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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
SEPTEMBER FOREIGN TRADE
REACHED NEW LEVEL

For the sixth time during the present
year the value of the imports of mer-
chandise for the current month has
exceeded those for the corresponding
month of any previous year, and for
the fourth time this year the value of
the exports of rich current month has
exceeded those for the corresponding
month of any previous year.
Imports for September were $780,
100000, an increase of nearly $26,00O,-
900 over September, 1917, but a de-
crease of $10,000,000 from August this
year. For the nine months ending
September, 1918, the imports were ST.
322,000,000, an increase of 100000
over the corresponding period of 1917.
Exports for September amounted to
$550,000,000, an increase of nearly
$100,000,O00 over September, 1917, and
$20,000,000 over August, 1918. Eports
for the nine months were $4,561 ,0O0,-
600, a slight decrease as compared
with last year, but an increase of
$61O,OOO,OOO over the corresponding
period of two years ago.
Imports of gold were $4,000 900 dur
ing September and $56,5OO,OOO for the
nine months. Exports of gold were
$2,2SO,OOO and $34,26O,OOO for the two
periods respectively.
Imports of silver were $7,17O,O0O for
September and nearly $55,OOO,OOO for
nine months, while exports of silver
amounted to $1O,SOO,OOO and s165,OOO,-
900, respectively.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
L0D READING INDORSES THE
MOVE

Assurance from Lord Reading, Brit
ish High Commissioner to Washing
ton, that with the aid of American
troops the Allies cannot fail, is con-
tanned in a letter to Sir Arthur X.
Yapp, head of the British Y. M. c. A.,
made public yesterday at the United
War Work Campaign headquarters.
Lord Reading conveys wishes for the
success of the drive by the Y. M. C. A.,
Y. w. C. A., National Catholic War
Council, K. of c., War Camp Com
munity Service, Jewish Welfare
Board, American Library Association
and Salvation Army for $17O,5OO, 900 to
continue the service which has made
our fighters so confident
Lord Readings letter is follows:
I wish you every success in your
visit to America and ! feel sure that
as representative of the Y. NJ. c. A.
you will have very hearty welcome
there. From the day of its foundation
the Y. NJ. C. A. has been an overgrow-
ing power for good. Since the war it
has held out a friendly and helping
hand to many thousands of men in the
war areas and given them rest and
comfort when they were most needed.
During my recent visit to France
saw evidence of its widespread ac-
tivity and the excellence or its organ
ization, and | am only expressing the
common sentiment of every American
and British branches of the Associa-
ton.
81 should be glad if you would tell
your audiences in America that | have
come back from my visit to France
where | had my opportunities of see
ing the American soldiers deeply i'm
pressed by the spirit which inspires
all ranks and convinced that with
their aid we cannot fail to achieve
final victory, and, let us hore, at no
very distant date"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
Something New
Something Good
Big Pound Cans
Pacific Brand
Species of TUNA
LONDON WOMAN
PICTURES ESCAPE
FROM PETROGRAD
Was Here When the Gar Abdicated-
Describes Rasputm as Terrible,
Disgusting Figure.

London-Out of Petrograd, in a
terrible Journey which required twel-
We weeks, Mrs. Lesley Waller, daugh-
ter of Mrs Oscar Beringer, author of
the dramatization of Mrs. Hodgson
Burnett's internationally popular
book Little Lord Fauntleroy," has
Just reached London.
at is difficult for me to talk about
Russia" she said at seems to have
left horrible black smudge across
my brain which cannot wipe out. !
don't mean that l suffered harm dur
ing those days of dreadful uncertainty
but the last two years of my life in
Petrograd were tragic. My baby was
born and died during that awful time,
and remembering things still hurts
great deal. Somebody asked me to-
day to write something about Russia
but simply can't put anything down
Before she married Mr. Waller Miss
May Holford Beringer was a popular
actress and shared with her two
younger sisters several considerable
triumphs on the English stage At
present Guy Beringer, the brother of
these three young women, is shut up
somewhere in Moscow, where he has
been representing Reuters agency.
Mrs. Waller was in Petrograd when
the czar abdicated, when Resputin
was murdered, and during all those
amazing times when government sue
ceeded government, and when rulers,
generals, princes, and statesmen were
exalted and deposed like dolls in a
giants nursery.
On one occasion she came face to
face with Rasputin.
1t was about three years ago, when
although the evil monk was still SUI
preme in the household of the czar
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
DOUBT DISAPPEARS
No One In Maysvllle Who Has q Bad
Back Should Ignore This
Double Proof,

