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The weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1918-1919, 1918-12-20
COW TESTING ASSOCIATION.

The county agent is making an at
tempt to organize a contrasting as
ISOLATION in his county. 1t will be
necessary to find about twenty-five
farmers who are interested enough
in their cows to allow tho tester TO
come to their farm one day every
month and see their cows MIXED,
and to weigh their milk and make a
butter fat test: :; "
1t is a fact that many farmers are
milking cows that are not paying
their way. The scales and the milk
test is the only method of finding
these Stacker cows. The sooner they
are taken ont of the herd the better
off will the owner be.
The weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1918-1919, 1918-12-20
Why The Buffalo Vanished

Everybody has heard about the
buffalo and how numerous they were
on the plains years ago, but to day
there are net many men left VINO
know from personal observation how
these ungainly wild cate bred.
Fifty years ago they migrated with
the seasons up and down the country
from Alberta. TO Mexico, west of the
Missouri river almost tc the Pacific
coast, their prime pal range, however,
being Just east of the Rocky Mount
aims and e: stward to about middle
Nebraska. Once they ranged clear east
to New YORK at least, but that was
before the white man came.
Sixty years ago they ranged the
plains in many thousands and plac-
tically ceased to exist in 1865, except
in Yeliowst Park and one or two
other isolated spots where few herd
stil survive, as in the case on the
Erlathead river, where some of The Al
ard herd got away and into the
mountain while enroute to Canada
several years ago. In the old days
the herds drifted north in the spring
and south in the fall, following the
feed, which grew with the season.
All the plains Indians depended on
the Buffalo for meat. Clothes, teepce
coverings anu about all else that they
needed for every day life. Plenty of
buffalo in the country meant happi-
ness and plenty IN the Indian camps,
while lack of buffalo In the country
mesnt starvation for the Indian ex-
cept for what little meat he could get
by hunting deer, elk and ether such
animals Antelope usually migrated
about the same time and along with
the buffalo herds, so the indians c>uld
not usually get antelope when he
couldn't get buffalo.
One day the pains would be black
with feeding thousands of the big
humpbacked animals; the next day
they might al begin to move south
and they then would flow by ? given
point in q steady. living river Of huge
cattle: the next day it might be i'm
possible to find single animal with
in days ride. they came and wen,
drifting over the lard as the feed and
water conditions dictated. In suramer
they lived on the high, grassy mains
of Montana, Saskatchewan. Alberta!
and the north, thousands and ti,aus-
arlIs of them In the winter they
di11fef t. the panhandle oil Tex is ,,
Mexico aid the arc Scuthwes
Nowhere in the world has therts
ever existed, so far as mans knew
edge runs. such an immense herd
of mrgr' fcent food aninrals-yet we.
as a nation threw away this supply of
beef by killing the herds for their ,
skins. Think of it! And buffalo leath-
er was about the poorest excuse for
leather that ever was known as lit
was porus as a sponge, though iti
would wear, if rightly tanned, like
alligator hide
The buffalo was very methodical |
animal If left undistarbed. Sow
moving. stupid in way, he asked
nothing of life except that he be
The weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1918-1919, 1918-12-20
The Job Graft In WASHINGTON

