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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1917-08-16

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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
COST Of WAR To
DATE 86 BILLIONS
HOUSE LEADER FIGURES U. S.
WILL ExPEND FOURTH AS MUCH
IN ONE YEAR.
Declares That the First Year of the
War for the United States Will
Cost More Than Three Years
for Any Other Ally.

Washington. Producing figures
showing that the first year of the war
for the United States will cost more
than three years for any other ally.
Chairman Fitzgerald of the house APP
preparations committee on Friday
opened debate on a new and much en-
larged urgent deficiencies bill
The revised measure carries appro-
priations and authorizations amounting
to S7,T53, $4,000
1.-THE estimates submitted for the
consideration of the congress aggre-
gated $5615, 455,0O0" said Fitzgerald.
He summed up appropriations, show
Ing that to date congress has appro-
priated 1913, 453,027, with pending
measures calling for $9,164,210, 435,
bringing the years total, estimated. up
to $1S,2SS, 643, 432. In addition, au-
thorizations of expenditures for the
fiscal year amount to S2,363, 057 ,2s2,
making a grand total of $20,651, T00,-
734.33.
Fitzgerald then pointed out the
years revenue source as follows ::
From ordinary sources, 81, 333, 600, 000 F.;
pending revenue bill, $2,40O,O00, 600 /;
postal revenues $334, 100000 bond is
sues (net proceeds), $11 ,53S, $40, AGO,
Total estimate revenue for year, S1j,-
605, 945, AGO.
Further bond issues or additional
taxation, he declared, must be relied
on to produce about $2,S00,0OO,0OO to
meet the deficit
Adding to the French. British. Ital
ian and Russian total of SOL. 94T 400
000 the expenditures for Germany
Bulgaria and Turkey of ST. ,30O,0o0,O0C
and the Austro-Hungarian figures o.
/ $12, S00,OO0O0O, Fitzgerald showed the
war to date has cost the warning ma
lions $4,000, 100000.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
An Illuminating Postcard.

A young girl Of plebeian ancestry
achieved fame as an actress in Lon
don. Feeling the necessity, however,
of a rest from her lahors. she wrote TO
her uncle. a police sergeant of coun-
try village, asking him if she might
come and stay with him to recuperate.
she ended her note: please send Z.
G. to say If l may come
few days later her landlady rushed
upstairs with an awesstricken eOun-
tenance-a policeman wanted her The
Girl descended with an ominous feer-
ing at her heart, says London Tit-Bits.
III you please, miss" said the stolid
being who confronted her, cycling her
with stern dIsapprovaI. I'm the p. c.
what you asked your uncle to send
but | may as well tell you straight
AWAY as Tn a respectable married
man. Your uncle's prepared to take
YOU in if you're willing to make your
self useful-feed fine pig, clean his Of
flee. and the two cells"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Exact Copy Of Wrapper.
Women Drive War Automobiles.

Between $50 and 200 women soon
will be driving military motor cars be-
hind the French front.
Women have tried since the begin
ming of the war to enlist in the auto
mobile service. The Club Feminin
Automobile was the center of this
group. and II had secured the sigma
lures of several hundred of the thou
sand women in Paris who hold licenses
to drive motor cars. The passive re-
sistance of the different war bureaus
held them back until now.
The women are obliged to enlist for
three months and to agree to submit
scrupuIously 10 military rules and dls-
cipline. They will in the beginning
replace motor ambulance drivers in the
foreign sanitary sections who are
transferred to other services. Later
on they may replace men in other au-
tomohile sections.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
PEACE pARLEYs PROPOSED.
Germanic Powers Favor Pope's Peace
Plan. Il Is Reported.

Amsterdam.-The reply Of the cen
trail powers to the peace note Of Pope
Benedict, says n Vienna dispatch 70
the Tijd, begins by declaring that
they regard the papal proposals as a
suitable basis for peace negotiations.
Regarding the exchange Of occupied
territories, arbitration, disarmament
and similar proposals declarations are
made, the dispatch adds, which testify
to the idealism Of the central powers
and their sincere desire for peace
which viii insure happiness to all ma
tons
Concihatory declarations also are
made respecting the settlement Of the
Balkan question, Poland and the res
toration Of Belgium, but emphasis is
laid on the condition that the allied
powers must also give serious evil
dence of desire for peace by Joint
and benevolent discussion of the ques-
tons which now separate the nations.
The reply, it is said, will be pub
iished as soon as the consent of the
papaI nuncio at Vienna is obtained.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
LIFT YOUR c0RNS
OFF WITH FINGERS
How to loosen a tender corn
or callus so 1t lifts out
without pain.

