for powdering plants since the dust ma teriaI sticks better when the leaves are wet with dew.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-13
DO YOUR BIT,

While the great drive is on for the
 raising of the Liberty loan. sight ought
 not to be lost of the fact as to just
 what is meant thereby, why the money
 is being raised and why each and
 everyone ought so far as he is able to
 participate therein.
 This country has entered the war
 for the purpose of insisting upon it's
 rights, the extension of liberty to the
 oppressed and the termination of such
 brutal and autoCratic government as is responsible for Prussianisn and the TcuI0n war machine. It has des- patched some of it's warships for ser vice abroad, it has sent some of it's leaders across the water and it will soon have army ready to be placed on French soil for the purpose of fighting for the principles for which it stands It has also extended much credit to the nations with which it is allied and it is vital that this, the richest country in the world, should
 furnish promptly the financial back ing which Is so necessary in order to have this government carry out it's programme. Certain divisions of the army are ready to be assembled 9th CTS will be raised by conscription and those who cannot participate in the uphOlding ot the nations rights by fighting should not only be willing but anxious to do their part by furnish ing the necessary financial assistance. IL is . case where we must subscribe and win or the enemy will be success fuI and what We have failed to hand over in the shape Of a we'll secured loan will be drawn from us by the German levy of taxation the same as Belgium has felt and is still feeling every time Germany needs additional funds. . II is tina now to make all our re- -sOurces felt. It would be shameful sto send the. flower of our youth to Europe to fight if we do not give them the financial support that is required 7 There is a part for an to play. There is a patriotic duty for each and every one to perform in the buying of the sLiberty loan bonds and in order to make the loan a success, in order to show the enemy that the country is -back Of the government and is deter smined to put it's money as well as it's men into the fight, there should be a 1 large versuoscription of the bonds l Buy today and make sure
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-13
LENDING TO LIBERTY.
By Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian
 and Easayist.

Lend to Liberty. Why not give to Liberty? Giving there will be a plenty; taxes, time, energy, gray matter pas sionate anxiety, services of your sons, wounds, disease, death. Liberty re- duires no niggardly service. Tn ad = dition, in order to make our military preparation real liberty just now asks for money that will be repaid. The Liberty loan, being tax free, would be taken in great quantities by those seeking something absolutely safe with a fair return.
 What is wanted, however, just now is not only subscriptions, but the god speed of the nation. The men who buys a single $50 bond thereby gives his approval to the tremendous efforts which the government is making to tran nsform the will, the power and the wealth of the country into fighting machine that can protect our shores and join us with our allies over seas in resisting the greatest danger that has come to mankind in a thousand wears. A hundred millions now spent in provisioning and supplying the French and British armies is worth a thousand millions two years hence: it may make the thousand millions un- necessary.
 The work must be done. The foun- dation for that work must be laid. The Liberty loan must be subscribed You must Do Your Bit
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-13

in London. One traw1er, Sir Robert said, became such terror to U-boats that four of them lay in wait and eventually destroyed it. On one occa- sion, this travler armed with two light guns was attacked by a submarine. One shot went through the deckhouse, another smashed the wheel but the skipper went on steering with broken spokes" Another shot carried away the cooks galley but the trawler's s gunner hit the submarine which then had enough of it, and went under.
 Another unArmed trawler saw a submarine on the North Sea and made a dash for it with the result that the U-boat quickly submerged. Tt went underneath" said Sir Robert. be cause it could not imagine it possible that a trawler would have the coura ge if 1t were not armed
 Sir Robert related how they learned of the sinking Of two submarines by the bodies Of the crew floating to the surface, although five or six days later a report wa@ circulated from Germany that the boat had returned to port.
 Admiral Sir Edmund Fremant1e said that much criticism of the navy was beside the mark. Some things had not yet been discovered and one was how to catch the big submarine. But he said, he did not hear the scientist abused because he had not discovered the secret Of perpetual motion. He
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-13

town project because it is claimed that the amodnt is too great, that ad- vantage is being takes of the govern ment because of the existing situa- ton. If that is the case, and 1t ought not to take a long time to prove or disprove such a claim, the whole mat ter ought to be eliminated from the budget, in order that the other mat ters can go along as they should and let that be taken up separately. No schemes to do the government out of money ought to be tolerated. If the grounds are needed a fair price can be fixed in one way or another, but this war measure should not be block ed and it must not be if we are going to have efficient service.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-13
PASS THE FOOD BILLS.

