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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-05-10

Stuffy, wheezy breathing,
head stopped up, coughing and
sneezingl Calls for Foley's Hon.
ey and Tart Makes a feverish
sleepless night, quiet and rest
full. Contains no opiates. Safe
and sure. Sold everywhere in
Alma.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-05-10
His Back Hurt
When He Stopped
Just the one Dor Of Foley Kidney Pills re-
bsved my baeksebe.-J. w. Etris. Etris, Ca.


Last year 7 was suffering with
terrible backachc, writes J. w. Etris
al Etris, Ga. Every time "a lean
or stoop over or 10 one side, I'd have
q painful catch in my back just over
my kidneys. | tried medicines with
no good results. | bought a bottle OF
Foley Kidney Pills. and just the one
box entirely relieved my backache.
u las been some time since j took
thcm. so ! think I am wcll.'e
Weakened, overworked. stoppcd-up
Kidneys cause stiff joints, sore mus
clcs rheumatism, sleep disturbing
bladder ailments. hiliousness and
various other ills. Foley kidney pills
are a scientific medicine. compounded
90 clear the kidneys and restore them
10 healthy action by dissolving and
drivinfo out Of the system the
waste products and poisons that cause
kidney trouble and bladder ailments.
You will like their tonic and restor-
ative action. ready eject and sVick
good results.
Sold everywhere IN Alma.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Small Family In Service.

In Roseville, a suburb of Newark.
N. J., four members of a family are
serving the Stars and Stripes. Capt.
Edison l. Small, who had been retired
from active service, re-enlisted when
war on Germany was declared. His
brother, Willis f. Small, who was con-
nected with a watch case company for
% years, has become chief inspector of
ordnance, navy department, and Is sta
toned at Bethlehem, Pa. His son.
Willis T. Small. Jr., is at Admission,
Ala, as a member of Battery A OF
East Orange. A namesake of Capt.
Edison 1. Small and a son of Willis
Small, ST., quietly departed from home
without telling about his destination
and enlisted. He is stationed at SYRIA
cuse, N. Y.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Why 1t Is ~Ham Meadow"

Ham meadow is the name given to a
field near Dresden, because it was
bought from the proceeds of a sale Of
a ham. A farmer sold a tourist a ham
for $S7, and Immediately purchased a
fve-acre meadow with the money. This
land has now been christened locally
with the name of the Ham Meadow"
might one be permitted to inquire"
comments a Berlin journal, whether
the law will have anything to say in
this disgraceful piece Of usury, or is 1t
only the wretched little hoarders Of a
few pounds of potatoes who are pun
ished2"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14

and more of it before long. This
cayuse of mine has had thirty miles
or Sc of rough going"
II think I'd better wait for you," she
said primly. There are bad places
where the trail goes close to the bluff,
and the lava rock will be slippery with
this snow, and it's getting dark SO fast
that a stranger might go over"
IF that's the case the sooner you
are past the bad places the better. I'm
all right. You drift along"
Billy Louise specialized briefly upon
the note of calm authority in his voice.
He did not know evidently that she
was more accustomed to giving COM
mands than to obeying them. Her lips
gave a little quirk of amusement at his
mistake.
You go on. I don't want a guide"
He tilted his head peremptorily toward
the blurred trail ahead.
Billy Louise laughed a little. She did
not feel in the least embarrassed now.
DO you never get what you don't
senkE' Sas asked mildly. I'D q lot
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
ITO Be Continued.)
Beware of I'll

