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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-03-02

others that forgot Moose-Head and
Three Salmon left the white man Joe
! TO lie In the snow. Let them forget
no more. With the light of day shall
they 70 forth ana break trail. le have
heard the law. Look we'll, lest ye
break it,
Sitka Charley found it beyond him to
keep the line close up. From Moose
Head ana Ttrce-SalmoD, Who broke
trail in advance, TO hah-Chucte, Cow
hee. and Joe, it struggled out over Il
mile. Each staggered. fell, or rested.
as he saw fit. The line Of march was Il
progression through chain Of irrr9u-
lar halts. Each drew upon the last
remnant of his strength and stumbled
onward till il WAS expended, but in
some miraculous way there WAS al
ways another last remnant. Each
time a man fell, il was with the firm
belief that he would rise no more yet
he did rise. and again, and again. The
flesh yielded, the will conquered; but
each triumph was a tragedy. The In
tIdu " ltIl me IIOLtu Ibt|s Eo longer
erect, craWled forward on hand and
knee. He rarely rested, for he knew
the penalty eXacted by the frost. Even
Mrs. Eppingwells lips We're at last set
in stony smile and her eyes, seeing,
law not. Often, she stopped, pressing
Il mittcncd hand to her heart, gasping
and dizzy.
Joe, the white man, had passed be
yond the stage of suffering. He no
longer begged to be let alone. prayed
to die; but was sOothcd and content
under the anodyne of delrium. kuh-
Chuctc and Gowchce dragged him on
roughly, venting upon him many say
age glance or blow. To them it was
the acme of injustice. Their hearts
were bitter with hate, heavy with fear.
Why should they cu,ubcr their
strength with his weakness? To de-
50, meant death; not to do so--and
they remembered the law Of Sitka
Charley, and thc rifle
Joe fell With greater frequency as
the daylight Wpaued. and 50 hard WAS
he 10 raise that they dropped farther
and farther behind. Sometimes all
three pitched iuto the snow. So weak
had the Indians become Yet on their
backs was life. and strength. and
warmth. Within the flour sacks Were
all the personalities Of existence They
could not but think OF this. and it was
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-03-02
Be q "Live Wire"

To increase your earning capacity.
YOU must be an energetic. live speci-
men of humankind. You should be
throbhing with surplus power. You
should possess degree of strength
that will give you confidence and cour-
age and endurance. Then you can 20
on day after day adding TO your skill
and knowledge and power in your pro-
fesSion. And when YOU have climbed
TO the highest point on one sphere Of
enleavor, You will be ready to look
around for other work. and continue
to experience the delights that CONF
only with the daily struggle required
for the attainment Of the objects one
has in view. DO not forget the value
Of systematic effort. DO not waste
your energies. Intelligent direction is
all-impOrtant. Force, to be Of value.
must be applied AT the proper place.
Effort, 20 be productive Of reward,
llust be directed by superior iuteIli-
2euoe.-Exchapge
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-03-02

not strange. that which came to pass.
They had fallen by the side of n great
timber jam where thousand cords Of
firewOOd waited the match Near by
was an air hole through the ice. kah-
Chucte looked on the wood and the wa
ter, as did Gowhee; then they looked
on each other. Never word was
spoken. Gowhee struck fire; Kah-
Chute filled tin cup with water and
heated it; Joe babbled of things in an
other land, in a tongue they did not
understand. They mixed flour with
the warm water till it was thin paste,
and of this they drank many cupfuls.
They did not offer any to Joe; but he
did not mind. He did not mind any
thing, not even his moccasins. which
Scorchcd and smoked among the Goals.
4 crystal mist of snow fell about
them. softly, careSSingly, wrapping
them in clinging robes of white. And
their feet would have yet trod many
trails had not destiny brushed the
clouds aside and cleared the air. Nay,
ten minutes delay would have been
salvation. Sitka Charley, looking back
saw the pillared smoke Of their fire.
ami guessed. And he looked ahead
at those who were faithful, and at Mr.
f.ppjngWen
$50 nv coed comrades, ye have again
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-03-02
MAKE APPEAL TO APPETITE
Food Materials Which Are Of Little
Real Value Have Distinct
Place on Table.

