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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
TO Dynamite q Stream.

The editor of Jersey newspaper,
thorough sportsman, is said to have
received this query from a reader:
please advise me how to dynamite
a stream
The newspaper man sent the follow
ing advice:
-Four sticks of dynamite are suffi-
Gent. Tie them securely around your
neck, attach fuse, light it and run as
fast as you can away from the water
to avoid injuring the other snakes and
reptiles ALI Outdoors.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
Exodus of Genesis.

She-Don't you just love to think
of Eden and our first parents?
He-0h, don't know. You see,
mine got divorced so often that /
can't remember which We're the first
Judge.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
A Timely GIFT.

Belle-Bob writes that the smoke in
the trenches is something fierce.
Beulah-Is that SO? Well, that gives
me hint.
"a hint for what?"
Il promised to send him birthday
present"
"WellY
I'll send him smoking jacket"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
eREEN,s AUGUST e. owEp

has been the most successful family
remedy for the last fifty-one years for
biliousness and stomach troubles, to
which the American people are addict
ed, causing sick headache, nervous in
digestion, sour stomach, coming up of
food and general physical depression,
25 and 75c-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
FIRST INsrALLMENT.


Ne document In actual Amer.
lean history conveys a more
powerful Lesson of what citizen
ship IN this republic means, none
delivers a more searching appeal
70 loyalty, than this fanciful re.
citai Of the Man Without a
Country. The unhappy creature
whose living death II has uraved
upon the memory Of mankind
was but a figure born OF a writ
er's imagination. Vet, the ae..
count OF his passionate outburst
and OF hia dreadful expiation
stirs the duIiest soul, and viii
awaken emotion In the minds
Of readers OF generations yet un.
born. There can be no more ar.
resting lesson Tor the dlsioysi or
the needless, no more Inspiring
appeal 70 the spirit OF true Amer.
leanism, than this memorable
work Of literary art and high.
souIed patriotism.l
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
stickin,s

When boy asks his mother if it is
wrong to play marbles for keeps, it is
a safe bet that he has come home with
more than he started out with.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
SOFT, CLEAR SKINS
Made So by Daily Use OF cutIcura
Soap and ointment-Trial Free.

The last thing at night and the first
In the morning, battle the face freely
with Cuticura Soap and hot water. If
there are pimples or dandruff smear
them with Cuticura Ointment before
bathing. Nothing better than Cuticura
for daily toilet preparations.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
Ready for Him.

I'm just waiting for my husband
to complain about my extravaganza
this month";
Ready to give him an argument,
eh?"
you bet am. BY mistake his golf
club checks came to the house and
I've got EN-"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25

Many man has been convicted of
forgery because he took Solomon's ad-
vice and chose good name for him
self.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
Women Of
MddkMge
Many distressing Ailments experienced
by them are Alleviated by Lydia z.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Here is Proof by Women who Know.

Lowell, Mass.-@For the last three years have
been troubled with the Change of Life and the bad
feelings common at that time. was in very ner-
deal of the time so was unfit to do my work. A
friend asked me to try Lydia e. PinkhamIs Vegeta-
BILE Compound, which did, and it has helped me In
every way. | am not nearly 50 nervous, no head
Vegetable Compound is the best remedy any sick
woman can take."-Mrs. MARGARET QUINN, Rear
$50 Worthen st, Lowell, Mass.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25

Though man classes his wife as a
turtle dove during the honeymoon he
may think later on that she resembles
parrot.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
Makes a Difference

THAT new girl Of mine breaks every
thing"
How about the Ten Command
ments?"
"Oh, I don't care so much about
those; they're not mine, you know
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
You are Invited to Write for Free Advice.

