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The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
BERLIN POLITICAL
 CRISIS NEAR END
German Newspapers Claim Party Leaders Are Now in Accord Won kuehlmann Is Attacked
 by the Press.

London, Jan. i6.-German news papers as quoted in an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amster- dam, says that as result of con- ferences an understanding has been reached between the political and military parties in Germany in or der to avoid further friction.
 The Lokal Anzieger of Berlin says the basis af the agreement is that Chancellor yon Hertling's viewpoint ln regard to eastern questions (ac- quiescence in Russian program of no annexations or indemnities and the right or elf-determination of peoples) is to prevail, whereas Field Marshal von Hindenburg will have full liberty in the west in case of a German victory to deal with any possible annexatiOns there.
 Pan-German newspapers continue to attack Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann violently. The Rheni- sche Westfalische .Zeitung remarks ironically:
 Foreign Secretary Played.
 Won Kuehlmann would win the prize for showing how a brilliant military position may be utterly ruined The question is whether the struggle at Brest-Litovsk will be a victory for Germany or for the clever advocate Trotzky, who fully reveals his intellectual superiority over the representatives of the cen tral powers. General von Hoffmann alone saved the situation but only can be saved permanently If he is supported by Berlin
 Count Reventlow, in the Tages Zeitung admits the strength of the peace movement and says it would inevitably ruin Germany's future. He declares it is no secret that the entire body of social democrats with considerable portion of the liberal and centre parties and a still more considerable part of German di- plomacy hold the view that the sub- marine war cannot accomplish it's aim and can only delay peace. He adds that the so-called majority are exerting every effort to force from the leaders of the empire fresh Ger man peace offers as a reply to the speeches of President Wilson and Premier Loyd- George.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
The oululne That Does Not Affect the Head

Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAxA- TIVE PROMO QUININE is better than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor ringing In head. Remember the full name and look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. soc.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-01-24
ITALIANS DEAL
 BLOW TO ENEMY
On Brenta River Captured Hundreds of Prisoners and Large Amount of War Material--FOg Hid
 the Movement.

Italian Army Headquarters in Northern Italy, Tuesday, Jan. b. The action east of the Brenta river yesterday, in which the Italians in- flicted heavy losses on the enemy and captured several hundred pris- oners and a large amount of war material, began late in the afternoon and was carried out by infantry. It was directed chiefly against Mon te Asolone, where the enemy boldly has set up observation posts over looking the San Lorenzo valley and the Venetian plain leading down to Bassano.
 From these heights the enemy, backed by his position on Mount Pertica and Caprivale, was a con- tinual menace, his guns following a range of valley and over the plain.
 Fog Screened Advance.
 The cannonade began toward noon with the Italian batteries being sec onded by the French artillery on their right, heavy fog screening the movement as the infantry was ordered to advance. It moved straight up the slope of Monte Aso- lone thru snow and mud and slush. The enemy artillery fire grew more intense as the advance proceeded There was no halt until the posi- tions on Monte Asolone were reached and the enemy advance posts, where observations had been conducted, were swept away.
 Along the whole line the Italians gained foothold. Under the con- centrated fire of the enemy lines they later were withdrawn slightly after laying waste the enemy works.
 Austian forces attempted num- Der of counter movements without success. The struggle around Monte Asolone continues, but one of the main objects already has been ac- complished, that of dislodging the enemy from his works, to say noth- ing of the prisoners and the mater iel taken.
 About the same time an incursion into the enemy trenches was made further east around Monte SolaroiO, where more prisoners and material were captured.
 Third Bloody Fight
 The third bloody fight occurred on the lower Piave where the ltal- iaus enlarped their nOeitionS hp
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CHAPTER xlx-Continued.