Not all food materials are said to be
valuable in proportion to the appeal
which they make to the appetite. For
example. the flavor substances in foods
which stimulate the olfactory and gus
tatory nerves, and thus give rise to
appetite are not ordinarily the sub
stances On which the body depends foT
its fuel. nor for the great bulk of its
building materials. The latter mate
rials-pr0tcins. fats or oils and car
bohydrateS-When chemically pure,
have little or no taste or smell, The
preference for thin and crisp rather
than greasy bacon is given as an IL
lustration.
In n recent experiment II was found
sent the fuel value of very thin
20 GIN. (three-fourths ounce) slice,
only nine calorieS remained when the
slice was sent to the table, 100 Gallo
ries being represented by the fat which
sfried out into the pan. In this case
a considerable amount OF flavor body
also goes into the fat, yet most persons
would not consider eating ii unless 1t
has been skillfuliy blended with large
quantities of other foods; whereas the
scrap of skeleton tissue which has lost
90 per cent Of its food value Is regard
ed as q dainty morsel.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-03-02

forgotten that You were men? Good.
Very good. There win be fewer bellies
to feed"
Stka Charley roticd the -four as he
spoke, strapping the pact, to the one
on his OWN back. He kicked Joe till
the pain broke through the poor devil
bliss and brought him doddering to his
feet. Then he showed him out upon
the trail and started him on his way
The two Indians attempted to slip off.
Hold. GoWhee, And thou, too, kah-
Chucte, Hath the flour given such
strength to thy legs that they may out
run the sWift-Winged lead? Think not
to cheat the law. Be men for the last
time, and be content that We die full
stomached. Come. step up, back to
the timber, shoulder to shoulder.
Gomez
The two men obeyed, quietly, with
out fear; for it is the future which
presses upon the man, not the present.
"Thou, Gowhee, hast wife and chill
dren and deer-skin lodge in the
Chippewyan. What is thy will In the
matter?"
"Glve thou her of the goods which
are mine by the word of the captain
the blankets, the beads. the tobacco.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-03-02
BY JACK LONDON
Copyright By Jack London

needles Of fire, through fur and flesh
/ to the bones. So. when the fire had
/ grown luSty and thawed q damp circle
| in the snow about it. Sitka Charley
forced his reluctant comrades to lend
| q hand in pitching a fly. 1t was prim-
| tive affair, merely a blanket, stretched
parallel with the fire and to windwQrd
Of it, at an angle of perhaps fort y-tive
| degrees. This shut out the chill wind,
and threw the heat backward and
down upon those who We're to huddle
in its shelter. Then !. layer of green
spruce boughS was spread, that their
bodies might not come in contact with
the snow. When this task was com
pleted. kah-Chucte and Gowhee pro-
ceeded to take care of their feet. Their
ice-bound moccaSins We're sadly worn
by much travel, and the sharp ice Of
the river jams had cut them to rags.
Their SiWaSh socks were similarly
conditioned, and when these had been
lhawcd and removed, the dead-White
tips of the toes. in the various stages
Of modification, told their simple tale
Of the trail
Leaving the two to the drying Of
their fo0tgear. Sitka Charley turned
back over the course he had come
He, too. had d mighty longing to Sit by
The fire and tend his complaining flesh
hut the honor and the law forbade
He tOiled painfully over the frozen
field, each step a protest, every mus
Gle in revolt Several times, where the
open water between the jams had re
Gently crusted, he was forced to niSer-
ably accelerate his movements as the
fragile footing SWaytd and threatened
beneath him. In such places death
was quick and easy; but it was not
his desire to endure more
His deepening anxiety vanished as
two Indians dragged into view round
a bend in the river. They staggered
and painted like men under heavy bur-
dens; yet the packs on their backs
were matter of but few pounds. He
questioned them eagerly, and their re-
plies seemed to relieve him. He hur-
ried on. Next came two white men,
supporting between them a woman.
They also behaved as though drunken,
and their limbs shook with weakness.
But the woman leaned lightly upon
them, choosing to carry herself for
ward with her own strength. At sight
Of her, fash Of Joy cast its fleeting
light across Sitka Charley's face. He
cherished very great regard for Mrs.
Eppngwell. He had seen many white
women, but this was the first TO travel
the trail with him. When Captain Ep-
pingwell proposed the hazardous I'M
dertaking and made him an offer for
his services. he had shaken his head
gravely; for 1t was an unknown jour
ney through the dismal vastnesses of
the Northland, and he knew it to be
Of the kind that try to the uttermost
the souls of men. But when he learn
ed that the captains wife was to ac-
company them, he had refused fatty
to have anything further to do with
1t. Had 1t been woman of his own
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-03-02
QUEER BELIEFS ABOUT MOON
Superstitions Handed Down From Past
Ages Have Not by Any Means
Died Out.

