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Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25

Building-up for the Spring Attack at
the Front is good deal like putting
the body in condition for an invasion
of the germs Of grip, pneumonia or
Spring fever" here at home.
At this time of the year most peoplo
suffer from a condition often called
Spring Fever. They feel tired, worn
out, before the day is half thru. They
may have frequent headaches and
sometimes "pimply" or pale skin and
white lips. The reason for this is that
during the wintertime, shut up with
In doors, eating too much meat and
too little green vegetables, one heaps
fuel into the system which is not burned
up and the clinkers remain to poison
the system-a clogging up Of the circu.,
latiOn-with inactive liver and kidneys.
Time to put your house in order.
For an invigorating tonic which will
clarity the blood, put new life in the
body, sparkle to the eyes, and q,
wholesome skin, nothing does so Well
as a glyceric herb extract made from
Golden Seal root, Blood and Stone,
root, Oregon grape root and Wildi
Cherry bark. This can be had in conS
venient, ready-to-use tablet form at all
drug stores, sixty cents, and has been
sold for the past fifty years as Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Byl
reason Of the nerves feeding on the
blood, when the blood is pure the
nerves feel the effect. and neuralgia or
other nerve pains disappear becausel
such pain is the cry of the starved
nerves for food. When suffering from
backache, frequent or scanty urine,
rheumatic pains here or there, or that
constant tired feeling, the simple way
to overcome these disorders is merely
to obtain DIR. Pierce's Anuric from
your druggist. In tablets, sixty centns
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
Some Good Rice Recipes.

AS a staple article OF diet, rice may
be boiled in sailed water and used like
potato or sweet potato as a vege-
table at a meal at which fish, meat,
eggs, beans or other foods rich in pro-
TEN are served. Wholly or partially
cooked rice can be used with cheese,
minced meat or poultry, fish, eggs,
beans, gravy, etc, for a variety of
made Dishes the combinations consti-
tuting dishes in which most of the
needed food elements are present. It
also may be used as a major or minor
ingredient In stews and soups.
Instead Of serving rice plain as a
vegetable, 1t may be stewed with to-
matoes, cooked in a double boiler with
tomato juice. soup stock or milk, or
II may be seasoned with curry pow
der, onions or other seasoning mate
rails. By using skim milk In this way
partially economical dish is pro-
duced.
AS a cereal for breakfast, rice may
be boiled In milk and sweetened, or
eaten with butter and salt. If 1t is
desired, dried fruits such as dates or
raisins may be cooked with the rice.
Cold boiled rice, mixed with pancake
or muffin batters OF wheat, buckwheat
or cornmeal, for instance, makes q
pleasing addition to such food prod
ucts, reduces the quantity of wheat
needed, and furnishes a method for
using the leftover cereal.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
JUDGED BY THOSE OF TODAY
UndeeIpherabIe Papyrus Might Well
Have Been What Librarian Would
Catalogue Il

The librarian at a certain museum
was engaged In cataloguing and ar
ranging some ancient books that had
just arrived from Egypt, when he no.
ticed a perplexed look on the face Of
his assistant.
whats the matter, Brown" he
asked. as there anything that you
don't UNDERESTIMATE"
YES" answered Brown. Here Is a
small papyrus on which the characters
are not decipherable. How shall /
class it2"
"Uh," thoughtfully returned the IL
brarlan, examining the papyrus. Sup
pose you call It doctors prescription
in the time of Pharaoh"
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
Mashed Potatoes Different

Most housekeepers know how deli"
cious mashed potatoes can be made by
beating them until light with hot milk,
margarine or butter and salt and pep
per, four tablespoonfuls Of hot milk
and one teaspOonful Of the fat for
every medlum-slzed potato. To make
the mashed potatoes little different"
they can be turned into a potatD
souftie by adding the beaten white Of
eggs (two eggs to six medium-siEed po-
tatoes), pIling lightly in baking dish
and baking in the oven till brown.
Grated cheese added to this souffie IN
good
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
RICE FAVORED AS
NUTRITIOUS FOOD
If Consumption Could Be In
creased in United States More
Wheat Could Be Saved.
GREAT VALUE NOT REALIZED
Most important Article Of Diet in
China and Japan--Increased Pro-
duction Would Release Grain
for Our Allies.

