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ter season. During these long winter
 months, when the climate is most rigor-
 ous, large part of the Russian popula-
 ton is undernourshed. In the autumn
 it rains for weeks in succession. The
 mal forests stretch over hundreds of
 miles. All these conditions communicate themselves to the underfed brain, which
 imperceptibly passes over into breeding
 melancholy that crushes the individual
 like a nightmare, filling him with dead
 inertia and hopeless stagnation.
 Rasputin was in the beginning sincere, Iliodor says. But self-indulgent and de-
 generate forces within became so strong, he adds, that the evil nature of the man entireiy displaced the good 1lodor in- , cludes in his memoirs letters written by Rasputin to the Czar and Czarina, ad- dressing them as Papa and Mamma and phrased with an astonishing ming
 ling of arrogance and childishness.
 "The Mad Monk of Russia is an in- teresting addition to the already large library of inside information'- from the Russian court.
 CAROLYN OF THE CORNERS" By Ruth Bellmore Endicott. Illustrations | by Edward c. Caswell. Dodd, Mead tS l Co, publishers, New York.
 | Carolyn is a little girl, whose father | and mother are believed to have been | lost from a submarined ship in the Med I iterranean, and who goes to The Cor | ners, at Sunrise Cove, to live with her
 guardian, Joseph Stage, her mother s brother. Carolyn has a mongrel dog, | Prince. whom she takes with her, for 1 she and Prince love each other. There is some little difficulty about the dog, be- cause Aunt Rose Kennedy, Stagg l housekeeper, is exceedingly particular and precise. Stagg doesn't take to the l dog at first, either. But later, when Prince saves Carolyn and a boy who had taken her on the ice in her sled, and | who narrowly escape drowning when the ice breaks up, the dog is well received l by the whole community. The book deals with Carolyn's daily life at The Corners, and is told in the delightful vein peculiar
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An Old Hand

From the New York Globe. After two months at Rockford Pri-
 vate Nelson got his leave at last, and made what he conceived to be the
 best use of his holiday by getting married. On the journey back to the station | he gave the gateman his marriage | certificate in mistake for his return l railway ticket. The official studied it carefully and l then said: "Yes, my boy, you've got ticket l for a long. wearisome journey. but
 not on this road"
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The Sandwich Bed

Robert Fl. Moulton, in the Christian
 Hereld.
 It is perfectly possible for those who are thrifty and patient enough to look after their own gardens to provide food for themselves. their families, and per- haps some of their neighbors.
 Unfortunately. good many have been deterred from attempting back yard garden because they believed the soil was unfitted to grow corps of any sort. But now new method of culti- vation has been introduced, by which it is possible to raise excellent crops on bed prepared on most any kind of soil. even on a brick or cement pavement, or the tarred or tiled sur faces of the roofs of buildings, if need be.
 This new system of gardening is
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"An that I am and all that I have, owe to my angel mother!'
 James whitcomb Riley, with all his sweetness and tenderness, incorporated his thoughts in these words:
 "The heaven that lies about us in our infancy is motherhood. No matter how exalted or depraved we may become, we are always attended by the grace of a mothers love. Nor does that vision splendid ever fade into the light of com mon day. Every great man has gloritied great mother.
 in the tragedy of Calvary it is beau tiful to see the Master looking down tupon His mother in tenderest solicitude
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The Art of Pitching
C.av i'm Jeslie's

Edwin A. Goewey, m LesHe s'
 In recent years the art or pitching winning ball has advanced 10 such a point that it may almost De consid- cred a science, and the realy great twirlers. such as Christy MaIhewson. Walter Johnson and Grover Cleveland Alexander are deep thinking, careful and tireless students of their art, and each has evolved something new in pitching The ambitious tosser who
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mother; and sad and pitiful indeed aye, worse than sad and pitiful is the boy lover there,' alone, but brave. sor rowful but eoura rageous, who left his precious and beloved mother we'll and happy when he sailed the sunny waters of the Atantic-but now has received the sad message of her death conveyed to him across those troubled seas.