AT one point of the line where the
trenches were very close, a stake was
driven into the ground midway be-
tween the hostile lines. At,night when
IL was his turn, Tommy would crawl
to this stake and attach some London
papers to ii, while at the foot he would
place tins of bully beef, flags. sweets
and other delicacies that he had re-
ceived from Blighty in the ever looked
for parcel. Later on Fritz would come
out and get these iuxuries-
The next night Tommy would go out
to see what Fritz put into his stocking.
The donation generally consisted OF
paper from Berlin, telling who was
winning the war, some timed sausages.
cigars, and occasionally little beer,
but funny thing, Tommy never re-
turned with the beer unless 1t was in
side of him. His platoon got Whit OF
his breath one night and the offending
Tommy lost his Job.
One night a young English sergeant
craWled to the stake and as he tried TO
detach the German paper bomb ex-
piOded and mangled him horribly. Fritz
had set trap and gained another vic
tim which was only one more black
mark against him In the book of this
war From that time on diplomatic re-
attonS were severed.
Returning to Tommy. l think his
spirit is best shown in the questions he
asks 1t is never "who is going to win"
but always show long will it take?"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
Dealing With the Occult.

An astonishing number of books on
occult subjects are being published i'm
these days, especially on lines relating
to the future life. the theme taking
on new interest because of the WAL
and its losses. One writer. Prof w j
Crawford of Belfast. is dealing with
so-called spirit manifestations in n
new way. For one thing. he has tried
seating the medium on Il weighing ma
chine while the manifestations are
going on and watching the varying
record of her weight. He has found
that where "A chair or table was levi
tated an Increase in her weight almost
corresponding to the weight of the
piece OF furniture was noted. When
there were rappings her weight les
sened, the amount lost varying with
the intensity of the sounds. What
these phenomena indicate To his mind
or what he expects to prove by them
does not appear.
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come exceedingly abundant and de-
structiye. Rats migrate from places
where food * scarce 60 places whore
II ~ plentiful. Abundant food in the
new locality causes abnormal repro.
duction. the effect OF which In a short
time r. that of sudden Invasion by
n vast horde OF rnts.
Other movements Of rats are local
and seasonal I'm occurrence. An exc,
dus takes place every spring from
cities and villages to river banks and
farmsteads I'm the surrounding Cuuu.
try. and Is followed by n return mi.
grafton In the autumn. This phenom,
enon. which has been observed ALMOST
everywhere. explains why rats are
more abundant In towns during the
cold season and In larger numbers la
the country during the summer.
That oil rodent destruction is prop.
erly the business OF the community
and that this must be recognized be.
fore substantial progress * made IN
asserted by the department investlgn-
tors.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
CALLS FOR BRAKE
Middle Aged Man Would Slow Up
Wheels Of Time.
is Living In Hope That Some Man
Will Devise . Workable Scheme
for Renewing Ones Lease Of
Life, and Do &c Quickly.

What we really need" said the
middle-aged man, "is some way Of
slowing up the wheels of time.
las every man who has begun &c
get on in life knows. the older we
grow the faster time seems to fly. In
our youth even single days seem 10
he endless; but when we get to be
about so old the years go SO fast that
they seem to spin around like pin
wheels.
There was once an advertiser with
Il patent medicine to sell who started
off his advertisement by describing
himself as retired physician whose
sands of life had nearly run out. A
weIl-meaning friend i'm the far West
wrote to him saying that If he would
mix a little molasses with the sands
they wouldn't run out so fast.
''Of course there was an idea In
that; but the minute You come to think
ir over seriously you see that there is
really nothing to it. To make the
wheels of time turn slower you'd have
TO have something more than molasses.
i have thought that perhaps we might
invent some sort of brake. very pow
erfuI brake. for this purpose. but I
guess there's really nothing i'm this
idea. either.
Lacking the means of making the
wheels of time turn slower. so that
we would seem To have more time, I
have thought that perhaps somebody
may yet devise a way of renewing our
lease of life. II we could get an in.
definite renewal of our life lease we
wouldn't care how fast the wheels
turned. because we'd have endless
years for them to turn in.
The man who could devise work.
able plan of this sort would get rich
beyond any sort of dreams whatever;
that is, if he could prolong his own
life as well as sell life-renewal leases
TO others: for i fancy that, hard as
this world may be in some respects.
the great majority of us would like to
continue living in it a long, long time,
and would give all we had for that
privilege
For myself. 1 can say that like
the world very well and / would like
to stay on it Unfortunately. If there
is anybody now working on this life
lease-renewal device 1 hope he will get
Ii running before the sands Of my old.
fashioned life shall have run out CON-
pletely; and If when he opens up for
business he will let me know where
to find him 1 shall go to him; and. il
l have the price. take out as first
extension Il renewal for about a cen.
fury"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
Maple SUGAR Value Crow.

