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The evening herald., 1918-03-16
REPLY FROM HOLLAND ~
EXPECTED BEFORE MONDAY

London March IA reply from
thc butch government tn the allies
announcement rcrnrding 90 the uull.
aauun Of Dutch shippluE is expected
before Monday According To iufut
nation received her" 10 viii propos,
am agreement for tho usc uf putcn
ships on tho UNDERSTANDING that tho,
are NOT to hr taken into the danger
zone
Tho allies will not assent 10 this aud
IL is expected the taking over of the
ships ou March lN viii proceed ac-
cordiuE 90 the program.
The evening herald., 1918-03-16
NJ W DISCUSS PROPOSAL
TO SEIZE DITtn SmIIS

London, March lG-N conference
was held nt the Berlin foreign office
yesterday 40 which the situation GRE
utcd hN the contemplate taking over
OF Dutch shipping by the allies was
discussed. according fN f'ruu dd
vices sent hy the Exchange Telegraph
correspondent at Copenhagen tie
quotes the lokal Auzesor a~ stating
that measures % bc taken iu th
event Of Hollands acceptance uf the
allied terms were particularly dis
cuHspd
The evening herald., 1918-03-16
Duke City Highs
Beaten by Clovis
Basketball Team

Albuquerque highs went down 20
defeat in the basketball game staged
at CLOVIS last night. the Magic CITY
team winning hy the srur" of 80 go
~. The gamc wus hoStlN cute,tcd,
a. II was fur the championship of the
state This was the third time the
two teams had clashef. each team
having ON" game of tho series.
The outcome of last nights scrim-
mage gives the state championship tu
Clovis
The evening herald., 1918-03-16
Dance at Colombo hall
tonight. Good music.
Colombo orchestra.

Want 90 trade that mule for a
ga> wagon TRY the WANT Al
way.
The evening herald., 1918-03-16
Dance at Colombo hall
tonight. Good m usic.
Colombo orchestra.

Phone ,, He'd Harm, aiI West Cop.
per for first class livery. " l.. Trim
bile 4 co.
The evening herald., 1918-03-16

when YOU seuo vour garments 20
Hnrs shop you have the satihacuon
of knowing that you are getting the
best cleaning aud pressing that any
one can do
Bills Shop
(t,armcnt Cleaners
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
AMERICAN SAVINGS Will
MEASURE wheat EXPORTS

1--WE have already exported the
whole of the surplus of the 1917 wheat
harvest, over and above the normal de-
mands of our own population. 1t is
necessary, therefore, for the food add
ministration to restrict export of wheat
so as to retain in the United States
sufficient supplies to carry our own
people until the next harvest.
Therefore all exports of wheat
from now forward are limited entirly
to volume of saving made by the Amer
lean people In their consumption of
wheat and wheat products.
1--WE continued wheat shipments for
December as far as our situation al
lowed, but even with all the conserva-
ton made we were still unable to load
several hundred thousand tons of food
stuffs urgently required by the allied
nations during the month of December
alone"
HERBERT HOOVER.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
war Bread COSTLY TO
BRITISH GOVERNMENT

Every year the British government
pays S2OO,OOO,OO0 toward the cost OF
that nations war bread. That is the
principal reason why English bread
prices are lower today to the consumer
than in America Incidentally the
British bread is much poorer than the
American.
Great Britain has taken over all
home grown grain, bought at an arbl-
trary price, and all imported wheat
bought in markets Of the world at pre-
vailing prices. This is turned over to
the mills by the government at price
that allows the adulterated war bread
loaf of four pounds to sell at Is cents.
The two pound loaf costs cents, and
the one pound loaf sells for 5 cents.
In milling, however, IA per cent.
more flour is extracted from the wheat
than In America And there is COM
pulsory adulteration of 90 per cent.
and an allowable adulteration of so
per cent
Compared with American bread, the
British product is only about 63 per
cent pure at its best.
In France, under conditions some
what similar but with a larger eXtrac-
ton, the four Pc % loaf sells for IS
cents,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
Shameless Story of Supply.

