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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-21
lin Doesn't Care For "MaSheen" Guns
BY W. LARDNER

" YELL al they is awefu lot Of influents bean
Nv brought to beare from captens Of other
compnies other outfits which want ne to
belong to them & trying to get away from
wear 1 am, but CUES lie stay pryvat in the Ia
FAINT tree not joyn other crowds. / OF tried out
the masheen gum eumpny but decide it that it wasent
quiet the thing becaus their is moar deaths among
the masheen gunner than any elts 4 figger that
the guvment wants to live long possibel
so as i can be of more ust to it than if got killed
off in the LIST chardge woodent be availabel any
moar. the longer live the germans / can
kill & want TO get my hundred huns with the rest
Of them not Just l or but hundred OF moar.
they of put me & the rest Of the eumpny that's
too vallyubel to keep in l cumpny not pass
around SO everybody can see work on what they
call the dispentsabel list witch menes that We are
to be past around show other outfits how they
aught TO be
was taken from this list put in the masneen
gun cumpny to be a framed masheen gunnmen
from what the sarjint says Of Termed enough
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-21
By Hal Coffman

,-1nv--eht n In-e-,etIoneI - se-y,ee
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-21
Bntishers Answer the Call

me Brtshers have honOred FL PasO as well as their
Y mother country, by responding to the appeal of
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-03
international law out of the umpire's

international law out of the umpire's
box.
And finally collapsed in regular
phenom style.
Now Kaiser Bill. manager, has
gone to the bushes. Germany is out
of it. Prussianism has lost the job
lof martial trainer. '.'..i
And the games over, thank God.
But there is lot of peace-mak-
ing to do as result. There is a lot
of rebuilding of teams necessary.
There are bruises and sore spots to
work out. And big league rules must
be drastically revised.
The big league conference will
iron out these differences shortly.
But meantime somebody has to
keep. the grounds In order.
That's partly Uncle Sans job.
And we will have to pay the freight
in part.
Replenish the old yarn sock; an
other loans coming. lf....''
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-03
BEN CARPENTER. JR.

over ON the battlefelds of France
is 22-year-old Chicago boy. rejected
by both the American army and navy
because of a '1eaky heart valve. !"
with Croix de Guerre pinned on his
coat. @T-
He is Ben Carpenter, Jr.. SON of
Maj. Benjamin Carpenter, who 1e-
signed as senior partner Of George b.
carpenter & Co. at the outbreak Of
the war to join the Quartermaster's
Department. =, r. -
At the outbreak of hostilities he
was a senior in Harvard University.
he went to the Plattsburg Officers
training camp. The leaky heart valve
was discovered and he failed. Then
ne Tried the navy, but the "yalye"
led to his rejection.
he went back to Chicago and was
asked by the University Club to pilot
an ambulance 1t was sending to
france. He took the job, but on
landing over there" deserted and
Ior SIX months drove French ammu-
milton truck.
In June, with forty other Ameri-
can boys. he entered the French army
artliiery school in Fontainebleau.
Tnere was class of 255. He grad
uated No. /. He at once startsd ac-
tive service with the Niuetieth
French artillery regiment.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-03
SAYS OUR MEN EXCEL SPARTANS
IN STAMINA.

Defending the young men of-to-day
from charges of being ''effete and lux.
ury loving" Prof. VIM. Lyon Phelps
of Yale University, speaking before
the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, at the Chemists Club. SO
East Forty-drst street, New York
said that it was his belief that the
Spartan army, courageous as it was
never could have endured what mod
ern Englishmen, Frenchmen and
more recently Americans have endur-
ed in battle.
1T is my belief that the physical
stamina Of the race is as great, if not
greater than ever before" declared
Prof. Phelps. "This war has proved
that our modern young men, in spite
or the so-called ease and luxurieS of
the day, have shown that they are
made of the stuff of their fathers of
1776. If it be true that our young
men have lived amid modern luxuries
then l submit to you that their cheer
fulness in sacrifice is all the greater
because of that. People suppose thar
luxury has made the whole race de-
generate, but that is not my belief.
Aren't you proud of your young
mem"
The professors question was ans
wered by an outburst of applause that
lasted a minute before he could pro-
coed. Prof. Phelps spoke in the place
of President John Grier Hibben. of
Princeton University, who said he
was unable to appear because of ill.,
ness.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-03

