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The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-21
Talismans and Amulets.

The truth IS that deep down In the
complex nature OF most Of US there Is
certain regard for the occult, OF
which, however, our higher intelligence
may dlsprove, we find 1t difficult to rid
ourselves entirely.
While the word mascot has long
been common In Provence and Gas
cony to denote something which brings
good fortune TO person or household,
Il Is only within the last 30 years or
so that 1t has passed into common use
in Britain. It owed It's introduction
largely to Edmund Audran's we'll
known comic opera LA Mascotte."
But only the word Is modern. The
use Of tallsmans, amulets and charms,
which were really prototypes Of the
mascot, goes back to very remote
age. The ancient Egyptians wore
amulets fashioned IN the shape OF
gods. men, animals, and insects. The
stones In the shape Of beetles often
found In Egyptian tOmbs gave cour'
age to the wearer. Figures Of frogs
were also held 10 pa. ticularly high re
puta
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-21
FEEDING REFUGEES
ON FRENCH TRAIN

to help us establish our tables on the
cinders between the tracks, and pile
the food where it could conveniently
be passed into the train.
They unloaded bread, scraped
cheese, opened tins of bully beef"
knocked the tops Off the boxes of figs
and prunes and made plans to feed a
thousand people in half an hour. But
somewhere Off In the silent country
the train, packed full Of exiles. was
standing on side track. 1t was after
two in the morning when the long
train with Its 2S carriages filled with
refugees came into Acheres.
A few windows were opened; tired
faces looked out and voices asked, I'M
interestedly, "Where are we?" and
were surprised to be told that they
were near Parts. The train was on
its way, they said to Tulle In the Cor
reze department, In the south OF
France.
''Will they treat us we'll there?" an
old woman asked and they, In the full
HcSS VI lIell iSuOIdHCt, Hot udliuS W
say otherwise, answered Yes"
1t was short half hour. They
carried them bread they filled the old
woman's apron with figs and prunes,
they gave milk to the children, meat
10 the old men. cheese to everybody
They absorbed cakes OF sweet choco-
late in rapid and mysterious man
ner. Some of them were the much be
petticoated women Of Picardy and
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-21
GRAB
ALSACE PLANTS

ernment's decision was made known
by Mayor XOpfcl. He said not only
had the offer of the Alsatian corpora
ton of which the city of Muhlhausen
itself was Il component part, been re-
jected by the government, but he also
had been informed on good authority
all the other Alsatian factories TO be
liquidated would be sold to "old-Ger-
man" concerns beyond the Rhine.
Ruthlessness Condemned.
This attempt to Germanize Alsace
by ruthless industrial methods was
condemned by several members of the
city council. Councillor Emmel de-
nounced as a subterfuge the statement
of Undersecretary Won Stein, who had
said the Bleichroeder offer had been
accepted because 1t was the more
favorable one. The speaker saw in
the governments action q systematic
effort to take Alsatian property away
from Alsatians.
The Bleichroeder group. the success
full bidder, is headed by the banking
house of Bleichroeder in Berlin. The
original Bleichroeder was Prince Bis
marck's financial man and his heirs
are still in control of the banking
house. Old Bleichroeder was not very
scrupulOus in his financial methods,
but this did not prevent Bismarck
from comforting the title Of nobility
upon his moneymaker. This was one
of the greatest jokes perpetrated by
Bismarck.
However, Baron Bleichroeders heirs
are still barons and their influence in
the highest circles is still formidable.
1t seems they had little trouble in OBJ
tanning the AlSatian properties at fav.
orable terms-favorable TO themselves,
for to them state supervision means
supervision by friends.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-21
American Red Cross in Paris
Quickly Answers Emer-
genCy Call.
HOMELESS LAUGH AND JOKE
No Bitterness, No Complaint, No Des-
pair Among People, Many Of
Whom Were Refugees for Sec.
ond and Third Time.