The sorry, shameless story OF the ma
chine gun is the story of the supply and
transportation service in France today.
In August, 1916, Congress appropriated
S12. OOO, 900 especially and specifically
for the purchase of machine guns, and
placed the sum at the disposal of the ord
nance department. But 1t was not until
our first division was already In France,
in June, 1917-ten months later-that the
first steps were taken by the chief OF the
ordnance department, General Crozler-
according to his own statement-to get
the guns which three years OF terrible
carnage had demonstrated as being tne
most useful of all the arms for the sol,
diers in the trench. With the word
struggling for freedom through the hell
fire of such battles and our entrance I'M
minent-it is an amazing story, paralleleo
only by that of the months wrangllng IN
the Shipping Board over the respective
merits of wood and iron at the cost OF
irremediabe time, while the worlds boats
were being sunk daily and the worlds
food endangered.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
Moss as Cotton Substitute.

Sphagnum moss as substitute Tor cot
ton in surgical dressings is coming into
favor more and more. Not merely be-
cause cotton is hard to get, especially IN
Germany and Austria, but because the
moss has qualities of its own that make
it superior to cotton. The University OF
Washington News Letter says:
s'This moss placed on fresh wounds
will absorb seven to ten times Its own
weight in liquid; cotton only about six
times. Cotton dries slowly; moss with
comparative rapidity. This quality is of
particular value in the care of profusely
bleeding wounds on long trips from hat
tlefield to hospital. Because it will hold
so much more liquid the moss is less apt
to let the blood soak through into band
ages, clothing and beddings
"Sphagnum has springy qualities that
make it less disagreeable to the touch OF
the wounded region. When cotton comes
in contact with sensitive surface it feels
as if hard substance were being forced
down upon tender nerves. The contact
of sphagnum is scarcely noticeable.
''The cotton fibres frequently adhere
when the congresses are changed and
their removal is always painful. Sphag-
mum pads are renewed almost without
the patients knowing.
"The elasticity of the moss prevents
compression of the dressing, which would
exclude the air and interfere with the
circulation necessary to proper anti
sepsis."
| Under the direction of Prof. John w.
Hotson of the botany department of the
University of Washington large quanti-
ties of the moss are being gathered in
western Washington and prepared for
use by the Red Cross.
| Sphagnum moss grows in marshy
places; it is grass green and feathery,
each frond about as long as finger. A
strange feature about it is that it seems
to have no roots, each stalk terminating
underground in dead brown decayed
stem.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
More Ships Than a Year ago

In the twelve months of unrestricted
warfare launched against American and
Allied shipping by Germany one year
age, there have been sunk by submarines,
mines and raiders sixty nine American
vessels, totalling 1911 ,O61 gross tons.
Offsetting this loss of American ves-
sells, most of which were sailing ships,
the United States since February LIST has
added to her merchant marine by seizure
of former German and Austrian owned
ships total of 1O7 vessels having gross
tondage of 686, 494, leaving on the credit
side net gain of sis, 433 gross tons. The
loss of life caused by the sinking of the
sixty-nine American ships was more
than 800 persons, however.
The percentage of sinkings of Ameri-
can ships compared with the number of
vessels which have sailed through the
war zone successfully is small. Records
of the Department of Commerce show
that for the period beginning with Feb
l, 1917, and ending with Dec. /, there
were cleared from American ports in the
foreign trade ships, aggregating II, 1885,
900 net, or approximately "a, 1874, 400 gross
tons. The number of ships making up
the total of tons was not made public by
the Department.
Furtner O1fSettlng the loss OF tonnage
occasioned by the submarine warfare, the
United States through the shipping board
requisitioned in American shipyards 426
vessels. totalling more than 100000
gross ktons, and contracts have been
awarded for 1884 ships, large number of
which are now under way and are being
rushed to completion. In addition, the
shipping board on Oct. 10th last placed
under Government requisition 1893 Ameri-
can vessels of over $500 tons dead weight
capacity which were already afloat, and
Immediately assigned them to the task of
carrying supplies for the Allies and the
American forces abroad.
Included in these requisitioned vessels
were 81 ships in Great Lake trade, and in
addition there were Communicated "a
steamers building on the Lakes for for
eign account and ready for launching.
Virtually all of these were brought to
Atlantic coast ports and Immediately put
into service. Almost one-half of them
had to be cut in two to get them through
the Welland Canal, but the task was &C
complished and the ships re-ioined in less
than three months from the time the con-
tract was awarded.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
Perhaps.

