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began taking it and | am now in good
health and am cured. | took the Com
pound three times a day after meals,
and on retiring at night always keep
a bottle in the house. Mrs. l.. N.
BURNHAM, 295 South St, Jamaica, NY.
Women who recover their health nat
urally tell others what helped them.
Some write and allow their names and
photographs to be published with testi-
monials. Many more tell their friends.
Write Lydia II. Pinkham Medi-
cine Co. (confidentiaD, Lynn,
Mass, for anything you need to
know about your ailments.
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,LIENS RUSH FOR PAPERS
Italians and Austrians Appear to BE
Most Anxious.

New York. April Is. - Anticipating
federal legislation that may empower
the government of the entente allies
to compel their subjects living in this
country to return to their native lands
for service in the war hundreds OF
aliens thronged the naturalization bu-
e in a rush for citizenship papers.
More Italians applied than On any
previous occasion.
Many of the applicants, however,
were Austrians eager to qualify before
actual wal exists between Austria and
the United States.
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Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, April Is.
Cattle-Receipts, 5000; steers. 81
25m13.25; cows and heifers, $500
1870; calves, $90001325. Hogs-Re-
ceipts, $4,000; light, $15.20u16 o.;
mixed. St5500l620. heavy, sl5.50Q
1925; rough. S15.50G16.65; pigs. Sill
50Q1450. Sheep-Receipts, 10000;
native, $10.65 013.00; la sl2.10Q
1890.
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Minneapolis Grain.
Minneapolis. April

minneapolis, AprI IS.
Wheat-May. $228A; July, $219H +:
Sept. $1.75. Cash close on track No
/ hard, $2.50A n253A; No. l North.
ern. S2.44i4 n246l; No. 2 Northern.
50 3Sh m246A No. 3 Northern. s2.2t
a240A; No. 3 yellow corn. $14416d
1.45b; No. 3 white oats, iS19 069c;
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weak, ulIZy, ner
vous, with hot
flashes and felt very
miserable, as | was
irregular for two
years. One day
when | was feeling
unusually bad my
sister in law came
i'm and said, Il
you would try
E. Pinkham's
So /
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Chicago Grain and Provisions.
Chicago, April Is.

Chicago, April Is.
Wheat-May. s2.26; July, $1.99h
Sept, $1.75tR. Corn-May. $1.42@s
July, $1.391k; Sept. $1.32B. Oats
May. 67hsc; July, 65hc; Sept, 57&c.
pork-May. $37.42ta; July, 1920. But.
er-Creameries 450 Acc. Eggs-31q
24hc. Poultry-Springs and fowls. &c.
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BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