NOOther medicine
suffering Lydia Il. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound.
Women receive helpful advice writing
e. Pnkham Medicine Lynn Mass Such letters received
and answed only and held in
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-25
--s---as------s'--s--
MIMI L,k.1IflgnAn
She Tells Her Friends to Take Lydia e. Pinkham's i

She Tells Her Friends Take Lydia E. Pinkham Remedies.
North Haven Conn., When As had the Change of
which is trouble all women have At first it didn't bother
while bearing palms. called in doctors who
told to different things but they did not pains One
qa y nus9ana cane f 9oe a ae Whs ' W go
of Vegetable Compound could
feel myself regainng health also used Lydia Pnkhams
Sanatve Wash and has done great deal Of good
coming house who suffers from female troubles Change of
I tell them take the Pnkham remedies There about 20
of here who think the world of Mrs FLORENCE LEL
Box 1877, North Haven, Conn.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, May 30.-President
Wilson, speaking today at memorial
exercises in Arlington cemetery, de
clared the time has come for action
by this nation, cad that he had no
fear of the part America would play
in the great world war.
ON the providence of God" he said,
america once more has an oppor-
tunity to show the world that she
was born to serve mankind"
The president declared that while
no such day as this could be without
sorrow, he looked rather with envy
on those who served their country in
the civil war. The president said:
"The program has conferred an IN
merited dignity upon the remarks /
am going to make by calling them
an address, because I am not here to
deliver an address. I am here mere
ly to show in my official capacity the
sympathy of this great government
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
CAPT. WILLIAMS SAID
1T WAS HIS LAST TRIP

Captain Williams, Of the American
schooner Magnus Manson, while pre-
pairing to get away for sea, told
coterie of friends on the water front
just previous to his departure that
he was planning to quit the sea. and
had intended to leave after deliver
ing the schooner to her Mobile own
ers. "I am not going to quit now"
he is quoted as saying, for if l do,
those Dutchmen will, with others, say
I quit just because I was scared of
them. That is not the case. But
probably wheA we return, I shall live
at home"
The Magnus Manson loaded q cargo
of lumber for a West Italv port i
Pensacola. She was a vessel Of 1926
tons, and three months before arriv-
ing at Mobile suffered some trouble
at sea, arriving. at a gulf port with
some repair work necessary She vas
a four-masted schooner, and While
here had The flag Of the United states
painted respIendently on her sides.
She left here a few days after war
was declared.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
GOVERNMENT
NOT IMPORT.
NOW
Senate Proposes to Send
Ships to Chill to Get
Nitrates.
SELLING AT COST
TO OUR FARMERS
But Secretary Houston OBJ
jects and Arouses Ire or
an Ex-senator.
Washington Bureau.
The Pensacola Journal.

Washington, May 30 Former
Senator Marion Butler of North Caro-
lima, Republican, expressed his aston
ishment today over the action Of
Secretary of Agriculture Houston in
opposing the passage by Congress of
the bill to send government ships to
Chilli to bring nitrate of soda to the
United States to be used as fertilizer
by the American farmers, at cost.
The Senate a few days ago passed
a bill appropriating S12,O00,OO0 for
the sending of ships to Chill to bring
back nitrate and sell it to the farmers
at cost, the government to be REIN
bursed entirely out of the sale cost
The passage of the bill in the House
was opposed by Secretary Houston
and it is probable no action will now
be taken on it.
Speaking of the progress the south
ern farmers are making in producing
large crops for the success of the
war, Senator Butler said:
Cali have planted large food crops
and also increased the numbers of
live stock as rapidly as possible, Tut
we have done so with a very made
am much astonished to see that
the Secretary of Agriculture is OPP
posing in the House the passage of
the Senate bill which provides for
the sending of government ships to
Chill to bring back nitrate of soda
to be sold to the farmer at cost.
"TEe one excuse which 1e secre-
tary gives is that we ned all ships
for other purposes and that the nj
trogen, even though brought in gov.
eminent vessels, will cost from SIS to
$50 a ton, and that this is more than
the farmer can afford to pay. I wish
to remind the secretary that nitrogen
is today costing the farmer from S95
to 500 a ton and some can not get
it at even that price,
"Now if the government will make
a saving of $50 a ton then the farmer
will use twice as much nitrogen. and
this will mean an increased Yield of
from so to 100 per cent on many
staple food crops.
pray, how could a few ships be
used more profitabIy to meet the i'm
pending food crisis and to reduce the
present high cost of living? Besides
if it were announced tomorrow that
our government was about to send
several ships to Vlil for nitrate of
soda, which would be sold to the
farmers for $75 a ton then the price
of all the nitrate now stored in this
country and held for ruinous prices
would at once fall to at least So per
ton
1--WE are urged by the administra-
ton to raise larger crops as a pa
triotic duty; We are told that biscuits
are more needed than bullets and that
the farmers and not the soldiers must
win this war, If this is true, then
Continued on Page TNYo)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
YERO SKELETON TURNS
OUT COMMONPLACE

