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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
STRICT SURVEILLANCE or AMER.
ICANS IN BERLIN

Berlin, Saturday, April 20, via Lon
don, April 29--Although the police
circulars ordering Americans to re-
port daily to the police stations and
to remain indoors between 10 p. m,
and a. m. sets forth that Ameri.
cans are to be treated henceforth as
enemy foreigners, officials of the for
eign Office say this Is true only IN
modified form.
At the foreign Office II Ia still said
Germany has not recognized the
American declaration OF the exist
ence OF the state of war and that
therefore Americans are not enemy
foreigners, but merely neutrals. They
point out the fact that the police
rules with reference to Americans
are less strict than those applied to
the English, French and Russians,
who are not interned. They are re-
quired to report twice daily to the
police. Moreover the police has been
directed to waive the rules wherever
possible. In the meantime, all Amer
leans are required to observe them.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
WHAT CAN I DO?"

Millions Of Americans asking themselves this question: and
that of them asking of others mail gives evidence
Each and must it for himself.
The youth college need only remain there get military train
ing many 1t folly for him to leave college and enlist
where proper military training available along with his other
studies
The youth who earning his living in whole in part and who
has dependents may well offer his services for enlistment in the
army navy If he physically untitled for service let him turn
farmer possbe and where he cannot do this productive in
dusry should be his aim.
The single with dependents may well enlist if in his
Judgment be of service in the ranks than outside them
He may be valuable however cuvatng few acres than
shoudering mlske His special training aptitude may make
him rvicabe otherwise He must decide If he decides
wrongly Uncle Sam will eventually find and help him to rccty
the error
The single with dependents subscribe to the loan
get advantos military training and cultivate per-
haps
The married subscribe the and food
sulfs many If a small farmer he should that
object first.
TO great many there will half dozen opportunities
to offer themselves for form of service actively
Select the you do best Select several you WILL hut dom
frer away your efforts Make vigorous drive rec
tons.
Remember that food is less than soldiers and that
raising szeabe quantity of foostus serving your country You
should be proud of your of khaki uniform
Plough the back lot and then raise the American flag
Remember that when Uncle Sam calls for
the few weeks you scrapc together all
reasonably spare buy his bonds if have pay for them in
salments and cut out desserts at dinner for six months
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
WOULD CONNECT CHICAGO WITH
NEW YORK
The Type Used In One Year W Publish
Endorsements Of Doan's Kidney
Pills.

or the many kidney remedies on the
market today, none other is recon-
mended like Doan's Kidney Pills. For
ty thousand benefited people gladly
testify in the newspapers Of their own
towns. Forty-fve hundred American
newspapers publish this home proof
Of Doan's merit. The type used In
one year to tell this wonderful story
would make solid column of metal
twice as high as the worlds highest
mountain. Placed end to end the lines
OF type would reach from New York
Ito Chicago. These miles of good
words told by 10000 tongues sound
glad tidings to any Maysville sufferer
who wants relief from kidney and
bladder ills. Here's Maysville case
Don't experiment. Use the remedy
endorsed by people you know.
John ]. Bramel, bookkeeper, Wal
nut street, Maysville, says: "Doan's
Kidney Pills have been of great bene-
At to me and in fact, I attribute four
teen years Of my life to them. IL was
in 1902 that | was suffering great
deal. After long use of Doan's Kidney
Pills, became well and had no bad
effects for many years. Recently.
however, l noticed my kidneys were
not acting right and my system was
generally weak. knew 1t was re-
turn of the trouble and / didn't lose
any time in getting a box of Doan's
Kidney Pills at Chanslor's Drug Store.
They again gave me the same good re-
suits and | consider them wonderful
medicine"
Mr.. Bramel is only one of many
Maysville people who have gratefully
endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. If your
back aches-if your kidneys bother
you, don't simply ask for kidney
remedy-ask distinctly for DOAN'S
KIDNEY PILLS, the same that Mr..
Bramel had-the remedy backed by
home testimony. Soc all store. Eos
ter-Milburn Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
When Your Back is Lame-Remem-
Der the Name"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
WATCH YOUR KITCHEN WASTE

