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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30
SWEDEN.

The Diphosphate Fertilizer company
has asked the government for bonus
Of $27 900 in order to be able to con-
tinue and complete the experiments
already started for the purpose Of
finding q practical and workable meth
cd of producing fertilizers. The agri-
cultural department has taken up the
matter and explained what the OK
periments may eventually lead to. The
situation is said to be this: Sweden
is on the point of dispensing with the
importation of raw materials for ferti-
lizers, thereby saving $1,350,OO0 year,
not to mention the probability that
Sweden may become an exporter on a
larg6 scale. Apatitc is found in mex
haustible quantities at the Swedish
mines, and the waterfalls will furnish
power for preparing the raw material
for tie market. Indeed the depart
men. Of agriculture is of the opinion
that this particular fertilizer will come
to The front as tie most important fer
tilizec in northern Europe. The de-
partlc> mt therefore: is strongly in favor
of granting the desired bonus to the
DiphosDhatc Fertilizer company. It
seems I, little Str:pge that private
capital is not ready to push the ex-
pulililrntS.
a monument is to be erected in
memory Of Jonas Jonasson, the first
advocate of peace in Sweden The
monument is to be located ut his home
in Eullaboda, and will be dedicated
Nv. T., the onc-hundretlth anniversary
Of his birth. MI. Jonasson was the au-
th>;' Of the first peace motion ever in
PRODUCED in the Swedish riksdag, which
occurred in 1869.
Hungary announced that after April
list there would be no need for the
Swedish doctors and nurses who had
been serving at the hospitals of Wen
ma for nearly two years. There was
plenty of room at the hospitals, and
plenty of doctors to take care of the
wounded.
Abraham Ludwig Hedin, the father
Of Sven Hedin, the explorer of Gen.
trail Asia, died at the age of ninety
years. Many years ago the deceased
was city architect Of Stockholm.
X +
Friends Of the late Karl Staff have
raised $4,000 for monument of him.
Karl Staff was premier of Sweden on
two different occasions.
+
Gasoline is so scarce in Stockholm
that even the richest private people
must keep their automobiles idle and
o11le to the street cars
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30
Popular Superstitions.

The loss Of an engagement ring is
considered by many to be the climax
of i'll luck and equivalent to a super
natural sign forbidding the girl to
marry the man who gave the ring.
It is commonly considered unlucky
for girl to marry a man whose sur
name begins with the same letter as
her own. The old couplet says
"Change the name but not the letter,
marry for worse and not for better"
The superstitious girl does not
watch her sweetheart out of sight, as
this portends that the meeting will be
the last one.
If a girl has several admirers and
wishes to know which she loves the
best she plucks a rose and names each
petal after an admirer. Then the
petals are thrown into a stream, and
the one which disappears last is the
favored suitor
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30
Washington

It was announced at Washington
that heavy over-subscription to the
first offering Of the new government
security has resulted in having the
initial issue, which is in 3 per cent
treasury certificates maturing June
80, increased from $2OO,OOO,OOO to
25O,OOO,OOO.
Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyo-
ming, ranking Republican member of
the committee on military affairs of
the senate at Washington, is convinced
the CONSUMPTION bill will be passed by
the senate without change.
Orders for the mobilization of the
regular army reserves in the coast ar
tillery, infantry, cavalry and field ar
| tillcry branches Of the federal military
service on or before May 1 were re-
ceived at San Francisco from the war
department.
Food conditions in several of the ma
tons of the entente allies have been
reported to the American government
at Washington as critical. The entire
weight of the administration is being
thrown behind the recommendations OF
Secretary Houston to congress to
strengthen the government machinery
for controlling the food situation.
x Il
The house committee at Washington
divided II to s on the, administration
army plan, the eight members, led by
Representative Kahn (Rep.), favoring
the immediate CONSUMPTION draft. -:
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30
scandinavian news
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENtNGs IN FAR OFF
~ NoRTHLAND. g.,
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
Resume of the Most Important Events
in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
OF Interest to the Scandinaviane
In America.
DENMARK.

