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MOTHER! GIVE CHILD
"SYRUP OF FIGS" IF
= TONGUE lis COATED
If Cross, Fsverish, Sick, Bilious,
II Clean Little Liver and Bowels.

Children love this "frriit laxative,
and nothing else cleanses the tender
stomach, liver and bowels so nicely.
A child simply will not stop play
ing to empty the bowels, and the re-
suit is, they become tightly clogged
with waste, liver gets sluggish, stom-
ach sours, then your little one be-
comes cross, half-sick, feverish,
don't eat, sleep or act naturally,
breath is bad, system full of cold,
has sore throat, stomach-ache or
diarrhoea. Listen, Mother! See if
tongue is coated, then give a tea
spoonful of California Syrup of
Figs" and in a few hours all the
constipated waste, sour bile and un-
digested food passes out of the sys-
tenn, and you have a well, playful
child again. =
Millions of mothers give "Cali-
fornia SyVlp of Figs" because it is
perfectly harmless; children love it,
and it never fails to act on the stom-
ach, liver and bowels.
Ask your druggist for a 5O-cent
bottle of California Syrup of Figs
which has full directions for babies,
children of all ages and for grown
ups plainly printed on the bottle.
Beware of counterfeits sold here.
Get the genuine, made by "Cali-
fcrnia Fig Syrup Company" Re
fuse any other kind with contempt.
ADV. -
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!. MONTEREY.

Monterey, Jan. 5.-Mrs. o. M.
Lanier had as a spend the-day guest
Friday, her Sunday school pupils,
Misses Nora Sutherland, Jennie
Nance, Daisy Lanier and Ira Am
mons.
Miss Sallie Sutherland is spend
ing this week in Level Land with
her sister, Mrs. E. F. Sutherland.
Miss Alberta Clinkscales spent
Thursday night very pleasantly
with Miss Ruth McLane.
Mr.. R. L. Phillips of Lowndes-
Vile, is visiting his sister, Mrs. ]. A
Sutherland. :
Miss Mamie Baskin returned home
Thursday after spending the holi-
days with her sister, Mrs. W. T.
Cunningham. ,.. .
Miss Sara Clinkscales returned to
Ehrhardt Friday after spending the
Christmas season with her mother,
Mrs. ]. F. Clinkscales.
MIR. and Mrs. N. B. Napier spent
Friday afternoon at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Sutherland.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert McClair
b,vs rsvsd to their new hens in
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Warrenton. Their many friends
wish them much success lin their
new home. 3j5. I e
Mr.. Villain Vim has returned
to his home in Alabama after spend
the holidays with his uncle. M +,
A.. Sutherland.
& Messrs. Marshall and ], r Glink-;
scales we're business visitors TO the
city Friday. ...5 81
Miss Nora Sutherland spent from,
Friday until Sunday with Miss Clsu-
dia McClain. .9 81
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Jewish population was the some
what modernized form of the He
brew tongue which has been adopted
as the formal language of Zion by
the leaders of the Hebrew element
in Palestine, and not the Yiddish,
whose use is quite common on the
streets of Jerusalem. It's official en-
ployment is recognition and a
promise of the organized return of
the sons of Abraham, Isaac and ia
cob to the land of their fathers. 1t
links the modern history of Pales-
tine, with the ancient.
Directly beneath the Hebrew YER
sion of General Allenby's proclama-
ton appears to have come the Eng
lish version. Naturally, as the Ian
guage Of the conqueror, of the re-
deeming power, English has prom
inent place 1t is the tongue in
which Christianity, facing in tri-
umph her holy places, says: 81
have come at lastw 1t is the ton
que which has become imperial in
Asia, Nor is it locally stranger
to Palestine, for it has often been
found a convenient means of COM
munication there between the poly,
glot elements. Through it, Richard
Occur de Lion speaks again to the
lost land he sought to save-and
triumphs at last. 1t is the langu-
age of the future. "
Next to English, if strict histori.
cal suggestion were followed, should
stand the Latin, which was the of,
fetal tongue of the Christian king.
dom of Jerusalem from 100 to
1887. No one remains who would
choose to read General ,Allenby's
proclamation in the Latin tongue
but the speech of Rome lives again
and will be read on the bulletin
boards of Jerusalem, in the versions
in French and Italian which are post
ed there. French was indeed the
mother tongue of the Christian
kings of Jerusalem, or of the most
of them, and it is the language OF
the power to which the protection
of the Christians of Syria has beer
entrusted for centuries. The use Of
the Italian tongue is largely com
pliment, no doubt, to the ally OF
Britain which sits on the seven hill:
of Rome.
There remains the Greek ant
Russian tongues. Vastly more peo
Lple of the Orthodox faith, of which
these two languages are the habit
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THE STORY OF
SEVEN TONGUES