The value Of the national produc-
ton Of maple sugar ana maple strip
has grown from S2.GOOOOO in 1890
when the census first asccrtnlned II.
10 $i2,000,00O far 1913. according 10
the bureau Of crop estimates. United
Suites department Of agriculture.
The maple sugar and sirup Of 1918
were worth five times the cranberry
crop OF 1917, one and one-third
times the hop crop. three-hftha of
the sorghum strip made. onc-half or
the buckwheat or nnxsecd or onion
crop. one-thlrd OF the oranges, and
one-quarter Of the sugar beets.
The principal region Of production
extends from northwestern Ohio
through New York to Vermont and In
cludes parts Of Maine. New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts and Pennsyl-
vania. Outside Of this region there n
production OF importance in the noun.
tain country beginning with the south
ern counties Of Pennsylvania and tx.
tending through western Maryland
Into scattered localities in West Vlr.
ginia, and also In parts OF Michigan.
Wisconsin and Indiana.
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From New York he had gone to Lon
don, where he worked as q waiter in
| the Hotel Russell. Just before the war
he went home to Germany to see his
parents. the war came and he was con-
Scripted.
He told me he was very sorry to
hear that London was in ruins from
the Zeppelin raids. l could not con-
vince him otherwise. for hadn't he seen
moving pictures in one of the German
cities of st. Paul's cathedral in ruins
changed the subject because he
was so stubborn in his belief 1t was
my intention to try and pump him for
information as to the methods of the
German snipers. who had been caus-
ing us trouble In the last few days.
preached the subject and he shut
up like clam. After few minutes
he very innocently said:
German snipers get paid rewards
for killing the English"
1 eagerly asked. What are they?"
He answered:
For killing or wOunding an English
private, the sniper gets one mark. For
killing or wOunding an English officer
he gets five marks, but If he kills Red
Cap or English general. the sniper gets
twenty-One days tied to the wheel of a
timber as punishment for his careless
ness"
Then he paused, waiting for me to
bite. / suppose.
bit all right and asked him why the
sniDer was punished for killing an
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
8aIzac Would Have Starved.

Some OF the gen.uses of earlier gen.
eratiOns would have hard time of IL
with civilian ratiOns I'm Europe. Many
of them are still remembered for their
appetites. Thackeray and Dickens
were both masterful at the table. Bal
FAC was equal to making a dinner Of
eight dozen oysters. twelve outlets, n
duck. a pair Of partridges, and all
the customary trimmings" Herbert
Spencer once went upon a vegetable
diet. and declared that after he return
ed to meat he had to rewrite every
thing he did in the interval to get vlril-
ity into it.
Regardless OF the effect on genius.
rationing is spreading. Even walk
Ing sticks have come under govern
mental control In England. and pre-
sumably prospective purchaser will
soon have to present a license to carry
such an Ornament.-Nation's Business
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CTO BE CONTINUED
ADDING HORROR TO SITUATION
Conversation as Reported by Boston
"Humorist" Would Seem to About
Approach the Limit.