Double Proof.
Does your back ever ache?
Have you suspected your kidneys?
Baokache is sometimes kidney ache
With 1t may come dizzy spells,
Sleepuess nights, tired, dull days,
Distressing urinary disorders.
Doan's Kidney Pills have been en-
dorsed by thousands.
Are recommended here at home.
You have read Maysville proof.
Read now the Maysville sequel.
Renewed testimony; tseted by time.
Mrs. John Burns, West Second
Street, says: II was subject to
severe spells Of backache and other
kidney trouble. They would come on
every three or six months and there
werS times when was confined TO bed
and rendered helpless. The quick and
decided benefit l received from Doan's
Kidney Pills was wonderful. l have
never had such severe attacks since"
Statement given February 10, 1914.)
NO TROUBLE SINCE
On November 15, 1916, Mrs. Burns
said: II have the same good words
OF praise for Doan's Kidney Pills to-
day, as ever. have not needed a kid
ney medicine since took them"
Mrs. Burns is only one Of many
Maysville people who have gratefully
endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. II your
back aches-if your kidneys bother
you, don't simply ask for n kidney
'emedy- ask distinctly for DoANS
KIDNEY PILLS, the same that Mrs.
Burns had-the remedy backed by
home testimony. 60 cents at all
stores. Foster-M ilburn Co., Props,
Buffalo, N. Y. when Your Back is
Lame-Remember the Name"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
lBAC0RE

and czarina, he had lost his hold upon
the aristocratic court. He had become
too vile, too repulsive in his appear
ance and in his habits to meet with
any favor from the ultra-elegant wo-
men who once upon a time had fakn
ed upon him and loaded him down
with favors
Mrs. Waller went with her husband
"as a matter of curiosity" she says,
to a luxurious but disgraceful music
hall which was one of the haunts of
debauched men of the court circles
and of women of the lowest class.
Seated at one of the little marble
tables in the center of the brilliantly
lighted hall she say the decadent and
terrible figure of the monk. He was
man whose appearance alone was
frightening and disgusting.
His eyes were the most amazing and
frightened features conceivable. They
were sunk deen in his heaG, the heavy
brows framing them and intensifying
a strange white rim which seemed to
encircle the pupils. Whether they
were light or dark eyes could not be
seen, but they seemed to glow with
white glare which was positively ter
rifying.
He was dirty and i'll kempt beyond
description, his reddish black beard
struggling over a spotted and frayed
soutane, while his clawlike hands
grasped a goblet of vodka, which he
seemed to be swallowing as an ordi-
nary man would drink a glass of beer
He didn't appear to be talking much.
He was just looking, but he was sur
rounded by women, while every now
and then groups of men would go up
to him and speak to him with a GER
iain amount of Difference that was
oddly out of place under conditions
which were anything but dignifed.
81 will never forget that vision
had of the monk Rosputin," Mrs. Wal
Ter said today. at haunted me for
many nights and days, and sometime2
even now I can see once more in my
dreams the glare of those awful eyes
beneath the black screen of heavy
brows."
Mrs. Waller recalled the wave of
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
BRITISH DEPENDENCE on GER
MAN LENSES is PAST

'London--It is an open secret that
for the first year or two of the wa
the British naval and military author
tiles would have been badly off had it
not been for the German lenses that
they still continued to obtain through
neutral markets. At present rapidly
growing blass industry has been es-
tablished and the old dependence up
on Jena is a thing of the past
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

tremendous excitement which prevail
ed throughout Petrograd when the
news came of the monks murder by
Prince Yussipoff. The people could
be heard surging through the streets,
shouting and yelling, ringing bells
and singing revolutionary songs.
A throb of hone went through the
foreign residents of the city that
things might quiet down now that the
evil monk was gone.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

only a few years residence in this
country. While safeguarding his re-.
liglous rites, the board assists in the
process of welding the Jewish soldier
into the solid American unit and in
bridging over the differences between
him and the others.
The American Library Association is
providing reading matter for every
American soldier, sailor, marine and
prisoner of war. In addition to gath
erlng and forwarding three million
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
WANT FRENCH DOORS

