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The Benson signal., 1918-01-05
FOREIGN

An extraordinary session of the
Peruvian Congress convened to dis
cuss financial projects.
Complete restoration of the terri
tories taken by the enemy, together
with compensation, was demanded by
Premier Lloyd George in explaining
the war aims of the government in
the House of Commons in London.
The Berlin Socialist paper, Vor-
waerts, commenting on the alleged at
cussions between Great Britain and
Germany, demands that the govern
ment tell the German people what it
intended to communicate to Great
Britain.
A proposal that the province of
Quebec secede from the confederation
of Canadian provinces was expressed
in a motion introduced into the pro-
vincial legislative assembly by J. N.
Francoeur, deputy from Lotbiniere.
Quebec is the only province which
voted against conscription at the re-
cent election.
A state of siege has been pro-
claimed in Petrograd and the Ukran-
ian Rada has refused to obey an ul-
timatum presented by the Bolsheviki
government. Disorders in the capi-
tai, due, it is said, to the looting of
wine cellars and shops, made neces-
sary the proclamation of state of
siege.
The bulk of the American expedi-
tionary force did not get it's expected
Christmas dinner. A submarine at
tack forced the ship which was carry
ing cranberries to turn back, and
through some unknown circumstances
two ships which were carrying the
supplies of turkey left the United
States so late that it was impossible
for them to arrive in France in time.
Under the heading Secret Treaty
Between Japan and Russia for Joint
Armed Demonstration Against Amer
lea and Great Britain in the Far
East" the Petrograd Izvestia pub
fishes what it says is the text of the
secret treaty drawn up last year pro-
viding for joint action by Russia and
Japan to prevent any third country
from achieving political dominance in
China.
The forward gun crew of an Am
erican liner reaching an American
ing after leaving British port on
the voyage, according to stories told
by passengers. Maj. Gen. Hugh L.
Scott, former chief of staff of the
army, who was a passenger, is said
to have stood behind the gunners dur
ing the action and complimented them
on their workmanship.
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SPORT.

Earl Caddock of Anita, Iowa, claim
ant to the worlds wrestling champion
ship, is now full-fledged private in
the National Army.
Ora Morningstar of Detroit out
played Welker Cochran of Chicago in
two blocks of 1872 balkline billiards
and went into the lead, 1,20O to 1,134,
in the 1,800-point match.
Arlie Bucks, worlds champion dis
Gus thrower and former weight star of
the University of Wisconsin, at Osh-
kosh, Wis, was blushing groom,
having committed matrimony with
Miss Metha Simpson, sister of Eber
Simpson, Jr., all-western quarterback
for 1917.
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Montana.

The two last survivors of the dis
coverers of gold in Montana met, af-
ter separation of SO years, at the
creek, near Butte, recently to Capt.
James H. Mills, Montanas first news
paper publisher They were Granville
Stuart a member of the party which
discovered the first placer gold in the
B. Weaver, a member of the
prospecting party which, in 1864,
made the fifth discovery of placer
gold, in the Yellowstone valley.
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Arizona,

Data hastily gathered indicates that
price fiXation on silver will directly
affect several hundred metal produc-
ers in Arizona and probably 5000
workmen.
The Shattuck-Arizona Copper Com
pany has declared a quarterly divi-
dend of twenty-five cents a share and
twenty-five cents extra, payable Jan.
19. Three months ago the payment
was fifty cents and seventy-five cents
extra.
A dispatch from Miami, from the
Gibson Consolidated Copper Company,
states that following the strike sew
eral years ago of thirty per cent. ore
another leaser has broken into an
equally rich streak of high-grade cop
per in another section of the mine
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PiersoI Says Baby Keet Poisoned.

Springfield, Mo.-Claude G. Piersol,
who was recently sentenced to serve
thirty-five years in the Missouri peni-
tentiary for the abduction of Baby
Lloyd Keet, and now charged with the
infants murder, has made a confes-
sion to Sheriff Ward Mackey of Web
ster county. The confession implicat-
ed many parties now under arrest and
others who have been mentioned from
time 70 time The kidnapped child died
of laudanum poisoning, according to
Piersol's alleged confession.
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Reinforced Concrete Dry Dock

Reinforced Concrete Dry Dock.
The completion Of the first dry dock
made Of REINFORCED concrete was cele-
brated at Moss, city in Norway. This
dock Is in the nature Of an expert
ment, as it will receive ships of only
100 tons, 80 feet long; but it is said
to be successful and much cheaper
than steel and more quickly built. The
shipyard that built this dock is now
receiving inquiries for docks up to
5000 tons.
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Wyominq.

