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Evening journal., 1917-09-03
HUNDREDS VIEW BIG
melon At State FAIR
Continued from First Page.


OF the number Of seeds It contains.
The tickets are in duplicate. Retain
one coupon and put the other with
your name, address and number in
the box at the booth
Following the close Of the Fair,
the melon Will &c cut, the seeds
counted and the award made as soon
as possible.
Judges of the contest viii be select
ed and announced later.
In case OF two or more persons
having suggested the correct number
OF seeds. or the nearest 20 the correct
number. lots will be drawn to decide
who gets the chest Of silver.
The total "Our Boys il France To-
bacco Fund is now $42725. The new
subscribers are:
Previously acknowledged. .. $4O125
Employees of p, B. and w. r.
r. Names to be given later II 5O
Nell NJ Lang, No. 320S Mar
ket street.. zee. 49, 4'uV
Mrs. Chas. Wolhar, No. 1871
Pennsylvania avenue ..... lUO
Mss May Hicks No. 1881
Pennsylvania avenue $3.50. 20
up Pe sa1 y avenue ...... .25
Total 10 date ........ $427.25
High ranking officers of the army
the men who know the business of max
ing war from the ground up and who
will direct from this end the operations
of the American troops in France
heartily indorsed today the efforts &c
raise funds for the purchase, of tobacco
! for the American boys at the trout
Major General TaslSer II. Bliss, act
ing chief OF staff in the absence o.
Major General Hugh i. Scott, who II
with the American mission in Russia
I is a grizzled old soldier with a sighting
face' but he snapped forth ready ap
prevail of the fund.
cts a good thing" he said. "Ever'
officer should give it his support. IT.
not merely on account Of the value o
the gift itself, but on account Of tn
fine spirit behind il that it merits en-
enlargement. IL is going to be a bi
thing for the boys and a thing They'll
appreciate"
Brigadier General Henry T. Mccain
adiutant general of the army, wa
equally quick to commend the fund.
"Bully." he said. Anything tina
adds to the. comfort and pleasure Of tn
soldiers in the trenches in the terribl
strain they win be under Is worth
Of all the support that the stay at HON
public can offer.
81 know of few things that will tax
the raw edges of mems nerves quickC
than q smoke, and when a man is fac
ing death and shells are bursting a
round him as he stands there and wait
q puff on a cigarette or pull at
pipe must be q God-send to him.
How many seeds in a watermelon
Guess at Willard Davis booth, stat
Falr.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1917-09-03
RUSSIA Will
ABANDON whole
RIGA DEFENSES

tion from the front OF whole units
Of Russian troops. Premier Kerensky
centered his efforts two months back
to restore fighting efficiency on this
particular part Of the line.
By The United Press.
LONDON. Sept. The reason for
the German drive against Riga and to-
ward Petrogred was seen today in
the rpyalist plot uncovered in Mos
cow. The German plan, apparently.
was to lend all aid to those who
sought restoration of the monarchy
While simultaneously smashing
through Russian defenses in the hope
Of reaching Petrograd
Petrograd dispatches today en-
phasized the complete cleanup of all
internal plotters to this scheme to
overthrow the provisional govern
ment Scores, perhaps hundreds. of
arrests have been made, mostly in
the provinces and in Moscow. All
details as to the identity of those
taken into custody and the exact
scope Of the abOrtive plot are
Withheld. 1t was stated, however, that
/ the royalists planned to kidnap The
whole of the provisional cabinet.
/ II the internal plot failed. however
[ the military drive was continuing in f;
manner satisfactory to the Germans
3 PetrOgrad officially admitted a two-folC
drive, across the Dvint, southeast OF
Riga, and, further south on the sam,
/ general front, near Mitau Gains wer,
achieved by the enemy at both places
By The United Press.
ROME, Sept. 3-Capture OF Dolin
after a bitter struggle was announces
in today's official statement as part o
the Italian troops gains eastward fl
the Brestoizza valley
East Of Gorzzia plateau, the war Of
fee reported a violent artillery due
On the Julian front on Saturday ad
Vancing Italians captured 3i7 Austriah'
Evening journal., 1917-09-03

HALF HOLIDAY AT WoRKHoUsE.
Inmates of the New Castle county
workhouse enjoyed a half holiday to-
day.
Evening journal., 1917-09-03

Guess at Willard Davis booth. state
Fair.-Ady,
Evening journal., 1917-09-03
FINED FOR DIsORDERLY CONDUCT.

