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so far as possible, upon the same volunteer basis. He has expressed his confidence that this difficult matter of food administration can be success fully administered through the volun- tary cooperation and direction of legitimate distributors of foodstuffs and with the help of the women of the country. The proposed food ad ministration is intended, of course. only to meet a manifest emergency, and to continue only while the war lasts"
 Amcrica's Food Problems.
 In accepting President Wilson's re- quest to become head of the food ad- ministration Mir. Hoover stated that it was entirely upon the assumption that Congress would grant broad powers t., the resident on which q Competent adm .nlstration could be set uD. Il hold strongly to the view that while large powers are nc. 's .~rv for minority cases they will p -obabl- need but little applicatio.'. s'r the ast majority of the proiuclls a14 dis tributing clements in the coun.ry are only too willing and anxious to serve ou. national necessities"
 Tn prosecuting America's problem in ] Q general way Mir Hoover states that this country normally; produces a sur plus of most commodities. and thai
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PRESIDENT BACKS
 SHUT-D0WN ORDER
 GARFIELD STANDS PAT
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railroads. who said that the railroad congestion would be cleared ill few weeks.
 Reports to the fuel administration said observance of the order in tue territory to which it applied was gen. eral: some few violations were noted. but most of the violations, it was be- lievcd, were due to misunderstanding. pr. Garfield declared tonight that while t would be comparatively easy for plants to evade the order. he be- iieved there would be few violations. There will be no more general ex- emptions of plants, Dr, Garfield said. except over the signatures either of Secretaries Baker or Daniels.
 Publish Interpretations.
 Tomorrow the fuel administration is expected to make public a list of in- terpretations and specific cases. which will be given general application, in addition 10 a long lis. of exemptions of tood-producir plants and related industries. It was announced that au- ditional exemptions would be mdae by state food administrators.
 Officials who have contended thai the best way to handle the coal sit',' ation was by denying fuel to non essential industries, viewed the clos ing order with more favor tonight when they learned of the exemption of war industries. The order as I stands cuts eff all of the so-callet non-essentials, and while it denies fue also to many industries producins necessities, il was evident tonish that its application would be far les drastic than believed at first.
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Purest Irish Blood.

The purest irish blood is not to be found in Galway proper, for the town was long held by the English, and cen. turies ago it did an immense trade with Spain that resulted in mixed mar. riages, producing sundry heads of black hair and black eyes. But across the little river. by the bay, is fishers colony where the oldest Irish blood is still pure. This little group have mar -ied strictly among themselves, and their stock Is said to go back to Irisb natives who even antedateG the Irish Celts. They are still recognizable as a slightly different type going about the streets of Galway selling their fish, as they and their fathers before them oave done for cen:urlca.
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Idea of Ancient Orioir.

All peoples in all times have seen an intimate connection between the moon and fruitfulness, both animal and vegetable. "Even now" says the New York Medical Journal, "the on ions which come to our city market owe their excellence to the farmers careful conjunction of planting time with the phases of the moon." Such ideas have been so universal that mans unconscious mind still preserves them, though his judgment may scorn them as absurd.
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with our allies in many imno-,, x questions involving exports from country and our common import t,' 'E other countries.
 In line with the third division o,r Hoover's program was the recent ,M quest made of every American vor, N to join as an actual member of NJ food administration and give sH pledge that as far as means and s,E cum stances will permit she will s.N out the instructions which will be ,, her in detail from time to time
 There is no service .n this ws,. our own country and our allie, which the women of the country q, so we'll enlist themselves as in s one," says MT. Hoover, land the s, cess of the food administration vi rest very largely upon the support ? receive from them."
 In one of his recent public tsM he said further: 1T am confident tls the whole of this service can be r, ried out by the men and women e| the country on volunteer basis mI l can see no other means by which t5| problems can be adequately solysI in the United States. My ambition I to see my own people solve their or| problem.
 There are six general princlys| which will govern the informatlon d be sent out from the food adminlsus ton headquarters in Washingu These will have for their object a. saving of wheat, the saving of ms. the saving of fats, the saving of td supplies chiefly by the use of pera. able substitutes for staples, the as ing of transportation, and the saTs of all waste by preaching the "goEa of the clean plate," the buying Of lsa foodstuffs, the serving of smaller pr tions and by other methods set fort
 For the woman who is willing take the pledge of cooperation wit the food administration there s
 card insignia to be hung in the vii dow of her home showing the vol that she is with the Government it's effort for food conservation. The 1 is also a prescribed kitchen union designed in the office he Food A
 ministration which !s prlVlles to wear If so minded. In itself th is a measure of conservation, osa neat, practical and inexpensive.
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Preservind Flowers.