PariS.-"A thousand refugees from
the east of Amiens will pass through
Acheres at seven o'clock tonight.
They will not have had any supper,
some Of them may not have had any
lunch. There is no food there and no
facilities for feeding them. Can you
help us?"
That was the telephone message
from the French minister of the in
terror which came to the American
Red Cross at noon one day during the
German drive on Amiens, and the an
sWer was Yes. Emergency mes
sagcs are no surprise to US these days"
The food was ordered out of the
warehouses and Il score Of volunteers
rounded up.
They started at six O'clock the same
evening. One fve-ton truck loaded
with timed beef and condensed milk,
figs, prunes, chocolate and heaps of
loads of midnight volunteers, stenoS-
raphers, bureau chiefs, drivers and
Canteen workers set out on their way
to bring help to .he homeless refu-
gees.
They rolled out through the resi-
Dental district of Paris, out past the
fortiicationS bumped through grimy
factory suburbs and on into the open
country where the level plains stretch
Off into infinite distance, broken only
by interminable rows of slim pop
lars.
Then suddenly without warning,
there emerged from the forest into a
black smudgc of railway tracks, cin-
ders, flat-cars, passenger cars, sheds,
platforms, warehouses, cranes
Achcrcs. II was the junction point,
where the thousands of refugees were
TO stop for half an hour.
Sauted With One Arm.
Lieutenant M met us there, sa-
luted stitfly with his one arm, and did
the hOnorS of the station. A group of
weary. muddy 'permissionaires," most
of them over forty, just back from
the Champagne front were routed out
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-21

some were grizz!ed old farmers. 9th.
ers were city folk. obviously not used
to third class travel. There were fam
allies of three generations huddled to-
gether on their way-somewhere
Some clutched precious umbrellas,
some carried bird cages. some alarm
clocks. Some OF them had dogs. some
had cats. But the pathos of 1t all
was not on IN, surface. Some of them
quietly told that they were refugees
for the second and third time and
laughed and joked when they woke UP.
There was no bitterness, no COM
plaint, no despair.
Bread Pile Fell Away.
The huge pile of bread fell away,
the fg boxes were emptied, the uLs
were all handed into the trains. Ihe
engine shrieked shrill French whis-
tie and the train pulled away. Inc
rescuers were in the silence OF the
night. One of many thousands or ref-
ugees had had one dreary midnight
meal far from hOme-one lonely meal
out of hundreds, perhaps thousands.
before them.
A train load of wounded from the
front joggled In ten minutes later. Inc
men nurses carried water through the
carriages swiftly and silently. Then
the Americans handed out the rem
nants of their stores Of figs and the
train slipped away again. Behind them
could be heard the dull booming OF the
barrage guns about Paris, and the WIS.,
itors knew that another air raid was
on. They waited until the barrage
stopped, then they headed back
through the defenses cf the capital
There was faint light as they rode
back through the forest. They coulc
see clumps of yellow daffodils utterly
oblivious Of war.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-21
Systematic Stripping of Industry
Before the Day of ReCk-
oning.
INDIGNATION IS WIDESPREAD
Even Officials Responsible to kaiser's
Government Forced by Public to
Give Voice to Emphatic
Protests.

msterdam.-German carpetbaggers
are overrunning Alsace TO grab all
property confiscated by the state un-
der various pretexts. Indignation
among the people is widespread, and
even officials responsible to the kali
ser's government are forced by public
opinion to give voice to emphatic pro-
tests.
Alsace is a great Industrial center
and one Of its principal industries
Is the manufacture of textiles. Most
of the textile factories in Alsace were
taken over by the state as war meas
ure. AS some of the stockholders were
Frenchmen, the mills, it was alleged,
were partly enemy alien property. So
the state took charge Of the mills ana
prepared to liquidate them. This liqui-
dation was carried out recently.
Alsatian business men and capital
lists had formed corporation to buy
the mills in an effort to keep them in
Alsatian hands Even city adminiStra-
tions, such as the municipality OF
Muhlhausen, where a number Of fac
tories are situated, bought stock in
this corporation. The name of the
CORPORATION is the United Alsatian Tex
tile Factories.
Forbidden by Berlin.
But 1t was decided in Berlin that the
Alsatians should not be allowed to buy
what was practically their own. An
other concern, called the Bleichroeder
group, was more successful. Their
bid for the property was accepted by
the government, while the Alsatian Of
fer was rejected. 1t was announced
the Bleichroeder bid was preferred be-
cause 1t accepted state supervision as
one of the conditions of the sale. Baron
Won Stein, undersecretary of state in
defending the governments action be-
fore the main committee of the reichs-
tag, said the Bleichroeder group had
offered million marks more than the
Alsatian corporation. Besides, the AL
satians had refused to subscribe to the
conditions, including state supervision
of management.
CONSERVATION and indignation
reigned at the meeting of the city
council of Muhlhausen when the gov
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-21
SOLDIER SAVES king
Serbian Lieutenant Tells Stirring
Story of War.
Out Of Whole Army He Was Selected
to Command Bodyguard OF
Monarch.

