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The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24

When you have backache the liver or kidneys are sure to be ont If gear. Trv Sanol if does wonders for the liver. kidneys and bladder. X trial a5c hotile will convince yoll. Get 1t at the drug sfore Adv
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
ADvIsEs HOLDING COTTON.
yohn II. Page Relieves It Will Reach
 B Gents Per Pound.
Special 10 The Star.

Little Rock. Jan. i6 Commission or John H. Page advises farmers to hold their cotton for B cents, which he predicts will b paid for it by sext June. He says that present slarket conditions are most un- favorable traffic being eongested, warehouses full, and interior and storage rates high.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24

(But if you prefer one of your own recipes, be sure to use one-third less of Cot tolene than you would of butter. Cottolene goes far ther thanks to it's greater riehHsss.)
Evening star., 1918-07-21

for the herring brothers that just
ieftf she inquired, and then con-
tinued: What an afternoon! What
an afternoon! He said he wanted to
show me good time and I fell for
1t. He passed swimming because. he
said. the water was too cold; he bolt
ed the theaters because they were
too hot; he gave the amusement
parks the go.by because they were
too dusty, and then, in the goodness
OF his heart, he took me whereof.
where do you suppose, Mr.. Observer
I'm sure I don't know" / replied.
POSSIBLY to some good phonograph
concert or for nice street car ride"
'out to see his Aunt Kate's
gravew she shrieked. 1--WE spent the
afternoon watching Romeo pick
weeds from the green tomb of his
kin-folk. A kindly soul she was.
with long nose and a great hand
for making plum jam, seem to rec
ollect''
SO saying, she laughed in great
merriment. and went her way. And
there was little I could find in my
heart to criticise her for. If I were
young I scarcely should expect to
impress a young lady by showing her
the graves of my relatives. even II
they were the best jam-makers in the
whole world.
Yet the schoolmarm was not fated
always to be thrown into the COM
pany of the dead. A new bloom that
came not from a box grew in her
cheek as the days went by, and she
hummed little snatches of songs as
she moved around the house.
lieutenant, I blamed her not He was
a splendid, upstanding. clear-eyed lad
of twenty-six years. the kind who are
making history along the western
front; the solid wall that stands be-
tween rotten autocracy and the rights
of free men and women Every
glance he gave her bespoke his clean,
Virile love; and when 1 saw her eye
lids drop. her face flush and her hands
eagerly clutch his arm when he spoke
I understood. and I got out Of their
way. Even to the point of leaving
the porch entirely and going to my
hot. stuffy room hours before I was
ready to retire. For, after all, what
greater things are there in this world
be meaner than the man that would
clutter up their path with his pres
ence?
Came then a lay when the young
lieutenant went overseas. And she
was sad and sat upon the porch for
long. long hours looking OF into mo-
where and seeing swiftly moving pic
lures Of nothing whatever. And then
letter came. 1t was written in
childish hand. She read it over and
over. and finally it took her back to
Texas.
Its from the kids" she told me,
the night before she went away.
They wrote me that they want me
back, and, dirty faces 1T no., I'm 60
ing to them. 1t won't be for always,
anyhow, Mr. Observer, for he's COM
ing back to me. i know. And
Damn the kaisc-. anyhow say L
THE OBSERVER
Evening star., 1918-07-21

metic dust from my crown to my
soles, but you must not hold that
against me. Goodness knows. I'm try
ing to live down my past"
But" I managed to remark, 81 see
nothing wrong with teaching school.
1t is noble and inspiring profess
Sion"
sure, it's noble and inspiring. and
80 is preaching. but neither pays" she
responded. The only difference. I
might say. between teaching and
preaching is that a teacher never gets
the benefit of a pound party. II they
would hand out turkey and q few
sacks of sugar to the teacher/once in
while 1t wouldn't be SO bad, but
they don't. Hence, sometimes, I'm
sorry I didn't take up preaching.
Then at least probably should have
faced a full cupboard. whereas now
I face naught except an empty old
age"
''Oh, don't worry" said. in my very
best manner, some young man will
come along and marry you"
I thought she was going to scratch
my eyes out.
Don't talk marriage to me-" she
screamed. Haven't l scrubbed the
faces of enough kids in my time? Why,
it got so along toward the last the
mothers simply sent their kids to my
school unwashed because they knew
I'd scrub them up. and I'm done with
Evening star., 1918-07-21
Like the Old Mill.

