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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07
FOOD For The AGED.
Some Die. Rules For Those Who Are
Advanced In Years.

EOVaICSO III yedTSs
Libraries have been written on diets
for business men and actresses, but
little thought has been given what aged
people should eat. "Superintendents
OF homes for the aged show absolute
ignorance of the diet that senile
changes necessitate," writes DR.. l. L.
Nasher in the Medical Review of Re
views
With advancing age there is less
strength and activity. For these rea-
seas the amount of food should be di
minished The loss of teeth In old age
is natures signal that an aged person
should no longer eat meat, the only
food that needs to be thoroughly mas
ticated 1T is not necessary suddenly
to discontinue the use of meat. There
should be a gradual reduction, and
only the light meat of young animals
and fowl should be taken"
There is no definitely prescribed diet
for old age, but there are a few rules
that can be followed: The total
amount of food must be diminished.
1t must be thoroughly cooked and fine
" chopped. Vegetables containing
much cellulose should be freely used
Foods should be given in liquid, semi
liquid or mush form, and dry foods
should be avoided. Foods should not
be given at shorter intervals than four
or five hours.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07
A Curious Illusion.

People declare that they have seen a
leld of grass gradually change color
during a shower of rain, thousands of
mushrooms springing up before their
eyes. This is an optical Illusion caused
by the rain beating down the grass.
The mushrooms do not really spring
up during a single shower Of rain.
They are there already, but hidden by
the grass. and when the rain beats
down the grass it exposes the hidden
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Mail.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07
.sILAeE MIXTURES IMPORTANT.

College Park, Sept 6.-The high
cost of grain together with the neces-
sity Of using more of the total produc-
ton for human food than ever before
means that a large part of the grain
mixture ordinarily fed for milk pro-
duction must be replaced by long feed.
Legume hay such as clover, alfalfa,
or soybean when fed with good silage
will maintain a medium milk produc-
ton and, greatly reduce the amount of
grain required for larger productions.
The principal crop for the silo is
corn, although sorghum and kaffir
corn are used in sections where corn
cannot be grown on account of
climatic conditions. Grain crops in
combination with legumes such as
wheat and vetch, oats and crimson
clover, corn and soybeans or cowpeas
have been successfully ensiled.
The legumes alone, do not make a
good quality of silage owing to the
absence of sufficient sugar for proper
fermentation. In Maryland there are
a number of factory by-products which
make good silage. Pea vines, corn
husks and sweet corn fodder all make
good silage. However, sweet corn
fodder should be more nearly mature
than field corn before it is ready for
the silo.
When the corn is in the glazed
stage, it contains two-thirds more dry
matter than when in the milk stage.
Also, corn in the milk stage will make
a silage more acid than when more
nearly mature. In normal season
the proper time to cut corn for the
silo is when it shows the first signs
of ripening.
Silage should be cut from one-half
to one inch in length and the knives
on the cutter should be kept sharp.
In order to keep the silage of uniform
composition some sort of distributor
will be found most convenient. Two
men in the silo with distributor can
pack the silage sufficiently. The edge
next to the wall should be kept high
er than the center and tramped con.
stantly. When the filling is completed
the top should be leveled. If several
barrels of water are added and the
top tramped each day for two or three
days not more than six or eight inches
of silage will spoil. In order to pre-.
vent waste the top may be covered
with straw or corn from which the
ears have been removed. The top of
the silage may also be covered with
oats, which will sprout and make an
air tight seal.
Silage spoils in two ways. If it has
the appearance of rotted manure. air
has gained access to the silage. Spoil.
ing of this kind is frequently found
near the doors. If white mold is found
the indications are that the corn was
too dry and water should have been
added. If layer of spoiled silage is
found around the edge of the silo II
indicates that the walls of the silo are
not air tight or that the sufficient
tramping was not done when the silo
WAS filed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07
SlOO Reward. 500

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all it's stages. and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous
Surfaces of the System thereby de-
stroying. the foundation of the disease.
giving the patient strength by building
up the constitution and assisting ma.
ture in doing its work. The proprie-
tors have so much faith in the curative,
powers of Halls Catarrh Cure that.
they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials,
Address: F, J, CHENEY & CO.. Toledo,
Ohio. Sold by all Druggists Toe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07
Olive OIL.

