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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27
THE TREAcHERous KAISER

-O-
Have 0 ever heard of the kaiser,
the treacherous Hun
Whose home is the hell where
everything burns?
He's the wolf Of all Europe, who
loves 10 devour
The flesh of all men and all that is
power.
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the traitor
and robber
Thinks he can conquer this fair land
Of ours.
But woe! whcn he comes with his
wolves altogether
Wilhelm Hohenzollern shall come
again-neyer!
Wilhelm, Kaiser Wilhelm,
You're trembling from head to foot,
When you think of what the U. S.
is doing
In the great war she undertook.
Goody! goody! goody!
Kaiser's got the grippe,
Mrs. Hohenzollern follows with the
pip.
The little ape Hohenzollern
Comes on with the blues
The whole damn famiIy's got the
The whole damn family's got the
cretps,
Cause khaki boys disturb their
sleep"
PATRIOTISM
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27
Red Cross News and Notes

heretofore Asasns under the j%urisdic.
ton OF the O~nelousas Chapter.
Henceforth, Evangeline will have its
v chapter with headquarters at
Vile Platte.
To go back. to Mr.. White. While
here he attended several meetings OF
the executive board and made some
timely suggestions-and he is es-
peciaIly fit to do this as he has at
his command quite a bit of valuable
Red Cross information. The Chapter
is Indebted to Mr.. White for his
brief visit and kindly interest in the
work that is being done for human
ity.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27
DON'T TAKE A CHANGE
opelousas People Should Act in

opeIousas People Should Act in
Time
If you suffer from backache;
If you suffer from headaches dir
~ spells;
If the kidney ~secretfons are irreg-
ular;
Don't delay-likely your kidneys
are sick;
Opelousas people recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills.
Here's an experience:
Yves D'Avy, brick mason, 2. Belle
vue ST., says. "My back was caus-
ing me all sorts of misery. Every
cold caught settled in the small of
my back and at no time was able
to do any lifting without suffering
from sharp pains all through my
sack and lower limbs. The way my
kidneys acted was sufficient proof
that they were in an unhealthy state,
so / got Doan's Kidney Pills at the
Opelousas Drug Co, and began to
use them. In a few days ! was en-
tirely cured of this misery and I
have been well ever since"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same
that Mr.. D'Avy had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.-adv.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27
Each Branch
Given jurisdiction

There have been ONE radical
changes in regard to Red Cross
Branches within recent time. These
changes have been made throughout
the United States and and were made
sSiely In the interest Of Red Cross.
The st. Landry chapter is affected
Just as the other chapters in the Red
Gross organization. Each Branch
Of the st. Landry Chapter will have
a specific jurisdiction, In the fu-
ture these branches will be allotted
a certain amount Of work and they
will have to provide the funds to pay
for their allotments. Each unit will
be given credit for the work which
II accomplishes.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27
Allowance Check Of Discharge
Soldier Must Not Be cashed


Don't cash that allowance check
If the soldier who made the allot-
ment has been discharged from the
army, warns the Home Service de-
parment of the Red Cross.
Return it at ono to the govern
ment. 1t isn't yours, and if you spend
1t you'll get into trouble.
Several instances have been re-
ported by field secretaries OF the
Gulf Division, Home Service Section
Of the Red Cross in which relatives
ef discharged soldiers have cashed
checks that were sent by mistake.
No discharged soldiers family is
entitled to receive mere than enc
months allowance after the man
has left the service. Because
of hee enormous number OF
checks sent out at Washington, it
sometimes happens that checks are
received the second or third month
after the soldiers discharge.
Persons who cash these checks
sent out by mistake will be consider
ed guilty of fraud, and they will be
liable to a fine of $4,000 or impris-
Bninent for a year or both.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27
First Aid Chairman
Is Appointed

