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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-01

complimented guest Of Editor and
Mrs. John l.. Thompson, who motored
her over the city in their beautiful
touring car. Next arriving at the
home of DR.. and Mrs. J. Alvin Jeffer-
son, where the Mary B. Talbert club
had arranged reception in her honor,
the president, Mrs. A. G. Coleman, in
troduced Mrs. Brown, honorary presi-
dent of the state, who presented Mrs.
Talbert to the ladies and in her usual
charming manner delivered message.
Through the courtesy of Mrs. j. b.
Rush from here she was again mo-
tored over the city and then to her
home, where she partook of dainty
repast. From here filling her last en-
gagement at the Corinthian Baptist
church, with showers of compliments
heaped upon the Des Moines citizens
for their royal entertainment, Mrs.
Talbert boarded her train at 9:4O Fri
day evening for Duluth, MINI.
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Sore Nipples.

Any mother who has had experience
with this distressing ailment will be
pleased to know that a cure may be
effected by applying Chamberlain's
Salve as soon as the child is done
nursing. Wipe it off with soft cloth
before allowing the babe to nurse.
Many trained nurses use this salve
with best results. For sale by all
dealers.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-01

Many remarkable cures of stomach
troubles have been effected by Cham
berlain's Tablets. One man who had
spent over two thousand dollars for
medicine and treatment was cured by
few boxes of these tablets. Price,
rs cents. For sale by all dealers.
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ADDRESS TO THE IOWA FEDER-
ALTON OF COLORED WOMEN'S
CLUBS.

At Ottumwa, Iowa, Wednesday Night,
May %, 1917, by Laurence c. Jones,
B. Ph. B. Estate University of Iowa,
L. A. 'O7), Founder and Principal of
The Piney Woods Country Life
School, Braxton, Miss.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-09-07
War Department Gratlfied Over.
Record Of Four Months Re-
cruiting for Service.
.l,750,O00 MENPAssEDUP UPON
Regular Army Officers Urge Necessity
/, Of Early Dispatch Of Large Num-
Der Of Troops to Training
Camps In France.
ny HOWARD 3. CLARK.

Washington.--War department on
cials are expressing their qualification
at the record Of four months recruiting
for the different branches Of the serv-
ice. The enlistment books show that
the volunteer spirit in the United
States Is living thing.
Recruiting figures complied from ofii-
cial sources show that in the last four
months more than 1,750,O00 men have
volunteered for the military and naval
services Of the country. This does not
mean that this number of men have
been accepted for service, but 1t means
that volunteers to the number given
have tried to get into the ranks either
OF the army or the navy.
For every man accepted by the army,
navy, marine corps, the National
Guard. the officers reserve corps and
the various reserves there Is official
sanction for the word that ut least two
men willing and anxious to serve their
country were rejected for physical or
other reasons, for every one man that
succeeded in passing the examinations.
The regular army and the National
Guard, according to the last figures,
have each gained in four months time
about 185,000 men. Everyone Of these
men was a volunteer. The reflections
numbered something over one million.
During the same period Of four months
the navy has taken Ia for hghting pur-
poses about 5000 men. More than
10000 young Americans have applied
for a chance to enter the various off,
GERS training camps throughout the
country. The marine corps Virtually Is
recruited to Its full war strength and
every man of them Is volunteer.
Plays No FavorItes.
The war department officials in
Washington believe that the selective
conscription plan for great army is
the best that can be adopted, because
II plays no favorites. 1t makes every
man of military age, no matter what
his social position or his wealth, take
his chance with every other man. The
officials have tried to keep the voiun-
teer spirit In everything that has gone
to make up the new National army,
and seemingly they have succeeded.
They say that the selected man will be
considered volunteer.
1t is pretty well known that hundreds
of thousands Of young Americans, If
they had not known that selective serv-
Ice was coming, would have volun-
teered for the regulars, the National
Guard, or the navy. The fact that
young men saw a chance to serve In
the new army, the war department off,
cials believe, kept many Of them from
entering the established services. 1t Is
held, however, that nearly 100000
men having shown their willingness
to enter the regulars or the Guard Is
proof enough that the volunteer spirit
Is still vibrant.
Here Is the table Indicating the num-
Der Of men who have volunteered for
the American service In four months |:
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-09-07
CRAVE FOR WHITE BREAD
Americans In Paris Envy United
States Soldiers Home-6aked
War Ration.