Let folks step on your feet hereafter (;
wear shoes a size smaller If you like,
for corns will never again send electric
sparks of pain through you, according
to this Cincinnati authority.
He says that a few drops of a drug
called freezone. applied directly upon
a tender, aching corn, instantly re-
lieves soreness, and soon the entire
corn, root and all, lifts right out.
This drug dries at once and simply
shrivels up the corn or callus without
even irritating the surrounding skin.
A small bottle Of freezone obtained
at any drug store will cost very little
but viii positively remove every hard
or soft corn or callus from ones feet,
IF your druggist hasn't stocked this
new drug vet. tell him to get a small
bottle of freezone for you from his
wholesale drug house.-adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
cADoRNA CAPTURES GABRIELLE
Three Weeks of Bitter Fighting Re-
suits in Victory for Italians.

suits in Victory for italians.
Washington.-Th crest of Monte
San Gabrielle, commanding the plain
of Gorilla to the south and southeast
and the Frigido valley to the east, has
been captured by the Italians after
three weeks of most bitter fighting
the Italian embassy announces.
The Italian effort TO capture San
Gabrielle began after the taking of
Monte Santo, directly north, by Cen
eral Cadornas troops August %. Sew
eral times the Italians had reached
the summit of the great mountain, so
important to their further progress
east of Gorilla, as well as on the Car
so, only to be taken back again.
Except along the Classmates plateau
on the Ainse front, there has been no
marked activity on the other fighting
fronts. A German attack against the
French positions on the Classmates
plateau. Paris reports, was repulsed
with heavy losses. Berlin says Ger
man troops penetrated 70 the second
French line and inflicted severe caSil-
alties. The British reports has in
creased to drum fire.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Sheep Most Useful Animal.

Since shepherds watched their flock
by night on the plains of Palestine
and for thousands of years anterior
to the march of the Magii after the
course of the Star of the East which
led them to the manger at Bethlehem,
the sheep has been held one of most
sacred and beautiful and useful of all
animals in the economies of mankind.
No other yields so bountifully of both
clothing and food, the clothing so win
some and the food so toothsome.-Ex-
change.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
cuttinn Down Gossip.

"How do YOU suppose some people
spent their spare time before motion
pictures were invented?"
81 don't like TO appear unkind 70
those persons. but before they started
to spending practically all Of their
leisure moments in photoplay houses
they knew Il great deal more about
their neighbors' private affairs than
they do now"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
CLEAR YOUR COMPLEXION
While You Sleep With cuticura Soap
and ointment-Trial Free.

On retiring, gently smear the face
with Cuticura Ointment, wash off in
five minutes with Cuticura Soap and
hot water and continue bathing few
minutes with the Soap. The influence
of this treatment on the pores extends
through the night.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Soldiers and Officers.

The lieutenant was testing the squad
in visional power.
Tell, me, No. 1, he said. how many
men are in the trench digging party
over there?"
"Thirty men and one officer" was
the reply.
quite right But how do You know
one was an officer at this distance"
"Cos he's the only one not working !"
Scottish American.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
On Writing Letters.

'I was told by Capt. Harry Light the
other day" writes Canadian major,
chat there is new style in trench
letters. The censor's duties have
heen reduced by many per cent. The
soldier now has the sense Of the stu
ation engrained in his thinking. He
sees through the need Of keeping quiet
even on matters that call for some
criticism. There is more humor and
natter-of-factness about his letters.
one of my men. who can't write very
we'll was telling me the other day that
one letter week is all that he can
summon up his courage to write, and
he gave this as a reason: The people
Mt home don't, can't understand life
here. We have got to go through 1t.
WHY tease them with unsatisfactory
have enough to put up with in paci-
fists and political grumblers. And /
think he is right. Don't your"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
For unruIy Window Shades.

When roller window shade refuses
suddenly to remain unrolled ut a GER
tain point, handy kink is TO insert a
small wooden wedge such as match
or toothpick. between the unrolled eur
tain and the roller. This is only an
emergency device, and may injure the
fabric if repeated often ~ the same
point.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
rronn Train Fired Union.

Steubenville, Ohio.-A troop train on
the Pennsylvania railroad was fired
upon Friday night near AIingo June
ton, Ohio, according to reports re-
ceived here. -Four soldiers are said TO
have been wounded, one seriously.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Fifty.EfftY.

Bernard was present NJ n dinner par
ty, in which some of the guests brought
their children. one little girl wanted
to play with Bernard's toys, but he
was selfish and wouldn't let her.
Now, Bernard said mother you
must be little gentleman"
Yes said he, hut she must be a
lady"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
A Poor Counter

he an expert accountant"
don't believe it. l played golf
WIN MN the other day and the score
ne handed in convinced me that he
never studied arithmetic"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Enoineer Killed in Wreck.