Bangor, Me.-Among soldiers recent
ly from European battlehelds VINO
passed through here was the officer
who WIS selected to command the
guard detailed to escort King Peter Of
Serbia to a place of safety when the
Austrian bombardment made 1t neces-
sary for the monarch to quit the royal
palace in Belgrade. This officer Is
Lieut.. Pav'e Yovanovitch, man OF
stately figure and courtly manner, who
wears upon his tunic the insignia or
the order of the White Eagle, which
Is equivalent to the British Distin-
guishcd Service Order. and Order or
the White Star. which corresponds to
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-21
Girls to Do Farm Work.

Los Angeles, Cal.-An army OF 1888
high-school girls of this city have vol.
unteered to harvest crops and will be
ready for call by the Womans Land
Army Of America after June 81, when
the local schools close. BY that time
the high-school farmerettes expect to
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-21
Could Not Speak Khaki

Greensburg, Pa.-"Khaki" proved
too much for the crack spoilers In
Smithton school. FOrty-nine Of fifty
words were spelled correctly by the
whole class. but everyone misspelle,
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-21

"Send the best song director avail
able" cabled General Pershing TO the
powers that be in Washington so
Washington picked W. Stanley Haw-
klns Of Albany to send over there. He
has been the song director at Camp
Dix. where his stirring march melody,
Keep the Glow In Old Glory i'm
bued the men with the martial spirit
that will lend them into battle, and be
fore going to Wrightstown he was the
song director at the Plattsburg officers
training camp.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-21
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GAS MASK SQUAD FINDS
LEAK IN AMMONIA PIPE

Cincinnati.-The first run
made by the "gas mask squad"
of the local fire department was
in response to an explosion in
an ice plant. The tiremen used
their gas masks in locating q
leak In an ammonia pipe. Not
only had the fumes filled the
plant, making it impossible for
anyone to stay in the building
without a gas mask, but pa
irons in drug store across the
street had to get out into the
open air.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-21

The tanning of ostrich skins Is one
of the new South African industries.
Lieutenant Yovanovitch. but the king
escaped injury. When the party had
reached place of safety the king
sent for the lieutenant, whU came, but
fell faint from the loss of blood, at
the monarch's feet. Then and there
did King Peter bestow the orders that
the veteran wears so proudly upon his
breast. Lieutenant Yovunovitch will
return to the battlefields.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-08
ObIiterated Matte.

"If | have to come in here again to
speak to you children l shall punish
you well, mind thatl" warned mother,
= angrily. 81 don't want to hear another
sound from either of you today" She
went back to her work, and a most I'M
hoped-for silence followed. Finally,
going back to the children's room, she
found Edna calmly playing with her
dollie. but Matte had disappeared.
Where is little sister?" a~nxiously
demanded mother.
I'll explain about her." beamed
Edna. you member you said you
didn't wan to heard another sound
from either of us today, and l minded
you nicely, but when l gave Matte a
few PORES she got ready to commence
~screeching again, so l pushed her into
the closet and locked the door on her,
and" she triumphantly added, "you
couldn't hear a sound out of her now
If she screeched her head off"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-08
Duty That Lies Near.

II only 1t could be Impressed upon
each and every one of US that we must
do our duty, whatever that duty may
be and wherever it mag be- just as
well as we possibly can, what a ire
mendous thing it would be.
II has been said that If the American
people would save just 10 per cent of
what they have formerly spent the war
would be won and victory would be
assured. The girl in the home can do
a tremendous part in the winning of
this war-she can save in many ways,
she can work In many ways and she
does not have to have any special tai
ent for 1t either.
Character and industry, these are
the things that count. these are what
make ne really worth the living.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-08
swore Just Like a Native.