Entering Jerusalem, General AL
;lenby posted proclamation of his
authority and a reinsurance to the
people in the Arabic, Hebrew, Eng
lish, French, Italian, Greek and
Russian languages, Why those par
ticular languages? There is an in
teresting chapter of history-per-
haps it would be better to say
book of history-in the mere cir
cumstance of the employment of
each one of these tongues in the
proclaiming of Christian and Euro
pean power once more in Jerusalem.
In the use of the Arabic, one may
see recognition Of the social and
ethnic status quo in Palestine. The
language of the desert has prevailed
over all others as the vernacular of
the Holy Land. It's position records
the overrunning of all Syria after
5 Its conquest by the Arabs in the
seventh century by the people OF
the desert, whose teeming and fan
atical thousands the desert could no
longer hold. The Arab culture sup
planted all others, and assimilated
to itself even the Syrian population
which remained Christian after the
Moslem conquest. So far as the in
d;genous populations of Palestine
are concerned, the Arab tongue and
culture are dominant still. 1t is in
the Arabic language that the new
conquerors must address Palestin-
1 ian Moslem and Christian alike.
Quite properly, the Turkish langu-
age makes no appearance in the
;polyglot proclamation. The Turks
are but small official and soldier
class in Jerusalem-and they are
gone.
81 Next in position on the proclama-
ton comes the Hebrew tongue. Its
use tells the story of the zionistic
return, as far as it has progressed
Z Hebrews are now the predominant
element in the population OF Jeru'
salem itself, though not in that OF
Palestine as a whole. But they are
essentially an immigrant population
whose members, in their countries
Z Of origin, spoke no tonly Russian
/. and the German jargon which we
call Yiddish, but the local tongues
], of many other lands. 1t is to be
presumed that the language thus
.npleysd for the benefit Of tn
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HEAVY MEAT EATERS
HAVE SLOW KIDNEYS
Eat Less Meat If You Feel Back.
achy or Have Bladder Trouble.

No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make d mistake by
flushing the kidneys occasionally,
says a well-know-n authority. Meat
forms uric acid which excites the
kidneys, they become overworked
from the strain, get sluggish and
fail to filter the waste and poisons
from the blood, then we get sick,
Nearly all rheumatism, headaches
liver trouble, nervousness, dizziness
sleeplessness and urinary disorders
come from sluggisl kdssyi,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-08
A. P. A. Convention.

The Missouri State Branch of the
American Poultry Association will
hold its annual convention Thanks
giving week in Convention Hall,
X ansas City, in connection with the
Heart of American Poultry Show.
The American Buff Orpington
Club, the National Black Langshan
and the International Bantum Club
also meet this year with the Kan
sas City show.
Government, state experimental
station and other exhibits are now
as sured. These exhibits, together
W it'll lectures, models, pictures. etc,
are expected to prove a source of
help and encouragement to back
yard poultry raising.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-08
American Manhood.

But a short time ago pessimistic
writer's we're Historically bewailing
the deterioration of American man
hood. They saw evidence of it in
the factories, in the public schools,
in every walk of life, and prophesi-
ed that in a few years we would be.
a pathetic race of pygmies, says the
Philadelphia Telegraph. In any of
our national encampments one
may now see the finest specimens.
of manhood on the face of the
earth American manhood is far
from deterioration. AS a matter of
fact we are growing stronger every
day. Advancement in the Sciences
clean living and better understand
ing of hygienic essentials have plac-
ed us in the foreground of physical
development.-Centralia Guard.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-08
Practical Education.