Reports reach Bangor from Portland
that the sidewheel steamers, City of
Rockland and City of Bangor are to run
on the Bangor line next summer,
as the turbiners, Belfast and Camden,
are to be placed on the New York-Boston
line of the Eastern Steamship Corpora
ton.
The local office of the Eastern Steam
ship Co. had not been advised of the
prospect, so it is probable that plans, if
any have been considered, are still in a
tentative state.
Shortage of steamers, which has been
growing more acute since the war began,
would seem to indicate that such con-
tingency is not at all improbable. Sew
eral of the large boats running out of
Boston have been taken over by the
government, and move to replace them
by the best steamers available, the Cam
den and Belfast, would seem to be likely.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
Another Burleson Failure.

Complaints of non-delivery of mail to
our soldiers both in this country and
abroad, has led Congressman Frederick
W. Dallinger of Massachusetts,, to pro-
pose the appointment of Joint commit
tee to inquire into the cause OF delays IN
the postal service. Five members OF each
of the post office committees of the two
Houses of Congress are to compose the
committee, and before the first day OF
March are to report such legislation as
may be necessary 'to insure prompt and
efficient postal service both within the
United States and between this country
and the American expeditionary forces
abroad" Mr.. Dallinger's resolution Will
strike a responsive chord in the hearts OF
rela tiyes and friends who have sent boxes
of good things to the boys in France only
to have them lost by the wayside, which
it is claimed has been the case in thou
ands of instances.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
Your Elixir Saved My Life
WORDS OF A MAINE MAN.

Henry O. Hanley of II Cross Street,
Belfast, Maine, writes US: 81 am feeling
lots better and think your Elixir (Dr.
True's Elixir saved my life.
DR.. True's Elixir is great medicine,
Family Laxative and Worm Expeler.
1t tones the stomach. moves the bowels
and expels worms. Surprising it is how
many people have worms. Children suf-
fer agony from worms. Signs or symp-
toms of worms are: Daranged stomach,
swollen upper lip, sour stomach,
offensive breath. hard and full belly with
occasional gripings and pains about the
navel, pale face of leaden tint, eyes
heavy and dull, twitching eyelids, itcning
of the nose, itching of the rectum, short
dry cough, grinding of the teeth. little
red points sticking out on tongue, start
ing during sleep, slow fever.
Get Dr. True's Elixir from your deal
err. The cost is small. 1t expels worms
and restores health. No better Laxative
made for young or old. Millions have
n %s:ts S's Sc = :" 4 &C. AE
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
EUROPE NEEDS FOOD
Food Administration Declares It 10 an
Absolute Sin to Waste Food-Food
Has Become Sacred.

Europe is still sending an insist':';
call for more food. We must send it
II the war is to 60 on efficiently. Ii
we eat it all we cannot ship it, and
the food administration has already
tried to picture how much that wheat
Is needed by people who will starve II
they do not get it, the food admlnlstra'
ton states.
For the least bit Of heedlessness
on your part In food conservation some
one somewhere in the world must sur
fer privation," an official statement
declares. 1.-The food administrator
has mastered the problem OF Amerl
cas- food in such a way that every
ounce of food conserved and kept IN
the currents of trade goes to an empty
stomach in Europe.
ut is an absolute sin to waste FOOD.
Food has become sacred.
Food means life; it means some
body's life, and you cannot escape re-
sponsibility.
"There is no waste Of food among
the allied nations"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
Villa, the Bandit, Gets Busy.

JUAREz, MEX, Jan. 30.-More than
10 soldiers and passengers were killed
by Villa followers Saturday, % miles
south of Santa Rosalia, when Villa troops
dynamited a work train going to Rellano
to repair the railroad line and remove the
debris of the passenger train, which was
robbed and burned there Wednesday,
This information was received here from
the south by number of reliable persons
and was not denied by the authorities.
Francisco Villa himself led the attack
on the work train, according to reports
After killing all of the Mexican work men
and federal train guards who fought for
eight hours, the Villa followers proceeded
to Santa Rosalia, where only 1925 soldiers
were stationed They killed number OF
these during the fighting, executed 9TH
ers, and then looted the place.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
A Cord of Fitted Wood.