A Pittsfield contractor says he finds
an unprecedented demand for French
doors, which are one of the greatest
coal savers, 1t is almost impossible
to find the doors in stock-they have
to be made by the contractor.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
RAILROAD TIME TABLE


Time table effective Sunday Feb
ruary 10th.
No. II leaves Maysvills 6:sS q. m.
daily exeoeRs Sunday.
No. leaves Maysvills $40 D. m.
except Sunday.
No. 2O9 leaves Maysville 4:1O D. m.
Sunday only.
No. 10 arrives in Maysville s:45 a.
m'' daily except Sunday.
No. 80 arrives in Maysville 2:36 D.
m, Sunday only.
No. 16 arrives in Maysville $3.50 D.
M, daily except Sunday.
H. 8. ELLIS, Agent
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
Two SMALL FARMS
FOR SALE

We have two good farms for sale
belonging to Mr.. Green Mcdonald at
sand Hill Station on the c. g. 0. r. X.
Farm No. contains 12O acres. This
farm has on 1t small house, and Is
all bottom land and very productive.
Price ssS.5e per acre.
Farm No. 2-AdjOlns farm number
one and Is up land, and contains 1876
acres. The improvements consist of a
broom house, tobacco barn and usual
OutbuildingS. Price $4,000 per acre.
Here Is some very cheap land, and
1t is priced SO 1t will sell. In our
Judgment you cant 90 wrong in buy
Ing land that is priced this way.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
chesapeake & Ohio Ry.

Schedule subject to enanas withou, notice
Effective Sunday May 2sth.
East Bound
No. will arrive s:4s a. m
No will arrive 1880 p. m.
No. Is will arrive S!26 p. m.
No. 4 Will arrive s:4s D. m.
No. 16 departs 900 D. m.
West Bound
No. 10 will depart 6:25 a. m.
No. will depart 700 a. m.
No. II will arrive 1890 a. m.
No. will depart $40 p. m.
No. 7 will depart 1850 D. m.
Trains No. 10, II, Is and 10 are
daily, except Sunday.
W. W WIKOFF, Agent.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hall received
a card from their son, Private Charles
d. Hall, stating that the ship on which
he sailed has arrived safely over seas.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
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WARNING TO ALL HUSBANDS
Just Now There Is Danger In Using
Abbreviation Of Somewhat Conn.,
mon Pet Name.

A sergeant of police exhibited a
slight scratch on his face few days
ago which he said was caused by his
wife's patriotism. By way of explana-
tion the sergeant said: II generally
walk into the house and greet my wife
with some pet name, one of my favor
ties being: Hello, honey
yesterday when I reached home
I went in in my customary manner,
met my wife in the kitchen and said:
Hello, hum.
II had no more than spoken" said
the sergeant, "when my wife landed on
me and said that she would give me
to understand that she was not Hun,
so from now on l will be careful to
use some other name or else call her
honey, and will be very careful to use
the entire word and not try to abbre-
viate it."-Indianapolis News.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11

To drive tank, handle the guns, and
sweep over the enemy trenches, takes
strong nerves, good rich blood, good
stomach, liver and kidneys. When the
time comes, the man with red blood in
his veins "is up and at it," He has iron
nerves for hardShips-an interest in his
work grips him. That's the way you
feel when you have taken a blood and
nerve tonic, made up Of Blood root,
Golden Seal, root, Stone root, Cherry
bark, and rolled into a sugar-coated
tablet and sold in sixty-cent Walls by al
most all druggists for past fifty years
as DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry. This tonic, in liquid or tablet form,
is just what you need this spring to
give you vim, vigor and vitality. At the
fag end Of hard winter, no wonder
you feel rundown" blue, out Of sorts.
Try this medical Discovery" of DR..
Pierce's. Don't wait! To-day is the
day to begin! A little 'pep," and you
laugh and live.
The best means to oil the machinery
of the body, put tone into the liver,
kidneys and circulatory system, is to
first practice a good house-cleaning.
1 know of nothing better as laxative
than vegetable pill made up of May
apple, leaves Of aloe and jalap. This
is commonly sold by all druggists as
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, and
should be taken at least once a week to
clear the twenty-five feet Of intestines.
You will thus clean the system-expel
the poisons and keep 1oeH Noa0 is
the time to clean house. Give yourself
a spring house cleaning.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
ALLIES BLOCK FLANDERS DRIVE,
Australians Break Through for 500.
Yard Advance Near Ancre.