Here In the United States 1t is ditii-
cult to realize that there is no other
edible product, excepting meat, upon
which more people in the world are de-
pendent for food, than rice. We might
adVantageOusly consume much greater
quantities of this nutritious food and
grow the increase in our own rice
fields, according to the 1918 crop-pro-
ductlon program recently announced
by the United States department Of
agriculture. An increased production
and consumption not only would ex-
pand a profitable industry, the federal
specialists declare, but the eating of
more rice In the place of wheat would
release a greater quantity of the bread
grain for shipment to the allies.
Per Capita Consumption.
The average per capita consumption
of rice for food In this country is
scarcely six pounds a year, and most
of this is consumed in the Southern
states. The high esteem in which rice
is held In other countries is indicated
by their per capita consumption. Nor
way and Sweden consume over 8
pounds per capita; Russia over IL
pounds; England, q pounds; France,
"a pounds; Italy, over 101 pounds, and
Germany more than SO pounds. But
even these European countries do not
begin to eat as much rice as Japan
and China. There rice is the most i'm
portant article Of diet. Each man,
woman and child in Japan, on the av-
erage. consumes lat pounds of rice
each year, and those In China, 1853
pounds. The placing of such depend
ence upon rice as a staple food GER
tainly proves beyond a doubt that it is
highly nutritious; analysis of rice sup
ports this proof. Pound for pound rice
is about as nutritious as wheat. Every
100 pounds of cleaned rice contains
ST. pounds Of nutriment, of which 8
pounds are protein, 0.3 pounds fat, 70
pounds carbohydrates, and 0.4 pound
ash. The analysis OF wheat -four shows
that 1t contains S7.1 pounds of nutri-
ment In each 100 pounds, of which 1913
pounds are protein, IL pounds fat, 74.8
pounds carbohydrates, and 04 pound
ASH. TsaIs the total nutriment In rice
Is trihe greater than in wheat.
Wheat has the advantage In protein
aud rice in carbohydrates.
Foodstuff for Orient.
Although rice is the great foodstuff
Of the Orient, 1t is not used there in
making a raised bread. In this coun-
try dletitlans have made excellent
bread by substituting as high as rs
per cent of rice for wheat flour, and
have obtained a white yeast bread of
excellent flavor.
Unpublished rice is offered and ac-
cepted as a product superior to the
polished rice, but In reality its food
value is only better by so small de-
gree that 1t is practically negligible.
In the preparation of the polished and
the unpublished rice. the cuticle. aleu-
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
Turkey Worth Buying.

f. J. Hardy of Chicago hungered for
turkey, but because of the high prices
asked for them he hesitated to spend
the money. His appetite got the better
Of his frugallty, however, and he drew
from his slender savings enough to buy
one. His prudence in selecting the
bird brought him a greater reward
than he had anticipated. When he
dressed 1t he found in its crop a dia-
mond worth about S150.-Pathfnder
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
Stray Romance From the Front

'Wy 0HVI'INTNV TUT VIC TTOWN
One OF our stray romances came to
light tho other day when a soldier
dashed back to England on leave from
France to marry the girl of his heart
He had picked up a photograph of the
lady on the battlefield (Which seems
to hint that she was the idol Of some
other soldiers heart previously, and
letter asking her whether she desired
a return Of the likeness led to CORE
spondence and an engagement. But
the couple did not meet until the day
of their wedding. Talk about the risks
at the front Sydney (Australia)
Bulletin
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
BROWN RICE BETTER THAN
THE POLISHED-ASK FOR 1T

Rice as sold by our grocers is
a pretty grain with a smooth
and shiny surface, attractive to
the eye, but lacks the palatable-
ness that makes foods popular.
This rice has been so highly
milled that 1t has been robbed
of much of its food value and
of most of it's oily fiavoring mat
ter, leaving a product known
to the trade as polished rice,
which to many persons is taste
less. If the American housewife
could be induced to demand
brown rice instead of taking the
polished product, there would be
a marked increased consump-
ton of this cereal in a very
short time, due in part If not
entirely to the pleasing flavor
Of the kernel.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25

rome layer, and germ, which contains
much protein and other important food
constituents, are removed, reducing
greatly the nutritive value of the
grain. The real difference between
these two mill products is largely in
the coating of the polished rice with
glucose and tale, and the absence Of
coating material on the unpublished.
The superiority of the brown rice
over either of these lies in the fact
that the entire seed as nature pro-
duced it Is used, except the inclosing
moved.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
Greetings.