 Every great man has had a great mother; and most of them have ac- knowedged that that mother was the sponsor of his greatness,
 One of the greatest men the world has ever known says:
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Trust Me! Try Dodson's Liver Tone!
 CaIomeI Harms Liver and Bowels Read my guarantee! Liven your liver and bowels and get strengthened up without taking sicken-
 ing calornel. Don't lose days work!

mercury and attacks your bones Take a dose of nasty calomel today ana you
 will feel weak. sick and nauseated to- morrow Don't lose days work. Take a spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone in
 stead and you will wake up feeling great. No more biliousness, constlpa,
 tion. sluggishness headache, coated tongue or sour stomach. Your drug gist says if you don't find Dodsons Liver Tone acts better than horrible calomel your money is waiting for you Adv.
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There's no reason why a person should take sickening. salivating calo- mel when few cents buys large bot tie of Dodsons Liver Tone-a perfect substitute for. calomel, .a ,..
 It is a pleasant. vegetable hGrid which will start your liver just as surely as calomel but it doesn't make you sick and can not salivate.
 Children and grown folks caR take Dodson's Liver Tone. because it is per-
 caiomei is a dangerous drug. It Is
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the beneficial results of a thorough treatment of plain yellow minycl. It Is cooling. cleansing and invigorating, and thousands now use il regularly as a hair and scalp tonic.
 Restless" writes: "I am uneasy about my health. My kidneys and blad- der are not well. Have spells of de- precision, do not sleep well. have to arise frequently. Urine bad odor and colcr, very scant sometimes. My ankles puff and under my eyes I have
 bags Please prescribe"
 Answer: Your symptoms indicate you need treatment to tone up the. func- tions of kidneys and bladder. Obtain
 in sealed tubes balmwcrt tables and take as per directions for several weeks. or until relief is experienced. MT. writes: When a person be- comes uncomfortable from excess fat do you believe in reducing with medi- cine treatment"
 Answer The treatment of excess fat for reduction can be carried out safely with five grain arbolone tablets. I do not advise indiscriminate medicati tion, but this treatment seems to be uni formly successful.
 NOTE: For many years Dr. Baker has been giving free advice and prescrip- tions to millions of people through the press columns, and doubtless has helped in relieving illness and distress more than any single individual in the worlds history. Thousands have writ confidence.
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cling over isl a heap. and then. after
 1t is in place, tramped until it is firm. | The bed is then ready to plant. and if properly tended will yield wonderful | results
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THE CAMPAIGN"

THE CAMPAIGN"
 By Fred B. Morrill,. The Neale Publish ing O., publishers. No. 40 Fourth ave nue, New York. Once in very great while an adroit political story finds it's way into the literary worid-a story rich in incident, marked with modernity, and written by one familiar with all the intricate phases of that great guessing game known as "Politics." Such a work Is "The Cam paign,'' which, unlike the ordinary DO litical novel Casually the production -oi an onlooker. and therefore only of ex- trinsic vaIue), is a subjective study al once vicaciouS and vital.
 MT. Morrill, has the happy aft of tax ing us right into the environment where in live and love and struggle his char acters and wN are hurled at once into the heat Of stirring political battle with it's heavy fire of the machine guns, its roar of oratorical artillery, and
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Lady writes: T am writing for advice to cure myself of pimples and boils My skin seems too oily"
 Answer: The organs which eliminate waste matter need attention. Obtain three grain sulpherb tablets (not sul phur tablets) and take regularly as per directions for several months.
 Father" writes: Should a man pacitated? Am weak, nervous, timid, self-conscious. Do not sleep well. Arise with a tired feeling lame back and often have severe headache in the back part of head. Pickle appetite, but when l do eat, do not get strength
 Answer: To use common express sion. you have exceeded the speed limit" and your nervous system needs the aid of an invigorating tonic medi- cine. Get tube of three grain cado- meme tables. Take as per directions and continue treatment several months if necessary.
