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ctal day apart each week and write
to him, whether or not you hear from
him; date and number your letters,
so that he will know if. one hasn't
been received it was due to loss in
the mail and through no neglect or
troubles at home, Don't burden
him with home cares or worries of
any kind, and don't talk war or ex-
pect him to write you all about it.
He has it on all sides, and that's
the one thing he is trying to for
get.
Let each member of the family
write something in that weekly
letter, If it's only a line, even if you
have to hold a pencil in the baby's
hand and afterward. explain the
scrawl. In many homes where the
parents are unable to write, let
mother and father make an "X," so
that the recipient may know, the
dearly loved hand has touched the
paper and has sent forth a PRAYER
for his safety. If parents have no
one to write for them, any neigh
boris child will be glad to help out
and write the soldier boy glad,
happy tidings.
Write often. and write good
things and things that will be of
interest. The country boy will
want to know about the crops and
the new farm machinery and the
live stock and the weather condi-
tions, and the city boy will have
his special interests, too. oh,
there are oceans of things to write
to them about beside how badly one
feels because they are away"
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Joseph Jefferson's Home
Will Be Bird Sanctuary

New Decentralization Island
former home of Joseph Jefferson
in iberia Parish, Southern Louisiana,
and named by him Bob Acres"
after the character, in THE Rivals"
made famous on the stage by the
actor, is to be developed into a sane
tuary for wild fowl by Lawrence
Jones and j. Lyle Bayliss, of Lexing-
ton, KY, who recently purchased the
property.
1t comprises 10000 acres. A con-
tract has been awarded for the con-
struction of a dam along one edge
of the property in order to re-es-
tablish cypress swamp drained
some years ago. When the water
accumulates it is proposed to estab-
lish an immense heronry in order
that the many species of herons in
Louisiana, especially the aigret, may
build nests and raise their young
over water, as is their habit.
In addition, the new owners of
Bob Acres" have petitioned the
| Louisiana Conservation Commission
to set aside Lake Peigneu, adjoining
the property, as a wild waterfowl
refuge. The lake is a noted resort
for a. S during the winter months
and they flock there by the hundreds
of thousands.
More than one-third of the land
embracing Lake Piegneu is included
in Bob Acres" and owners of other
property adjoining have signified
their desire to prohibit the shooting
of wildfowl on the body of water.
Under authority granted by the
state, the Conservation Commission
will prohibit shooting when a petit
ton signed by all adjoining prop
erty owners is received and establish
it as the first of series of interior
refugees planned during the coming
year.
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|Life'sProblems
Are Discussed
BY Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

