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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-02-07
NtH Mntlrrt.'a SUIT

He has to join the fghn eavn mother here
hadn't much chanst days gone by to study jogafee,
SO mind is ruther hazy about where boy has gone
But his ma showed me paper that some ogaer had drawn
And started where Twin, crossed lot O land
And we went acrost a-hodin' of her hand
And a-fo1ern the finger of the other hand that
Over land and to where he has pitched his
And where he will do his fghn fer to make all people free
And hope that God ogves the pride his and me
When think of him yonder straight and tall
and true,
Hepn do the things his country has been called upon do
We always proud, reckon, he was littetad
The day he born his comm made full an glad
That my heart swole when looked down in his mothers
snilin face
And and told the critters every crter on the place
An he'd lay in a clothes basket pillow in the shade
OF tree his ma beside him, an the burrows that
Was the crOokcdest | reckon that a Teller drew
For no matter where started they would work back
them two!
And d kiss the babys mother and I'd hug the baby
would say giddap and start in my pown again.
Only come back to love them the end every row
IBLEENE there's heaven yonder but KNOW there's
one below.
Then he sowod and college when district school
Went there to study arnn an went at it like twas fun!
Then he showed me about arminI had faned was
&roWcd
But his knowledge made me wonder at the little that lnovyed
And that had by with and then he heard ounty call
And he bent and kissed his mother and shook hands with me,
and all
Of the farm without him. and lonesome as can
be,
But prouder than boy his ma and me-
For he had been sackernot that he COULD have been
that
Andhad let the others battle whilst skuked where he was at
We have thought that failures and that had lived
in vain
We stand his loss reckon stand sorrow and the pain
the Lord does send that and heads up just same;
For there is pride sorrow, but there no pride in shame
And couldn't have stood that and thank the we don't
have to!
Bein the Of his mother made him loyal and true
Judd Mortimer Lewis in the Houston Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-02-07

the slowest ship. The convoy system
also causes delays in loading and un-
loading, and congests terminals and
railways.
The stress of war time conditions
and the ships which are damaged but
not sunk by submarines or mines have
increased the number of ships under
going repairs until theyiare probably Is
per cent. of the total. The average
speed of ships crossing the Atlantic is
now less than 10 knots.
The seriousness of the submarine
threat is best stated in a receut utter
ance of cambridge Colby. a member of
the shipping board, who has recently
returned from Paris where he repre-
sented the shipping board on the Ameri-
can war commission to the allied war
council.
He says: THE German submarines
will sink in 1918 a tonnage greater
than the entire shipping production of
the world. The tonnage a year hence
will be less than it IS now. We should
take every man working on a tunnel
or bridge or skyscraper and put him
in the shipyards. When will we wake
up?"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-02-07
Save The Hens.

Every laying hen sold from the farms
before the first of Nav means a loss of
about 30 eggs to the food supply of the
Nation. These eggs are valuable food.
manufactured largely from insects,
weeds, and grass. garbage and waste.
The eggs, therefore, are almost wholly
a net gain in human food. Moreover,
the hen is just as good meat after she
has laid these eggs as before.
"Save the hens" is the message that
the United States Department of Agri-
culture is sending broadcast through
press notices ana posters, and through
its county agents, especially in the
southern poultrY-raising sections.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-02-07
AVIATORS WANTED
Men In This Branch of the Navy
Badly Needed.

Young men of Maryland who want to
serve their country should seriously
consider the Navy's need for men in
the Aviation Branch.
The Navy recruiting authorities at
Baltimore have been asked by the
Bureau of Navigation to enlist young
men as quartermasters for the Navy's
aviation branch, these men to eventual
~ become pilots after they have had
the necessary training.
In addition to quartermasters there
is demand for machnists and carpen-
tiers to work at their trades in the avia-
ton branch Of the naval service, these
Mechanics being given special training
in aviation technique.
The recruiting authorities are unable
to understand why there has not been a
quicker response to this need in time of
war.
The pay Of quartermasters, machin-
lists and carpenters in the aviation
branch is attractive and there are many
opportunities for advancement.
There is still need for apprentice
seamen and young men are now allow
ed to enlist in the Navy for the dura-
ton of the war instead Of the regular
four year term.
Full particulars of Navy enlistments
can be obtained from the nearest post
master; directly from the Navy Re,
cruiting Station, Calvert and Lexfng-
ton Streets, Baltimore, or from the
Navy Recruiting sub-statlons at Cum
berand and Hagerstown.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-02-07

