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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
CHANGE ORDERS FOR
DISCHARGING MEN

Washington Dec. 1S-Under modi-
fed war department orders, issued
Today, officers and men may be dis
charged at camps where they now are
located, provided they have married in
nat neighborhood and desire to live
there, or il they have arranged to en-
ter business open to them before join
ns the army. Otherwise all troops
viii be ent to camps within $50 miles
If the towns from which they entered
service 70 rdischarge.
Where The transfer to another camp
for dem0hili2ltion would impose hard
thlps on individual soldiers, the or
ders provide that the matter may he
referred 10 the adjutant general
Discharged soldiers are permitted to
jttain thcir gas masks and hehrcis
lending legislation on the subject.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
City and Vicinity
News

Misses Minnie and Laura Kerste are
spending the day in Chicago visiting
friends.
Mrs. Frank Wing of sol La Sale
street. will leave the first Of next week
for Kansas City to make her future
home Mr.. Wing went to Kansas City
several weeks ago to accept a position
with a large auto truck concern.
Mrs. j. W. Hanifen, who has been
i'll at her home ON Leland street, is
recovering nicely, and will soon be
able to be out.
Mrs w. f. Raetz. 7Oi East Pear
street. went to Danyille this morning
to spend the holidays visiting rela
tiyes.
w. F, Raetz went to Springfield this
morning on a two days business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs J. j. Conway are both
i'll at their home, III East Washing
ton street. suffering from influenza.
Miss Layina Crowley has resigned
her position at Clapper 4 Verner's TO
accept position at the Stanton spe-
cialty store
DR. Burdette La Due went to Spring
Valley this noon on business.
Mrs Arnold Wilson of this city
spent IA few hours in Marseilles this
morning.
f.. u. Mercer OF this city spent a
few hours on business in Marseilles
/ Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Lewis OF Fal
River who have been at Lafned
! Kan, for the past few weeks, were
/ called home on account Of the serious
/ Illness of their son, Sherman Lewis
/ Of Marseilles. Mrs. Sherman Lewis
is also i'll with influenza Both are
4 improving and are on the road to re
cOyery.
David Hamilton Of Peru, former
Ottawa resident, is spending weel
. visiting friends in this city.
DR. and Mrs s +. Parr went t
Chicago this morning to spend sey
cral days visiting friends
Roy Farrell, G1S Grafton street. wa
stricken with an acute attack of az
3eudiCitis last evening. He was re
moved to Ryburn Hospital and sue
aeSsful operation was performed, ro
moving the appendix.
Harley V. Petdt went to Chicag'
this morning on a short business triT
Elmer Irwin OF Utica was in thi
city on business today.
| Charlesy Finley of Utica spent tt
day in Ottawa.
Mrs. NJ, j. Monahan, wife of Micf
lel Monahan, care taker OF OttaW
golf links, has gone to Forrest, H., t
visit her parents for a week or tie
days.
Teddy Butterfield returned to hi
home north Of the city today afte
uccessfully undergoing an Operation
for appendicitis
, T.. +. Gladfelter is spending tn
day in Chicago on business.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
ATTACK ON u. S. MEN
BLAMED TO MEXICANS

Washington, Dec. 11-OfTlcials here
conducting the diplomatic exchanges
with Mexico resulting from the CLASH
at Tampico on November Is in which
members of the armed naval guard
Of the American steamer Monterey
killed the captain of the Mexican Gus
toms guard and mortally wounded
wounded another Mexican soldier, said
reports of the incident show conclu.
sively that the Americans acted in
self defense II is expected that this
will be conceded by Mexico.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
NINE WIDOWS ASK
COUNTY COURT FOR
MOTHERS PENSION
INFLUX OF CLAIMS CROWD JUDGE
MAYo'S .DoCkET-TWENTYrSix
CHILDREN WILL BE AFFECTED
BY RULING.