The idea that the moon powerfully
influences not merely the weather and
the growth of crops but the f,lnc-
lions Of the human body and even the
careers Gf men and women was al
most part Of the religion of the an
ctent Egyptians. Jews, Greeks anA
Romans. The same idea runs through
English literature, and the very words
"lunatir" and lucid" are derived from
il. The works of Shakespeare S1,an-
ser, Beaumont, Fletcher, Ben ,Jo1son
and even such modern authors rs Ry
ron, Scott and Shelley, are full of
1t. 1t does not appear in Edgar Al.
IAN roe, Yet one has but TO read
"Clalume" to find a striking iIustra-
ton.
Among semicivilized peoples these
ideas about the moon are still almost
universal. In our own country and
others in which civilization is at It's
highest, one needs but glance over .
FARMERS almanac to find how much
Faith is placed in these exploded ideas
by persons with even a fair amount oe
education.
Though different peoples have ate
ferent traditions, it seems that for the
most part the full moon IS regarded as
the most suspicious phase. tho moo,
being propitious in proportion as ,ts
luminous face is on the Increase ona
unpropitious when it Is on tho do,
crease the worst phase Of all being
at the dark Of the moon.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-03-02

WI "a acme yea the Impossible.
NJ other Indians might have
MGGyG known as much Of the wis
dom of the trail as did he
out he alone knew the white mans
wisdom, the honor Of the trail. and
the law. But these things had not
come to him in a day. The aboriginal
mind is slow to generalize, and many
TactS, repeated often, are required to
compass an understanding. Sitka Char
ley, from boyhood, had been thrown
continually with white men. and as
man he had elected to cast his for
tunes with them, expatriating himself,
once and for all, from his own people.
Even then, respecting. almost veneer
ating their power, and bordering over
it, he had yet to divine its secret es-
Sence-the honor and the law. And
1t was only by the cumulative evidence
Of years that he had finally come to
understand. Being an alien. when he
dill know he knew it better than the
white man himself; being an Indian, he
had achieved the impossible.
And Of these things had been bred
certain contempt for his own people
"a contempt which he had made it a
custom to conceal, but which now burst
forth in a polyglot whirlwind of curses
upon the heads Of kah-Chucte and
G0whee. They cringed before linn like
a brace Of snarling wolf dogs, too cow
ardiy t. spring. too Woltsh 10 cover
their fangs. They were not handsome
creatures. Neither was Sitka Charley.
All three were frightful looking. There
was no flesh to their faces their cheek
bones were massed with hideOus scabs
which had cracked and frozen alter
nately under the intense frost; while
their eyes burned luridly with the light
which is born Of desperation and hun
ger. Men 50 situated, beyond the
pale of the honor and the law, are
not to be trusted. Sitka Charley knew
this; and this was why he had forced
them to abandon their rifles with the
rest of the camp outfit ten days be-
fore. His rifle and Captain Epping-
wells were the only ones that re-
manned.
= Come, get fire started" he COM
manded, drawing out the precious
match box with its attendant strips of
dry birch bark.
The two Indians fell sullenly to the
task of gathering dead branches and
underwood. They were weak, and
paused often, catching themselves, in
the act of stopping with giddy motions,
or staggering to the center of opera
tionS with their knees shaking like
castanets. After each trip they rested
for moment, as though sick and dead
~ weary. At times their eyes took on
the patient stoiclsm of dumb suffer
ing; and again the ego seemed almost
bursting forth with its wild cry, Il,
/, want to exist THE dominant
note Of the whole living universe.
A light breath of air blew from the
south nipping the exposed portions Of
neir bodies and driving the frost, in
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-03-02
Language in the MALI,

. h'hicosraphers have to determine
NICE shades in the meaning Of words -, ),
No doubt" u "orcs'
"Dictionary makers . ~,
''',N Ga 'nelr w. work cut out for them"
;,.,, -" an ar until geezer, guy and rir,, oot
ci2rJournal. louisville Cou-
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-03-02
He Was No pon&

1oo nave pretty good business
even in December" -
Yes" said the proprietor oe +ha
ocean hotel. u TIC
surr lh !" hear the sea a-calllng, pre-
~, l o uu'' moan about that We keep send,
my ing, OUT booklets right along."-Lon;s.
vile CourierJournal i'ool9-
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-01
STARTLING TESTIMONY
 IN BRITISH LIBEL SUIT
ESTlEONY INVOLVES FORMER PREMlERS OF FRANCE, ENG.
 LAND AND ITALY.

