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tached to the Sudanese army near the Abyssinian and Belgian-Congo frontiers. He is the only Englishman in an area of 200 miles and none of the native troops in his command speak English. He has a smattering of Arabic and his only conversation is in that language. Some of his men. who, he says. are fine soldiers, were enemies not many years ago.
 In an interview reported by the Manchester Guardian he remarked that the very sight of crowds was a luxury after his experience. His
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chief diversion in Africa is playing "patience," although this is diversified by incidental lion hunting and the cas- ual chance of shooting other big game. None the less he could say that while "the loneliness gets on my nerves oc- casionally, on the whole I like the job, and we get some jolly little scraps which are not reported in the newspa- pers. Still I should welcome the so- ciety of a war correspondent or two.
 Which possibly goes to show that even in the desert the newsVar<r has its uses.
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Musical Beginnings.

Mrs. Boynton caught a glimpse of her young son going to the library one afternoon concealing something be- hind him. Upon investigation, she dis covered he had a new porous plaster which he had found in the medicine closet.
 "Why, Edmund," said the mother, "what in the world are you going to do with that plaster?"
 q am going to see what tune 1t will play on the pianola. mother," replied the boy.-Puck.
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ENJOYED SIGHT OF CROWDS
British Soldier, Home on Leave, Ayers That Even to See White People
 ls Luxury.

The man who thinks he has the lone Hest job in all war was recently on leave in London. There he was spend Ing all his walking hours walking the streets and looking at the crowds.
 Three years ago he was a cog in London's commercial machine. Then he went to Gallipon. Now he is at
Williams news., 1918-06-21
How'S This ?

We offer $100.00 for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE.
 HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is talk en internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
 Sold by druggists for over forty years. Price 76c. Testimonials free.
 Y. J. Cheney 6 O.. Toledo, Ohio.
Williams news., 1918-06-21

Dr. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver, bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for laxative, three for cathartic. Ad.
Williams news., 1918-06-21

An implement has been patented by a New York man to enable a blind person to thread a needle.
Williams news., 1918-06-21
His Fear.

His Fear. "Are you not tempted to retire from politics?"
 "No," replied Senator Sorghum; that's a proposition concerning which I fear compulsion, not temptation"
Williams news., 1918-06-21

Be happy. Use Red Cross Bag Bluei much better than liquid blue: Delights the laundress. All Rrocers. Adv.
Williams news., 1918-06-21
Has Ills Hands Full.

q thought I knew what it was to have responsibilities, said the head of a large concern.
 "But you found yourself mis- taken?'
 "Yes. My wife went away, 1eav- ing a poodle, Maltese cat and a bowl of goldfish in my care"
Williams news., 1918-06-21

Important to Mothers
 Examine carefully every bottle Of CASTORIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that 1t
Williams news., 1918-06-21

Builders of air castles are spared all worry about labor strikes.
Williams news., 1918-06-21
Descendant of Robert E. Lee Has Famous
 H0spttaI Tn France <:

