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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-26
SEVEN REASONS FOR
SAVINGS.

There are seven good reasons
why the government has issued
War Savings Stamps:
I. Save for your cSuntry's
sake, because It 10 now spending
millions 4 day, and must and
most Of the money out Of saw
ings.
2. Save for your own saks,
because work and wages are
plentiful and. while prices are
high now. a dollar will buy more
after the war.
3. Save because, when you
spend. you make other psople
work for you. and the work OF
everyone 10 needed now to win
ne war
4. Save because, by saving. you
make things cheaper for every
one. especially for those who are
poorer than you.
s. Save because, by going
without you relieve tho strain
On ships. docks. and railways,
and make transport cheaper and
quicker.
8. Save because, by saving,
you set an example that makes
II easier for the next man to
save. A saving nation 10 an
earning nation.
7. Save because every time
you save you hsip twice. hrst
when you don't spend. and again
when you lend to the nation.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-26
Had q Hard Bunk.

Some Of the returning New York
young men who have become officers
at Plattsburg tell amusing tales of
life In barracks, as lived by citizens
unused to army conditions. One of
them concerns an inspection OF quar-
tiers made by Capt. Philip Mathews,
U. s. A., during which n sleepy can
didate made an amusing error at the
wrong time. At the end of the bar
rack hunks, upper and lower, were
small cards upon which appeared the
name of the occupant, the number of
his rifle and the number OF his bay
onet. They were known as bunk
cards. Incidentally the hunks con-
tained tough mattresses and no
springs. Coming along on an early
morning inspection, Captain Mathews
raped on the side of n bunk from
which the registration card had dis
appeared. Bunk card!" he roared.
A sleepy voice within answered: "You
bet II iS--darued hard"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-26
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This
Letter
FINDING A DESIRABLE WIFE
Lonely Young Pioneer Who Did Not
Know How, Found It Was Really
Rather Simple.

In new settlement in the thick
forest, 20 miles or more from q city
and ten miles from railway, were
located sawmill and few scattered
homeSteaderS who worked ut the mill
when 1t was running and attended
their little clearings at other times,
relates writer in the Chicago Trib-
une.
one day In the cooks camp, connect
ed with the mill, the man and his wife
In charge began joking the homestead
er about being the only settler In the
whole community without a wife and
family.
How can help it?" said he. "There
know"
"Oh, there are lots Of them that would
be glad of a good home such as you
could furnish" said they.
"Well, you just find me one" said
the homesteader, land will make you
present of the best cow on the
place"
Not to be bluffed, they accepted his
proposition. Then they got busy, run
s'''S o'Ni VI dCQudluluuCeS
In the city, finally selecting, for their
matchmaking expedient, an estimable
lady Of their acquaintance, living with
her married sister in the city.
The victim selected for the sacrifice
had reached that age when unmarried
women cease to celebrate birthdays
and begin to regard the tapering end
OF statistical possibility with more or
less concern. The homesteader was
about the same age, and, evidently,
just as much concerned about his fu-
ture on earth. A friendly invitation
was forthwith extended to the lady to
spend week with the cooks family
at the camp. 1t was innocently ac-
cepted.
The homesteader was conveniently
invited to n Sunday dinner with the
cooks family, and the tragedy was
staged.
first sight. In the afternoon. chap
eroned by the cook and his wife, the
party casually strolled over to the
homcsteader's bungalow, where they
found everything "spick and span,"
with just enough incongruity in the
arrangement to make the fingers of an
orderly housekeeper tingle with ambi-
ton to put things in their proper cor
nerS.
A few months later the records in
the county clerks office gave n hint
of further developments, which were
staged at the sisters home in the city.
The happy couple at once settled in
their new home land lived happily
ever afterward."
In the excitement the poor cow was
crowded off the stage and forgotten
by the matchmakers, but short time
later, looking out one morning. they
saw Mr.. Homesteader driving a COW
Into camp-as good as his word.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-26
New Treatment for Bronchitis,
Asthma, Catarrh and Head Colds

the lungs. In addition, Vick's Is sbsorh-i
through the akin, relieving the tightneNs.
and soreness.
Vick's can be applied over the throat and
!chest and covered with warm dsan 4.
|cloth-or Q little put mp the nostnls -Ie
melt little In spoon and inhale the ~
pors arising. Also for Asthma and Has,
Fever, rub Vick's well over the sp,na, ~.
umn to relax the nervous tension D
SOC, or $1.00.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-26
PERUNA Best All
Around Medicine
Ever Made