est. Nichols

A well-known citizen of Nevada
has teamed through the Calico can.
yon for years. On a trip two wears
lago a rear wheel of his heavily load
ed wagon broke down, and so he un.
hitched his six mules, built a fire and
camped down for the night. Some
time before dawn he reused I'D and
saw a big rattlesnake coiled against
a rock close by. His hand stole to
his hip, drew his revolver. and his
quick shot killed the snake and
struck the rock behind it. Instantly
the light Of his fire lit up some
sparkling grains, and the man Jump
ed over to look at them. They were
gold!
He clipped out a few pounds Of
the ore, staked claim. left his
wagon and drove his string of mules
into Elko, where an assay of the ore
showed $50 in gold and 900 ounces
OF silver to the ton Several money!
ed men drove out to the prospect with
him. made further Investigations
and paid him $50, 900 for his claim.
That 1re had been built on the
ashbed of an old camp fire where a
couple OF unsuccessful prospectnrs
had camped for four weeks, looking
for gold or any other metal.
Excepting the tenderfoot. no man
in the great mining country of the
West will gasp at that story. for al
most every great discovery-and -
large proportion of small discoveries
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-03
TENNESSEE CAN SURELY RAISE
POTATOES!

Mr.. H. Fl. Floyd, manager of the
Cumberland Telephone Co.'s local ex-
change, handed THE NEWS man an
extract from I the Memphis, Tenn,
Commercial-Appeal, which tells of
some large potatoes, as follows:
This is the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. OF course,
you will not believe it, but we've got
the proof.
"Our members remember some
thing we said about sweet potatoes
last week. We spoke of a potato
weighing 10 pounds, and people Won
dered. we spoke of another potato
weighing IL pounds, and people Won
.,dered more.
Then VIC spoke of potato weigh
ing Is pounds, and people thought we
were the man who had been sending
out all the war stories from Amster-
dam
"'But if you were surprised by the
size of the potatoes we have received,
prepare now to be knocked down.
We have in our Office a sweet potato
weighing 80 pounds. This potato
was grown on P. B. Abbys plantation
by S. B. Roach. Mr.. Abby's planta-
ton is neah Webb, Miss.
1.-The potato was sent to us by M.
p. Bynum, cashier of the Bank of
Webb. This potato is in our office.
Mr.. Bynum thought that this potato
broke all records, but the day follow
ing we received potato grown upon
the plantation Of F. 6. Bobo, OF Bobo.
Miss. Bobo is eight miles west OF
Ciarxsdale. Mr.. Bobo is the son OF the
famous bear hunter, R. E. Bobo, who
died several years ago in Chicago.
1.-The potato was sent to us by Guy
Clark, editor of the Clarksdale
MISS Register. The potato weighs
80 pounds-32 pounds. We have the
potato in our Office. We are printing
a picture of these two potatoes. No
tice the foot rule between them. We
have these potatoes in The CONNER
cial-Appeal Office, second floor, Sec
ond and Court"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-03
ANOTHER PHENOM EXPLODED

Every baseball season sees some
widely press ACCENTED phen0m ex.
ploded.
And there is usually very little va.
ration in the story. He begins with
rush that promises to set the league
afire and simply mows down every
thing before him. For couple OF
weeks or sometimes longer, this con-
| tinues.
Then he goes all to pieces. from
bad to worse and from worse to the
bushes.
The answer invariably is that he
has a weakness, and the gang have
got onto it and make life miserable
for him.
So it was with Prussianism and
Germany.
Germany started out like a four
time winner. She broke down all op-
position, romped through Belgium
and half way to Paris before Foch.
got next to her weakness at the
Marine. Then came the first decisive
slump.
thereafter came season of vary
ing fortunes of war. Germany tried
out every trick of the game. Used
everything she had. Stopped at moth
ing. Disregarded all rules and taunt-
ed the bleacherites. Even put old
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-03
REVENUE ASSIGNMENTS.