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 Young Miss writes My hair is combing out. my scalp itches and dand- ruff is much annoying. and I want something to cure these conditions. l~N Answer: For hair and scalp troubles I have never found anything to equal
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The questions answered below are general in character, the symptoms or diseases are given and the answers will apply in any. case Of similar nature
 may address Dr. Lewis Baker, College Bldg, College -Elwood streets. Dayton. Ohio. enclosing self-addressed stamped envelope for reply, Full name and ad- dress must be given, but only initials or fictitious names will be used in my answers. The prescriptions can be filled at any well-stocked drug store. Any druggist can order of wholesaler.
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CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD HIS
 TORY OF ARABCO-GOTHIC GULL
 TURF"
 By Leo Wiener. The. Neale Publishing
 company, publishers, No. 40 Fourth
 avenue, New York city,
 In the first volume of the series of con- tributlons toward a history of Arabico- Gothic culture, Professor Wiener dis clIsses (among others) the following sub- ,jects:
 virgilus Marc. the grammarian; His. peric literature; Rubisca: Lorica; His perica Famina; antiphonary of Ban goor; the Gothic forgeries; Vita s. Co lumbani: Dorf, Bach, etc; the Euchar- ist: the Ghost Mask; Arras cloth.
 Scholars in every department that falls back on the middle ages, historians. Ger manic and Romance philologists. stu dents of comparative literature, Bible critics, theologians, and others, will have to pay heed to Professor Wiener's dis covery, whether or not his work please them.
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complications caused by the intricate mechanism of the boss" system. The authors own achievements and exper- fences in public life and his knowledge of the types he so grapically depicts in ihis romance render him particularly authoritative in portraying the detailed conduct of political campaign, wherein young and ardent lawyer determines by integrity, straight running, and the es- pousal of new and significant issues. to break the undisputed empire of Big hearted John"-senator. millionaire and maker of officials from inspector of ink stands to United States senator.
 THE HILL TRAILS
 By Arthur Wallace Peach. Sherman
 French & Co, No. 6 Beacon street,
 Boston.
 To most normal people-the happy, sane majority-life is dear and inter- esting, but the inability to put into words the little loves and hates, the fragments of good and bad, beauty and ugliness that have made it so, leaves the beauty of the common place. unrevealed The sheet upon which 1t is recorded is written with in- visible ink; it must forever stay a humdrum bit of plain white paper un- til the poet, master chemist. brings out it's secrets.
 The human, syrnpathetically under standing and simply understandable verse of Arthur Wallace Peach has pleased magazine readers the country over for many years. His poetry gets away from the feverish tenseness of dramatic climaxes and leads to quiet hill trails. It succeeds exceptionally we'll in articulating wisely and with distinction and grace the ordinary mo- ments, light-heatred or leaden, that
 make up life for most of the world. Every phase of living is found in the volume-love songs, poems of relig- ious significance, songs of youth and springtine and old age. of troubles passed and conquered. songs of cour- age for the battle against dragons in the way, verses inspired by the sheer beauty and wonder of the common world There is a wealth of imagery in the nature poems; the personfications of nature are particularly pleasing. In short. by virtue of wisdom of percep- tton and easy harmony. the collection enriches both literature and life.
 THE NEW BUsINTss OF FARMING Bv Julian A. Dimock. Frederick A. Stokes Co. publishers. New York. "The New Business of Farming" by Julian A. Dimock is a condensed hand book on the business side of farming with the important subjects standing out in relief that they can be easily grasped both by the city man Who re- turns to the soil and by the born and bred" farmer.