A MILLIONAIRE importer of Chi
cago said in a Red Cross ad-
dress:
The grain shortage in Germany is
a most hopeful augury for the allies.
Germany one Of these days will reach
the starvation point. The war will
then end automatically.
Grain today flows out with such
dangerous slowness to the German
people that it reminds one Of the old
stone mill.
"A miller. you know. had an old
fashioned stone mill that ground very
slowly. A customer. after watching
the mill a while, said:
could eat that meal faster than
your old mill can grind it,
Mebbe So. said the old miller.
Mebbe SO, but how long could We
keep on eatin' itr
Till I starved said the customer.
Evening star., 1918-07-21

profit had figured oil. frcm my war
garden, but the imp.o, er,ents are
permanent AMI E-cxt wear wen have
ample room 20 stors the still larger
quantities OF :stuf We are gong TO
grow AMI can without the necessity
OF any cellar expenditures
The investment in eei'a- imprcye-
ments is more permanent even sh.n
my outlay tor too.s. which Will ws.r
out in time-if making Garden doe sn't
wear me out ahea of them The eel
lar shelves will be t!.ere IS long as
the house stands
/ also made & v.rr considcra BILE in
yestment this year il i.I.ipders, which
nope not to make again AS a mat
ter of fact, I count my .rsp of ex-
perience gained as even mSre yalu-
9ole than my crop of vegetables. For
l nave some pretty ambitious llans,
soon, for next yeas agricultural ac-
uviues THE WAR GARDENER.
(To be continued
Evening star., 1918-07-21

ding her good evening. They should
arrest men who stand. hats in hand,
for long periods while talking with
women folks in the open air. and the
bird who makes q boarding house
sidewalk goodbye last more than
thirty seconds should be lynched.
II enjoyed myself very much, Mr..
Spencerian." she said. "It was quite
different from anything / had ever
known before, 1-might say. Good
bye"
That made him happy and he went
away whistling Its a Long, Long
Trail" So 1T was, too. IL he was
dreaming of the trail that was going
to lead him to the schoolmarm's heart.
She sat down near me and was quiet
for several minutes. One never knows
what a gal Is thinking about lust
after she leaves'a 4 young man, SO it Is
well to let her start the conversation
She generally will give you a cue. She
did.
"A swell day" she said. 'I used
TO Think that when l was compelled
to teach school five years I'd had all
the punishment I'd ever get, but l
was wrong. Now ! suppose I'm fated
to trail with a school Of dried her
ring for the rest OF my natural life"
Why. my dear young lady, / do
not Understand" l said.
She laughed.
Didn't you see the advance agent
Evening star., 1918-07-21

superiority over the commercial kind
is at least equal to that of home
canned peaches. And that superior
tty is entirely adequate for me. thank
you.
All this is in addition to the peas.
snap beans, lima beans. sweet corn.
tomatoes. beets and other things
from my war garden. ! haven't kept
tally on the vegetables canned, but
Mary and her sister. who is helping
her on a partnership basis. have put
up an awful lot of stun and there is
lot>more to come They are just
row getting started on sweet corn
and the lima beans will not be ready
for weelYor more Mary says she
is going ohave three quarts of yege-
each week until fresh vegetables and
fruit are in season again next year.
With such an ambitious program.
already so well started she began to
worry about storage space, and to
worry me about providing it. /
of garden work, for / had done too
much pruning on having the bulk of
my garden work done. So / was
elected by fate-and by Mary-to get
busy in the cellar.
Welfare lucky in the matter OF eel
of the house and the furnace Is well
forward. The steps are at the back.
running down from the kitchen. By
putting a partition across the mid
die, to keep out furnace dust and
shut OF some of the heat from the
furnace, we had an ideal storage
room. / made the partition of the
cheapest kind of construction, just
some upright pieces an inch by three
inches with boards from store boxes
nailed to them and the whole COW
cred with tar paper, but the parti-s
ton serves its purpose just as ef-
fectiveiy as II I had made it Of
tongue lumber.
ran a row of three shelves two
and half feet wide the full twenty
feet length of one side of the store
room. This will give Mary $50 square
feet of shelf space, which. at q con-
servative estimate, will accommodate
q thousand Jars OF fruit and vege-
tables She'll have to do some can
ming to fll>those shelves. The shelves
were made of the toughest kind of
which had the necessary strength.
The entire cost of the lumber for the
shelves and the partition was $3.50.
of which probably 81 went into the
The lumber sor my potato bins,
which estimate viii hold forty
bushels. cost me $3.50. AMI I had to
pay $1.25 for iila roll OF tar rrI,er,
-eiost Of wh.c'l stitl have left. An
other 81 went for a .ocke. ind bux
and globe for fhs Additional .cleciric
ifg:at whi.l partitioring cf the .cei-
FAR necessitated. SO that my cellar
stand in+ SIS Is.
( That cuts pretty deeply into the
Evening star., 1918-07-21

