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Evening journal., 1917-07-06

The one dsqu citing thing IN the
story OF the repulse OF the submarine
attacks on our transports Is the ON
cial admission that the German spy
system IN this country Is still In
working order. The first German at
tack on June %, was made under
circumstances which leave no doubt
as TO German knowledge OF our mill
tary plans.
When the destroyer squadron was
sent abroad a couple Of months ago
the Germans spread mines at the
entrance 20 its port OF destination
Yet the secret Of that destination had
been intrusted to only a few men
high ND in the Navy Department. II
was impossible, Of course, 10 conceal
the departure from this country OF
an expedition as large as that which
has Just landed in France. But the
course TO be taken after leaving our
shores and the high sea point at
which the expeditionary fleet was to
meet the American destroyer squad
ron now In European waters must
have been disclosed also only to a
very few insiders Yet the German
submarines picked up the Transport
feet in the Atlantic considerably 10
the west OF the appointed rendez-
vous. NFor a second time the facts
point n the accomplishment Of a
clever feat Of espionage.
The German spy system has been
establishing itself here for years.
Under Bernstorff and Boyd it
penetrated everywhere. Il still main
tains communications with Germany
through neutral countries Americans.
having had little experience with spy
systems. are disposed to minimize
their value--to treat them merely as
adjuncts TO the melodrama Of the
stage and of best-seller fiction. We
do not yet take the spy threat seri-
ousiy, in spite of the many startling
exposures OF the ramifoatlons here
Of German subterranean activity.
10 is time we should drop this at
titude Of skeptical indifference. AS
The Tribune has shown in its news
columns from day to day. German
insurance companies are allowed to
reinsure American shipping and thus
obtain full information as TO the
operations of our merchant marine.
Enemy aliens are permitted 10 con-
tinue In business IN which they have
access to many facts of military
value. The Presidents recent pro-
clamation barring enemy subjects
Evening journal., 1917-07-06
With The Photographers

Maybe you also have noticed that after woman
has raised nine children she doesn't worry much
hereditary inhuence.-Galveston (Tex) Nows.
Our suggestion girls who dine out is that il is all
right for them pretend fondness for hghballs il
they want marry that kind of menGalveston (Tex)
News.
British editor says "the Kaiser is undoubtedly
mad man" He certainly doesn't act like in
especially good humor-The Southern Lumberman
(Nashville)
The story comes from Mexico that man has been
found there good health at the age Of 122 He must
have been either poor or very inonensive TO live
that long.-Wichita CKansl Beacon.
Mrs Bacon Sees Evil in Modern Apartment" is the
heading over Chicago dispatch in an indianapolis
newspaper That's what she gets for looking through
the keyhole.-Muncie (Ind) Press
Well at any rate. they can't give excuse for
charging for Christmas trees this year that we
shipping of them than usual to the belliger
ent countries OF Europe.-Aubank IN. " Argus
II that health commissioner OF Chicago can prove
that 40 cents day is sufficient for good and whole
some food for the average family most Of will hope
that he won't copyright his scheme.-Bettingham
(Wash.) Herald.
AS we said before prohibition Is a great thing More
people than ever before in the countrys history lived
IN dry territory this year-and the governments in
come from LIQUOR taxation the greatest in history
Gary (Ind9 Times.
Evening journal., 1917-07-06
For a Bantam Brigade
(From Daily Financial America).

