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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
PAGE GHOST OF MUNcHAUsEN
Prince Of Story TeIIers Would Be In.
terested In This Wonderful Tale
Of Adventure.

One Of the big ocean liners was sew.
eral days out from New York on a
trip across the Atlantic. It was din.
/ ner time, apd those at the table fell to
telling stories about their experiences
at sea- Finally 1t was the turn OF a
person WIG had previously been boast.
Ing Of his lineage. He told this "yarn''
says the Youths Companion.
at happened a number Of years
ago." said he, ION my fifteenth trip
across the ocean, when we ran short
Of some provisions, particularly eggs,
milk, fruit and fresh meat. We were
very fortunate to have on board n
resourceful fellow named Brand, who
pulled us out of the difficulty in good
shape. First he went to the hatch
way for eggs, but, as they were a lit
tie too old to eat, they were used for
cooking, and he requested the captain
to have the ship lay to. This opera.
ton was repeated until we had eggs
enough to go round.
"Then, at Brands suggestion, the
captain fired ships rocket into the
Milky Way, and ell we had to do was
TO hold buckets and catch the milk as
II poured out Of the hole made by the
rocket. For fruit supply we let
down buckets over the side of the ship
and picked up enough ocean currants
% last for week. The next day we
had foul weather. which provided us
with plenty of ducks and chickens.
Some of these we ate and others we
kept to replenish our egg supply"
81 was on that very trip" spoke up
a wag at the end Of the table. ut was
the steamer Baltic, in october, 1908,
New York to Liverpool. We also had
on board fair-Sized goose, which was
overlooked in some way. I'm sure they
never ate the bird, but I've wondered,
all these years until today whatever
became Of it,"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
VALUABLE ARTICLE OF FOOD
Banana Really Is Net Appreciated
Anything Like as Much as 1t
Ought to Be.

The banana is one of the most use
full of all foods. When the population
Of the earth becomes Overcrowded, we
chall have TO eat more bananas and
less bread. An acre in wheat will
yield 900 pounds Of food. An acre in
bananas will yield 10000 pounds.
The banana resembles in compost
ton the sweet potato. Both contain
IA per cent of protein and 20 per
cent carbohydrates. The banana con-
tains more starch than fruits Of the
! temperate cline. As II ripenS, the
starch gradually turns to sugar.
The late Edgar Wallace Conable
said that the banana is the only food
which may safely he eaten when 1t
has been picked green. This he eX-
planned. Is because the green bananas
draw nourishment out of the great GEN.
trail stem. which gradually shrinks and
withers. A banana should never be
eaten until the skin is beginning to
turn black. Some claim that they
should be entirely black. However, it
Is not necessary 10 go so far as that.
AS they turn black the starch turns to
sugar. Scrape the white material from
beneath the skin before you eat the
fruit.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
Clever Fox Sparrow.

The fox sparrow prides himself,
doubtless, because he is bigger than
most of his American brothers. He is
only bit of Bird, at that, but song
sparrow, white-throat, grass finch and
u dozen or so of the others doubtless
look on their fOx-coated relatives adj
ditional inch as an ell, with something
thrown in for good measure. The
junco, the little slate-cOlored snowbird,
sparrow after his kind also, fire.
Quently accompanies the fox sparrow
on his travels. There is a suspicion
which is hard to lose that the fox spar.
row jaunts along with the junco solely
to make his own song secure among
the acknowledged melodies, for the
junco. while an insistent performer,
pipes an attenUated tune. 80 .
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
SAYS SHE CAN NOT LIVE
WITH SEDITIOUS HUSBAND.