(From the Congre sional Rccord.)
Senator Smoot: l will suggest one
thing that think odght to be done.
and done Immediately; by every de-
paltment of the Government. | am
told that in some of the recently
created bureaus there are today EN-
plcyed over 10000 people and |
know of one of them as to which !
stated upon the floor of the Senate
the other day that the head Of a d.
vision of the bureau tod me that if
lie were allowed to select 40 per cent
Ct the employees, and had the abso-
lutte right Of direct ne their work, he
would accomplish more than is ac-
complished now by the 100 per cent.
Mr. Thomas. The Senator made
that statement a day or two ago. and
am very nuoh surprised to hear it,.
| should like to ask the senator why
the head of this bureau has not the
power to do what he would like to
10?
Mr.. Smoot. Mr.. President, the
head of the division is not the one
who directs the employment of the
person under him.
Mr.. Thomas. That is true of Il
persons under him.
Mr.. SmoOt. They are sent to him
by officials over him, and he is told
20 put them to work; and the head of
this division says there are so many
of them that they are in each others
way. and some of them never ought
~ BE- employed in any department of
the Government as they are totally
ignorant of the work. that they are
called upon to do.
Mr.. Thomas. Mr.. President, |
think there J. no doubt about that;
and yet ! am satised that there are
bureaus the heads of which have
ample powers both of employment and
of d scharge. That is the reason why
| am surprised al the statement of
the Senator. | fully concur in the
statement 10 frequently made here
that there are in this District per-
haps 80 per cent more employees, so
cafed, than are necessary. | do not
think there is any question about it.
The chances are-and | understand
that they are organizing for the pur-
poe, and that means political pow
er-that an effort will be made to
secure Their permanent retention in
office.
MIR. Smoot. That, Mr.. President,
is the danger we have to meet TODAY.
MIR. Thomas. The chances also are
that each of the great political part
les will enter into that situation, be-
cause it will be political asset.
Mr.. Sm0ot. In answer to that
suggestion. | want to say that, so
far as / am concerned, | shall not be
in the future approve of an appro-
prlat en- unless It is shown to the
members of the Appropriation Com
mittee, and by them to the Senate,
that is absolutely necessary that the
money be expended; and when a re- !
quest is made for u horizontal in |
crease of employees, asI has been done !
in the psist, ! want to say TO you
that the first thing we ought to do
IS to go into an investigation of the
request and find out whether they
are needed or NOT. ~
Mr.. Thomas. The Senator knows !.
hat bill is now pending in the
Serzte which does that very thing
he located Nolan bill. which has
PASSED the House. l am very glad
% hear the Senator take that posi-
The weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1918-1919, 1918-12-20

tion, because | am in full sympathy
with it.
Mr.. Penrose. ,Mr. President, |
should like to call the attention of
the Senator from Utah to eharac
teristic phraseolOgy. On page OF
the report of the committees, in the let.
ter over the signature of Franklin
H. Lane he saws:
"a million or two7 dollars, if
appropriated now, will put the work
well under way"
1t is a case of throwing around
millions. 1t does not much matter
whether they get one million or two
millions in Mr.. Lanes opinion.
Mr.. Thomas. Nav / ak the Sen
ator what the work is?
Mr.. Smoot Survey and classified
q on of unentered public lands. =.
MIR. Penrose. II is an ingenious
scheme to get money out Of the Treas
ury for very great purpose.
Mr.. Thomas. 1t is not that pur-
pose connected with the proposed
homestead policy for soldiers?
Mr.. Penrose. Yes: it is the bill
that we are discussing. but it is 50
absurd for the Secretary Of the In
terror to say: "G;ve me a million or
two million: one or two million will
hop along"
Mr.. Thomas: The Senators knows
that in these days a million is not
chicken feed when it comes to nation
al appropriations.
Mr.. Penrose. | am hopeful. now
that the war is over, that it will moi
be chicken feed.
Mr. Thomas. | hope so. too.
Mr.. Smoot. Mr.. President. it took
US a long time to learn to use the
word billions" Members of the Ap-
preparation Committee would be dis.
cussing question upon the floor, and
it was next to impo - BILE for any of
them to use the word billions" but
we have got to using the word so
flippanty and so often that nothing
short of a billion has been thought
worthy of consideration. As the
Senator from North Carolina (Mr.
Overman) suggests, if any member
of the appropriate ons committee I'M
dertook to save hundred thousand
dollars he would be laughed at: and
he might just as well have gone far
tfer and said that a mere question
of a million dollars was not worthy
of a moments passing thought.
Mr.. President, we have got to re-
turn to normal conditions. A recon-
structiop is to take place. As I've
said in public many times. | have not
been afraid of the outcome of the
war. Success to the arms of America
and her allies wss az sure as that the
sun would ris. on tomorrow. ] have
said that we would have no trouble
raising money or enforcing laws and
regulations during the time our arm
les we're fighting the enemy Of civil |
izatlon; but always had fesr as
10 oor future after peace was declar-
ed.
'THE GRAY MAN OF CHRIST
The weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1918-1919, 1918-12-20

simply for the Of
United States the Government
Of the railroads Con6scaon of
procedure and would
den placed the nation the result of the
during the generation The officials managing
should seek relieve rather than add
NUT Government ownership of
and if release the
the better off the railroads the will be-
The weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1918-1919, 1918-12-20