There are two kinds of ignoble old
age. One is decrepit, leery, totterine
to the grave. 1t is the kind which NOR.
alists can use as a warning and a test
The other is the infinitely more danger.
Gus kind. 1t reveals a sound constitu.
ton beneath the rags and defilement
1t cannot be used as a text, for II
works the other way. 1t seems to show
that a man may drink, loaf and other
wise transgress, and yet keep going
Observation-Disclosures Monthly.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
rather lead you past those places than

rather lead you past those places than
have you go over the edge" she said,
because nobody could get you up or
even go down and bury you decently.
1t wouldn't be a bit nice. It's much
simpler to keep you on top"
He said something, but Billy Louise
could not hear what it was. She sus-
pected him of swearing. She rode on
in silence.
Blues a dandy horse on bad trails
and in the dark" she observed COM
panionably at last. "He simply can't
lose his footing or his way"
Eyes? That's nice"
Billy Louise felt like putting out her
tongue at him for the cool remoteness
of his tone. 1t would serve him right
to ride on and let him break his neck
over the bluff if he wanted to. She
shut her teeth together and turned her
face away from him.
So, in silence and with no very good
feeling between them, they went pre-
c~ariously down the steep hill (the hill
up which Marthy and the oxen and
Jase had toiled so laboriously twenty
seven years before and across the tiny
fat to where the cabin window wink
ed a welcome at them through the
storm.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Meat or Shucks.

Sometimes l think the best part Of
cracking butternuts is cracking them
What are we going to get? Meat OF
shucks? Never mind If there be moth
ing o than an empty hole once il
a whilel The next time will be al
right. Anyhow, we have gained a BIZ
OF muscle in the arm that swung the
hammer. Makes us stronger for crack
ing the harder nut tomorrow.-Vincen
In Farm Life.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
ProsaIc Environment.

"Fate plays queer tricks on a man."
remarked Mr.. Twobbla-
mo doubt"
81 always thought l would propose
to the woman l would marry where
there was the sheen of silver and cut
glass, and shaded lights were softly
glowing and behind a screen of palms
an orchestra was playing a Hungarian
waltz"
"Yes?"
"As a matter of fact, I proposed to
Mrs. Twobble in a jitney bus"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Ivory Billiard Balls

The tusks Of the COW elephant have
been found best adapted to the making
of billiard balls. The tusk of the fe-
male is not so curved as that of the
male, and the fine nerve passage is not
SO clearly seen.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Expansion of Concrete.

Concrete roads expand most In win
ter and contract most in summer, ac-
cording to the United States bureau
of standards, because of increases or
decreases in the moisture they con-
tain.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
KNEW The BIBLE
"Father NeaIe," an Evangelist of
Washington's Time.
Advised Young Preachers to Commit
the Holy Writ to Memory,
as He Did.

In these days when Billy Sunday oc-
cupies public attention, we recall an
evangelist preacher of Washington's
time, says IN exchange. 1t was late
in life when Father Neale'' was con-
verted and so great was his zeal hat
he embraced every possible cnance to
preach, and then preached as long as
the people would stay to hear him.
Full of anecdotes and fond of humor-
GUS stories, he amused the crowds that
gathered around him and often con-
verified some wandering sheep. He was
a carpenter by trade, and when he was
not preaching he was working, for he
never took any money from his au-
diences. His only book was the Bible,
and when he found a young preacher
using a Concordance to aid him in find
ing texts he would say:
do as l do, study the Bible till you
know 1t by heart" And he had studied
1t so thoroughly that he knew the least
incidents recorded in 1t, and could cite
them whenever they would come in
play. Once he heard q minister trying
to prove that the people could not have
been immersed in the Jordan because
that river was so small that a man
could dam 1t up with his foot. At the
close of the sermon Father Neale got
up and said:
II don't pretend to have any great
book learnin', but there's one book /
do know, and that's the Bible. That's
my book. Now, our brother here says
the Jordan is SO small that you may
stop 1t with your foot. His books may
tell hin so, but my book tells me an
other story. I read In the Bible how
David, when he was flying from Absa-
lom, and wanted to cross that same
river, had to hire a boat to carry him
over! That's what my book tells me !"
Some of Father Neale's recollections
of Washington are little known to the
readers Of today, and some have never
been published. Here is an anecdote
found in an old journal:
"One Of Washington's habits he
mentioned as brought to Mount YER
non from the camp where everything
was sacrificed to dispatch. Whenever
Washington received a note by a priv
ate messenger, he never asked the
bearer into the house, but usually took
the letter himself at the front door
and read 1t standing with his head
bare in the open air. If 1t required a
verbal reply he gave 1t, and dismissed
the bearer; or If he must write. he re-
tired to his Office, wrote the answer,
and bringing it out, delivered 1t to the
messenger with his own hand"
Father Neale states "that he was
once engaged doing some carpenter
work on one of the northeast windows
that opens upon the front piazza of
the mansion at Mount Vernon; arr
several ladies were taking tea on the
~collonade. Washington was walking
up and down joining in the conversa-
ton. One of the ladies asked him his
opinion of some of the battles of Ma
poleon, the fame of which was then
ringing through the world. Washing
toms reply, as heard by Father Neale,
was in these words: Something more
than the art of man achieved those
battles.'"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Be Optimistic.