Why not a bantam regiment? II
will not do for the War Department
10 say II CONSTITUTES the enlistment
regulations literally and that II men
who do not quite measure up TO the
feet 4 and 12O-pound minimum fit
otherwise they not infrequently
come through"
It is all very we'll to say that the
acceptance of a man Is left largely
to the good Bense OF the examiners.
The truth is that the inclination OF
a military official or a person vested
with unaccustomed authority is 10
interpret rules literally and rigidly.
Some one fired hot shot at Secre-
tary Baker. ut has been scientifically
proven" he says, that little men are
the best fighters and that they dc
not fatigue as quickly as big men and
rally from fatigue in a shorter time
than their larger brothers. The
worlds wars have been fought and
won by little men, and the histories
OF the nations have told of and
Landed those whose only bigness was
in their ability to dare and do. Yes,
the writer is a little n>2n, weighing
about 115 pounds, measuring 5 feet
and inches in height, but every
pound and every inch a man.
If you win give me the authority
10 raise a regiment of little men "a
bantam regiment), I will get them
together in a short time and guaran-
tee that they will do more effective
fighting in twenty-four hours than a
like number of big men can do in a
week"
Lat he the pugnacious pussonf
Mr.. Baker might as well surrender
now as later. There is more reason
for a bantam brigade than a regiment
OF grenadiers. Little fellows make
pretty good fighters. No one evei
found much fault with Mr.. N. Bona
parte on account OF his height. Lore
Roberts "Bobs" wasn't a shanghai-b,
any means Neither was Franci
Marion, Joe Wheeler, Phil Sheridan
Frederick Funston or several othe
gentlemen worthy OF note.
Let us look at this subject dispas
sionately. The man who can shoe
straight and bear up under the ties
OF battle is a good soldier. He is Al
asset 30 long as he is AT for service
He is a liability when he ia not.
A bantam presents a less amour
OF exposure to injury than a shan1
hal. ergo he should have a bette
chance 70 escape being wounded o
being killed.
Take it on the basis OF economy
Evening journal., 1917-07-06
FreCkIe=FaCe

sun and Wind Bring Out ugly Spots How
10 Remove Easily
Here's chance. Miss Freekle-face. TO
try remedy for freekles with the guar.
antee Of q reliable dealer that II win not
cost you . penny unless Il removes the
freckles; while II IL does give you a clear
complexion the expense is trihing.
Simply get an ounce Of othine-double
strength-from any druggist and q few
applications should show you how easy
II Is TO rid yourself Of the homely freckies
and get beautiful complexion. Rarely "a
more than one ounce needed for the worst
case.
Be sure to ask the druggist for thu
double strength othine as this is the pre-.
seription sold under guarantee Of money
back II Il fails 20 remove freckles
Evening journal., 1917-07-06

The upkeep OF soldier is consider
able. A bantam should require less
food than a long drawn out person,
although appetite and altitude are
not to be measured by the same yard
stick. Surely, however the short
fellow will require less yards Of cloth
to cover his frame, less leather TO
encase his feet, and. possibly. less
felt or whatever the hat material may
be, to cover his head although In this
last particular the same exceptions
as to appetite may apply.
Secretary Baker had better put UT
the white flag. The bantams not only
are pugnacious but pertinacious and
not infrequently pestiferous. They'll
fight for the privilege Of fighting
More power to them.
Evening journal., 1917-07-06

II the Hohenzoerns attempt to defeat the movement
of the German people looking to universal suffrage,
they probably will internal tempest that will
do serious damage TO the party. Many OF the
Conservatives in Prussia have joined with the Social
Democrats and others in emphasizing the demand for
equal electoral franchises The Hohenzolerns may
deem 1t polite to pay serious heed to that demand
and thereby stave off a possible revolution.
Evening journal., 1917-07-06

Ralph Mulfords feat Of driving automobile at the
rate OF 1oi miles hour for 100 miles marks him
one OF the greatest automobilists the world has
produced That ne survived such heart-hrealng and
nerveracng feat speaks volumes for his clear-head
edness and also for the stability Of the racing machine
he drove.
Evening journal., 1917-07-06

y % AAANAaA2 " y yin
or do any of my own
work. / read about
Lydia f. Pinkham's
V Vegetable Com
pound in the news
papers and deter
mined 10 try it. II
brought almost inn
mediate relief. My
weakness has en-
tirely disappeared
and l never had bet
Ter health I weigh
Evening journal., 1917-07-06

165 pounds and am as strong as a man.
] think money is well spent which pur-
chases Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Mrs. Jos. O'BRYAN, 1855
Newport Ave, Chicago, III.
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and nervous prostration. Lydia F. Pink
ham Vegetable Compound Is the stan
dard remedy for female ills.
Evening journal., 1917-07-06

When the English celebrate the Fourth of July in
London and elsewhere and Old Glory floats over the
Houses OF Parliament It is clear indication that the
Spirit OF &c" has given way to the spirit Of IL"
which angnrs badly for the Central Powers.
Evening journal., 1917-07-06
PATRIOTISM IN KEN.

