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Britain's Indians.

The Indians in the British army on
lhe western front, notably the Sikhs,
that highly disciplined military force
from British India, have little in COM
mon with the American red men. They
rome from the other side Of the earth;
they are sons Of deeply religious
sect, and for so years or more have
been an important factor in the Brit
!sh dominion Of the far East.
They are tall, well-built, handsome
men, most of them with boards, and
in perfection of drill and military bear
ing they are not excelled by any
troops on the western front.
But while their methods of fighting
are quite dissimiar, the Sikh fighting
force being a well-trained military ma
chine while the American Indian Is
flexible unit, there Is one thing In
which they are very much alike. AS
humorous English writer-Punch and
it's punsters still live-puts 1t:
81 have had an opportunity to study
both the Indians of the East and the
Indians of the West. and while they
are very dissimilar in most things,
when it comes to courage, may be
excused for saying that 1t is Sikhs of
one and half dozen Of the other"
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Must Use No More Than Two Pounds
Per Person Month if the Present
Meagre Allied Sugar Ration
Is Maintained.
Stocks Will Be Short Until Beginning of New
Year-Ration May Be Enlarged Then.

Two pounds Of sugar month-half
a pound a week-that Is the sugar ra-
ton the U. s. Food Administration
has asked every American to observe
until January l, 1919, In order to make
sure there shall be enough for our
Army and Navy. for the Allied armies
and for the civilians Of those nations.
BY New Years the world sugar sit
uation Will be relieved somewhat by
the new crop. Cuban sugar Of this
years crop will be arriving In this
country.
Every available sugar source will be
drawn on by the Food Administration
during the next winter months to main
tain sufficient stocks here to keep up
our national sugar supply. During Oc-
tober the first American beet sugar
will arrive In the markets. BY the
middle Of November some of our Lou
isiana cane crop will be available. All
of this sugar and more may be needed
to keep this nation supplied on q re-
duced ration and to safeguard the AL
lied sugar ration from still further
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29
PershInu Of French Descent,

Some interesting associations may
easily be woven into news item tell
Ing about celebration which recently
took place at Laclede, Mo, The town,
one Of the Oldest in the old South
west of the United States, was named
after Pierre Ligueste Laclade, a native
of Bion, France, founder of st. Louis,
Mo. Years ago man named Pershing,
a descendant Of an emigrant who left
Alsace when 1t was French province,
settled in Laclede. His son, the pres
ent Gen. Joseph Pershing, commander
of the American expeditiOnary forces
in France, was born there. The cele-
bration referred to was, Of course,
in honor of General Pershing, and it
was one of the most enthusiastic ever
held in what used to be an almost
exclusively French section of the
country.
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NO. 25
SET W|TSTO WORK
Woman Proved Herself Heroine
in Emergency.
With Husband Disabled by Broken
Leg She Employed Unique Signal
to Bring Help That Might
Save Him.

The following would be almost un.
believable If the Facts were not the
talk Of the community and If it were
not substantiated by the various par
hcipants. In Penobscot bay, three
miles from Islesboro, is little island
known us Mark island, owned by Pres
ton Player, State street broker of
Boston, and he there maintains big
summer place. The keeper Is Ralph
Collamore of Lincolnville, who in the
winter, with his wife and two children,
makes his home on the island In q lit
tie cottage.
On Wednesday, January 23, he took
the boat and started for Islesboro.
Three hours were taken in making
the trip of three miles by water. He
came back and upon landing and pull
Ing the boat up onto the shore on
Mark island he pulled the boat over
onto him, pinning him down and break
ing his leg. His wife kept looking for
her husbands return and finally, at
tracted by his grOans, found him
pinned under the boat. She is frail
woman but with him hanging onto his
injured limb, she managed to drag him
up to the cottage. There with the aid
of a leather wallet and sticks she set
the leg the best she could. There they
were practically isolated and help was
needed badly.
Mrs. COllamore, full Of pluck and de-
termination to get help, went to the
Player summer home. There she man
aged to set agOing the electric dyna-
mo by which the place Is lighted. She
turned on every light in that big house
and put on also red light. The
lights We're run all day Thursday and
not until 545 Thursday afternoon
was the light noticed at Dark Harbor.
Telephone calls were sent to the naval
station and the tug Zizania started to
Dark HarbOr to see what was the
trouble. Dark Harbor was reached
about $50 Thursday night. There no
one knew what was the trouble at
Mark island. The ZiZania cut her way
through the ice, in some places and
island Captain Sherman and nine
men went ashore. They made their
way to the lighted house and there
found no one. Cropping along in the
darkness they were frightened by the
sudden uprising of flock of turkeys
from Il tree. Then they came upon
the cottage in total darkness with the
door open but no signs of life about.
Going in they found the courageous
little woman asleep, the injured man
half asleep and both children slumber-
ng The tug went back to Dark Har-
Dor and there found doctor who was
brought back to Mark island. The
Zzania remained at Mark island un-
ill four o'clock Friday morning when
the injured man was attended to-
Bangor Commercial.
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Stenouraphers to Go to France.