they counted into the dozens, 1t was
obvious that something had to be pro-
vided In the way of storage space. /
don't think we ever had had more
than dozen cans Of fruit and vegeta-
bles in the house at one time, and
they were tin cans which had come
from the store. They didn't call for
any special storage facilities, and l
never had provided any.
You'll notice that speak of Mary's
canned fruit and vegetables. She
never had done any canning, never
even made any jelly to speak of. but,
once started on the canning road. her
ambitions have scared on mighty
wings. She had her equipment all
ready, and, growing tired of waiting
for my vegetables to be ready. she
tried her hand on some strawberries.
She bought and put mp half dozen
boxes and was 30 pleased with the re-.
suits that she bought a crate and then
two crates and put most of them in
cans. Raspberrfes were 80 high that
they rather appalled, her, but she put
up about a dozen pints OF black ones
and half q dozen of the reds. From
farmer from whom we have bought
butter and eggs she got lot of black
berries and her count on them, I
think. is two dozen pints, besides
lot of jam and Jelly.
From the same farmer she got three
bushels Of summer apples At the as
Evening star., 1918-07-21

all that. I've decided to lead the sin
gle life. and. believe me, I've found
the right place. II this excitement
that I've known ever since struck
this town continues, some fair day I'll
turn into a shaving. roll around be-
hind the file cases. curl up and die."
Ere could find time to slip a word
in edgewise about going to a movie. or
some other place equally as thrilling.
the little schooimarm had left me-
But things were not as lonesome for
her in the course of week As she had
predicted they would be. One Satur-
day afternoon l saw her and a young
old man sitting in drug store with
two foaming beakers of chocolate
soda between them. OF course / stop
ped and looked at the magazines, and,
behold, soon they walked out to
Soldiers Home car and whirled madly
away; that is, as fast as a fat wheel
could whirl them.
1t struck me, when she left him at
the front step of the boarding house
that night, that she sounded note of
hnality in her voice. / did not blame
her; he stood for a full half hour with
his hat in his hand while he was bid
Evening star., 1918-07-21
Getting Back.

r oBERT W. CHAMBERS was TAM
ing to literary critic.
Il heard q jolly good one, my boy,
about q member Of your craft" Mr..
Chambers said. the chap had roast.
ed a, popular lady novelist, and he
met her that night at party.
think 1t was awfully mean OF
you to roast me- the lady novelist
said to him. especially when, you
know that have three children and
q husband, who is literary critic. 70
Evening star., 1918-07-21

tonishingly low price of SO cents a
bushel. They were OF too poor a
grade to send to market. but some one
had tipped Mary ON how to get
full value from them. She simply
cut out rotten and wormy places and
then cut them up and cooked them,
Skins, cores all together. Then she
rubbed them through coarse sieve.
and the result was as fine an apple
sauce as ever ate. She has two
dozen or more quart jars full of It
Just imagine how good that sauce
will taste next winter. when apples
reach q prohibitive price.
She has arranged with the farmer to
bring her crabapples to make jelly
and peaches for canning. Mary has
set her mark at ffty quarts of peach
es. I-recall that soon after we were
married Mary's mother sent us half
a dozen jars Of home-canned peaches.
and the memory Of their goodness
has fingered with me all these years.
They were so different from and 80
superior to peaches canned in factor
les that they might have been an
entirely different fruit.
3 And after the peaches are taken
care of. pears are to be canned. I
don't know that ever ate any home-
cannedspears. but I am told that their
Evening star., 1918-07-21