for waters cities, and charge high
ones for inland cities having no water
ways. Parker does not believe that
the railroads will any longer be able
successfully to combat water traffic in
this way, because our commerce has
grown beyond the point where the rail-
roads can carry it all; but he recon-
mends that investors IN boat lines and
terminal facilities be given some assur-
ance that rail competition will not be
uncontrolled. This can be done through
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The Federal government will provide
the channels and the cities the termi-
mails. 1t will thenIbe up to private en-
terprises to provide the boats.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-02-07

Out of the maze of contradictory re-
ports, speeches and figures it is pos
sible to calculate the situation of the
worlds shipping today within a few
hundred thousand tons. The exact fig
ures are known only to the British ad-
miralty, the higher ups of the British
government and the American govern
ment and its shipping board But the
accompanying tables gives the actual
ship situation today within few hun
bred thousand tons. German submarine
losses are greater than ever before,
but no official connected with the ship
ping board believes that the submarines
are being sunk as fast as they are
being built
The ship sinkings for the last three
months of 1917 we're at least 80 per
cent less than the losses for the first
three months of unrestricted warfare
but even If the submarines do not sink
in 1918 a greater number of ships than
they would send down at this rate, the
loss would be tremendously threaten
ing.
Not only have ships been sunk, but
the whole volume Of traffic has been
curtailed by the adoption of the convoy
system To save the ships, they are
now conveyed by destroyers and cruz
sers. Bat tins slows down traffic, as
the speed of convoy is the speed of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-02-07

catine; also Montgomery, Selma and
Mobile on the Alabama River. There
is every reason to believe that the cities
will do their part In building the new
American TRANSFORMATION system.
Mr.. Parker illustrates the economic
value of water transportation by the
statement that the strength of a single
man is sufficient to move a modern
barge containing 1000 tons of cargo,
while dozen men could not bulge the
20 freight cars which would be neces-
sary to carry the same freight by rail.
This makes it Obvious that freight
can be moved at much lower rate per
ton mile by water than by rail, proyid-
ed terminal and other facilities are
equally developed Not to use water
transportation where it is available,
therefore, is economic wast-a waste
which we can no longer afford.
According to Mr.. Parker, the two
prime necessities for the development
of our new system of transportation
are CO. ordination of the railroads with
the waterways, and the education of
the people to the need for developing
waterway transportation.
The decay of our waterways has been
due almost solely to the competition of
the railroads, which were better organ
lied and more eliicientiy operated than
the boat lines. In the first place, they
haye been allowed to make lower rates
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-02-07
Can Submarines
Still Win War?
Gross Tons.

Gross Tons.
Total available tonnage for
North Atlantic Ocean Jan.
l, 19l7-alhed, neutral and
enemy ships seized. This
tonnage includes all coast
al or Gulf of Mexico ton
mage which could be di-
verted to ocean traffic and
includes the seven or eight
million tons used by the
British admiralty, the
British army or for traffic
across the English Chan
mel. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. %, 900, 900
Sunk by mine or submarine
in 19l7................... 1000, 900
Leaving on Jan. l. 1918. .... Is, 900 900
New ships completed in 1917
(eXtreme estimate) ...... 5000, 600
Ships seized from Germany
in U. S., Brazil, Siam, etc. $50, 900
Total available tonnage, Jan.
l, 1918 ;...........,.....2 81, $50, 900
To be built in 1918
Chairman Hurley's outside
estimate for U. S........ 1900, 900
Lord Curzon's hopes for
Britain. ........ 5000, 900
Other Observation-Disclosures
Pacific tonnage for Japan.
Germany claims to have sunk oyer
100000 tons dead weight in 1917.
This is nearly 100000 tons gross.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-02-07