Ralph Bridges, a Negro, was fined 80
and costs in Municipal Court this
morning on a charge Of 1iisorderly con-
duct.
Evening journal., 1917-09-03

How many seeds in a watermelon9
Guess at Willard Davis booth, state
Fair.-Adv.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-05-18
CONTINUED from last week.

l suppose he did not know how the
words shocked old Colonel Morgan.
who was holding the court. Half the
officers who sat in it had served
through the Revolution, and their
lives, not to say their necks had been
risked for the very idea which he so
cavalierly cursed in his madness. He.
on his part had grown up in the West
of those days, in the midst of Spanish
plot" Orleans plot" and all the rest.
his education, such as 1t was, had
been perfected. in commercial expedi-
uons to Vera Cruz, and think he told
me his father once hired an English
man to be a private tutor for winter
on the plantation. He had spent half
his youth with an older brother hunt
ln2DRorses in Texas; and, in a word, to
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-05-18

Whose heart hath ne'er within him
burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign stfand2-
II such there breathe, go, mark him well.
by this time the men were all be-
side themselves, wishing there was any
way to make him turn over two pages
but he had not quite presence of mind
for that; he gagged a little, colored
crimson, a1d staggered on:
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim.
Despite these titles, power and pelf,
The wretch. concentered all In SELF
and here the poor fellow chOked, could
not go on, but started up, swung the
book into the sea, vanished into his
stateroom, and by JOve," said Phil
lips, "we did not see him for two
months again. And l had to make up
some beggarly story to that English
surgeon why l did not return his Wal
ter Scott to Kim"
That story shows about the time
WITH Nuldu JIdBSuuOClO must nave
broken down. At first, they said, he
took very high tone, considered his
Imprisonment mere farce, affected
to enjoy the voyage, and all that; but
Phillips said that after he came out of
his stateroom he never was the same
man again. He never read aloud again.
unless it was the Bible or Shakespeare,
or something else-he was sure of. But
it was not that merely. He never en-
tered in with the other young mon ex-
actly as Il companion again. He was
always shy afterward, when l knew
him, very seldom spoke, unless he
was spoken to, except to q very few
friends. He lighted up occasionally,
l remember late in his life hearing
him fairly eloquent on something
Which had been suggested to him by
one of Flechler's sermons, but gener-
ally he had the nervous, tired look of
a heart-wOunded man.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-05-18

him Omitted States" was scarcely a
reality. Yet he had been fed by "Uhit-
ed States" for all the years since he
had been In the army. He had sworn
gu his faith as Christian to be true to
United States" 1t was Omitted
States" which gave him the uniform he
wore, and the sword by his side. Nay,
my poor Nolan, it was only because
Omitted States had picked you out
first as one of her own confidential
men of honor, that "a. Burr" cared
for you a straw more than for the fat
boat men who sailed his ark for him.
do not excuse Nolan; only explain
to the reader why he damned his cOun-
try, and wished he might never hear
her name again.
He never did hear her name but once
again. From that moment, Scptem-
Der %, 1907, till the day he died, May
IL, 1868, he never heard her name
again. For that half century and
more he was a man without cOun-
try.
Old Morgan, as I said, was terribly
shocked, If Nolan had compared
George Washington to Benedict Ar
mold, or had cried, "God save King
George" Morgan would not have felt
worse. He called the court into his
private room, and returned in fifteen
minutes, with a face like a sheet, to
say:
prisoner, hear the sentence of the
court. The court decides, subject to
the approval of the president, that you
never hear the name of the United
States again"
Nolan laughed. But nobody else
laughed. Old Morgan was too
solemn, and the whole room was
hushed dead as night for a minute.
Even Nolan lost his swagger in a mo-
mont Then Morgan added: 'Alr.
Marshal, take the prisoner to Orleans
in an armed boat, and deliver him to
the naval commander there"
The marshal gave his orders, and
the prisoner was taken out of court.
Mr.. Marshal" continued old Nor
gan, "see that no one mentions the
United States to the prisoner Mr..
Marshal, make my respects to Lieu
tenant Mitchell at Orleans, and re-
quest him to order that no one shall
mention the United States to the pris-
oner while he is on board ship. You
will receive your written orders from
the officer on duty here this evening.
The court is adjourned without day."
l have always supposed that Colonel
Morgan himself took the proceedings
of the court to Washington City, and
explained them to Mr.. Jefferson. Ger
tain 1t is that the president approved
them, certain, that is, If may believe
the men who say they have seen his
signature.
The plan then adopted was sub
stantially the same which was neces-
sarily followed ever after. Perhaps
it was suggested by the necessity of
sending him by water from Fort
Adams and Orleans. The secretary of
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-05-18

