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ausntiy linssmen are called from their
hunks At early morning houre and
torced TO hunt trouble for hours be-
fore communications are re-estab-
lfshed between front and rear line
positions.
The King Of England is noted ~ a
correspondent, and since the war
broke out his mail is heavier than II
ever was before. Here is the way 1t
10 handled:
At Buckingham Palace the nrst bag
arrives at breakfast time. The let
ters are at once opened and sorted by
the CONFIDENTIAL private secretary, who
places them in large baskets lined
with crimson leather and labeled.
All Invitations to undertake public
functions go in one basket; charitable
appeals in another, official reports
from parliament in a third, personal
letters in q fourth. while the last lot
consists OF the most important COM
munications of all, such as letters
from ministers of the crown, from am
bassadors or from foreign royalties.
These are at once placed in . box
to which only the king himself. his
confidential and his advisory secre-
taries have key.
T always say . few words to my
God before starting out on my tasks
and few words Of thacks when they
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CROPS IN British ISLES
T0MEET ALL DEMANDS
Official Report Gives More Acreage
Growing Grain Than Ever
Recorded.
ny EDWARD PRICE BELL.

ny EDWARD PRICE BELL.
CableEram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. CoIyright. as1s-
LONDON. England. August 1.-The
latest report Of the commissioner of
the department Of food production In
dicates that in most parts OF the
country the corn crops promise to
be UP to the average. and some will
be well above that. During last win
ter and spring more than 1.60o.o
acres Of old grass land were put un.
der the piow in England and wales.
The board Of agriculture decreased
the arabic land by 2.5oo.000 acres
over 1915. Ireland added 1.500. 900
acres and Scotland 100000 acres.
There is now more land growing
wheat, oats and barley than was
ever before recorded. and the acreage
year since 1872. Given only an av-
erage yield, the country should pro-
vide enough breadstuffs to feed the
entire population 'at the present
scale Of consumption and on the ex-
isting basis Of milling for forty
extent of 500 900 tons.
The breadstuffs produced by the
home harvest in 1916 amounted only
to ten and a half weeks supply and
that of 1917 thirteen weeks. The in
crease brings with it the prospect Of
about 100000 tons Of concentrated
feeding stuffs In excess OF the normal
quantity Of oats reserved for animals.
There is enough oat straw to COM
pensate for $4,000 tons Of hay which
the country will be short owing 70 the
breaking up Of the old grass land.
This IL despite the fact that today
there are In England and wales 3oe.-
900 fewer 1abcrors on the land than
in the year before the war.
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SOL LDIERS AND SAILORS
WANT MORE MAGAZINES

More magazines are needed for SOL
diers and sailors.
In An order issued 70 postmastsrs
Of the country. Third Assistant Post
master General Dockefy has called
attention to the hearty response Of
the public to the appeal for maga-
xines for men In the service. He fur
ther requests that more bs obtained.
The reports" says Mr.. Dockery.
"indicate that the magazines are
heartily appreciated and serve to pro-
mots the welfare and contentment OF
soldiers and sailors.
ut 10 believed that II postmasters
will bring this matter to the atten:
tion Of their patrons the latter will
gladly respond and SO increase the
number of magazines mailed that the
need for reading matter may be fully
met. It should be borne In mind
that the magazines should be Of cur
rent or comparatively recent issues
and devoted to literature or contain
articles Of general interest. Old mag
axines and those of local or restricted
interest are of no value and are not
desired"
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Heard Hearty Cheers.

The king asked many questions of ali
with whom he came in contact Once
he stopped an American sergeant to
ask him what ribbon he wore Al
ways as he was leaving any unit he
heard three hearty American cheers,
which were just as enthusiastic as
any he ever received from his own
troops.
Each Of the wearers of the British
awards received them for conspicuous
gallantry in. action at Hamel July 4.
The citations of their own general,
passed. are as follows:
Lieut. Schram, who received the
military cross. displayed remarkable
coolnesS and gallantry. During an
attack he went over the top with an
Australian medical officer and estab-
1ished a dressing station in front of
the enemy's lines, dressing wounds
his post until all wounds had been
evacuated.
Lieut. Jefferson, given the military
cross, was severely wounded in the
breast and shoulder by shell fre, but
continued in command of his platoon
until the final objective was reached. !.
remaining there until consolidation
was completed and his services were
no longer required at the dressing
station.
Second Lieut. Harry Yagle, award.
ed the military cross, came under fire
from a hostile machine gun while
driving at his final objective, on q
sunken road two hundred yards TO
the right Of the front. In company
= Received Correspondents.
This morning the king received al,
the accredited correspondents with
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THREE RED CROSS MEN
WOUNDED BY SHELLS