Mr.. w. H. Edgar, 40 Cooper St.. Az.
lanta. Georgia, writes:
Il suffered for fifteen years with
rheumatic symptoms. Peruna cured
me and l think It is the best air
around medicine ever made. I hone
you will publish this letter for the
benefit OF others who suffer-"
Those who object to LIQUID medI.
clnes can procure Peruna Tablets.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-26

the solutions may De purcnaseu at c
drug store.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-26
Vices "Vsp-O-Rub" Sslve Relieves b
Inhalation and Absorpioa.

No need TO take internal medicines or
habit forming drugs for these troubles
When Vick's "vap-O- -Rub' Salve is applied
10 the heat of the body, soothing, medi-
Gated vapors are released that are inhaled
all night long through the air passages to
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-26

W.. s. 8.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01

ing of wheat and shelled corn. The
actual grading is done by licensed in
spectors who are not employed by the
department but operate either inde-
pendently from fees collected for their
services or are employed by CONNER
cial or state inspection departments.
The work of the inspectors is checked
up by representatives of the grain
supervision division of the bureau of
markets, which also maintains district
supervisors and serves as court of
appeals whenever grades assigned by
inspectors ON interstate shipments are
questioned by growers or dealers. All
this organization assures that wheat
and shelled corn inspected by licensed
inspectors Will be graded in sA.cord-
ance with the same fixed standards
whether sold by country elevators, at
terminal markets or In foreign mar
kets.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
WOMEN SUFFERERS MAY
NEED SWAMP ROOT

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney and bladder trouble and
never suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be;
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in healthy
condition, they may cause the other or
gans to become diseased.
Pain in the back, headache, loss of am
bition, nervousness, are often times symp-
toms of kidney trouble.
Don't delay starting treatment. Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp Root, physicians pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store, may
be just the remedy needed to overcome.
such conditions.
Get medium or large size bottle inn
mediately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
hlah Spots in Agriculture.


Notified butter is due largely to I'M
even distribution of salt.
Operation OF gins at rapid speeds
Injuries the fiber of cotton by cutting
Ii.
Three C's for caring for milk in the
home: Keep it cold, covered and
clean.
Oats watered to make them weigh
more cannot legally be shipped in in
terstate commerce.
A ton OF soy beans viii yield about
forty gallons of oil useful In various
ways.
One hundred and twenty-five pairs
of birds nest ON the averdge farm in
the Northwest.
CARTE flavor can be eliminated by
heating milk to 145 degrees +. and
blowing air through 1t.
The sense OF direction In migratory
birds Is as marvellous as 1t Is mystic
rious. The familiar inhabitants of the
d0oryard martin boxes return the next
year.. though meanwhile they have
Visited Brazil.
The melting point Of Southern-rnade
butter is higher where cattle are fed
eottonseed products,
Fall plo1Ing, disking and narrowing
help to destroy eggs of grasshoppers
and other insects.
Delicious table strip can be made
from Gull and waste apples by home
methods developed by the United
States department of agriculture.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
USING ncut-over" lands.

Agricultural possibilities of ''cut
over" lands In Louisiana have been
once more demonstrated by Ed Strain
Il farmer living mile and half north
of st. Benedict, producing bale OF
cotton an acre on cut-over land brok-
en- and prepared in the fall and planted
in cotton in the spring of the next
year. The fact that Mr.. Strain is a
blacksmith by trade and has taken to
farming only recently renders the agri-
cultural feat the more remarkable.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
Alr Mail for Spain.