1.-THE coal situation is getting very
accuse, isn't it?' asked ma, as she
looked over the morning paper.
"Yes," said Peggy. 81 was reading
where Mr.. StomorrOw, the fuel demon.
strator. is trying to get coal from the
minds"
"But the paper says there is shorts
age of anthrax COAL" interrupted ma
"and that we should use voluminOua
coal"
mot 'voluminous,' ma" corrected
Peggy. 'buytOomany coalw
II don't care what they call it," said
ma. ''you can't get any. anyhow. It's
just too aggregating for words. A
pound of sugar or a nod of coal today
is worth more than all the wealth OF
the ancient inkstands."
"WhO were them?' asked Peggy
Them was Indians as used to live
down In Texaco," ma told her. at does
look as IL this war would never ter
minal."
at will be terrible II the Russians
continue their armature with the Ger
mans, wouldn't II. mar
'Oh, he's q terrible, terrible man"
sighed ma.
'Whom is?" asked Peggy.
"Why." said ma. as she went to get
dinner, "who but the geyserT-JOe
Toye In the Boston Post.
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English general. With smile he re-
piled:
well. you see. If all the English gen.
one left to make costly mistakes"
1 shut him up. he was getting too
fresh for a prisoner. After a while he
winked at me and I winked back, then
the escort came to take the prisoners
to the rear. I shook hands and wished
him THE best Of luck and a safe jour-
ney to Blighty."
] liked that prisoner he was a nne
fellow. had an Iron Cross. too. 1 ad-
vised him to keep 1t out of sight. or
some Tommy would be sending 1t home
to his girl In Blighty as a souvenir.
One dark and rainy night while on
guard we were looking over the top
from the fire step OF our frOnt-line
trench, when we heard a noise imme-
diately in front of our barbed wire.
The sentry next to me challenged,
Halt. who comes thereT and brought
his rifle to the aim. His challenge was
answered In German. A captain In the
next traverse climbed upon the sand
bagged parapet to investigates brave
but foolhardy deed-"Crack" went q
bullet and he tumbled back into the
trench with hole through his stomach
and died few minutes later. A lance
corporal In the next platoon was 50 en-
ragged at the captains death that he
chucked q Mills bomb In the direction
Of the noise with the shouted warning
to rs: "Duck your nappers, my lucky
lads" A sharp dynamite report, flare
In front Of us, and then silence.
We Immediately sent up two star
shells. and In their light could see two
dark forms lying on the ground close
to our wire. A sergeant and four
went out In front and
soon returned, carrying two limp
bodies Down In the dug0ut. In the
diekering light Of three candles, we
saw that they were two German ON
cers. one captain and the other an
unterodlzier." rank one grade higher
than sergeant general. but below the
grade Of lieutenant
The captains face had been almost
compeeteey torn sway BY the bombs
explosion The untero6ixier was alive.
breathing with dlfnculty. II ! few MN
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-19
INVESTING IN MACHINERY

If two men, driving one horse
each, can combine the two
horses into one team which one
man can drive. and this tenn
can do as much or more work
than the two did singly, isn't Il
wise to combine them ana save
one mans timer
And II the fnrm is large and
conditions warrant, isn't II wise
30 combine two Of these rwo-
horse teams into one, and save
another mans timer
But before making these oXtrn
Investments II is wise for fbr
farmer 10 consider Woll thc ce.f
and the probable gin ~ cNIu
horses and implements co.'s
more than they viii produce, of
course IL would be uuWisc tO
make the investment.
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CHAPTER Xxx.
"Chats With Fritz"

