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The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-10-04
TO THE DEMOCRATS
OF IINCOI m COUNTY


For some reason, can't for the
life of me imagine, | have been APP
pointed by the State Campaign Com
mittee as chairman Of the democratic
party in Lincoln county in the pres
' ent campaign. II possess any a.
ness for the important position I am
not aware Of il. but ] believe am
n democrat and | have never, nor
will ! ever falter when n call from
democracy comes TO me. NV bust
ness requires great deal Of my time
and hence ! will have to depend on
the gentlemen whom | will select as
my assistants To do most of the work
so when they are informed of their
selection they mny know at once
that they have some duties to per-
form. | do not suppose there is n
rerson in the county who is more de-
sirous of party success at all times
than ] am, and / am more anxious
this time than ever because a demo-
crat worthy the name must succeed
the lamented James. A democrat
must also succeed Congressman Har-
vey Helm and Mr. Helm is the man.
Stanlev and Helm must be the win
ners this fall and Lincoln county ms
usual must. be in the democratic col
umn. A small majority will not suf-
fee, but one of not less than 500
should be the aim. Let every lover
of democracy and good government
try to make il that or moxe. | shall
not insist on any work being done I'M
til after the Liberty Bonds are float
ed, for to me the sale of bonds
should be above everything. So. let's
go over the top with the bonds and
then get down to business and go far
over with Stanley for Senator and
Helm Congressman. Asking the gal
liant democracy of Lincoln county to
aid me in every way possible when |
call upon them and hoping for the
biggest and best majority in years, |
am very truly, f. c. WALTON.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-10-04

SO far as we have been able to
gather, the democratic papers are
standing together for Gov. Stanley.
the nominee for U. S. Senator and
urging his election. both because he
is eminently fitted for the position by
study, ability and experience. and be-
cause they believe with President
Wilson that it is Of the utmost con-
sequence that the administration
should have the support Of its real
friends. 1t is a good omen and SPELLS
victory at the polls in November.
7 here are now no so-called Beckham
and no Stanley democrats, but they
IRE one and indevisible, bent on elect
ing Of the party's nominees and help
ing the President TO win the, war.
There does not seem TO be theShadow
Of a doubt Of the election of Gov.
Stanley, but overconfdence must not
make any democrat cease to do his
full duty. Get busy now and keep
it up until Victory is won.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-10-04

Senator Beckham has killed him
self with the suffragettes by voting
against equal suffrage, but as they,
are not likely TO be able to vote when
he runs for reelection, he probably is
not hurt much. II is mighty hard
for those of us who want TO keep
women out of the slime of politics
to get on TO the new order of things,
even if the party has declared for
female suffrage and the President has
done all in his power to consummate
il by the adoption of the Susan b.
Anthony amendment.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-10-04

will sell public 2 miles Stanford
the Stanford & Danyile pike, beginning at 10 A. NJ,
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got out the rum jar and gave each
a nip and passed around some fags,
the old reliable Woodbines. The other
prisoners looked their gratitude but
the big fellow said in English, "Thank
you, sir, the rum is excellent and ap-
preciate 1t, also your Kindness"
He told me his name was Carl
Schmidt, of the Sixty-sixth Bavarian
Light infantry; that he had lived six
years in New York (knew the city bet
ter than I did, had been to Coney
island and many Of our ball games. He
was regular fan. couldn't make him
believe that Hans Wagner wasn't the
best ball player in the world.
From New York he had gone to Lon
don, where he worked as a waiter in
the Hotel Russell. Just before the war
he went home to Germany to see his
parents, the war came and he was con-
scripted.
He told me he was very sorry to
hear that London was in ruins from
the Zeppelin raids. I could not con-
vince him otherwise, for hadn't he seen
moving pictures in one of the German
cities of st. Pauls cathedral in ruins.
l changed the subject because he
was so stubborn in his belief. 1t was
my intention to try and pump him for
information as to the methods of the
German snipers, who had been caus-
Ing us trouble in the last few days.
broached the subject and he shut
up like a clam After a few minutes
he very innocently said:
German sinners get paid rewards
for killing the English"
l eagerly asked. What are theyT
He answered:
"FOr killing or wounding an English
private, the sniper gets one mark. For
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killing or wOunding an English officer
he gets five marks, but IL he kills Red
Cap or English general, the sniper gets
twenty-one days tied to the wheel Of a
timber as punishment for his careless
ness"
Then he paused, waiting for me to
bite, l suppose.
bit all right and asked him why the
sniper was punished for killing an
English general. With smile he re-
piled:
"Well, you see, If all the English gen.
erals were killed, there would be no
one left to make costly mistakes"
I shut him up he was getting too
fresh for a prisoner. After while he
winked at me and winked back, then
the escort came to take the prisoners
to the rear. / shook hands and wished
him "The best of luck and safe jour-
ney to Blighty."
liked that prisoner, he was fine
fellow, had an Iron Cross, too. l ad-
vised him to keep 1t out of sight, or
some Tommy would be sending 1t home
to his girl in Blighty as q souvenir.
One dark and rainy night while on
guard we were looking over the top
from the fire step Of our frOnt-line
trench, when we heard noise imme-
diately In front of our barbed wire.
The sentry next to me challenged
Halt, who comes there2" and brought
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CHAPTER Xxx.
nchafs with Fritz"