The great fault with old fashion,
ed education has been that it was
too much book work The young
peo pie have been required to follow
traditional lines of thought laid out
in past ages. They have become
mentally alert, good reaSoners,
agile in argument,
But there has been a failure to
develop the planning, constructive,
active faculties. The children have
been too much spectators in the
world of action learning what other
people have done before them, but
not doing things for themselves.
Their mental eyes were opened, but
their physical eyes were closed
They acquired no faculties of OBJ
servation
1t has often happened that boys
bro Ught up in the rough and tumble
of work, without much schooling
have succeeded better than well
educated men. The uneducated
man learned in his experience how
to keep his eyes open. He closely
observed all details in whatever
material he handled He studied
the people he came in contact with
and had pretty good idea wha
they would do under any circum
stan Put him out in som,
difficult situation in actual life, anC
all this practical experience count
ed, and he could originate som,
way to handle it. Book work doe
not solve many of these problems,
During recent years. feeling tina
education must somehow give thes
powers not taught in old fashioned
book work. educators have intro
duced manual training in variou
kinds of hand work. Excellent re
suits are being accomplished wher
the work is we'll handled.
Children who never could be in
ter ested ins books, who learne
from printed page only with tn
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-08
Mo. Hogs for Sale

From 10000 to $4,000 head of
stock hogs are offered for sale by,
Missouri farmers in the regions
where feed has been cut short.
These hogs vary in age from wean--
ing to six or seven months. Most
of them are light but thrifty and.
will respond readily to a fattenine
ration.
Patriotic Missouri farmers an
swerrd the call to breed more hogs;
they planted feed crops; but they
could not control the weather.
They now have more stock hogs
than they can afford to feed. The
Extension Service of the University
of Missouri College of Agriculture
is helping to market this surplus.
W. H. Rush has listed 249 sellers
who offer stock hogs at prices vary
ing from ID cents up. He has a.
small list of buyers not enough to.
take all the hogs offered. A few
farmers are attempting to reduce
their breeding herds. and offer some
animals suitable for the general
farm.
The Extension Service does not
act as a commission firm nor an
agent 1t seeks merely to introduce
buyer and seller and let them make:
their own agreements. Lists of sell
lers and buyers may be had by adj
dressing W. Fl. Rusk. College of
Agriculture, Columbia, Mo.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-08
The Quota System.

A method of raising money for
community purposes has been
evolved during recent years that
promises to make it always easier
to get funds for any kind of public
work
This method is what might be
called the quota system. If the
government wants $6,000000,000
Liberty bonds, it assigns a certain
quota which each state must raise
or be considered to be Stacking.
Then each state appoints a certain
quota to every city In that way
most places with a sense of civic
respect raise what is expected of
them.
Some of the religious denomina-
tons and other societies worked the
same plan before the war. Previ-
ously they found it almost impossi-
BILE to raise money for good causes.
Everyone would say Let George do
it" But they got the idea of dis.
tributing the burden around to the
different states, and from the differ
ent states to the different churches
in a fair proportion. When each
church had laid upon it the obliga-
ton to raise certain definite sum,
it usually did it.
The same plan can be worked in
raising money for any good public
cause for a town. Monroe City
could be divided up into districts
arranged by streets, and the workers
of each could be assigned a certain
quota. 1t is a great deal easier to
raise that way, where people know
what a certain group or section is
expected to produce.
In past years it has proved very
difficult to get money for communi
ty work and good public causes.
Mary excellent charities and edu.
cational projects have fallen
through because the funds could
not be had. This method supplies
a means by which the people can
be made to feel their own response.
bility and that of their group,
toward good causes. 1t ought to
make it easier to finance cOmmuni.
ty projects,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-08

Many people who, admit the value
of technical instruction and train
ing in hand work, say that it is not
practical to int oduce it. They feel
the school courses are So crowded |
with subjects that there is no time |
to take on new branches. Also the |
expense would be too great.
Yet if we can turn out body of
young men who by reason of higher
standards of mechanical work and
skill, can turn out larger product
in our factories, it is very poor poll
cy to deny them the equipment and
the special teachers they need
The great trouble with our me-
chanical production is that the mass
of the work people are satisfied
with very ordinary and mediocre
grades of work. The man who can
be spurred on to think about his
work, to study the materials he
handles, to learn the very best way
of working those materials, and to
learn never to be satisfied until he
has turned out a perfect product in
a minimum of time and effort, that
man is going to turn out a product
twice as valuable as the average
mechanic If our factories can be
filled with that kind of mechanics,
their production will be doubled
in value.
Ideas of this kind are best i'm
parted in schools, when people are
young, and their life habits are
more easily formed.
This kind of work needs of course
instruction from competent techni,
cal teachers, who have ideals of
craftsmanship, and can teach boys
how to acquire a high range of
mechanical skill. .
But it need not be so expensive
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-08