On New Years eve in a Yorkshire
town two men were carried to the
hospital-victims Of an explosion. One
had the misfortune to have his nasal
organ blown off the other had lost ono
Of his ears. The two men were placed
In adjacent beds, and in the morning
the one minus his nose shouted to his
neighbor:
Happy New Year to thee. mattel"
Happy new nose to thee. and mind
thine own business" growled the 0thezS
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
Women to lam PIaeea.

Baeon--I see by the paper that
America has the distinction Of having
the FIRST woman dentist at work in the
war zones.
Egbert-Another evidence that wom-
en- are to I'LL the places once filled by
men.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
HnN'a This ?

We offer 10000 for any case Of catarrh
that cannot be cured by HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is TAX
on the Mucous Surfaces Of the system
Sold by druggists for over forty years
Price Zoe. Testimonials free.
B. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio,
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
Earned a Sweater.

swell, Tommie, were You good boy
at school todayT" asked mother.
''Yes, was, mamma. I licked the
stufrin' out Of German boy. Now
mamma, will you knit mo a swesterr
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
The New Vocabulary.

''No one should use words he does
not precisely understand"
But" objected Miss Cayenne, III l
kept running to the dictionary and tho
gazetteer, I'd never get a chance to
talk about the war"
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
Mo Honor.

Bacon-You know a prophet is said
to have little honor In his own country.
Egbert-Yes, but how about the
profIteersi
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
woMAN's GROWING GLORY

Is her hair. II yours is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use LA Gre
ole" Hair Dressing and change 1t In
the natural way. Price $1.OO.-Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25
Imnnrtan, 20 HAothara
No Other Testimony.

No Other Testimony.
IF you are willing to accept hearsay
evidence. the new $4,000 bill bears
General Grants portralt.-MinneapOlis
Morning Tribune.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-04-25

REVENGE Is not vaior.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-11-01

Well, you've overplayed your hand,
old-timer. let you fellows down easy,
last time. l don't reckon Foxy object
ed much to those few turned back to
him, and l don't reckon you did any
kicking when you found I'd cut the
rope so 1t wouldn't hold your rotten
carcass. You can't let we'll enough
alone, though. You thought you'd raise
me, did your You thought you'd come
back and try another whack at me be-
hind my back. You knew hanged we'll
wasn't the kind OF man that would
jump the country. You knew you'd
find me right here, attending to my
business like I've always done.
''But you've overplayed your hand
This time I'm going to get you-and
Foxy and the breed along with you. II
was a rotten trick, running Yes over
Seabeck's brand. II I hadn't caught
you In the act, you'd have planted
them cattle where all HI couldn't
have saved me when they were found
II hadn't caught you at 1t and run
NIX monograms over the whole cheese
I'd have been up against 1t for fair
SO now you're going to get what's com.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-11-01

lard in a small bucket and melted half
a cupful. Then she tore up a wooden
undershirt she found hanging on
nail and bore relentlessly down upon
him.
"You gotta be creased all over your
lungs" she announced with a matter
of-factness that cost her something
for Billy Louise's innate modesty was
only just topped by her good sense.
Ward submitted without protest
while she barred his chest and applied
the warm mixture with a smoothly Wig
orous palm. "That'n FIX the hookin
cough" she said, as she spread the
warm layers of wooden cloth smoothly
from shoulder to shoulder. "How does
1t feelT"
Great" he assured her succinctly,
and wisely omitted any love making.
Twill your game leg let you turn
over? Because there's some dope left,
and 1t ought to go between your shout
ders."
'The game leg ought to stand more
than that" he told her, turning slowly.
IL i1uun l got Ills colu lacked onto
me, I'd have been trying to walk on II
by now"
BETTER give 1t time--since you've
been game enough to lie here all this
while and take care of It. l don't be-
/ lieve I'd have had nerve enough for
that, Ward" She poured rurpentine
( and lard Into her palm, reached inside
his collar and rubbed 1t on his shout
ders. Good thing you had plenty OF
( grub handy. But 1t must have been
awful u
TT was pretty lonesome" he admit.
ted laconically and that was as far
as his complainings went.
Billy Louise then poured the water
of the sage leaves she had been brew
Ing In tin basin, carefully fished out
stem or two, and made Ward drink
every bitter drop. Then she covered
him to the eyes and hardened her heart
against his discomfort, while she KEEP,
the handkerchief cool on his head ant
between times swept the floor with r
carefully dampened broom and wiped
the dust off things and restored tn,
room to its most cheerful atmosphere
Of livableness.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-11-01