A large part OF the $70O,000,000 esti-
mated food waste In this country Is
good food allowed to get into gar
bage pals and kitchen sinks.
Ask yourself--"Can 1t be eaten?"
Don't throw out any left0vers that
can be reheated or combined with 9TH
er foods to make palatable and nour-
ishing dishes.
Do you know?
That every bit Of uneaten cereal
can be used to thicken soups, stews,
or grayies?
That stale bread can be used as the
basis for many attractive meat dishes,
hot breads, and desserts?
That every ounce of SKINNED milk
or whole milk contains valuable nour-
ishment? Use every drop of milk to
drink or to add nourishment to GER
calls, soups, sauces, and other foods.
If you do not want milk to sour, keep
1t cool, clean, and covered continual
ly. Remember, too, that sour milk,
buttermilk, and sour cream are vall-
able in cookery, so do not waste any
Sour milk and buttermilk can BE- used
with soda in making hot breads, or
soui' milk can be turned easily into
cottage cheese, cream cheese, or
clabber Sour cream is good short
ening in making cakes and cookies
and useful for salad dressings and
gravies for meat.
Dc you know?
That every bit of meat and fish can
be combined with cereals or vege-
tables for making meat cakes, meat
or fish pies, and so on, and to add
flavor and food value to made dishes ?
That every spoonful of leftover
gravy can be used in soups and sauces
of as aavoring for meat pies, cro-
quotes, and vegetables?
That every bit of clean fat trimmed
from meat and every spoonful of drip
pings and every bit of grease that
rises when meat is boiled can be clari-
GaI 10 hn 10 l,a IA In,
cookery? Don't fatten your garbage
pail at the expense of your bank ac-
count.
That when meat is boiled, the water
dissolves out some valuable food and
fiavoring material? Save such water
for soup or for use in stews or grav-
les, or for cooking vegetables. Save
and keep soup stock. Every profess
sional cook knows that keeping soup
or stock pot is an essential economy.
Do you know"
That valuable food and tiavoring get
into, the water in which rice and many
vegetables are cooked? Use such wat
er for soup making if ii has an agree
able flavor, Don't pour nourishment
down the sewer
That careless pairing of potatoes or
fruits often wastes as much as 20 per
cent of their food material?
That the outside leaves of lettuce
and the tops of many vegetables make
desirable cooked greens" or even
salads?
+ To be an efficient home manager
you must know your job.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02

Make 1t your business to know what
foods and how much food your family
needs to be efficient. Learn how to
make the most Of the foods you buy.
Write today to the U. S. Department
Of Agriculture, Washington, d. c., or
to your State Agricultural College for
bulletins telling you about the nature
and uses of foods and how to feed
your family economically, and get the
greatest nounrishment out of every
pound Of food that comes into your
home
Demonstrate thrift in your home.
Make saving rather than spending
your social standard.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
1000 AMERICAN SURGEONS TO BE
SENT TO FRANCE

Washington, April 29-Plans for
sending 1000 American surgeons to
Europe for service in the Allied army
were announced tonight by the gen.
eral medical board of the Council of
National Defense. The men will b
picked by the American College of
Surgeons and the aim is to have
them on the firing line within three
months
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
500 Reward. 500

The readers Of this paper win be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that Is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
Influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces Of the System thereby destroying
the foundation Of the disease, giving the
patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature In doing Its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith In the curative powers OF Halls
Catarrh. Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that II fails
to cure. Send for list Of testimonials.
Address F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo,
Ohio. Sold BY all Druggist. TIC.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
For MAGISTRATE

Dc are authorized to announce Fred
W. Bauer AZ candidate for Magls-
trate from tho First District subject
10 the aciioS Of the Democratic party
At the August. 1917. primary.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02

We are authorized to announce Mr.
Samuel McNutt as candidate for Col
lector and Treasurer subject to the &C.
ton Of the voters at the November
election.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02