Paris.-The decision that real white
bread is to be furnished the United
States troops now encamped In France
has awakened a feeling Of envy and E
craving Of appetite among Americans
living in Paris. For months they lave
been eating the dark. heavy war bread,
and, as the English say. are quite .'fed
up on It."
An American hostess who was giving
a small dinner recently wished to give
her guests a treat. She arose at i've
o'clock in the morning to get to the
one place In central Paris where white
bread IL procurable before the limited
supply was exhausted. She paid 10
cents for q tiny loaf the size Of the
ordinary 0Icent loaf In New York. and
1t occupied the place Of honor on her
table that evening.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-09-07

......1
slsa'el lol.e hlu X liuch h.e1set Il 1870
80 ,,s u,an '''c w,sc lnsn - w .slse
lniil.sristic naelne hAu any thousnt
"va,u ~ co.'u " .he .au1
.ue " n'us 'ne e'vl. au'no,l''es
= ne .anu Wy Nv uepal'lnen's nays
Dven yie,u'ns ~ .ne auv'ce' o.casiop.
ais enpnas'aeu py ne spur pricAs u
.ne solu'er e,slnent' lnere vas uls-
posiuon on Tue part VI civihhns ior
solne line y point gu. costac'es sup.
poseu ~ ~. was = uuicA s.ppot.
~ .ie q anieu ,nes y r.utope. Ai ~.
arny on'cers nnu ~ uo wss % po.nt
- .is .'''upA'sh lu'e "i'en p'o'iues
neans iol uocps " surmount Or % set
isUunu ~ ops'ac'es.
nere Y Y very uistinct understand-
~ ~ "as,nnseon 'iat tne transports
vplein = - = ihir way ~ quick "
uuoa WIN tn's propiem soived tnerei
'e,nains .ne proDlem oi suppnes, put 10
me matter uiso nope mus come M
sreat quanuues. i
anen tnere - tne matter q tne pre-
rni'nary trimming OF tne recruits VINO
= nrsc nu,npers nave Joined tne reg;
aiars anu tne Nationai duard. In ev-'
sly newly ioriheu regular regiment
nere y solnc'nlis more tnah nucleus
- veterans. army men say .nat green
nen can " lnaue into soidiers twice
10 rapluiy wnen tney nave = pattaion
u seasoned men 70 train and % raiiy
apout.
Tne trained regulars VINO, with the
recruits make up tne new regiments'i
are OF course In better shape for im-
aeuiate ngnung tnan are tne Nationai
1uaruslnen' no matter now long tnei
s'ate troopers may nave peen IN tnel
service, put with daiiy driii ana in-s
s.ruc.ion u VIII not oe long Derore tneI
uuarosnen are regulars Inereiore'
lne Training Oh tne auard recruits
vusnt NJ. " 'aAe niucn longer .nan
.nat ol tne rookies VINO nave joined
the regulars !,
WAKE nsp'o rroeFss@
Reports 70 tne war department snow
tnat the troops now In France have
progresseu rapioiy IN the lessons OF tne
scnooi 81 tne new warfare. ~ is pret-
" wen KNOWN IN washington tnat
army oincers now hproao peheve tnatI
one week ~ cainp IN france y worm
month IA camp IN tne unlted states.
ms Iact mas quickeneu tne desire ok
.'ny =. ,,a c,ace's, nnu psess'pne's sh1ss oL
sne s,s'nan au'noI,uss, y lncrease y
.apiu's 40 posSlo,e tne nunper ol
a, noop' Nv" piepans ao' ae'uai con-'
'i...
wihe some persons are SUI trying
10 ueiay oemocracys WORK ana tnereoy
srat'iy 'ne oerinans' there seemingly
y no cnance Una. tney win % ape 70
summarize our transports oerore
,ney leaVe port. lhere ls only sllall
DasA,ns AZ eonsress LOT tne attenpel
wlhen 10 De,ns nuue 70 prevent tne
senuns " Naionni ouarusmen anu
.ne new Nanonal army 20 france. VI
eourse II tiis htteihpt sn0uiu De sue
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-09-07