A cord of 4 foot wood contains by
statute 1873 cubic feet. When foot wood
is cut into 16 inch lengths, split and piled
it is more compact than before and it will
measure about us cubic feet II the
same lis feet of fitted wood is thrown
into rectangular bin as cart or sled body
it will occupy about lao cubic feet. In
other words cord of foot wood when
fitted will lose 10 per cent when COM
pactly piled and will gain 10 per cent
when thrown into a pile. Outside of the
cost of fitting dealer should receive a
tenth more for fitted wood if piled and
tenth less per cord for fitted wood if it
is thrown into the cart or sled body fol
measurement than for cord of 4 foot
Wood
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
TURN CASH INTO GUN FIRE,
BY FRANK A. VANDERBILT.

We fought and won the Spanish war
with 10000 soldiers and a 5000, 600, 900
bond issue. In men under arms we now
have ten times that number. We issued
ten times that amount of bonds in the
first Liberty loan. We are proposing to
spend and loan to the allies in the first
fiscal year of the war $4,000, 600, OO0
From now until the end of this fiscal year
the treasury anticipates needing S3OG, 900, )
900 Week-that is, the treasury has got
to fight financially a Spanish war every
four days. That indicates money meas
ure of the size of this work. but that is
not the real measure. We have Just seen
that one might have plenty of money,
but an empty coal bin. In just the same
way the government can have plenty of
money, but an unequipped army. This
army cannot be equipped as modern war
fare demands if the man power of the
country is at the same time called upon to
produce all of our ordinary comforts and
luxuries. 1t is as plain as two and two
that all of us must make personal sacri-
fees, must give up comforts and luxuries,
even necessary expenditures that can be
postponed, if there is to be labor and ma
terial enough to equip the army in time
for it to fight while it will do some good
to have it fight.
In war the only effort that is of any
value is that which is ultimately trans
lated into gun fire on the field of battle
The gun fire that will win this war can
not be delivered until all America recog-
nizes individual responsibility, until the
whole people Join in the effort by giving
up things that they can do without, so
that the labor that would have been en-
ployed in making those things can do
work that will ultimately result in gun
fire. The government has offered the OPP
portunity to translate at once every ones
personal patriotism into the sort of help
that will win the war. Forego buying
something that is unnecessary; loan the
money you would have used to the gov
eminent by buying SIS war savings GER
tificates. You will thus have released
labor, you will have given credit to the
government, you will have acquired the
best security in the world, a United
States government bond.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07

Wheat-corn bread is more nutritious
than bread baked with wheat flour
alone. Thousands Of American fam
lilies today are using this mixed flour
bread, and in so doing are enabling
America to provide more wheat flour
for the allies. Here's tested recipe
for this bread: Take one and half
cups of milk, water or a mixture OF
the two; one-half cake compressed
yeast, one and half teaspoons salt,
one tablespoon sugar, one tablespoon
Of fat if desired, one cup cornmeal
and two cups wheat flour.
Put one and a half cups of water,
the cornmeal, salt, sugar and fat Gf
used) into a double boiler and cook
twenty minutes The water Is suffi-
cient only to soften the meal little
temperature of the room and add the
-four and yeast mixed with the rest
of the water. Knead thoroughly,
make into loaf, place in pan Of stand
ard size, allow to rise until nearly
fills the pan and bake As or 80 min
utes. It Is hardly practicable to use
greater percentage Of cornmeal than
this even in emergencies, for bread so
made differs very little from baked
mush. Q Less cornmeal can be used
and in sucn a case the general meth
cd given above may be followed. .
1t Is possible to make a yeast raised
corn bread without first cooking the
cornmeal In this case not more than
one cupful Of meal should be used to
four cupfuls Of -four In other re-
spects the bread is mixed and baked
as in the above recipe.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
GET THE KAISER'S FIREBUGS.