Ing to yuh. won't take any chances
on your not trying 1t again. I'm going
to protect myself right.
you throw that gun on the bed"
Chilly Louise did 80, her eyes still
upon Wards flushed face.) Nov. get
down that tablet from the shelf
Here's a pencil" He drew one from
under his pillow and tossed 1t toward
her. snow you write the truth about
all this rustling. It's a bigger thing
than shows right in this neighborhood.
l know that. And l know, too, that
Foxy has been pulling down some on
the side. He never paid for all the
stock that's running around vented
and rebranded NIX. I've got that sized
up. Pretty smooth trick. too; a heap
better than working brands. He ought
to have been satisfied with that-but a
crook never Is satisfied. l knew he
wasn't the tenderfoot he tried to make
out, and when saw some of his stock
and that gate fixed to ring a bell when
1t was opened, l knew he was crook
But he made big mistake when he
threw in with you, you
II want you to write down the
truth about that Hardup deal: who
was in with you. / know, all right, but
/ want 1t down on paper. And l want
to know how long Foxy's been In with
you, and who's working the game or
the outside. Get busy; write 1t al
down. I'll give you all the time yor
need; don't leave out anything. Dates
and all, l want the whole graft. DOM
try to get away. I've got this CUR
loaded to the guards, and you know
I'm aching for an excuse" Hi
stopped and coughed again, hoarsely
rackingly. Then he lay quiet, excep
for his rasping breath and watched.
Billy Louise, with the tablet on hel
trembling knees, pretended to write
From under her lashes she watched
Ward curiously She saw his attention
waver, saw his eyes wander aimlessl,
about the room. She sat very still
and waited, making scrawly mark
that had no meaning at all. She saw
Wards fingers loosen on the revolver
saw his head turn YEARLY on the pill
low. He was staring out through tn
window at the brilliant blue of tn
sky with the dazzling white cloud
drifting like bits of cotton to the north
ward. He had forgotten her.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-11-01

face fol cling herself to calmness again
or at least to sanity. She had to go
back She told herself SO, many times.
So Billy Louise went back to the
cabin, slowly. with shaking legs and
a heart that nuttered and stopped,
fluttered and jumped and stopped, and
made her stagger as she walked. She
reached the doorstep and stood there
with her palms pressing hard against
her cheeks again. you've got to do
1t. You've got tot" she Whispered to
herself commandingly.
She never doubted that Ward was
inside. She thought she would find
him dead-dead and horrible, perhaps
No other solution seemed to fit the
circumstances. He was in there, dead.
1t took courage to open that door,
but Billy Louise had courage enough
to open 1t, and to step inside and close
the door after her. She did not look
mt anything in the cabin while she did
1t, though. She kept her eyelids down
so that she only saw the floor directly
In front Of the door. She had sense
Of relief that 1t looked perfectly nat
ural, though dusty.
Throw up your hands !" came
hoarsely from the bunk. Billy Louise
gasped and pulled her gun, and
dropped crouching to the floor. Also
she looked up.
From her crouching position she
looked into Wards fever-wild eyes.
He was sitting up in the bunk, and he
was pointing his big forty-five at her
relentlessly. Get up from therel' he
ordered sternly. "Don't try any game
like that on me, Buck Olney! Get up
and so over and sit In that chair. I've
got few things to say to you"
I Billy Louise somehow grasped the
truth, up to certain point. Ward was
sick; so sick he didn't know her.
She thought she would better humor
him. She got up and went and sat in
the chair as he directed.
Ward, keeping tn gun pointing her
way, sneered at her in way that
made the soul OF Billy Louise crimple
She faced him big-eyed, too amazed
at the change In him to feel any fear
that he would harm her. He had whis
kers two inches long. She wouldn't
have known him except for his hair
and that was terribly tousled; and his
eyes, though they were wild and angry
His voice was hoarse, and while he
glared at her. he coughed with hard
croupy resonance.
$50 you came back, did yuh?" h.
asked grimly at last. ''Well, you didn'
get chance to plug me in the back
How long did you lay up there on thu
bluff this time, waiting to catch ms
when wasn't looking7 I've been wish
ing I'd left that rope so 1t would have
hung you, you - Chilly Louise
listened round-eyed to certain man
sized epithets strange to her ears.)
II suppose you and Foxy and tina
halfbreed have been fixing up som,
more evidence, huh? You figure tina
I can't catch 'em this time and worl
the brands over, so they'll stand Yes
and I'll get railroaded to the pen
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-11-01