Nine widows with brodds ranging
from two to five offspring are waiting
decision from Judge Mayo in the
county court on their petitions for 4
share of the county's mothers pen
sion fund. With winter well on its
way it is customary for women en-
titled to benefit under the pension act
to apply for relief from the county,
but never before in Judge Mayos ex-
perience has there been such an in
ilux OF widows in quest of pensions as
during the past few days.
None of the applicants who have
filed petitions with Clerk Ferguson
are from Ottawa. Three Of the nine
hail from East Wenona, while Mar
settles, Kangley, Oglesby and La Sale
each have one petitioner, and Strea
tor two
With only an appropriation of $4,000
with which to provide funds under the
pension law, Judge Mayo faces the
predicament of either having TO use
utmost economy or else having to re
fuse belated petitioners any relief
Under the present arrangement con
Quoted by Judge Mayo a woman is al
lowed $500 a month for each child.
Women who have placed their ap
plications on file during the past few
days, are awaiting their hearings be
fore the county court. AS rapidly a,
their cases can be taken up they vii
be heard by Judge Mayo. who vii
either grant or deny their petition.
The records show the following ap
plicants, together with the number o
children they have to feed and clothe
Stella Sobira, East Wenona tw,
children.
Louisa Bragge, Oglcsby, two chill
dren.
Flora Perry. Streator two children
Cecilia Green, kangley, five chi
dren.
Margaret OBrien. Streator tw
children.
Louisa Keen, Marseiles, two chi
dren
Marie kaminski, La Sale, four chi
dren.
Frances Rudolph, East Wenona. fv
children.
Frances Julez, East Wenona, tw
children.
A total of twent-six Youngsters, tn
oldest of whom is Is years and III
youngest one year old, are to benz
fit under the pension law.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Dec. IS, 1918.
Editor Free-Trader Journal:
notice that a quotation from a
recent address by DR.. J. W MahoOd,
published in your issue OF Dec. ,,
states that, i'm his opinion, "all the
reputed cures of professional faith
healers. Mormons, spiritualists, Dow
ieites and Eddyites, are all on the
same basis exactly, the influence OF
the mind over the body" His refer
ence to "Eddyites' was evidently in
tended to appl yto those who prac,
ice Christian Science, OF which Mary
Baker Eddy is the disceoyerer and
founder. and, therefore. | ask that you
permit me to make a correction OF
the implication. OF course, the cler-
gyman was only stating a personal
opinion, and while Christian Scient-
lists gladly agree with his statements
about faith in God and His promises,
they would take issue with the min
ister's misstatement OF the cauSatlVe
healing power Of Christian Science
which is not in any way allied with
or similar to the schools of thought
represented by those known as falth
healers, Mormons, spiri'ualists, etc.
Christian Science does not teach
the influence of mind over matter
N the common version Of that term
Il teaches that God is devine Mind
infinite Principle, the only healed OF
sin and sickness, as the Bible teach
as. Mrs Eddy writes in Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures
| (Perface Xn Many imagine that the
phenomena Of physical healing il
| Christian Ccience present only phase
| # the action Of the human mind
which action in some unexplained
way results in the cure Of disease.
| Of various human mind cures Mrs
Eddy writes on page lS5 Of the 6am'
luok-" Such theories have no rela
fionship to Christian Science, whicl
tests on the conception of God as th'
| My Life substance. and intelligence
md excludes the human mind as
spiritual factor in the healing work.
Statements about Christian Scienc
contrary to these authoritative eXpl
,atiOns are va.ueless. whereas an at
eptance of Mrs Eddy's teaching
eads to the sure overcoming Of si
| md sickness strictly in accord wit
Bible promise,
Sincerely yours,
ERNEST c. MOSES.
Committee on Publication.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
Dor't Exaqqerate.

The girl who stretches cXcry state
ment she makes out of all resemblance
to the actual facts Of The case may
imagine she liz strengthening what she
is trying to say. But that Is 4 mistake.
People who listen to an exaggerated
statement invariably discount it, and
usually moro th0n.t deserves and In
addition they feel n distruSt Of any
thing which has TO be 50 oycrcmpha-
sized. Every exaggerated statement IL
weakened IN proportion us It is cNag-
gcruted.--Grit.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
He Knew the SEX.