Butte, Engineer Carter of a
Great Northern passenger train was
killed and the fireman probably fatal
~ wounded when the train was
wrecked near Basin, thirty miles
north of Butte.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Goo sick
60 Dork
Many Women in this Condition Re
gain Health by Taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Convincing Proof of This Fact.

Ridgway, Penn. II suffered from female
trouble with backache and pain in my side for
seven months so could not do any of my work.
was treated by three different doctors and was
getting discouraged when my sister-in-law told me
how Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound had
helped her. decided to try it, and it restored my
health, so / now do all of my homework which is
not light as have a little boy three years old"
- Mrs. o. M. RHINEs, Ridgway, Penn.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. I'M
Mrs. Lindsey Now Keeps House For Seven.

Tenne Ga to tell how much Ihave been benefited
Lydia Pkhams Vegetable Compound About eight years agoI
got health unable house for three in
the family had dull tired dizzy feelings cold feet and hands nearly
could scarcely sleep at all The doctor said had
of liberation and without operation would always
invalid but told him wanted to wait awhile Our druggist
husband get Lydia Pnkhams Vegetable Compound
entirely cured Now keep house for and work
in the garden am thankful got this medicine feel
as though life recommended to others and
they been benehed"M w E. LINDSEY r. Tennle, Ga
special advice write to Lydia f. Pnkham Medi-
(cOnfdentiaD Your letter win be opened
a and held in strict confidence
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Between Us Girls.

Miss Sharpe-Some men can be iea.
but others must be driven.
Young Sharper-Oh. yes But while
you can drive man TO drink you
can't always lead him to the altar
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Would Give Him the Lie.

Rounder-This gas bill is only 20
cents.
Clerk-Wel. sir?
Rounder-Better make it S4.20. My
wife keeps the bills and I've been writ
ing her thar during her absence Fve
spent all my evenings at home.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Snow Falls in Helena.

Helena, Mont Snow fell in Helena
September IA. Preceding it was a
general rain throughout the state,
breaking a drouth prevailing since
June Z.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Love In n cottao.

he-Their engagement is broken on,
| understand.
She--Oh, yes.
What was the reason?
J. one-Why, both were satisfied that
they could live on love in a cottage,
put "hen they got to details they dis
covered that each of them contem-
piated supplying nothing but the love.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Many Die in Typhoon.

washington.-A. typhoon at Annoy,
China, severely damaged the American
consulate and killed many natives,
the state department has been adj
viSed.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Chronic Indigestion.

you can't eat your cake and have
It"
er than suits me-" grOwled the dySpep-
tic"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21
Force of Practice.

''That singer knows how 10 manage
her range"
"She ought to know. She used TO he
g cook"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21

A woman would rather people
thought she was tailor made than SELF
made.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21

There is no place like home-when
a man is broke.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21

without warming I was dragged to
the brink of the grave by malignant
kidney trouble" says Robert Wen
gate, ia Cypress Ave, Bronx, n. u.
my kidneys seemed to stop acting and
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21

After a woman reaches a certain age
she never mentions II.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-21

e cook
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-07

The outlook for the new season, from the standpoint of quantity, is not hopeful. The official forecast is for an American crop about the size of last years, which was some two or more million bales below consump- tion.
 This accounts for the present high prices of cotton. At July quotations the South will receive nearly $2,O00,- 100000 for this years output, though reduced, or about twice as much as for any previous crop, barring that of 1916.
 The reduced crop of 1917 is due largely to a substantial cut in acre. age. Several factors entered into causing this reduction in the face of high prices. One large factor is labor shortage. Another is the fact that the crisis of 1914 taught the farmers that the only safe course is to produce needed food stuffs at home. A third was the wide and emphatic campaign of propaganda for diversified farm ing begun long ago but reaching it climax only recently.
 In his memorable call to sacrifice and service issued in April, President Wilson appealed specially to South ern farmers to grow more foodstuffs
 "They can show their patriotism in Inc better or more convincing way
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-07

lands and is native of most. It can yet be grown, on varying scale of suc- cess, almost anywhere in the temper ate or tropical zones. In this country, cotton has been cultivated as far north as Illinois and Indiana. The rarest variety is peculiar to Peru, where ex- humed mummies wrapped in it prove it has been grown and used since the beginning of known time on the him isphere. Though the Peruvian crop isn't large, the quality of the product fitting it for use instead of wool. causes it to be in great demand. We import much of it.
 South Has Monoply.
 Conditions, natural and. economic have given the Southern : states so1 America a practical monopoly of the production of raw cotton since the cot ton gin and the spinning frame put the product into general commerce There is much. romantic legend as- sociated with the introduction of cot: ton in the South; of cotton in the South: but it is probable that some species grew there before Capt. Johr Smith set foot on the continent ane Jamestown. In truth, the Sea Islane varieties which constitute cotton. aristocacry are. believed to be indigo nous to the South. This cotton ha,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-07