Letter writing, we have been say
ing for years. is a lost art Odds
fish! 1t vanished with the strange
oaths and powdered wigs and silken
coats of the eighteenth century.
And now, like one of those ex-
quiSite Venetian glaZes whose secret
was forgotten, it is being rediscover-
ed and put to use. There are letters
passing under the eye of the censor
to-day-hundreds of them-which in
texture and charm would compare
not unfavorably with the best eX-
amples of Lady Mary Wortley Mon
tagu and Horace Walpole. There are
others which in their crisp wit, vivid
flashes of description and felicitous
turns of expression are as American
as baseball as wholly 1918 as this
mornings newspaper.
The boiling cataclysm over in Eu-
rope is bringing all kings of things
to the surface, old things as we'll as
new-Hun savagery, French valor,
Italian bravery, British pluck, our
own spirit of '76, machine guns and
spiked clubs, seventy-mile artillery
and handto- hand struggles, armor
and aeroplanes, Greek fire and gas
attacks, the latest devices of strategy
co-mingled with the tactics of Han
nibal and Caesar.
And with all the rest, letter
writing has come back into its own.
The few scrawled lines upon a pic
ture postcard will no longer serve.
The convenient telephone, except for
military purposes, does not extend
into the trenches or along the Fland-
ers front. He who is "over there"
or in the training camps waiting his
turn to go wants to know what is
happening back home, all the inti-
mate details; and we who are back
home want to know how it fares
with him-not alone the movements
of troops and armies that we CLEAN
from the press repSrts, but HIS per-
sonal experiences and observations
So people who never in their lives
wrote real letter before are becom-
ing epistolary adopts. All, love is
wonderful teacher!
And these letters flying back and
forth across the ocean are helping
to win the war, perhaps quite as
much as munitions and ships and
food conservation and Liberty Bonds
and aeroplanes; for after all it is
upon the morale and enthusiasm of
our soldiers that we must depend,
and nothing can so stiffen up the
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courage of our boys or cheer them in
their hardships as the letter from
home.
The government and its allied
agencies, the Red Cross, the Y. NJ.
c. A, the knights of Columbus,
the Y. M. H. A, the Salvation Army,
realizing the need of diversion for
the men at the front and in the
training camps, are spending thou
sands of dollars for the purpose of
turning the minds of the boys dur
ing their hours of rest and leisure
from the grim task they have in
hand. But it is doubtful if all the
dollars which are expended in this
way-wonderful as are the results
achieved-do as much good as the
pennies which go into postage
stamps.
Certainly no feature of the various
huts and rest stations which are
maintained seems to be more appre-
ciated by the soldiers than the pro-
vision made to allow them to write
and mail their letters.
And it matters little whether
these letters which go and come
are written with the elegance of
Addison and Swift, or in the racier
style of You know me, AL" wheth-
cally perfect, so long as each car
ries it's message of love and cheer
However, the better and fuller they
are the more they will achieve their
purpose.
From one of my correspondents
I have received a letter so full of
valuable suggestions on this score
that l am delighted to pass it along.
Il am corresponding with sew
eral of my soldier boy friends she
says, and write regularly to my
adopted son.
ITO some people letter writing
is an easy matter; % others a diff
cult task. | know many well-bred,
intelligent people who can't fill two
lines on a post card l believe one
of the reasons is lack of concentra-
ton to the work at hand and an
other is a lack of sympathetic in
terest in the one they are address
ing. I always stop to consider what
will be of interest to the person
TO whom 1 am writing; 1 try to re-
call their likes and dislikes.
IF ever, these surely are the
days of letterwriting. In almost
every home there is a vacant chair
for one who has gone into service
and let the dear ones remember
that there are millions of letters
passing back and forth, that mail
service abroad, or even at the camps,
is not as good as our city delivery,
but that Improvements are being
made each day; so let us just hope
and wait and not worry because our
letters may be delayed.
When we write to the brave lads
who are away, let us think good
thoughts and send them messages OF
cheer, and let us tell them how proud
we feel of them. Let there also be
in each home on the wall a slate or
Father" Son." Sister," or whatever
the case may be, and let each mem
ber of the family jot down on this
pad any item that may be of interest
to the one that is absent; set a spe-
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Nervous Rundown Woman
Tells How Vinol Creates Strength

ItiiS no" NiHOI NTedCeS SIfenSIn
Duked, Tenn.-"I live on a farm
and keep house for six in my family
] got into a nervous rundown con-
dition so it seemed as though I
would die. A friend advised me to
try Ninol. I have been greatly i'm
proved by its use and am better and
stronger in every way."-Mrs. H. H.
Goodwin.
The reason Vinol was so successful
in Mrs. Goodwins case is because
II contains beef and cod liver pep
tones, iron and manganese pepton-'
ates and glycerophosphates. the very
elements needed to build up a weak,
rundown system and create
strength.
George A. Gorgas, Kennedy's Med
icne Store. 321 Market street; c. F.
Kramer. Third and Broad streets:
kitzmiller's Pharmacy, 1926 Derry
street, and druggists everywhere.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-21
Advice to the Lovelorn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX
WHY wORRYs

WHY WORRYs
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
My girl friend A, has been engaged
to youth man, c, two years her
senior, for two years. Another girl,
b, has known him since childhood.
Now, Miss Fairfax. A and C love each
other dearly; they keep no secrets
from each other. A says she feels
quite humble and out of place when
ever she meets B, because b takes no
pains to conceal her affection for c.
is respectable and loyal in every
respect, but to me it doesn't seem
quite fair that he should stand for
anything like that from a girl who
is older than he and who should know
better than to say things like: you
were my first love; l love you, and l
can never love another" That is only
one of the things she has said to him.
c is not a tickle young man, and l
don't understand his attitude in this
instance at all. 1t seems to me that
IL one word could end this he Is the
one to say it before it is too late.
READER.
C probably has a masculine horror
of saying anything to hurt a woman
who likes him. B is an idiot, to say
the least. The little fiancee can af-
ford to pity her. 1t would be wise, as
well as dignified, for the man to tell
the intruder quietly that he is en-
gagged to a girl he loves dearly and
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THE PLOTTERS
A New Serial of East and West
By Virginia Terhune Van de water