"Takc that picture out OF your dis
play window Immediately" demanded
the iratc woman. 81 am surprised that
you would exhibit my photograph to
the common gazc.' lawfully thought.
less of me-" said the photographer
n few minutes later. 81 should have
remembered that she liked the profile
best" And the profile WAS substituted
for the offensive front view in the dis
play window, and all were happy ever
after.--kansas City Star.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
SOCIETY NOTES

Fifteen ladies attended the meeting
of the Tuesday Study Circle Of the
Woman's Club, yesterday afternoon at
the home OF Mrs. c. p. Sims, 430
Third avenue. Miss Eichelberger gave
a very interesting review of the book
"Tilie, A Mennonite Maid" She al
so gave sketch of the life and works
of the author Helen r. Martin.
% 81 -
Abiding by the request Of the health
officer to refrain from holding all
kinds OF social gatherings the meet
ing OF the II. s. c. Club, which was
to have been held at the home Of
Mrs. Thomas Belrose, ll01 Illinois
avenue, has been postponed in,
definitely.
A very pleasant surprise was held
J last evening at the home of Miss
/ Eulalie Conkie, SIG Last Canal street.
+ in honor Of her nineteenth birthday.
/ lulrly-l'e guests "ete present dhe
spent a very pleasant evening playing
/ games and dancing. Light refresh
ments were served at late hour
after which the guests departed for
their homes.
. -
A concert-will lie given at Pleas
ant View Lutheran College tomorrow
night at S o'clock by pupils Of Mrs
". c. Paisley. Miss Rebecca Roren
and Miss Chamberln, to which tbs
public is cordially invited The pro
gram follows:
Moroccan De Salon Carl Bonne
Esther Jensen. Nellie Fruland, Glady'
Gilbertson. Blanche Haug.
Miss ROrem, organ.
Love Is a Rose ......... Sans S0uc
Palma Mathis0n.
Morning Song from Peer Gynt
lruiteD ........ Cries
Eyeline Laugman.
Waltz in A faC....... TschaikoWsk
ClariSSa Johnson.
/, AT Dawnmg" .......,......C admal
| Newell Vonckx.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
LETTER WRITING A
NEGLECTED ART
The Post Card and the Telephone
Have Hurt Longer Missives
Is Shown.

There has been much lamentation
Of late years over the lost art of let
ter writing The blame has been pref
ty evenly divided between the inno-
cent post card and the useful tele-
phone, and, reading the plaintiye COM
ments, we almost wept over the terri.
be state of affairs. A recent expert.
ment, however, has changed our views
on this particular matter Moving
from a big house to a small one, We
found it necessary to do a lot of con-
densing and some eliminating, and,
among other things II seemed best for
a trunkful of old letters to be elimi-
mated, OF course we Waded through
al Of them, for fear some valuable
document might be lost. There were
letters to represent all ages. Simple
childish affairs; foolish, sentimental
epistles; long, sad pages of admeni'
ton. Old fashioned letters from kins-
folk? Yes, scores OF them. You re-
member how they ran. The first page
was given over TO taking the pen in
hand to let you know they were well,
and hoping you were enjoying the
same great blessing; il not, they
would be very sorry to hear Of it, On
the second page your cousin inform
I'd you that father had been suffering
during the winter months with rheu.
matism and that mother had also been
quite poorly. (By the way, what has
become of the poorly" peopleO On
the third page she stated the piece Of
plaid Bingham enclosed with the let
ter was like her new dress. The red
piece was like Emma James new dress
and the blue and yellow We're like
Mary's children's new dresses. On the
last page She Invariably wound up by
saying that she must close because
her hand was growing very tired. She
asked YOU to excuse the bad penman-
shin and write soon, etc. And postage
was high then, too!
But the old time love letters, ali, me,
and ali, ne, No wonder many Of them
required excess postage. Sweet stuff
usually is heavy. We were thankful
that we had pluched up the courage
/ TO eliminate them. 1t would have been
a great pity for posterlty to waste
| time going through them. Lost art,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
Beind a Politician.

You cannot help being a politician.
You cannot live for an hour without
being Il politician But what Il man
generally means when he says that he
is not politician am afraid is this
that he has been all his life enjoying
his political privileges and grossly neg
lecting his political duties.-Rev. Hugh
Price Hughes.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
All Biblical Towns,

II was ut Lydia, which was nigh
unto Joppa," that Peter restored
Aeneas, "who had kept his bed eight
years and was sick Of the palsy" and
1t was, of course, in Joppn itself that
Peter restored Tabitha to life. Here
also he lodged for time with one
Simon II tanner, whose house Is by
the seaside 9nd It was here that he
saw the wonderful vision which taught
him the universally nf ~ - 'nnlty,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
The Peoples Taste,

Who are by way of eminence the
poets of all mankind? Surely Homer
and Shakespeare. Now Homer formed
his taste ms he wandered from door to
door, vagrant minstrel paying for
hospitality by song; and Shakespeare
wrote for an audience composed In
great measure of the common people.
George Bancroft.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
Cataract Of the Eye.