When olive oil is good and fresh it is
of pale greenish yellow color, with
little taste or smell. except a sweet,
nutty flavor Surprising to say, olive
Oil is not made from the seed of the
olive, as in the case of most vegetable
oils, but from the flesh or pericarp Of
tho fruit
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07

The price of bread IN Dublin Is
eleven cents for a two-pound loaf,
while in the United States generally
it is ten cents for a pound loaf And
the Irish use our -four.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07
Had No Hills.

Going to plant potatoes in that five
acre lot you've rented In Suburbus"
Like to, but it's level field and my
book on farming says that potatoes
should be in hills. Buffalo Express.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07
Mendlno Hot Water Bottles.

To mend hot water bottle use a
patch such as used for auto tires. They
can be had at any garage. Just clean
around the puncture with gasoline,
then apply patch.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07

A shortage of 81 and so bills is
reported. A number of US can testi-
fly to a scarcity of Sos and Sos, as
we'll as small change.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07
Has a High Opinion of Chamber
lain's Tablets.

81 have a high opinion of Cham
berlain's Tablets for biliousness and
as a laxative writes Mrs. c. A,
Barnes, Charleston, Ill. II have
never found anything so mild and
pleasant to use. My brother has
also used these tablets with satisrac-
tory results"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07
Too Much of Il.

WAS the dinner cooked to suit your
"Yes. all but the bill. Take it back
and have it boiled down."-St Louis
Post Dispatch.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07
Why He Didn't Save.

do you save your money!"
sinister, if | saved my money I'd
have to cheat the grocer and the coal
man."-Detroit Free Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07
Inuuisitive.

''That fellow is u positive joke"
RELATIVE Of your wife's or holding
. better job than you"-Detroit Free
Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07
Our Troubles.

Gibbs-So you blame your present
troubles on the middleman. Dibbs-
Not exactly. blame all our troubles
On the first man.-Dallas News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07

Women may wear furs in summer,
but they certainly keep their ankles
cool.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07

Riches have wings, and grandeur IL
q dream.-Cooper.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-07

1t seems the examining boards.
have had less trouble with fiat feet
than with cold feet.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08

WANTED to purchase at once
empty piano box-Apply to A. N.
Gotten.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08

ships as he might, nor had they the
slightest intimation that they were
to be issued. General Goethals, as
head of the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration, in the service of which
they have been acting, has entire
responsibility for shipbuilding pro-
gram, wood and steel. That power
was given him when the board was
organized April 16, 1917.
"The board has not insisted that
either wood or steel be given pre-
ference. All that we desire is the
maximum of quickly constructed
tonnage forS immediate war neces-
sites. General Goethals has not re-
quested and assistance from the
shipping board and any request for
assistance that he might have made
or will make would have been and
will be given immediate attention.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08
Bank Cashier at Match
toches IS Smothered
By Robbers
Crime in Broad Daylight IN
the Heart Of the Ciy--Booty
Secured $4500.W

Natchitoches, La, June IA. E.
Bath, cashier Of the Merchants and
Farmers Bank here, was help up at
l 20 p. m. Thursday and the bank
robbed of $45OO. The loss is fully
covered by burglar insurance and
the banks assets are unimpaired. A
customer found Cashier Bath on the
floor unconscious and gave the
alarm.
A physician was summoned and
after some time revived the cashier,
who said that he was alone in the
bank as is customary at that hour
every day, the bookkeeper being at
dinner. While working on the add
ing machine and before he saw or
heard any suspicious a cloth was
suddenly thrown over his face, he
felt as if smothering and knew no
more. He said he could not give no
clue to the robber or obbers.
The robbery is thought to have
ben the work of a professional who
knew the cashier was alone at that
hour and practically no business
going on. The bank is in the heart
of the business section and in the
same building as Peoples Hardware
Store, block and a half from the
courthouse.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08