Is O number? The city of Ring
kobing has an ordinance which says
that the city council has a right to de-
termine the number of restaurants to
be permitted to keep open after the
regular time fixed for closing in the
evening. The city council did not per-
NIT any restaurant to extend the time
of business beyond the regular time.
The proprietor Of Hotel Ringkobing
thought he ought to be permitted to
keep open after the others had closed,
and he appealed to the cabinet, asking
whether o is number in this con-
nection. The cabinet did not give a
flat answer, but stated nevertheless
that the city council is not in duty
bound to fix the number, of restaur-
ants to be kept open after the regular
time for closing. Thus the hotel keep
er got only his pains for trouble, and
he is still wondering whether o is a
number.
The theater-goers in Rome COM
planned last winter that the theater
was not kept warm enough. The COM
plant was not wholly unfounded, for
the temperature actually proved to be
at the freezing point. The manager
explained that the price Of coal was 60
high that he could do no better. And
then he went on: ''The condition be-
hind the scenes is simply idyllic. We
can see the stars twinkle, and the
moon shines down upon us. Through
the walls we can see the snow cover
ing the trees and bushes in the gar
den."
District Physician Rendtorff of
Hammel wore a pair Of stockings
which attracted general attention last
winter when he drove around calling
on his many patients in the country.
The stockings were ninety years old,
and the yarn Of which they had been
knitted was almost as thick as lead
pencil. The doctor claimed that they
were so warm that he would not ex-
change them for a foot-bag.
n hotel keeper in Copenhagen asked
the food commission for permission to
sell waste bread as chicken feed. This
proved to the commission that bread
was going to waste and steps were i'm
mediately taken to stop that leak.
X X
Scandinavian copper coins are mys-
teriously disappearing. Sweden has
begun to make iron coins, and Nor
way and Denmark will soon follow.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30
HAVEN. ] |! MANNED
Palace Of Bourbon Kings Of
Naples Is Put to Use. T.
There MutiIated Soldiers of Italy Are
Housed and Taught Some Means
of SeIf-Support. +. .,.....-

The war has turned the palace of
the Bourbon kings Of Naples into a
home for mutilated soldiers. Around
the exquisite marble table where the
guests of the. "Roi SOleiP' Of Naples
dined in the garden on hot summer
nights-the ladies in powdered head
dress and panier skirts, the men with
lace at their sleeves and embroidered
coats-today are gathered the pitiable
fragments of humanity that war has
left in it's wake. There are neither
candles nor massive silver, neither
sweetmeats nor rare wines. The Ital-
ian government allows 20 cents per
day for their lodging and mainten-
ance, and food is high in Naples.
The marble table on warm days in
the gardens is the recreation center of
the mutilated, in their worr and faded
uniforms. Before each is an oblong
cardboard placard, some Of whose
spaces are numbered. One Of the men
(he must be one of those who have
lost leg, for the one-armed cannot
do the tricky shakes a basket-bottle
and turns out numbered counter.
In the sing-song Neapolitan dialect, he
cries the number. The one whose
placard bears it, covers the space
with a bit of glass. Whoever covers
all his spaces first wins a cent from
each of the others.
Those who have no hands at all
have grown wondrously skillful at flip
ping their bits of glass onto the
placard by means of a bent pin stuck
in the empty sleeve.
This is recreation. There are also
hours of work. Once sumptuous
chambers Of the royal palace have
been turned into schoolrooms, in the
month that the hospital has been run
ming. In one, those who wish are
taught tailoring, in another shoemak-
ing-the legless naturally, for one
must have two hands to make shoes
and clothes. Those who have lost
an arm are taught telegraphy or type
writing. But many Of the latter must
begin farther back than that, and
learn to read and write first. Fer
reading and writing in southern Italy
are not common accomplishments, so
there is a schoolroom-a primary
schoolroom, where the alphabet and
multiplication table figures on the
blackboard in front Of these grown
children who have known only to give
an arm or a leg to their country. And
an arm or a leg to these simple peas
ants is livelihood-their own and their
families.
Which is why some do not study.
They are suspicious. Mutilated, they
are entitled to a government pen
sion, and they are afraid that when
they have learned a new trade by
which they can live, the government
will say: 'You no longer need help
make your own living" Sc they sit
all day in the sunlit, royal garden,
with it's faiepce flowerpots marked
with feur de lys, and watch the chang
ing lights on the bay Of Naples, and
| think of what life used to hold for
| them before the war came to change
it utterly.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30