WANTED: GIri for general house
work; good wages; two in family. Adj
dress Box 3l4, Mt. Lake Park, Md.
Advertisement DOT
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11
HATRED OF HUNS
GROWING IN j. s.
BARRING OF GERMAN LANGUAGE
FROM DISTRICT OF COLUMN
BIA SCHOOLS A SIGN.
MAY EXTEND TO COMMERCE
Congressman ShaIenbereer Tells One
Reason Why the Aviation Service Is
So Attractive to Young Americans
McCumber's Slap at Cummins.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

Washington. first legislative
action which indicates growing and
intense feeling against Germany and
the Germans was shown when the SEN
ate inserted a provision in the District
of Columbia appropriation bill provid-
ing that the German language should
not hereafter be taught in the public
schools of the national capital.
AS time goes on it becomes evident
that the Germans are taking a course
which will create as strong a hatred
of them in the United States as has
been created in other countries with
which Germany is at war. So far,
however, the feeling against Germany
has not reached the stage of legisla-
tive action to keep her away from any
commercial interests after the war is
over. But the activity of the U-boats
on this side of the Atlantic has Gre
ated talk in congress which may re-
suit in legislation of this kind.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11
INSTANT ACTION CALLED FOR
WrangelI, Alaska, Said to Be With
out Resident Physician, and
That Won't Do.

Members of the medical profession,
alert 10 its interests, should 20 out Of
their way to see that the doctorlesS
town of Wrangell, Alaska, is supplied
with a physician forthwith, that is, If
the void has not been filed within re-
cent days. Wrangell has been without
doctor for some time, and Is announc-
ing that horse doctor will do If the
regular kind cannot he supplied.
Every day that WrangelI enjoys ro-
bust health without IA physician in Its
midst Is 4 potential menace to the
business of all the brethren of the pro-
fesSion. Some man with nose for
news is likely to bore into compare
tive death rates any day. How would
the brethren like To read calm state
ment to the effect that Wrangell's
death rate has decreased per cent IN
the last -four months? And II might
easily happen Alaska being so bloom
ing hcalthful, anyway,
How is anybody in Wrangell to know
that he has appendicitis or gallstones,
or impossible tonSilS, or adenoids, or
arterioscleroSis, unless resident pill
sharp is there to tell him?
There are lot of people who will
fret and lose flesh If they are not quite
sure what they have to worry about.
The reported void at Wrangell should
he filled, and rthwith.-Scattle Post
Intolligeucer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11
KIDNEY TROUBLE NOT
EASILY RECOGNIZED
Applicants for Insurance Often
Rejected

An examining physician for one of the
prominent life insurance companies, IN an
interview of the subject, made the as
tonishing statement that one reason why
so many applicants for insurance are re.
Jected is because kidney trouble is so com
mon to the American people, and the large
majority of those whose applications are
declined do not even suspect that they
have the disease.
Judging from reports from druggists
who are constantly in direct touch with
the public, there is one preparation that
has been very successful in overcoming
these conditions. The mild and healing
influence of DR.. kilmer's Swamp Root is
soon realized. 1t stands the highest for
its remarkable record OF success.
We find that Swamp Root is strictly
an herbal compound and we would adj
wise our readers who feel in need of such a
remedy to give it a trial 1t is on sale
at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes,
medium and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
kimer & Co., Binghamton, n. Y. for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11
WHEN HE WAXED ELOQUENT
Photograph Record of Just What Mr.
Smith Said Might Have Been
interesting.