county is suing his wife, aged go
for divorce, on the grounds Of do.
tsertion.
The total enrolment for thu
summer session OF the State Uni
versity was 965, the largest mum.
Der on record.
Kennett 10 to have Q big swim
ming pool, the work on it pro.
crossing rapidly now. 1t will be
80 by 100 feet, hold 10000 gal
Ions Of water and range in depth
from two to eleven feet.
In the first call for examina-
tion ia Pemisoot county, Of the
800 called 81 OF the men made no
claim for exemption and passed
all right. Pemiscot county's
quota Of the draft is 100.
Fire destroyed every business
building at Diehlstadt, six miles
north Of Charleston, week before
last, the loss aggregating about
$4,000. The origin is not known
as 1t had gained much hsadway
before being discovered.
An Iron county farmer threash-
ed 1000 bushels Of oats this sea-
son raised on twenty five acres OF
land. He said that while that
was not very large yield per
acre some of the land produced
at the rate Of eighty bushels per
acre.
w. F. Lambert, a former we'll
known citizen OF the Bluff, and
candidate for chief OF police q
year ago on the Republican tick
ct, is wanted for ravishing his
step-daughter, a girl II years old,
who, since the crime was COM,
mitted, has been married.
The local board for Dunklin
county, on its first call OF 60S,
passed 1870 who claimed no ex-
emption. Two hundred and eigh-
ty-eight were certified to the dis
trict board for their decision.
The county's quota is 146. The
local board exempted 100 Of the
men called.
Out Of eight persons convicted
Of felonies and given penitentisry
sentences at the recent term OF
circuit court in Mississippi coun.
ty. only one was actually taken
10 the prison and he had violated
q previous parole. Five OF the
others were given paroles and
the other two appegIed their
cases.
The Third federal district (this
district) with headquarters at the
Bluff, had, the first Of the week,
about s, 900 affidavits on appeal
for consideration from young men
who have been passed by the To-
cal boards Of the district. Most
OF the appeals are made by mar
ried men who claim dependents, !
and by men who claim to support
dependents.
The Roth Tobacco Co., at Cape
Girardsau, has been closed owns l
Ing 70 q strike. Recently the
foreman discharged two brother
employees owing 70 alleged insulI-
ing remarks and as q result the I
sntire force walked out. The
two discharged men were argu-
Ing the new scale Of wages put
into effect by the company which
called for . lower scsle. d
A party .of young people, alI
members Of well known families, +
it EIvins and Flat River, who
had been q Weingarten, . road
side resort, for 1 time, weak
ago Thursday night, had started
home IN an auto belonging to one
IL tho party, ran into another
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-09-07
6e&sttstfstsS<s&se4sess3
ROUND DABOUTTHE STATE.
Cleaned from Exchanges--M blythe Shears,
the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Origi-
nal. Some Credited. and Some Stolen,
but Nearly All Interesting Reading.

~NW SSouuiH& ~ tHe oluo uL tnS
road, on the Pennington Fla
River road, and which had beer
halted by the soldier guard a
Flat River, and was overturned
The accident happened about
O'Clock Friday morning. As tn,
car was running without lightI
and very rapidly the sargent o.
the guard ran out and called ou
for 1t to halt, but the driver Of th,
oar put on more speed and in try.
ing to get away hit the other car,
One Of the girls had her neck
broken, the other having hel
skull fractured, and all the party,
two girls and three boys, were in.
jured. They had whisky and
beer in the auto and the girls had
the flimsiest excuses for clothing
on at the time.
Hervil Carter. a young farmer
of near Luna, had gathered to-
gether nice little dairy Of twelve
good cows, and only two weeks
ago purchased . cream separator
and was nicely started in the
dairy business, but his plans
were rudely shattered at one
stroke on Wednesday night Of
last week. During the heavy
thunder storm lightning struck
and killed ten OF the twelve COWS.
The COWS had been lotted in the
barn lot and evidently had been
standing or lying close together.
Ozark County Times.
Otto Herman, ST, shot and SER
iously wounded his son at their
farm hea. De Soto, about ten
days ago, after the son had tried
to kill his sister, the hired help
and the aged Herman, sr. The
boy killed q hog In the lot and
then went to the house, firing
through the window, but the shots
missed. Herman, sr., over 80
ysass old, fred one shot with a
shot gun and quelled the murder
ing disposition Of the son.
The Missouri Cobalt Co., OF
Fredericktown, notified the own
or Of a farm that they would take
over the land under the terms OF
an option they held, the transact
tion to be completed in February
next year. On the day the deal
CLOSES the owner will receive $780,
600, or close to 5000 per acre.
The Cobalt Co. has been drilling
on the land in question for some
time and this makes the first pur-
chase by them in several years.
Dutchtown in Cape county went
dry recently for the first time in
five years when the pros-
scouting attorney forced the single
saloon to close. The former pro-
prietor had sold the business to
another man, who sought to ope-
rate the saloon under the old Ii
,ense. The prosecuting attorney
earned Of the deal and promptly
3quasled IL.
It looks as though Scott county
viii lose its farm agent, H. B.:
Derr, who has been employed by
he county through contract with
he court for several years. The
present court seems disinclined to
'ensw the contract
Three masked men recently
ode IN an auto up 10 the county
all At Greenyille. Wayne county.
opened The jail door with skele-
on keys, released three prison.
'rs and all made their escape.
So many remonstranoes were
He'd against the paving Of the
Itrests of Charleston that the /
,avIng program instituted for
bel city vii Sc kllNUss e.
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ously in every county in each state so
that, at the conclusion of the war,
public opinion in the United States'
shall be overwhelmingly in favo of
the entry of the country into such
league of nations, or, in the words of
President Wilson, concert of free peo-
pies, to enforce the peace of the
world, as the league proposes and as
Mr.. Wilson, in his war message, de-
clared necessary to bring peace and
safety to all nations and make the
world itself at last free"
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LANES 10. GORNfAN.