The late G. A. Soderlund Of STOCK.
holm left a will donating about $780,
600. to different institutions in the cap
ital. The church council of the Ka-
tarina congregation is to manage about
100000, to be known as "Carl August!
Soderlund's Donation Fund" Part of
the, interest Isl to be distributed asl
Christmas presents to poor people in|
the parish every year, and the rest isl
to be used for the benefit of poor in.
valids.
Ali che public schools of Kumla par
ish, Narike, were closed some time ago
for lack Of fuel to keep the school
houses warm. Thirty nine teachers and
their classes thus had a vacation at an
unexpected season. They are expect
ed to finish their regular work next
summer.
The Thulin airplane factory in
Karlskrona is going to be extended,
$5O0,OOO having been added to the cap
ital stock for this purpose. The new
buildings are to be of five stories, and
the plant will furnish work for several
hundred persons.
The city council Of Sundsvall added
$4,000 to the regular salaries of the
city officials on account Of the high
cost of living.
The income and properly taxes for
1916 amounted to about $17 100000, as
against about SIS, 100000 for the year
1915.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30
Monarchies and Nobility.

Monarchy is unfavorable to the
growth of an hereditary nobility. A
kings policy must be to weaken the
mobiles lest some day they should be-
come his rivals. In the reign of the
English king, Henry III, Simon de
Montfort and other militant noblemen
fought the monarch and, on one occa-
SION, took him prisoner. Even an alb
solute monarchy, while it gives the
mobiles political status, denudes them
Of political power.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30
It's an III Wind. Etc.

'Turned you down, did you say?
Well, old chap, it's better to have
loved and lost than never to have
loved at all.'
eyes, better, indeed" replied the re-
jected one. "Better for the post office
authorities, the florists, the messenger
boy, the confectionery dozen wait
ers, twice as many taxi drivers, the
jeweler and half the theaters in
town New York Times.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30
European War News

The Turks in Mesopotamia have
been driven from their position be-
tween Samara and Iztalibat, the; EOn-
don war office announces The Brit
ish occupied Samara station.
The Spanish governments note to
Germany regarding Germany's subma-
rine campaign contains paragraph
stating that if Germany continues in
it's determination to sink all vessels in
order to defend it's life, Spain must act
for a like reason.
A German battleship and cruiser
squadron has left Libau, presumably
to attempt an attack behind the Rus
sian lines from the Baltic, according
to official word to Petrograd from
Riga. The dispatch said that num-
Der Of transports, loaded with troops,
were accompanying the German squad
ron from Libau.
The battle of Arras, which has been
oAAAOAuCA4AS AOA u "OCh, OOA 81 AAAtO AAe%AAA
ing fury again. The British captured
the village of Gaxrelle, together with
the hostile trench system of two and
One-haf miles to the southwark as far
as the cemetery at Rouex, Guemappe,
south of Monchy, as we'll as Trescault.
near CrOissiles. Twelve hundred Ger"
mans were taken prisoner.
An official dispatch from Petrograd
received by the state department at
Washington stated that there can be
no separate peace between Russia and
Germany. 'The charge that the imperi-
al administration was planning a sep
arate peace caused it's overthrow and
fastened the revolution which was
brief and bloodless," the dispatch said.
The Turkish government officially in
formed the American embassy that
diplomatic relations with the United
States had been. broken off, according
to Berlin dispatch forwarded to Lon
don by Reuters correspondent at
Amsterdam.
The British hospital ships Donegal
and Lanfranc, with many wounded
aboard, have been tOrpedOed without
warning, says London announcement.
OF those on the Donegal 20 wounded
men and II of the crew are missing.
The Lanfranc carried German wound
ed as well as British. OF those aboard
10 British and Is Germans perished.
Two German destroyers were sunk
and one other possibly was destroyed
when five enemy vessels attempted a
raid on Dover, the British admiralty
announced at London. Ten German
officers and 1OS men were rescued and
made prisoners.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30
Domestic