his books and other reading. AS lie
was almost never permitted to go on
shore, even though the vessel lay in port
for months, his time, -at the best,
hung heavy; and everybody was per.
mltted to lend him books, IL they were
hot published IN America and made NO
allusion to it. These were common
enough in the old days, when people
in the other hemisphere talked of the
United States as little as we do of
Paraguay. He had almost all the for
eign papers that came into the ship,
sooner or later; only somebody must
go over them first, and cut out any
advertisement Of stray paragraph that
alluded to America. Right In the
midst Of one of NapOleOn's battles. or
one OF Cummings speeches. poor Nolan
would find a great hole. because on tile
back of the page of that paper there
had been an advertisement of packet
for New York, or scrap from the
presidents message. l say this was
the first time ever heard of this plan,
which afterwards had enough, and
more than enough, to do with. 1 re-
member 1t, beCause poor Phillips, who
was Of the party, as soon as the Aid
sion to reading was made, told story
of something which happened at the
Cape of Good Hope on Nolan's first
voyage; and 1t is the only thing ever
knew of that voyage. They had
touched at the Cape, and had done the
civil thing with the English admiral
and the fleet, and then, leaving for d
long cruise up the Indlah Uceah, Phil
lips had borrowed d lot of English
books from an officer, which, in those
days, as indeed in these, was quite a
windfall. Among them, as the Devil |
would order, was the Lay Of the Last |
Minstrel" which they had all of them |
heard Of, hut which most Of them had |
never seen. 1 think it could not have |
been published long. Well, nobody !
thought there could he any risk of any |
thing national in that, though Phillips !
swore ole Shaw had cut out the |
Tempest" from Shakespeare before
he let Nolan have it, because he said, |
'The Bermudas ought to be ours and, |
by JOve, should be one day" So No
Ian was permitted to join the circle
one afternoon when lot of them sat |
on deck smoking and reading aloud.
People do not do such things so often
now, but when 1 was young we got |
rid of great deal of time so. Well,
so 1t happened that In his turn Nolan
took the book and read to the others !
and he read very well, us l know. No i
body In the circle knew line of the !
poem, only Il was all magic and bOr-
der chivalry, and was ten thousand
years ago. Poor Nolan read steadily
through the fifth cantO, stopped min
ute and drank something, and then be-
gain, without a thought of what was
coming
Rreathes there the man, with soul so
dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
1t seems impossible to us that any
body ever heard this for the first time;
but all these fellows did then, and
poor Nolan himself went on, stIll un-
or mechanically
This is my own, my native land!
Then they all saw something was
% pay; but he expected to get through,
suppose turned little pale, but
plunged on
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-05-18
Gro Be COnlinued.)
Credit MANS Hard iinss.

When the credit man makes n mis-
take it is good night" says the Pitts
burgh Credit Bulletin. But when a
plumber makes mistake he charges
twice for 1t; when the lawyer makes
mistake, it's just what he wanted,
because he has chance to try the
case again when the carpenter makes
mistake it's just what he expected,
because the chances are ten to one
he never learned his trade; when Il
doctor makes mistake, he buries it;
when a judge makes n mistake. II be-
cones the law of the land; when
preacher makes mistake nobody
knows the difference, and when an
electrician makes Il mistake he blames
It or the induction, the meaning of
which nobody knows. But the poor
credit man has no excuse.
To Close London Churches.
The city of London will have forty
or firty of its churches closed in the
near future till after the war, as a re-
suit of the bishops scheme for releas-
ing clergy for national war work.
There are now only about 10000 peO-
pie resident in the city (the central
portion of the whole municipality, and
If present plans go through, only eight
churches will be kept open for thHir
use.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-01

