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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-18
SUSPECTED SPY
GANlAi IN hCi'
MAN ARRESTED m NORFOLK Az
TE6 BLING TSAI.EC OVEI
yNV.ND 79EtTES.

Norro't, VA. Jan. Naval III
teiligcnce officers lees here tonigA
for Baltimore with Waiter Sporrnau
suspected Of being an active figure !;
plots launched here by Capt. Boy-Hd
the former German military attache
and believed to have been captain
in the German army.
According TO the story unonicially
told here, the man was arrested Sat
urday while in the act Of attcmpting
to blow up a magazine at the unfln-
ished army aviation field, under con-
struction near Newport News.
The prisoner will be turned over
to officers of the Department of Jus
tice at Baltimore for hearing. So
far the only charge formally lodged
against him is understood to he that
he is dangerous enemy alien.
Documents found on his person and
in his rooms in Baltimore, how
ever, are declared to reveal his con-
nection with Boy-E,d and former Ger
man Ambassador Bernstorff. and to
incriminate in a spy plot persons in
Washington. Baltimore and other
cities. Details of the contents of the
understood that they will lead to
number of arrests within few
days.
Sporrman's activities are said to
have first attracted attention of naval
intelligence officers many weeks ago.
but his arrest was deferred until adj
ditional evidence could be gathered. !
officers followed him, night and day, !
however, the quest leading thru sew !
eral cities and even to at least two I
army camps. Frequently, according |
to the story. the prisoner posed as an /
Office Of The United States army.
Finally he visited the great army
and navy base on Hampton Roads,
but before tic "oucs naval agent,
posing as friend Of Germany. had
mode himself acquainted with sporr-
man. Tto officer followed his man
closely IN Newport News ard finally
10 the aviation field. four miles north
Of the city, where The arrest was
wafe. i
'1oarmcns were found On she
prisoner end in lis room at Balti-
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-18

Try n REPUBLICAN AID. 10 he'll
sell your property.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-18

FROST KING RULES.

The scvorest weather ever known
.his early IN The season has had the
country In a y.sa-liSe grip, and much
suffering Of men and animals has re-
suited. The r,yAI. storm rG~ cheI
-1ou d., no =. mountains 20 the A.
autia Goa end irow Jho lakes 10 the
-elf o, N.r.co. A remarkable fea-
.rre OF ,lt storm was lhe extension
Of low temperatures TO extreme south
IN points, a. Memphis men walked
across the Mississippi river on the
ice for tie first time since 1891, and
1T Knoxville, Tenn, the river was
frozen over for the first time in fifty
years. Railroad traffic all over the
country was seriously interrupted and
east OF Pittsburg it was totally sus-
pended. Coal shortage in many cit
les resulted in great suffering among
he poor. In many cities public
buildings were opened to those SUIT
iorlng for want OF fuel. and other ro-
iief measures provided. Mail ser
vice over the entire country has been
irregular and Disappointing. Stear
boat traffic from the far south nortt
ward was totally suspended, whicl
further limited the much needed die
tribution Of fuel. Business in both
city and country has been very ser
iously interferred with and the losses
in this way runs into millions. The
freezing OF water pipes, general as
,ar south as Nashville, has resulted In
great Inconvenience and annoyance
Fearful as weather conditions have
been there Is no sure hope OF early
Improvement. II is yet only the
middle of January, and it is NOR
than probable that several weeks OF
similar, il not more disagreeable
weather may yet be in store for us.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-18
BIRDS As HIGH ELIERS.

Nowadays you read with the utmost
unccncern and little wonder that av-
iators fly at 10000 feet, and you
know that this is by no means rec
ord height, and that a common one
is anything between 1000 feet and
5000 feet above the level of tho
earth
Compare the airplane to a bird.
Even the swallows that chase each
~stbes and shrill on a summer evening
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-18

health. believe the Compound will
cure any female trouble. Mrs. ALICE
HELLER, Christopher, Ill.
Nervousness is often symptom of
weakness or some functional derange-
ment, which may be overcome by this
famous root and herb remedy. Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, as
thousands of women have found by
experience.
If complications exist, write Lydia E.
Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn. Mass, for
suggestions in regard TO your ailment.
The result OF its l2ng experience is
at your service.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-18
Chill dren Cry
FOR Fl.ETChER'S
- q 8 :! - RIA
iN,u1iH TAX NAN HERE.