Washington. D. C., May 60 HUI
man remains found at Vero, Florida,
have been identified by DIR. Ales
HrdEeka of the United States Ma
tional Museum as those of recent In
dams, and not Of early man, as has
been claimed.
The skeletons Of a man and woman
were found in the same strata with
many bones Of animals long since e.l-
tinct the mastodon, etc. But Dr.
Hrdlieka claims the human bones
were introduced into these beds by
burial ages after the animal bones.
In his report just published by the
Smithsonian Institute, Dr. Hrdliela
concludes, that the Vero finds repre-
sent another Of those cases which are
bound to occur from time to time,
where the circumstances seem to
point to the antiquity of the human
bones, but where a thorough all-sided
inquiry shows that the mass Of the.
evidence Is against such an assump-
ton"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
MELONS, TOMATOES,
PEACHES ARE ON SALE

Watermelons, yes, a whole carload
of the beauties, arrived here for local
trade yesterday, and found a ready
sale, at about II 1-2 cents wholesale.
They were readily disposed of. and at
several points they were displayed
the first of the season on the local
market, at attractive prices. None
were retailed, so far as could be
ascertained, at less than % cents.
In some of the restaurants "sliced
watermelon" was a delicacy, at u
cents per cut.
The first peaches of the season are
also being displayed on the markets.
These are held at rather steep prices
just now for the quality of the fruit
offered. Some of the retail dealers
were yesterday asking 25 cents per
dozen for the rather immature fruit.
There were not many takers.
Homegrown and carefully picked
tomatoes of large and fancy sizes are
also offered on "a local markets
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
CROWD At THE
GULF BEACH
PREPARATIONS MADE TO MOVE
AND FEED THE LARGEST
GATHERING ON SUCH AN oC-
CASION-PLENTY TO EAT.

"Wiu the crowd be there?' Ben
Hancock laughed-a jovial sound
which suggested all kinds of success
for the Gulf Beach Highway picnic
tomorrow.
"The crowd will be there alright"
said Ben. You'd think so if you
could see the preparations to feed
that mob, Almost forgot it was war
time, when the reservations began to
pour in. We shall have at least two
thousand persons to feed at the picnic
that's my guess, and maybe a good
bit more than that.
Tell everybody we shall have
plenty to eat and plenty of ears. We
have had touring cars, auto trucks,
and all kinds of gasoline wagons
placed at our disposal, and if the
crowds will meet us at the San Carlos
corner, Friday morning between the
hours of 11:30 and 1890 we will
take of everybody, we promise that.
arrangements have been maze
for a number of cars and trucks,
other than those previously arranged
for, and there will be lots of room
for everybody.
eyes, you can say that the Gulf
Beach Highway picnic is going to
be the biggest thing that ever hap
pened in this section. Meat barbe-
cued in the very best style, fish fresh
from the water, boating, bathing,
dancing! And nobody has to dress
up to go this party. Bathing suits,
cool, summary clothes, any Old thing
goes-for the object of this picnic is
to have a good time. Sport clothes,
if you like, frilly dresses if you like,
business suits, palm beach rigs, shirt
waists and skirts. But the clothes
don't make darn bit of difference,
for there is going to be more fun
than enough for everybody, and when
they get there they viii forget every
thing but the good time they are
having.
The committee feels very much
encouraged at the interest that is
being taken in the picnic.
"The committee has worked hard
to build the highway and the interest
that is being taken in this picnic is
certainly encouraging to US, and it
looks as if the stretch of the highway
vet to be finished will be completed at
a very early date.
LAS Friday is the first half holiday
of the season and everybody is plan
ming to 60, Pensacola will probably
be a lonely burg for a few hours"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
America Has Opportunity To
SerUe Mankind Says Wilson

with the object of this occasion, and
also to speak just word of the SEN
timent that is in nv own heart.
"Any memorial day of this sort is,
of course, a day touched with sorrow
full memory, and yet I for one do not
see how we can have any thought of
pity for the men whose memory we
honor today. I do not pity them. |
envy them, rather; because theirs is
a great work for liberty accomplished
and we are in the midst of work
unfinished, testing our strength where
their strength has already been
tested. There is a touch of sorrow,
but there is a touch Of reinsurance
also in a day like this, beca1se we
know how the men of America have
responded to the call of the cause of
liberty and it fills our mind with a
perfect assurance that that response
will come again in equal measure
with equal majesty, and with a result
which will hold the attention of all
mankind"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
Club Room For Soldiers
And Sailors Opened Today