A unit of 25 expert women stenog-
raphers, who will wear a distinctive
uniform, is now being recruited In
the United States for overseas serv-
ice. This group will be assigned to
the quartermaster's corps OF the
American expeditionary forces and
to the headquarters of the staff OF
General Pershing. Each applicant Tor
service must be an experienced
stenographer She will be required to
own in her own equipment four uni
forms (two for winter and two for
summer service). She must pass
physical examination, and will be en-
gagged for the period of the war. The
salary now stated is $1,000 year
with the additional allowance OF 81
a day for the first month and 81 day
for the remainder of the time.
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SIMPLY COULDN'T FIND SIZES
Elderly Lady Wasted One Whole
Afternoon, and Finally Gave
Up Task In Despair.

"GOsh I wish I was-not Belgian
but a pole; not native of Poland,
but a tall, slim willowy pole, that
could drape herself in the ready-made
dresses which the stores are selling
now, or, rather, offering for sale, for
If every one has my luck, not many
sales are made" said the matronly one
to her street Chr companion,
Il am fair (gray), fat and forty (bust
measure), and the other day l went
downtown to buy a-wash dress, we
used to call them, now you ask for a
tub frock. Well, asked for them and
that was about all. One saleswOman
showed me what she called simple
little gingham (it looked like the ou2s
the nurses weary for $19.75, and anoth-
er which she said was Of better quality
for $25. l was prepared to pay the
price, but ] didn't like the gowns. 1t
was the same way at the other stores
Every thing that was attractive was
only In the smaller Sizes
There was one simply made geor-
gette crepe that l thought might be
becoming to my matronly style, but
when inquired about it, it was a six
teen-year size. DO you have 1t In II
sixty-yearY l asked, but the clerk ig.
nored my query.
II met numerous other women about
my build and age during the afternoon
at different storeS-some of them so
often that we grew quite chummy, but
don't suppose they Jared any better
than did. l finally met one knew
and l said to her: You might as we'll
go home. They don't make 'em for us.
II also looked for q small georgette
hat (they had been advertiseD, and
the clerk said: Yes, we have them, but
you wouldn't want one with fringe on
it, She was right. l wouldn't
II shopped from II o'clock to 5 30
and came home bearing with me the
two articles had been able to find in
my size-a hair net and belt. Really
comfortable costume for hot weather,
but hardly suitable for fat lady sixty
years d,"-Indlanapolis News.
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Enemv Son of British Princess.

Claremont, the fine old mansion and
property at Esher, in England, where
the greatly lamented and once tre-
mendously popular Princess Charlotte.
daughter of George Nv, spent her mar
ried life, has been turned into a girls
school under the pressure Of war. The
duchess of Albany owns it now, whose
son, the duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha,
Is married to a niece Of the German
emperor, and Is in the war against us.
There Is pretty strong feeling In
England against permitting him to In
herit the beautiful property at his
mothers death.
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Soldier Dressmakers.