DR.. B. A. Littell, welIknown ply
siicfan of this city, has been ap-
pointed Chairman of the First Aid,
st. Landry Chapter. DIR. Litteil will
choose his committee to assist in the
organization of classes, and it is ex-
pected that it will not be long before
this most important branch of Red
Cross activity will be in full swing
in st. Landry.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27
Mr.. White Visits
Red Cross Chapter

Mr.. Chas. 0. White, Assistant Di-
rector OF the Bureau of Development,
Gulf Division of the American Red
Cross. is on a tour of inspection and
paid the st. Landry Chapter a visit
the past week. He also visited sew
eraI Of the Branches in the jurisdic,
ton. On Wednesday, he and some
De the officers Of the local Red Cross,
went to Vile Platte and assisted in
the reorganization Of the Vile Platte
Branch, This Branch and the other
Evangeline Red Cross units have
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27
Miss Barthe on
NURSING Committee

Miss Bertha Barthe, one Of the
most popular Of our local trained
nurses, has been added to the execu-
tive and has also been named chair
man Of the nurses committee Of the
CHAPTER. That Miss Barthe will give
her best efforts to this great Red
Cross work goes unsaid.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Groves.

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties ofQUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
put Malaria, Enric1es the Blood and
s.zles .p the Whole ST5ten. so ceIes.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27
25,oo0 Wanted In the
sSudent Nurse Reserve

Every woman in Louisiana between
the ages Of nineteen and thirty-fiye
will be given an opportunity to en-
list for war-work during the fortnight
beginning July %. The war is ere
ating an unprecedented demand for
trained nurses. Only those who have
taken the full training course are
eligible for service with our oversee
forces. Every young woman who en-
rolls in the United States Student
Reserve is releasing a nurse a
nurse for service at the front. Else
in this issue Of The Clarion is a let,
ter giving full information regarding
this matter.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27

FOR sALE-second hand counters
and second hand shelves and show
windows and store doors. Apply to
L. I. DANIEL,
june-29-tf Opelousas, La.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27

666 cures Headaches, Biliousness,
Loss of Appetite, or that tired ach-
ing feeling, due II Malaria or Colds.
Fine Tonic.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27
Miss stasg on

Publicity Committee
Miss Joyce Stage, secretary OF the
OpeIousas Branch Chapter, is now a
member of the Publicity Committee
Of the st. Landry Chapter. She is
an enthusiastic Red Cross worker
and It goes unsaid that she will be
quite an acquisition to this i'm
portant committee.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27

The name of the opelousas has
again been changed and will hence
forth be known as the st. Landry
Chapter" The original name of the
local Chapter was "Attakapas," but
as this did not indicate any geo
graphic boundary. this was changed
to "opelousas," Now that Evange-
line has been cut off from the
local chapter. the name st. Landry
will obtain.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-07-27
$500 Set Aside

For Home Service
The Red Cross will see to it that
the families of the fighting men
shall not want during their absence.
These families will be reached
through the Home Service depart
ment. The st. Landry Chapter, in
line with other chapters, has set
aside an amount to be used for
this special department. $500 is the
revolving fund. Some of the uses to
which this money will be applied and
the purposes of the Home Service are
as follows: Giving information
about allotments and allowances,
giving legal information to help pro-
teet the families of the enlisted men,
securing medical advice and treat
ment for the members of such fam
lilies needing it, giving loans OF gifts
when financial assistance is needed
by the soldiers and sailors depend
ents, offering friendliness, expert
advice, intelligent assistance. And
strengthening the morale Of the men
In service by keeping up the cour-
age Of their folks at home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-11-14
Soldiers Letters to Folks at Home

anxious l am for mail, but have learn
ed so many things since coming IN the
army and among them l have learned
to wait and l am now waiting patiently
for letter from mother. | know she
is praying for the safety and welfare
of her boy in this far-off land and I'm
sure its not her fault that l have not
had a letter before this time.
"Hoping to see you all soon and best
regards and good luck to dear old Gar
rett county and all the people, Give my
love and best wishes to the Red Cross
society.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-11-14