In cataract of the eye, the lens be-
comes Opaque, or dark, and therefore
no longer capable of transmitting the
light. Causes Of cataract are numer'
Gus. inflammation or injury to the
lens may produce it, and may be the
result Of various diseases, such as
govt, rheumatism, diabetes or scrofula
and often accompanies DID age, Cor
recrion requires surgical operation
to remove the diseased lens.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
MRS. MATILDA DAY
PASSES TO REWARD

Mrs. Matilda Day, octogenarlan re.
at $3.50 o'clock at the home of her
daughter in law Mrs. Sara Day. 1927
Chestnutistreet Mrs. Day, who is IS
years OF age was one of the cify's
oldest and best known residents. She
has been III for several weeks of a
complication of diseases superinduced
by her advanced years.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18

| wish to thank my friends and
noighbors for the assistance and ex
pressions of sympathy during my re
cent bereavement the death Of my
husband, E,ldred G. Lansing.
MRS. ELDRED G.. LANSING
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
PAGE ThRsg
Notice.

The regular meeting OF the w. Il. c.
will be held Wednesday afternoon in
Odd Fellows Hail at > o'clock. -
this is the last meeting of the year.
candidates for initiation are re-
quested TO be present.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
Apples and Potatoes.

Just arrived, car OF New York
apples and potatoes. Come and see
them. Tbos. Tuily Tel. 537-W.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
CHICAGO MARKETS

Chicago market repor; furnished 10
The Free 1rader-Journal by w. l..
Etnyre, member of Chicago Board OF
Trade, Moloney building, phone lea
Correspondent Lamson Bros. L. Lo.
Chicago
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
Song.

Song bring of itself a cheerfulness
that wakes the heart to joy.-Eurip.
ldes. .t ..',l
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18

Try the Free rrader.Iournal Want Ads
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-18
Corn
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
main want add section page fiyeJ

FOR SALE-Pure bred Barred Plym-
Guth Rock cockerels.
lSlLAS BRAGG, Ottawa, Ill.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-06-18
CLEARS THE SITUATION.

Congressman A. F. Lever has
withdrawn from the race for the
United States Senate and will offer
for reelection for Congress from
his old district. ..
The move has been expected: Mr..
Lever and his advisers have made
the. best possible move after their
great blunder. 1t is not too late
to correct it.
The worthy gentlemen who have
offered for Mr.. Levers seat have
plenty of time to withdraw and to
continue in the race after the Presi-
dents request of Mr. Lever that he
again offer for Congress would be
something no one of them would
hardly do. AS good Democrats, 10y
al to the Administration, these gen.
tlemen will rise to the occasion and
forget for the present their Con-
gressional ambitions.
Gov. Manning, it is presumed, will
also rise to the occasion and do the
right thing.
All of which means the return to
the United States Senate of Sen. b.
R. Tillman, the correct and proper
thing for South Carolina to do.
It is well.-The Greenwood Index.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-06-18

few pacifsts in England, and more
here, who are still obsessed by the
notion that peace can be gained by
some sort of bargaining. We shall
not betray France, we shall not a
bandon any of the weaker nations
to Germany, but that even the
Teuton mind can conceive such
treachery to be possible is amazing.
That they do believe it may be, in
part at least, due to the fact that
some of u pacifsts r set in high
places.
The demand that Germany estate
her terms for peace" is equally vici-
Gus. No san persian cares what
Germany's "peace terms" may be.
It is of no consequence; it does not
matter what she wants. The only
terms are unconditional surrender,
after conclusive military defeat.
Terms of settlement must be laid
down by the Allies; not reached by
negotiation. We shall dictate them
with justice, stern, %retribute JUS
tice, and also with mercy, but with
out allowing the offender any choice
in the matter.
When an individual has committed
crimes such as arson, rape, and muir
der, we do not allow him a choice
of punishments. When we know
him to be guilty we overpower him
and kill him. The case is not other
wise with a criminal nation. The
idea that one cannot draw an in
dictment against a whole people IS
obsolete in the face of the events Of
the last four years. If we fail to
do full duty in pronouncing SEN
tence it will simply leave the task
to our children and our %children's
children. The world cannot exist
half German and half civilized. But
we shall not fail.-New York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-06-18
Call it off.