that in that Belgian church with
waiting audience of German officers
the worsnippers never bent the knc~.
There is strong contrast between
him and the figure the Log Angl,s
Times draws of his conqucror. Gen.
Ferdinand Foch-"The Gray Man of
Christ" "This has been Christ
war" says the Times. Christ on one
side, and al that stood opposed to
Christ on the other SIDE. And the
Gener;slissimo, is supreme command
of all armies that fought on the side
of Christ. is Chri>t's man"
Thc Times brings forward the re-
minder that "it is the business of the
newspaper to get at facts and eff
the fact: are supern2l nature. it
is still the business Of the newspaper
TO gel them and to record them
When this was written the full span
of Gen. Fcch's achievement hid not
baen covered but the end wa then
clearly in sight. We read:
"A California hoy, serving as
soldier in the American Expedition
airy Forces in France HIS recently
written q letter to his parents IN
San Bernardino in which he gives a
vel as any one else could give. The
answer to the question. we ask.
| "1hia American boy-Evans by
pamf-tells of meeting General Foch
at close range in France.
Evans had gone into IN old church
to have a look mt it. and as he stood
there with barred head satisfying h 5
respectful curiosity. a gray man with
the eaglAu on a general on the collar
of his shabby uniform also entered
the church. On y one orderly accom-
panied the quiet gray man. No git
tering staff of officers. no entoIrag
of gcld-laced aids. were with him:
nobody but lust the orderly.
Evans paid small attention at
first to the gray man. but Wa cur
iOus to- see him kneel in tn, church
praying. The minutes passed until
three quarters of an hour had gone
by before the gray man ,srosc from
his knees.
"TheE Evans followed him down
the street and was surpl ;sed to see
soldiers salute this man in great ex-
citement. and women and children
stopping in their tracks with awe
stricken faces as he passed.
ut was Foch. And now Evans. Of
San bernardino. counts the experience
as the greatest of his life. During
That three quarters of IN hour that
the Genera issimo of the a,l9cd armies
was on his knees in humble suppIica-
ton in that quiet church. 10000 guns
were roaring at his word on a hun
dred hills that rocked with death.
Millions Oh armed n1en crouched
IN trenches or rushed across blood
drenched terranes at his command
generals. artillery, cavalry, eng neerz.
tank, fought and wrought across til,
map OF Europe absolutely as he ,cm-
nianded him 70 do. and i'm NO ,t,'er
manner, as he went into that litt,e
church 70 pray.
IF Young Evans could have follow
Ell the General to h;adousrters
where reports were waiting for him.
md pews of victory upon victory was
piled high before him. Il, would
Lioubt-ss have seen a great gIadnes;
nm the Generals face, but he wcui,
nave seen no look of surprise there.
Young Evans, Just an every ds,
<niefiean boy. from under the
Ihadow of Old Gorgoliia, spent
Hearty an hour with Foch in am o'd
snerch church, and not even one
'aydnet was there to Keep them
part
The weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1918-1919, 1918-12-20
"WHEN THE FROST is ON THE PuNklN.'

Whom ,hc frost is OH the punkn and tire folders in the shock
And Won near kyouck gobbe of the sutn rKcyoch'
And the an guneys, End the cuckin OF the hens
And the hayooycI he tiptoes the fence;
q then's the feer is feeling at his pest,
With the rn greet him from night of peaceful rest
out TO feed the STOCK
When the frost is the folders in the SHOCK
rI,cy's Something knio' harty the atmusere
When Of the cooIn fall mere
and the blossoms the trees
and the buzzn Oh the bees;
E the ar, appetzn the landscape through the haze
@ ,crisp and of the arly autumn days
Is pciur' that painter has the colOrin to mock
When the frost the folders the shock
The husky rlsselof the tossels of the
of ed leaves, golden the morn;
The stumble in the furreskndc' onesomeske, but still
of the barns they growed to fill
The straystack in The the shcd
in stalls belowhc clover overhead:
OFT MY mart &c lex ike the tckn Of a clock,
When pInkn the folders the shock
The weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1918-1919, 1918-12-20

league Of armed
10 kills duke Uncle
bp union
The weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1918-1919, 1918-12-20

he tined of the United States playing Santa
get through puckng
the middle the Noting
The weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1918-1919, 1918-12-20

of Col T. Roosevelts remarks the
home folks about Preside Wilson'S in
The weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1918-1919, 1918-12-20

styles often hats the
nan would irvaiafry last years biri-ncst
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-05-03
War Conference, Montpelier.
May 10, 1918,