London, May 3l.-The greater part of teddy in he Pemaerton- Billing trial was taken in the examination of Captain Harold snerwm Spencer who gave startling testimony on his direct examination Captain Spencer said he had received from Italian deputies and members oi the British embassy at Rome Information about the efforts of the ClmarilIa to get Herbert As- guith, Joseph Caillaux and Giovanni Giolitto returned to power as the pre- miers, respectively. of England, France and Italy
 Mrs. Georee Keppel. who was men, toned hy Captain spencer as the mes seneer between Germans and Eng lishmen, was represented by counsel who asked hat she be given an op- portuuty 10 give evidence that she had not been in Holland since the outbreak of the war
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GERMAN SUBMARINE
 RAMMED BY TRANSPORT
UNDERsEA BOAT WAS LYING IN WAIT FOR TRANSPORTS WITH
 AMERICAN TROOPS.

An Atlantic Port, May S1-A Ger
 man submarine lying in wait for transports of American troops was
 rammed and sunk by a large British
 transport off the Irish coast during the second week in May, according t3 authentic intormat on brought here
 today by a prominent American re- turning from d mission to England
 The ship which sunk the submarine IS one of the largest liners known to
 American and European traselleEs and 1 ht the U-boat full amidshIrs after a torpedo had been fired and the transport was maneuvering 10 make way for accompanyiue destroyer. t1 drop depth charges. It is possible
 the American said, that the submarine might have been forced to the sur fate by one of the explosions, tut at any rate it came mp less than fifty wards in front of the liner.
 In full view of the soldiers assemol- ed on her deck, the big steamship rammed her way into the 8 bmarine and "cut her like a piece of cheese, % the American said
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BIG TANNERY ON FIRE
 AT CHATTANOOGA, TENN

Chattanooea Tenn, June l-(Sat- rday)-A fire broke out in tan bark shed at the Union Tanning com pany plant at l2:30 o'clock this morn ing and is now threating the building of the plant nearby The plant is said to ha the largest tannery in the world
 The fire caught from log hear which has smouldered for several days. Water thrown on the ire SC ams to have little effect.
 Al l;45 this morning the fire was repidly eating its way toward the main plant of the extrace works an, Chief William Toomev stated that Il would he Impossible to stop the pro- frers of the flames on account of th, scarcity of fire nlugs in the vicinity O the plant Five lines of hose are nov le'ne used which is all that can h, 'roueht into play The damage g, far estimateI at $lO.00O
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BURNING OF THRESHlN6
 MACHINES TAKEN UP
NUMEROUS FIRES IN GRAIN RE oloNs WAS DIRECT RESULT
 OF |. w. w. TEACHINGS.

Chicago, May 3l Turning of threshing machines in the harvest fields of Washington and Montana by the Industrial W orkers of the World was taken up by the government late today at the trial of 112 leaders and organizers for seditious conspiracy before Federal Judge Landis.
 Chief Prosecutor Nebeker sought to show that destruction of machinery and numerous fires in these grain re- gions were direct results of teachings of officers of the organization and that sabotage was practiced for the purpose of blocking the war program as well as for injuring employers.
 J. N Banks. farmer of Canyon. Wash, testified that fires were num- erous in his districr and that on one occasion a threshing machine was de- stroyed immediately after an l. w. W. had filled it with grain. On this and other occasions he charged "wobblies' had hidden matches in the grain.
 Other witnesses testified that I. W. w. gunmen patroled freight trains and prevented other than members stealing rides. Two boys from North Yakima, Wash, testified they were put from a train by brakeman with an I. w. w. card and compelled tc walk SO miles
 ]. w. w. bulletins declaring that last summer was the most opportune time in history of the organization to come into power and defy the established laws were read into the records bS | Special Prosecutor Porter. They told l of expulsion from the organization O members.
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AUSTRIA NOW COMPLETELY
 SUBIUGATED TO GERMANY
UNDER NEW MILITARY TREATY THE DUAL MONARCHY BE-
 COMES A5JEcT VAsSAL.