Call it off.
Then these are times when we
should not do anything that will be
calculated to take the minds of our
people from the one great purpose
that should control them at this
time, the winning of the war. This
is no time for political agitation and
the stirring up of the people. We
want every citizen to work in har-
mony with every other citizen for
the welfare of the State, and politi-
cal debates and harangues by can
didates for office will not contribute
to that end. And besides that the
people are well enough acquainted
with the men who aspire to the var
ious offices to make a selection with
out this canvass of the State at this
time. We would be glad to see the
meetings so slimly attended that the
candidates themselves would see the
necessity of quitting the campaign
and going home and announcing
through the press of the State the
offices they seek and telling the peo-
pie who they are and their fitness
for the job and then let the people
go quietly to the polls and cast their
ballots and let US all resolve to
stand by the majority without muir
mur or complaint.
That's the way we see it and we
believe that it is the right way. We
took that position as to the county
campaign but the chairman ruled
that the rules of the party required
the appointment of the meetings.
We hold the same view as to the
State campaigns. The people are in
no frame of mind at this time to be
listening to political harrangues.
We want to see the Offices filled
by men who are competent and OF
good character and loyal to the gov
eminent, but we believe that the
people car make the selection just
as well by doing away with the
State canvas.-Newberry Herald
and News.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-06-18
ENFORCE 1T.

The ordinance adopted by the
City Council on last Friday evening
requiring every able-bodied person
to have some remunerative employ
ment and to do fifty hours labor in
every week is a step in the right
direction. The ordinance will mean
nothing, however, unless it is rigid
" enforced. The fact that the ne
gro laborers at present wages can
make enough in two days to keep
them going for a week is no reason
why they should not work. 1t is up to
the civil authorities to see that they
do work. There is no eason why
the country should suffer for want
of labor while labor is being thrown
away. >Loafing must come to an
end until the war is over, What is
true of the negroes should also be
srue of the whites. Every man
should be engaged in some useful
occupation, and should give it his
undivided time and attention. Let
every man get in the trenches in his
particular calling, and do duty as
t:he soldier is doing his in France.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-06-18
SITTING DOWN AT CARDS WITH
A BLACKLEG.

In April, 1916, replying to the
demand of President Wilson, the
German Government pledged its
word that it would a Ruthless
slaughter upon the high seas" With
in six weeks after that solemn prom
Use, Secretary Lansing tells US, Am
bassador Won Bernstorf requested
his Government to let him know in
advance whenever the time came to
break it. Chow well the ambassa-
dor knew the character of his Gov
ernment," says Secretary Lansing,
"and how perfectly frank he was"
"What a commentary on Bernstorff's
estimate of the sense of honor and
"good faith of his Government"
We did not need this revelation
10 convince us that with Germany
a pledge, a treaty, a promise, a
word of honor, is considered solely
as a military manoeuvre. We knew
it before. If the Belgian scrap of
paper did not convince US, the
"~treaty" of Brest-Litovsk did. The
evidence is cumulative, crushing,
comnlete. Shall the lesson be lost
upon us when Germany makes her
next proposal to suspend hostilitles
and gather around a conference Ia
BILE to discuss terms of peace? We
shall know then, as we know now,
that her only object will be to de-
stroy us, that the peace conference
she proposes will be as much a
military manoeuvre as is Luden-
dorf's advance between Noyon and
Montdidier. We shall know then,
as we know now, that what she
means by a conference and a "peace
of understanding and give-and-take'
was demonstrated by her confer
ence, her treaty, and her peace at
Brest-Litovsk.
When she makes these proposals
let us answer them in Secretary
Lansing's words: "We must 60 on
with the war. There is no other
"way. This task must not be left
"half done. We must not transmit
"to posterity a legacy of blood and
misery" For that is what her
peace conference will mean for US
and for posterity.-The New York
Times