jon. II MAy, Federal Income Tax
'-.nt is n hartford explaining ths
o.. tnc federal income tax
. F.. si l....u- who cali upon him.
l.'. Treasury Department is scndir
r..al HsrtF into every nook ana
at.e- ~ ,.s country Tor ttc purpose
.ot i'ar.-us tho people With t.r
Pc. u..ue taN lav. N-. IIay win
4e .eie. where me- mas Offices at the
cou house. until tomorrow afOor-
noon and Will be glad 10 have lie
peop,, Interested call on him that no
mag t1swer any questions relative 20
The duties of those whose incomes
may subject them to the payment of
ihc ,aN. lie will be at Beaver Dam
all o, leXt week and those interes ted
who ma. NOS see him here may cali on
hLo there. Mr.. Nav is a very con-
genial gentleman, and the people Will
find him patient and agreeable Of
icer &C. 10 business with.
Single men whose incomes exceeds
$1,000. ana married men whose IN
comes exceed $4,000, must report
same TO tle collector Of internal rev.
euUc al greensboro. Forms will not
Re scHt for this purpose until called
Tor. II yea fall into the taXpaying
class just write TO the collector stat
.rg your approximate income aHd
ask tor form upon which 20 ma g
rour report. II is Important to state
in your apple tion for form the mo1s-
IRE Of your income in thousands IS
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-18

siNi NOesSiitSS, ~ IL VI
was in a run down
condition. Two Of
our best doctors
failed to do me any
good. / heard so
much about what
Lydia Z. Pinkham's
V & G t a bic Com
pound had done for
others, | tried it
and was cured. |
am no longer ner-
vous, am regular,
/, ., 4 &, z.,-iI..A
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-18

He-Let's see. what is the SLAMS
name for Illicit liquor peddling?
She (bMshing) -Bootlimbing, be
liave. Farm Life.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-18

a'or.d rtr r'
d.. 10 County Judges
..a 4.- go cut 9nuralod To the
..-ars arri g. iho court for protection
s.a.nst The wrath and vengeance OF
io' lori g tho mnuor. Lon Griffin.
Lydia charges the partner OF her bed
and board with assault with intent TO
Nil. Lydia has'formed the habit of
sueing out on sundry and divers of
occasions n writ of some sort for her
husband, but usually relonts and for
gives as good and dutiful wife
should before the talons of the law
sink into the wthers of the repcnting
Lon. However. the court placed Lon
under a 500 bond for his appearance
in court pending the possibility of
domestic settlement of the difficulty.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-18

'i"-rcn' n- o.0 required for the
10 ,. Tho Tax Agent is
o&rlainins the wording OF the law 10
towns he visits
and II you con moi sec The agent sec
Wl explain Che
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-18
HOW this
NERVOUS WOMAN
cor lYELL.
Tel b. lEcrsoEf. Her Sin.
CcE,,,,-y G-lou.4 Coa-
vince C-.icr3.

Christopher, lll.--"Fo four years I
suffered Irom ogularities, weakness,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16
OUR FIRST NAVAL HERO.

The first naval hero of the Z. s.
now almost forgotten-was Jeremiah
O'Brien, a Maine man, whose racial
descent is indicated by his name.
He commanded an American vessel
in the first naval battle of the Revolu-
ton, which was fought near Machias,
Maine, on June II, 1875. Some little
time before an English schooner, the
Margranettc, was at Machias, and
number of the people of the town, led
by jeremiah O'Brien and Benjamin
Foster, conspired to capture it. The
attempt was successful, and, with
O'Brien in command, the Margranetto
made voyage to the Bay of Fundy.
An English schooner and tender were
sent out to look for the Margranetto.
and, when O'Brien returned to Ma
chias, he found them awaiting him.
The first naval battle of the United
States was fought then and there,
and O'Brien and his men added the
schooner and tender to their prizes.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16
HEMsTITCHlNG

no time to slow up; there was not
moment to think. In flash the en-
gineer pulled the throttle wide open
and yelled to the fireman to duck low.
The terrific impetus of the express
knocked the wrecked cars from the
track in splintered debris and the
train was brought to Il stop q half
mile on the other side. AS the pas
sengers crowded about the engineer,
one asked him how, in such moment
of crisis, he could think quickly
enough to make and act upon the
only decision that could have saved
his train. He replied, L did not think
did not have to think I had often
thought of such a possibility, and
made up my mind ten years ago just
what I would do If such situation
ever arose. When it did come, l acted
| instinctively.' This is the kind of
preparedness that is needed for the
supreme battle of life"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16