The Pioneer Company is reported to
have struck good showing of oil in
36-34-77, Big Muddy, at depth of 612
feet.
The Virginia Oil Company is new
conner which is preparing an active
drilling campaign on the Virginian
dome, Emigrant Gap.
Thirty new wells have been finished
in Wyoming during the last thirty
days, with a production estimated at
about 1000 barrels.
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CUTlCURA HEALS SORE HANDS
That Itch, Burn, Crack, Chap and
Bleed-TriaI Free.

In a wonderfully short time in most
cases these fragrant, super-creamy
emollients succeed. Soak hands on re-
firing in the hot suds of Cuticura Soap,
dry and rub Cuticura Ointment into
the hands for some time. Remove sur
plus Ointment with soft tissue paper.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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Beds Must Have Been Large.

Little Ethel had just returned from
Sunday school and was looking very
puzzled. Mamma" she said, did
they have very large beds in Bible
days?"
II don't know, DEAR" said her moth,
er. "Why do you ask"
Because" said the little girl, tour
teacher said today that Abraham slept
with his four fathers"
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Just an Extra Potato.

Jones was urging Smith to run over
to dinner some time. "But am afraid
that your wife will go to a lot Of trou~
bic, Smith demurred.
"a lot of trouble re-
piled the hospitable man. 1T just
means to boil an extra potato. And
what is seventy-f1ve cents between
friends ?"-Judge.
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BIC BRITISH SHIP
SUNK BY U,BOAT
SIX OFFICERS AND NINETY-FlVE
MEN LOST WHEN STEPHEN
FURNEss GOES DOWN.
ITALIANS MAKE GAINS
SLAV POSTS ON TWO FRONTS
ARE CAPTURED BY UKRAI-
MAN TROOPS.

London, Dec "a. - The British
armed steamer Stephen Furness has
been torpedoed and sunk by German
submarine in the Irish channel, it was
officially announced. Six officers and
ninety-five men were lost.
London, Dec. PA dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph from Copen-
hagen says: "The Berliner Zeitung
says Emperor William has informed
his government that he contemplates
going to Brest-Litovsk if the diplo-
mats arrive at an agreement, in
which case he will endeavor to as
semble all the sOvereigns and regents
was done after the Napoleonic wars.
The Emperor is credited with having
declared that everybody wants peace
and that the future offers so many
great tasks that all states must CO.
operate in them"
Following the decisive defeat Of the
Teutons for the positions around
Monte Azolone, the AustrO-Germans
have brought up great numbers of
fresh troops and are planning to
launch the heaviest blow yet attempt
ed in that war theater.
In surprise attack near the Ypres-
Staden road, the British were forced
back slightly along front of several
hundred yards.
On the French front several surprise
attacks were launched, but the Paris
war office says these failed.
British airmen have brought down
four flyers in conflicts on the battle
front. The war office announces
there were no casualties in the raid
on the English coast Sunday morning.
One enemy plane was brought down.
Petrograd-It is reported that the
Ukrainian troops have occupied the
headquarters of all the staffs on the
Rumanian and southwestern fronts,
seizing the telegraph and wireless
systems on the two fronts which have
been united under the command of
Lieut.. Gen. Dmitri Stcherhatcheff.
The breachbetween the Ukraine
rada and the workmen's and soldiers
deputies has been widened by the ar
rest of forty members of the Ukraine
revolutionary staff at Petrograd. The
rada has sent an ultimatum to the
Bolsheviki headquarters threatening
forcible steps unless the staff is re-
leased. The Don district COSSacks
have assured the Ukraine rada OF
their defensive spirit.
Amsterdam, Dec. pa dispatch re-
ceived here from Brest-Litovsk, Rus
sia, dated Saturday, says: To-day at
o'clock in the afternoon the peace
negotiations were begun at a solemn
sitting. Prince Leopold of Bavaria,
as commander in chief of the German
forces in the east, welcomed the dele
gates and invited Haiku Pasha, as the
senior delegate, to open the confer
ence. Haiku Pasha, after an express
sion of a desire for a satisfactory re-
suit, declared the negotiations formal
ly open and proposed DR.. Won Kuehl-
mann as the presiding officer. The
German foreign minister was unani-
mously elected chairman.
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Specification