as some people think. One teacher
in the manual and mechanical arts
can cover a considerable group of
schools, and a single set of acquip
ment can be used for boys from a
large number of schools In coun.
try districts one such teacher could
supervise manual training for the
schools of number of towns.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-08

You get choice lands free;
you pay for an ample supply
of water, that's available when
needed, on the easiest flnan-
cial terms. with no interest.
About thirty irrigated farms
yet remain in the first Beaver
Unit of 10000 acres alongside
the Burlington's Central Wy
oming line in Northern Wyo-
ming, File now. Don't wait
until spring. Visit Powell,
Wyo., near by, and note the
value of exactly the same
kind of lands, watered under
the same Government canals,
Let me send you printed mat.
ter and help you locate. /
want to put settlers right now
on every irrigated farm. You
can raise good crops next
summer and the country need
all you can raise. S. B. How
ard, Agricultural Agent, c. B.
& Q. R, R. 1904. Farnham St.,
Omaha, Nebr.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-08

greatest difficulty, have had a new
world of interest opened to them
The faculties with which they were
gifted have been aroused They
h ave been put in the way of max
ing successful men and women.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-08
-Four Great Months.

In July the Germans were pound.
ing their way toward Paris and the
channel ports; the Allies were in re-
treat, thousands of prisoners were
being taken daily and the whole
civilized world, through still certain
that right would win in the end,
walked about with gloomy hearts
and sad eyes.
The Germans crossed the Marne
The French armies around Verdun
and Nancy seemed about to be cut
off and the fairest city in the world
lay before the feet of the invader.
On that blacklist of days for
France 5000 American marines
smashed into the apex of the ad
vancing Hun wedge, and, through
5000 fell on the field of battle, the
point of the angle was blunted-
and the Germans had been stopped.
Their halt was a brief one, for when
they began to move again their
waning backs were toward Paris.
Germany had lost the war.
Followed then one Allied victory
after another on the western front
American troops began pouring into
the fighting lines at the rateo of 800,
600 a month. Germany in despair
compelled Austria to send her men
from the Balkan front. Hindenbure,
too, withdrew the German leeions
from Bulgaria, Roumania and Serbia.
The effect of this withdrawal was
immediate. Bulgaria, faced by an
army of 100000 Greeks, 100000
Serbians anG 100000 more French
and British, put up a feeble resis-
lance for a few days and then sur.
rendered.
The SNOWFALL of defeat kept rol
ling down the hill. Bulgaria's de-
lection permitted the Allies to cut
off rail and river connection between
Constantinople and Berlin, and the
M oslem, without guns. or shells or
food, was compelled to give up
Palestine and Syria and large
stretches Of Mesopotamia. The rear
gate to Constantinople had been
left open by Sophia's withdrawal,
ard surrender remained the only
choice of the Sublime Porte 1t
has taken that choice.
Austria, with its frontier exposed
| by the Bulgarian desertion and with
internal troubles growing daily,
could not long stand against the
Allies, and she, too, has collapsed
and begged for peace.
Germany is thus left in position
of utter helplessness. If she con-
tinues the war she faces massacre
The Allies have her outnumbered
on the western front. 100000
Italians will soon be available fol-
an attack on the Hun through the
Austrian frontier and Bohemia
The surrender of Turkey makes AL.
lenby's 100000 troops available fol
use against Germany. Besides
don't forget that America is still
J la nding troops in France at the rate
of 100000 a month.
Germany, facing grave interna
disturbances and hOpelessly out
numbered, must in few days sur
render Continuation of the wal
means needless slaughter. and the
longer she will have to pay fo
peace
And to think that four months
ago we walked about with gloom!
faces, wondering what effect on the
war the fall of Paris and the chan
mel sorts would haVe!-Republic
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-08