ter. With some employers the lowest
wages a woman or girl could be in
duced to work for decided what she
could get"
The same general facts are noted
by the New York State Factory In
vestigating Commission (1915) as fol-
lows:
There are also great differences
in wages for work that is apparently
the same. Some firms pay consistent
Iy % per cent more than their rivals
tor similar operations. For instance,
in one wholesale candy factory no fe.
male packer receives as much as
$3.50 week, nor any hand dipper
as much as $500. In another estab.
lishment of the same general type
the majority of women workers in
such lines exceed these rates.
The requirement that employers
pay experienced adult women work
ers as minimum the cost of decent
subsistence marks the introduction
of reasonable standards into the hith
erto chaotic realm of women's wage
rates. The rule of thumb is to be su
perseded by the rule of reason in de
termining what women earn"
ReU. E. Y, O'HQTG.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16
WET WASH LAUNDRY

ger. But he told them his story, and
then they knew only pity. AS they
neared the quaint old town the steeple
of Our Lady's Church was seen. Some
thing told the wanderer that it held
what he sought, and he was moved to
prayer.
The air was soft and sweet, the
bosom of the river shining with bright
ripples, and the lights of the city were
reflected in it's depths. Suddenly
from the tower of the church the An
gelus was heard, and after the triple
strokes the air was alive with the
music of sweet and silvery clangor
The boatmen stopped rowing and list
ened. Happy tears filled the eyes OF
the old bell-maker, for he knew his
search was over In that peal he
heard the voices of his dead-and-gonc
beloved, and in a few moments lived
again a long life He was in such an
ecstasy that he could not utter a word
but his lips were moving in the An
gelus prayers; and his heart was
speaking, though his lips made no
sound.
When the rowers raised their eyes
the old man was dead, and on his
face was the most beautiful smile,
they declared, that they had ever
seen. The Angelus had been his
passing bell.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16
FOOD PIRATES IN DAYS OF THE
REVOLUTION.

In the Revolutionary War the rec
ords show that butter sold in the
market at from 81 to So pound, flour
at $50 per hundred weight and green
peas at from 20 to % shiIlings per
half peck.
Samuel Adams, one of the Massa
chusetts delegates to Congress, was
asked $500 for hat and $500 for a
pair of leather breaches, 1925 for a
pair of shoes and $1,000 for suit OF
clothes.
Perjury and famine threatened the
masses. Those who had food held on
to it, refusing TO sell except at eXorbi-
tant prices. Thousands of the we'll
TODD stored their grains and other
provisions, hiding them from the gaze
of the general public.
Benjamin Franklin's only daughter,
Sarah, wife of Richard Bache, writes
her husband May %, 1879, as follows
Il should have begun by telling you
that as soon as the bad news came
from Virginia (the invasion by the
British) they raised the prices of ev-
erything. Many families yesterday
went without bread, not a bit to be
bought. 1 hope the regulation will
have a good effect, but cannot help
feeling a little frightened about it,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16

I will study the language OF gentle
ness and refuse to use words that bite
and tones that crush.
I will practice patience at home lest
my testy temper break through unex-
pectedly and disgrace me.
I will remember that my neighbors
have troubles enough to carry without
loading mine on them.
/ will excuse others faults and
failures as often and fully as | ex'
pect others to be lenient with mine.
l will cure criticism with common
dations, close up against gossip and
build healthy lives by service.
I will be a friend under trying tests
and wear everywhere goodwill face
unchilled by aloofness.
l will never gloat over gains, but
amass only to enrich others and SO
gain wealthy heart.
l will love boys and girls SO that
old age will not find me stiff and
soured.
will gladden. my nature by smiling
out loud on every occasion and by
outlooking optimistically.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16
A SECRET.