charge. Perhaps the aspiring young
physician appreciated what it would
mean to him in this small town If he
could cure this rich young mans OBJ
scure disease. In Riverhill there
was already much comment on the
case, for Mrs. Butler. fond of So
ciety, had been entertained by the
best families in the community.
Wade did not want to be merce-
nary, but he found himself facing a
crisis not only in his own life but in
the life of the little sister," to whom
he was devoted and for whom he felt
| responsible. He recalled that she had
said he was both mother and father
to her now.
The sharp ring of the desk tele-
phone made the physician start
nervously. He was getting "jumpy,
he decided, as he hurried to reply to
1t.
An Urgent Case
A woman's voice spoke his name.
1t was the woman of whom he had
just been thinking. he realized with
a thrill of qualification.
please, DR.. Wade" she said, "this
is Mrs. Butler. 1 am up at the Rest
Cure just now. Can you come up
here right away?"
| Wade replied. Whats wrong?"
"Oh. l want to see you about John,
of course. DR.. McAndrew-the super
intendent here. you know-had an ar
gument with John, and John got Sc
irritable and excited that l was
afraid he was going to strike the doc
| tor. And he declares that he won't
stay in this place after the end of
| this week. He says he's tired of it
Please come up and see me, and let
me talk to you. 1 am so worried!
Very WELL" Wade agreed. MY Of
! flee hours will be over in thirty min
utes. 1 will come up then"
"Oh" There was regret in the
voice. Cant you come before that
Are office hours so Important"
Wade was glad that the question
er could not see the grin with which
he glanced about the empty room.
We'll. you know it's hardly fair
to other patients to go away without
| attending to them, is it?" he replied
Hardly fair to them, nor to myself,
he added.
"Oh. 1 suppose not" the widow ad-
| mitted. But come as soon as you
can, please"
His View of 1t
Acting must run in my family
v
o'clock to come. elizabeth need not
! fancy she is the only one who can
f! play a part. Here I am talking to a
rich woman as if my office were full
of people clamoring to see me. Well,
| il it's true that the world takes one
at ones own valuation. Mrs. Butler
will respect me more and value my
services more if she thinks that 9TH
cts besides herself are anxious for my
services"
Going into the outer reception
room-a tiny place-he opened a clos
ct and got out a clean collar. The
one he wore had seemed immaculate
an hour ago. Now he felt that he
would be more comfortable in a
fresh one.
Then he washed his hands twice
and strode up and down his office as
restless as a Gagged lion until the
town clock chimed 6.
With a sigh of relief, he caught up
his hat, and, locking his door behind
him, ran down the stairs and from
the building, then, hailing a passing
trolleycar, boarded. it.
ITO BE COntinued)
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CHAPTER II
Copyright. 1918, Star Coz