Please bring the little tots in the
MORNING. Miss Belle Johnson.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-26

oats with satisfactory results. June l, is probably the average time limit for profitable seeding, unless grown for sofling or pasture purposes.
 Use 10 pecks of seed per acre, un- less seed is poorly cleaned or sown by hand, then 12 pecks may be need ed. Prepare the soil and seed the same for oats.
 Fertilizers-Use fertilizer and ma nure the same as recommended for oats. However, barley will stand a heavier use of manure and fertilizer than oats without as much lodging.
 Varieties - The best varieties for eastern conditions are the Manchuria (Mansbury), Oderbrucker and Wis consin Pedigreed. Manchuria has given the best yields at Storrs Experi- ment station. Vermont Champion is also good.
 Harvesting and Threshing-Handle the crop similar to oats. Barley is harder to clean than oats and requires careful cleaning to make good feed, as the boards are undesirable if mixed or adhering to the grain. Uses of Barley-Bar1ey makes good poultry and horse feed. Ground or crushed with oats or corn it is excel lent dairy feed. It can also be Toured 1 for human use.
 | Barley is less valuable as fodder | than oats. but if cut in season it makes imore nutritious hay and is palatable. For late soiling or pasturage, barley | is second only to rye in withstandins early frosts.
 B. G. OUTHICK,
 Conn. Agricultural College.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-26
PERSIAN PEOPLE
 DYING OF HUNGER IN LARGE TOWNS

Petrograd, April 26-(Correspon- dence of The Associated Press)- People are dying of hunger in the streets of the large towns of Persia, notably in Hamadan and Senne, says a. despatch from Kazvin to the Ros- tovskaya Rech.
 "The spectre of famine has be- come g. fearful reality" the cores pondent wrote. "To pass through two or three streets in Hamadan or Senne is enough to come upon two or thx~e dead bodies.. Here and there may be groups of women mourning over their dead. Here is a beggar woman-a mother with two children; one of them a baby in arms, is dead, and near the mother on the ground is another child dying. The mother herself is already mo- tionless, with frozen, uninteIligent stare The Persians, seeing that a human being is really dying, shove some bread into the dying woman's mouth, but the belated help o1 course, does not save her life. The
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-26

poor villagers throng from the will lages to the towns hoping in vain to be fed there.
 'Even in Kazvin, this more or less well-to-do town, it has more than once fallen to the lot of your corres- pondent to take up from the streets people stripped bare, who from ex- haustion have been unable to move. Mothers sell their daughters, still mere children, in order to secure crust of bread; wives of poor men are given to the rich that their fam flies may be maintained.
 t'In Hamadan, a few days ago, sparks of a hunger riot broke out, and it was only the presence of Rus sian troops that stopped the move ment, that was ready to embrace the whole country with it's flames.
 There is report that Kuchik Khan, that freebooters' chief, who lives in the forests near Resht, and has, under arms, about S0,000 mount ed men, is only waiting to raise a re- volt tJa HAe Russian troops leave.
 While trying to organize among the Persians, public aid for the starv- ing, I am brought up against either the Persians indifference, or their government that is made impotent by bribery and corruption, of truly Oriental character.
 '"The misery is almost irremedia- ble."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-26
Freckles and Blotches
 Are Easily Peeled Of

If you are bothered with any c11ta- neous blemish, it's poor plan to use paint, powder or anything else to cover it up. Too often this only emphasizes the defect Besides, it's much easier to remove the disagreement with or 1inary mercolized wax. Applied night ly, the wax will gradually remove treckIes, pinples, moth patches. HveS spots, sallowness, red blotches or any surface eruption. The affected cuti- cle is actually absorbed, a little each day, until the clear, soft, youthful and beautiful skin beneath is brought wholly to view.
 Ask the druggist for one ounce of mercolized wax and use this like you use cold cream. Remove in the morn ing with soap and water. Many who have tried this simple, harmless treat ment report astonishing results-Adz,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-26
BANK PAYS WAR BONUS.

Amsterdam, April 26-The Deutsche Bank of Berlin, which is enjoying record prosperity on account of the vast number of war industries in which it is interested, is paying all its employees war bonuses ranging from 30 to 50 per cent of their salaries.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-26

The Italians lost one steamship and one sailing ship through submarine attack last week.