A method of preserving the M7 ral colors of flowers consists m us1 ing salicylic acid on the pants asu1 lie in the press and removing II WI n brush when the flowers aye qpl dry. Red colors in particular are S1 preserved by this agent. AnothernV] cd of applying the same preser'au] is to use q solution of one pun salicylic in fourteen Of alcol0' means of blotting-paper or eO"j wool soaked in it and placed apo't'1 below the flowers. Powdered U u~"' acid yields nearly as good resulp>
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Dante Used Few Superiatives.

A contributor to the Italian revie" Minerva, with time to s.,arc. has made Il count of subStantiveS and adJecnVcS in the works of Virgil. Dante ana Leonardo. In the second book Of the 4, aid, which contains the Fall of Troy. there are 1,GS1 nouns and aS'' adiectves. In Dante'S "Divina Com edia. out of the G.2l5 adjectives whicl. it contains, Cnly l1 are in the suprrlative.
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Shoots Money Into Bank.

For the thrifty soul with sportsman like tendencies d novel savings bank has recently been invented. By clev- CT arrangement of the bank and a small gun on metal stand you are able to shoot your money into safe keeping. The bank is concealed by a targetlike arrangement with a slot ir the bulls eye. The iMckel. dime Q, quarter is placed in rhe gun; the trig ger is pulled and the coin flies sn'e the bank.
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Area of Surface of the Ea. tn.

The superficial area of surface of the earth is estimated to be 1G.197,- GOO square lniles. of which ao,5ooot square miles are land and 14l.O5oWn souare miles water. Of the entire land portion the best estimates place the fertile regions at 29,00000o square miles; unproductivc plains, t4,oo0,ooe souare mics; deserts, 4,S61 ,ON squar' niles polar regions of ice-boahd an' md water. 6,97O.O'N, square miles.
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INTERSTATE BOWLING TOURNEY.

' Aurora, III. Jan. 1S.-Beginning to- day and continuing for a week or longer. this city is to be the host to the fourth annual tournament of the Interstate Bowling association. More than one hundred five-men teams are entered from various points in Wis consin. Iowa, Indiana and Illinois. Four thousand dollars in cash prizes will be distributed among the winners in the several events.
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leos Didn't Meet.

Dickie was out playing on damp, cold morning dressed in a thin suit and short socks. Later he entered the house. vanly trying to pull his little trouSer leg down to reach his sock, and said to his mother: "Diclie'S all warm, mamma 'cept where his legs don't meet"
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Paths to Happiness.

It is the most beautiful tru'n morals that we have no such u. as q distinct or divided interest DN our race. In their welfare is ours ' by choosing the broadest paths ''v, ' feet their happiness we chooSe v surest and the shortest to our o"D Bulwer Lytton.
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Feed Two Oceans.

While making measurements of river flcw in the upper Mississippi river bas- ins and In the Hudson Bay recently, the United States geological survey discovered that some of the rivers un- der investigation empty into the Arctic ocean during certain seasons and into the Atlantic ocean at other times.-. Popllar Sc;anco Monthly
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~ ONE WEEKS AGO every wom- an in the country was asked to N sign pledgc-card asking her to join the Food Administration in Washington in the service of food conservation in the United States as far as circumstances permitted.
 While most women signed the cards because they knew that the cause to which they were pledging themselves was right and righteous one. many of them know Httle of wrat the Food Administration is and wha, 1t is try ing to do.
 The Food Administration Is war emergency measure iEaugurated by the PresiGe1t of the United States for the coEtrcl and conservation of :cod during tEa war so that this Eat.s'' may not suf.%s from the prevail'~- short- ago of 7oaa.s:~.1s now OF = '>.e fu- ture: ara also th.t those natiVnI with which the Castec <r1,es Is aln-H in the wac ~-AJ arc eAort of focdzruf: may b6 aided by this country.
 Who Is Hoover:
 The mcc who was appointed by the President to undertake the all i'm portant task of food administrator 1: MT. Herbert c. Hoover, born in Iows. graduate of Stanford University. Cali fornia, mining engineer by profession
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FIGHT FOR UNIVERSAL SERVICE.

New York, Jan. 1S.--The Natlonal Security league. through it's 2So branches, has arranged for a general celebration of a universal military
 training day tomorrow. In thls clty
 there will be luncheon at the Hotel Astor at which the guest Of honor VIII he Senator Chamberlain ot Oregon, chairman of the senate conhn1ttee on military affairs, and author of the first universal military training Dill.
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The Busy Gaxa.

In almost every particular the mod ern Gaza is an Egyptian rather than a Syrian town. It is full of rich vege- tation, and its many glistening nina rets show up against the dull green of innumerable olive trees. Gaza is still as of old, place of trade, of cameis and caravans, and it's bazaars are louG with traffic and filled with merchan- disc.
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Evolution cf the Almond.