Railway men in all parts of the
country. especially the west, are
pleased to know of the election of
James E. German to the presidency of
the Rock Island Lines. 1t is evident,
from the action taken by the directors
of this big railroad system, that the
public, too, was taken into considera-
ton in the selection of Mr.. German
his popularity is not confined to the
general offices and the terminals of
the transportation companies.
The Rock Island taps a territory
populated by just such persons as
Jim" German. Covering 5000 miles
of prosperity from the Great Lakes to
the Gulf and on to the Pacific, the
Rock Island is distinctly-proudly so
"a western line operated and man
aged by broad minded western men.
Apparently the selection of railway
presidents, railway officials, is becom-
ing more and more an art of repair
ing the lines of communication be-
tween the shipper and the passenger
and the executive in the private car.
The Rock Island, for manyyears strug-
Cling between the financial demands
of Wall street and the service de-
mands of the people, has made a
happy choice in placing at its head a
man like Mr.. German. AS an oper-
ating executive his duty is first to the
people his road serves-then to the
investments behind his directors. He
can do both-the future will prove.
Mr.. Germans election comes as a
ray of hope to ambitious railway en-
ployes who are not resting comfort
ably under the weather eye of super
ior officers. He began as a clerk with
the G. B. & Q. in 1877. With only a
public school education but with a
whale or an ability for work and
with an equally gifted ambition he
pranced from one desk to another I'M
til his career included responsible po-
sitions on three railroads.
Now comes the Rock Island reor-
ganization, its entrance again into a
growing, advancing, rehabilitating pc
Rod and at it's head marches :. man
true and tried in transportation af-
fairs.
The west-and Kansas-congratu-
lates Mr.. Gorman-and also with a
slap of assurance and confidence it
congratulates the Rock Island. Both
will profit-and prosper Both de-
serve it.
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GLOBE SIGHTS
IFrom the Atchison Globe.I