Now that the second food control bill has been agreed to by the house committee on agriculture every effort should be made to push it forward to action that this problem which faces
 the country may get the early solution that it needs. The first bill it is to be reT1e nabcred has not as yet received final action. That is for the purpose of stimulating the production of food, and with that still pending the sec end, which is for the purpose of con
 trolling distribution and price, is claiming attention. By this bill upon
 which the committee has reached an agreement it is proposed to guarantee q minimum price to the producer of llon-perishabIe agricultural products the regulations of which are to be prescribed by the president.
 Everybody who has anything to do with the purchase of foodstuffs, and that applies to about everyone in one way or another, fully understands what the conditions are today, and that there is need not only of regulation but of bringing it about without de- lay. The consumers have felt the ef- fects of those who have taken ad- vantage of existing conditions to put the screws on. They have been gouged right and left and without any more reason for it than that those in touch with the situation have seen the opportunity to get rich quick and proceeded to do so without regard for what the effect might be or who were made to suffer.
 It is time, however, to straighten out this deplorable situation. There are today no agencies vested with the power to carry out such reforms as are needed but it is high time that such were provided and they will be under the provisions of the bills which are awaiting action. It is highly inn portant therefore that they should be passed. at the earliest possible mo- ment that will be compatible with se- curing a sound administration there of.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-13
THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society.

Broadstairs-"Bombed by airplanes and Zeppelins and she.led by destroy CTS, the English seaside resort of Broadstairs must feel that it is losing the distinction which it has always claimed for quietude and reserve; and that 1t Is experiencing a sort of geo. graphic or historical atavisn for as early as 553 there took place a bloody Saxons in which the invaders were successful This repetition of history, however, does not extend to the re- cent bombardment of the place by the German forces, which was barren of military results begins a bulletin just issued by the National Geographic Society. It goes on to describe this pleasure resort as follows:
 Situated on the southeast coast of England, along the chalk cliffs of the Channel and about eighty miles from Lo2don, Broadstairs has long been a faTorite watering place in both sum mer and winter. Its name is sup posedly drawn from the manner in which it's roadways to the sea have been constructed they being a series of ramps cut into the precipiteus cliffs while the town itself crowns the head lands and sweeps in a semi circle of villas along the edge of the bluff.
 'Broadstairs was a favorite spot with Dickens, who spent nearly every summer there from 1887 to 1s51-and the houses in which Dickens lived are pointed out and marked as numerous iy as those throughout this country in which Washington had slept or as those in Genoa which are claimed as the birthplace of Christopher Colum- bus. Here Dickens wrote the last of the Pickwick papers and portions of Nicholas Nickleby, the Old Curiosity Shop, Martin Chuzzlewit and Dombey and Son. Some of the details of Bleak House were based upon one of the houses in which Dickens dwe1t at Broa dstairs and this structrre novy bow widowed, casteIlated and mod ernized Is known by that name.
 Betsy Trotwood, one of the char Acters in David Copperf1e-d, is claimed
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-13
THE WAR BUDcFT

Tn spite of all the delay that is be- ing caused by the wrangling. that is taking place in congress and the blocking of necessary legislation in order to properly take care of the conditions which are prevailing today next to no progress is being made. Congress is moving along at the same snail-like pace that it assumes when matters of far less importance are up for consideration and this regardless of the need for sound and speedy ac- lion.
 1t this time when the country has sent a major general and his staff 10 Europe to prepare a base for the American army in France, when it is getting ready to assemble it's mobile forces and is preparing to draft for a still larger army everything is prac- tically at a standstilI in regard to the budget which is necessary in order to meet the expense of all this work. There is a dispute as to how much this should amount to, but the dis small importance in comparison with the total figure. Both houses of con gross are satisfied that over a three and a quarter billions are needed and they are ready to approve the appro- priation, but the measure has been blocked by the matter of purchasing the site of the Jamestown exposition at Hampton Roads, together with some additional territory adjoining, for which three million dollars are ask ed, and while there Is haggling over this amount contracts for equipment ordnance and supplies are waiting to be signed.
 There. is opposition. to this James
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-13
THE NATURAL AVERSION