War-broken soldiers are making
ladies' dresses in London, while for
mer dressmakers are turning out
shells and other munitions in fac
tories. The London costumier has
never been so busy in her life. Many
are five or six weeks deep in work,
their clients being grateful to get II
promise Of dresses at almost any
date. Munitions pay the dressmaker
better than the needle, and they are
all eager to 60 to Woolwich or the
big factories to help make shells. A
suburban dressmaker, who has three
wounded men helping, says it is as
tonishing how well they do the work.
The finest bead work on the market
IS turned out by wounded soldiers.
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reduction. In Europe the present ~
tion is already reduced to minimum.
Our Situation.
The situation which the United
States faces in its efforts to maintaiD
a fair distribution Of sugar to the Al.
lied world Is as follows
Sugar supplies throughout the coun-
try, In homes, stores, factories and
bakeries are at low ebb. We must
make Increased sugar shipments to the
Allies.
Production OF American beet and
Louisiana cane crops have been disap-
pointing.
Porto Rico crops have been cur
tailed.
Immense sugar stocks In Java can
not be reached on account Of the ship
ping shortage; ships are needed for
troop movements and munitions.
Army and Navy sugar requirements
have increased 40 we'll as those from
the Allies.
Most industries using sugar have had
their allotment reduced by one-half;
some will receive no sugar.
Households should make every ef-
fort to preserve the fruit crop without
sugar, or with small amounts of sugar.
Later, when the sugar supply Is larg-
er, the canned fruit may be sweetened
as 1t Is used.
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A Seyen.Time Winner.

The unique record Of having been
torpedoed seven times is held by Will
liam Jessop, seafarer of Hull, Eng
land, who Is seventy-two years of age.
He is still on the active list. young
men," he said, "have sometimes re-
fused to sail with me, as they think
I shall be unlucky." JessOp is the old
est member of the Ships Cook and
Stewards union In Hull, and general
ly sails as cook or steward. During
the first year of the war he was tor
pedoed three times, and the last four
ships on which he sailed We're all lost.
His courage, however, remains undi-
minished. II will sign on to go any
where" he declared.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29
OUR SAVED FOOD
FED The ALLIES
Food Administrator Writes Presi-
dent America Conserved 14l,-
100000 Bushels Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by
s44, 100000 Pounds.

Conservation measures applied by
the American people enabled the Unit
ed States to ship to the Allied peoples
and to our own forces overseas l4l,-
600 600 bushels of wheat and S44 900
600 pounds of meat during the past
year, valued In all at $l,4OOO OOO,oOO.
This was accomplished In the face OF
serious food shortage In this country,
bespeaking the wholeheartedness ana
patriotism with which the American
people have met the food crisis abroad,
Food Administrator Hoover, In let.
ter to President Wilson, explains how
the situation was met. The voluntary
conservation program fostered by the
Food Administration enabled the piling
up of the millions Of bushels Of wheat
during 1917-18 and the shipment Of
meat during 1918.
The total value Of all food ship
ments to Allied destinations amounted
to $1,4OO,000,000, all this food being
bought through or In collaboration
with the Food Administration. These
figures are all based on official reports
and represent food exports for the
harvest year that closed June 30, 1918.
The shipments Of meats and fats
(including meat products, dairy prod
ucts vegetable oils, etc., to Allied des-
tinations were as follows:
Fiscal year 1851. 2, 166, 500, 900 lbs.
Fiscal year 1918. Ia, 3,O11, 100, 900 lbs.
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The Upper Class.

$50 you wish to marry my daugh'
ter?" said the proud parent.
"Yes, sir" replied the young man.
"How much money are you makingY
asked the governor.
"Forty dollars week." was the res
ply.
"Forty dollars week! Why my
daughter can make that in muni-
tions plant and not work overtime"
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DR., Fab R n Ely
HAGERSTOWN, MD.
DlAGN0STICIAN

Specialist in Chronic Diseases
Acute diseases get well Of themselves or
run into chronic form. There is always a
cause and you can not get well until the
cause is removed. Cause and effects the
great law Of nature. You know the effect
find the cause. Send me your name
and address and let me study your case.
Consultation Free
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29
A Good Haul.

"There is one way of raising reve-
que they have overlooked"
"What might that be?"
Putting a war tax on poets IL
cense."
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29

Incidentally, they are used on BEDS
in numbers ranging from one to two
per bed.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29

IL OOp. m. Saturday only to Catoctln.
Note trains arriving and leaving
rhurmont scheduled from Western Mary
land station.
Note-All trains arriving and leaving
Frederick scheduled from Square.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29
Anofher Warn Exploded.

"She says she is only twenty-eight."
"Twenty-eight Great Scott, she
has son who was in the first draft"
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Teachers Orders.
Identical Thoughts.