Believe and hope, says a writer.
Hope so much that it will be difficult
to believe all of it. but believe 1t any
way. In short-believe and hope that
all you believe will come true; and
hope and believe that all you hope will
come to pass some day.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Siuh of Relief.

A woman always heaves a sigh of
relief when her husband has writ
ten out the checks for his monthly
bills, because she knows that she is
free to hurry down town and run up
a few more.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14

mated pathetically all that he said.
you'll have to face the wind goin'
home" he said to Billy Louise. "More'n
likely you'll be facin' snow too. Looks
bad off that way"
"You go on and turn them calves
out!" Marthy commanded him harshly.
BILLY Louise amt goin' home IL 1t
storms. l sh'd think you'd know
enough to know that"
"Oh, but I'll have to go anyway"
the girl interrupted. '"Mommie can't
be there alone; she'd worry herself to
death If l didn't show up by dark.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Insect LANGUAGE.

Insects, like birds and animals, have
their calls, naturalists say. But the
sounds they produce include the rub,
bling together of their limbs or wing
covers and the vibration of their
wings, so they cannot always be spok.
en- of as voices. Files and bees un.
doubleday mean something when they
hum louder and louder.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
The Newest TheoIonx.

A boy at a recent examination In
Scripture was asked where Cain went
after he killed Abel. He replied that he
went to bed. The teacher wanted to
know how he made that out. He said
IT'S In the chapter, sir, that Cain.
after he had killed Abel, went to the
land Of Nod."-Christian Herald.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Knob for Kettle Lid.

Should the knob come off the lid of
a kettle a screw should be slipped
through the hole with the head to the
inside Of the lid and a cork screwed
on the protruding end.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14

There is in this world infinitely more
joy than pain to be shared, If you will
only take your share when It Is set
before you.-Ruskin.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Wouldn't Stop Her.

Jones-How far is this farm from
the city?
Real tate Man-Forty miles.
Jones-Not far enough. My wife
would walk fifty to get to a bargain
sale.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Woman,s Birthday.

A woman likes to forget her birth
day, but she makes an awful fuss if
her husband fails to remember it.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Think 1t Over.

Nothing is too high to be reached, or
too good to be true.-Charles Gordon
Ames.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Does Not Come in a Hurry.

1t is. seldom that men are either
quickly rich or quickly good.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-14
Today and Tomorrow.

"Do today's duties-tomorrow need
not bother you today"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-30
Two peace" Messages

Two significant news items appear
ed recently. Both of them were
short and were given no particular
prominence in the news of the day.
But they may have a bearing on
peace and the end of the war far
beyond the expectation or realization
of the average reader.
One dispatch was from Austria, by
way of Paris and Bohemian newspa-
pers, and stated that Austrian
churches, as we'll as organ builders,
have been notified that all organ
pipes In all churches of the mon
archy will soon be requisitioned TO
"till the needs of war industries" ="
In other words. to make shells and
ammunition.
The other dispatch was from Can
ada, and announced that Canadian
plants heretofore engaged in tho
manufacture of munitions, would
Except in some cases) return to the
regular production of whatever they
were engaged in manufacturing be-
fore the war opened. The govern
ment announces that the production
of munitions in Canada is no longer
needed by the allies.
The significance of these two items
cannot be underestimated in any cal
culations for determining the possi-
bility of when to expect peace. -
Kansas City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-30
Will Not Hurry