A firm in Spain has applied TO the
Spanish government for the privilege
of carrying mail on airplanes through
out that country and between Madrid
and the Balearic islands. If authorize
ton is granted, the firm plans TO issue
stamps with the governments approx
al for use In this air service.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
GRAIN GRADE APPEALS

If farmer or dealer inter
ested in a lot of wheat or corn
sold by grade in interstate COM
merce questions the grade as
signed, he can take an appeal or
dispute to the secretary of agri-
culture, who determines the true
grade.
To take an appeal he must no
tify the federal district super
visor by telegraph, telephone or
mail, in advance of the arrival
of the grain in the market, of his
intention to appeal the inspec-
tors grade; or after the arrival
of the grain, within 48 hours
after inspection. The name and
address of the nearest federal
supervisor can be secured by
writing the bureau of markets,
department of agriculture, Wash
J ington.
A dispute is an appeal on an
interstate shipment of uninspect-
ed grain that moves between
! points where no licensed inspec-
tors are located and where the
grade has been determined by
shipper or receiver. The method
of taking a dispute is the same
as in the case of an appeal.
Farmers and dealers can take
} up all grain-grading questions
: by writing or visiting federal
grain supervision offices in the
: terminal markets.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01

Just as soon as you eat a tablet OF
Pape's Diapepsin all the dyspepsia, in
digestion and stomach distress ends
These pleasant, harmless tablets of
Pape's Diapepsin always make sick, up
set stomachs feel fine at once and they
cost so little at drug stores.-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
INDIGESTION, GAS,
UPSET STOMACH
HURRYl JUST EAT ONE TABLET
OF PAPE'S DlAPEPSlN FOR
INSTANT RELIEF.

No waitingl When meals don't fit
and you belch gas, acids and undigest-
ed food. When you feel indigestion
pain, Jumps of distress in stomach,
heartburn or headache. Here is instant
relief.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01

Migrating caribou along the Yukon
river near the American. Canadian bor-
der were SO thick last week that the
United States government steamboat
General JET Davis had difficulty IN
navigating among the animals swim
ming The river.
A national campaign OF education
regarding the conservation Of coal, 70
be followed rs system OF pledge
cards Il to be instituted under govern.
mental supervision according 20 speak
ers az conference 81 Chicago Of
manufacturers from Illinois and Wis.
consln
Thomas w Lawson. the Boston
fnaneier and independent candidate
for United states senator, Was injured
when his limousine was overturned on
the state road liz Northboro, Mass.
President Wilson was urged 10 ac-
cept only peace based upon uncondI.
tional surrender ID resolution adopt
ed at meeting at New York Of the
national war council Of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
Profitable pairyiaq.

High producing cows are the has
of profitable dairying. The most &c
nomical results cannot be obtain
with poor producers.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01

The foot pads of deaf cats are said
to be much more sensitive than those
of their fellows with hearing.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
Glorious Tins.

Singer-The hills are tipped with
gold.
Weary Waiter-I wish I was a
blooming hill.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
Our Part In Feeding the Nation
FEDERAL GRADING lasUREs STANDARD GRAIN.

peeal Inoma.on AgTiculture
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
WASHINGTON.

Inc war revenue iii VIII not be re-
ported 10 the senate until after the No
yembeF elections, Senator Simmons.
chairman Of The senate finance com
mittee, which Il revising the house
draft ~ the measure, announced Fri
day.
Fuel Administrators Garfield has re-
fused % grant bitnminons coal miners
an increase Of wages worked ont for
the anthracite miners. He held TINT
the bituminous situation did not re-
qulre wage increases.
The senate on October "a passed In
record dime the S8.0O0OoO,00o military
deficiency bin. the last important
measure 10 be considered before the
prediction recess begins on Tues
dny, The bin now goes 20 confer
enre,
Awards in controversies In the cases
Of ten street railway companies and
their employees We're announced 0c-
tober "a by the war labor board
Wages were az Issue in seven OF the
cases, and In eneh increases We're
granted the men.
President Wilson hns submitted the
German ptea for an urmistlee and
peace 70 the allies and at the same
time has Informed Berlin that there
can be no armistlee except upon terms
that would make Il Impossible for Ger
many 70 renew hostilitles
Continued Improvement In the influ-
enza situation In army camps and IN
a number Of states Is shown by reports
received by the surgeon general Of the
army and the public health service.
Ennr4rAi
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
How Grade Ase AppIled.