Three American Red Cross men
were wounded by German shells in
the recent Franco-American drive.
ters here yesterday say Lieut.. J. L.
Butterfield of New York city was
felled by shrapnel. while W. A. Fox
Of Buffalo, ambulance driver. re-
ceived q number of shell splinters in
his body besides being gassed. and
Of the home communication and home
service department. Was hurt by q
bomb dropped by an enemy aviator.
Lieut.. Butterfields wounds are in
the chest and side and Capt. Karr
was severely wounded in the hip. All
will recover
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Monday Bargains
Broken Lots and Broken
Prices - For Clearance

Boys Regulation Wash MILDLY
Suits; plain White, with Blue Serge
collar and cuffs; emblem and black
silk tie; long White "Broadfalr'
pants. Sizes 2A to C. M
10 years. Vow
Boys Khaki Knickerbockers; cut
large and full; broken C1 0E
sizes 9 to II years.. " ! skO.
Mems Madras Neglige Shirts;
solid colors and fancy striped pat
fsEp.i Rsp.i.! s.rt; SIS = s.iu... to u. S1.35
3 for $500
Mems Silk Tubular Wash Four
in-Hands; assorted exclusive pat
terms. Two lots-S0c grade for
sss. s5sd. Regular Csc 1OC
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are completed" remarked . notsd A.
lied fiier .ae- T. --s=-=s

are completed" remarked notsd al
He'd dier. se- = .-s=-Fs.
It has beef determined n England
that the greatest increAgs fn price
OF anything is that of the clock
Clocks now are sold At ten times what
they once were.
The German crown prince does not
respect his father. This 10 evident
BY his actions and talk with friends.
On one occasion at a dinner in Ber-
lin the crown prince electrified the
gathering by getting 70 his feet and
delivering q speech with the custom
any gestures of the emperor. He
Hrst shocked. then convulsed his hear
ers with his antics by ridicuiing his
distinguished sire
Tough, amt it?" the Yank COM
mented. as they lifted him into the
ambulance. -. =
"Oh. you're all right, said the corps
man, cneerfuliy. "Just q couple of
hunks of shrapnel in a couple OF
places where q couple OF hunks of
shrapnel can't do any harm"
THAT amt what's worrying me-"
explained the doughboy. But here I
am going back to q base hospital
wounded, and the only Germans I've
seen since came to France were
three prisoners"
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TWO G. A. R. MEN IN RACE
FOR COMMANDER -IN-CHIEF

PORTLAND. Ore. August 1.-Two
candidates for the once of COM
mander-in-chief Of the Grand Army
Of the Republic announced their can
didacy today. preparatory to the
opening Of the annual encampment
next Monday. They were c. q. Adams
Of Nebraska and Fred H. Hurd of
Seattle. s>-.
For national president Of the Wom-
ans Relief Corps, two candidates
were being mentioned, Mrs. Eliza
Brown -pasgett Of AttisbSro. Mass-.
and Mrs. Harriet Hendse OF Port
land.
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BRINGS NUMBER UP TO 257.
Thirty-Fivs Additional Colleges
Accepted ~ Training Centers.

Acceptance yesterday Of thirty-five
additional colleges n training esnters
for soldiers in the Students Army
Training Corps brought to EST the num-
Der Of such Institutions ready for organ
ixation and equipment Details Of the
plans for the corps with relation to the
new draft law will be made known soon
BY the War Department
Mount St Mary's. At Emmitsburg,
Nd, IL among those selected.
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This morning the king received all
the accredited correspondents with
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MANaAHEsE RATE CUT.
Twenty Pcr Cent Topped or to En-
courage Vests Production.