San Francisco.-"No American
flag shall fly over my house," said
Henry Kruze, native of Germany,
according to divorce complaint filed
by his wife. Mrs. Kruze says she
can no longer brook the seditious
utterances of her husband and as
serts that it is impossible for her, a
loyal American, to live with him.
Some of the remarks attributed to
Kruze are: The Red Cross is a
graft" "A person who buys Liber-
ty bonds is a damned fool" 81
am glad the American armies are
being gassed-that's what they were
sent to France for"
The complaint is lengthy docu-
ment, containing careful narrative
of Kruze's alleged insults.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
NEED THOUSANDS OF WON.
EN FOR WAR WORK,

Washington.-More and more, as
the war program progresses, is the
government depending upon women
to perform the tremendously in
creased volume of work in the civil
branches. The force of civilian en-
ployes in Washington increased from
10000 to approximately 10000 dur
ing the first year of our participation
in the war. OF this increase of 49,
600, more than $4,000 are women.
Women make up the increase in
government offices and establish
ments outside of Washington in less
proportion, for the reason that the
greatest expansion in the field has
been in the large manufacturing
plants of the war navy departments,
where thousands of mechanics and
laborers are employed in shipbuild-
ing and in manufacturing ordnance
and other war material. Women
are not available for employment in
trades positions to any great extent,
but their services are being utilized
in every way that is practicable.
The United States civil service
commission is calling for women for
government work of not less than 60
different kinds. The list includes
stenographers, typists, bookkeepers,
other clerks of a score or more Of
classifcations which require training
in some special or technical line,
statisticians, operators of various
kinds of calculating, addressing and
duplicating machines; proof readers,
law clerks, welfare executive secre-
taries, draftmen of a dozen kinds,
telegraph and telephone operators,
trained nurses, chemists, physicists.
library assistants, inspectors of I'M
dergarmeDts, inger-print classifiers
and many others.
The commission urges women TO
offer their services to the govern
ment at this time OF great need. As
men are called to the colors, women
must take their places and keep the
machinery behind the armed forces
moving at the maximum of efficiency.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
BETTER BLIND THAN DEAF"
Scientific Writer Points Out Why the
Former Afflietion Is Less Hard
to Bear.

Scientists have shown that sound not
only informs the intellect, as does
sight, but that, much In excess Of that
sense, 1t excites feelings-that is,
sound pure and simple has specific
relation to feelings widely different
from that 81 Sight. 'y.ggsy'. fT,ys'fas
Its primary effect was the creating
of moods, Margaret Baldwin writes in
the Atlantic magazine. This being so,
the simple fact is that sound has far
more to do fundamentally with origin
ating our emotions, or how we feel from
day to day, than has what we see.
1t should be said in passing, that
there is very little recognition Of this
fact by the person with normal hear
ing. Sight and sound are so inter-
woven for him that he does not dis
criminate as to what belongs intrinsi-
cally to each in the province of feel
ings. 1t is only when the two are
clearly separated, as in deafness or
blindness, that experience takes note
of what belongs to the one and the
other.
A scientific writer points OUT that we
can see with Indifference the writh-
ings of a suffering animal that is still,
but that, if there are cries of pain, it
produces emotions Mt once. We are
distressed. In reports of terrible ma
rine disasters, it is almost never said
by people that they can never forget
the sights they saw, but always that
they can never forget the cries of the
drowning.
Although one would hardly hesitate
to say that the excess of the blind
mans calamity over that of the deaf
man is sufficient to overbalance this
elemental function of sound to pro-
Clucc moods, yet the universal! fact re-
mains that the blind are more cheerful
than the deaf.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
SOLDIER AND SAIL
OR INSURANCE

In all of our war measures ana ac-
tivities there is nothing wiser and
better and fraught with more good
10 our fighting men and the Nation
than our soldier and sailor insurance.
That the members of the military
and naval forces Of the United States
for whose benefit the insurance was
established, are availing themselves
Of il is something that all good
Americans will rejoice at,
More than 100000 members of
Americas fighting forces are now in
sured by the Government for more
than sixteen and half billion dol
lars by the United States Govern
ment Up TO the close of business
Monday night, May -, 2.029. $50
insurance applications. aggtegating
SIG 1908, 5l4, 900, had been received
by the Military and Naval Division OF
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.
The average amount of insurance APP
piled for is $500. the maximum
permitted by law being $4,000
approximately 1900 applications
for Government insurance are being
received daily. In the last two
weeks $1,OOO,OOO,O00 OF insurance
was written on the lives OF soldiers
and sailors. This indicates that the
new men Joining the co'ors are TAX
ing out Government insurance
Men are being urged 10 insure inn
.mediately upon enlistment. mas
much as application must be made
within 100 days after joining the
service.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
How Rome Encouraged Birth Rate,