From the Dover State News.
The manner in which the young
men Of Kent county have responded
TO Uncle Sans call to arms, as mani
tested by the large number Of re-
cruits that have enlisted in Company
G, First Delaware Infantry, of Dover,
during the past two weeks, cannot be
other than gratifying to the residents
or this county. Delaware has always
done her part in the line Of respond
ing when her services we're needed
by the Government. and Kent county
Is holding up its portion OF the States
honor. The young men Of Kent coun-
ty who have volunteered their ser
vices to their country are as fine a
set of American patriots as will be
found anywhere in the whole United
States, both in appearance and cana
bility, and we are truly proud of
them.
Evening journal., 1917-07-06
SPIRIT OF THE
DELMARVIA PRESS
SMYRNA AND FREE nELIvERY

u" NM HNU FHEE laELIVEHY,
From the Smyrna Times.
We are glad to see disposition on
the part Of Smyrna Town Council 10
avail itself OF the offer OF the Post
ONCE Department for free delivery
service in Smyrna. It's progress in
the right direction. Now let the citi.
zens Of Smyrna cooperate with Town
Council IN the matter OF numbering
OF houses. etc. Smyrna has an up-to.
date Federal Building. Now let us
have up-to-date mail delivery service
Evening journal., 1917-07-06
WOMAN SICK
TWO YEARS
Could Do No Work.
Now Strong as a
Man.

Chicago, III. For about two years
] suffered from a female trouble so /
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-21

~ quit from the Baltic to the Persian gulf
"reat Britain was maligned and threatened with
obstruction South America was in part colon
lied by Germans and the Monroe doctrine was
repeatedly threatened.
The highest authorities in Japan have repeat
edly said that German intrigues were endeavor-
ing TO bring about misunderstanding, if not war;
between Japan and the United States
AS far back 1903 representative Germans
frankly said that Ce~many would have to fight
America because 1t was Germany's commercial
rival. In Samoa and the Philippines German in
reference twice at least brought us to the verge
of war. Had it not been for Great Britain, which
has always recognized American policy in the
Western Hemisphere and submitted disputes to
arbitration, German arrogance and ambition
would have years ago brought the crisis
With the commercial expansion of European
nations, the United States has no quarrel. IT,
however such expansion is based, guarded, and
enforced by the threat of war; the United States
the Vaccinations of men who are dsir-
of expansion at the expense of the rights of
other nations.
Since the outbreak of the European war the
ruthessness of this German hostility to other ma
tons, and particularly to those that have regard
for international law and really representative
government, is apparent. We have seen treaties
dtsregarded whenever they stood in the way of
German militaristic plans We have seen con-
quered states treated with brutality worthy of
Assyria. We have policy of terrorism ap
piled Systematically in the abuse Of prisoners the
massacring and deportation of civilian popula-
lions, the indescribable abuse of women and chill
dren, the destruction of noblest works Of art the
devastation of abandoned regions the wholesale
execution of Poles, Bohemians and Serbians; the
Indictment of Mohammedans to a holy war; and
the permission of an attempted determination of
the Christian people of Armenia.
We have seen hospital ships sunk, unfortiied
towns bombed and bombarded. We have seen a
medal struck in honor of the sinking of the Lusi-
tania. Up to the date in which we finally recog-
nzed that Germany wagng war upon us we
had seen 226 American citizens among them many
women and children, killed by German subma-
rines. Altogether, the first of April 1917. we
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-21
well Have a Corn Feast"

been said so often now that no one
stops to think what ii means. Now it
only means that a secret has been let
out"
"And corn was a secret?" laughed
Mother Raccoon. 81 have my doubts
about that"
$50 have We" said the children. "But
you know we were not supposed to.
know and you let it right out"
$50 did, so did," said Mother Rae
coon.
swell, no harm DONE" said Daddy,
Raccoon. "If the children find out.
about corn so much sooner than they
did in our time-well, all I can say Isl
that it is mighty smart of them"
"And now children" said Mother
Raccoon, you all know that corn isl
good for raccoons. Yes, it is very,i
very good" And Mother Raccoon,
smacked her lips with the thought,
of it.
II think lessons are over with for
today" said Daddy Raccoon, taking,
off his spectacles made out of twigsI
of small trees and holes cut out of
large green leaves.
Goodies, now" said the children,
"And what is more, we have a sur
prise for you.'
"What! I" exclaimed their parents.
"Yes," said the children. "The rea-;
son we know about corn is because we
have found cornfeld, where the corn
Is just ripe. We somehow went to 1t
as If it were our natures to do So"
The raccoon parents laughed and
said, "Well, somehow it Isl"
"And now we're going to show you
the field!' ,
as it in a dangerous placer" asked
Mother Raccoon, who had had so many
terrible adventures stealing corn that
she was a little nervous.
mo" said the children. at is a
particularly nice cornfeld. There
seem to be no rude creatures around
to drive US off. Wen have a corn
feast"
And indeed they didi Mother and
Daddy RaccOon and all the Raccoon
children, and the children certainly
acted as though they had always
known and loved the taste of summer
corn.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-21
\ DADCY'S [y[NIN(
[A|QY TALL
| 81 hAQH GRAHAl1 BONNER
RAccooNs' CORN FEAST.