A writer in an exchange tells us
how he learned the secret of the great
strength and vigor Of the oak tree.
He says he was once crossing a sandy
tract of land where oaks grew when
he wanted something to swing in his
hand, and seeing little oak tree
about ten inches high, stopped down
to pluck it up. 1T looked like an easy
mark" he tells us, but my easy,
though quick effort was resisted.
had to stop and try again. Then it
was that the secret of the strength of
the oak was suggested to me; it gets
well rooted first. In its own way the
oak makes great deal of this part
of its career-the roofing process.
That is where ii learns to defy storm
and tempest" In this story of the
oak there is a lesson for boys and
girls. Until they are thoroughly root
ed in right principles, high aims,
splendid ideals and purposes, they can
never hope to have true. worthy char
acters, and that Is what every child
Of God is seeking.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16

Part of these failures are to be
blamed upon Encouragement. Part
of them are due to the cut-throat COM
petition which the American people
have thought it good to encourage.
But probably most of this heavy dam
age to individuals and economic loss
to society can be charged to want of
forethought and caution in starting
business.
Men will not go into a bleak, unin-
habited region and open a grocery
But they will do what amounts to the
same thing, start grocery stores in a
city district already supporting too
many other stores of the kind They
will try to get small towns which pro-
claim their poverty interested in jew
elry. They will blandly enter into a
struggle for the division of the drug
trade when, by the exercise of little
shrewdness, they can find districts
where the trade is sufficient to pro-
vide comfortable livelihood and does
not have to be divided.
Failures help surviving competitors.
But they help society not at all. They
destroy the sense of enterprise, break
the spirits of small investors, add re.
cruits to the army of the disconnected.
There would seem to be place in the
world for special investigators who
| will study business situations and set
down accurately on paper the chances
investors have there to do we'll.
Detroit journal
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16
"BEYOND THE ALPS"

Sir Frederick Pollock used to tell
this story of a dilettante society: The
qualification for membership was that
the candidate had been met in Italy
by the proposing member, but once
it happened that candidate was
elected who had been met at Avignon.
The error was discovered, and the
society proceeded to vote that, in
the opinion of the society, Avignon
is in Italy" This, however, seemed
a ticklish precedent to establish, so
they gravely laid their heads together
and solemnly resolved in further
motion that, in the opinion of this
France, which is in Italy"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY.

When Yankee Doodle came to towr
Long and long ago
The Kings men laughed him up anC
down,
Gave him name that fits a clown
Not long they Knocked him So
Twas Yankee Doodle Dandy
Who laid their colorS low.
When Yankee Doodle went to sea
Upon another day,
He faced more fear than mockery-
His guns repaid their courtesy
Who jeered his feather gay
Twas Yankee Doodle Dandy
Who taught them what to say.
When Yankee Doodle goes to France
AS so today he goes,
The spirit guiding his advance
Is as some God-directed lance
Straight driven at his foes,
o Yankee Doodle Dandy
The land that loved you-knows.
-TheodoSid Garrison,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16
HUSH-A-BYE BABY.
(As Francis Thompson Might Have
Written it,

Blanch-amiced, roseaI nursing, resu-
pine
In coracle terrene,
Afioat on the aerial hyaline,
Moored to the dominant pine,
Not where its pennoned umbrage
spans,
With auspice large and halycon
boon,
It's suppliant visitants,
But where, intemperably higher,
In it's immitigable culminance,
Do battailously importune
Solstitial fuIgences and spilth of fire,
Or argent rondure of the plenilune
Perdures in it's abashless oculance;-
Reck not their too obstrusive suit,
But still in you the bruit
Of threne sursurral, lachrymosal
plain,
| That on those dolorosal eyes
Elysian euphrasies
Their mystic, chrismal anodyne may
strain.
Ele will your chasmed fears
And uncanonical litany of tears
Provoke the lord O. the chambers OF
the air
| Immediately
| To loose the couriers now upcurled
| Within their closured, lethargie6
| lair,
| And bid them fly
Rampant along the margent of the
world.
Then will your coracle, keel-eyen,
Begin to trepidate
And gently lean,
| Then oscillate
And so precipitously careen
To land you in the nurseries Of
heaven;
Or ever the tenent arboral arm
| astrain
WI the surgent craft and tempestet
amain,
Rives, and, precipitated,
To yon abysmaI bed
You and your coracle, sweet limo
cence,
Retriveless gravitate,
O'erfreighted by the weight,
Gratuitous weight of my magnilo
quence.
&C. P. in Fortnt0hE'D ReDteU.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16
WHEN MARY PLAYS.