To encourage the birth rate the Ro-
mans made use of the age-long fight
OF women with property for the power
70 control it. This power that ii took
the women of England and America
living under the English common law
1900 years longer TO achieve was
granted by Numa Pompilius, in IT'S b.
O., to women who We're mothers of
three children, who were privileged to
have Stree administration of their own
affairs without guardian or tutor" To
the women who had inherited large
fortunes this must have been an ex-
ceedingly effective inducement to the
rearing of large Gmilies, and an ex-
cellent counteraction TO the various In.
fuences in Roman life which would
tend to keep the birth rate down. This
Is probably one of the few isolated ex-
amples where militaristic ideals work,
ed for the benefit of women.
- ssrY, O.. ~ e Ky -; vs. x A a., -"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
ARM rs BIG rs ENGLAND'S.

Chicago Senator James Hamil-
ton Lewis said, in a speech here to-
day, that the United States now has
1000, 900 soldiers in foreign lands,
and that by Decambc' l { will be
numerically equal to that Of Eng
land.
He said that 1O0,O1O,G9G pcnncs
of explosives are in process of manu-.
iacture. Tic Ordnance dcpartme mt
has spent, he said, SIG, 900, 600 for
prOjeCtile3 ard T5,000.000 projecti-
les are on their way to Pershing.
One thousand rifles are being
manufactured daily and $500, 900
rounds of small arm ammunition
has been contracted for. Last
month, he said. we produced 49,
100000 rounds. He placed the ma
chine guns contracted for at $780,
600 and added mat 100. 800 have
been delivered. BY July /, he add
ed, we shall be producing $4,000 a
month.
The American navy, the speaker
added, has climed from fourth to
second position among the worlds
fleets We have $50 warships in
European waters and fifty others of
war character. There are 4O0,-
600 men in the navy and by October
! there will be half million, he ex-
planned.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
ON TO BERLIN
CRY AMERICANS.

American troops charged to the
capture OF Catigny yelling: Now
we're in Germany! Let's wallop hell
nut of'em and go on to Berlin!"
Back at headquarters when the
boys went over, officers waited an
xiOusly for news of the attack
After 40 minutes of fierce fighting a
voice came over the telephone
Hello! This is Catigny!"
And headquarters knew that
Americans had taken one of the
most important towns on the Amiens
front. and had won their biggest
victory of the war to date.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
Patch Up TeIephon. Poles.

The ever-increasing cost of lumber
has led to the use of many devices TO
save wood. One of the most ingenious
is the method TO save telephone poles,
which rot at the base just above and
below the surface of the ground. The
upper portion remains sound for n
longer time than the base. A short
pole, creOsOted so as TO withstand de-
cay, Is placed in the ground beside the
old pole and firmly fastened TO II. This
adds several years t. the length Of
time the pole will serve. The arrange
ment also serves as a protection to
pedestrians; for since the part buried
rots long before the upper part, the
fall might occur most unexpectedly
Popular Science Monthly.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
100000 MEN
FOR SERVICE.

Louisville.-Word from the war
department was received at Camp
Zachary Taylor here said that 200,-
900 men will be indicted into the
military service through the draft
and sent to ~ camps throughout the
country during the five day period
beginning June "a. No word was re-
ceived as to what states will send
troops or the number each will for
ward.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
George Washington's Title.

Did General Washington ever re-
ceive title from the French govern
ment? Not title of nobility, but near
the close Of the Revolutionary war he
w2s commissioned lieutenant general
Of the French army and vice admiral
of France in order that he might be
commander-in-chief of the united
forces of France and the United
States, which were then cooperating.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
Her Best Wishes.