Daddy Raccoon was teaching the
children their lessons.
Whenever you are near water" he
said, ''you must be sure to wash your
food. That makes 1t so much cleaner"
For the raccoon is very clean and cares
a great deal about his food being nice
and clean and fresh.
You can eat great many things"
said Daddy Raccoon. "You are allowed
eggs of all kinds, fish, frogs, turtles
and all sorts of fruit and nuts"
"The best Of all you haven't men,
toned" said the Raccoon children.
An, lam keeping 1t as a SURPRISE"
said Daddy Raccoon.
when are we goingT asked the
children.
Going where?" asked Daddy Rae
coon, as if he didn't know at all what
the children were talking about,
Dear me-" sighed Mother Raccoon,
the children get to know so much
these days. Yes, 1t was different in my
time. l didn't know about corn until 1
was told about it."
At that all the Raccoon children
laughed shrilly. "Oh, mother" they
said, NOW you have let the cat out of
the bag. We didn't say we knew it
was corn"
Let what cat out of what bag?"
asked Mother Raccoon. 81 haven't a
cat nor bag. What absurd nonsense
you children talk"
"Oh," said one of the Raccoon chill
dren, that is just an expression"
"Stlll don't understand" said Moth
er Raccoon. 81 suppose I am not up
to-date."
IAN expression is a saying" said the
Raccoon child. at is something people
say-lots and lots of people. And it's
supposed to be WISE"
what does it mean?" asked Mother
Raccoon, who was much puzzled.
1T means that someone has let the
secret out-or the thing that was sup
posed to be kept in"
"Why did they use the cat AID bag
for example?"
"Oh, l don't know" said the little
raccoon, unless it was started by
someone cruel and foolish-but it's
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-21
DRIED EGGS TO
u. S. FROM CHINA

Imports of eggs products this year have amount
age at about Is cents pound These products
imported chiefly from Japan and China and
include eggs that have been dried frozen or pow
dered They used in this country principally
by bakers in the manufacture of various kinds of
pastry.
The consumption of Asiatic egg products in this
country has greatly increased in recent years. and
therefore the conditions under which they are
prepared become of greater interest to the public.
The operation of a model plant at Shanghai is de-
Scribed as follows
THE eggs are received at the door of the fac
tory in baskets containing approximately 1000
eggs, and as the factory offers better prices for
choice eggs 1t is securing the highest class of egg
produced within circle of probably 100-mile
radius. The eggs are brought into the examining
room, where the contents of the baskets are gone
and all cracked or otherwise damaged eggs
separated. The eggs are then candled by
Chinese, who pass them before the Gambling lamps
at the rate of 500 an hour The handling rooms
are kept in a temperature not exceeding 56 degrees
Fahrenheit, the range of temperature in the build
ing, used both for freezing and for drying eggs
being from zero to upward of 100 degrees Fahren-
heit in the freezing and drying rooms respectively
From the Gambling rooms the fresh eggs with
unbroken shells are taken to the breaking room
which in point of sanitary appliances and atten-
ton TO details of personal hygiene scarcely is sur
passed by the operating room of a hospital. In
fact the general effect of the ROOM aside from Its
low temperature is that of a we-ordered hos
pital, but with ten white-capped and aproned
nurses where the ordinary hospital would have hut
one. The factory employs 100 girls each of
whom is expected to break and separate from 1000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-21

Firth purchased for models" said HassaIl "a
dozen white rabbits from a dealer and ordered
them 20 be sent home
The man who brought them foolishly left
them in the garden-Afr Firth lived in the coun-
try at the time-and naturally the little animals
all got away through the fence.
Well, when Mr.. Firth returned and found his
rabbits gone he searched the neighborhood for
them manfully.
he got most OF them back, buS not ALL and
meeting the dealer next day he said angrily,
What did you mean by letting the rabbits loose
On my lawn as you did? I had a frightfuI task
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-21
FORTUNES MADE IN COTTON,
Fifteen Years Ago, Is Now Great
Field of White.