We hope it is generally understood
throughout the state what there is to be
a state wide conference to be held at
the City Hall, Montpelier, Vermont, on
the evening Of Friday, May 10th.
There will be present four speakers
sent from Washington who will assist in
educating our people to the practical
work necessary to be done in this emer-
gency.
The Red Cross, Food and Fuel
Administrations Boards of Trade.
Liberty Loan Committee, Four Minute
Men, Health officers, Knights of Column
bus, Salvation Army, Y. NJ. G. A, all
federal and state officers, county agents,
clergymen, editors, mayors, teachers
and superintendent, and all other per-
sons interested in war work are urged to
be present at this meeting.
We wish that every citizen in Yer
mont could understand how important
u National Government f%eelsit is that
every effort be made by all organization
to educate and stimulate a public
sentiment which will raise the Morale
Of our people to a higher standard.
Public information and universal
knowledge of what the war is, does and
will mean to our people is Of as vital
Importance to the nation as are our
military activities. The kind of support
given our army and navy and results
adequate to their efforts and sacrifice de-
pend upon public sentiment. This state
wide conference will be a training school
for members Of the different o~rganiza-
tions in the state.
We desire each District Committee
to began Immediately in every town
and make arrangement to have at least
n or more delegates present at the
Vermont War Conference, and would
ask the Chairman of such District Com
mittee to see that the churches in their
locality announce this conference.
Every state that has held a war con-
ference has reported meetings crowded
will enthusiastic gatherings that brought
news Of war work from all parts Of the
state,
Remember the date Friday, May FIFTH.
City Hall, Montpelier, has been assigned
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-05-03
''The Kaiser, "The Beast of
Berlin"

If it is humanity possible for a true
blooded American to witness The
Kaiser, The Beast of Berlin and
not feel the blood boil with resentment,
it has not yet been proven at the show
ing of this remarkable picture at the
Globe theatre, Boston or the Broadway
theatre, New York.
Now the arousing photoplay is com
ing to the opera house, Wednesday, May
Is for a four days run to stir the patriot
ism Of local PEOPLE and make them real
ize Just what it will ,mean to America
if this war is not won. The Mad-Dog
of Berlin" threatens dire vengeance on
America if he wins the present terrible
war and so it is well to see what his
fendish hordes have accomplished in
Belgium where cities and town were de
vastated, women despoiled and babies
murdered. Ignoring all the laws of God
and man this maniacal beast surges for
ward, spreading irightfulness and horror
wherever he stalks and seeking to strike
terror into the hearts Of people opposed
to him.
after this war, | will stand for no
nonsense from America said the Kaiser
to Ambassador Gerard before the decla-
ration of war by President Wilson.
And now with frothing hate the crazed
monarch promises America the same
inhuman treatment accorded Belgium if
he is successful in beating down the de-
Tense Of the Allies on the Western front.
These truths are so forcelully present in
"The Kaiser, The Beast of Berlin" that
the spectator cannot help but feel q
renewed determination to win the war
at all costs, if only to protect Il own
women and children from the lustluI
horrors Of the German hords,
While serving as the best sort of
American propaganda the production is
q dramatic story that holds the audi
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-05-03

ence in awe during its telling, calling
forth frequent outbursts Of anger and
resentment against this maniac war
lord and gains tremendous storms of
applause when Americas part in the
war is shown,
During the invasion of Belgium the
story introduces a giant blacksmith
whose phenomenal stength is a marvel
Of wonderment to the spectators. In his
effort to save his son who has thrown
a horseshoe at a German officer, he is
set upon by eight sturdy Huns and
emerges the victor only to be shot in
the back by another Hun officer and
LETT for dead. The little boy is caught
by the officer and his arm cut off "as
an example to other who might seek to
resist the Kaiser. Later, however, the
officer who shot the blacksmith and
NAMED his son, is caught in a house by
the frenzied smithy and strangled to
death, afterward being thrown into the
flames of a burning building.
And are these scenes too shocking
for the spectators? Nj The audiences
are so aroused by the terrible excuses
OF the Huns that they cry for further
vengeance, 50 that when the end comes
and the Kaiser is shown q captive in
Berlin to be turned over to King Albert of
Belgium and incarcerated in a prison at
Louvain, the aaudiences find it utterly
impossible to control their joy and eX-
press feryent hopes hat the end will be
nothing less than this.
"The Kaiser, The Beast Of Berlin "
will even make "a paciGst's blood boil
and becuse it so forcefuIIy presents the
seriousness Of the present war, it should
be witnessed by every man, woman and
child in America for the uniiylng deter
| mination it viii create to crush this mad
emperor and his devilish hordes who
would destroy the whole world to gain
their ends. Seats sold in advance at
Kane's Drug store, dance following show.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-05-03
FASCINATION or AIR LIFE
First Trip in Army AirpIane Is
Thriller Apart From Everything
Else in Life, SayG Filler.