This afternoon at 4 o'clock the Pen
sacola Red Cross club room will be
thrown open to the men of the army
and navy, both commissioned and
uon-commjssioned men. the public
also being cordially invited to visit
these rooms.
The club rooms. which are Just at
the rear of the American National
Bank building, facing on Government
street. are easily located by the Red
Cross sign placed cOnspicuously in
front of the rooms, which have been
most comfortably fitted out.
Through the courtesy of the Amer
lean National Bank, these rooms have
not only been placed at the service of
the Red Cross for the use of the
army aRd navy, but have been reno
waited by them, entirely free of any
expense to the Pensacola chapter.
No need of the men of the service
would seem to have been overlooked.
The long writing table has been
fitted out with stationery, ink wells,
pens, blotters, and all conveniences
for writing. The long reading table
is we'll supplied with late magazines
and copies of The Journal and The
News, and the book shelves with light
summer literature, A piano will be
installed through the courtesy of the
Starr Piano Company.
Upstairs the mezzanlne floor has
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31

also been fitted out with a couch, for
which, by the way, some sofa pillows
are needed, a small writing desk and
chairs, etc, making this a comfort
able spot to get away from the crowd
for a few moments of quiet.
The rooms will be open each day
until ten o'clock in the evening, and
will be thrown open to the public this
afternoon at four o'clock, 2 commit
tee of ladies from the Pensacola
Chapter of the American Red Cross
Society to be present to extend a
welcome to the men of the service,
who are most cordially invited to
make use of these rooms at all hours
of the day or evening
Mrs. Ferriss said yesterday after
noon: "Please stress how very much
we want the boys of the army and
navy to make themselves at home at
the Pensacola Red Cross club rooms.
The club rooms will be taken care of
under the supervision of Mr.. Meek,
custodian of the American National
Bank building, to whom we are very
grateful for many courtesies shown
US. We wish to thank all who do
mated furnishings or helped US in any
way to make a success of these
rooms, which We have tried to fit up
as comfortably as possible for the
m en- of the service, who will always
find a cordial welcome awaiting them
here"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
Rome Reports Gains.

Rome, May 30.-via London
Further gains by the Italians on the
Triest front is announced in today's
official statement. The Italian lines
have been extended west of Medeazza.
''The artillery was not so active
yesterday on the Trentino front and
in Carnia," says the war office re-
port, ''but was very heavy on the Ju-
liam front, particularly in the sector
from Mount Cucco to Mount Vodice
and east of Gorilla. The enemy again
persisted in his S-taCks upon our
trenches on Hill -. Three success
sive attacks after intense artillery
fire failed completely. We captu2cd
some 800 prisoners.
"On the Carso the wc-'- of
strengthening our lines is proceeding
actively. An enemy assault attempt
ed east of Boscomalo was broken by
our battery fire.
Between Jamiano and the coast
we extended by local actions ground
west of Medezza.
ION Monday afternoon one ensynv
airplane was brought down in a Sc
we're air fight east of San Marco"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
Freedoms Battle Unites the
North and South as
Never Before.
CEREMONY IS
INTERESTING ONE
Five Hundred Soldiers Take
Part-Appropriate
Speeches Made.