The War Departments theory is
that the first 100000 men from the
United States will merely help to
give the allies a slight advantage,
but that the millions who may be
sent after them will end the war.
To attempt to rush such a Program
through in a few months would
mostly result in confusion and fail
ure, ranking officials of the War De-
partment insist.
Preparations for the present army
scheme will be kept slightly in ad-
vance of the plans of the shipping
board. The War Department does
not desire to have great forces on its
hands in this country. Whenever the
shipping is available the troops will
be ready to march abroad.
An evidence of the change of pol
icy in training army officers was un-
covered when it developed that the
War Department has asked the
French government to send a corps
of officers fresh from the trenches
to teach the new American officers
modern warfare. The second reserve
officers camps and those which fol-
low will be handled to large extent
by Frenchmen who have learned war
in the trenches and not in swivel
chairs.-Exchange
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-30
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Army Y. M. c. As
By Briggs
To the Editor of the Telegraph:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Any one who has the slightest
question in his mind as to the good
that is being done by the Young
Mems Christian Association among
the soldiers in the various training
camps throughout the country
should visit some of them, and wit
ness the varied manner in which
they assist the men, and contribute
to their comfort and happiness.
The writer spent a day this week
in the camp at Gettysburg COM
posed of men of the Regular Army,
and was greatly impressed with the
scope of the work being done by
the Y. NJ. G. A. 1t was the busiest
place in the camp! There are two
Association tents in the campground,
but the one which came under the
observation of the writer more es-
pecially is so located as to serve
conveniently three regiments. the
Fourth, Fifty-ninth and SiXtieth U.
S. Infantry.
There are five or six trained sec
retaries in charge, and the men are
supplied free with writing material,
books, papers, magazines, games of
various kinds, such as checkers,
uOHlluOeS ana Ine ukeI DaSeDall ana
football outfits, wrapping paper for
wrapping packages, telephone, and
in fact everything that men would
need under the circumstances. Post
age stamps. postals, and postcards
are sold at cost, and all mail matter
taken care of and sent out for the
men. Moving pictures are a feature
of the entertainment every night.
A Victrola is part of the equipment.
A new piano has been installed
and several of the men are fine
players. This is used for the re-
ligious services, and is at the disposal
of the men at all times, and it is
not unusual to see a hundred or
more men around it singing hymns
and popular songs.
Bible classes, and classes in
French are being conducted for any
who wish to take up these studies.
The Association is very much in
need of books, magazines, illustrated
papers, especially sheet music and
Victrola records. Any persons hav-
ing articles of this kind that they
can spare, could not put them
to better service than by sending
them to the Y. M. C. A. Tent care
of Fourth Infantry, Gettysburg, Pa.
HARRISBURGER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-30
Porto Rico Trains at Home

The training camp to supply offic-
ers for Porto Rico's brigade of 1000
men to be drafted sooh will be held
in Cayey, in the mountains fifty miles
from San Juan, and will begin on
August 81. The quota of 245 men,
including As noncommissioned offic-
GERS from the Porto Rico Regiment,
now in Panama, has been selected
from the 1900 applicants for en-
trance to the camp.
The student officers are required
to have a proficient knowledge of
Spanish and English, for while they
are to receive all their instruction
and orders in English, they will COM
mand many men who have little or
no knowledge of that language. The
majority of the men accepted for the
camp have attended American col
leges.
Oficers are going from the States
to instruct the student officers, and
two neutenants from the Porto Rico
Regiment for the same purpose
Exchange.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-30
Our lob to Restore It

There is no longer any interna-
tional law" said the Kaiser during
Ambassador Gerard's visit to the
great headquarters at Charleville, in
France. So far as the statement was
true, the Kaiser was responsible for
the condition. International law
had ceased to exist precisely to the
extent to which Germans had de-
stroyed 1t.
One of the purposes for which we
are in the war is to rescue interna-
tional law and justice. bind UP the
bleeding wounds which German
hands have inflicted and restore to
the old usages of nations their for
mer prestige and force.-St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-30
wAsTEFUL DUPLICATION