We were swimming in money, from
the receipts of our theatrical venture.
and had forgotten all about the war,
when an order came through that our
brigade would. again take over their
sector of the line.
The day that these orders were IS
sued, our captain assembled the COM
pany and asked for volunteers to go to
the Machine Gun school at st. Omar.
volunteered and was accepted.
Sixteen men from our brigade left
for the course in machine gunnery.
This course lasted two weeks and we
rejoined our unit and were assigned 70
the brigade machine gun company. 1t
almost broke my heart to leave my
company mates.
The gun we used was the Vickers,
Light .3O3 water cooled.
| was still a member of the Suicide
club, having jumped from the frying
pan into the fire. I was assigned to
section 1, gun No. 2, and the first time
''in" took position in the front-line
trench.
During the day our gun would be
dismOunted on the fire step ready for
instant use. We shared dugOut with
the Lewis gunners. At "stand to" we
would mount cur gun on the parapet
and go on watch beside 1t until "StanG
down" in the morning. Then the guE
would be dismounted and again placed
I'm readiness on the fire step.
We did eight days in the front-line
trench without anything unusual hap
pening outside of the ordinary trench
routine. On the night that we were to
''carry out" bombing raid against the
German lines was pulled off. This raid
ing party consisted of sixty company
men, sixteen bombers, and four Lewis
machine guns with their crews.
The raid took the Boches by surprise
and was a complete success, the party
bringing back twenty-one prisoners.
The Germans must have been awful
Iy sore, because they turned loose
barrage of shrapnel, with few min
MES" and "whizz bangs" intermixed.
The shells were dropping into our front
line like hailstones.
To get even, we could have left the
prisoners in the fire trench, in charge
of the men on guard and let them click
Fritz's strafeing but Tommy does not
treat prisoners that way.
Five of them were brought into my
dugout and turned over to me so that
they would be safe from the German
fire.
In the candlelight, they looked very
much shaken. nerves gone and chalky
faces, with the exception of one, a
great big fellow. He looked very much
at ease liked him from the start.
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(TO BE CONTINUED.)
BE Above Gossip.

Gossiping Is about the most useless
kind of work one could possibly en-
gage in. How much better and more
charitable 1t is to turn q deaf ear to
cruel truths, to honorably keep silent
about what we have heard, and at the
same time give the unfortunate person
in the case the benefit Of our doubt.
"Small wits talk much" is an old say.
ing and true one. The girl or woman
who would be truly happy, and who
incidentally would make others happy,
should wisely think twice before she
speaks, and then should put into words
only thoughts that are cheering and
charitable.-New York Evening Mail.
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CHAPTER xIx-Continued.

At one point of the line where the
trenches were very close, stake was
driven into the ground midway be-
tween tie hostile lines At night when
it was his turn, Tommy would crawl
to this stake and attach some London
papers to it, while at the foot he would
place tins of bully beef, fags, sweets,
and other delicacies that he had re-
ceived from Blighty In the ever looked
FOR parcel. Later on Fritz would come
out and get these luxuries.
The next night Tommy would 60 out
to see what Fritz put into his stocking.
The donation generally consisted of
paper from Berlin. telling who was
winning the war, some timed sausages,
cigars. and occasionally little beer,
but funny thing Tommy never re-
turned with the beer unless 1t was in
side of him. His platoon got Whit OF
his breath one night and the offending
Tommy lost his job.
One night a young English sergeant
crawled to the stake and as he tried TO
detach the German paper bomb ex-
ploded and mangled him horribly. Fritz
had set trap and gained another VIC
tim which was only one more black
mark against him in the book of this
war. From that time on diplomatic re-
lations were severed.
Returning to Tommy, l think his
spirit is best shown in the questions he
asks. It is never 'whO is going to win"
but always show long will it take?
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His Duty Done.