Don't mention anything of the sort to me" suggested Mrs. Pond when the chairman of the committee suggested that she might contribute some time and jellies for the occasion they were Ia boring to make a success. tI have not forgotten that experience even yet
 Explain the mystery" commanded
 Very we'll said Mrs. Pond. Tt goes back to one Saturday last fall.
 Ripley I said to my husband as he rose from his luncheon, ''I wish you the pantry so that we can have a place for our jams and jeilies."
 Ripley is generally nice about such things. had no idea we should have your preserves he said. They are all right where they are, in the cellar at Idlehaven- We can run out now and then and bring in a few jars at a time"
 "'Oh, Ripley, that wouldn't be right I told him. ~tAu during this awful1y hot summer, when I felt almost esC- hausted, lowering over the preserving kettle, I knew just how rich I'd feel in the winter to see our shelves load ed with the fruits Of my labors.''
 Well. I feel pretty poor when I think of what it cost for the sugar" said Ripley.
 "rBut we had to have the sugar to save the fruit! I protested
 "And now we have to have the shelves to preserve the preserves. We'll he surrendered. If you will take the mea sures I'll order the lumber on the way to the golf club
 One morning a few days later Rip ley said at breakfast: This is a cork ing fine day and there won't be many like it this season. Let's motor out to Id-ehaven and cook a picnic dinner there
 We really ought to go out once more to see that everything is in order for your Aunt Berinthia when she comes back from the mountains I agreed.
 "'Oh, the place is all right said Ripley. I engaged Jake to attend to everything, and I figured on getting your canned goods ready to ship to- day
 That will be a good job to have 1one,' I assented.
 "'So we motored out to Idlehaven and as we turned into the drive my exclamation of mortified surprise so startled my husband that he almost ran into the steps.
 " What on earth is the matter with you. Ada? 9 he asked.
 '" Oh. that good for nothing Jake lasn't taken up a single bulb. Suppose we hadn't come out to-day and all of your Aunt Berinthia's gladion had 'rozen!
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-13
BAD PLACE FOR SAILING CRAFT

The fact that the American five master Magnus Manson has been sor- pedoed off the French coast by Ger man submarine, while on a voyage with lumber from Pensacola to Genoa,
 directs increased attention to the dan
 ger which is involved in the invasion
 of the barred zone by the sailing yes
 sels. It is not to be supposed that
 ships of this charac cter do not have
 the same rights as other vessels on the
 high seas, CT that they should be linn
 ited in their operations when accord
 ing to international law they are priv ileged to go and come $ they please,
 but with the determination of Ger
 many to show no respect to shipping, whether it belongs to belligerent or
 neutral nations there appears to be good reason for striving to preserve all ships possible which are not able to offer any protection for themselves by keeping them away from the dan ger zone and utilizing them in trade on routes which are not infested with the underwater boats.
 Because they do not possess the speed which would permit them to get away from a submersible and be- cause satisfactory results cannot be obtained by mounting guns on the decks of sailing craft, such vessels furnish an excellent target for the IT. beats, and the Magnus Manson was by no means the only one of that character which had been taking chances in trying to pass through the forbidden waters, but it was facing dangers which it was thoroughly un- derstood could not be eluded if it was 
 Sailing craft have by no means out lived their usefulness. They are an important part of a nations shipping both for coasting and transoceanic service, but where the submarines are known to be it is safer that the fast and armed steamers should be sent ard that the stickers should be used on this side of the water or in trade with countries which are not involved in the wa<. Such would mean the de- nial of what must be looked upon as certain victims for the subs.