HE publication of statistics of all army hospitals shows that an American woman Mrs. Zalma Bradley Lee, formerly of Baltimore and New York-operates a hos pital having the lowest
 mortality rate of all the in-
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"Just think" says he. Here is an
important Industrial process of which
we are utterly ignorant. If we could
only find this Mr.. Grimes. now All,
wonder If this can be the MANI"
1t could and was. He's a picturesque
old patriarch with a full set of. long
staple whiskers and jutty eyebrows.
He's sittin' on stump watchin' three
red clay into wheelbarrows and trun-
dim 'em up out of the pit on string
of rotten planks. He admits that his
name Is Grimes and that he owns the
he sketches out how the clay is ham
died. from the time it's dug out unit!
it leaves the firm kilns for the stackin'
sheds.
"And then" says Pinckney. the
bricks are ready to be shipped off and
den walls How Interestingly"
"Mebby" says Mr.. Grimes. "But fer
a man who's tryin' to pile up enough to
carry him back to Schenectady. York
state. it's mighty poor business prop
osition.'
but, my dear sir" says Pinckney.
why leave such charmingly named
town for city with so unlovely a
name as that?"
Names don't count much with me-"
says Grimes. Besides. my old friend.
Jeb Snyder. lives in Schenectady; and
now that my daughters married and
iHovcu ols anu luc olu WOIldH > Souo-
well. kinder got a hankerin' to see
Jeb onct more. Don't look like I'd
fetch 1t, though"
Then am to understand" says
Pinckney. that You find the brick BUSH
ness unprofitable?"
Make enough to keep alive, that's
about ALL" says Grimes. tampin' down
his old pipe. 'Wisht could sell out,
that's what I WISH"
"Ah!" says Pinckney, his eyes spar
kim You would SELF And at what
figure?"
why" says Grimes. iii I could git
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cisely the one thing I can do. lit
would be rather interesting to try.
wouldn't it? And. while this hotel is
somewhat crude, I think 1 could fix up
buy half interest, you know. put in a
few baths. enlarge some of the rooms.
set up a small electric light plant for
the town, get the railroad to run spur
track out to the brickyard, and
stop" says Pinckney. holdfn' up
both hands. Are you joking, Morti-
mer?"
Judders gives him an injured look.
Certainly not" says he, gettin' up
and startin' for the door.
"But-but where are you going?
asks Pinckney.
ITO telegraph Harkley." says he.
Fancy" gasps Pinckney. as the door
slams. Mortimer"
Listens like you'd started something
for Pipkin, don't it?' says L
And he sure had We stayed on long
enough to see the first gang arrive. a
superintendent with half a dozen men,
who reports that two carloads of ma
chinery was followin'. Also we saw
mer's three-room suite and looked over
his plans for the new power house.
When we left he was pacin' up and
down the hotel Office, dictatin letters
to stenographer. while outside were
two county commissioners, some rail.
road men. an automobile agent and four
contractors. all waitin to see him. And
we had to dodge painters, paperhangers
and steamfitters as We struggled
through the front door.
Think of it," says Pinckney. Nor
timer! I would hardly recognize him as
the same person."
He amt" says l. -And If that psy-
chic-urge stun holds out for six months
you won't know Pipkin. either
Copyright, 1918, by Sewen Ford.)
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BY SEWELL FORD