Lieut. Col. Oliver Dockery, in charge
of training of the 160th Depot brigade,
at Camp Custer, Mich. is from the
South and has something of the char
acteristic Southern accent. The other
day when 1000 negro recruits arrived
from Alabama Colonel Dockery ran
across a negro sergeant who was
marching a group of the new men
along in the rain and reproved the
sergeant for taking his men out in
such weather and ordered them back
In the barracks. Just as they disap-
peared In the doorway n of the shiv-
ering little negroes from the South
turned around and said. dat sholy
am u kind-hearted man. He cusses like
he come from down home. Dat boss
make me so homesick dat / believe l
is goin' TO cry" Boo-hool Boo-hOol
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-08
BEES FOR WAR MESSENGERS
Their Employment Is Said to Have
Gone Far Beyond the Range
of Probability.

A secret long cherished in the Brit
ish war department has just been dis
eoyered-the use of bees as messen-
gers.
No longer will the aide de camp
spur his staggering horse through shot
and shell to carry the message to the
front. Instead he will don his gloves
and mask, and, going to the portable
beehive back of headquarters, seize
n of the faithful little insects, and
send the well-trained messenger
through the air.
Whoever possesses a receiving outfit
can read the secrets of the wireless;
one can cut the wires of the ordinary
telegraph, and the pigeon does not al
ways escape the bullet.
Therefore, other means have been
sought. In America, the general staff
dreams of using as a dispatch bearer
the bee.
The bee, like the carrier pigeon,
guided by its marvellous instinct, re-
turns to the hive from wherever he
may be liberated. Tiny dispatches,
Which al be deciphe7ed with the mag
nifying glass, can be attached to it's
breast.
But something better still has been
found. By an ingenious process the
wings of the tiny insect are sensitized,
and by means of microscopic photog-
raphy the message is imprinted there
on.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-08
HAS KEPT TOUCH WITH PAST
Old Tarrytown or the Hudson Refuses
70 Become Part of Modern
Hustle and Bustle.

Safely aloof from the rush and
scramble which typiies Long Island
today lies T~arrytown on the Hudson.
The solidarity and leisurely prosperity
of T%arrytown have kept it from being
swept along with the stream of world
ly progress. Ii has tarried.
1t has kept it's legends and traditions,
its landmarks and historic buildings.
II still likes TO look at the monument
marking the spot where Andre. the spy,
was captured. 1t likes to recall with
thrills OF local pride THE Legend of
sleepy Hollow" until it sees again the
headless horseman pursuing the luck
less Ichabod.
There are other specters of which
the locality can boast. notably that of
Andre. also on horseback, who can be
heard at night riding at high speed up
the road on which he was captured. At
the fatal spot the sound of hoofs
ceases, naturally enough. leaving the
chance hearer TO scuttle home with
unseemly haste.
Night is an excellent time to go sight
seeing In Tarrytown. There is the
Sleepy Hollow graveyard, which no WIS.,
itor would wish to miss, and which has
an additional charm when viewed by
moonlight. There is always the possi-
bility that some illustrious resident of
the place may ON forth TO take the
air and wander once again to his old
home or 10 the market place.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-08
PLACE OF DISMAL HISTORY
Roanoke Island Known to Fame Be
cause 1t Was Site Of RaIeieh's
Inflated Colony.

on a desolate stretch of sandy beach
In North Carolina lies Roanoke island,
the birthplace Of Virginia Dare, the
first English child born in America.
Sir Walter Raleigh was responsible
for Roanoke island being placed on the
pages Of history, for i'm 1856 he sent out
a %colonizing expedition to America. and
fate and the rough winds Of the Allan
tic cast the ship up on Roanoke is
land. On account Of the climate, the
lack of food and the ubiquitous In
dian the island was voted as unln-
habitable by the colonists, who packed
their belongings and took the next
ship back TO England and civilization.
But Raleigh was not discouraged. He
sent out another colony, which conseut-
ed to stay. and the man in charge of
the expedition returned with the glad
news. Four years later, when Sir Wal
ter Raleigh sent him to report on the
progress of the colony, he found on
the island no trace Of settlers or set
Element save the inscription "Croatan'
carved on a tree. Sir Walter then
gave up the Roanoke island project as
hopeless.
Roanoke island has now been in
habited for many years, chiefly by fish
ermen and life-savers. The latter are
negroes from the coast guard station
at Pea island, which is separated from
Roanoke island by the sound. Pea
island, the only coast guard station In
this country manned by negroes, is off
a dangerous section of the coast. A
derelict ship cast on the beach is suck
ed farther into the sands by each
tide. The cOlofed guardsmen have
established IN excellent record in
a trying and dangerous station.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-08
HAS WON RESPECT OF ALL
British Working Man, making Good"
as Soldier, Will Never Again Be
Butt Of testers.