Decoration Day was appropriately
observed Wednesday in Pensacola.
and perhaps never before in the local
history Of the G. A. r. camp were the
exercises more impressively carried
out or more largely attended
With the north and south welded
together for one common cause. hrnt-
ing under the Stars and Stripes. the
exercises at the national cemetery
took on a new significance arr many
from the >city visited the cemetery
and took part in the program which
had been arranged under the auspices
of the G. A r. camp.
The Grand Army of the Republic
was ably represented by the Rev. Or.
Sylvester Weeks.
Chaplain Hunter spoke few words
for the army, and Major Hughes
spoke briefly, thanki0~ tine children
Of the Methodist Sunday school, vh1
sang a number of patriotic songs in
their fresh young voices.
w. 2. Cunningham talked on th7
flag and its meaning, and was fol-
lowed by John S. Beard. who made an
able and forcefuI address. W. T.
Zachary represented the Spanish
War Veterans with a few words OF
patriotic import.
The more than sixteen hundred
graves in the national cemetery We're
decorated, each with the American
cOlors and summer flowers, aad with
the large number present to do homo
to the dead, the five hundred or more
soldiers, and the scores Of women
and children, the scene was one of
unusual interest and beauty.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
PAYS $500 FINE FOR
VIOLATING BONE DRY"
Mariana Bureau,
Pensacola Journal.

Mariana, May So. W. Mer-
chant, of Cottondale, was today ar
raigned in the county judges court
for jackson county under the new
bone-dry law, and upon pleading
guilty to the charge of transporting
liquor into a dry county, was fined
by Judge J. Bowers Campbell $500
and costs, which he paid
Merchant is said to have recently
sold his farm and confessed to having
made a trip to Pensacola in his car
and bringing back a load of whiskey.
The arrest was made by Sheriff Har-
veil at Milton. upon receipt of a tele-
gram from Sheriff Lewis, advising
him that Merchant was o. his way
toward Pensacola on another trip.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
Galleries Packed as New In
spection Bill is Adopted
by the Senate.
BOMB DRY ERROR
IS CORRECTED
House Refuses to Concur
With Senate Amendment
to Primary Bill.
Pensacola Journal.
Tallahassee Bureau.

Tallahassee, May 3O.-Everything
was running smoothly in the senate
this afternoon and many house bills
of a general nature were being passed
with little debate, when the convent
inspection bill, by Seals of Bradford,
came up in its regular order on the
calendar. Immediately a heated con-
troversy arose, opened by Senator
Mathis, chairman of the education
committee, moving to table a substi-
tute for the bill as less Objectionable
than the original house bill. DR.. FO-
garty, a member of the committee,
stated on the floor that he was OPP
posed to the original bill, but favored
the substitute as it would quiet an
issue upon which politicians vera
riding into office. President Johnson
took the floor in opposition to the bill
in toto, but said that if any had to
pass, to pass the substitute. He OPP
posed the bill on the ground that it
is unChristian, and shows a suspicion
that is dangerous to the welfare of
the state. He asserted that every
member of the senate knew in his
heart that the measure was Wrong,
and should vote against it.
Others spoke championing the sub
stItuts as against the original, though
Farris defended the original bill,
claiming that it afforded adequate
punishment for those who held others
in Involuntary servitude. Calkins
pointed out that there is now pun
ishment for such slavery, and on
those grounds the bill is unnecessary,
while a grand jury has power to in
vestigate, without powers of the bill.
1t was stated that it resolved itself
into spite and hate against Cathol-
icism. Thereupen Senator Jones
closed the opposition in what was
probably one of the most dramatic
speeches made at this session, claim
ing that the entire proposition is an
effort to throw a stigma on the con-
vents. The galleries were packed
and keen interest shown The sub
stitute finally was adopted and
passed, being ordered to go to the
house tonight.
The only measure of Importance to
pass before the inspection bill was
the act to prevent untrurhfuI news
paper advertising.
School Book Bill Postponed.
After much debate the house final
ly indefinitely postponed the Carlton
school book bill, which left it OPP
tional with counties as to selling
renting or giving away books. II
passed Cartons tuberculosis hos,
pital bill, which allows counties to
levy a tax to build and maintain hos
pitfalls.
Bone Dry Correction.
An amendment was passed through
both branches of the legislature this
afternoon to the Wells bone dr. bill
to correct an error which had beer
discovered. 1t was found that the
bill prohibited the transportation OF
alcohol for scientific purposes, or fo1
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-31
W. P. CUNNINGHAM
TO LEAVE SHORTLY

". P. Cunningham returned yester-
day from Dallas, Texas, where he has
spent the past week in conference
with the directors of the Dallas
Young Mems Christian Association,
with which he will be associated
within the next few months.
Mr. Cunningham will 1cave Pensa-
cola within the next sixty or ninety
days, to tEese charge Of the edGca-
tional department of the Y. " {. a.
of Dallas.