To encourage production aud dis
tribution of manganese, used ex-
tensively in production OF munitions.
steel and other war supplies, the
railroad administration yssterday or
cent in rates on manganese ore from
western producing fields to eastern
manufacturing centers.
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with Sergt. Koijans and two Aus
tralianr, he rushed the position and
captured the gun and eight prtsonera.
Second Lieut., Michael NJ Komor-
owski, awarded the military cross.
while suffering from o wound In the
arm, received early In the engage
ment, advanced with, his platoon until
the objective was reached: where they
consolidated tbs line. He remained
where they dug in, thereby display
ing unusual gallantry and setting .
good example for his men.
Corporal Pope, granted thu distin-
guished conduct medal Tbs enemy hay
Ing captured one Of our advanced posts
by counter attack, the first platoon
of the company was ordered to restore
the position. Pope rushed the hostile
machine gun single handed. bayonetted
several of the crew, and then. standing
astride the gun. kept the remainder Of
the detachment at bay until the arrival
of reinforcements. when ths gun crew
were all killed or captured.
Private Shelly, awarded the dfstfn-
guished conduct medal. displayed con-
spicuous gallantry during an attack on
hostile position. In company with
an Australian. he went out and cap
tured a sniping post. bringing back
eight prisoners.
Evening star., 1918-08-18

Boys Fancy Wash Suits; beited
models, neat patterns and sizes up
to u years. = Values 81 *
Boys Fancy Cheviot and Cassi-
mere Suits; Gray and Brown mix
lures; belted model;
broken .,se.s sizes 2 to ls S3.O5
years ..............' ~
Mems Silk and Linen and Fiber
Shirts; smart pattern-sizes IA
to l6z. Regular S. c. TX
value ...-..,........ VOsAO
3 for 50
Mems Fancy Silk Four-in-Hand
Scarfs; an assortment of good pat
terms. Regular ssc and &c
Csc grsdes.............. 49,
for $l.00
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Aiding the Labor Supply.

The departments of agriculture and
labor through representatives of the
various states cooperating with the
agricultural colleges and other agen-
cies are doing the following things to
aid the farm labor supply, according
to recent statement of Secretary
Houston: (a) Making a survey of the
farm-labor situation in each COM
munity with a view to discovering
possible SURPRISES of labor in order to
be ready to assist in furnishing labor
wherever it is needed; (b) assisting
again in shifting labor from COM
munity to community and from state
to state, as in past years; (c) pro-
noting fuller cooperation among
farmers in the same community; 90
making available, so far as possible,
high school boys in rural districts who
have had experience in farming and
who are not normally regularly or
fully employed in farming operations;
(e) making every effort to see that
there is no obstacle in the way of the
production of a larger supply of farm
machinery and its fuller use as
supplement to hand labor
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-04-18
awho Cares if Bones Ache ?"

Thousands of women in all parts Of
the country are volunteering to help
out on farms that will be short of
man power this season. The letter
which follows is typical of many
which are coming to the United
States department of agriculture De-
partment officials do not believe that
women will be required in the heavier
farming operations, but in the lighter
labor on fruit and truck farms and in
helping farm women with their tasks
there. will be work for women hands.
81 want to inquire where 1 can vol
unteer my services in the agricultural
labor for my country's service. I
know this work is just as important
as fighting. and as L was raised in the
country and can drive horse and am
familiar with all the rounds of farm
life. I feel I would soon qualify. My
husband is now doing his bit aboard
a transport.
NAPOLEON is quoted as saying, "A
man fights on his stomach so would
like to work to enable our men to be-
come good fighters. The German Bis
marck in his world plans once said !:
America is a fine fat pig to be stuck
later So guess the kaiser thought.
I would even enjoy helping raise some
American fat pigs to defeat them. in
their designs.
Hoping you answer quickly and tell
me where I can enlist my services, ]
remain Very sincerely,
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Electric Steel.

Electric steel is being made in Aus
tralia- The first plant of the Aus
tralian Electric Steel. Ltd. at Alex
andria, Sydney, is equipped with a
twO-ton, electro metalS, two-phaSe fur
mace. with current from the 5.0OO-volt
three-phaSe circuits of the city coun-
Gil through transformers. The plant
has been in operation for nearly a
year. and its output is principally
castings for mining and electrical
work the charge is common steel
scrap and pig iron. The company has
already commenced the erection of a
similar plant in western Australia.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-04-18
LEMONS WHITEN
The COMPLEXION
ANY WOMAN CAN MAKE UP THIS
CREAMY BEAUTY LOTION
FOR FEW CENTS.