Collector of Internal Revenue FL
wood Hamilton, in making assign.
ments Of revenue men for December
sends the following to Bourbon
county:
No. 77-Julius Kessler q Co.
Paris, John A. Logan, day and bot
thing; 4. L. Mcconnell, additional.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-03
~~~~>~%~~A~H~1
woMEN'S ACTIVITIES.
, ~~~~>~~~ 1890

At the Red Cross Sewing Rooms.
Tuesday-U. ID. C. and w. C. T. u.
Wednesday-Paris Literary Club.
Thursday-Woman's Society at the
Methodist Church.
Friday-Woman's Society of the
Baptist church.
Saturday-D. A. r.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-03

or precious metals has been by ac-
cloent, and often on ground where
scores OF prospectors. and even min
Ing engineers had searched in vain
for months and years. :
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-03

widely press ACCENTED phenom ex
ploded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-04
Wichita Man Says They Slugged and
Robbed Him.

Two soldiers, Arthur Shetrey and
Henry Murray. alias NJ. c. O'Connor,
are being held in the Shawnee county
Jail charged with slugging and rob-
bling F. c. Troupe, a Wichitl man,
few miles east of Topeka Sunday
night. Troupe swore to complaint
in the court Of Topeka this morning
charging the men with the crime.
According to the police, Troupe said
he was staying at the National hotel
and, being lonesome, invited the SOL
d1ers to accompany him in his car.
When they had left the outskirts of
the city, he said. he permitted Murray
to take the wheel and the soldier ran
the car into a ditch. bre liking one of
the front wheels. Then. Troupe said,
one of the soldiers struck him over the
mead and took his watch and money.
me soldiers stated that Troupe had
WHISKY and that all were drinking
freely, tho Troupe denied this,
The police were notified and found
the soldiers at Sixth and California
avenues. Neither of the men would
talk on the subject today, aItho it was
revealed that Shetney was soon to
attend an officers training camp and
had seen service overseas. Murray
appears to take the responsibility of
the robbery uron himself, contending
that Shetney, who Is the younger of
the two, had no part in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-04
Thought One Clean
Shirt All He Needed

Ten years ago I was reduced to
a mere shadow. l was yellow as
gold piece and would often be doubled
up with most excruciating pains in my
stomach. Physicians could only re-
lieve me with morphine. was ad-
vised to try Mayr's Wonderful Rem
edy and it helped me at once. What
is more, 1 have been well ever since.
A friend said he thought one more
clean shirt all would ever wear" 1t
is a simple harmless preparation that
removes the catarrhal mucous from the
intestinal tract and allays the inflam-
nation which causes practically all
stomach, liver and intestinal ailments,
including appendicitis. One dose will
convince or money refunded. For sale
by druggists everywhere.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-04
PEKA DAILY STATE JoURNAIMoNDAY NOVEMBER 1918

Europe until the reconstruction Is Wen
under way" Biby declared, land It Is
in this period between the signing OF
peace and the coming home OF the
boys that our sons and brotneIs aho
sweethearts will be. faced with the
greatest danger of the war--it is then
that they will need the seven organi-
cations in this joint drive the worst.
-f Must Protect Boys.
at is to these organizations that we
must Took to uphold the morals OF our
boys after the peace is signed. In war
time our boys are consumed with the
whole andf single idea of making and
winning the war. They have no time
for thoughts of pleasure and the hab-
its. of peace, but when it is all over
and the victory is won it is then that
the boys will have time to think OF
the mischief. 1t is in this time tha-
the boys will be most subject to the
immoral influences which surround
the camps in Europe and it is at this
time that they will need the most
the ministration and the influence for
good of these seven organizations"
AT the meeting at the Chamber OF
Commerce this noon the team captains
and workers from the rural school
districts were out in force to have ex-
planned to them the final plans and
purposes of the drive.
ScSSiOnS III Appcui.
Charles H. Sessions, Shawnee coun-
ty chairman of the drive. urged every
team captain to see to it that his par
ticular township is SO well organized
that every man. woman and child in
the township will be visited and given
the opportunity to subscribe. Ses-
sions's final instructions to the team
captains to be carried on to the work
ers was ito bear. down hard on the
people. This is their war, and their
sons and brothers and sweethearts and
| fathers will reap the benefits of the
money raised in this drive"
| In all of the speeches at the Cha m
| Der of Commerce this noon the work
of the four minute men in the cam
paign was the subject of especial men,
ton. According to the announcements
made this noon the four minute spe-