Washington, April 17.-lSpecial. i
Since we are i'm war with Germany 1t
Is rather interesting to note the feeling
OF public men in general In regard to
what is going to happen. The most
important element Is the hope, almost
universally expressed. that the war
may be over before United States
troops can take part In It.
This is simply emphasizing an idea
that has prevailed ever since there has
been a discussion of the participation
of this country In the European war
and which has been SO often express
ed, to the effect that Germany would
soon try 10 secure peace if the United
States should enter the war.
The Troops In Foreign Lands.
No one is going to criticise any act
OF the administration or of congress In
regard TO the management of the war
during its early stages. and particular
~ no one will try to make Ii appear
that any grave mistakes have been
made in the early stages of the war
and the preliminaries leading up to
the war declaration.
1t may be limited, however, that there
was some impetuosity in regard to the
action taken. and II a keen analytical
mind had been ia control of every fea-
ture and every development there
might have been "a delay until a more
favorable moment. That moment
might have been when the United
States was a little better prepared than
ii Is at present for the gigantic conflict
which has come upon the world.
1t Ii estimated that ii may take a
year to train American soldiers for
participation in the great conflict in
Europe. That of itself is an important
siderable consideration even among the
most enthusiastic believers in the war.
The Navy Prepared.
Congressman Talbot of Maryland, an
ex-Confederate soldier and a man who
began his congressional career in the
forty-seventh congress-which is a long
time ago-in speaking of the resolution
declaring war on Germany made an
assertion which was gratifying TO
everybody who heard or read it. He
said that the United States navy ship
for ship, man for man, gun for gun,
vas superior to any other navy in the
world except that of Great Britain.
As we become an ally of Great
Britain in the European war, it is sat
isfactory to know that the United
States has q navy which can prevent
the invasion of the United States by
any foreign navy. and especially the
navy of Germany.
A Submarine War.
If Talbot is right, and we have every
reason to suppose that he knows, as
he has beer a member of the commit
tee Oh naval affairs for a dozen or
fifteen years, the only thing the
United States has to fear is the Sub
marine warfare. German submarines
have troubled Great Britain and
France and made Italy somewhat I'm
easy. If the submarines are all along
tie Atlantic coast, in the Pacific ocean
and even spread all over the world ii
is no doubt a fact that We may expect
some great disasters on account OF
submarine attacks upon the navy.
But the assurances of Congressman
Talbot are welcome during these dole,
full hours when we enter upon the
greatest wal the world has known.
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Paris, April ia semi-oficial
statement issued in Vienna declares
that Austria desires peace with the
Russian psople and that there is no
real obstacle to this aim, according
TO q Zurich dispatch to the Radio
agency.
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PUBLIC SEES END
OF WAR IN EUROPE
Hopes Germany win Surrender
Before Our Troops Get There.
NO CRITICISM OF LEADERS

Congressman Talbot of Maryland, a
Veteran of the Civil War, Says Ship
For Ship, Man For Man and Gun For
Gun, Our Navy is Superior to Any
Other Except E~nsland's.
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A Remarkable Showing.

house voted on the war resolution. and
yet only nine members were absent
This Is a remarkable showing. Those
members were all too an to be In the
house. although two or three of them
tried to remain. but were compelled to
go home.
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Guarding the Record.

James Hamilton Lewis has become
a member of the committee on print.
ing and likewise one Of the few self
constituted guardians Of the Congress
sional Record. Senator Lewis has at
tempted 10 keep out a mass Of stun
that is daily dumped into the columns
of this much abused publication.
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0O011.OO; cows aud heifers, s725I
1880; calves, $7.0001200. Hogs-Ro-
ceipts. $500; range, $15.40@157J.
Sheep-Receipts, 40; lambs, 10000
1850; ewes, $5.50Q9.O0.
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II is rather gratifying TO observe that
both the war and navy departments,
under Major Macarthur Of the army
and Commander Belknap Of the navy,
are inclined to be liberal in the mat
ter of censorship for American news
papers. If the censorship should re
main Ia the hands Of practical men
there Is little doubt about satisfaction
on the part of the newspapers and
other publications.
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Should BE In Washington.

Congressman Mondell has introduced
a bin for an equestrian statue of Buff
falo I'm. 10 be erected at Cody, Wyo..
SO long the home Of the famous scout.
SUIT people viii object to the location.
Buffalo lin Was n national character,
and any statue Of him should be erect
ed at Washington. where people coul0
see ii. The national capital is throng.
ed with visitors all the year. and they
come to see the sights.
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CUT THIS QUILT n WORTH MONEY

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enclose with s cents to Foley & Co,
1886 Sheffield Ave-, Chicago, Ill, writ
ing your name and address clearly. You
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GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES


Duluth, April is.
Wheaton track and to arrive, No.
/ hard, $3.50; No. / Northern, $2.31Q
2.35; No. 2 Northern, $2.27G2.30. Flax
On track and to arrive. $3.27h.
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MRS. BURNHAM
JAMAICA, N. Y.
Sufferings Cured by Medi-
cine Recommended by
Sister-in-law.