The United Sattes Shipping
Board authorizes the following:
The committee representing the
Southern Pine Association, acting
for the Southern Pine Emergency
Bureau, announces that an order
for lumber of 100 ships to be sawed
by the southern mills has been
placed by Gen. George W. Goethals,
general manager of United States
Shipping Board Emergency Fleet
Corporation, at an average price OF
$35 per thousand feet at the mills.
Gen. Goethals, in placing the or
der with the Emergency Bureau,
said:
'The contracts for these ships
have n@t yet been let, but in the re-
gular course of business should be
expected to be awarded within 60
days, and as soon as the contracts
have been let notification as to the
point where these ships will be
built will be forwarded to your sec.
retary so that your mills may com.
mence on these timbers.
"It is expected that orders fol
these sets VIII begin in the early
part of June and probably will bt
entirely placed within 60 days.
Government Bulletin.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08
Contracts For Shipbuilding In
Morgan City And Berwick Prac:
6caly Assured
Mr.: M. Janse, President Of Janse Bros. 4 20,
Conveys The Information

Mr.. M. Janss, from New Orleans,
telephonsd Mr.. M. P. Palmer, Sec
retary Of the Chamber of Commerce
of Morgan City and Berwick about
noon. the following telegram that he
had received from Houston, Texa''
and signed by the Union Bridge and
Construction Company of Kansas
City, Mo.
TELEGRAM
Houston, Texas, June 8, 1917.
To M. JANSE 4 CO,
New Orleans, La.
We have practically closed con-
tract. for building ships think you
UNION BRIDGE AND CON-
STRUcTION co.
And Mr.. Jaase added that hs had
not as yet heard from hi. represen'
tativss but that his was expecting to
hear from them at any time.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08
Shattering OF The German Front
By The British
Storn1ing Parties In A Rush Captured Many
Important Belgian Villages
Five thousand Prisoners and Large Booty Of War
Material Captured

miles and which for two years and
a half has been a troublesome sali-
ent.
The village Of Messines and Wyt-
schaete fell into the hands of the
British during the attack and the
village of Gosttaverne and trenches
east of the village on front OF
more Ian t.7e miles.
Probably never in history was an
attack launched with greater pre-
paration. For days the Wytschaete
salient had been the objective OF
the British guns, which had hurled
tons Of steel upon it. When the time
for the attack came, the British
loosed up mines containing 1,O00,-
600 pounds of high explosives in
front of the Germans positions, the
detonations being heard 130 miles
away in England.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08
Coethals Charged With
Blocking Shipbulding
impossible Form Of Contract
Has Been Offered SAYS
Two Members Of Board

Washington, June 7.-Differences
over the governments wooden ship
building program came to a head
tonight when F. A. Eustis, assistant
general manager of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation, and his assistant,
F. Huntington Clark, issued state
ments virtually charging Major G..
w. Goethals, general manager of the
corporation, with halting building of
the vessels by prescribing an impos-
sible form of contract.
The statements reveal that the
fleet corporation has just received
offers from ten firms to build 496
wooden ships within twelve months
or 1856 within eighteen months.
General Goethals has turned the pro
posals down because the builders
wished to construct the ships on a
cost plus ten per cent profit in
stead of contracting for a flat price
for the ships.
Mr.. Eustis and Mr.. Clark are the
mining engineers who originated
the wooden shipbuilding plan adopt
ed by the Shipping Board and re.
garded by General Goethals as i'm
practicable. When the board formed
the fleet corporation and put Gen
eral Goethals at it's head with full
powers to build ships, the two engi
neers were assigned to the corpora
ton as the generals aides.
After taking charge of the build
ing program, General Goethals turn
ed to steel construction and limitet
the wooden program to not NOR
than $50 ships in eighteen months
Mr.. Eustis and Mr.. Clark contende,
the corporation can build 200
wooden ships within that time with
out interfering with steel build
ing.
General Goethals could not b
seen tonight for comment on tn
statement. Chairman Denman, o
the Shipping Board, who has bee
represented as opposing Genera
Goethals' plans to restrict woode
building said:
"None of the members of tn
Shipping Board has any knowledg
Of the statements attributed to tn
engineers, Mr.. Eustis and Mr.. Clar
intimating a refusal by Genera
Goethals to build as many woode
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08