Gals will all congregate at the corner
north of the State Journal building
is to be in place in the car assigned t6
him not later than Tbs O'Clock and
promptly at 1870 o'clock the whole
caravan will parade the avenue on it:
way to the rural school districts Sc.
lected for a meeting that particular
evening.
Hold Sixty Meetings.
The Shawnee county four minute
men are to make" sixty meetings ir
three nights. beginning "wednesday
evening. Each four minute man will
be aided in the meeting assigned hin
by corps of singers, a quartet, e
soloist, an orchestra or a miniature
| band.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-04
7-in-1 Organizations Must Meet
Great Peace Problems.
Boys Will Need Them When the
Fighting Stops.
THAT IS BIBY'S ASSERTION
Rural Team Captains Met at
G.. of C.. Today. !.
1t Was First Big Gathering OF
New Drive.

Even if peace were declared today
it would take at least ten months for
the first of Sur boys overseas to reach
the shores of the homeland This
was the first statement made by big
Bing Bang BilP' Biby at the meeting
of the rural captains of the seren-in-
one drive teams at the Chamber of
Commerce this noon. 1t was tie first
shot in the Abarrage which is to clear
the way for the over the top assault
of the campaigners next week.
AS the. principal reason for the
heavy support to the coming cam
paign, Biby asserted that if peace is
declared today the boys overseas will
lose touch with the excitement of war
and pride in their achievements a. SOL
diers and their thoughts will turn to
the delights of civilian life. In spite
of this the boys will have to stay in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-04
NEW PUBLICITY PLAN
Director Howes ADOPTS Unique Method
for United War Work.

Cecil Howes of Topeka, director of
publicity for the states united war
work drive, has launched a new plan
for newspaper space in pushing this
campaign to a successful termination
in Kansas
Beginning Saturday and continuing
thruout the drive Director Howes has
sent to every newspaper in the state
short concise appeal written by well
known Kansas writer's. These appeals
are to appear in box or editorial form
and have been forwarded to the Kan
sas editors from Topeka headquarters.
The State Journal is using these ap-
peals at the head of the editorial COL
umn daily.
The writer's who have written ap-
peals for the campaign are:
Charles NJ. Sheldon Anna Carlson
Willard Wattles Arthur Capper
Mrs. Tom Thompson Harold Chase
Lenora Sill Ashton VIII Terrell
Florence l.. Snow Geo. W. Marble
william Allen White John Ward
Arthur J. Carruth, jr. Marco Morrow
Tom McNeal Eyangeline Booth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-04
UP GO WATER RATES
Old Schedule Adopted by City Com
missionSrs Today.

An ordinance was passed this morn
ing by the city commissioners allow
ing hike in water rates-a hike back
to the rates which were in force at the
time Commissioner Newland took
charge of the water department..
u Owing to the fact that the expenses
OF operating the water plant have
more than doubled since these rates
were placed in effect, since the OUT
break of the war, a raise in the water
rates has been necessary If the plant is
to continue on anything like firm H.
nanciaf basis. -s
The ordinance provides for the
rates to take effect December l. j.
The new rates per month will be as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-04
HOMEMADE
COUGH SYRUP
Cured Husband and Child, Wife
and Mother
States

Mrs. A. Jennings. 1874 Armitage
avenue, Chicago. ILL.,. writes:
II heard of Mentho-Laxene about
two years ago, and since then would
not be without 1t. My husband had
been coughing for about four years.
summer and winter. and now he is
cured of it, and for my child I think
there is nothing better in the world
for a cold. for it helps at once!"
The best cough. cold. and catarrh
medicine ever found is the essence
Mentho-Laxene. Directions with a
2 " -ounce bottle, concentrated, tell
how to make at home a full pint of
delicious. curative medicine.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-04
Whe,, Itching Stops

There is one safe, dependable treatment
that relieves itching torture and skin mi
tation almost instantly and that clesnses
and soothes the skin.
Ask any druggist for a Csc or 81 bottle
Of zemo and apply it as directed. Soon
you win fad that irritations, pimples.
blackheads eczema, blotches, ringworA
and similar skin troubles will disappear.
A little zemo, the penetrating, satisfy
ing liquid, is an that is needed, for it
the skin soft, smooth and healthy.
The E W. Rose Co. Cevs3and O.
lAdyertlsementy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-04
OPEN TO INVASION
With Austria Out, German tFrontic
on East Is Unprotected.

Paris, Nov. 4.rFrom 3 o'clock this
afternoon when Austria Hungary goes
out of the war, the entire eastern Ger
man frontier is wide open to the men,
ace of an allied invasion.
Munich, Dresden, BAVARIA, Saxony
and Prussia will thus be directly men