One would scarcely suspect the al- lnond of ever being anything else than nut, Outside the shell is thin coating of green, leathery pulp too bit ter to eat and not much more inviting than the husk of a hnZelnut. Yet, within historical times. selection and cultivation have modified the almond into a luscious fruit--the peach.
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cettino Some Place.

"Selfishness don't git you nowhere" said Uncle Eben. De man dat makes de most of his opportunities is de man dat makes de most opportunities for other folks"
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Word From Brer Williams.

I wants ter git happy. but not too happy; bekaze de closer I gifts ter heaven, de more skeered is dat deyu pull me in wen l ain't luokln'-At' (antu Constitution.
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Too Much Competition.

"Now. where do you want you' speech to come:" Put me on before the celery is served. Two hundred people eating celeryea1 unison make 1t very difhculst" &a'"
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Bloody Run


Mr.. Samuel Burr spent Saturday
with his daughter, Mrs. William Har-
rison, at South Manchester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ollie Antle spent Sun
day with the latters grandmother,
Mrs. Ryan on Bull Creek.
The Misses Frandie and Mildred
Montgomery of Ohio, spent Sunday
here with friends.
There is several cases of Flu" in
this section of the county, but none of
them are serious.
Mr. Robert Gayhart and family are
visiting friends near Olive Hill, Carter
county.
Mrs. Samuel Adams and little son,
Robert, went to Cincinnati, last week
to have a catarrh removed from Rob
ert's eye.
Mr.. Charles Bradford of Cincinnati
spent the past week here with his
father, R. B. Bradford
The little daughter of Henry Wise
is able to be up after being confined
three weeks with scarlet fever.
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Something New
Something Good
Big Pound Cans
Pacific Brand
Species of TUNA
THE SHOCK OF PEACE

When will the war be over? Mil
lions in their hearts hope that it may
be soon, but the thinking man may
we'll fear the consequences of peace
which finds us-Hnprepared.
Let us picture the arrival of peace.
All the worlds millions will be wild
with joy. The expectation of sacrifice,
privation and death will be supplant-
ed with a frantic relief The look
ahead down the long hard road of war
instantly will be wiped out and in its
place will come happiness and n new
atmosphere filled with rosy visions
But, oh! the cold, gray dawn of the
morning after, when we battle our
heads in icy common sense and face
the facts of a world half-destroyed, of
cities uprooted, of manufactures di-
Terted from their normal course, of
industries all twisted from their old
foundations, of whole populations de-
Elected from the wonted ways they
must again learI to travel.
Let us be selfish for a moment and
blot out the awful picture of Europe.
Let us consider only our own United
States which war has as yet appar-
emily so lightly touched.
Do you realize that at least ten mil
lions of laborers are employed today
in filling war orders, in making NUM-
lions for war, and in supplying with
food, clothing and otherwise, our arm
les in the field? Do you realize thai
on the declaration of peace the United
States will have in uniform in the
army and navy four or five million
men?
What will happen to affect these
soldiers and these laborers? The first
thing probably will be the cancella-
ton of war orders. Every factory, ev-
cry industry organized on a war basis
will be obliged, in the space of a few
days, to place itself on a peace basis
and in doing this it will face the stark
unknown.
If there are two million or more
American soldiers in France 1t may
require two years to bring them all
home, but many of them will return
Immediately. Meanwhile, and this as
soon as peace is declared, those as
sembled in environments in this coun'
try may be disbanded. What are these
soldiers going to do, theor former oc'
equations largely gone, and coming
back to world where Industries are
partly if not wholly stagnant, where
offices are filled with substitutes
where factories are closing down?
We are floating now in the high tide
of an artificial war commercial activ
ity. How many have saved the extra
wages earned? How many are read!
to meet protracted period of unem
ployment?
OF course, employers will make ev
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OBEY ORDERS!

try so that no one is able to buy to
the extent he once did the food the
farmer grows? What happens to the
farmer when the prices of the food
stuffs fall lower and lower and there
is no desirable market even for the
little which he half-heartedly grows?
That which happens to the farmer,
to the laborer, to the business man,
to the clerk, to the professional man
and to the fnancier is that which hap
pens to the entire complicated struc-
ture of the nation.
1t is panic. 1t happened in 1898, in
a Democratic administration, and the
effects of it were felt in this country
for four years until a constructive Re
publican administration came into
power and again filled the American
dinner-pail and again set the Ameri-
can nation on its feet.
1t is not the purpose here to fright
en-. 1t may be necessary first to
brighten so that we may realize that
the situation this country may face is
imminently dangerous. But, unless
this fright produces a constructive ac-
ton nothing is accomplished. If we
are not frightened that we may be
prepared, then we continue in idle
dreams of the automatic prosperity of
peace, until stern reality overtakes us.
Now is the time to prepare for Re-
construction. For practical purposes
we can read the lesson for tomorrow
in the pages of yesterday.
The Republican party, always con-
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CATCHING HIS TRAIN