An aviation student in one Of the
Western schools declares that the
sensation Of the first trip in one Of
the governments aircraft is not to be
compared with anything else he ever
experienced. He explained it thus:
Il wish had the ability to describe
the fascination of this work Of learn
ing to be the cavalry of the air, or
eyes of the army, or anything else one
chooses to call us.
Let me tell you that your first trip
in an afrplane is a thing apart, abso-
lutely new and different from any eX-
perience that you ever had.
you climb into the bus with your
sweater aud your leather helmet and
goggles, looking like something YOU
would throw u raw fish to if you saw it
in a cage, and the lieutenant shoves on
the power and you go humping and
bouncing along the ground with a big
wind in your face and the prop spin
ming out in front like a Dutch wind
mill gone crazy.
"Then suddenly the bumps are gone
and you go whirring swiftly and stead
lily up into the clear air and sunshine
and the earth falls away like a fade
away on a movie screen and the fool
ish little people on the ground urn up
their white faces at you as you go
over.
Il hope 1 don't get humps or liver
complaint or some fool thing that will
keep me out of it all. This is my pet
fear more than that of taking a fall
or getting smashed into"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-05-03

Another Vermont boy has made
the supreme sacrifice and given his
life on the soil of France for freedom
and justice. Samuel Darling was
born and passed his boyhood days in
the town of Groton, the SOL of Mr..
and Mrs. VIII Darling. The. Darl-
ings came from sturdy New Eng
land parentage and were among the
first settlers Of the town. Samuel
enlisted in Company D, First YER
mont and was on the. Mexican Dor
der He followed the call of duty
and bravely met the test. Samuel
Darling, Hero adds another golden
star to the list of Vermonters who
gave their lives in this great cause
where freedom and justice is battling
against 3espotjsm and the lust Of
conquest.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-05-03
Don't Have a Double Chin.

An Investigator declares that the
double chin can be controlled and very
largely mitigated. 1t depends largely
upon the carriage and pose Of the head.
The person who has a repeated chin,
or is threatened with one, should re-
call and practice DIR, Edward Everett
Hale's fsmods advice: Look up. not
down." The person who sits, or
stands, or Wallis. with an erect body
and keeps the chin up-tilted, can defy
the crease aud the fatty ridges.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-05-03

The Vermont Thrift club, organized 10 pa" 4a5e War Savings
and Thrift Stamps, is probably the most distinguished and al the
same time the most democratic organization ever formed in Vermont.
1t is intended to enlist in its membership all the Federal and State
officers and employees in Vermont and will thus have a member
ship of several thousand, and will include o equal terms all per-
sons, whatever the nature of their service-from janitor to chief
justice-servng the State or the United States or acting under Fed
eral or State commission in Vermont.
The above reproduction Of the sheet containing the autographs
of the first members to join the Club bears more signatures of prom.
inent officials than are often seen on a single document - more,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-05-03
She Got Good Results

This honest testimony from a
woman who has suffered should
be needed by all afflicted with back
ache, rheumatic pains, or any SYM
ptoms Of kidney andibladder trouble:
81 haYe got such good results from
Foley's Kidney Pills that | sleep
much better. Mrs. Chas. Gray
27O Sixth ST., Detroit, Mich"
John w. Thuraton, Adv.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-05-03
Cut this QUIT is worth money

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this
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writing your name and address
clearly. You will receive in return
a trial package containing Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound for
coughs, colds, and Group; Foley
KidneyPills and Foley Cathartic Tab
let's. John w. Thurston. Adv.