THE pretext upon which was
created a bureau of information
was that such a bureau was nee
essary as a war measure-to give
proper war information to the public.
AS a means to that end, the bureau
began and has continued the pub
lication of an Official Bulletin" is
sued daily and comprising about
sixteen pages.
Newspaper correspondents at
Washington treat the bulletin as a
joke, and a dry joke. at that Tax
payers will consider it a rather ex-
pensive joke. and a bad example
in economy. Take the issue of Mon
day, August 20. for example. On
page 3 is an article setting forth
statistics concerning imports remain
ing in bond on June 80, 1917. There
are three reasons why the data
should not have been printed; the
news was nearly sixty days old, it
had nothing whatever to do with the
war, and 1t had been given out by the
Department of Commerce and print
ed by that department.
On page 4, of the same issue, is a
statistical table of foreign trade, al
ready published by the Department
of Commerce and made available to
every man who has use for the in
formation. Those statistics were also
nearly two months old, and they had
no bearing upon the prosecution of
the war.
At a time when the government
is urging the practice Of economy
upon it's citizens in their private af-
fairs, it would seem that needless
duplication might be restrained in a
new administrative bureau which
has little excuse for existence at best.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-30
THE Y M. G. 4. shut" AND WHAT
1T MEANS FOR SOLDIERS

Tin anticipation of the arrival in
Europe of American soldiers. the
Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton at a cost of s45,0OO has taken
over and rushed to completion a
large hut" which was being built
for British troops at Aldwych on the
Strand, opposite Somerset house in
London.
This hut" or association building
as 1t would be called by Americans,
will provide lodgings and meals and
serve as a recreation center for en-
listed men of the United States Army
and Navy who are passing through
or are or leave in London. Plans
are also on foot for the provision of
club accommodations for American
officers.
The Aldwych hut" which will
provide sleeping accommodations for
more than $50 men will be fully
equipped with billiard and game
rooms, cafe, writing and reading
rooms, and a real American soda
fountain" This latter feature will
be particularly appreciated by our
troops who would otherwise seek al
most in vain for that most delicious
of American concoctions, the ice
cream soda.
The word hut" in connection with
the work of the Army and Navy
Young Mems Christian Association
has come to have a very specific
meaning in the last three years
wherever the troops of the allies
have gone. A hut" outside the
chief centers of population is a more
or less temporary building of wood
or sheet steel, similar to the thou
sands of Army barracks spread all
over Europe. 1t is usually about
thirty or forty feet wide and from
sixty to eighty feet long. At one end
is counter where tea, coffee, cocoa,
and light meals are served and where
small personal needs of the soldier
are .filled-matches, soap, chocolate,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-30

stamps, etc. At the opposite end
there is a platform and a piano
where concerts, lectures and i'm
promptu stunts of all kinds are
held. Between the two ends are bill
lard and game tables writing tables
and tables with magazines and news
papers. There is also in most huts a
"quiet room" for study classes of va
rious kinds, for undisturbed reading,
and for DEVOTIONAL services. In the
city ''huts" there are also large dor
mitories with excellent sleeping ac-
commodation for men on leave from
the front or from their training
camps.
The hut" then, is where the SOL
dier can find the nearest approach to
the normality of civilian life from
which he has been separated. The
word hut" has come to include such
social and recreational centers of the
Young Mems Christian Association
whether carried on in city buildings,
''huts" proper, tents, marques. con-
verted barns or dugouts in the
trenches.
The location of this American "hut"
at Aldwych is particularly favorable
since it Is right in the heart of Lon
don on the Strand, almost halfway
between the city proper and the
beautiful West End and also at the
foot of Kingsway which leads direct
ly to the Holborn and Oxford street
districts. 1t Is conveniently located
to all the entertainment centers, by
underground and omnibus. connec-
ton is easily made with all the
points of interest in London and its
immediate environs. Moreover, it is
just across the river from Waterloo
Station where the men arrive when
they come on leave from the
trenches. At Waterloo American SOL
diers when they arrive on leave will
be met by members of the Young
Mems Christian Association patrol
service and will be directed to Ad-
WyCh