A nationwide movement to enlist
all women and children in the food
production campaign was set afoot at
Washington by the board of managers
of the National Congress of Mothers
and Parent-Teacher associations.
More than 100000 bushels of wheat
and a large wooden grain elevator
known as Elevator A" of the Western
Transportation company, owned by
: the Great Lakes Transit CORPORATION.
were destroyed by fire at Erie, Pa,
with loss estimated at 100000. The
grain, it is said, was for the allies.
The Michigan College of Mines board
of control at Houghton, Mich, appoint
ed a military drillmaster and placed
al equipment at the disposal of the
government.
Two men are dead and four wound
ed as the result Of a pistol fight near
Hazard, KY, said to be the outcome of
an old feud. The dead are John B,
Father and Roscoe Brewer.
Mrs. Isabelle Patterson Springer. for
mer wife of John w. Springer, million
aire Denver bank president died in
Blackwell's Island hospital, a pauper.
Three members of the National
Guard were badly wounded in a riot
started at Murray, KY, by negroes.
The outbreak is believed to have been
started by German agents fomentine
trouble among the southern negroes.
Incensed by repeated flag insults
which Hibbing (Minn.) youths termed
"'traitorous half dozen of them
"cleaned out" the I. w. w. headouar.
xters. The trouble started when an l.
Nv. w. ripped small American fac
off the lapel Of Jack Tremberth and
spat on the emblem. -
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30
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us. -Teut011ic War News

The French commission has safely
landed in the United States. The COM
mission arrived in Washington on
board the presidential yacht Mayhow-
er from Hampton Roads. The commits
sion, which includes Marshal Joffre
and former Premier Viviani, arrived on
board speedy steamship of the
French line, which was conveyed
across the Atlantic.
Germany's ruthless U-boat warfare
failed to hamper American commerce
during March to a greater extent than
In February, statistics made public at
Washington by the department of COM
merce revealed. And in imports a
new record, $270, 484, 439, was estab-
hshed. The total exports during
March were valued at $551 ,27S,328.
From the lips of President Wilson
himself Arthur J. Balfour, British Sec
rotary for foreign affairs, learned at
washington the grim purpose of the
American government. and people to
employ all their resources to bring the
imperial German government to terms.
The president made it clear to Mr.. Bal
four that the United States fully re-
Allies the greatness Of the task it has
assumed.
The state department at Washing
ton received word of the sinking of
vessel (name and nationality sup
pressed) by German submarines. Five
Americans were on board. The sub
->alarine took them on deck and on the
appearance Of a patrol boat s1ab-
merged, leaving the reserves to strug-
gle in the water. Three were wound
ed, one of them an American.
Brazil formally announced she will
cooperate with the United States in
sending munitions and supplies to the
allies.
The British war mission, headed by
Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour,
arrived safely in Washington. The OBJ
Ject of the cOmmi ssion, Mr.. BalfOur
said, was Ito make cooperation easy
and effective between those who are
striving with all their power to bring
about lasting peace by the only
means that can secure it-namely,
successful war;
The British people and Americans in
London celebrated Americas partner
ship in the world war by religious
service in st. Paul's cathedral, attend
eG by the official heads Of the nation
and great congregation which in
o. cluded hundreds Of Americans and
many prominent British men and
women.
Two years of war. That is what the
national council of defense and the
several departments of the govern
ment, with the approval of President
Wilson, are preparing for. 1t developed
that secret meeting of the national
council of defense and other officials
took place at Washington.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30
Just Happened So.