We are authorized to announce Mr.,
Andrew NJ. January as a candidate for
election to the Office of City Collector
and Treasurer subject to the action of
the voters at the November election,
1917.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
For Comfy Judge

We are authorized to announce
Frank H. Clarke as a candidate for
County Judge Of Mason County. SUBJ
iect to the action of the Democratic
party at the August Primary.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02

The Public Ledger is authorised to
announce Mr.. Fred W. Wells az q
candidate for County Assessor. sub
tect to the action of the Democratic
Primary IN August.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
FOR SHERIFF

The Ledger is authorized to an
nounce Mr.. Mike Brown as candidate
for Sheriff of Mason county. subject to
the action Of the voters at the Demo-
cratic primary in August, 1917.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02

We are authorized to announce W.
c. Booton as candidate for Jailer of
Mason county, KY, subject to the &C.
ton of the Democratic party at the
August Primary.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
For County Jailer

We are authorized to announce Mr..
John B. Furlong, as a candidate for
Jailer Of Mason County, subject to the
action of the Democratic party at the
August, 1917, Primary. x
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02

We are authorized to announce Mr.,
Henry r. Childs as candidate for AS
SCISSOR Of Mason County, subject TO the
action OF tho Democratic Primary. Au-
gust. 1917,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
For City Treasurer

|. We are authorized to announce Mr..
Fred Cablish as candidate for cleo
tion to the position of City Collector
and Treasurer subject to the action of
the voters at the November election,
1917.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02

We are authorized to announce ],
p. Gather as candidate for County
Judge, subject to the action of the
Democratic party in August Primary,
1917.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02

We are authorized to announce
John W. Eitel as a candidate for the
nomination for County Jailer, subject
to the action Of the Democratic party
In the August primary.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02

We are authorized to announce Mr.
Thomas M. Russell as candidate fol-
the office of Mayor of the City Of
Maysville, subject to the action of the
voters at the November election, 1917
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
ON PRAYING GROUNDS

We praying grounds with the Lord, but
bgoted the Kaiser who acnes that he and the Lord
elusive partnership We feel that Others of mankind recipients
of Divine grace This would be vain world it There
face the future with ortue spirit and fear evil
country
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
For County Assessor

We are authorized to announce
Elmer L. Donovan Of Sardis precinct,
as q candidate for Assessor Of Mason
County. Subject to the action Of the
Democratic Primary August, 1917.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02

Another thing-when begin operating the
his
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02

We are authorized to announce Mr.
A. Clooney as candidate for Mayor
of the City Of Maysville, subject to the
action of the voters in November
1917.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-05-02
Announcements
For Mayor

The Ledger is authorized to an.
nOunce Harry C. Curran as candidate
for Mayor of the City of Maysville
November election, 1917.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-09
Blind Pigs in Wet Cities

In the last number of the Champion
of Fair Play, Mr.. J. B. Frankel, Pres
ident of a retail liquor dealers asso-
citation, complains that the authorities
in wet cities permit blind pigs to run
without molestation.
Every profession or trade" he
says, requiring a license to transact
the same, has proper officials APP
pointed to see that every one has a
license, but in the liquor business no
one cares if the other fellow has or
has not license, and in the liquor
trade we pay license far more than
any other vocation, and an amount
unheard of in the centuries that have
passed.
"These unlicensed places such as
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-09

this saloon with the intention of tax.
ing drink.
1T is horrible to think that innocent
girls are subjected to this danger. If
the Baylock girl had not been made
drunk, the man would never have
taken advantage of her.
OF course the saloonkeeper will
lose his license, but that is not enough.
There are very few crimes which are
meaner than the one he sanctioned
and the mere deprivation of his rights
to do a kind of business he should
never have been allowed to do is
small punishment indeed for his helm
Gus offense. The young seducer was
a brute, too; but had the saloonist re-
fused to sell the girl the drink, the
tragedy could never have occurred.
Saloonkeepers who countenance such
infamous ours are digging their own
graves.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-09