What the poor citizen wants is not
charity, or ven sympathy, still less
regulation 1t is respect, which is the
social soil Of self-respect. That is why
he is sometimes happier as a soldier,
in spite of all the %sickening horrors of
soldering; because humanity always
has respected, and always will respect,
q soldier.
Thus, Gilbert X. Chesterton, writ
ing in the Illustrated London News,
sums up an argument which, among
It's premises, contains the following:
after all, it will be well to remem-
Der that nearly every battalion Is a
labor battalion. The commonest type
In the trenches, the object of such
wide and well-deserved praise in h
press and the public speeches, is, after
all, identical with another type-a
common object of the streets and the
comic papers. The British soldier Is
generally our old friend the British
working nan
"He has lived by trades that are
too often treated as merely grimy or
grotesque; and in the case Of new and
almost crude conscript armies, like
those we have lately raised, he has gen.
orally quite recently dropped those
tools and left those trades. 1t is the
plumber, who is charged with potter
ing about for days before he stops a
small leak in a pipe, who has often In
q few minutes stopped with his body
the breach in the last dyke of civiliza-
ton, lest it should let in a sea of saw
agery and there may even be fewer
jokes about his soldering, now they
car be answered by a pun about his
soldering. 1t is the eabman, who was
supposed to grumble unduly at a very
different sort of fare. and especially at
at the sor we call warfare"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-08
Conservative Muse Of History.

1t is the unhappy usage of our
schools and universities to study the
history of mankind only during periods
Of mechanical unprogressiveness. The
historical ideas of Europe range be-
tween the time when the Greeks were
going about the world on foot or horse
back or in galleys or sailing ships, to
the days when Napoleon, Wellington
and Nelson were going about at very
much the same pace in much the same
vehicles and vessels. At the advent of
steam and electricity the muse of his
tory holds her nos and shuts her eyes.
Science will study and get the better
of a modern disease. as for example,
sleeping sickness, in spite of the fact
that II has no classical standing, but
our history schools would be shocked
at the bare idea of studying the effect
of modern means of communication
upon administrative areas, large or
small. This defect I'm our historical
training has made our minds pollti-
cally sluggish.-H. G. Wells In New
Republic.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-08
Too Much Soap Bad

Many persons abuse soap by making
a stiff, creamy lather in bathing,
under the belief that this is necessary
TO dissolve dirt that fills the pores of
the skin. On the contrary, DIR. Samuel
Dixon, health commissioner of Penn
~sylvania, says very little soap is re-
CURED to break up dirt and permit
water to remove foreign substances
from the pores so that glands may
perform their normal function. Ex-
cessive use of soap usually fills the
pores with fatty substances and re-
suits in imperfect action of the sweat
glands, which is recognized as a cause
of disease. especially of a respiratory
nature.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-08
Application No. $3.50
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PERMISSION TO APPROPRIATE
THE PUBLIC WATERS OF THE
STATE OF NEVADA.

Notice is hereby given hat on the
oath day of September. 1918, in ac-
cordance with Section SO, Chapter 40,
of the Statutes of 1913, n Carl John
Anderson. of Battle Mountain, County
of Lander, and State of Nevada, made
application to the Ssate Engineer of
Nevada for permission TO appropriate
the public waters of the State of Ne
vada. Such appropriation is to be
made from Buck Spring, at a point
whence to a corner on South Bound
airy of Sec. 81, T. 20 n, r. 40 f., NJ. ID.
B. & NJ, bears n. SIS 40' w, 104S feet,
by e of open cut, and tunnel, and
one-half cubic foot per second is to be
conveyed to SbSEA, Sec. "a, S15
SWh, Sec. S5. T. 20 ~, r. 40 E., NJ. d.
B. & NJ. by means of bitches, pipes,
and fumes. and these used for irriga-
ton and domestic purposes, from
March 1st until November 1st of each
year. Water o to be returned to
stream.
(Signed) SEYMOUR CASE,
State Engineer.