1t is rumored that General Botha
will come to America to do British
propaganda work.
Beside being a magnificent soldier
General Botha has a pretty wit.
On toward the end of the Boer war,
during a colloquy between Botha and
Gitchener about armistice terms
Botha rose to go when Kitchener
said:
Don't hurry; you've got no train
to CATCH"
That's just what l have" Botha
answered, and hustled off.
Kitchener heard next day that
Botha had carried out a raid that
night and captured British armored
train on the Delagoa Line.
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AIBAC0 ORE

cry possible haste to switch their fac
tories over to peace products and to
reconnect with peace markets and
peace customers. But all this takes
time.
Each man should ask himself
what has he saved what place has he
ready to jump into when the one he
now occupies is taken from him eth
err by the shutting down of the work
or by the return of soldiers to whom
the country owes first care.
Remember, too, that this shock of
peace will hit us at theN0oment when
the cost of living is at rs pinnacle.
Never before in our history will bread
have cost so much, never before in
our history will clothing, fuel and the
essentials of life have been so high.
Millions will face on one side the
chasm of unemployment and on the
other the mountain peak of the high
est prices ever known for living es
sentials.
What will happen when demagogues
may appear on every hand to preach
anarchy and fear and envy and dis
trust, and when the demagogue has
for an audience not only those of his
own ilk but the vast army compelled
against its will to be idle and hungry?
Then through the streets of the cit
| les may be heard the hollow clink of
the empty dinner-pail. Then through
the stagnant factory aisles may wan
der the underfed workers. Then will
millions call upon those who have
been temporarily their rulers for a
terrible accounting.
That we may have a bStter idea of
what this initial era of peace may be,
let us go back to the panic of 1893.
Let us take from history one startling
essential fact The consumption OF
wheat in 1898 was largely reduced.
Think what it means to have large
part of the normal amount of wheat
bread taken from the millions, the
hundred millions! Bread is the last
thing which human being denies
himself. If the people are buying less
than their ordinary amount of bread
how much less do you imagine they
will purchase of automobiles or furs
or diamonds? If people are forced to
buy less than their normal supply OF
bread, what becomes of the steel in
dustry, what becomes of the coal
mines, what becomes of the thousands
of factories manufacturing every con-
ceivable kind of material, what hap
pens to the transportation facilities
that convey the freights which are
composed of these materials; what
happens to the banks who supply the
credit which supplies the money tC
meet the pay-rolls of these industries
of these factories, of these transpor-
tation systems?
What happuens in such condition
to the farmer when he looks for a
market for his crops and finds that
the bank, having contracted its credit
has contracted every phase of indus
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DIVORCED AND MARRIED AGAIN
IN SAME HOUR

"Hattiesburg, Miss - Divorced and
married within an hour is the exper-
fence of Mrs. MILFORD Joseph, who a
short time before was Mrs. Mabel
Skaggs. At least, that's the way the
records read at the courthouse. The
record in chancery court shows that
Oscar Skaggs and Mabel Skaggs
agreedd to divorce. Judge Denny
allowed decree, The record in the
circuit clerks office shows MILFORD
Joseph and Mrs, skaggs secured u H.
oense to marry shortly after the d.
yorce proceedings were concluded,
Joseph IL a soldier at Camp Shelby.
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Correspondents to please Dtue facts as briefly "a
,ossiLte. When anything Of great Importance occurs
use The telegraph or tie Telephone at our expense
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prescribe that parcels must not ex-
coed twenty pounds in weight and
must be so prepared for mailing that
the contents can be readily examined.
The parcels must bear the name and
address of the sender in the upper left
corner of the address side. The full
name of the addresses, together with
his hank or rating must be given,
along with the words christmas box"
or christmas present" They are to
be addressed Care of supply officer,
Fleet supply base, Twenty-ninth
street and Third avenue, Bush Ter
minal station, Brooklyn, N. Y"
They will not be handled through
the Red Cross, as are army parcels,
but practically all other conditions as
to contents, ETC., apply.
Christmas parcels for naval officers
and men should be mailed as soon as
possible, so as to reach Bush Termin-
al station not later than November
Is.
The rules prescribed for men in the
American forces abroad and with the
naval forces, do not apply to men in
training or stationed at environments
or camps in this country. The usual
mail regulations apply to them. Re-
strictions on Christmas parcels to
men in service in Europe have been
made necessary because of the need
of conservation of shipping space.