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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-06-19
CORN BREAD.

philadelphia Inquirer)
Efforts to spread the Use of corn
bread in England have so far failed.
Although Italy and Australia. as well
as some other countries. raise maize
for human food, England has always
stuck to wheat. Recent experiments
failed for many reasons. 1t has not
been possible to get properly ground
meal, which is of the first impOr-
lance. Then no one seems to have the
slightest idea of how to cook it. 1t
will take a campaign of education to
enlighten the people of England on
the subject of "cawn-pone" or of
"johnnycake."
In fact campaign of education in
this section of our own country
would be worth while. 1T has less
nitrogen and more fat, and only peo-
pie of the South seem to be able to
get along with it as a steady diet.
But in the North it is an excellent
substitute for wheat bread, especially
at breakfast. When properly cooked
it is delicious. but comparatively few
people in this latitude appreciate it.
Just now corn costs more than
wheat formerly did. and as it is by
far the greatest crop in the country,
it's progress this year will be watch
ed with interest 1t is now corn
planting time and will be for some
weeks. With winter wheat bad,
much of the economic hopes of the
country are conferred in corn and po-
tatoes-both indigenous to the West
ern Hemisphere.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-06-19
SLOAN'S IMMINENT
FOR RHEUMATISM.

The pain goes so quickly after you
apply Sloan's Liniment for rheu-
matte pains, neuralgia, toothache
lumbago, sprains, and ir Is so easy to
use. 1t quickly penetrates and
soothes without rubbing and is far
cleaner and more effective than
mussy plasters or ointments.
Keep a bottle in the house and gel
prompt relief. not ouly from all
nerve-pains, but from bruises
strains, sprains. over-exercise and all
external aches. At your druggist
Csc, soc, 800.
: (adv-june)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-06-19

This is a mild form IF indigestion
1t is usually brought on by eating
too rapidly or too much, or Of food
not suited to your digestive organs.
IL you will eat slowly, masticate your
food thoroughly, eat but little meat
and none at all for supper. you will
more than likely avoid the sour
stomach without taking any medi-
cine whatever. When you have sour
stomach take one Of Chamberlain's
Tablets to aid digestion.
(adv-june)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-06-19

The lateness Of the season in this
vicinity is shown by the fact that
the catalpa trees are just beginning
20 bloom. Usually these trees. of
which there are great number in
Paris. blossom in May. two or three
weeks earlier than this year.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-06-19

1t requires all sorts of people to
make ups world. including the Paris
man who goes into the barber shop
on Saturday night to get hair cut
just a moment before You go in to
get shave.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-06-19

Any erroneous reflection upon the
charact,-. standing or reputation OF
any person, firm or corporation which
may appear in the columns of THE
BOURBON NEWS will be gladly cor
rected il brought to attention of the
editor.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-06-19

Naturally man would rather par.
his hair than part with it.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-30

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
THE SMALLEST BIRDS NEST

The most dainty structure built in this
country by the bill and feet of birds is
the nest made by the ruby-throated hum.
ming bird, says T. Gilbert Pearson When
completed It Is scarcely larger than an Eng
lsh walnut, and is saddled on a small bor-
izontal limb of a tree, often many feet from
the ground. 1t is composed almost entireiw
of soft plant fibers. fragments of spiders
webs sometimes being used to hold them
In shape. The outer sides are thicklv
studded with bits of lichen. and practiceS
indeed, Is the eye of man or woman maj
can distinguish 1t from knot on a limb
Although the humming birds nest il ex,
ceedingly frail. there is nothing on record
to show that any great number of then,
come to grief during the summer rains II
Is, however not called upon for long term
of occupation. Within month after tha
two white eggs are laid the young depart
on their tiny pinions. Young birds that
require longer period for growth befors
leaving the nest are furnished usually wi,h
more enduring abiding places, In the case
Of the bah eagle. the young Of which do
not ny until they are many weeks OLD :
ello2t pQbe(er<iqi ftrnQfrre. Il provided Z
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28