The bureau of markets of the de-
partment of agriculture now main.
tains 35 local offices at the principal
graln markets TO supervise the grad
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-01
FoREIGN.

army and the public health service,
FOREIGN.
Arrival in France Of Col II. NJ
House, President Wilson's personal
representative, and Admiral Henson,
the highest ranking officer In the
American navy, has cleared the way
for the beginning OF such deliberations
by the supreme war council at Yer
sailles as may be necessary 10 frame
the draft OF an nrmistice to be sub
mitted 70 Germany.
The sudden flare of activity on the
Italian front after months OF almost
complete quiet, attracted attention
Friday among military officials here.
Ii was noted, however, that first off
clal reports from Rome carefully re-
Trained from describing the actions as
drive.
Further success Of the alLRussian
government and the government Of the
north at Arehangel In their efforts to
raise armies TO oppose the Bolsheviki
and German forces is reported in
cnhlegrams received from Petrograd.
Field Marshal Won Htndenburg in a
letter 20 Prince Max of Baden, the
German chancellor, says: sThe Ger
man people have two alternatives
honorable peace or fight to the last
man"
The German war cabinet considered
President Wilson's renly ut a
lengthy session Friday, according to
the Frankfort Zeitung, II WAS decided
not 10 answer al the present time, but
IL walt until Il Is learned what the
eutente's armistlce conditions may be.
a practical agreement has been
reached between the Hungarian peo-
Iple and the Hungarian army 10 cease
tlghting on November !, no matter
what Austria's and C'ermany's attl-
tude may De toward President viii
sons last note says IN Amsterdam
| dispatch
i II Is reported az The Hague that the
political prisoners held ny the Germans
nj rurnhOut Belgium, northeast OF
Antwerp. Including Burgomaster
Adaiphe Max uf BRUSSELS, have been
released,
Prince Muximllian Of Baden, the
German chancellor, has been stricken
. hy influenza. berlin udSiees state, IN
sone quarters the question Is RAISED
whether IL Is the diplomatic brand q
Influenza that usually pece'les the re
tirement Of statesmen
Fhe famous helfry Of BrugeS VIA
aSed is the tseruAns as a garage an,
WORKSHOP during their occupation .
the city,
4 The icrmau-Aus5rian deputies In III
/, / Austrian relchstas have formed an Is
/ sembiy for the purpose Of condnctlui
, the affairs 80 the tiermanic people II
( Austria and have issued Il declaration
4 announcing the creation " the Ger
man state 81 Austria"
: valuable works Of art belonging I
: museums and private owners IN Ga
!. regions of Csllnhrni, nouai and Waller
elenncs. nov IN the hands Of the Gel
mans. win be returned uhdamaged
= their owners after the war. This al
4 nouneement Is made In Il German go
< eminent wireless message received
London.
* The Austrian authorities IN the pa
r 81 Poland occupied by the Austria
4. arms have formally handed over Il
s. administration 10 Polish authQritie
q. SAYS Vienna dispatch to the No
n.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
Purchasing Bureau
For State Planned
Controller Travis Drafts Bill In
tended to Save Thousands
Of Dollars

The establishment of q centralized
purchasing plan, under which all sup
plies needed for the state would be
bought, is contemplated in bill which
state Controller Travis has caused 10
DC presented to the Legislature. IF
me bill becomes law New York STATE
Controller Travis believes, will benefit
70 the extent of thousands Of dollars
annually.
The State OF New York purchases
annually about S9,000,000 worth of sun.
pmes, p 9lr. Travis says. THE present
organlzation of our government pro1
ioes Tor this function being executed
ny between 165 and 40 officials. WonId
private corporation buy under sncb
an arrangement? '''N"
purchasing in the commercial fio1a
mas been undergoing a rcaGinstmon+
N the last twenty years. Competit;n,' i'.;,,'
mas become so keen that the problem of
purchasing has been forced TO tbe at y !
.eh.ion Oh our executives. For so,no
otne ,nls ONCE, in Watching the con-.
9eaitI stream OF vouchers which annnai.
~ no"s through it, has been Of tho
opinion that in the purchase NJ s...lie .Ie
''o,r ,'au,rleS one central purchasing nn;t
composed of the heads of the d;frarnmt un,t !
departments could obtain hettnr I'll IL
aui.s at smaller cost than nu,rhe,
when would duplicate the won't, ;, oe'
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
8-Hour Day for Women
Is Fixed by State Bill
Necessary as Conservation
Measure. Declares Senator
Lockwood