 How to put the farm on paying basis by a man who did 1t; how to stop the leaks in profits; how to farm for money; what to plant and when; how to market farm products for the big gest returns; how to keep the farm hands busy all year around so that you will produce profits-these are some of the main subjects treated. This book grapples with the prob lerns of the farmer as recent business efficiency books do with the prob : lems of the business man. It Is full of valuable hints and ideas II IS in- spiring and at the same time ful e danger signals warning of pitfalls, ana it has many guide posts pointing the way to success in farming.
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, to stories of good little girls who make everybody love them.
 THE MYSTERY OF THE DOWNS
 By John R. Watson and Arthur J. Rees
 The John Lane Co, publishers, New
 York
 The authors of this detective story are two ex-detectives of Scotland Yard who
 had already produced novel of police problems, called The Hampstead Mys- tery," before making their present Ven- ture. That they have literary ability, as well as the skill to dig out the heart of murder puzzle they prove in this book The scene is laid on the south coast of England, in a wild spot, with the downs
 just back of the rocky headlines and the plot deals with the discovery of d0d
 man in lonely house, besides concern ing itself incidentally with bags of gold hidden in an old clock. That any weaver of fiction who knows the business could produce a fairly interesting story out ef such material as this is obvious, and the two ex-detectives have learned that busi- ness Several persons are suspected of having murdered the man and of course the slayer turns oit to be. the individual who, until he is caught, seems utterly unlikely to have done the deed. A great deal of the story reads like a police re- | port but 1t is none the less interesting I on that account, for it takes the reader along pleasantly, exercising his brain in 1 a soothing way-since he has only to watch the work of the experts-while | feeling that somehow he is doing his own
 part toward reaching solution. There | is an ingenious cryptogram-a guide to the hidden rnoney-which looks at firet glance as if TO one could solve 1t with
 out key. But the arch detective in the sto,y--who does not belong regularly to 1 the oolice-finds the key and works it ali
 out in the course of chapter as smooth 1 ly as If he had invented the cipher him self.
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THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER" By Rebecca West Illustrated by Nor man Price The Century Co.,, publish
 CTS, New York.
 "The Return of the Soldier by Re- becca West, chiefly known in America as a clever contributor to various period icals, is a pleasing bit of fiction and of such quality that the critics are recon mendinG it heartily. The background is the most tremendous event of modern times, an event that already is touching Afne ricans and that will probably touch them to the quick before many months The background is the war, but it is only hackgrolno. The story is located in an old f.nClish country house and villa ge not far distant.
 The plot is probably unique in fiction It is not morbid. shocking queer; 1t is simply a situation seized by the author from jupcture of circumstances irnpos- sble before this age.
 ''The Return of the Soldier" is love story of poignancy and sn}endor that one rarely has the good fortune to know about even in books, and in it's develop meut there appears one of the most lov- able and memorable women that have beautified recent fiction.
 The situation of .'The Return of the Soldier is thrilling with emotional possi- bilities, every unit of which the author 1 feels and realizes in her telling. The story is presented-well, it is presented as finely, as delicately as tensely, as completely as Mrs. Fiske presents a character on the stage, as Mr. Belasco presents a play.
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to stories of good little girls who make 1 eyerybody love them.
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AST May, on the second Sunday
 of that beautiful month, and thd 1 first Mothers Day to be observed
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-07-15

seem ma kuli ~ziemskiej, gdy W
Europe ma glove przypada 33
cent6w STRAIT ogniowych, to w
Stanach Zjednoczonych przypa--
da ma glove az $2.5Oc. STRAIT! w
mieScie Chicago szczegolniejsze
'jednak i wieksze niz gdzieindziej,
napotyka sic utrudnienia ma
|punkcie eg%zekwowania sluzby
bezpieczehstwa ogniowego, mic
dry innymi po%dniesiono ma ze--
braniu wspomnianem ma wste-
pie, brak woody dotkliwy w wielu
dzielnicach miasta; dalej przepi-
sy miejskie So tn tego rodzaju, il
zdawaioby sic zachecaja do
przypadkowego podpalania i u}a-
twiaja pozary - jak nigdzie in
dziej. Dose wspomnieG niedbal--
stwo PREY paleniu odpadkow i
smieci Pc zaukach, ktore co chwi-
Ia gdzieS alarmuje straz pozarna
a dalej MEDINA budowa domow
%komin6w, ~przewody elektryczne
i gazowe w domach lichych, mar
ME urzadzonych, l~okomotywy,
siejace iskrami po cafem miescie,
wreszcie palenie tytoniu nieo-
strozne, przez niedorostkow -
wszystko to twofzy wielka misty
tucye wsp6lnie dziaiajaca ku pu-
szczaniu z dymem mienia obywa-
tell chicagoskich.. -.