partment Before II can be said that the.
Insurance laws OF Pennsylvania ARE as
good as those Of any other State and
that Is a law to compel life Insurance
companies to keep their expense ratio
within certain limits to be defined by the
State. 1t was this particular item of ex-
pense of procuring the business. when
served as subterfuge for all kinds OF
abuses. that created the greatest sensa'
,tions in the Hughes investigation in New
York in 1905. And when the insurance
laws of New York were then revised the
matter of the expense of obtaining busi'
ness was given more attention than any
other subject. A law was then enacted
placing a limit on this expense. There
was a slight revision of this law enacted
in New York last June, but it was merely
an adjustment of this expense ratio to
different forms of insurance. The Penn
sylvania insurance laws will not be "as
good as those of any other State till
they give the policy holders this particu'
lar protection against undue cost OF
securing business
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
GERMAN TALK AND GERMAN
DEEDS

VIIGOR of action and economy of speech
were once considered faithful indices
of German character. The Teuton did
not speak. He struck. He thus implanted
throughout the world so deep a respect
for actual achievements as against mere
words that now when other nations are
doing deeds and his country is talking,
elaborate German explanations of present
facts and forecasts of the future go un-
needed.
Since the conquest of Rumania German
volubility has startingly increased.
Hardly theme connected with the pres.
ent conflict has been neglected. Germany
has talked of peace, of starving England,
of quelling America, of alternating the
Japanese from the Entente, of Mexican
thrusts at our Southwest, Of paralyzing
dissensions in Russia, of drives on every
front, of winning Greece as an ally, of
the staggering surprises up Hindenburg' S
alleged capacious sleeve, even of retaking
Bagdad. The verbal gamut has been
run.
And this is why. with full recognition
Oi the Po"Si othi icit III bci
man arms apd of the great resourcefdl,
ness of the German mind. it becomes
daily more difficult to credit the bases OF
German threats. When Hindenburg
lured the Russians into the Masurian
Lakes trap. he did not proclaim it in ad
vance. He simply bagged his game,
Acts. not words. are now needed to
to have been folly. Bagdad is Britain's
Russia strides forward toward Mosul
Every day the Allies strengthen theil
armor with actual accomplishment Ger
many may nullify those splendid efforts
hut Ii must not be in words of which. she
has cr6wn 50 ei3nincantly fond.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
Kitchen Augury

WHEN THE MISSUS and we got
home from the movies last night Mon
day, to be exacU we went at once to
the kitchen and proceeded to collaborate,
as is our wont, upon a setting of bread.
We ourself were in the outer kitchen,
fetching the lard and yeast from the re.
frigerator, when she pinched her finger
in the dough mixer and uttered an ex-
clamation. Jerusalem" said she. Ordi-
narily this would have no significance, at
least no cosmopoitcal significance, but
listen. One night a few weeks ago, be-
fore any definite news had reached us
of British successes in Mesopotamia, we
were busy at this same sort of work. We
pulled our head out of the refrigerator
to call to her: Cant find the yeastcake!"
Top SHELF said she; its in a. bag, Dad"
The next day or so the British troops
entered the city of the Caliphs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
Tom DAILY 9 Column
Boarding House Ballads
STEW NIGHT

STEW NIGHT
There's sadness tonight In the house,
A cheerless and chilly gloom;
1t seems as II ghosts carouse
In silence in each bleak room
A heaviness hangs like pail
OF purple or deadly blue
This night does the sad blow fall
This night we must cat lamb stew.
Oh, you in your own sweet home,
Or you at your swell cafe.
Or you who to Chids can roam
And eat what your hearts may say.
Your weeks do not have one night
That's lost to the world for you
When joy on swift wings takes flight
One night YOU must cat lamb stew.
Should crime come with hang-dog face
And into our household creep
Should murderers haunt the place
While we in our white cots sleep,
| know they would choose to climb
Our stairways their deeds to do,
Some awful and fitting time
Some night that we had lamb stew.
NARLEY
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
AN ANTI-SUFFRAGE ARGUMENT