do, and you don't whine about 1t; and
I've been weak and-horrid; and I'll
have to love you about a million years
before l can quit feeling ashamed"
She kissed him again with passion
OF remorse for her doubts OF him.
Are you through being pals, Will
helminaT Ward broke rules and freed
an arm, SO that he could hold her
closer.
mo, I'm Just beginning. Just be-
ginning right. I'm your pal for keeps.
But"
II love you for keeps, lady mine"
Ward stifled another cough. "When
are you going to marry me1'
"Oh, when you get over the hookn'
cough. s'pose." Once more Billy Lou
ise, for the good of her patient, forced
herself into safe flippancy-that was
not flppant at all, but merely tender
pretense.
Now It's up to you to show me
whether you are In any hurry at all
to get WE'LL" she said. Keep your
hands under the covers while / make
some tea. That fever OF yours has got
to be stopped immediately-to once
She went over and busted herself
about the stove, never once looking
4 toward the bed, though she must have
felt Wards eyes worshipping her.
She hunted through the cupboards
and found bottle of turpentlne; sir.
upy and yellowed with age, but pun
gent with strength. She found some
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-11-01
CHAPTER XIV.


DHLY LOUISE waited another
minute or two, weighing the DOS
sibilities. She saw Wards fin
gers drop away from the gun, but they
remained close enough for a danger
ously quick gripping OF 1t again, II the
within seized him. Still-surely to
goodness, Ward would never get crazy
enough to hurt herl Perhaps her fem
mine assurance OF her hold on him,
more than her courage, kept her nerves
fairly Aleady. She bit the pencil alb
sently, watching him.
Ward turned his head restlessly on
the pillow and coughed again. Billy
>uise got up quietly. went close to
the bed, and laid her hand on his fore
head. His head was hot. and the veins
were swollen and throbbing on his
temples.
Brave Buckaroo got headache?"
she queried softly, stroking his tenn
ples soothingly. Got the hookin'-
cough, too. Got every measly thing he
can think Of. E-nn got crouch against
the Flower of the Ranch-oh !" Her
voice was crooningly soft and sweet,
as II she were murmuring over sleepy
baby.
Ward closed his eyes. opened them,
and looked up into her face. One
hand came up uncertainty and caught
her fingers closely. "WIlhelmina-
mine" he said, In his hoarse voice.
His eyes cleared to sanity under her
touch.
Billy Louise drew small sigh Of re-
lief and reached unobtrusively with
her free hand for the gun. She slid
1t down away from his fingers, and
when he still paid no attention, she
picked 1t up quite openly and laid 1t
against the footboard. Ward did not
say anything. He seemed altogether
occupied with the amazing reality OF
her presence.
you've got terrible cold and from
the looks Of things, you've had 1t for
about six months" said Billy Louise.
Her eyes went comprehensively about
that end Of the cabin, with the de-
pleted cracker box, the half-emptled
boxes of peaches and tomatoes. and
OF water. She was shocked at the pitt
full evidence OF long helplessness- She
did not quite understand. Surely
Wards cold had not kept him in bed
80 long.
SWELL this is no time for mirth or
laughter" she said briskly, to hide how
/ close she was to hysteria, 'since 1t
looks very much like the morning
after First, we've got to tackle that
fever of yours" She picked up q
water pail and started for the door.
AS she passed the foot of the bunk,
she confscated the two revolvers and
took them outside with her. She had
no desire to be mistaken again for
Buck Olney.
When she came back Wards eyes
we're wild again, and he started up
IN bed and glared at her. Billy Lou
ise laughed at him and told him to lie
down like nice buckaroo, and Ward,
recalled to himself by her voice
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-11-01

Over 100000 pounds of zinc was
produced by Tennessee mines Ia 1915,
the largest operators being the Ameri-
can zinc company. at Mascot. and the
Embree Iron company, at Embreeville
The production of gold silver and cop
per In 1915 was less than the produc-
ton in 1915, but the output of lead
and zinc increased.