1t was the last day of school. The
teacher was giving farewell party for
her class, as she was to be married in
the near future. The children spent a
pleasant afternoon, and before they
realized 1t the time came to say good
by. One by one they marched up and
shook hands with their dear teacher.
Doris said: II hope you will get as
good husband as my papa is"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
All Nickels-

Judging by the looks Of the collec-
ton plate that passes US at church,
nine-tenths of the members of the con-
gregation seem TO think that heaven
is only seven squares away, and that
the church is a trolley car that carries
the saints at the usual rates.-Houston
Post.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
Motion Pictures "Edited."

After a moving picture reel has been
made II must be "edited" in somewhat
the same method as is a manuscript.
THIS operation is performed by the edi-
tor making his direction in a debating
machine as the reel is worked OF In
'front.' of him.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
500 PATIENTS HURT
BY GERMAN AiRMEN

London.-Andrew Bonar Law. tn,
Government leader in the House O
Commons, told the lower House o
Parliament that 500 casualties t,
hospital cases had been caused b,
the bombing of British hospitals il
France by German a7iators.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
Poison Ivy HELMS. Too.

The vacationist who collides with
hornets nest is bound 10 have swell
time.-BostOn Transcript.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
The Bell for Recess.

He-"I am man of the old school !"
She-"Well, l dismissed your class
some time ago Puck.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
Knew No Better Than.

"He eloped with his wife. didn't he,
WilliamT "Yes-but, you know, they
weren't married then."-Life.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
Daily Optimistic Ihouaht.

We are only vulnerable and ridicul.
rus through our pretensions.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05
Telephone Courtesy

The people who get the greatest
amount of good out of their telephone
are those who talk over it as though face
to face.
Courtesy smooths out difficulties and
promotes the promptest possible connec-
tons.
The operators of the BELL System
are trained to be patient and polite under
all circumstances, but they will do better
work if they meet with patience and
politeness on the part of the telephone
users.
The fact that you cannot see the
operator or the other party should not
cause you to overlook this. The best
results come through the practice of
mutual courtesy.
The voice uitb the smile zvins
CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE MTM
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY * a. j
incorporated WATHSW
W. W. HARRIS, Manager. Hartford Ky.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-06-05

Thought for the Day.
He who hardens his heart softens his
Gains.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
LABOR NOTES

Massachusetts has more than $685.
900 organized wage earners.
A 6 o'clock closing hour has been
secured by Worcester (Mass.) retail
clerks.
Plumbers at Sioux City. Iowa, get
81 for an eight-hour day.
Women are being employed in the
manufacture Of bricks at Mlnlln-
town, Pa.
A cooperative store owned by
wage-earners is to be opened in Fond
du Lac. Wis.
Caddy girls at the York (Maine)
County Club links have made their
appearance.
A large hotel in Chicago has de-
cided not to replace male help with
feminine workers.
Nine London (England) constables
were fined recently for taking pay for
doing gardening work for private per-
sons.
The Guelph (Canada) Trades and
Labor Council has affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor.
AS men are not obtainable, women
are to be employed by the London
County (England) Councii as car
washers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
WORLD NEWS LINES