Jamaica, N. VI suffered greatly
with my head and with backache, was
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South st. Paul, April Is.
CattleEReceipts. 4.3Q0. steers. Sc.
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st. Paul, April Is.
Wheat-No. | hard, $2.50A Q2.5SA
No. l Northern, $2.44A G2.46A; No
Northern, $2.3SA Q2.46A; corn. ST..
44h @1.45h; oats, 6sh Qs9c; barley,
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$3.27h.
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will receive in return a trial package
containing Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound for coughs, colds and Group; Fol-
ey Kidney Pills. and Foley Cathartic
Tablets. Sold everywhere.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-19
WILSON HAS PARLEY
With G. 0. P. SENATORS
Believed to Have Asked Leaders to Stop
Holding Up War Legislation.

Three Republican Senators had long
and important conference last night At
the White House with President Wilson.
They were Senator Gallinger. minority
leader; Senator Lodge, ranking member
of the Foreign Relations Committee. aud
Senator Knox, also a member OF the
Foreign Relations Committee and former
Secretary Of State.
Members Of Congress believe that this
conference was called by the President
in an attempt to straighten out various
kinks that have bene holding up action
on imperative war legislation.
Criticism Of the President in executive
sessions Of the Senate have followed
what members OF the Upper House, ire
spective Of political sffiliation, have char
acterized as a tendency on the part OF
President Wilson not to repose confidence
in the Senate.
CapitoI Hill is convinced that the Pres
ident asked the three Influential Repub-
lican Senators, who were with him for
more than an hour, to end criticism OF
the administration at this time.
The object behind this is to speed up
legislation.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-19
Enlistment Will Not Kill
Life Insurance Policies

New York, MAY 1S-Life insurance
policies of men enlisting in the army or
navy are not to be forfeited if plans
being made today by the Actuarial As
sociation of America, in session at Hotel
Astor, are carried out.
1t is proposed that war extra" Premi-
ums for men going to Europe shall be
500 a year for each $1,000 Of a policy,
and $3.50 a thousand for those who
merely join the colors without knowledge
Of their ultimate destination.
Several insurance companies have an
nounced that a refund on overcharges
will be made to policy holders after the
war.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-19
RESIST CONSCRIPTION,
GOTHAM LEAGUE URGES
New Workers Applaud While Emma
Goldman Denounces Draft Law.

CBy the international NeMs-seryiee0
New York. May 1s.-Speeches fsdiating
a revolutionary spirit were delivered to-
night at the organization meeting OF the
No-Conscription League. in the Harlem
River Casino. More than 5000 men and
women jammed the hall and applauded
vigorously the exhortations of the speak
ers for young men to refuse to register
under the conscription law.
Emma Goldman shouted that there are
$1,000 young men in New York City who
would refuse to fight and who would not
register for the draft. She declared that
the organization would do all it could to
support them in their refusal. Her call
for funds brought showers of coins to
the platform.
Only the presence of 100 policemen fifty
detectives, $50 militiamen and special
guards at times restrained the audience
from the widest sort of demonstration.
when America said she went into
this war for democracy" cried Emma
Goldman, ''she put on the books a ghast-
ly lie. If we want democracy, let's be-
gin at home. We need it worse than
Germany. The only people who still be-
lieve in the Constitution of the United
States are you poor boobs. We do not
love the America of the munitions MAX
ers, for that is old Russia. The govern
ment has not the right to tell the people
to give their lives for democracy, for
democracy is the laughing stock OF
Europe"
The Washington herald., 1917-05-19
Trade Body Members, in View
of Splendid Response, Will
Continue Efforts for For
ward Washington Move
ment.