Otoz - ably temu wszystkiemu
z}emu zaradzic - umySlono w
organizacyi Association OF
Commerce" rozpoczat akcye Ego
dina i r6wnoczesna wszystkich,
ku sanacyi sprawy powo1anych
czynnik6w, a wiec wladz stano-
wych, miejskich i k6f obywatel-
skich, Ablizenia zaS owych czyn-
nik6W pomySlnie dokonano ma O.
wem wiasnie zebraniu.
Sp~odziewat sic nalezy, re sic
ma tel inicyatywie ME skohczy i
zA realizacya dobrych owych po-
mys}6w nastapi rych}o.
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Metoda japonska.
.~.Jiu-J;tsu" W VOL
ME. /.

Porucznik Desouches, Z fran
cuskiej misyi, przylaczony do
Armii Amerykanskiej, bawiqc W
Paryzu, wyragil sic Z zadziwie--
MEM, re pewien amerykahski in
struktor atletyki ME wiedziaf
o tenn, re metoda ,.Jiu-Jitsu" jest
uczona w Armii Brytyjskiej....
To ieszcze ME wszystko, powia-
Ga ow porucznik! 1dzcie do Fran
cuskiej Armii, a zobaczycie, re
ia metoda japohska juz z sukce-
sem wielkim prosperuje w ma
szych szeregach wojskowych,
kazdy zolnierz, kt6ry ma cokol-
wick pojecia 0 tel metodzie, moze
latwo pokonac swego przeciwni-
ka, chociaz uzbrojonego.
AnglelSkie plsmo New YORK
Herald' pisze, re komendant
Roget, majacy dozor mad atlety-
cznemi cwiczeniami zolnierzy
francuskich powiada, re prakty-
ka ,,,Jiu-Jitsu" odbywa sic juz
cd poi roku i kazdy zolnierz fran
cuski, jakotez kazdy inny zoi--
~nierz, znajdujacy sic we Francyi,
stanowczo nauczyc sic musi tel
metody, kt6ra jest przyjeta i IT,
znana "a skuteczny srodek O.
brony zoinierza W ~starciach
wrecz z niejrzyjacielem.N Dodaje
sic tenn odwagi naszym zolnie--
from, by sic jak najpilniej udo--
J skonalali w tel nadzwyczaj, no.
wei ola mich metodzie:
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-07-15
ZTEKIR EDAKCYJNEJ.

ci sic podoba mic nie pomoze-
motorowy tego ma przedniej plat
.formie ME widzi, konduktor z i
ronicznym usmiechem z tylnej
platformy zeby CT pokaze albo /
tobie reka odkiwnie, a ty mozesz
sobie ma piechote smarowac do
kad CT sic podoba, raczej ME po-
doba w takim wypadku!
Inny przyklad: We wagonach
znajduja sic poumieszczane ma
widocznych miejscach rozpofza-
dzenia, re pluc w mich ME wolno,
a paliG wolno ma przedniej plat
formie. MySlisz, re z tych rozpo-
rzadzen ktokolwiek cos sobie ro-
bi? gdzie tam; sasiad twoj z le-
wei okadza Gle dymem paskudne-
so cygara, kt6re cd pol godziny
,,dopala" niby, pasazer z prawej
splunie CT wstretny sok zzutego
tytoniu ma konce bucik6w a kon-
iuktor ma to wszystko patrzy /
ME widzi niczego...