To the Editor Of the Erening LcdgeT
Sir-The EVENING LEDGER has always
been stanchly in favor of woman suffrage,
but generally willing to let the other side
state its case. You say: "'The anti-suf-
frage cause has not leg to stand on in
England because the stock argument that
women cannot fight has gone by the board.
Modern war is fought in the factories. and
there Englishwomen are, and American
women soon may be, doing as much as men
to end the war"
statement signed by some of the most
prominent men and women of England
among them former Ambassador Bryce
Lords Cromer and Curzon. Mrs. Humphry
Ward and Rudyard Kiplng, says that "a
large number of those who before the war
were opposed to female suffrage, whilst
fully recognizing the very valuable serv-
ices rendered by women during the present
national crisis, are unable to admit that
recent circumstances are of nature to
justify any serious modification OF the con-
clusions at which they have previously
arrived"
The fact is that though women serve the
country as much as men in war or peace,
the service is not and should not be the
same. Women in war are treated as nom
combatants. Not even the Kaiser would
pace women on the firing line. Women in
politics. the anti-suffragists contend. should
have the status of nonpartisans. Queerly
enough, the suffragists themselves virtually
admit that the antis are right on this point.
When Dr. Anna Howard Shaw was retir-
ing from the presidency of the National
Woman Suffrage Association in 1915 sew
eral women with votes, among them a Chi
cago suffrage leader aspired for the posi-
| ton. Doctor Shaw said:
ANY western woman would be a voter,
| and therefore either a Republican or a
| Democrat or Progressive. Her party
| affiliations would mar the purely non
| partisan attitude which the national asso-
| citation has always maintained We can
not afford to prejudice any political party
against us" Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait a
woman without the vote, was elected.
Why are the suffragists who belong to
| the national association opposed to the
| methods of the Congressional Union? They
| will all tell you it is because the Congress.
sional Union-now Joined with the so-called
| Woman's party-maintain policy of fight
ing the party in power. The National Suf.
| frage Association, which carefully main-
tanned political neutrality" during the las,
campaign. has gone before Democratic as
well as Republican Legislatures and oh.
tained presidential suffrage even after the
men who had votes had overwhelmingly
rejected suffrage at the polls
If any corporation lobby had put over,
such acts, the EVENING LEDGER would h,
one of the first papers to condemn it.
If woman suffrage gave the good womer
| of this country more real power, there
would not be an anti in the land Ru,
the bosses and cheap politicians are learn,
ing that there is twice as much graft anf
a much larger controlled vote" with womer
voting. j.. s. 70
New York, March 26.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
IS COL. HOUSE A NOVELIST?

The third House" and the presidents
silent partner" are designations sometimes
applied to Colonel Il. NJ. House, friend ana
adviser of Mr.. Wilson. More than four yeais
ago Mr.. Huebsch published an Anonymous
novel, Philip Dru; Administrator" when
has been attributed to Mr.. House as
seuulously as The Breadwinners" was
credited to John Hay. Neither Mr.. Huebscn
nor Mr House has denied the allegation, bu'
an examination of the governmental re-
forms proposed by the hero of the hook
OF the references to the Mexican problem
In particular, In the, light of the past od-
miristration lends much color to the popular
belief. In Houston. Tex. a company has
been formed for the sole purpose OF ad'
vertislng and distributing Phillip Dru" n
that State. T
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
WILL THE WOMEN HELP?