IL don't know" says Judders.
starin' at the fire.
He turned into the feathers early
that night, before o'clock. leavin'
landlord and old man Grimes. Mortimer
must have been up an hour or more
when we came down in the mornin'.
for he'd finished breakfast and was
waitin' for us in the dinin' room.
DO you know says he, I've been
thinking a lot about this brickmaking
business"
Naturally, Mortimer" says Pinck-
ney. Being in it, you're bound to-
I don't see" goes on Judders. why
it shouldn't be made to pay
"Eh?" says Pinckney. gain across
the table at him.
II happen to know a chap" says
Mortimer, who gets quite a large in
come from brickyard interests-up the
Hudson somewhere. Manages the bust
ness himself. believe. Harkley is the
name-Joe Harkley."
''Oh. yes" says Pinckney, 1--WE met
him at the club, haven't To- 4
Mortimer don't seem to hear the ques-
ton, but rambles along.
Now, it occurs to me-" says he that
Mr.. Grimes may not be using the best
methods. Those darkies with Wheel
barrows = such slow way. There
ought to be 1 say, Pinckney. if I
could get -Harkley to lend me a few
men-a foreman and some brickmakers
who know their job Thoroughbred
with some up-to date machinery, II
believe could make a go of it,"
It's Pinckney who's gaspin' now.
BY George" says he. You you
really mean to try it? You are going
to stay-here?"
"of course apologies Mortimer, st
am no business man. 1 have never
done anything of the sort. But, as you
mentioned yesterday, this may be pre-
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plotted; new surroundings; a new man.
ner of life; perhaps the most entertain
ing of episodes awaiting. Then no for
Pipkin.'
Course, it's a nutty line of talk. but
with Mortimer's face to watch I
couldn't help enjoyin' 1t. If he'd been
dropped on desert island he couldn't
have looked more dazed or desperate.
clutchin his razor strop and sna.,n
brush, starin' down the track after the
disappearin' train.
Don't quite seem to get that adven-
ture stuff, does he?" says /. Acts
more like he thought life was a term
in jail"
Now, suppose we see about accommo-
dations"
That didn't take long. The landlord
of the Pipkin House was snoozin in a
porch chair not 200 feet away. He
wasn't keen at first about bein' reused
show up what he had in the way Of
rooms. Anyway. he called EN- rooms
They looked more like box stalls to
me. I expect finicky mule-buyer or
have put up a holler over 'em; but
Pinckney only gives me the grin and
says how We'll take S. and 9.
'Of course" he adds. you will have
them thoroughly cleaned and aired. I
would suggest fresh sheets. too: and
I am sure you can find some water
pitchers that are not cracked"
Excuse me, Mister" says the land
lord. but what you-all think yer git
tin fer dollar'n half?'
"Ah, ha! Your error" says Pinckney,
pokin' him playful in the ribs. 1--WE
are paying SO a day each-perhaps four.
1t depends upon how good a dinner
you can get for us. I am leaving that
entirely to you. But please try to
make 1t worth four"
'.Ah suttinly will. suh,'' says the
landlord.
When he gives his whole attention to
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Specially on SUCH a mellow January
day as this. For one thing. you get
regular breathin air-clean and piny
smellin' and full of pep. Then. there's
colored brooks meanderin' across the
road, quail whirrin' up from the
bushes. and white woolly clouds float
in lazy in the blue sky.
In the clearins we came across little
groups of darby cabins with mud
chinked walls and mud chimneys and
groups of pickaninnies playin' around.
At one place Pinckney bought live
At another he bargained for a roastin'
pig, to be delivered next day. Even
Mortimer almost smiled as he stood
watchin' the antics of them little razor
backs.
How odd" says he. DO you know,
I never knew before that pigs-er-
came in such small sizes"
"They don't on 5th avenue" says l.
"Hows your dinner appetite about
Really" says he. "I am getting quite
hungry"
He was more than that before we
landed back at the hotel. and he had
begun askin' Pinckney if one could
manage to get decent meal at suca a
place.
zone never knows" says Pinckney.
But that makes this sort of thing all
the more interesting"
I'll confess the dinin' room didn't
look promisin'-a dingy tablecloth,
thick crockery. and a full assortment
of ketchup bottles, pickle jars. and
vinegar. cruets starin' at US. But. say,
when the fried chicken and sweet pota-
toes and iiominy cakes was set on we
forgot such trifies as nicked plates and
damp napkins. We went to 1t like
hired hands after twelve-hour day.
'aThats what call regular meal"
says /. finishin' my third hominy cake
with honey.
'Thankee. suh." says the landlord.
Every one around heah allows tn
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without any other flavoring than nature
gave it.
The principal tobacco growing scoun-
ties OF Maryland are now, ST. Marys,
Charles, Calvert and Anne Arundel, each
of them within a few miles of Wash.
ineton, and Prince Georges county.
which adjoins the District of Columbia
on the east and south According to
TIE last census, the whole amount of
tobacco produced in Maryland was H.
$4,000 pounds. grown on 26.072 acres
CT iai:a- Prince Georges county produced
3,o420oe pounds on 6.252 acres. The
Marys, whose annual crop is in excess
OF 100000 pounds. Charles county
grew 3,439.0cU pounds: Calvert county,
1857 600 pounds, and Anne Arundel
county. 2.96i. 200 pounds. Montgomery
county, adjoining the District on the
north and west, grows more tobacco
than any other Maryland county, ex-
cepting those southern Maryland coun-
Ties Already named. its output being
approximately half million pounds.
Once tobacco was the principal
money crop" in Maryland and in that
part OF. the state which became the
District of Columbia. 1t is very likely
true that there are no streets in Wash
ington which were not once part Of to-
bacco fields. That was considerably over
century ago. but it was not more
than a generation ago that good-sized
nelds of tobacco grew in the outlying
regions OF the District, and even in
this year, when summer comes again.
one will see garden patches of tobacco,
especially in that part of the District
beyond the Eastern branch, where some
old-fashioned white or colored farmer
or market gardener raises tobacco for
himself and his friends. Such men will
tell you. as the French will also tell
you. that for chewing. or for smoking
in a pipe or even for rolling into cigar
form it is the best tobacco in the world.
For the sake of France Americans re-
greet that the Maryland tobacco crop
last year was not larger. There is q
tobacco shortage in France. So much
complaint has been made by the French
public about the scarcity of tobacco
that a public explanation Of the rea-
sons was recently authorized by the
French government. 1t was said that
there had ben an enormous increase
In the consumption of tobacco in France
since the outbreak of the war, and that
the French tobacco manufacturers are
encountering unusual difficulties in OBJ.
tanning and importing the weed. The
statement sets forth that from 1913 TO
1915 the use of smoking tobacco I'm
France Had increased so per cent. and
the consumption of cigarettes had in-
creased about 80 per cent
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serve eight persons at a cost of 2h
cents apiece.
I'VE advocate the use of whole grains.
The husks of the grains used on the
American table have formerly been dis
carded as only fit for cattle food. But
this is mistaken idea. We have
thrown a very valuable part of our
food away. The husks of most grains
are rich in mineral salts which are
absolutely necessary to functioning.
suggest that they be cooked in their
skins, for the life principle rests In
the skin and to throw 1t away means
to throw away that much good nourisn-
ing food.
Meat we consider an unnatural slim
ulant. With meat, people take into
their bodies a great amount of poison,
should be eaten sparingly, If at all.
Other foods. fish and dairy products
give man more than meat possibly can
without the i'll effects meat produces.
AT, our Kansas City branch of the
Rose Cross. which occupies one entire
floor of large office building in the
downtown section of the city. and
which is fitted with the most modern
and best kitchen appliances, we give
daily demonstrations, specializing on
the study of substitutes and the cook
Ing OF them. One day, as an example,
we take rice. We demonstrate the
proper method Of cooking rice, SO as to
conserve every bit of it's food value.
Then we tell a number of things which
may be cooked with rice to make a per-
fectly balanced meal.
The Rose Cross is preparing a new
cook book. unique of its sort, for use
at the great food shows which are
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here. But we did. didn't we, Shorty!
Well, there is nothing unmanly about
such a desire, nor any good reason why
it should not be gratified. Perhaps you
have a special. heaven-sent gift for
brickmakinG. Who knows? Thus Ear II
has been latent, lying hidden in the
bud. But now--well, all that is neces-
sary for you to enter on your che en-
career is the mere writing OF a check
Prof McCabe, let ar. Judeers take your
fountain pen"
But, uinckney, II" begins Nor
timer.
Whatever Re meant to say, he
couldn't get it out don't know il you'd
call it 'mesmeris;n, or what. Maybe 1t
was just that it's seldom he has a
new proposition batted up TO him sud-
den that he's simply stunned. And then,
he'd been so used to followiE' Tinck-
ney's lead that I expect he didn't know
how to duck. Anyway. he acts like he
know, he's taken the pen and is writ;r'
what PincFney tells him. AS for
Grimes, he's almost as much staggei ed
as Judders.
There" says Pinckney. handin' over
the check. Now make out a bill of
sale. Mr.. Grimes. and tomorrow the
deed for the land can be transferred.
Congratulations, Mortimer. You are
now a captain of industry"
l don't know what move Pinckney
looked for from Judders. Ten to one,
all he saw was chance to put over
something foolish on him, just for the
sake of seein' how Mortimer would
take it, Well. for while there you'd
think he'd been gassed in the trenches
Honest! We didn't get a word out of
him for more'n two hours And then,
as we're sittin' around a pine-knot
fire in the hotel Office. waitin' for sup
per. he murmurs once or twice, sort of
to himself:
Bricks! Making bricks in brick
"Quite sa." says Pinckney Beautiful
thought, isn't it?"
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French Tobacco Grown i'm
-. Vicinity of Washington