We were swimming in money, from
the receipts of our theatrical venture,
and had forgotten all about the war,
when an order came through that our
brigade would again take over their
sector of the line.
The day that these orders were is
sued. our captain assembled the COM
nany and asked for volunteers TO so to
the Machine Gun school at st. Omar.
| volunteered and was accepted.
Sixteen men from our brigade left
for the course In machine gunnery.
This course lasted two weeks and we
rejoined our unit and were assigned to
the brigade machine gun company. 1t
almost broke my heart to leave my
company mates.
The gun we used was the vickers.
Light .SO3. water cooled.
was still a member of the Suicide
club. having Jumped from the frying
pan into the fire. I was assigned to
section 1. gun No. 2, and the first time
''in" took position in the front-line
trench.
During the day our gun would be
dismounted on the fire step ready for
instant use. We shared a dugout with
the Lewis gunners. At stand to" we
would mount our gun on the parapet
and go on watch beside 1t until 'stand
down" In the morning. Then the gun
would be dismounted and again placed
In readiness on the fire step.
We did eight days in the front-line
trench without anything unusual hap
pening outside Of the ordinary trench
routine. On the night that we were to
"carry OUT a bombing raid against the
German lines was pulled of. This raid
ing party consisted OF sixty company
men, sixteen bombers. and four Lewis
machine guns with their crews.
The raid took the Boches by surprise
and was a complete success, the party
bringing back twenty-One prisoners.
The Germans must have been awful
iy sore. because they turned loose
barrage OF shrapnel. with few Min
nles'' and "whizz bangs" internixed.
The shells we're dropping into our front
line like hailstones.
To get even. we could have left the
prisoners in the fire trench. in charge
of the men on guard and let them click
Fritz's strafeing but Tommy does not
treat prisoners that way.
Five Of them were brought into my
dugout and turned over to me SO that
they would be safe from the German
Are
In the candlelight. they looked very
much shaken. nerves gone and chalky
faces. with the exception Of one. a
great big fellow. He looked very much
ut ease. liked him from the start.
got out the rum jar and gave each
a NIP and passed around some flags,
the old reliable Wo0dbines. The other
prisoners looked their gratitude, but
the big fellow said In English, Thank
you, sir. the rom Is excellent and ap-
prectate It, also your Kindness"
He told me his name was Carl
schmidt. Of the Sixty-slxth Bavarian
Light infantry: that be had lived elk
years In New York Cknew the city bet
ter than I did), had been to Coney
island and many Of orr bali games. He
was regular tan couldn't make him
believe That Hans Wagner wasn't the
ieot bali player n the world.
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utes he opened his eyes and blinked IN
the glare of the candles.
The pair had evidently been drink
ing heavily, for the alcohol fumes wefs
sickening and completely pervaded tie
dugout. l turned away In disgust,
hating to see q man cross the Great d.
vide full Of booze.
One OF our officers could speak Ger
man and he questioned the dying man.
In faint voice. interrupted by fire.
quent hiccOughs, the unterohizier told
his story
There had been a drinking bout
among the officers In one of the Ger.
man dugOuts, the main beverage being
champagne With q drunken leer he
Informed us that champagne was plen-
tiful on their side and that II did not
cost them anything either. About seven
that night the conversation had turned
to the contemplate" English. and the
captain had made a wager that he
would hang his cap on the English
barbed wire TO show his contempt for
the English sentries. The wager was
accepted. At eight o'clock the captain
and he had crept out into No Mans
Land TO carry out this wager.
They had gotten about halfway
across when the drink took effect and
the captain fell asleep. After about
two hours of vain attempts the unter-
offizier had at last succeeded In wax
ing the captain, reminded him of his
bet, and warned him that he would be
the laughing stock Of the officers mess
If he did not accomplish his object. but
the captain was trembling all over and
insisted on returning TO the German
lines. In the darkness they lost their
lish trenches. They reached the barbed
wire and We're suddenly challenged by
our sentry. Being too drunk to realize
that the challenge was in English, the
captain refused to crawl back. Finally
the unterOffiZier convinced his superior
that they were in front of the English
wire. Realizing this too late. the cap
tain drew his revolver and with a NUT
tered curse fired blindly toward our
trench His bullet no doubt killed our
captain.
Then the bomb came over and there
he was. dying-and a good job too, we
thought. The captain dead? Well, his
men wouldn't weep at the news.
Without giving us any further infOr-
nation the unterOffizier died.
We searched the bodies for identif-
cation disks but they had left every
thing behind before starting on their
foOlhardy errand.
Next afternoon we buried them in
our little cemetery apart from the
graves of the TOmmies. If you ever
go into that cemetery you will see two
little wooden crosses in the corner OF
the cemetery set away from the rest.
They read:
Captain
German Army
Died - 1915
Unknown
II. J. p.
Unteroffizier
German Army
Died - 1916
Unknown
II. l. +.
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Sailor lnvents Fire Escape.

One of the boys aboard our navy's
fleet has invented a fire escape which
IL similar to the rope ladders used
aboard ships. His principal object
was to provide collapsible fire es-
cape which could be compactly and
conveniently arranged at the window
Of a dwelling. 1t consists of a con-
tainer hinged TO the sill I'm such a
manner that by opening the window
and folding the container on its hinge
the metal ladder may be unfolded
and dropped. When this operation is
gone through, means is autOmat-
lcally provided whereby the ladder In
held Mt distance from the walls of
the building. The advantage of such
precautiOn is obvious.
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The weed fight is one OF the stnnd-
ard routine operations on the farm.
and IL represents "A large proportion Of
the labor necessary To produce crops.
No other single feature Of farming re-
quires such universal and unceaslnR
attention az do the weeds.
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How Rats Miarate.

MigratiOns Of rats from one local
Ity to another probably are due chiefly
to food conditions. say investigators
OF the United States department Of
agriculture. After years In which the
pests are comparatively scarce In
rural neighborhood they suddenly be-