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
A sports idea of adventure is lust
A religion that is not mysterious is
not religion.
If anybody weighs his hand it is
apt to be the boss.
There are women who really seem
to enjoy poor health.
Turnips don't need to be very high
priced to cost all they are worth.
Friends and credit are best MAIN
tanned by not using them too much.
A mob never picks on anything its
own size
Beware of any business proposition
that looks too good.
You seldom. hear of a colored man
suffering from insomnia.
The general rule is a man needs a
few days rest after his vacation.
If it were not for comparisons most
of us would be satisfied with life.
Some gifted men are not only able
to get out of work, but they keep
out.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned woman who wouldn't eat bak-
ers bread?
The oldest joke in the world is to
Joke a prospective father about the
possibility of twins
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The American disposition, says
Leslie's, is to carry everything too far
In no other country in the world
are there so many foolish fads fool
ishly followed. Anybody can get up
an excitement on any street corner.
The soap box orator is the man of the
hour, everybody listening to him and
too many believing what he says.
We go too far and too fast. Because
other nations in the throes of war and
with their ports blockaded are on
short rations. some of our good friends
are trying to make the American peo-
pie believe that they are facing star
walton. We shall have enough to eat, to
drink and to wear and sufficient to help
feed our allies, too, from harvest of
a great country like our own covering
every zone, and with the millions of
acres being made productive for the
first time. We shall not only have
enough for ourselves, but also suffi-
Gent to help supply the pressing wants
of others.
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1t seems illogical that in Washing
ton women should be arrested and
taken to Jail for knocking on the gov
eminent, while here in Kansas man
occupying a high office is permitted
to give aid and comfort to the enemy
day after day by denouncing the war
and the manner in which it is carried
on. Mr.. Bristow declares there is
graft at Fort Riley. He says in sub
stance that the government is being
robbed. His heart bleeds for the poor
wage earners and downtrodden tax
payers. He seems to forget that he
and his public policy have placed
money burdens on the people of Kan
sas. in comparison with which their
share of the federal taxes will be
small, indeed. But what does Mr..
Bristow propose? Would he stop the
war because contractors on govern
ment works are making too great
profits? Would he call a special pres
idential election so as to put in an
other set of war managers? Perhaps
he would like to superintendent the
erection of the army environments
himself
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Claud Kitchin voted for the reve-
nue. bill in the house with his eyes
shut, as he himself told his colleagues.
He now turns to the revenue bill as
amended by the senate with his mouth
open in loud denunciation of the
measure. If Mr.. Kitchin had only
done his duty by the bill in the first
instance, he would have less cause
for complaint now. But, by sending a
half-baked measure over to the sem
ate, he invited exactly the kind of
treatment which the senate has ad-
ministered
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900 corporation tax seven weeks in
advance of the due date, merely as an
accommodation to the government.
In the request of the railways for ad-
vanced rates the chairman of the
Southern Pacific railway testified that
its charges for the Mexican mobiliza-
ton had only just been paid, after a
delay which had cost the company
$75O.OOO interest. Yet there are those
who think the railways have no right
TO complain or insist on fair treat
ment
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MISSION OF THE RED CROSS.

Wherever wars blasting touch is
felt there human beings are crushed
and torn. Everywhere behind the
other agencies of humanity that can
bring succor to those that are strick-
en-. Soon our young men will be
among the victims, our own sons and
brothers, the sons and brothers of our
fellow countrymen.
To do what human skill and SYM
pathy may do for those that are
bruised and broken is the mission of
the Red Cross. To hold up the hands
of the Red Cross, to multiply its USE
fulness, to enable it to reach all that
have need of it's ministrations is the
privilege and duty of all of US who
sleep quiet and live at ease because
others fight. A hundred million dol
lars we are asked to give this week
so that the work to be done may be
undertaken on a scale in some degree
commensurate with the requirements.
Two hundred millions were little
enough in such a cause.
For what the Red Cross must do
every one of us is responsible What
we must give is not what we can
spare comfortably. Shall we be salts
fled If some of them that bleed for us
are barely kept alive while we enjoy
all that a full life offers? Are we to
pinch not at all while they that give
everything have less tendance than
they must have If their sufferings are
to be no more than need be, if their
chances in life are not all to be taken
from them?
The appeal for the Red Cross, says
the New York Globe, is an appeal that
must come home to each of us, the
appeal of those that for the sake of all
of us have given life and all the joys
of living. If we stood among them
and saw with our own eyes what they
endure. what might be done to allie
viate the anguish and the misery, all
that we have we would gladly bestow
to stanch their wounds, to relieve their
wants. Their need is none the less be-
cause the ocean rolls between US.
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man, but I cannot be so prompt. sup
pose you stay around for week OF
two, and call here every day-but
warn you in advance, that, II we &c.
that half million dollars, half of it
goes in the bank in my name"
Mr. Windham followed Roses sug-
gestion for a fortnight and that IS
the reason that old Yale got none, OF
the half million dollars. 1t was just
as happy a marriage as II they had
been three years deciding it.-(Copy-
right, 1917, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
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When a crisis arise almost always
it seems necessary to enlist the aid of
women. In Russia regiment of girls
has been organized and is being
drilled for service at the front. In all
ages of the world it has devolved upon
women, at times, to point the way of
duty to the men. An occasion of this
sort seems to have been reached in
Muscovy. The entry of women into
the fighting may prove to be the
tn ming point in tho affairs of that
country