trouble, he Is in pretty near as bad a
fix. but II he knows when something
is wrong and knows where 1t Is, there
Is very good chance that he will
find a suitable remedy. New York
Times
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-01

merchant has a certain amount OF
money laid aside apart from his
business, then he has perfect right
To speculate, but otherwise he should
keep out of the gambling game
"A case | recall in this connection
was brought 10 me when the war
baby stocks were gyrating slxyward.
A customer told me frankly, when
/ asked him for the settlement Of an
overdue bill, that he had bought some
shares which he had been told were
an exceptionally good investment. He
also mentioned the fact that he had
picked up an automobile bargain.
was forced to tell him under the cir
cunstances that while he had unpaid
bins nothing he could buy was bar
gain and that his investment was
speculation OF the worst kind be-
cause II was done on someone else's
money.
'But such examples of the retailer
who is more a gambler than a mer
chant are not uncommon when you
consider that every merchant who
buys against some future market turn
he thinks with happen is INDUCING In
speculation. pure and simple.
"All these merchandising excesses,
as well as the mistakes that often
happen through mistaken judgment,
would largely disappear II all retail
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-01

ers were to stick up a big Why in
their places OF business. and try to
find the answer. There Is only one
way to find the answer, and that is
to have the facts and figures at hand
to work II out Guessing is a mighty
poor substitute for the answer found
ed on proper Information. SO every
merchant who expects to get any
where should keep a daily. weekly.
or at least a monthly account Of his
business. He ought to be in possess
sion OF the sales figures for the day,
and those OF a year back. He ought
TO have a detailed account OF Just
how each department OF his store is
figuring in the days receipts, and IL
he finds falling off in any one
branch he WILL know enough to ask
himself why and try and find the
answer. II he doesn't know that
anything Is wrong he is in very poor
way. II he knows that something Is
wrong but can't put his finger on the
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-01

burnt effects. The Middle West Is
taking burnt effects and wings. while
the coast wants white wings and white
flowers,
.. The tendency is toward daisies
panses forget fiat crushed
roses, wheat fine cherries, and
grapes, also burnt stickups in aigrette,
bandeau and coronet effects.
8. Burnt fancies and bands are
wanted; in the wings the trend Is to-
ward coral. sand, Copenhagen,
Shadow Lawn green and gold
4. Burnt effects are good as are
daisies, wheat. black grapes, large
cherries and grapes.
5. Small to medium flowers and
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-01

wreaths, and small clusters are ia
vored. Burnt effects and wings are
good. the latter In white, pink old
rose, gold and citron.
8 All of these: Burnt effects, Wings
bluets. wheat. crushed roses, small
and large cherries
I. Burnt bands, pompoms. stick
ups. wheat. small novelty fiat flow
ers combined with fruit large cher
ries, and small giace fruits are all
wanted
3, Burnt effects novelty flowers
and wings are 'it"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-01
Meeting i.s~t Night Vt I -. \. Head
quarter EuioScf By Large
Number.
OFFICERS MD DIRECTORS
ELECTED FOR NFNT YEAR
pest shows Gratifying Growth
state convention NJ Petersburg In
Ny

A. lHt aHnuei meeting Of Post A.,
+ = A.. held at = n head
quarters, Thrd and Main streets, last
alght. The following officers aua d'-
rectors were elected for ;hr tcar BIO
ginning April
President William jeuktn> i'
Vice pEes' dent r. w. BROOKS, |r
Second vice president Hugh r..
Powell
Secretary treasurer II l.. Harv God
Board II directors as follows > j.
Allen. l. g. Snead. " J.. Erinklcy
W. Arthur Evans Il. r. Shplntt. Jas
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-01
WANTED IN MILLINERY.
Various Kinds of Trimmings Re.
ported to he I'm Demand

The official observer of the Re-
tail Millinery Association OF America
has obtained and condensed the
views of eight leading flower and
feather importers and manufacturers
regarding what Is right" in that
branch of the millinery trimmings
business. 1t appears in the associa-
tons bulletin as follows:
l. New York IS caiiing cor peoples,
grapes. and small nacre flowers,
c'tron, gold and black wings, and
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-20
Alphabetical Atrocity.