The family is rather demonstrative
when the various members of the
household come and go. The grand
children are expected to embrace every
one at the beginning and at the end
of a visit. Fred and Albert were get
ting into their clothing and making
their hasty adieux preparatory to
catching their train home after Christ.
mas. "111urry up, Fred" Albert shout
ed: you're too slow for anything
I've got mine all kissed"
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Crowded Washington

When one stops to think that about
the time America jumped into the war
whirl there were, all told, only about
85 persons in the offices Of the ord
nance department, including everybody
from the boss to the Office boy, and
that before the following Christmas
there were in the same department in
Washington about thirty-five hundred
souls, which promises to be closer to
ten thOusend by the time these lines
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HE died only four years be-
fore this great war and
she was called the Lady
with a Lamp-a lamp
destined to shine for ages
at a time. When Brit
ish soldiers were dying
of neglect in military
hospitals and the British
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ZOaEnIZ ZMgSz7z~U4ZE EEZuA$z4hlu9.& ~o6

to the hospitals there. The Crimea
surgeons objected and reminded her
that she was superintendent Of the
nursing staff in Turkey, and the Cri-
mea was in Russia. But she went
nevertheless.
Stricken by the Camp Fever.
She set to work reforming, as she
had done at Scutari, but she had done
very little when she herself was struck
down with fever.
She was carried to a hut immedi-
ately behind those of the soldiers. In
England the news Of her illness Gre
,ated a sensation as profound as IL
great battle had been lost. She was
very near death, yet she managed to
pull through, but she recovered, with
her beautiful black hair cut off, look
ing like the ghost of her former self.
When she was we'll enough she was
taken back to Scutari, feeble, unable
to feed herself or to speak above q
whisper, but she would not go home.
She worked on until the last British
soldier had left the hospital and the
war was over.
At home by this time she had become
national heroine. Hundreds OF
poems were written about her epamph-
lets describing her life were sold In
the street. Her face was stamped on
pottery, on tradesmen's paper bags,
on showmen's booths, on notepaper in
Aho,,eond hOuooc Tifohnotc oYOf.
grant ships, children, streets, waltzes.
race horses were named after her.
She hated it all, but one thing pleased
her-the founding Of a Nightingale
fund which she was to spend as she
liked.
Started Many Great Reforms.
Her fund grew to over 100000, and
with this money behind her she eStab.
lished training school for nurses and
began many great reforms. She set her.
self to reform entirely the health ar
rangementS of the army, not only In
time of war but in peace; for she was
able to show that horrible as were
the civil hospital records, the death
rate among soldiers in peace time was
twice as high as among civilians.
She turned her attention to the
workhouse system Of hospital nursing
and cleansed it Of it's horrors, and
finally she assailed the entire hospital
system of the country. She became
the Lady of the Lamp indeed; she be-
came the high priestess of light and
air. She founded modern nursing, and
all the great nursing associations and
all the Red Cross societies throughout
the world have spread from her work.
Yet all this time Florence Nightin-
gale was an invalid. She never recOv-
cred from the hardships and OverwOrk
of the Crimea. For over half CEN
tury she was a chronic sufferer. She
lived out of sight Of the public, and
very often out of the sight Of friends;
but cabinet ministers would go to see
her, architects building new hospitals
or barracks or schools consulted her.
From all lands appeals came for her
help, and she denied her aid to none.
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was to get down on her hands and
knees and scrub the floors, and then
cry: "Now. the strongest to the wash
tubs ~ They were needed. Such
washing of bed linen as had been done
had been done in cold water, and as
it came back Florence Nightingale
burned it.
The doctors and officers objected to
her. Books written at the time by
the men who helped to officer the Cri-
mean army show with what scOrn they
met her.
Little by little she got her stores to-
gether until she became the feeder and
clOther of the army at Scutari. She
provided $4,000 men with shirts and
great numbers with other clothing ;
she provided all the things that were
missing from the hospitals. II have
met only two men in the Crimea, and
one Of them was Miss Nightingale" said
traveller.
She worked 20 hours day. She re-
ceived the wounded, she dressed their
wounds until the surgeons could take
them in hand. She washed and
clothed and comfOrted them. She sat
with them, encouraging them before
an operation. She gave them life and
hope. She made them feel that
mercy had come on angel wings into
their bitter lives.
Drunken Orderlies Vanished.
verywhere-wherever the doctors
would allow her to send them. The
rough, drunken, unskilled Orderlies
vanished from the nursing and skilled
and tender hands took their places.
Florence Nightingale herself was the
Lady of the Lamp.
When the long days work was done
she would go to her little stuffy room
to begin her correspondence; then,
, after a time, when the surgeons had
retired and the wards and corridors
were dark, she would take her little
lamp and steal quietly through the
silent rooms among the sick and dy-
ing men. She would kneel by bed
after bed to speak word of comfort
she would give medicine here; food or
drink there.
No wonder the men wOrshiped her.
though at first they were little afraid
and shy. "Never be ashamed Of your
; wounds, my FRIEND" she would say In
her gentle, musical voice. Her gen
tleness made poets Of some of these
rough men.
There was giant Highlander who
wrote home Of her and her work :
''What a comfort it was to see her
even pass! She would speak to one
and nod to another, but she could not
do it to all, you know-we were lying
there by hundreds-but we could kiss
her shadow as it fell, and lay our
heads on the pillow again, content" j"
1t was a beautiful idea, and this
soldiers letter travelled round the
world. Longfellow used it in his poem
on "The Lady Of the Lamp"
She stayed the winter at Scutari
and made a revolution. Whereas the
deaths had averaged AZ in every 100
they were now down to about two in
every 100. So in the spring Of 1855
she went to the Crimea itself to attend
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stagger into print, then one must see
that this, plus a like swelling of forces
in innumerable other governmental de-
partments, early resulted in consid-
erable hatful of new white folks
around tOwn.-Frank Ward O'Malley
in Century Magazine.
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Exposed Throat HeaIthfui.