one evening on the front porch I
hitched my chair over a little closer
to her and looked past her at the set
ting sun. That is. did for about two
minutes. Suddenly she spoke. Where
upon almost leaped into the air.
When I recovered my balance, she
was saying. quite ladylike:
Yes. you lamped me right: I'm a
schoolmarm. I've been at 1t ave years.
and every year has plowed a separate
1urfow In my cheeks, / guess. I
taught the young idea marksman-
ship until / thought 1 was a floor
walker in a shooting gallery, and.
then,< at last, / bucked. I packed up
my georgette crepe dress and INV
white leghorn hat, kissed papa hur-
riedly on the lobe of his left ear, gave
mother squeeze and a two-dolIar
bill. hoped a train headed north, and
here LAM"
She paused a moment to smilingly
regard the fat boarder consult his
wrist watch, and / tried to break in
on her train of thought.
Really, my dear young lady, never
dreamed. l began; but she cut me
short.
Go on with that" she said. posi-
lively. You don't have to dream to
recognize US schoolmarms. We are
quite visible to the naked eye I
know that am showered with arith-
Evening star., 1918-07-21

mushrooms. T0e muSh-
room idea is very fasci-
mating and I may give it a trial some
day, but Mr.. Hoover hasn't said that
mushrooms will win the war. And all
my war garden work this year is on
strictly he1p-win-the-warb basis.
I've been doing war garden work in
my cellar Of an intensely practical
and matter-of-fact kind. I've been
building shelves for Mary's canned
fruit and vegetables and bins for my
expected potato crop.
2 I let out an awful yell of anguish
when 1 went to buy the necessary
bled since i had bought lumber, and
! rather hinted that the lumber dealer
was q profteer. Instead of getting
mad about 1t, the man smiled rather
pityingly and advised me not to buy
it. He said the government needed
I. all the lumber there was and that
people should not buy it anyhow If
they could get along without 1t.
Il When told him what wanted the
lumber for he admitted it might be
all right to let me have it, but he
seemed to think he was doing me so
great favor that I didn't say any
thing more about the price. I was
afraid to risk going anywhere else,
Tor fear the next man might not be
so obliging, and that / might not get
any lumber at all.
It certainly is a queer thing, this
difference in the relations between
buyer and seller which the war has
brought about. The attitude Of the
slumber man was not different from
that Of other tradespeople It's got
ten to be so whenever I go to buy
anything have a sort of furtive and
guilty feeling, like trying to get a
drink In prohibition town. The good
old days when dealers appreciated
your patronage and were anxious to
! please appear to have gone, and I
suppose they'll not return until the
kaiser has been whipped.
: But that's wandering away from
what I've been doing in my cellar.
This war has brought SO many inter-
esting things to the surface that it's
hard TO stick to one topic I notice
that many regular writer's show
tendency to be Influenced by the wan
derlust, so hope 1t will be overlooked
y in an amateur.
with that out of my system. wen
get back to the cellar. With Mary's
cans Of vegetables multiplying until
Evening star., 1918-07-21

HE Texas schoolmarm has
gone away from the boarding
house and I am awfully sorry.
Please do not misunder-
u stand. She was only friend,
and recent one. Certainly
there never was anything more than
conversation between U.S. In all the
three or four months that I knew her I
never added an extra drop Of dye to my
tnin fringe Of hair. nor did I shun
eating soft-boiled eggs In her pres
ence. Those two tests are absolute. II
you don't believe it, carefully watch
the next man Of forty-flve years that
you see in love. If he does not dope
the fringes of his thatch until it
SHINES like pair of sheet iron shoes
and dodge all sorts of food that defies
q nervous fork. I'll leap of the Wash
anston Monument into a gill net
whenever you command me.
She came to Washington with the
thousand and one other school,,
marms and small town folks who
have drifted in to do their bit"
FOR q week she said nothing, save,
yossaoiy, NO more prunes, thank
you. OF Thanks, I'll. just take the
gravy right on my potatoes" or some
other pleasantly like that. She hur-
ried away to her work in the morning
IKE a newly-wedded bookkeeper and
by night she sat on the porch Just q
little apart from the rest Of the
crowd. Maybe that was because she
could not speak familiarly Of all the
throbbtng public questions of the day.
such as the growing need for legis-
lauon against mems coats with puck
cred backs, or prohibition. Or it may
nave been that she was thinking Of
some young man. far, far away
Evening star., 1918-07-21
Adventures of a War Gardener in. Washington

ID you ever hear of a man
doing war garden work in
his cellar?
I don't mean growing
mushrooms. The mush-
Evening star., 1918-07-21

s-,sss7s.,t s,ress A.sssa j .Asafi.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1918-08-24
WEDDING BELLS