British sailors who participated
in the Battle of Jutland were fea-
lures of Boston's celebration on
Britain's Day.
The Chilean Consul-General has
left Lima for Santiago, stating his
government had advised him to take
the archives with him.
Three American cruisers are ex-
pected to arrive at Lima from San
Francisco in a few days.
Nominations are over and the
great British election will settle
down for the next fortnight into the
ordinary campaign struggle.
Alien enemies of the United
States government, such as those
known to be members of the Indus
trial Workers of the World, will be
kept confined at TT. Douglas.
Joseph Wolf, of Chicago, owner
and operator of the James E. Pep
per and Co. distillery at Lexington,
KY, stated that the distillery would
never run again.
An investigation of the cost of liv-
ing which is being carried on in the
leading industrial centers of the
country has begun in Milwaukee.
Secretary of the Treasury Nc
Adoo expresses himself pleased at
the selection of Cartr Glass as his
successor.
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan milk
companies have advanced the price
of milk to II cents per quart, ar
guing that what Americans charge
16 cents for is equivalent to 20
cents worth in Moose Jaw.
Attorney General Joseph MCGEE,
of Ohio, refuses to bring suit in
equity to enjoin transmission of the
national prohibition amendment to
the Ohio Legislature.
Upham's Corner, a residential sec
ton of Boston, has protested against
Sunday theatrical entertainments.
Michigan's Anti-Saloon League
wants the Supreme Court to keep
the proposed beer and light wine
amendments off the ballot for the
April Z election.
The remains of a prehistoric lake
village recently came to light in a
peat deposit in the valley of the lit
tie stream known as the Menaga, in
the commune of Oppeano, Italy.
|. Orders to discharge all female
munitions workers at the Newport.
r. l., torpedo station by January i
have been issued byb the Navy De-
partment and $50 employees will
lose their Jobs.
1 The removal OF all restrictions on
| the retail sale of gasoline In Ontario
has been announced by Canadian
| Food Controller c. A. Magrath.
All the American Marconi radio
stations except the four high-power
plants, have been bought by the
Navy Department.
Enlisted men discharged from the
Army will be required to return to
the government, within four months
the uniform in which they leave
camp.
The Western Electric Company
/ has declared its regular quarterly
dividends of $3.50 on the common
stock.
| An active campaign has. beer
started in Birmingham. Ala, to OBJ.
| tain 900 members of the Commun-
ity Sing Association, who will con.
! tribute S6 annually.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09
He's coming home right nov
Eranpa
Dobbin Not Yet Displaced

(From the Providence JournaD
Interest in the thtrty-third horse
show in New York and the statistics
of horses throughout the country
contradict a popular idea that the
horse is disappearing" In 1910
the census officials reported 21,040,-
600 horses in the United States; in
1915, Notwithstanding the exports
to the armies IN Europe, there were
21,195, 900. and in 1917 there was a
further increase to 21.21O,OOO. AS
prices are high, it is likely that there
will be substantial additions to these
figures during the next two or three
years.
The horse seems to thrive on COM
petition. He has not been displaced
by the locomotive, the bicycle, the
electric car or the automobile. Each
of the new conveyances has created
a field of its own, and the steady
gain shown by the statistics on
horses proves that the demand for
animal power corresponds with the
development of the different types
of motors adapted to transportation
requirements.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

to light. Here and there a news
paper owner was so false to his trust
as to offer his paper for sale or actu-
ally to sell 1t. and here and there
u college professor, an editor or
businessman was lured from the
path of patriotism and rectitude by
the glitter of German gold. But
not many, out of our millions OF
men who might have been tempted
and out of our thousands of news
papers. any one of which might
have profited traitorously in the
days when the German spy system
was working overtime to keep the
United States out of the war. Let
US be thankful there were so few
and let us insist on having the
names of the guilty, who must be
punished TO the extent of the law.
Every effort should be made TO
uncover newspaper connections with
German propaganda. The liberty
of the country and the stability of
our government rest upon the pur-
ity and trustworthiness of our free
press more than upon any one
other thing. Corrupt the news
papers and the fountain of public
information and opinion is polluted
at its source. Let the tainted news
papers be known. so that honest
papers shall not rest under sus-
picion.
The vast majority of American
newspapers are honestly conducted.
Here and there one is owned by an
Interest" or Interests for some
specific purpose, but these are rare.
A few are maintained by wealthy
used to keep their owners name
before the people and to give him
an influence he otherwise would not
have. But the people are not slow
TO recognize all such, and, being
known for what they are, their pow
er for evil is greatly lessened. With
these German-controlled or in
fluenced newspapers it is different.
Benedict Arnold was a patriot COM
pared with the editor who would
sell his birthright for mess of Ger
man pottage, and as for the Kaiser
owned college professors, they are
no better. The investigators at
Washington have turned up a pretty
mess. but it must be stirred to the
bottom and it's unsavory contents
analyzed to the last filthy fragment.