Your patriotic duty-RUY
Liberty Loan Bond.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08

In one of the most elaborately
planned and daringly executed
maneuvers of the war, Sir Douglas
Haig's forces have dealt q mighty
blow against the German line in
Belgium and been rewarded with
notable gains in terrain and the
capture of five thousand prisoners
and numerous guns of various cali
Der. In addition, they inflicted
heavy casualties on the Germans.
Over q front of more than nine
miles, extending from the region OF
Ypres southwark nearly to Armen-
there's, the British started their
drive in the early hours of Thursday
morning and at nightfall had every
where advanced their line, captur-
ing villages and numerous points OF
vantage, among the latter the Mes
sines- -Wytschaete ridge which COM
monds the surrounding plains for
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08

ORDERS LUMBER FOR 100
SHIPS.
Gen. Goethal. Places Big Contract
With Southern Mills.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08
Official Dispatches From
luss;a Show Army
loyal
Earlress Of Kronstadt Who
Had Revoked Smrenders
Il The Provisional Govern
;nent

Washington, June 7.--Encourag-
i,r improvements in the Russian
ituation was reported in official dis
natches today telling Of stricter dis
cipline in the army, which was
threatened seriously by the political
apheaval and the sweeping away Of
IN caste. This is assumed to be q re-
sult of the efforts of Minister of
War Kerensky, who has been tour
ing the fronts.
Official reports from Russia al
vays have been much more optimis.
lie than press dispatches, and con.
sntently have secuted the idea Of q
separate peace. This has upheld con.
fidence among State Department
efncials, who hope that the revolu'
lion though throwing the allied Of
fensives on the Belgium, French
and Italian fronts entirely out o1
;rear, in the end would prove one Of
democracy's great triumphs of the
var.
The great effort here now is t.
he friendly and sympathetic towart
lie provisional authorities at Petro
krad, rather than distrustful and In
husive. The government has adopt
"a a firm policy of not allowing thl
highest suspicion to arise that It j
hying to interfere in the interna
affairs of>Russia.
Prompt settlement of the Krond
stadt trouble, when radicals brok.
away from the provisional govern
ment to found a separate admins
tration, has strengthened the belle
here that Russia will find It's owl
way out.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08
CONVICT WANTS klbENl
BONDS.

The following letter was received
bv the Secretary of the Navy from
prisoner at the Wethersfield'
Conn, penitentiary, asking for in
formation as to purchasing two lib
erty bonds:
"As / am unable in my present
position to be Of service to my
country in the manner in which l
prefer, should very much like 70
purchase two liberty loan bonds,
one Of $1,000 and one Of $500, and
help out little in that way. WIZ
you kindly advise me when convenl'
ent If I will be permitted to do 70,
and also let me know just what r
] do in regard to the matter"
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08
WOULD DISFRANcHISE SLACK
ERS.

Washington, June IA bill pro-
viding that all persons between the
military draft ages who shall be
known as "slackers" shall be dis
franchised during the pendency Of
the war with Germany and for one
wear thereafter was introduced to.
day by Representative Park OF
Georgia.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08
ESPIONAGE MEASURE
REPORT PASSES HOUSE

Washington, June THE con-
ference report on the administra-
ton espionage bill, with its export
embargo provision and drastic ad-
ditions to existing laws against spy
ing. but shorn Of the newspaper
feature, was passed by the House
today Sc to %.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08

Man has wonderful invention and
for that reason is sacrificing q gas
stern wheel combination tow-boat
pull boat and sinker-raiser all opera
ted by boats own power, pump
also, pilot house, tow-post, plenty OF
room, fast, powerful, plow steel
cable or drum, timeber tools, beds,
AZ IT,, K 12ft., overall. Timbermen
and tow-boatmen should investigate
Immediately. First check for $4,000
takes it. Alex Froment, Box 432,
Jeanerette, La. et
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08