Speaking at dinner. Representa-
tive Joseph ]. Russell of Missouri re-
ferrcd TO the glory Of feminine fash
lens and fttingly relates little story
along that line.
Recently Smith and Jones met in a
restaurant. and while daintily manip-
ulating the abbreviated bits, their talk
turned to comparison of domestic
expenses First it was beef, next it
was butter, and finally millinery came
up for Il few sighful remarks
"You should have seen the peach
of hat my wife toted home a few
days ago" said Smith. ut was all
plumes and other embellishing things,
and, after telling me that 1t was stand
ing against my account at $50 she
sweetly asked me what / thought of
it."
II see" was the smiling response
of Jones. "Of course you told her"
"Oh. yes" answered Smith, with n
grim expression. 81 simply raved over
that hat for an hour. '-Phladelp
Evening Telegraph.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11

Lieut. Reginald b. Jones, formerly
organist at the Commercial Street
Baptist Church, Newport (Mont),
writing from France, says:
The padre came along on Sunday
evening. and our battalion had an
open-air service while the shells were
whistling over and the German planes
lowering We salved an old piano
from a ruined cottage. 1t had seven
notes missing and three holes from
shells in it, but we mended the wires
with telephone wire and string !
played it for the service, the tier
having tuned it. In spite of the great
discords we had fine, hearty singing -
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11

Success in the house of representa-
tives is not always followed by sue
cess in the senate. In fact, great
deal of prominence in the house OF rep
resentatives is rather a detriment TO
man when transferred to the upper
branch of congress, particularly II he
continues to be active and assumes
position of leadership. This has Deeh
shown in the case of Senator Under
wood of Alabama, who was all-po"er-
full in the house, more powerful thah
the speaker by reason of his position
as chairman of the ways and means
committee When Underwood came
to the senate he received his first set
back by antagonizing Chairman SIM
mons of the finance committee on
revenue bill. Not even his prestige as
the manager of several revenue bllls
in the house gave him any particular
power in the senate and Simmons
found ii comparatively easy to WIN
out. Underwood's second reverse
came when he tried to amend the rules
so as to limit debate. The negative
vote was not due to the fact that I'm
derwood was comparatively new man
In the senate, but there were a great
many older senators, and quite num-
Der who voted with him, who took
great deal of satisfaction in the result
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11

medicine for woman's ailments / ever
saw. Mrs. SARA SHAW, r. No. l.,
Portsmouth, Ohio.
Mrs. Shaw proved the merit of this
medicine and wrote this letter in order
that other suffering women may find
relief as she did.
Women who are suffering as she was
should not drag along from day to day
without giving this famous root and
herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, a trial. For special
advice in regard to such ailments write
to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn,
Mass. The result of its forty years
experience is at your service.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11

The United States senate is some
happen after the coming election: 1t
is not so much matter of political
complexion Of the senate as the per
sonnet. OF course both political par
ties would like to have their side win
and be in control, but above political
control is the personal equation.
Not only is the senate threatened
with Henry Ford from Michigan, but
it is barely possible that two women
senators may appear on the 4th Of
next March. OF course there is no
objection to Henry Ford, save that
the senate would much prefer pro-
found statesmen. lawyers who could
become great diplomats or constitu-
tional opponents. The senate is com
posed mostly of lawyers, and it does
not now take and never has taken
kindly to the business man as a states
man. The senate was ready TO turn
the cold shoulder to Mark Hanna be-
cause he was the business man in pol
itics.
AS TO the ether phase of the ques-
ton, ii is quite possible that n num-
Der of senators will welcome the wom-
en- when they come, but take the SEN
ate as a whole II is likely that the In
novation of women senators is going
to cause some CONSERVATION.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11
Letter from the Dead.

On the body of a British soldier
recently killed at the front, was found
the following letter addressed to his
mother: 81 am dead; have lived
my life, fought the good fight. and
given my life Willingly and happily
for your sakes on the altar of duty.
The fighting will be severe, the suf-
fering great but, mother darling,
every child whom God receiveth He
scourgeth 1t is only part of the imi-
tation of our blessed Lords life just
a weak. unworthy imitation-but the
best a poor, puny, sinful child can
make l plead with you not to worry
Put all your faith. your hope, your
trust in the God of love"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11