aced.
The inter-allied diplomatic council
is watching the swift turn of events,
with grim satisfaction. Paris is un-
hustered and awaiting the next step in
the central European debhcie-publi-
cation of the terms to Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-04
E. W. GRlNDLE DEAD
He Had Been in State Treasurer's Of
fee for Last Six Years.

uCc luz 4dSS soiA
E. w. Grindle died Sunday night at
a local hospital. For the last six years
he has been assistant bond accountant
in the office of Walter L. Payne, state
treasurer He was II years old and
had lived in Kansas for more than half
of that time. He came here from
Wellington, Kan, shortly after he was
mustered out of the Union army at the
close of the Civil war. He had been
in poor health for more than two years
but not seriously so until few weeks
ago when he suffered an apoplectic
stroke while at work in the office.
Grindle is survived by his widow
and seven children, A., A. Grindle OF
Oberlin, Kan; DR.. J. c. Grindle OF
Seneca; Mrs. J. A. Smithers of Bea-
trice, Kan; DIR. E. NJ. Grindle of Man
haitian: DR.. w. H. Grindle of Topeka;
Mrs. E. D. Vincent of Washington; G.
NJ. Grindle of Topeka.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
RILGO WANTS TO FLY

Governor Bilbo left Jackson a week ago for Washington, stating that he was go- ing to see if he could not get about S40,. 900 for the State Industrial and Training school located at Columbia. This insti. tuition is the governors especial pet, and was established through his influence with the legislature of three years ago. It is designed to take charge of, raise and educate wayward boys and girls or those unablie to care for themselves. and will fill a long-felt want n the state. However, that was not all Governor, ,Bilbo went to Washington for. He had said that, in the event he was defeated IT his race for Congress in the Sixth dis trict he was going to enlist for the war, and telegrams from Washington state that he offered his services in the avla- ton branch of the service. He has al- ways wanted to fly high, and on the oc- casion of his visit to Camp Pike, near Little Rock, several months ago, he wat the only governor who risked his neck among the clouds. In the event he IS accepted he will resign the office of gov ernor and get right down to training as a navigator of the air, leaving Lieuten- ant Governor Russell to run the ship of state. Governor Russell has been holding down the job since Governor Biibo went to Washington, and likes it so well that he is going to ask the people to let him hold it for four years more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06

passed away. He had held the office for many years, covering the reconstruction period, when grave questions were of frequent hearing, but he was a white ms n and was exceedingly popular with the Best people in spite of the fact that ne was republican. The same may be said Of Judge Niles. He was an able and Just Judge and was never swerved from what he believed was legal and right by political prejudices.
 Mississippi is divided into two federal districts-the northern and southern, with two terms of court each year at OK ford, Aberdeen, yicksburg, Meriean, Biloxi and Jackson. For several years efforts have been made to have Con- gress give the state another Judgeship and the bill has been close to passage several times. It is believed it would have passed ere this but for the war and the side-tracking of matters of small concern to the country.
 The understanding here has been that Ed Holmes, a prominent lawyer of Yazoo City, and son-in-law of Senator Johp Sharp Williams, was to be the judge for the new district, but now that there is a vacancy in the old district it is be- heved MT. Holmes will knock that per leaving other aspirants to scram- ble for the new judgship in the event 1t is ever created, as no doubt it will be, .he work being too much for one man. Mir. Holmes would be entirely acceptable to the bench and the bar, as we'll as to the laymen of the state, even if he was not a member Of John Sharp Williams family circle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
DR. CURRY RESIGNS OFFICE

Dr. R. s. Curry, superintendent of the State institution for the blind for tho past seven or eight years, has rendered his resignation to Governor Bilbo, having accepted work with the state board of health as director of the vigorous cam paign the United States government IS launching against venereal diseases. In this capacity Dr. Curry will visit every city and town in the state, calling a conference of the county and city au- thorities and the physicians and direct ing them what to do Men or women who are known to be suffering from such diseases will be quarantined and given the treatment they ought to have, and it is understood that the rich and the poor, the high and the low, will oe treated just the same. In the event that very unusual policy is carried out the campaign will accomplish untold good