FRENCH tobacco does not seem to
In appeal to the taste of the Amer
lean troops in France. Amer
q lean tourists and jewellers in
France have never seemed to get much
satisfaction out of so-called French
tobacco, and the evil qualities of that
weed have for generations been the
subject of jests. The fact is that
much of this so-called French tobacco
is American tobacco grown near Wash
ington, and TO the general run of
best tobacco in the world. That is
the reason they began to buy it many
years ago, and also the reason they
continue to take it.
For a hundred years or more French
buyers have taken practically the
whole crop OF Maryland tobacco. but
year by year this crop has heen grow
ing smaller, more land being given to
corn, wheat, grass and vegetables.
The demand for tobacco has increased
in France, and the French have sup
plemented their supply from Maryland
by tobacco from other parts of the
world, but they have held to the stan
dard of Maryland tobacco, and insisted
measure up as nearly as possible to
that tobacco. This Maryland tobacco
which finds its CHIEF market in France,
is strong and gumrny. and it is those
qualities which tire average French
man likes II the Maryland growers
had found u more profitable market
fer other binds Of tobacco they would
have grown them just as readily as
they have cultivated the strong and
gunamy leaf which the French like
best.
American tobacco manufacturers have
never taken kindly to Maryland to-
bacco. They say that the American
smoker will have none Of it in his pipe
or cigar. Perhaps this may be true,
and perhaps it may be also true that
the American smoker has not been edu-
Gated up to. or advertised into. smoking
this tobacco. 1t is certain that the old
fashioned people in the tobacco districts
of Maryland had a liking for the to-
bacco grown in their own and their
neighbors' fields and would have very
little to do with what they called
manufactured" tobacco. Hanging from
the rafter of kitchens or hanging from
some peg high above the fireplace in
most of the country homes of the older
Maryland could be seen twists" of
homegrown tobacco. 1t was dry and
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it he's some jollfer, Pinckney. And
slippin' a five or a ten here and there
along with his josh he surely can get
things done. When we struck the Pip
kin House it hardly looked like a goin'
concern. Half an hour later it was
fairly hummin' with busy hands. Two
darkies were sweepin' off the front porch,
another was scrubbing the Office floor.
windows, and out back we could hear
some womenfolks directin' a chicken
chase. By the squawks could make a
good guess as to what might happen
for dinner. Honest, when we come to
lift Mortimer of the baggage and lead
him up there was hardly any quiet
spot to put him. So we started out on a
sandy road that wanders of into the
about four miles.
And you know it amt half SO bad as
it looks from the car windows, this
South Carolina section of the map.
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Rose Cross Aid Is a food con-
servation organization which
was born. before Herbert