been selling around 50 cents a pound.
 Cotton and the South have been largely synonymous terms for nearly a hundred and fifty years. The plant
 made slavery profitable and, very likely, it was because of the fear that free labor would force the South to give up it's monopoly, that the Amer ican civil war became inevitable.
 E Around the cotton plant, the old Southern civilization developed; about
 it has grown the New South, though modern development along varied lines has rendered the South leargely in dependent. of it. It is still the busi- ness barometer of the section, and is the most potential single factor, not only in purely Southern affairs, but in the foreign commerce of the na-
 tion. Era
 E We might never have engaged in
 world trade on ane extensive scale but for, cotton. It has constituted our lchief export, and for decades was our only large export. For long time it alone preserved our favorable trade
 balance. Prior to the present war, this balance amounted to from three to
 five hundred million. dollars, being the
 value usually of otr raw cotton ex-
 ports. Cotton paid our debt to Eur. Eope; and practically was our medium
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-07

of exchange with the world. During the ten years preceding the war, we carried on foreign trade totalling $2O, ,000, ,000,0 ,000, on gold margins of a few millions, all because cotton bal anced the books.
 The war introduced a new era for cotton, as it did for. most things. The crop of 1914 exceeded the demand by nearly 5,000,000 bales. But for that surplus, the world now would be in the grip. of cotton famine. Fro three years production has been below con- sumption.
 "The worlds production of conner cial cotton, exclusive of linters, grown in 1915," says the United States census bureau, "was approximately 18,65O,- 900 bales .. :. while the consumption Exclusively of linters in the United States) for the year ending July 31 1916, was approximately 21,M1 ,00o bales.
 Production for the last season show. ed little increase, though consumption continued to grow. The result is that the margin between supply and de- mand is still narrowing, and is now at the beginning of the new cottor statisticla year, scarcely more thar sufficient for the, normal opeartior lof the trade. ,~ s4l
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-07
onored When War Began Souh Wonderful Plant May Hold
 lis BoIls Victory the Battlefield and key 10 world Trade t0u'S BusIneSS

said the president, "than bv xo..,.
 the temptation of the present srts'1S';ng S;agg price of cotton and helping, helninnal nlgh N great scale, to feed the natipn tp,ie on the people everywhere who ara s4 e. ana ing for their liberties and for "snt- a own" N Aor our Though cotton was quoted tbon more than 20 cents a pound l.el 0a. at planting was cut million and sOsson acres as compared with last yesr n asl1 asi 2,50O,OOO as compared with 41,a tha high acreage record of 1913. 'le Corn Acreage Largest.
 According to the departn,en. :.
 agriculture, the South has incressooii as oi
 corn acreage over 13 per cent tbeaiso tbs ;s
 crease for the country being 1Io s' Ill nl. cent. Southern tsates now have m naaps psl
 a third more acreage in corn thoa eat :; y cotton! The South produced rra mora ,, foodstuffs in 1915 and 1916 than Iauss avas before; yet the increase of this , over ove.
 last year promises to be move tSs y,st 25 per cent. '4'l
 Yield of cotton per acre will nroh, bly, be small because of the reduoad uoa, quality of fertilizer, dut to the sI notssS
 famine, and unfavorable climatic ,eaa con
 ditions during the early summer WIT
 This years yield will be one or mora
 million bales below probable demand
 which means that the operation of
 economic law should guarantee cou n.
 tinued high prices for cotton. WI
 Although 25-cent cotton is soma.
 thing few men now living ever v ev.
 pected to see, it is not out of nronor.
 tion to quotations for other basic sta.
 pies like steel and wheat. Indeed
 it is under most of them. It has more lore
 than ratio value to the South. how.
 ever. because the section will have to
 buy less food. Y ,. The high price contains an element
 of poetic justice, too, because cottor
 was the last among the big agricultu,
 al products to rise to levels to wh;cS
 was imitation quickly sent others. Fur.
 thermore, Fate in the past decreed th,t
 about one out of every three crops of
 cotton, perhaps one out of two, be sold at less than cost of production. because of supply exceeding demand. I Lowered production and enhanced demand have combined to place Am erican cotton in position of unusual , commercial importance, and of i'm Z mense potential value to the South. Demands to Grow.
 Demand promises to grow. Only re ! gently our government placed an or. ], der for 40,000,000 yards of cloth. Am; 1 munition needs increase as the wa, ,, progresses. The proposed aeroplane army will open up a large new de. , mand. Much cotton is now used in the padded suits of aviators and may have to employed for "wings" too. : There is no likelihood that actual needs or those that can't be otherwise met
 won't be taken care of. The burden :. to date is more on the manufacturer