Doubling its membership in four days,
from 600 to 100 and with but % per cent
Of the business and professional men of
Washington called upon. caused men,
bers of the Chamber of Commerce to
volunteer their services until next
Wednesday in an effort to further in
crease the membership of that organi-
zation in their Forward Washington
movement
The campaign was to have ended last
night, but the enthusiastic manner in
which this movement has been received
and with thousands of calls yet to be
made, it was decided at the daily lunch
con at the Ebbitt yesterday to let the big
drive go over for another week.
At the luncheon yesterday campaign
workers declared that the business men
of Washington were enthusiastically in
and commercial organizations in the city,
into one large and strong centralized civic
and commerce association. 1t was stated
that If such an organization were brought
about, it would be possible to have a
membership of 5000 or $780, and would
bring into the organization over 800, 900 a
year, which would be used to build UP
\, ashington along civic, commercial and
industrial lines.
According to the workers, this senti.
ment in favor of such consolidation comes
from members of all of the local organi-
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.
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WILSON REJECTS
ROOSEVELT ARMY
President Says Proposed Force
Is Neither Of Age Nor Sort
that Allies Need.

President Wilson last night rejected
Col Roosevelt's pet scheme of command
ing a volunteer expeditionary force, the
first to fly the American colors in the
trenches of France.
The President declared he would be
glad "to pay the allies the compliment
of sending to their aid one of our most
distinguished public men," but added that
war is not a business of compliment" ="
but a grim matter to be managed on
a scientific basis.
The point was made that Mr.. Roose-
velt's projected force was neither "of
the age nor of the sort that the military
experts of France and England said
would be of the greatest assistance to
them; that the General stan of the
American army was radically opposed to
the whole idea
The President paid due tribute to Col.
Roosevelt's patriotism and courage, but
said his plan Of taking large number
of regular army officers for service in his
force would take away experts sorely
needed for the training of the new armies
of the nation.
The Presidents statement was issued
at the White House shortly after the Sc
lective draft bill was signed. It was is
sued so promptly as to indicate that the
Presidents mind had been made up on
the subject OF the Roosevelt army fol-
days before. Administration officials and
army officers hailed it with undisguised
approval.
The following statement by the Presi
dent was issued at the White House.
Il shall not avail myself, al any rate
at the present stage of the war, of the
authorization conferred by the act t
organize volunteer divisions.
ITO do so would seriously interfere
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO,
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SPECTACULAR BATTLE
FOUGHT In ADRIATIC;
DOUBT AS T0~RESULT
British, French and Italian
Warships in Engagement
with Austrians English
Cruiser Torpedoed.

CBy the international News servieeO
London. May 1S.-The most spectacular
sea fight of the war was fought in the
Adris ic on Tuesday between British,
Fren, and Italian warships on one side
and strong squadron OF Austrian craft
on til other.
Cruisers. destroyers, 'drifters," U-boats
and rirplanes participated The casual
ties, as reported by British, Italian and
Austrian admiralty statements tonight,
were
British admiralty admits: Fourteen
"drifeers'' sunk, British light cruiser
Dartmouth torpedoed but reached port;
three men killed one officer and four
men missing. believed dead; seven wound
ed: seventy-two taken prisoners by Aus
trians.
British admiralty asserts: One Aus
trian cruiser set afire, probably sunk;
one Austrian cruiser badly damaged.
Austrian admiralty asserts: Italian de-
stroyers number not given) sunk; three
merchantmen sunk; twenty armed guard
vessels sunk: confiagrations observed on
two hostile destroyers: an English cruis-
eT with four tunnels sunk by a German
submarine cooperating with Austrians.
Our units returnad to full number with
small losses In men and damages.
Italian admiralty admits: One Italian
toFpedOboat sunk; one Italian steamer
sunk: one Italian motor fishing boat sunk
Asserts serious damage inflicted or
three Austrian cruisers by Italian sea-
planes. One was seen enveloped in
smoke and in sinking condition when
reaching Cattaro.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-19
DRASTIC "DRY" BILL
PRESENTED In HOUSE
War Measure Provides for Most Sweep
ing Nationwide Prohibition.