"DO you and
your wife ever
think the same?'
"When I'm out
late at the club
we do. She keeps
[ hin k in & what
she'll say when I
get home, and so
10 To
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The Horrors Of War.
his war is dreadful |"

This war is dreadful!
"Why, what's the matter nowT'
"0ne can never tell when the laun-
dry is coming home. e."-London Tit
Bits.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29
SO.0OO,OOO bushels

Increase ........ 80,900,0 900 bushels
OF these cereals our shipments of
the prime breadstuffs In the fiscal year
1917-1S to Allied destinations were:
Wheat 131, ,OOOO 900 bushels and of rye
100000 bushels, total of 144,9OO.-
600 bushels.
The exports to Allied destinations
during the fiscal year 1916-17 were:
Wheat 135,1OO,OO0 bushels and rye
100000 bushels, a total Of 1877 100000
bushels. In addition some 100000
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29

A hoarder W a man who is mors In
terested In gStGing his bite than L nv.
Ing his bit
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29

There are cotton bed sheets and lin
en- bed sheets and hotel bed sheets.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29
s44,6OO,OOO lbs.

Increase .......... 644,oOO,OoO IDS.
Our slaughterable animals at the be-
ginning of the last fiscal year were not
appreciably larger than the year be-
fore and particularly in hogs; they
were probably less. The increase In
shipments is due to conservation and
the extra weight Of animals added by
our farmers.
The full effect of these efforts began
to bear their best results in the last
half of the fiscal year, when the ex-
ports to the Allies were 2,133, 100000
pounds, as against 1,266, 500, 900 pounds
in the same period Of the year before.
This compares with an average Of
8O1, 100000 pounds of total exports for
the same half years in the three-year
pre-war period.
In cereals and cereal products re-
duced to terms Of cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations have
been:
Fiscal year 1867. .259, ,90O,0 900 bushels
Fiscal year 1917-1s. .34O, 100000 bushels
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29

In some states the hotel sheets are
required to be nine feet long.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29

In some states they are not, but the
patron of the hotel knows, even If his
sheet is only FIVE and half. feet In
length, 1t will be long enough before
there Is another clean one on the bed.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29
SHEETS

Sheets are what heavy rain Is said
to come down In.
Also they are what drunken man
Is said to have three of In the wind.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29

One would never guess from Its
downcast eye and general decorous air
that 1t had latent devilment In 1t.
But that same sheet, II you get into
bed with 1t on top of you after roast
pork or mince-pie supper, develops the
most Douglasfairbank disposition i'm
aginable.
While you lie quietly beneath II. 1t
will yank itself loose from Its moor
ings at the foot of the bed and roll
itself into a rope and leap violently
from beneath the outer covers to lie
writhing on top Of the spread.
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German Buttons Will Be Easier.

German Buttons Will Be Easier.
'There's one thing about those
heavy German metal helmets"
"What is it?"
"No soldier is likely to try to carry
more than dozen or so of them
home for souvenirs"
Teachers Orders.
"Here, ma" requested the boy hur-
rying in from school. chang my jacket
up behind the stove"
as it wet?"
"No, but teacher sent me home to
tell you to warm my jacket for me-"
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29
FREDERICK RAILROAD
Thurm0nt Division

s .hedule In Effect June l6, 1918.
All trains Daily unless specified
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29
Ihave seen hotel sheets in all states.

A bed sheet folded and lying on the
shelf of a linen closet or In laundry
bag is about as quiet and well be-
haved an article as one could wish to
see
Catoctin clarion., 1918-08-29
Western Maryland Ry.
GOING WEST

Schedule In Effect June l6, 1918.
Subject to change without notice.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
COMMUNITY COUNCILS
IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Big Drive to Reach Every Indi
vidual in State Of Oklahoma.

Oklahoma City, March 25.-The
State Council OF Defense is sending
letters to every county Council OF
Defense in the state, urging the ne
ccssity OF Immediately forming a
community organization lor every
school district. In this way the
realities oi the war, the part every
person must play can be brought
home to every individual in Okla
homa.
Oklahoma was one Of the first
states in the Union to form com
munity councils. The prompt &C.
ton taken by this state resulted ii
Ia personal letter of commentator
from President Wilson to !. NJ. Ay.
dclotte, chairman OF the Oklahoma
State Council OF Defense. Thl,
state has made splendid progress il
Ithis direction, as well as in the Sc
curing Of loyalty pledges. Som'
weeks ago over half a million sucl
pledges had been secured. Th,
present total is probably over 80,
loco. 1t is liklcy that no other stat,
has done better in proportion to it
population than Oklahoma.
To secure lasting results, how
ever permanent organization
reaching everyone in the state ar
] 4 l.,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
Make Your OtU1 Cough
Syrup and Save Money
Drtter than tho ready-nlade kind.
Easily prepared Rt home.