IAN American airplane," asserted
Adam arrogantly, always ascends."
Admiring Adam, as an amateur al
ways admires an authority among
aeronauts, Anna acquiesced, and &C.
CURED an American airplane, as Adam
advised.
Arabella abandoned an antagonistic
attitude, although angry at Annals
act.
Adam. annoyed at Arabella's antago-
lism, advocated an afternoon ascension.
Anna agreed.
Afternoon arrived, as also artists,
amateurs, Anna and Arabella.
Assuming an animated attitude, An
ma and Arabella attracted admiring at
tention as Annals American airplane
airily arose.
Adam arrived as Arabella and Anna
alighted.
"Adam," acknowledged Arabella at
terward, although arrogant, always
advises Alright. American airplanes
admire an air-annihilating airplane."
Companion.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-20

lower price level for wheat which, we
think, cannot fail to influence the en-
tire cereal list in the same direction.
Flour-The market is dull as at any
time this season of the year. Although
some millers We're turning small
number of wheels, their sales did not
equal the output. Milelrs are selling
little flour for quick shipment to buy
ers who have run low on supplies
This condition will prevail as long as
there is uncertainty regarding the food
control, and as to how the market will
be affected. Buyers naturally look for
lower prices, while millers have to
hold close to present market condi-
tons.
Feed-There is fair demand for
millfeed and as result of reported
light supply, the undertone of the mar
ket is strong. Under present condi-
tons there is no chance of doing any
business for new-crop delivery. Oats
have shown a good deal of strength
lately, but quotations remain at the
same figure as last week
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-20
Soap az an Antlseptic.

Some medical authorities, explaining
the abatement Of epidemic diseases in
modern years, are sufficiently free
from professional ties to attribute this
betterment of conditions, not to medi-
cal science but to increased use Of
soap and water. The Homeopathic
Envoy is of the opinion that with
clean house and clean person no one
need have much fear of infection. A
writer in the New York Medical Rec
ord says: "Soap is now recognized to
be antiseptic and to be efficacious must
produce latner. Bacteria rubbed
into soap or dropped on it's surface are
incapable Of multiplication. The ty-
phoid bacillus Is very sensitive to soap,
being killed by 5 per cent solution
in a short time. More than half the
total number will die in one minute.
The thorough use of a pure potash
soap Is not only mechanical method
of cleansing, but is an active factor in
cutting down germ life"
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-20
Larger Cotton Crop Forecasted.

The department of agriculture au-
thorizes the following: The crop re-
porting board of the bureau of crop
estimates of the United States depart
ment of agriculture estimates from the
reports of the correspondents and
agents of the bureau that the area of
cotton in cultivation this year-1917-
in the United States is about "a ,60O,-
900 acres, as compared with 36,052 900
acres, the revised estimate of acreage
in cultivation year ago, being a de-
crease OF 1,452 900 acres, or 4 per cent.
The condition of the growing crop
on June 25 was 70.3 per cent of a nor
NAL condition, as compared with 69.5
on May 25. 1917; Sill on June 25,
1916; and so, the average condition
for the past 10 years, on June 25.>
condition of 70.3 on June 25 fore
casts yield per acre of about 1862. 5
pounds and total production-allow-
ing l per cent from planted area for
abandonment - of about 11,633,0
bales. That is, the final outturn will
probably be larger or smaller than this
amount, according as conditions here.
after are better or worse than aver
age conditions. Last year the produc-
ton was 11,449,930 bales; two years
ago, 11,191,S20: three years ago, &c..
1890; and four years ago, 14,156,.
4S6 bales.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-20
General Trade Conditions.

Bradstreet's says: A shifting or re-
adjusting process, born of war condi-
tions, tends to repress operations in
some channels, while at the same time
stimulating wide range of war lines
to greater animation. Yet what might
be termed regular distributive bust
ness is large and though it is conceded
that there is not the snap to buying
that was SO remarkable six months
ago, faith in the future of trade is only
tempered by concern over govern
mental regulation of prices or by pres
ent uncertainty as to the full effects
of readjustments will go and what
lines will be most repressed while ex-
pansion grows in the industries that
are essential to warfare is the leading
question. However, the main devel-
opments of the week are favorable
Notwithstanding that the larger lines
evince seasonal quiet. Warm weather
and July clearance sales have stimu.
lated retail trade which in turn made
for some recorders and industry is &C.
tive as ever, being held back only by
shortage of labor or raw materials
Week bank clearances $5,95O,3S3 900