When Mary's finger-tips prelude
Her simple little first ''etude,"
The room around her disappears;
Vanish the children with their play,
The various deeds of workaday;
The humdrum noises HE away;
And all the sweetness in my ears
Is tuned to old-time love and tears!
There is a magic in these slim,
Swift, undeveloped hands, to dim
The present. Back her music brings
The charm of faded fooleries
In days of lost delight and ease
Gay-dancing ladies, lads on knees
Before then. But the pain that springs,
AS when bird at twilight sings.
So sweet she plays, her mothers
heart
Seems finally to break apart,
It's crystal ravishmcnt to cool,
And all its separate pieces fly
Like silver raindrops through the
sky
Meeting and melting tenderly
Again in one bright, brimming pool!-
She stops-and now it's time for
school!
dorothy Leonard.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16
NEGRO WIT AND WISDOM.

When thou seest the palm-tree the
palm-tree has seen thee.
What the child says, he has heard
at home.
Not to know is bad, not to wish to
know is worse.
If the dog is not at home he banks
not.
If you know the beginning we'll, the
end will not trouble you.
To love the king is not bad, but a
king who loves you is better.
Without fingers the hand would be
a spoon.
The frog enjoys itself in water, but
| not in hot water.
He who wishes to blow out his
brains need not fear their being blown
out by others.
| There are people who place g
basket on your head to see what yor
carry.
Night is the queen of shades; eartf
is the queen of beds; the sky is the
king of sheds; the sun is the king O
torches.
The song of the stomach is hard tt
bear.
We go quickly where we are sen
when we take interest in the journey
/ -CdDt Burton Compilation.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16
PLATING

as selling ones own children. But
at last, obliged by some necessity,
he yielded,-the prior of convent on
the banks of the Lake of Como being
the fortunate purchaser. The price
was a goodly sum; and the young
man, finding it impossible to separate
himself from his beloved chime,
built little villa near TIE convent,
where he could hear the Angelus
struck morning, noon and night. He
had no living relatives and few
friends, for he was of q shy, retiring
disposition There he hoped and
prayed to spend his remaining days.
But the beautiful and restful seclu-
sion of which he dreamed was not to
be his Italy became involved in a
great feudal war, in which he found
himself engaged before he was
aware; and when peace was restored
a sad change had come to him and
his prospects. His money was gone,
and the home on the Lake of Como
was his no more. Most painful of
all, the convent was wreck, having
been RACED to the ground in the con-
f1ict which had devastated the region
All that could be learned about the
fate of the beloved bells was that
they had been carried off to some for.
eign land.
Then the artist-for he was as true
an artist as if he had painted a mas,
terpiece at which the world wondered
left the spot where he had been SO
happy, and became a wanderer, al.
ways searching for his bells. The
thought of them never left him. Dur.
ing the day he could hear their sound
above the roar of the city's streets;
at night it haunted his dreams. He
was looked upon as Eagabond, and
children ran from him in fear. His
hair and beard grew long and white
and he leaned upon staff. In time
he became known as ''the question
err; for he was ever seeking news OF
his treasures. He asked but one ques
ton: Where are the bells of Lake
Como?" Nobody knew, and so he
wandered on.
One day a sailor told him that in
Ireland there was the most wonder
full chime ever made by mortal man.
Then they may be mime answered
the wanderer; and will go and find
them"
After great trials and long delays
he reached the mouth of the Shannon
and took a small boat for Limerick
The boatmen thought him mad, and
hesitated TO accept him as q passen
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16

No more will mornings bugle call
To trenches damp and bare;
No more, the sprightly footstep fall
In the chapel at Saint Hilaire;
No more at mornings mass adore
The mystic bread and wine;
No more on Bonded knee implore
At Mary's sacred shrine.
For the noble soul was taken
Up to heavens broad eXpanse,
Where no martial sound can Waken,
Nor We trumpeters of France
Recall his soul to action.
From that Fort beyond the stars,
To resist some cruel faction
In its greedy game Of wars.
William S. Nefi0n.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-02-16
THE SQUIRRELS ARITHMETIC.

High on a branch of a walnut tree
A bright-eyed squirrel sat.
What was he thinking SO earnestly?
And what was he looking at?
The forest was green around him,
The sky all over his head:
The nest was in hollow limb,
And his children snug in bed.
He was doing u problem DER and
Ger
Busy thinking was he: s'tt
How many nuts for his winters store
Could he hide in the hollow tree?
He sat so still in the swaying bough
You might have thought him asleep
Oh, no; he was trying to reckon now
The nuts the babies could eat.
Then suddenly he frisked about,
And down the tree he ran.
1.-THE best way to do, without a doubt,
Is to gather all | can"