Widocznie pan superintendent
komunikacyi niepoprawnym jest
optymista - albo tel. tram
wajami ME jezdzi, inaczej brzmial
by rapport jego ME tax pogodnie !
Sprzeciwia mu sic krzyczaco ma
wet i sama statystyka ostatnich
szesciu miesiecy wypadkow j
przekroczen przepisow tramwa--
jowych, ktora pisma miejskie w
zesziym tygodniu pomieSci}y /
komentowaiy - bynajmniej ME
przychylnie ola kompanii tram
wajowych. .
I to wszystko, to wszystko
nic jeszcze, DO "a to w dodatku
podwyzsza nam cene przejazdu
ia &c. Maluczko - a lyle placid
bedziemy...
Everything is going up you
know.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-07-15
ZChinizJaponiii
Cbi1ska Arrnia do
Boju.
Chinska Armia do Boiu.

Wobec ogromu ludnoSci novel
republiki chihskiej ginie zupei-
ME jej armia; a przeciez liczy o.
ma 100000 zolnierzy, z ktorych
10 procent otrzymalo jak najdo-
skonalsze wycwiczenie ma sposob
curopejski i japohski. Pierwszy
cddzia} chihski, ziozony z sa-
mych weteranow, oswojonych z
hukicm dziai. i re Swistem kul,
przygotowujc sic juz do drogi ma
front francuski. Ia ta jednostka
bojowa, liczqca 10000 zoinierza,
gotow jest rad chihski wys}aG
dalsze swe dywizye, az Gala sila
wyniesie 100000 zolnierza wszel-
kiej rangi. Armia ia obje}aby 20
mil frontu i r6wna}aby sic TREE
ciej cze5ci tel silly, jaka linden
burg rzucii w wir Walk podczas
swej ofensywy cd Chemin des
Danes do Marry. Chiny zajmuja
sic sprawl udziaiu W walce ma
froncie zachodnim bardzo poWa-
znie. Maja one swa kwatere VOL
skowa w Paryzu z g%enera}em
Tang Tsai-Li ma czele, a take
wielu oficerow, kt6rzy = badaja
warunki, W jakich zo}nierze chin
scy najlepiej mogliby wspoma-
gao Aliantow; lekarze zas Chin
scy W powaznej fczbie sluza W
armii brytyjskiej. A juz SWAT ca
iy zdziwi} sic niemaio, gdy chin
soy robotnicy ma froncie francu-
skim, p%ochwyceni przez .fale ME
miecka podczas ofensywy wiosen
nej w Pikardyi, rzucili }opaty i
chwyciwszy "a najblizsze kara
biny, wyrzucili Niemc6w poza
linie francuska! Oczywiscie byli
to robotnicy z Chin ~p6}nocnych,
potent, SLIM i zahartowani, z
kt6rych wlasnie sklada sic armia
chinska. Takich to robotnikow pc
siadaja Alianci $4,000 we Fran
cyl. So take Chiny krajem mad
zwyczaj bogatym W artyku}y zy-
wno5ciowe, wegiel, skore ftp.
Wiele pszenicy i miesa wolowe-
go wysylaja obecnie do Francyi
& wegiel do Stan6w Zjednoczo--
nych i Kanady (wzdluz wybrzeza
wschodniego). Chiny pragna po-
koju: i - jak reszta Aliantow
pragna go tax bardzo, re sotowe
So walczyc Z Niemcami do o.
statka. TAX ~pamietajq Chiny eks-
pedycye niemiccka podczas "a
mieszek bokserskich, kicdy to
poraz pierwszy nazwano Menu
cow - Hunami.