In the Imperial valley of California
they are making fortunes raising cot
ton this year-sudden dramatic Tor
tunes. Everything about the Imperial
valley seems to have the dramatic
quality; its story would make a good
moving picture. In 1900 it was bis
tering desert where q buzzard could
scarcely live. And then the govern
ment harnessed the Colorado river and
the desert was veined with irrigating
canals, and plowed and planted, and
for the first time since the primordial
floods subsidized, a tint Of green and
growing things spread over the val
ley.
Cotton arrived in 1906. It came in
the shape of box of seed under the
seat of a farm wagon driven by a
Texas homesteader. He asked why
they didn't raise cotton thereabouts,
and they said because 1t wouldn't growt
And so, being from Texas. which Is
something like Missouri, he planted his
little store of cOttonseed, and 1t came
up and opened its snowy bolls to the
wOnderment of all behOlders. Further
more, the next year it came up and
bore again without another planting.
The Texans little cotton field spread
like drop of butter on hot pan. 1t
clothed the barrenness of the desert II
it's fleece. And it brought to the mef.
who owned the land more hard iron
dollars than ever they had seen be-
fore. There are $4,000 acres of cotton
in the Imperial valley this year and
there are going to be many more next
year. And even better than the cot
ton crop is the human crop, which this
desert has borne; for it is peopled by
are prosperous.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-21

recently told of Western farmer who sold
stranger a black walnut tree which was growing
in his pasture for S25 supposing he had made
good bargain. The stranger reSold the same tree
for 5000 This illustrates the advance in the
price of walnut. Perhaps walnut has increased
in value more than any other wood unless it be
mahogany
IN some parts of the West the farmers are
taking deep interest in the movement to re-
forest their land 1t is an expensive undertaking
for 0Ga must wait 20 years, for instance to get
profit out of a walnut tree but at the end of that
time the profit is large. Luther Burbank in Cali
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-21
FORTUNES IN WALNUT LUMBER.

THE scarcity of black walnut and other woods
used for ornamental purposes reminds me that
few years ago I visited southwest Missouri, where
! found scores of old log houses. the inner walls
OF which We're made from the finest quality of
black walnut" remarked Joseph OHara, a lawyer
OF ST. Louis at the Willard, according TO the
washington Post. Some of the oldest houses in
this country to be found in that part of Mis-
souri, and the remarkable part about it is that all
of them are wei constructed that they will
continue TO stand for another century. Someone
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-21

IcCclpc uO pChSAAaI
when so many have
proved that Lydia
e. pinkham's Vege-
table Compound
will make them
well I? For over q
year / suffered so
from female weak
ness I could hardly
stand and was
afraid to go on the
street alone. Doc
tors said medicines
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-21
Doing Without.

One of the arts of life is to learn
how to do without. Few of US have
anything we consider desirable and if
We grumble over every little depriva-
ton we make ourselves miserable and
our associates uncomfortable. To
learn to do without and yet be CHEEKY
and happy, goes far toward making
life a succesS.-Girl's Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-21

were useless and only an operation
would help me, but Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has proved it
otherwise. / am now perfectly well
and can do any kind of work. Mrs.
NELLIE PHELPS, care of r. A. Rider,
RID. No. 5, Fulton, n. Y,
We wish every woman who suffers
from female troubles, nervousness,
backache or the blues could see the let
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dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
If you have bad symptoms and do not
underpta the cause, write to the
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn.
Mass. for helpful advice given free.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-21
Goat Flesh Sold at Mutton.

Goat flesh is sold as mutton among
the poorer classes in Liverpool. With
the sheep brought from Ireland there
is always a certain proportion of
goats, and these carcasses now are
sold on the wholesale markets with
out distinction from those of the sheep
and lambs. According to the health
authorities, there is no particular OBJ
lection to this practice, as in the mat
ter of taste and nutritive quality there
is said to be very little difference be-
tween the two animals.