The stumbling block which the work
ers for the United War Work Cam
palgn already have foreseen, and which
they have prepared to attack, is the
apathetic view of the man in the street:
why should | contribute? It's all
Overt"
This is our hour of triumph Its
splendid luminance perhaps over-shad-
ows the more quiet, unspectacular,
prosaic background.
More than 1000, 600 American men
have given up the arts of peace in order
that the 100, 900. 900 at home may re-
joice in these days. Our battle lines
have been carried to two distant CONT
nents. Over 10000 casualties remind
US that there are faces of loved ores
which will not be seen when the men
are brought home.
But it will be along time before the
last of them aref,brought back from
France, from Italy and from Russia.
No estimate of the length of the de-
mobilization process has placed 1t at
under II months. During this time the
men who remain IN the service must be
cared for as before. They must have
their amusements, their recreation.
their classes. The necessity of finding
something to keep them from ennui
will be far greater than it has been dur
ing the period of hOstilities.
This is the time for Us to give to
them, to these men who have fought
our battles. During the present week
seven Of the great war relief organi-
cations of the country will attempt to
collect $40, 500, 600 to defray their ex-
penses for the next year. They will
need all of this. money-perhaps even
more.
The fact that it's all over" instead
of furnishing an excuse for refusing to
contribute. in reality is a most potent
reason why everyone should give freely
and gladly the comparatively small
amount for (which he is asked.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-11-14
GORTNER

Mrs. Melchor Hetrick, of Bittinger,
and Mrs. HerYey Bittner. of Oaklands
spent Saturday night and Sunday with
their brother, N. C. SIabaugh.
MIR. and Mrs. l.. M. Beachy, Simon
Swartzentruber and family and Mr.. and
Mrs. Joel Slabaugh are visiting rela-
tives and friends near Meyersdale, Pa,
at this writing.
Miss Josephine Sanders who has been
confined to her room from an attackEof
the influenza, we are glad to note is
able to be about again.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. j. Lichty, Dan, Ross
and Mary Lichty, S. W. Slabaugh,
Lena Shaffer, Mrs. Jake Swartzen-
truber, Lena Slabaugh and Emma
Burkholder motoIed to Black Water
Falls Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benz. Yoder and son
Noah were visitors at the home of
Daniel Schrock's Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Sanders, Mrs. Ira
Beckwith and daughter Mae. of Key
ser, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. C. T..
Sanders.
Simon Swartzentruber purchased a
traction engine of Allen Forman at
Ambry, W. Va, Tuesday
Seth Yoder and Carl Bowman spent
Sunday with friends at this place
H. E. Yoder and family spent Sun
day with the Beachy's at Aurora.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Schrock are
contemplating taking trip to Norfolk,
Va, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Swartzentruber,
Mary Ross and Dan Lichty, Carl Bow
man and Noah Schrock were Sunday
afternoon callers at Mrs. Mary Brenu-
nlnger's.
Lee Slabaugh took supper with Jake
Petersheim Sunday evening.
Church services next Sunday morn
ing by the Brethren, Sunday school at
half past nine. All are invited.
Our Sunday school reopened last Sun
day, after being closed several weeks
on account of the Influenza, and we are
SO thankful that none Of the number
are missing as is the case in so many
congregations. While quite a number
were down with the Influenza, none
were seriously ill except Mr.. Spoer-
| lein and we are glad to note that he is
now able to be about again
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-11-14