Four senators who had announced
their intention of retiring from the
senate at the end of their terms next
March have for one reason or another
been compelled to reconsider their de-
termination. Two of them, Nelson Of
Minnesota and Warren of Wyoming,
are survivors of the Civil war. The
death of Senator Borahs colleague in
duced the Idaho senator to reconsider
his determination to quit public life.
The political situation in New Mexico
and the urgent demand of friends final
~ compelled Senator Fail of that state
10 reconsider his determination to
leave the senate.
81 had arranged all the affairs for
my future life" said Senator FAN, "and
had fully determined to quit public
life, but conditions have arisen which
have made it practically impossible for
me to do So" Generally speaking
personal friends of men insist upon
their remaining in the senate, but it is
always an advantage TO the senate
when experienced men continue in that
body.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11
FRECKLES


There's no longer the slightest need Of feeling
ashamed Of your frcckles, as Othne-double
strengths guaranteed to remove these homely
spots
Simply get an ounce OF Othine-double
strength-from your druggist, and apply a little
of it night and morning and You should soon see
that even the worst frecklcs have begun 20 dis.
appear, while the lighter ones have vanished en-.
ttrely. 1t is seldom that more than one ounce
Is needed TO completely clear the skin and gain
. beautiful clear complexion
BE sure to ask for the double strength Othinc,
as this is sold under guarantee Of money back
If IL fails to remove freckles,-Adv.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11
Goose Was a Fiuhter.

Fighting n goose man had an ex-
citing experience at Grand Lake, New
tcundland, the other day. The man
was goose hunting, and It being after
nightfall he had a searchlight rugged
upon his boat, when he came upon two
geese in the distance perched upon n
piece Of ice. He fired and struck one
of the birds. He FASTENED to secure It,.
when the other attracted by the light
flew right on board the boat, and for n
considerable time both huntsman and
bird fought with each other upon the
dark waters of Grand lake.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11

The critics Of large appropriations
have not been able to reduce expendi.
lures. The fact Is the larger the ap.
preparation bills the quicker they pass.
The time was when the sundry civil
bill would occupy two or three weeks
in the house. Carrying about $1,000
100000. it passed this year in about
the same number of days. Congress
is certainly doing its duty In the mat
ter OF furnishing money for the gov
eminent. The only appropriation that
has been cut down was that for Creel's
bureau of public information. The
house trimmed about 81 900 600 from
Creel's demand, but that makes no
difference as Creel can get the money
from the presidential emergency fund
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11

II is also su-mised that Chairman
Kitchin and a number of house lead
ers are perfectly willing to give time
now In order that the business OF the
house may be cleared up and so that
there may be no interference with the
revenue bin when it is brought in for
consideration.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11

No one has yet been able to find
method for keeping senator's in their
seats during any kind of n debate.
One of the arguments in favor of limit
ing debate In the senate was that II
would make senators remain. Senator
Sherman of Illinois insisted that no
matter what the senate did 1t could
not force senators TO stay and listen
to speeches in which they were not in
terested. The Illinois senator went In
to the subject at considerable length,
Analysing the methods pursued not
only in the congress of the United
States, but IN the parliament of Great
Britain, and proved what every legis-
lator knows. that comparatively few
men remain in the chamber TO transact
the business Of congress and parlla.
ment.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11
The Accepted Time.

"Merciful powersi' horrifedly Ella
culated Tennyson j. Daft, glaring at
his newspaper. "a well-known East
ern editor says that poets should be
killed at the age of twenty-six. What
a brute"
"Of course, he is a brute, to talk OF
allowing them TO poster the suffering
public so long" replied old Hector
Harsh, Poets should be killed at tho
age of sixteen, or. If the symptoms are
discovered so early, at siX."-Kansas
City Star
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11
Proverbs Circulate.

Proverbs undoubtedly have fen
dency TO travel They are carried
from one land TO another by emil
grants, tourists. missionaries, trades
men and seamen; brt many which are
closely similar doubtless owe their
origin to no common stock, but TO the
common experience of mankind.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-11

There is real sentiment in the case
of the dairy farmer boy who, when
he was sent a can of condensed milk
over in France. christened it "Hol-
stein Belle" and made a stall for 1t
with two bits of board on the shelf
in his dugout.