THERE will be few pacifists at the great
- Independence Square meeting on Sat
urday, when the city will send forth its
message of patriotism to the nation from
the birthplace of liberty. Indeed. there
are few of the loud type of pacifists left
in action. These have been driven to
cover, chiefly because they used weak
arguments instead of strong ones. They
argued that Germany's U.boat policy was
justifabe. or that England was as ruth.
less as Germany, or that we should mind
our own business, or that we should have
a vote for peace or war. or that we
should split hairs and filibuster ourselves
into a brown study.
But the loud pacifists were not the
main body of pacifsm's army. They were
only the skirmishers. The main body
is composed of women: it has not been
heard from; it has used the best argu.
ment-silence.
Men talking like La Toilette make
young men want to fight The excite.
ment of their warlike pacifism is con-
tagious, and " the tempest they create
and the furious opposition they arouse
the point they are driving at is lost, and
Fighting Bobs" gestures become as
stimulating to war ardor as a recruit
ing orators. But not so the mothers,
who know better and say little or moth
ing. Many of them are silent before
the sons they would keep safe at home
fearing that the very arguments meant
to keep them home might only irritate
them and help to drive them forth.
On the other hand there are many
women who would feel ashamed if their
sons did not enlist There are as many
of the one kind as of the other, judging
from the vote on conscription in Aus
tralia, in which the women divided al.
most evenly for and against compulsion;
and the Australians are fundamentally
very much like ourselves. These two
types Of women are equally worthy. Per-
haps those of the weaker" Sort who
would keep their sons at home. are often
more lovable.
But the trumpet has sounded The de-
| cision has been made Women as well
| as men are calling upon the Government
| to throw this nations full weight against
| the barbarous practices of a military
clique mad with the lust of world con.
quest. Women know that women and
children have been sent to the bottom
| of the sea- When women picture what
such crimes are, they are not pacifists.
| Will not the women of Phladelphia-of
the whole country-respond to the call
of America to make good her promise
to the world of freedom and humanity
for which four times in the past her men
have gone forth to fight?
| A clergyman has suggested chidren's
| rally to be held in connection with Sat
urday's demonstration. The children will
be there. The churches are showing their
| flags. 1t is their cause. 1t is the war
of the Church against Caesar, 1t is the
fight for God and man against the works
of the fiend
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
As a center of conquest proclama

AS a center of conquest proclama-
tions. Constantinople bids fair to rival
Boulogne, where Napoleon started to
raise that now mocking column which
was to symbolic the humbling of Eng
land. 1t was in the Turkish capital that
the late Won der Goltz announced his pre-
tentious design to take Egypt, over which
Britains flag still waves. And now, ac-
cording to a Berne dispatch, Won Macken-
sen visits the city by the Bosphorus and
the rumor-charged atmosphere quivers
with the wordthat he is planning to
REDEEM" Bagdad If precedents are duly
preserved, General Maude need not
worry.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
AN AMERICAN INVALID

A PLAYBOY O. this western world,
signing himself Shylock Holmes, pro-
fesses to have found on page 227 of
certain volume of Waterford Folk Tales"
this curious news:
Tom DAILY. called the ''Cuinne" (from
his habit of sitting in the corner) who
had been with Tim, had disappeared
from Tim as the ghost came down upon
him, and was found the following
morning after falling over the raised
path through the Poll Cam He had
smashed his braces, but otherwise was
safe and sound.
We've moved out from the editorial
corner in which we sat for several weeks,
but gobs! that talk about the braces
sounds lifelike. We smash our braces
at least annually-usually about the last
week in November, but we make shift
to patch em up to lift US over the few
weeks until Christmas, when fresh sup
plies of that nature always come to
father.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28

Philadelphia's lavish exhibition of
the colors on Flag Day yesterday was
iaudable and inspiring but the method of
displaying our emblem might well be inn
proved. A damp. bedraggled Old Glory
stained with March rain and unkemptly
wound about a pole whose inclination
suggests the gloom of half-masting is not
exactly a thrilling sight The French mode
of patriotic decoration, calling for tricolors
in groups of three or more set up in a
stand, with the poles almost perpendicu-
lar and the flag folds hanging gracefully
in almost any kind of weather, is more
practical and artistic. OF late years &C.
casional attempts to follow this fashion
have been made but the sheet on a big
stick" style still largely prevails. The
chief objection is the atmosphere of mel
ancholy that it creates.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
QUIZ

I. What kind of rifles used In the United
States army:
?. Who are ''Uncle Sans soldiers Of the
3, Who Is Emperor of India:
4. In Russia what Is II poOd:
.. Who is Frank Friday Fletcher"
o. What was the .'palc of settlement" abolished
by the Russian rcvOlutOnsts:
!. Who Is Herman Bernstein?
3. Are any of the American railways owned by
the Government?
0. Why is it Incorrect to say "Ths is the best
of the pair?
10. What + the difference between a knot and
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
Gettysburg