As a war measure, Chairman Webb, of
the Judiciary Committee, yesterday IN
troduced one OF the most sweeping and
drastic nationwide prohibition measures
ever sent to Congress.
His bill gives the Secretary of the
Treasury complete authority to see that
no foodstuffs are used in the manufac.
ture OF liquors, except for manufactlr-
ing munitions, and for medicinal, indus
| trial, scientific or sacramental purposes
The bill Is entitled ''to provide for the
support of the army by the prevention
of the waste of the food products Of the
United States during the period of the
war and to prohibit their manufacture
into alcoholic liquors, except in certain
cases to provide for the distiIlation oi
| liquors in bond or heretofore manufac.
tured, and for other purposes"
The Washington herald., 1917-05-19
RETREAT BY TEUTONS
in WEST NOW LIKELY
Lens in Flames-Other Works of De-
strucion Presage Withdrawal.

CBy the international News Serviee)
London, May 1S.-''The RUNS Of the for
mer village Of Bulleeourt were evacu-
ated according to command without dis
turbance by the enemy, who only estab-
lished himself there twenty-four hours
later
In these words the German war office
today announced the abandonment of the
shattered hamlet Just west of the lower
end of the Wotan line, where one con-
tinuous battle had ragged from May ) to
May II, two full weeks.
II was in almost the identical words
that Berlin exactly two months ago an
nounced the evacuation of the village of
GrandcouTt in the Picardio, which. ush'
cred in his now famous retreat
Another retrear, this time by the two
wings of his line, is now looked for as a
certainty.
Lens is afame, and behind the Teutor
lines the torch of destruction has beer
put to work again.
Counter Thrusts Continue.
On the French front north of the Aisne
and in the Champagne the German crown
prince continued today his counter
thrusts, particularly on both sides of the
Road of the Ladies'" None of these as
saults made any impression upon the
French lines. Paris reported. Berlin
however. reported the repulse of French
attacks and the capture by Berlin anG
Brandenburg troops of a trench east Of
La Royere farm.
Official news from the Austro-Italiar
front today showed that CadOrna's mel
not only are holding their gains all alonL
the line but are keeping up their ad
vances.
UP to date s,4S2 prisoners have beer
taken, the Italian war office announced
British big guns were instrumental ir
battering down the Austro-Hungarian de
fenses on the thirty-fye-mile front of at
tack, it was disclosed today Jy a state
ment from headquarters.
Unofficial reports that the watering
place of Duino. on the Gulf of Trieste
had been taken by the Italians failed t.
be substantiated today. However, tn,
fall Of the place is imminent.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-19
Wilson signs Bill.

President Wilson signed the -conscrip-
tion bill at o'clock last night. It had
been sent to the War Department from
Congress at about o'clock II then bore
the sisnatUres OF Vice President Marshall
and Speaker Champ Clark. Judge Ad-
vocate General CrOwder. L. 5. A, in
spected the copy Of the bill and turned
il over to Secretary Baker. The latter
carried the engrossed copy TO the White
House at . o'clock. He turned it over
TO President Wilson. who left it on the
desk in his study while he went to
dinner.
The President left the dining-room at
7:55. He walked TO his study alone and
signed the bill as he would any in
cidental measure that might come before
him for approval. There was no more
formality about il than though he had
been approving the erection Of a new
CONTINUED On PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-19
Honduras Joins Allies;
Breaks with Germany

The State Department announced
yesterday that it had received a tele-
gram from John Ewing, the Minister
at Tegucigalpa, stating that the
President Of Honduras had broken re-
lations with Germany and announcing
that Honduras had taken her place
beside the United States.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-19
British Transport Sunk;
140 Men Reported Missing

London, May 17.-DeIayed-The Trans
port Cameronia has been sunk, it is Off
cially announced. One hundred and forty
men are missing.
The Cameronia mentioned in the Lon
don dispatch is presumably the 1888
tons steamship of the Anchor Line, which
has been for some time in the service of
the British government. She was built
in 1911 and hailed from Glasgow. In time
of peace and early in the war she piled
between British and American ports
The Washington herald., 1917-05-19

$500 to New York and Return.
Baltimore and Ohio, from washington
1920 a. m, Sunday. May 20. Return
ing same day.-Adv.