Washington, May 31.-Complete 'subjugation of Austria-Hungary and the elimination of any hope for even semi-independence for Czechs, Jugo- Slays and other anti-German ele ments in the dual monarchy is seen here as the certain result of the new military treaty between Germany and Austria-Hungary.
 The state department has just re- ceived through its own sources wha,
 is believed to be the text of it's pro visions announced in the press
 Among other things it shows that I I there ever was common ground upon which the United States might have discussed peace with Austria, it has 1 disappeared along with what liberty of action had been left to the dua.
 monarchy by her ally.
 In this treaty, as officials here in tenpret it, Austria-Hungary surren- ders to Germany the control of her military establishment in time of peace as well as in war. This carries the right to organize the Austrian army even to its personal, which means that the Germans will hold to military service under her own com manders if necessary every fit Slav, Czech, Italian, Pole and Rumanian comprising the population of the Aus tria- Hungarian empire.
 It follows that there can be no polit- ical independence of these people.
 Secretary Lansing recently formally declared that the nationalistic aspira- tions of the Czecho-Slovaks and the
 Jugo-Slays has freedom of the earnest sympathy of the American govern ment. This message has gone to the
 ambitious opposed races as a further ance of purpose of the United States
 to enter into no peace treaty with
 their oppressors that does not con
 cede their right to a separate national existence.
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Nj 'AD00 RESENTS
 KITCHENS STATEMENTS
CALLS ON THE CONGRESSMAN TO RETRACT REGENT SPEECH ABOUT PUBLISHERS
 LOBBY.

Washington, May 3l--Secretary McAdoo has called upon Representa- tive Kitchin of North Carolina, Dem ocratic floor leader in the house, to retract his assertion in a recent speech that a publishers lobby work ing for repeal of the zone system of increased postage rates influenced tho decision of the administration to in- sist upon revenue legislation at this session of congress.
 Mir. Kitchin told the house in the speech he did not believe Secretary McAdoo thought about the newspa pers and magazines one way or the other. but believed a lobby had made itself felt with some fin whose judg ment the secretary had great faith.
 From White Sulphur Springs. w Va, Mir McAdoo wrote In a lett T made public tonil C.; Please lot me assure you that no one near me nor in whose judgment ] have the slighiesi confidence. has been influenced oS any newspaper lobby nor any othel kind of lobby; that | have not beei approached directly or indirectly hs
The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-01
MILITARY DIRECTORS
 MUST DO FARM WORK
PUNISHMENT UNDER ARTICLES OF WAR WILL DE iNFLU-
 ENCED ON s4AMMERS.

Washineton Nav roftol men claiming conscientious objection to military service and who have been found by army authorities to be sin cere in refusing duty wi h non conn bataut units as prescribed ty Presi- dent Wilson, are to e segregated as Fort Leyenworth. Kan. under terms Of an order announced today by Sec retary Baker,
 If found sincere in their scruples ly a special board of inquiry they viii he furloughed to work on farms as laborers at a privates pay
 Federal Iudse Mack of Chicago Dean Stone of Colam ia Law school and Major Stoddard of the iudre-ad- vocate generals office. constitute the board.
 "Ondcr no circumstances will con sCientious otieetors be discharsed from their responsibilities under the selcctive service act" the order says and instructions arc renewed to mill tary courts martial to try Co punish an found tu he insincere. defiant. o' active !n attempting to converi other to their belief
 The new board will give fna test to those acquitted or mol fried hs the mhiitary tribunals and II lt doe not recommend a iurloush for farm
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HUM DRIVE HAS REACHED BANKS or THE MARINE

any such lobby: and that if had been it would not have made the slightest impression upon me, or have affected In any manner whatever my judgment as to the necessity for revenue legis lation at this session of the congress The men associated with me as assist ant secretaries of the treasury, to- gether with the commissioner of in ternal revenue, are serving with such exceptional loyalty, industry and pa triotism in trying to solve the colos- sal problems of the treasury success fully and in the interests of the whole country that l could not respecC my self if l permitted them to suffer from any implications whatever of so un- just a character. It is for them par ticuarly that l should be glad if you would make an appropriate correc- ton"
 The secretary added that he had hoped revenue legislation at this ses- sion would not be necessary put that with acual expenditures exceeding $1 ,500,000 ,000 in May and war eX- penses growing at the rate of Sl09,- 00o GOO a month, he could not look upon the future without genuine con cern unless prompt steps were taken to strengthen the position of the treasury"