E1HE Rose Cross Aid Is a food con-
servation organization which
was born. before Herbert
~ Hocveri
In 1857 this organization began its
life in America; during the civil war
with Abraham Lincoln as one OF It's
stanchest supporters. it preached the
gospel of food substitution and conser-
walton; now it is coming into promi-
hence as a possible extension OF the
food administration for the teaching OF
all those modes OF conservation which
this federal department urges to be
practiced as means OF winning the war.
In this work the Rose Cross is des-
tined to fill a great office. The Amerl-
can housewife Is willing 70 ooey Ine
TIE wheat, meat. sugar ard fats out
she does not always exactly unoer-
stand Just how TO go about II W hle
Mr. Hoover and his assistants nave
been busily engaged in working out
systems and devices for saving AMER
can staples for the allies, ne OBVIOUSLY
has been too busy to see tnaI tnS in
the method of effective conservation.
He encouraged war kitchens, Wheas
cooks might learn to use supS.itueess
the food they prepared And ne 90
uaitted that the women Of this country
should have access to some demons tIa-
tion kitchen that was properly con.
Quoted. But how to organize such
movement when many other ana pei
haps more important tasks were cry
ing for his attention-this was prop
lem,
Then, at crucial moment, along
comes a woman from out of the west
who seems to have just the answer 70
this problem in her hand the woman woman
is Mrs. Mont Clair Carpenter Of Kansas
City, Mo-. a member of that citys local
branch of the international ORGANIZE
ton, Rose Cross Aid. She takes W ASH
ington by storm and causes MI. Hoovsl
and his assistants to become enthusi-
astic: she sees George Creel of the com.
mittee of public Information ana
arouses his interest in the matter sne
visits Carl Vrooman. assistant secre
tary of agriculture, and enlists MS aio,
she obtains John Barrett's assistance IA
spreading the Rose Cross work
throughout pan-America- the iocai
1000 administrator, Clarence Wtson.
suggests that Washington would be a
good city to start the work OF e1pan-
sion a-going, and he promises to aid IN
establishing a Washington branch OF
tne Rose Cross Aid.
Having accomplished so much, Mrs.
Carpenter departed to New York, to
confer with Mrs. William Randolph
Hearst. chairman of the woman's COM
mittee of the New York State Council
OF National Defense. and to arouse New
York to avail itself of this means OF
learning. under expert instruction, how
to conserve and substitute. and to do
these things efficiently and well
But before her departure Mrs. Car
penter consented to an interview. The
secret of the success OF the Rose Cross
Aid was impaired in attractive terms
and with such completeness that one
may readily understand why Mrs. Car
penter was able to arouse so much OH
cial enthusiasm for her project
The Rose Cross Aid" she said, by