CHAPTER IL
Copyright. 1918, Star Coz
half-hour passed before a foot
step in the hall outside his office
aroused DR.. Hale to an upright pos
ture. He had been almost asleep.
Perhaps this was a patient! ~.
But the step passed on down the
hall.
For three days now no patients had
turned the knob of the door bearing
in gilt letters the legend, Douglas
Wade. NJ. D. Office Hours, $50 to
1890 A. M; 4.3O to 6 P. NJ"
He got up and began to walk up
and down the office.
Well" he muttered, II am thank
full that Elizabeth's check has gone
to her so that she is safe for the next
three months. She can go to the
farm for the summer more cheaply
than anywhere else. If my bank SC
count doesn't pick up by fall. she
may have to take to the stage to sup
port me-" He smiled whimsically at
the idea. why under the sun
doesn't Mrs. Butler decide to turn
that delicate son of hers over to me
for treatment"
Continuing his pacing to and fro,
he unused upon the case of John But
Ter as reported to him by his wealthy
and widowed parent.
Mrs. Butler insisted that her son
was suffering from some obscure dis
ease. After his graduation from coll
fege he had taken a course at an
agricultural school. Here he became
so much absorbed in his work that
he overtaxed his strength.
A spell of fever left him so weak
that his mother had objected siren
ously>- to his attempting any kind
of work, and as the months passed
his nervousness increased. At last
the family physician had ordered him
West, and his mother had brought
him to the Rest Cure Sanatorium," "
situated on the outskirts of River
hill.
Still an Invalid
Here they had been for months
now, but John Hale was still Ian
guid and irritable. Mrs. Butler had
taken a little cottage for the summer
in the town in order to be near her
son. AS soon as school closed her
daughter would come on and join her
here. But the invalid son was not
cheered by the proximity of these
members of his family.
This much DIR. Wade had learned
from the mothers lips when he met
her at a social function in the early
spring.
Il wish she'd let me handle that
case" Douglas Wade exclaimed now
aloud
He had of late acquired the habit
of talking to himself in the solitude
of his office. "I believe it's an attack
of too much mother. too much petting
and too little work"
Wade had specialized in nervous
diseases at the French University and
longed to have John Butler in his
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my feeling for him. I admire him.
respect him. and think of him all the
time. However. the novels describe
love as something different. Person
ally. do you think that this is true to
life?
PEGGY.
So you admire this man, respect
him. and find him in your thoughts
wherever you are and whatever you
are doing! That, my dear, comes very
near being a description of faithful
and devoted love. OF course, you are
romanticA and have youthful desire
for a perfect love with all the thea
trical qualities included. Thrill
though does not always last. Respect
and devotion do. And sometimes just
from the all-absorbing affection
which you feel, there comes the sort
of thrill which is practically undying.
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that he feels it best for everyone con-
cerned that BIS joking should cease.
But If he has not the courage to hurt
a girl whose only crime is to care
for him unasked, his sweetheart ought
to be amiable and good natured
about 1t and not nag" After all,
she has her lover; the other girl, the
outsider, has only her folly.
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NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am a young man and do not have
much time for reading, as l want to
be able to keep up with and be able to
talk on current events intelligently.
VIII you kindly suggest what 1 shall
read?
SAM.
One look at the newsstands nova
days. and the question becomes, not
what shall you read. but what dare
you omit reading? The editorials in
the newspapers are an education in
themselves, and If you add a monthly
magazine of the review type and
one or two of the good weeklies you
will get plenty of material for con-
versation. Read as you travel to and
from work. give an hour before you
go to bed at night and two hours or
so every Sunday to your pursuit of
information, and you will discover
that your lack of time is a myth.
WHAT Is LOVER
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am 10 and engaged to a man four
years older
The trouble is. I am in doubt as to
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-11-08

THOSE & GALLANT IL MT MEN WHO WEAR HORIZON BLUE THOSE
WzR-THEf IA ARE e The MEN WHO KNOW THE SHEER
LUXURY OF A CUP OF STOVE TO
AND A WORD CHEER.
THINK A NATION OF LESS
THAN FIFTY HAS BEEN UNDER ARMS FOR FOUR LONG YEARS
MORE THINK OF A NATION WHICH HAS SUFFERED AS HAS
FRANCE THEN YOU WILL KNOW WHAT THE HUTS ARE MEANING
WAS REQUESTED BY GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE OFFIC-
MAINTENANCE MORALE BE
III. CHEERFULLY 1T WAS UNDER
TAKEN SIMPLE JUSTICE FOR OUR SPLENDID DEBT OF GRAFT
TUDE
THESE HUTs TO-DAY. HUNDREDS OF THEM
OUT FRIENDSHIP WAR.wORN GRzzL-ED MEN
INSPIRATION TO OUR YANkS.
THE HUT-HEARTH OF THE SOL
APPROACH HOME UPON THE ROADS TO BAT
COMFORT YOUR FOYERS,' SAYS GENER-
Al. CONTINUE TO BE A TREMEN-
SUPPORT, AND HAS GIVEN
THE SOLDIERS HOME WHICH HAS BEEN 50
I.ACKINGr
YOUR CONSTANTLY ESThB-
IISHED GREAT THE AS IN
THE REAR SOLDIERS MOST HIGHLY AP.
THANKS TO YOUR EFFORTS OUR CHILDREN
HAVE MIDST CENTER OF DISTRACTION AND
COMFORT" = : - ~ - -,
UNITED IN THIS WAR FOR FREEDOM 81 rlGi Eita f
IN THIS CAMPAIGN FOR
NOR THESE SEVEN AS ONE
ANCES FIGHT UNITY OF COMMAND is WINNING
ON THE BATTIEFIEDS UNITY is HASTENING VICTORY
MORALE GIVE FOR UNITY GIVE FOR
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-11-08
WAR CAMP COMMUNITY WORK