For more than two years promoted
and thoroughly organized incendiary
campaign has been operated in the United
States by German Notwithstanding of
Kaiserdom. During all that time not one
German spy, not single German firebug
has been apprehended, convicted and
hanged. Is the watch that is being
maintained at plants working for the
Government fulfilling orders on war con-
tracts as efficient as it should be7 It is
amazing that so much internal deviltry
can be accomplished with SO little risk
to the agents There must be greater
alertness-a more adequate scheme of
protection. The Kaiser's firebugs must
be made to understand that they are en-
gagged in game where the risks are not
fifty-fifty, but ten chances of being shot
or hanged to one of getting away in
safety.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
WHY WE MUST SAVE FOOD.

less than half normal, using the crop
of 1913 as basis of comparison.
There was a shortage of 176,Oo0o0O
bushels or 1913 per cent. The potato
crop was only within one-third of nor
NAL. The sugar heel crop showed a
deficit of 60 per cent. Her meat
herds in the early fall showed short
age of 500. 900 animals
Those are a few of the reasons
America must feed her associates in
the war. They are no longer able TO
feed themselves and unless we come
to the rescue are face to face with
starvation. And starvation means de-
feat in the war.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
/ Peruna To
All Sufferers
OfCatarrh-

Myrtle St., Beverly, Mass, writes: 7
have taken four bottles of Peruna,
and 1 can say that it has done me
great deal of good for catarrh OF
the head and throat. l recommend
Peruna to all sufferers with catarrh.
l do not think l ever felt much bet
ter. am really surprised at the
work ! can do. do not think too
much praise can be said for Peruna."
Those who object to liquid medl'
cines can procure Peruna Tablets.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
FASTENED RUSSIAN COLLAPSE

I'VE must not overlook the fact that
Russia collapsed, not because of the
Germans on her borders, but because
she failed to organize and feed her
own citizenship the food administra-
ton announced \
I'VE must be warned that if we are to
emerge victorious from this war we can
not risk the collapse of another of our
associates in this war from this cause.
"Anybody that is looking for the col
lapse of the German people on the food
question had better turn around and
look at the moon, because the results
will be the same. Germany is in no
more danger of collapsing on that
score than we are, if as much
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07
THE DEAD YEAR-1917.

Another wave spent on the shore OF
Time;
One more pulse of Eternity's great heart;
Another echo, of that bell whose chime
Tolls deeply-s'Dust thou art!'
Another year gone down into the dark,
It's muffled footsteps silent in their tread,
ct, leaving prints by which our eyes
may mark
The course toward the dead.
Gone with it's joys and woes, delights
and fears,
Ia radiant promises and blasted hopes,
Its beauteous dewdrops changed to burn
ing tears,
Its tears to pearly drops.
Gone with it's storms, its sunshine and
its showers;
Its fearful dawnings and its twilight
haze;
Its woodland melodies, its bees and flow-
erS
That 'tranced the summer days
Gone-while yet the shouts of strife as
cend,
And wars red fury flames in brethren's
When with the pure air cries OF passion
blend,
And carnage flouts the Skies
Dead Year! Where is the promise OF thy
birth2
Those splendid streaks which at thy dawn
were seen?
Have Peace and Truth vanished from the
Earth?
And will they never more be seen?
Such gloom is round US that CLEAN OF
light
Can scarcely through the close-plled
shadows stray
And yet know the darkest hour OF night
Is always Just before the day.
Then sleep, dead Year, among thy kim
dred dust!
Though death and tears have marked thy
darkened reign;
Though Wars wild clamors have been
thine-we trust
Thou has not lived in vain.
And sweep, oh Time, along thy silent
way,
Till the last shadow of the War is gone,
And we behold on the horizon gray
The Light of Peace! of Dawn!
M E. Tarbox.
Fryeburg, Me.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-02-07

At Probate Court neio al Belfast within and
for the County of Waldo in vacation, on the
18th day of January, A, d. 1918.
JOHN H, MONTGOMERY of Bucksport. in
the County of Hancock. administrator of the
estate of Helen r. Houston, late OF Belfast. IN
said County of Waldo. deceased. having pre-
sented a petition praying that the actual mar
ket value of the property of said deceased,
low in his hands subject to the payment OF
the collateral inheritance tax. the persons IN
terested in the succession thereto and the
amount of the tax thereto may be determined
by the Judge of Probate.
Ordered That the said petitioner give notice
to all persons interested by causing copy OF
this ORDER to be published three weeks sue
cessively in The Republican Journal. news
paper published at Belfast, in said County
that they may appear at Probate Court, to be
held at Belfast. within and for said County, on
the 18th day of February, A. D. 1918. at ten
of the clock before noon. and show cause. if any
they have why the prayer of said petitioner
should not be granted.
ELLERY BOWDEN, Judge.
A true copy. Attest:
CHAs E. JOHNSON, Register.