London, May 7.-Correspondents in
France state that the British gun fire
in Flanders during the last three days
has completely prevented any enemy
movement on the British lines, while
the French prevented any attack,
which was undoubtedly being pre-
pared, on their front by attacking
first.
Sunday night the irrepressible Aus
tralians gave the Germans west and
southwest of Morlancourt, between the
Ancre and Somme rivers, another
drubbing. and advanced the entente
line to a depth of 500 yards along a
front Of 1000 yards.
This operation was continuation
of one started Saturday night south
west of Morlancourt. That time the
Australians drove in against the en-
emy and smashed them back 700 yards
along a front of 1,500 yards.
The Canadians have appeared in the
Arras sector, further south than they
have been since the battles in this re-
gion began March 21. This part Of the
line is important, as it defends Arras
to the southwest and includes locali-
ties such as Neuville-Vitasse Mercan.
tel and Boisleaux st. Mare, where
there have been bitter struggles since
the Germans launched their great Of
fensive.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
RESTORATION OF BELGIUM AND
AUTONOMY FOR ALSACE
AMONG PROPOSALS.
EAST To REMAIN ASlTIS
INSPIRED PROPOSITION DELlV-
Erred BY FORMER WAR MIN
ISTER OF HOLLAND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, May 6.-Foreign Secretary
Balfour told the House OF Commons
that no peace offers had been made
recently by the enemy. He added:
There is no representative OF neu-
tral nation in this country who has
made tentative or informal sugges-
tions of peace negotiations" Ger
many's peace emissary, according to
the Daily Mail, has been busily work
ing here, but has made no progress In
any direction. There is reason to be-
lieve, it says, that the German agent,
who has been reported to be Dutch
financier, returns to Germany to re-
port that there is nothing doing.
A Central News dispatch from The
Hague says the Dutch intermediary
is reported to be Jonkheer Colyn, for.
mer minister Of war.
The proposals made by Jonkheer
Colyn, the dispatch from The Hague
reports, are said there to have been
as follows:
1-Germany to renounce all claims
in the west.
2-Restoration of Belgium.
-Alsace-Lorraine to be autono.
nous, within the German federation
4-The status in the east to remain
as at present.
5-Austria to make certain conces'
sions to Italy in the Trentino.
6-Balkan questions to be solved by
an international conference.
All colonial questions affecting
Africa and Asia Minor to be settled by
a conference of all the belligerents.
8-Germany to abandon all claims to
her former Chinese protectorate OF
Kiaochau, but in exchange to receive
certain economic concessions in China
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
GEN ERAL.

A call for 1885 additional draft men
was issued by the provost marshal
general.
Secretary Baker estimates cost of
immediate war program will be fiji
teen billion dollars.
Spain has adopted the daylight saw
ing plan. Legal time in that country
was advanced sixty minutes on April
Is to continue until Oct. 6.
A nationwide roundup of draft reg
istrants escaping military service
through unfair classification has been
ordered by Provost Marshal General
Crowder.
That government work should be
planned so contracts may be awarded
Immediately after the war for public
buildings, highways, waterways and
development projects was the warn
ing given by Hornell Hart of the
Helen S. Trounstine foundation of Gin
cinnati in an address before the City
Club of Chicago. Mr.. Hart argues that
demobilization must be arranged for,
as millions of soldiers and munition
workers will be thrown on the labor
market by the declaration of peace.
The government will allow dealers
in raw wool commission of per
cent for ungraded and 31a per cent
for graded wool.
Pope Benedict has served notice on
the world that the vatican will not
be a party to any "peace offensive"
at the present time.
BY the death of her aunt, Mrs.
Katherine Fratt, which occurred at
Billings, Mont, Jan. 1, Miss Margaret
Morrisey, formerly of Jacksonville,
ILL.,, becomes joint heir with brother
of the deceased to an estate valued at
s1OO0.0OO-
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
WESTERN.