The juice of two fresh lemons strain
ed into bottle containing three ounces
OF orchard white makes a whole quar-
ter pint of the most remarkable lemon
skin beautifler at about the cost one
must pay for a small jar of the ordi-
nary cold creams. Care should be tax
en- to strain the lemon juice through a
fine cloth SO no lemon pulp gets in,
then this lotion will keep fresh for
months Every woman knows that
lemon juice is used to bleach a dark
ened skin and remove such blemishes
as freckles. sallowness and tan and is
the ideal skin softener, whitener and
beautifier.
Just try It'll Get three ounces of
orchard white at any drug store and
two lemons from the grocer and make
up a quarter pint of this sweetly fra
grant lemon lotion and massage it daily
into the face, neck, arms and hands,
Adv.
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Old Stuff.
MARCH TO VICTORY

Courage is a matter of the blood.
Without good red blood man has a
weak heart and poor nerves.
In the spring is the best time to
take stock of ones condition. If the
blood is thin and watery. face pale or
pimply, generally weak, tired and list
less, one should take spring tonic
One that will do the spring house
cleaning, an old-fashioned herbal rem
edy that was used by everybody nearly
so years ago is still safe and sane be-
cause it contains no alcohol or narcot-
ic. 1t is made up of Blood root, Gold
en- Seal root Oregon Grape root,
Queens root, Stone root, Black Cherry
bark-eXtracted with glycerine and
made into liquid or tablets. This blood
tonic was first put out by Dr. Pierce
in ready-to-use form and since then
has been sold by million bottles as DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. If
druggists do not keep this in tablet
form, send 60 cents for a vial to DIR.
Pierce's Invalids' Hotel. Buffalo. n. Y.
Kidney disease carries away large
percentage of our people. What is to
be done? The answer is easy. Eat less
meat, eat coarse, plain food, with plenty
of vegetables, drink plenty of water
between meals, and take an uric acid
solvent after meals for while, such as
Anuric double strength), Obtainable at
almost any drug store. 1t was first
discovered by DIR. Pierce. Most every
one troubled with uric acid finds that
Anuric diSSolveS the uric acid as hot
water does sugar. You can obtain a
trial package by sending ten cents to
Doctor Pierce'S Inyalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute in Buffalo, n. Y.
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Essential Points Given for Con-
sideration by Department
of Agriculture.
URGE CAUTION IN PREPARING
Volunteers Should Be Organized in
Units and Provision Made for Their
Own Living Characterization
for Each Unit
PRELIMINARY TRAINING

If it becomes necessary in
case of an acute farm labor
stringency to accept woman vol
unteers for farming operations
other than the lighter ones to
which they are accustomed, some
sort of preliminary training will
be necessary to utilize the large
class of woman volunteers from
the. cities who are unfamiliar
with farm work. This article
points out some suggestions and
precautions that should be TAX
en- into consideration in prepar-
ing women for these tasks. The
suggestions given here have been
obtained in a study of this prob
lem by specialists of the United
States department of agricul-
ture, both in this country and
in other countries. Many of the
suggestions are based on the eX-
periences of England, which has
trained and is using 100000
women on farms.
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Make FARMING q Business.

= A young man who is now starting to
Through farm management demon
STATIONS the county agent can show
him his labor income, that is, what
he had left of his receipts after paying
expenses and allowing for interest ON
the investment and can show him
how his labor income compares with
those of the most successful farmers
in that community. The showing will
help him make a study of his farm
business and to determine upon
changes that should be made to make
1t more profitable.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-04-18
Phonoqraph for Nursery.