The Matin says the arrival Of the
transport means that the provision
ing Of the army is well under way
before the arrival of the troops and
that accordingly the American
forces will make no call on the
French stock Of food.
The ministry Of marine announ-
ced tonight that American warships
have anchored off the French coast.
The announcement reads:
s'The French navy greets with JOY
on their arrival these brothers in
arms who under the flag of the
great American republic have come
to participate until final victory in
the struggle against the common
enemy"
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08
Paris Announces That
U. s. War Slips Are
On French Coast
Supplies Of Food for Ameri-
can Soldiers Are Beginning
10 Arrive

Paris, June IA large American
transport containing wheat for
American troops which are to come
later has cross the Atlantic under the
protection of an American warship
the Matin announces. The trans.
port is being unloaded at French
port, the newspaper says.
Preparations are being made fol
the reception of American troops
the newspaper says further. A mum
ber of basis similar to those of the
British army have been organized.
Camps have been laid out for in
fantry and artilltry and aviation
parks have been established fol
American aviators. None of thu
American officers is bringing hi.
family.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-06-08
MOVING PICTURE PARTY

Mesdames NJ. E. Norman and K
Z. Hood will entertain the members
of SQUAD No. 2, Of Company "C'
with q moving picture party at tne
Evangeline tonight.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-12-27
LETTER FROM Frank BURKE.

france. NOV. 70, lJ1I.
Dear Mrs. Ford
! have received a fine package
from home and in it was the
lovely cake and candy that you
sent to me. They were certainly
fine and thank you very much
] believe the cake was as fresh as
the day you made ii. A fellow
certainly appreciates something.
like that. III is very seldom we
can get it, and when we do it is
not near so good.
| suppose Mr.. Ford is very busy
selling his crops about this time.
although it will be very late by
the time this reaches you. 1t is
surprising how much these peo-
pie raise ON a little patch of
ground. On one occasion we
were on the road at about $3.50 a..
IN. and met man on his wagon
going out to his piece of ground
They start early and work very
late: much earlier, believe, than
they do at home, although l don't
know a great deal about that.
am sure the farmers at home
would not like to work the kind of
ground that is over mostly
rock. the grain has to grow be-
tween them. Ii seems impossible
to raise anything on it, but they
do seem to get good results, al
though the very old methods are
used such as oxen, hand sowing.
etc.
| often wonder who your moth
err waves at now as She used to
wave al me. Give them both my
best regards. Yours very truly,
FRANK G.. BURKE.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-12-27
LETTER FROM JOHN NELSON.

Somewhere in France, Nov. IA.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl A. Jensen.
Dear Friends: No doubt you
will be somewhat surprised to
hear from me. but | have often
thought of writing TO you folks.
| have so many to write to that it
keeps me pretty busy, but am all
caught up in my letter writing
NOW and have nothing tonight.
was sitting here now wondering
who | should write to that |
haven't already written, when
thought of my promise to write
TO you. ! will try to tell you a lit
tie of army life in France.
We are right behind the great
est battle front i'm the world, so
close that when they shoot the
heavy guns we can not only hear
them, but the rattle our barracks.
We are used to that now and
don't mind it. What bothers us
mostly is when the Germans
come over the lines in aeroplanes
and drop bombs for our benefit
and shoot at us with their ma
chine guns. So far they have
been pretty poor shots, although
many times they come pretty
close and we have to get down in
the bomb proof dugouts which we
have for that purpose.
III never forget one night they
came over, and believe me there
was sure bunch of them. Some
OF US were playing poker, and got
to where the game was getting
pretty interesting, when all of a
sudden, boom. boom, boom went
the bombs and their machine guns
began to crack. OF course we all
made bee line for the dugouts.
for man over here who doesn't
get in the hole when hostile aero
planes are overhead is considered
a big fool and not a brave man.