Provost Marshal General Crowder
called on Colorado to send $50 draft
registrants of grammar school educa-
tion on May % to Colorado College,
Colorado Springs, for technical train
ing.
Allied Intervention in Russia is
very near" according to Russian,
British, French and Japanese opinion
in Washington.
Thomas E. Campbell, deposed as
governor of Arizona by Supreme Court
mandate last December, announced
his candidacy for the Republican
nomination next fall.
One-third of all the passenger
trains between Chicago and the Pa
cific coast will be eliminated after
June 1, according to word received
from Washington by railway officials.
Under the new draft call for 233, 900
men, Colorado will send 2,079 men to
Camp Cody, N. M; Arizona, 1874 to
Camp Cody; Nebraska, 1878 to Camp
Dodge, Iowa; Kansas, 4,871 to Camp
Funston, Kan; New Mexico, 985 to
Camp Cody; Wyoming, 167 to Camp
Lewis, Wash, and Utah, 8O8 to Camp
Lewis.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
Mrs. Potter Palmer Is Dead.

Sarasota, Fla.-Mrs. Potter Palmer
of Chicago is dead at her winter home
here from pneumonia. Mrs. Palmer,
who was born in Louisville and was
the widow of Potter Palmer of Chi
cago, where she was a social leader,
had been ill for some time The body
will be taken to Chicago for burial.
During the Worlds Columbian expo
sition Mrs. Palmer was president of
the board of women managers and Wis
tied Europe for the purpose of inter.
esting foreign government
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
SPORT.

Princeton defeated Columbia in a
dual track meet at Princeton, N. j.,
6612 to 411a. -
Pennsylvania won the Child's cup
crew race on Carnegie lake at Prince
ton, N. ]. Columbia was second and
Princeton third. Pennsylvania de-
feated Princeton in the freshman race
The University of Colorado baseball
nine defeated the Colorado College
team at Colorado Springs by the score
of to 4. A feature was a homer
made by Holt of Colorado College in
the eighth inning.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
Colorado Goes "Over the Top"


Denver, May 6.-Colorado went
"over the top" many days ago, but the
flood of dollars kept tumbling into the
war Golfers until Saturday, with an
oversubscription of 81 per cent, rep
resented in the $27,766,85O total, the
lid figuratively could not be closed.
The state ran over it's quota of $780,
$4,000 by $7,453,950.
The state outside of Denver did
itself proud, with a subscription Of
$17,644,750, when asked for only $11,-
630,800 And although only 100000
subscribers were needed to comply
with the government request, the
number was increased to 106,398.
From Kansas City came the report
that the district showed an official
total of subscriptions on Saturday aft
ernoon of $170,221,250, which amount
ed to 131 per cent of the districts
quota. Sales by states follow: North.
west Missouri, $27O1O,00O; Kansas,
$40,752,00O; Nebraska, $41,416,OO0;
Oklahoma, $29,679,2O0; wyoming, $5,-
$4,000; part of New Mexico, $1,622,-
900. Three hundred and twenty-four
counties out of $50 in the district
were oversubscribed.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
WASHINGTON.

Unofficial reports at the close of the
third Liberty Loan drive indicated
that the $3,O00,000,OOO allotment had
been oversubscribed at least one bill
lion dollars.
The Senate again formally recorded
itself in favor of increasing the gov
ernment minimum guarantee in the
price fer wheat from 81 to $3.50 a
bushel, despite rejection of the pro-
posal by the House.
About thirty million silver dollars
have been melted into bullion or mutt
lated by the government under the
new silver act, the treasury reported.
Negotiations are under way with the
British government and other allies
for export of the metal to be used in
coinage.