Specification.
"That man is always running other
people down."
Scandal or autOT
The Benson signal., 1918-01-05

London, Dec. "a. The British
armed steamer Stephen Furness has
been torpedoed and sunk by German
submarine in the Irish channel, it was
officially announced. Six officers and
ninety-five men were lost
The Benson signal., 1918-01-05

Smile on wash day. That's when you use
Red Cross Bag Blue. Clothes whittier than
snow. All grocers. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1918-01-05
WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
NEWS

Boulder.-Tungsten concentrates 60
per cent, $2O.OO@22.5O per unit;
crude ores, 60 per cent, $2O.OO@25.OO;
rs per cent, $12.00@12.5O; 10 per
cent, $9.40@12.5O per unit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29

winged dove of peace and good win to- ward mem scars round all the world Lest We Forget and thus next year fall into the same habit let us iot down few of the things which we pray to be delivered either from receiving or giv- ing If we omit any Of yonr pets kindly hold space" and white paper and " the high cost of printing re- sponsible for the omission--please
 I thank youi
 From letter openers" "marmalade jars" and handkerchiefs "initialed' by machinery<
 We pray to be deliveredl
 From near gold" vanity cases with mirrors which make one eye look up at the ceiling and the other down at the floor
 We pray to be deliveredl
 From novelty jewelry that makes your hands black when you handle it and from gauntlet gloves" and sweater -ettes'-
 We pray to be- delivered!
 From Patent" nut bowls inscribed ITO a Nut" and from drawn work" Collar and Cuff sets
 We pray to be delivered!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29
THE BOOK SHELF
By THE BIBLIopHILE

kid who goes to France to get into the scrap; and the scoundrel from middle Europe, and. oily rascal who fires the shot that brings the family to it's feet and opens the way for better and high CT and happier things-such are some of the clements that go to make Mir Webster's story big American novel.
 THE DESERT CAMPAIGNS"
 By w. T. Massey. Illustrated by James
 Mickey. G. r. Putnam's Sons, pub-
 fishers, New York city.
 There has recently apeared a most interesting volume entitled "The Desert Campaigns" This is the story of the Egyptian expeditonary force, an army whose work has been thrilling. exact ing and of the utmost importance and little enough heard of. This picturesque campaign is described by w. T. Mas sey, who was the official correspond ent of London newspapers, and illus trated by James McBey, the official artist With the expeditionary force The author gives the public a far clearer and better understanding of the really great effort Of the army in Egypt to keep open the gateway between the east and west The story is carried down to the battle of Rafa which eject ed the Turk from the Sinai peninsula and gave back to Egypt every foot of its territory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29

Fl EN gay. the happy Christmastide 4S when the given to" and the
 ''giyee''-the receiver (sounds Iiike telephone) and the dispenser of gifts, looms large upon the holly-be- decked and tinsel-trimmed horizon.
 It behooves each and all of us who smile so sweetly at the people who give us the most outrageously awful, terrible useless, utterly impossible and unspeak- able things at Christmas time to regis ter now VOW to send out Valkyrie cry to the Benevolent Saint of the Yule- tide season to look down upon us here after and save us from the waste of money and the entirely unnecessarily bunch of stuff which is Bought and Paid @ For and-sent out!
 -ef coarse, one single individual couldn't possibly enumerate in "a short newspaper article the dozens and dozens of things he'd like to be delivered from receiving at Christmastide; there are also many things which many people would be delighted to be delivered from which do not come under the head of 'Christmas presents" but of these, anon! Suffice it to say just here that to the Saint of Christmastide we offer the prayer that mercy may be shown to us miserable recipients and not only do we invoke mercy for the poor, innocent recipients, but in the matter of giving presents stay our hand, guide us, 0 Saint, in the matter of selecting and be- slowing something as a Christmas pres ent in the future that will be appre- ciated-not useless, foolish, silly un- heard-of, trinket which costs oodles of money and which nobody wants and which people usually throw into the waste basket or give to the cook-the minute Christmas Day is gone.
 While the blessed spirit of Christmas is still upon us when the beautiful white
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29
"AN AMERICAN FAMILY"