Several American physicians practic-
ing in Paris have corrobOrated the an
nouncement made by the French
throat specialist, Doctor Manguiliere,
at the academy, that the new winter
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style Of wearing low-cut blouses has
reduced the number of sore throats
among French women by rs per cent
this winter.
Three-fourth of the patients suffer
ing from bronchitis, laryngitis, tonsil-
tits, bronchial pneumonia and similar
complaints are men, say these doc
tors, ia direct cOrrOboration of what
Doctor Manguiliere asserted, accord
ing to a cable letter from Paris. They
agree with him that the new mode
that makes women expose their throats
and necks is directly responsible.
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EMPEY, QUESTIONING A GERMAN PRISONER, FINDS He IS
FROM NEW YORK.

by the sinking of the Lutana with the loss
Arthur American living City,
private British After
himself by wounded
a
I'm No
Back blets Empey
writes and q successful play.
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,Empey and his machine-gun
company 90 lover the top" In a
successful but costly attack on
the German trenches. The story
of this thrilling charge Is told
in the next instaIIment.
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Thirty-three thousand letters are
dealt with by the British ministry OF
pensions every day.
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PRICE $3,175.
PRICE $500.
PRICE, S1,40O.

A Iix-room modern house on Kramer
ST. y. T., one square from 18th St,
and Nd. Ave. The house has cellar.
furnace heat and modern bath. Lighted
by gas We can sell on the easiest
terms imaginable. fS0o cash, balance
SIS q month. There are three OF these
houses that were taken IN exchange and
we expect TO sell them within few
days at this price.
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LEGAL NOTICE
PROPOSALS

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. April 10
1875 Sealed Proposals VIII bs received al this
oficN room 500. District Building. until
o'clock D M. April II. 1878. for leasing wharf
rroIs.rty located on the Potomac river front,
district Of Columbia Forms Of proposals
and n.-c-ssary Information may lie obtained
on applirEtiou to room az. District Building.
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W. 0wIEN GARDINER. Cornmissinuers.
d. C n.Enunh
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Groom house. porch, good lot.
modern conveniences. some out
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lots, Groom house, bath, furnace
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Easy terms.
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good lot. Groom bungalow, water
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Price. $1,000. Easy terms.
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good cellar. all necessary out
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I have about 200 suburban
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terms.
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6i7 i4th st. N. w.
Main 1857.
Call or phone after 4 O'Clock
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Price N.3oo-Brishtvood Park. A specially
built house. Five very large rooms;
Eiassed-in porches: detached: with good
yard. chicken houses. etc. Not . spScu-
lative house. nns bargain at 100.
SHANNON & LUCHS,
Main 1S. III 1tth u.
apii-1
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DRtyRY-on Saturday, April L. ls1s, ate
Iong illness. GEORGE W., beloved hus
oand OF Ida B. Drury.
81 Funeral services from his late residence
bAkER-on Thursday. April II, 1913, at tn,
residence OF her daughter. Mrs. W. B
audSon, 81 Nineteenth street northwest
NARY EMMA TOMBSTONE, beIoveI
wife OF Capt. J. s. A. Baker
Funeral services will be held At thl
above address on Saturday, April u, at /.
D. m. 1-Ia
PHILLIPS-on Friday. April Il, 1918, FIA0
LEX n; AGED 70 years. beloved husband 0;
Burial from W. W. Deal 4 Co.'S fSmerai
pariors, SIS H St N. E, Monday. Aprfl Is
at o'clock p. II. Funeral private. pleas
omit howers.) ~
SPlLLASE-On April II, 1913, at 80 D. m
. at his residence, I155 Fourth street north
east, WILLIAM Z. SPILLANE, beiove<
son OF Margaret ]. Downing.
Funeral Monday, April Is at . o'clocl
- m. from ST. Aloysfus Church, whers
requiem mass Will be said for the rsposs
Of his soul. i-N
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LITERARY NAN e ability investing few
thousand dollars with services can secure
liberal interest IN national magazine. Olive
uhons nunlb0F for interview. AddreGs EDI-
5OR. Postotnes Boz Its6, WashinEton, D. O.