'Mrs. Glithers used to be a soulful
creature
'Still, she had common sense enough
to marry a good. provider,'
"Well, yes. The match turned out
FL right, but I wouldn't give her too
la,lch credit for that. She never would
have fallen in love with Glithers if be
ENadn:t been IL star'fo0tbau player"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30
Foreign

The COrriere d'Italia, the clerical Or
gan Of Rome, declares that at recent
meeting of the Hohenzollern family
one member minated that the en-
perOr might save the situation by fol-
lowing the example Of Emperor Nicho-
las. The German monarch turned pale
and, after observing that the general
opinion was against him, left the room
muttering: 1--WE shall see"
The German foreign office, accord
ing to q dispatch to London from the
Exchange Telegraph correspondent at
The Hague, has notified the American
correspondents who have remained in
Berlin that their presence in Germany
is no longer desirable.
Troops dispersed a small crowd that
before the American embassy at Pc
trOgrad. Nicholas Lenine, a radical
Socialist, recently arrived with a safe
conduct through Germany, led the
crowd.
The government of Argentine has
sent to Germany an energetic note de-
handing complete satisfaction for the
sinking of the Argentine sailing ship
Monte Brotegido. The minister from
Argentina is instructed to break off
relations immediately if Germany at
tempts to evade responsibility for the
loss Of the vessel.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-30

Scandinavian copper coins are mys-
teriously disappearing. Sweden has
begun to make iron coins, and Nor
way and Denmark will soon follow.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-02-22
FO0O MENACE LOOMS
LARGE IN NATION
lower East Side New Nork Tcll~ Of
Paving Ten Gents the Pound
For Potatoes
WASHINGTON Delayed
RN PLEA FOR RELIEF
High Cost of Prov iSioIt> of Every Kind
Creates Condition Not Even Sur
passed During Civil War Period

Washington Feb 2l~-Food riots
IA New York are expected to furnish
President Wilson with "a potent argu-
ment for his proposed investigation Of
the high cost Of living, Backed by
the evidence of crowds driven 10 des-
peration by threatened starvation. the
presidents supporters will N once re-
new their fight for an appropriation
10 finance the probe, which the fed
eral trade commission will conduct
1t is stated that other legislation
seeking 10 moderate the soaring price
of food is under consideration by the
president and may be laid before con-
gress
y flood OF letters from all parts of
the country demanding action on the
high cost OF living today deluged the
White House and Capitol, The fail
ure of the house appropriations com
mittee to provide 100000 requested
by the trade commission for the pro-
posed probe. will result in a fight on
the floor OF the house. The appro-
priation will be presented as an
amendment to the sundry, civil APP
preparation bill and administration
supporters will seek to force it
through.
In both senate and house the food
price question doomed large today
!
der consideration in the senate.
prompted Senator Thomas to declare
that reducing prices and not raising
salaries was the way to meet the stu
alton.
Cost Less in Germany.
Il don't like to see bread riots,
he said. hut those who raise food
prices can raise them faster than we
can raise salaries TO meet them"
we are paying more for potatoes
in this country than they are in Ger
many" declared senator Norris" and
YOU must remember that the French
revolution was caused by the high cost
Of living"
In the house Representative Lon
don. the New York Socialist, cited
the New York giots as ar argument
for his proposal for national com
mission To control food supply and
fis'~ihaton
I'd Spectators have the public
~ throat" ~ said. 1T rs the
w1fls shame pi American civil
alton that women and children havu
.eried. aloud pilh hunger in the streets
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-02-22
HOUSE OVERW1EL MINCLY
FOR BONE DRY MEASURE.
Text of Anti-Advertising
and Anti-Shipment Law

more than six months, or both,
and for any subsequent ofYensc
shall he imprisoned not more than
ono year. Any person violating
any provision of this section may
he tried and punished, either In
the district I'm which the unlawful
matter OF publication was mailed
or to which Ii was carried by mail
for delivery. according to direc-
ton thereon or I'm which II was
caused to be delivered by mail to
the person to whom IL was adj
dressed.
whoever shall order, purcflass,
or cause intoxicating liquors to he
transported In interstate COM
merce, except for scientific, sacra-
mental. medicinal. and mechanj-
cal purposes, into any state or
territor, the laws of which state
or territory prohibit the manufaC-
ture or sale therein of intoxfCat-
ing liquors for beverage purposes
shall he punished a. aforesaid;
provided. that nothing herein
shall authorize the shipment OF
liquor into any state contrary to
the laws of such state, provided
further. that the postmaster
general is hereby authorized and
directed to make public from time
TO time In suitable bulletins or
public notices the names of states
in which ii is unlawful TO adyer-
tise or solicit orders for such
liquors.