On Saturday August 10 Wedd ing was celebrated at the Com missiOner'S Office at 8.p.m. Mr. John Amber and Mrs. A. M.Ber ney being the contracting par ties.
 The wedding party, which pro- ceedtd to the ceremony by auto mobile,consiSted of Mr. and Mrs Pete Boutin, Mr. and Mrs. Under wood, Miss Mary Johnson and Judge Smith.
 A dinner was served afterwards at the Golden Cafe. The bride wore a gown of champagne col Ored charmeuSe and carried a bouquet of sweet peas, and hand some gowns were worn by u e guests.
 Best wishes are extended to the happy couple.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1918-08-24
HELP THE ARMENIANS

Ire Armenian Relief Fund is oeing generously subscribed to by the residents of Mccarthy & the surrounding districts. :
 At the Movie Show last Sun day evening Mir. J.H. Murray in an able speech, brought forward the urgency of this needy cause
 Collections were started in Mccarthy last Monday by Mes danes Underwood, Barrett and Fad dis.
 J. B. ON eill who is in charge of the Local Fund, made a per sonal canvass of the outlying placer camps, with splendid re suits. Up to date, over $39O. has been contributed and more is to come. A full list of sub sl ltl' appears next week.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1918-08-24
Opening account with THE FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA
IS a very simple matter

IS very simple matter
 All that is necessary is to write your name address and amount of your deposit slip of paper and mail with your money to THE FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA You may either send currency post office money order express money Order check bank draft whichever most convenient for you. Currency should be by registered mail.
 We invite your account with the that every courtesy will be extended you that consistent with servatve bankng
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-07-26
o.
SPY IS NEUTRAL; U
SELLS TO BOTH
EimbIe Swiss Gets French and
German Money, but Lands
in Prison.
IS CONVICTED WITH OTHERS
Republic Anxious to Keep Out OF Trou.
bic, but is Nest Of Pletters--Es-
PIonage Trials Daily
Occurrence.

Berne.-A remarkable spying feat
was executed by Swiss citizen named
Luginbuhl. He succeeded in getting
paid from both sides, the French as
well as the Germans, receiving profit
able fayors from both, and finally
landed in the meshes Of Swiss law.
Luginbuhl was one of twenty-one de-
PENDANTS in celebrated espionage
case just concluded in local court
With one exception all were found
guilty, including Luginbuhl. Sentence
was deferred
Luglnbuhl was anxious to buy wool
waste in France. He wanted to sell
! it in Germany where he could get an
immense price for 1t. TO get the wool
out of France Luginbuhl had to obtain
permission from the French authori-
Ties. He got into touch with French
agents and spies doing business in
Switzerland, who afterward were his
codefendants in the trial. and upon his
promise that he would make trip
into Germany, find out certain things
the French spies were anxious to know
anc report back. he would obtain per-
mission TO take the wool out Of France.
Told Germans Of Deal.
TO sell the wool in Germany Lugin-
buhl made his trip into the kaisers
domain, as promised, but he did more
than he had promised. He told Ger
man officials all about the deal he had
made with the French spies, where
upon the Germans were Kind enough
to write report which Luginbuhl took
back TO Switzerland and handed over
to his French friends, who paid him
$500 for it, LugInbuhl at that time
already had in his pocket the hand
some profit he had made on the sale
of French wool in Germany. What
the Germans had paid him for double
crossing the French was not disclosed
during the trial.
1t took eight days TO try the case.
MOurgeot, French officer, was the
principal defendant in absentia. He
had escaped before he could be arrest
ed The Judge in pronouncing the ver-
dict Of guilty said Mourgeot had
broken the word Of honor given by
an officer when he escaped from a hos
pital. He was found guilty of hay
log organized the French spy system
m Switzerland. He hired German de
serters to tell him all they knew. All
this was, however, only minor Of
fense, according TO Swiss law.
Had Many Activities.
His principal crime was treason
csmmltted against the Swiss republic.
He observed the movement Of Swiss
troops near the French border and
kept the French army command post
ed about them. He hired men to
watch the transportation of cattle. He
tried to poison cattle in railroad trains
by putting poison in the cars. He or
ganized conspiracy to foment strike
in the aluminium works at Chippis,
which were sending goods to Germany,
and tried to destroy the electrical plant
at Waldshut.
Three of his tools were French