IAN AMERICAN FAMILY"
 By Henry Mitchell Webster. The Bobbs-
 Merrill company, publishers, Indian
 apolis.
 Chicago: 1911 to 1916; Gregory Cor bett, ST, founder of the family for- tune, his son and his sons wife and their six children-two of them mar ried when the chronicle opens, three more before it ends; huge manufac- turing business; industrial problems labor. social welfare conversion to war uses; a son who doesn't fit into the family scheme of things; an anarchist's $ daugh~er-typifying unrest of the I. W. w kind-who captiyates and captures the son, but makes q mess of it--a magnificent characterizaton the other girl-Amefican, daughter of q soldier, representating her country's best tradi- lions and highest ideals-her father, her mother and her grandmother; the burglar who is caught by the girl, but who sets the family by the ears; the eldest son, prototype of big business who has no ideals till the war brings them to him; the third Corbett boy who is almost but not. a black sheep; the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29

From satin lined" objects that ca am- ouflage you at first into believing that they are something you want, but upon investigation you find to be "jewel cases" or rose jars in disguise We pray to be delivered!
 From Christmas cards" the post mark blurred" and uncertain, looking like as near as you can make 1t out "sunnamagunsett." "Quohgedahoclz," or "Flivver Fal1s,'' signed "A Friend" or Guess Wao,' and you haven't any more idea who it's from than the dead
 We pray to be delivered
 From Near Silk umbrellas accom- panied by the touching" sentiment!
 As you journey through life
 In all sorts of weather
 May your umbrella be upheld
 By handsome young fellow"- and from fountain pens that weep"- We pray to be deliveredi
 From Friend Wife" who gives hubby" pair of portieres for the hall or new lace curtains for the parlor, be- cause she wants them herself, and from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29
Ten Cent Christmas Trees

From the Christian Herald
 Have you ever gotten acquainted with the little Decent Christmas trees? No, don't laugh They look crude enough in the store, perhaps; but when trimmed with tinsel and fitted with the little col ored candles you can buy for them, and hung with any pretty trifles you may find about the house or pick up in a de-
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GODS coUNTERPoINT."
By J. D. Beresford. George IT. Dora con1nanN. nuhlishers Neu Yn1.- ,it,-

l By J. D. Beresford. George II. Doran
 company, publishers New York city. | This is the most powerful Beresford
 book since Jacob Stahl" It handles as l darinely i'd unflinchinsly as a surgeon | handles the forceps. a situation which is l at once common and taboo. The authors !; method is emphasis of the normal | through study of an abnormal case-and the contrast is so clear that it is the direct antithesis of books which are | themselves morbid. The hero has been | brought up in the old conspiracy ot silence" regarding sex. and the assump-
 ton that purity involves horror of I all things sexual. So strongly Is this l impressed upon his adolescent mind that when he finally falls in love he regards his wife as being to worship, from afar The wave in which the gradual ! breakdown not only of the hero disposi- ! ton but of his physical health under en- slavement to these false ideals is an- alyzed, is masterpiece of medical and psychological realism. Although admit tedly an extreme case, the training un- der which Philip suffers is still not un- usual among men, and far more frequent among women. Admittedly book with a purpose, this is a novel which chal-
 enges the intellectual integrity of every thinking man and woman to admit it's truth and ethical soundness.
 As an interpreter of human thought and emotion. a ehronicler of the ad- ventures of the mind; J. D. Beresford stands as one or the foremost of modern novelists. In this new work his almost uncanny insight and his loving sense of value of every phase of life make of his srealism not a mere matter of ob- servation, but of revelation as we'll
 TAINTED WINDOWS"
 By Ella w Peattie Georpe Fl Doran
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29
eouT OF THE SHADOW,