A special monograph for the chill
dren's playroom has been put on the
market. 1t will take either ten-inch
record or any of the smaller records,
and besides having a really excellent
tone. ii is Il most ornamental object
its outside being painted in bright and
cheerful hueS. with decorations that
appeal to the heart of childhood.
1t costs well under $50 and will be
fancied for summer camps and hunga.
lows as well as for p,lrSery use.
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at least sufficient skill to be acceptabl,
TO the farmer
Ascertain if Needed.

at least Su1fclent skill to be accepta Die
to the farmer.
Ascertain if Needed.
Before training the volunteers some
method should be devised for ascer-
tanning whether there is a demand for
the woman workers in the kind of
work they are preparing to undertake
This information could be obtained
from the state agricultural college and
the state farm help specialist en-
ployed by this department. Great
care should be exercised not to pre-
pare women to go on farms before
there is an actual demand for their
labor.
After completing the training, the
women should not be sent into the
localities where they are TO work until
some one has preceded them to make
arrangements for their housing and
to determine the basis of wages, etc.
In most instances the living quarters
would consist of a camping outfit, as
such quarters as they might obtain in
the community would be the least de-
sirable of those in the community.
Generally it would be desirable to have
one person in the group who would do
no farm work, but would act as gen
eral chaperon and matron and would
see to the domestic phases of their
living and welfare.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-04-18
Modern,

''Even if you cannot reach the, ban
quet room until ten O'clock says the
chairman of the committee to the emil
nent after-dinner orator, Il can assure
you that the audience will be waiting.
for We will have two good speakers to
deliver addresses to them until you
arrive"
"Ah,' murmurS the after-dinner
speaker, with his legendary quickness.
"a barrage fire."-Judge
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Women should not be trained to go
on farms before there is an actual
and imperative need for their services.
that it will not be necessary to employ
women in heavier lines of farm work
than they have been accustomed to
doing. If, to save the food harvest.
women are needed in the heavier
operations and the development and
training of unskilled woman workers
appears advisable, the following points
should be taken into consideration:
No woman should be accepted who
is not at least eighteen years of age.
The wisest policy would be first to
register those women who are willing
to undertake this kind of work, having
them indicate their previous training
and experience, kind of farm work
they desire to take up, and length of
time they can devote to it.
Two Weeks Training.
Before going on the farm, the
women should if possible undertake a
course of training extended over two
weeks or more under skilled instruc-
tor. This course might be given at an
agricultural or a woman's college, agri-
cultural schools, or on a farm donated
by some patriotic individual as prac-
tice farm. In some instances the
course might be under the auspices
of the extension division of the agri-
cultural college. Care should be taken
that no institutions are built up TO
perform functions that might be per-
formed by Institutions already in
existence.
This two weeks of training would
give opportunity to eliminate those
not physically able to endure farm
labor, and also those whose mental
makeup is such as to make them
unavailable. 1t would also give them
sufficient skill SO that they would be
acceptable to the farmers. Such ex-
perience in obtaining woman laborers
as has been had indicates that the
farmer usually is not willing to take
woman farm workers into his bone,
and therefore the women will have to
be organized in units and provide for
their own living quarters This fact
restricts the types of farm enterprises
engage to such as are very intensive
in character, and highly localized.
The types of farm enterprises of this
kind would be such crops as apples,
peaches, grapes. onions. cabbage. pota-
toes. strawberries. etc. The training
should be such that when the women
went to the farmers they would have
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even though 1t Is
not always visible
to the eyes of men.
A Christian need
not blasphemo.
nor commit muir
der, nor theft, nor
adultery, to be a
backSlider. He
need only exalt his
own reason above
the Word of God,
or n e G | e C t the
house of God, or
begin to fellow
ship wi t h tn e
people who do not
k n ow God, to
make him a back
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SAVING Infants, Lives

The city of Buffalo is making
winning fight against blindness caused
by ophthalmia neonatOrum. 1t is
Using preventive measures like those
employed in Chicago in accordance
iect
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| Appealing to the
Backslider
By REV. JAMES M. GRAY, DID.
Dean Of Moody Bible Institute.
Chicago

TEXT-Oh Israel return unto the Lord
thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine
tniquity. Take with you words and turn
10 the Lord: say unto him, take away
our iniquity and receive US graciously; so
will we render unto thee the calves OF our
lips.
will heal their backs1iding. I VIE love
them freely: for mine anger Is turned
Away.-Hosea 14:1-t4
I.-Backsliding in a religious sense is
falling away from ones profession,
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PimpIy Rashv Skins

Quickly sootfed and healed by Cuti-
cura often when all else fails. The
Soap to cleanse and purify, the Oint-
ment to soothe and heal. For free
samples address, "Cuticura, Dept. x,
Boston" AT druggists and by mail.