Convinced that output cannot be
stimulated by longer hours and that
the health of the women Of the country
is Of as much Importance as the speed
ing up of preparations for war, State
Senator Charles r. Lockwood will in
troduce bill at Albany making it IL
legal for women or minors to work
more than eight hours day and forty
eight hours week.
Advocates of longer hours, Senator
Lockwood believes, are not promoting
efficiency or increased output from in
oustry, but only delaying things by
failing to recognize how fatigue enters
into consideration. In support of this
point he quotes from the report Of the
British Ministry of Munitions on
Hours of Work.
"All overtime is bad" the report
says. ave only work overtime if
driven to do so by the urgent demand
of the ministry, and even then our men
become disorganized, and it is doubtful
If our output is in any way increased !"
I'VE must not overlook the fact that
we are dependent on the health and
vlgor of these women to replenish the
depletion of our manhood which must
pc the tragic result Of this war." said
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
Week s Bill of Fare
For Five to Cost ST. |

Taking as a basis OF calculation
New York family with S11 week t.
spend on food, the American Museum
CT Natural History, according to bull
letin just issued, considers the follow
ing an ideal allowance for five patriot,
Americans for seven days:
Five eggs, two pounds of meat, five
pounds of fish, pound of cheese,
three pounds of beans and peas.
Seven loaves of Victory bread.
three and half pounds. of cereal.
twenty-four quarts Of milk, seven
pounds Of potatoes, twcntyfour
ounces of cornmeal, two pounds of
wheat flour.
Three and half pounds Of sugar,
and twelve ounces Of molusses, syr-
ups and preserves
Six ounces Of butter or butter sub
stitutes per person.; eight ounces Of
peanut butter and eight ounces Of
nuts.
Three apples. six bananas and
three ORANGES; three pounds of
prunes, dates, figs and raisins; four
pounds of canned fruit and tomatoes.
Four pounds of onions and other
vegetables. and two pounds of spin
ach and other greens,
The cost. the Museum experts esti-
mate, will be about as follows:
For starch foods, S1.90: sugars, 40;
fats, so: high-protein foods S2.35;
fruits and vegetables, $2.25; milk. S325
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18

stupid, but he has been left at the fo..
of the hill and can't climb alone 40.
is begged down with debt and lsct at
knowledge. lack of training. lacl " y.
example; but he is capable and will, - -
given chance Or helping hand. ro,ta
good. He will pay back in produns
of the land. in matetial wealth. eys...
dollar expended intelligently in his hes'
half. ''S oe-
Picture his depressing surround;,c.
in contrast with the we'll nour;shsd
we'll clothed and we'll housed farmas
Of the United States, living on h;s fn'.a
or five caballerias of land, with his WI
fliled barns, his automobile in front "
his door and respectable bank ac
count in the nearest town.
The difference between him and b;s
Cuban prototype lies not alone in the
lack Of education on the part Of the
latter. The American farmer was mot
always we'll 10 do. The beginning Of
his prosperity dates from the time
when certain essential facts were
forced upon him by experience and do
monstrated to his satisfaction thronos
the excellent educational work of H.
United States Department of Agricult.
ure.
He soon learned that farming with
the scythe, the OK and the hoe did not no,
pay; that such laborious effort proved
expensive and would never enable him
to more than exist. He soon found
out that only through the use of Labor
saving machinery, which increased his
acreage and gained time, so NECESSARY
"ltn the short seasons Of the north.
could he ever reach condition of in.
dependence an
Then came the double mouldboard
riding plough, later superseded bv tho
gasolene driven tractor. with its train
or disk ploughs and harrows draw
behind it. His corn and wheat we're
sown s, by riding drillers and seeders
II Jha1 planted several rows at a time
HIS tlelds were freed from weeds with
oouble-row riding cultivators. ~:
crop vas cared for, gathered. thrashed
chinery. ~ nia