1 By Rose Cohen. George H. Doran com I pany, publishers, New York city
 The autobiography of Russian emi- grant girl written without taint of It, erary sophistry, without thought but for beauty and truth. These passionate untempered dreams of girlhood written with such eagerness and fire form a tribute of the sincerest because the least self-conscious kind, to America, since it
 was only here that they found room to
 breathe in. The writer tells her story
 from the time when she was three and
 lived in hourly terror of Jewish massa-
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Art Editions" of things and smoking stands that don't work
 We pray to be delivered
 From dear, sweet. kind, well-meaning CD very rich relatives, who send you very small checks" because they d rather do this. don't you know, than buy some sort of Christmas present that you wouldn't like, and from sterling silver. things marked down to 6s cents, from a dollar fifty
 We pray to be delivered!
 From brass "coal scuttles" and shovel and tongs sets (when you don't keep house. and when you do, glass bowls containing two animated gold fish-a boy and girl (presumably)- We pray to be delivered.
 From "home made" candies that stick 10 the box and run down inside your sleeve, and from link wells made out of a ''stags foot with fur on it that never had any ink in it (the we'll not the fur)--
 We pray to be deliveredl
 From fancy chocolate sets. and "pen' wipers'' with hand painted' cel- luioid top layers, bearing the ..inscrip ton" May all your joys be underlined and all your sorrows plotted out and cheap ''monogrammed" toilet sets'-
 We beseech thee to spare us. good saint.
 And lastly-that it may please thee to give us true repentance for all the notes of thanks" we may have the courage to write before New Years day in acknowledgement of these Christ mas atrocities received,
 We beseech thee to hear us, good saint.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29
THE GHOST GIRL.

By H. DeNere Stacpoole. The John Lane company, publishers, New York city.
 Mr.@Stacpoole's new story is compar- able to beautiful ofd-time miniature; :; it is a marvellous blend of the past and present Opening in Ireland, the scene lof the story shifts to Charleston, S. C., and the young heroine finds her turbu- lent Irish spirit dominated by the charm of her dead mothers native land, and the home surroundings of her maternal ancestors. More than this--she is to all intents and purposes 1.-the reinearnation of beautiful ances- tress. and history repeats itself in her case in regard to romantic love affair which threatens to wreck two young lives and then, by an ingenious device on the part of the "Ghost Girl" turns out to \ be the fulfilment of perfect happiness.
 Like the subtle fragrance from an old potpourri jar, this little story, with it's charming impression of the peaceful south, is nerve-restoring to the jaded war news reader
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29
DOLL Y Y-ETTES

Dad wanted Cigars and some Rye" A chair with Smokers Stand" high, A filled "Cellar-ette, And of Kipling "a set
 What he got was-a Bright Yellow Tie!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29

ishness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness.
 Don't stay stuffed up! Quit blowing and snuffling! Ease your throbbing head! Nothing else in the world gives such prompt relief as "Pape's Cold Com pound, which costs only few cents at any drug store. It acts without assist ance. tastes nice causes no inconveni- ence Be sure you get the genuine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29

cres by Russian officials. In America sine had to go to work at b in a sweatshop where she was slave driven for miser- able wages and where in rebellion at the ugliness and obScurity of her sur roandings she left, swearing that in America such things need not be toler- ated. To get an education to read Eng lish books to know English people she had to break with the dear but narrow standards of her family, yet she pre- serves touching loyalty to her ortho- doX people throughout the book. Only at the last does Miss Cohen give any hint of lover in her life She is far too much of an artist and too truthful to spin an idle tale of sentimentalism in her very young grlhood. Instead she prefers to show us girls heart un- touched by woman's love tender rather toward her brother going through the same struggles for liberty and educa = tion as she, and for her sister and her parents. This sort of art shows the line balance between reconciliation and spon- taniety: it is premeditated in that it is the harvest of experience and emotions from the heart of girl who at IS was already rich in such things; it is spon- taneous in that it is written without guile or shallow desire to initiate
 Miss Cohen's book is her autobiography and speaks for her and her full life The illustrations are by Capt. Walter Jack Duncan and are the last things he did before going to France to be one of the eight official battlefield artists of the United States army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29
Relief comes instantly

itelleL CotHeS instantly.
 4. dose taken every two hours unti, three does are taken will end grippe misery. and break up a severe cold either in the head, chest, body or limbs
 It promptly opens c1ogged-up nostrils and air passages in the head. stops nasty discharge or nose running, re- lieves sick headache, dullness,3 fever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29

philosophy will help in bringing together all those groups of citizens who will gain by real city promotion, but who are more or less separated now from supposed diff ferences in interest, and that 1t will help to isolate those interests hostile to funda- mental improvement"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29

i partment store, and when carried to tha room of some lonely invalid or strang- CT, and lighted they are the jolliest and most Christmasy gifts in the world. They are so pretty, with the candles burning and the tinsel and gilded balls aquiver
 And it is such fun to take from them all the funny and pretty toys hung there