]. p. G.-Roughly speaking, Gettysburg
is twice as far from the western end OF
Pennsylvania as from the eastern end, but
strictly 1t is not. From Gettysburg on an
airline to the west boundary is about Ut
miles. The nearest point on the eastern
boundary, where thef Pennsylvania -Dela-
ware line forms semicircle, is IS miles
away; the nearest point on the Delaware
River. near Chester is 100 miles away;
the furthest point on the irregular eastern
boundary-strictly the eastern ends
below Trenton, 1875 miles from Gettysburg
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28

With all due respect to Assistant
Insurance Commissioner Samuel w. Nc
Culloch, his statement that the insurance
laws of Pennsylvania will be as good as
those of any other State in the country,
and better than some" when certain bills
now pending are passed, will not hold
water. There are three bills now pending
which are known as the blue sky law"
.fhe "Markle bill'' and the "Crow bill"
The "blue sky bill" is aimed to prevent
'companies chartered by other States from
coming into this State and conducting
stock -Jobbing and fake consolidation
tnampaigns, with little or no supervision
,(rom the State Insurance Department.
<The "Markle bill" is intended to bring
under the supervision of the State the
multitude of small and often irresponsi-
Ne mutual fire insurance companies
<.rhich have recently sprung up all over
~ State like mushrooms, and the Grow
~ ~ to bring under State supervision
~ are generally known as fraternal
1nujes. which under court charters
1opk life, health and sickness insur.
C&jeny among the poorer people.
is y one vital matter which has
krntjx overlo0ked by Mr.. Nc
1eh must receive the IN
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
"The Late"

A. II. C.-"The late is used preceding the
names of dead persons as means or sig
nifying that they are dead. That is one
of the meanings of the adjective late
Strictly, according to the definiton-"exist-
ing recently, but not now"-it should not
be used when the person has been dead
for several years, unless omission of the
title would cause confusion as to whether
or not the person is alive
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
Can it be possible that German

Can it be possible that Germany is
at last converted to her enemies view
point? Our sufferings are great" de-
clares Prussian Minister of War Won
Stein, land our sacrifices gigantic, but IL
Is just in these things that the greatness
of nation finds it's expression" Pro-
duce the Belgian who will dispute the
truth of this assertion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28

Subscribers to Robert Louis Steven
sons avowed receipt for happiness in
volving "a yacht and string quartet
are getting slim consideration during
these grim days in which the kneisels
have disbanded and patriotic millionaires
are giving their pleasure craft to the
Government
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Doctor Anders Analyses Street
Cleaning Situation-An Anti
Suffrage Argument

This Department is free to all readers ichO
tcish to cypress their opinions on subjects of
current interest. IL is al opcr forum. and the
ErcnMg Ledger assumes no responsibility Jor
The rietcs Of its correspondents. Letters must
be signed bU the name Gnd address Of the
crtcr. not necessarily for publication. but as a
guarantee Of good faith
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28

Considering the methods of some
Of the Kaiser's subjects, Secretary Bakers
significant announcement that Germans
In America will be safe if they obey the
laws is probably the very thing to cause
Teuton uneasiness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28

Some persons are never satisfied.
Miss Mabel Mott, of Kansas City, laments
that the "submarineless" voyage of the
American liner St. Louis, on which she
was a passenger, was an awfully lone
some trip"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28

The Administration is said to be
considering an appeal to Congress that
4 declare war on Germany, and German
officialdom hints that in that case it
would contemptuously ignore the declara.
ton. But Germany in any case will have
no occasion to declare war on us. She
did that on May 7, 1915.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28

We have been asked from time to
time whether we ever intend to repeat
our bankwet of last November. or
course we do. but we can't bring ourself
to think about It now while there's all
this uncertainty as to whether the FASH
ionable implepents in Philadelphia this
spring are to be knives and forIs or
swords and bayonets. q. &. Y. (
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-28
Philadelphia. Wednesday. March 2s, 1917

The demand in the House of Com
mons that men rejected for the army be
re-examined makes the tale that Britain
has all the troops she needs at the front
somewhat less convincing.