The War Camp Community Ser
vice Is an official part OF our govern
ment working under the commission
on training camp activities in the en-
virons OF Our camps in this country.
Through the mothers, fathers and
young people of communities ad1ac-
ent TO camps there lis given TO the
men chan wholesome amusements
and the home touch which every par
ent would wish for his or her boy.
A committee provides good, inexpen-
sive lodgings for soldiers or visiting
relatives. Churches take special re-
sponsiblity for hospitality on Sun
day afternoons and with other organ.
izations give well chaperoned tar-
ties and receptions where our boys
MAJ meet girls and older women
The hospitality committee sees that
homes are opened 70 men in uni
form. The ". c. c. s. has 80 clubs
hotels and community houses. Next
years budget calls for work and
eouipment in 3f2 cities. The w c,
e ( needs $4,000 600.
ALICE L. MEREDITH.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-11-08
THE GOLDSTONE
TO BE REVIVED

The old Goldstone mine, carrying
$40 ores in large bodies as developed
by j. A, Turnblade and his partner,
w. +. Davis of Montana, Is TO be re.
yived under Messrs. Turnblade &
Davis who have the property under
bond and lease and Who ON Monday
t4ok out from the Pioneer store s60Q
Worth of supplies for their opera.
tRns during the. coming winter
which Is to include, the collection oi
wood and other~ nnsferials. The mill
catries ten stamnsl and a circular
cav,
There are altogether two aailes ol
tunnels on the Goldstone. II Is ar
old minebut the new owners, who ae
ouired thu. property from Richart
Gies of Great Falls, have done {
large portion of this extensive devel
opment Through the winter the,
will work with small force but
capacity gang win go on early In tn,
year or spring. to make the Gold
stone. what they think II should be
q real producer of wealth.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-11-08
ANOTHER FINE RANCH

Frank Marion has sold through
the Kelly agency his ranch Of 2so
acres. with the stock, ineioding a
fine herd OF cattle, TO Albert Kerry,
for $4,000 This is one Of the very
excellent Lembi valley ranches, 10
Gated about 4 miles above Baker. In
the same locality of the Matt Ste
wart and other lands. Mr. Kerry
wflI move from the Middle Fork 10
bis new home and will be welcome
with Mrs Kerry as good citizens OF
this community.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-11-08
Rosalie C. Stringfellow

ROSalie c. StrlngtellOW
for the thousands of women workers
who have tlocked to munition manu-
featuring centers. and to Washlng-
ton to enter government service, by
erecting and maintaining dormitories,
restaurants and recreation rooms Tor
their accommodation.
Social morality work among girls
in communities adjacant to army
camps is another Y. w. c. A. activi-
ty. The leaders of this work realize
that contact with good women ana
girls under wholesome conditions
and with proper supervision is a
factor in the training OF the soidlef
BOYS and in the character develop
ment of the girls.
! These activities have been extend
ed to France and are being develop
ed there as extensiyly as funds VIII
allow. With earnestness and high
purpose, the Y. W. C.. c. is seeking to
meet the problems of the war. espec
ially as they relate TO women ahe
girls. and their operations in thl;
field of usefulness are limited onil
by the money and workers when I'M
country places at their disposal.
In this. as in other forms OF altru
istic work, there is beneficial re
action On the workers. The sh1ie
boys are finding their lives enriched
mentally. morally and physically, D.
the service poured out for them o,
the Y. W. and Y NJ. c. A. and the al
lied organizations but the workers Il