The finest cough syrup that money
IN buy, costing only about onc-tith as
nch as ready made preparations, can
lsily be made up Mt home. The way II
lkos hold and conqucrs distressing
ughs, throat and chest colds will
ally make YOU enthusiastic about H.
ANY druggist can supply you wit.
) ounces OF pincN go cents WORTH
Hr this into a pint bottle and Il
iottie with plain granulated sugl.
rup Shake thoroughly and 1t !
adv for use. The total cost is ahou
) cents and gives you a full pint
.milv supply--of most ciIcctual,
lcasant tasting remedy. 1t keeps per-
Getty.
IT'S truly astonishing how quickly it
acts, penetrating through every air
ias3age Of the throat and lungs loosens
nd raises the phlegm, sOothcs and heals
lie inhamcd or swollen throat mem
frames. and gradually but surely the
lnnoying throat tickle and dreaded
ough will disappear entirely. Nothing
cttcr for bronchitis, spasmodic Group,
yhooping cough or bronchial asthma.
Pincx is special and highly .concen-
rated compound of genuine Norway
inc extract, and il known the world
,ycr for its prompt healing elect On the
throat membranes.
Avoid disappointment by asking your
druggist for - u ounces of PincX" with
ull directions and don't accept any
hing else. A guarantee of absolute at
siaction or money promptly refundc'
.oes with this preparation. The Pine1
o., 1T. Wayne, Ind.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-26
ARTICLE Wy MRS. LOUISE
GULDLIN SIMENSON.

We all know the quotation, Give
me the first seven years OF the child $
life and you may have the rest.
The author of this statement knew
that he could in the first seven
years make an impression which all
subsequent inkuence would be un-
able to eradicate. So scientists
are now asserting that the first three
wears of child's lie are the most
important, that during this time im-
pressions are received and stored in
the subconscious mind which later
determine the trend of character. If
we would stop to consider how
much child learns during the first
six wears of its life, we would find
that it amounts to more than is ac-
quired by a student during a four
years college course.
Froebel saw that even though the
child's school life begins at o he is
really learning during all the pre-
yious years, in a more or less hap
hazard manner, depending on what
his particular surroundings might
be. Therefore, Froebel devoted his
time to the study OF the little child
and the instructive methods OF train
ing used by the mother.
In this connection Elizabeth Har-
rison says "Froebel learned from
the mother everything which he
afterward embodied in his teachings,
but his philosophical insight show
ed him the reason for all the moth
er's instructive play and he in turn
discloses the reason to her. lie OF
fers to each mother the collective
wisdom of many. His penetrating
into child-nature and its needs en-
abled him to select what was typical
and university valuable from mean
ingless sing-sing which the mothers
also used. With the aid of his wife
and some friends he collected many
of the plays in use in his own coun-
try and published them with explain
atory pictures and music i'll book
called Mother Play" (Mottoes anc
Commentaries of Goebeps Mother
Play" translated by Susan +. Blow
published by d. Appleton & Co..
$1.60)
Susan Blow says in her transla
ton of the Mother Play that thu
place of places to use this book il
the home. William T. Harris, for
mer commissioner of education
says in his preface to Miss Blow
translation, There is no philosoph,
for the young woman compared tt
the philosophy of Froebel"; and ?
p. Claxton, commissioner of edu
cation, writes in his article on 9TH
Real Share of the Home in the Edu
cation of Children; Among tn
means Of education in these years o
childhood are also to be counte'
song, and story, and play. Ever
mother should know how and wha
to sing to children, what stories t.
tell and how to tell them; how t
make the most of the child's desir
for play. In this spontaneous ac
tivity of the child Froebel and hi
followers find the most valuabl
means Of education
Froebel saw that the mothers q
bis, day were too busy with othe