restaurants, cellars, peddlers and shops
and many others, sell liquor without
a license, and sell to intoxicated per-
sons, and when these people are in
toxicated they go to the liquor dealer
for seltzer and lemon to sober up; and
in the end the wife blames the saloon
for her husbands condition.
"This state of conditions actually
exist and no effort is ever made to
stop it, and it is one of the principal
facts in helping to condemn the hon.
est saloon man, and for which we suf-
fer much"
Where any one can get all he wants
to drink anyway, no one bothers about
blind pigs. But if a single illicit liq-
uor store exists in dry town, what a
hubbub the vets raisel
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-09

Here is new way to look at the
man who drinks. He drinks because
he is a poor, weak-minded fool, an in
sane man or man headed that way,
an lily balanced moral coward, and in
most cases, a physical coward as well.
When he is definitely and clearly in
sane he drank because he was insane
and is not insane because he drank.
To the young man there is some
thing romantic about drinking. 1t
was a badge of manhood to throw
down three fingers of booze. Or, to
look at it from another angle, drink
liberated the4 imagination and carried
the mind on poetic flights of brilliant
imagining. Drink is associated with
dreams of knights and knight erran-
try as they were of old and as they
can be translated into twentieth CEN
fury life. There was secret admira-
ton of the moral courage and man
hood of the youth who drank.
But listen to what DR.. w. A. White,
Superintendent of the United States
Government Hospital for the Insane,
has to say about it.
He gives his talk the title, "Alco-
holism as Symptom" The alcoholic
is a neurotic. He is incapable of
meeting reality efficiently every day.
He may be able to deal with the
problem of time, but continuity of
effort day in and day out is foreign
to the alcoholic character. He can
stand the strain only about so long,
longer in some cases than in others.
He drinks because he tries to find
safety from his inefficiency.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-09
EDWARDS and BOOZE
By Dr. W. A. Evans Former Health Commissioner Chicago
in the Tribune

How frequently we see the alcoholic
retiring himself in solitude and in
quiet, drinking himself into stupid
Inconsistencies in his effort ito es-
cape his recognition of his own in
competence. He calls it forgetting. 1t
is. 1t is also cowardice.
We have many lesser degrees OF
escape than the above. We have the
jovial, storytelling, tipsy inebriate
who sits UP all night, slaps his friends
on the back and laughs and jokes and
gives the morrow notice that tonight
is tonight and let tomorrow take care
of itself. Is not this man also escap-
ing from reality by not meeting il
efficiently not only by Gripping him.
self so that on the morrow he is un-
able to face it but by his very words
he abjures it? Goodnessl Another
of our boyhood heroes not only has
feet of clay, but is an out and out
coward.
The feeling of ineficiency and
flight from reality-the earmarks of
alcoholism, and now we can under
stand why alcohol has been called a
stimulant. Kraepelin proved by the
most careful of tests that alcohol is
not stimulant. 1t only appears to
stimulate because it quiets the fears
of a coward.
Dr. White holds that the man who
is helpless as against alcohol is really
helpless because he is neurotic or
insane His use of alcohol is one of
the symptoms of his neurosis or of
his insanity.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-09
Getting a Drink
IL, a Dry To1un

The current issue of Life describes
n series of pictures the difficulties
IF getting a drink in dry town.
1. The thirsty one meets an
old man with long hair and tat
tered garments and inquiries
where he can get a drink.
2. He is cautioned to be ex-
tremely careful.
8. He is given whispered di-
rections where to go.
4. He meets suspicious
guardian.
S. He gives the signal.
6. He is given the signal in re-
turn.
7. He finds sliding panel.
8. He climbs up a pair of
gloomy stairs.
9. He comes to trap door.
10. He finds himself in an
empty attic.
II. He climbs a rickety ladder.
IL. He energies onto a roof.
10. He passes by a wobbly
plank to an unattached window.
IA. He raises the window and
finds himself in an empty cham
Der.
IS. He discovers fake Chin
ney.
16. He let's himself down by a
rope ladder.
II. He finds himself in a eel
lar.
18. He climbs on his hands and
knees through a hidden tunnel.
10. He enters a secret chamber.
20. He gives three raps at a
little window.
FL. The window opens and-at
last-a mans hand appears with a
drink of whisky.
There is enough truth in this to
make the VETS claim that more liquor
Is sold in dry than in wet towns, an.
pear ridiculous
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-09
A LITTLE GIRLS RUIN
From Jim Jam Jems

Probably the most damning indict-
ment against the licensed saloon,
which is gradually being sucked into
the vortex as the national Prohibition
forces register victory after victory,
comes from the state of Pennsylvania.
1t is the type of saloonkeeper who
knows no moral code of honor that
is gradually stirring and crystallizng
the prevailing sentiment for the abol-
shment of the licensed saloon.
William McAvoy is a young man
I23 years old who lives in German
town, near Philadelphia, Pa. On
Christmas eve he was out to celebrate
and among other places he visited the
grog shop conducted by Rudolph
Krause at Ninth street and Columbia
avenue in Philadelphia.
The spirit of Christmas was sup
posed to be abroad in the land. Mar
garet Baylock, ID year old girl, had
been out in the business section look
ing at the pretty things in the shop
windows and eagerly anticipating the
joys of the morrow. Margaret still
believed in Santa Claus.
About o'clock she was passing the
Krause saloon. McAvoy stood I'M
steadily in the doorway preparing to
leave He saw the girl and wished
her Merry Christmas. She shouted
back Familiarity at him that she hoped
he would have a Merry Christmas,
too.
McAvoy called her back to him and
hesitantly, she came. After much
persuasion he got her into the back
room of the saloon on the promise
of treating her to a glass of lemonade.
The girl little bewildered was finally
induced to drink some port wine
which was served by the saloonkeeper
Krause She had taken her first drink
and was instantly befuddled by it all
The room swan about her and the
lights were a jinkle tumble. McAvoy
sat alongside her and with his own
brain Keeling from drink encouraged
her. The demons of lust were urging
him on and on.
| After a while little Margaret didn't
know what was going on. She was
stupefed. She wanted to go home,
but she was afraid. 1t was the night
before Christmas and her mother and
father had made great preparations
for her.
After pleading and coaxing the
girl, she consented to go to a room
with the man.
We omit the details of what hap
pened. Suffice it to say that the brute
accomplished her ruin.
The whole damnable story was re-
vealed before Judge Brown in the
Municipal Court. The Judge in speak
ing of the girl, said:
"She is a good little girl of refine
ment and character and she went to
the saloon because she had been told
she could have a good time there.
She had never in her life touched liq-
uor before. And she did not 60 into
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-09
Blind Tigers

The Fulton Democrat discussing the violation of the liquor
laws in dry territory, says:
In the early days of the opening up of the West the
vgantes did what the law could not do and eliminated from
the community the evils that unwholesome and inju
rious the welfare and peace of the people.
The editor of the Democrat goes say that where the
liquor only defy the liquor but corrupt those
enforce for the awabidng citizens take the
matter into their hands did the old vigiantes
Fortunately this necessary in Illinois cities There
way Let the people who believe law enforce
it that the officials nominated and elected
their doing their duty The majority OF dry
Illinois doing this thing They have reduced the
illicit sale liquor measurab1y that has ceased be
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-09
Good Words From, the CHICAGO Tribune

The Chicago Tribune have decidedly easy
drinkers but they admit editorial
he Rum that this highly favored class will be
better off without the saloon.
sensations of health perception and sensation
says Tribune unmuaed by other than bodily webeng,
embroidered richly the drnsmuated ances of
In the vicious circle of smuant and emotion.
Possibly get along the bonedry condition. Prohi
bion highest attribute that paid
acer may be necessary of human weakness
We shall the day when the Tribune shall change
that possibly" to undoubtedly"