contemporary eye. We only know that
We have escaped from bitter menace
the horror of the German threat is still
over US. The agony imposed by the
Teutonic race upon all other races for
these years is still IN our minds and our
hearts. We have been delivered, but
even in the hour of deliverance the
magnitude of the curse which over.
hung US remains.
Yet no defeat in all human history
was more complete than the present
and never was faith in ultimate JUS
tice more completely indicated. The
German began his war with every ad-
vantage that long preparation. skillful
leadership. infinite organization could
bestow. He had the weapons, the
machinery; he was halted by no regard
for laws. human or divine. He had
power and unlimited willingness to en-
ploy power. He has employed 1t for
four years. but in the end he has failed
and it is his machine which is falling
into ruin, his nation which is sinking
into chaos. Belgium, Serbia. Rumania,
the little states he abolished, have re-
turned to the sunlight of the world.
Only the Germans Allies have been
ruined, only his own people haye come
to the brink of utter chaos.
And in four years all his armies have
been beaten and his generals mastered,
all his preparations surpassed, all his
machinery distanced. His kultur has
been exposed as the mere folly of the
brute. powerless when intelligence
should be aroused. armed and organized.
The German has been beaten on the
battlefield, and with defeat his whole
doctrine disappears. No preparation of
barbarism, !however scientific, can con-
quer civilization; no chains of tyranny,
however heavy. can permanently fetter
freedom. The sword in the hand of the
brute may long prevail, but it falls from
a hand struck helpless in the end. We
haye been liberated from the German
nightmare; new tyrannIes may come,
bringing new doctrines of slavery, but
those whose task it is to destroy them
will be heartened and fortified by the
history of our own time
Another Bastille has fallen, and if
the people shout and sing it is not
merely foolishness, for now, as more
than century ago in France, there is a
sense among millions that one of the
great hours in all human history has
come, an hour whose greatness will
grow and not diminish for centuries,
while for US long, dark night is over.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-11-14
LIBERATED FROM THE GERMAN
NIGHTMARE!

With the signing of the armistice
terms the third of the great wars in
the period which is designated as
Modern History comes to an end. With
the struggles of the Reformation and
the wars of the French Revolution and
the Napoleonic era this World War
most hereafter be. reckoned Like the
two preceding commissions, it was a
struggle against tyranny which has
terminated in the triumph of the forces
of liberalism and progress.
In the wars of the Reformation man.
kind won religious. freedom. In the up
heaval of the French Revolution the
civil liberties of men were established.
In the presentSconfct the rights of the
peoples. large and small, to live their
own lives, to preserve their own ideas,
to follow their own destinies, haye been
indicated.
The Germanssaid in his heart: "There
is no God but the god of violence. There
is no law but the law of the sword.
There is no peoplesbut the German peo-
pie. who, because they are strong, shall
rule the world"
AS consequence for more than four
years mankind has fought. Asia, Africa
and Europe have been the scenes of gi-
gantic struggles, while America has
sent her millions to a foreign field to
fight for American ideals and Ameri-
can liberties. Millions of men have
died, cities have been wrecked, pro-
yinces ravaged. Since the other bar
barians burst in upon the Roman EN-
pire and scattered its treasures, wreck.
ed its temples and destroyed its civil.
cation the earth has seen no such per.
iod of devastation and ruin. Today the
pathway of German armies in Europe
can be traced by the smoking ruins OF
recent fires and the cold ashes of towns
dead theselfour years.
The results of this war will be est.
mated by those who come centuries
hence and see what is hidden from the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-11-14
BITTINGER.


On last Monday evening, November
4th, word was received in this village
telling of the fall of Private Orem Ray
Engle of the 313th Infantry on the bat
tle-field in France. Thus the grieyous
realities of war struck home to our
quiet little hamlet with trying shock,
and all who knew this noble young man
and hero in his private life in our midst
felt deep pang of pain and regret to
learn that one of the best youths of the
community could not be spared to dwell
among US again, but as for US and for
all men this sacrifice was nobly and
bravely made, we feel all the more
urged to do our duty to the utmost that
this and the thousands of others now on
the Worlds Great Honor Roll may not
have been sacrificed in vain.
In memory untarnished we ever shall
cherish
This hero v no slumbers now oyer the
sea;
III pun bAiC Sltdl pllNC lIldl l1idulS
should perish
And everywhere men from oppression
be free.
Private Orem Ray Epgle was the
only son of Mr.. and Mrs. George w.
Engle of 1916 Milford Avenue. Balti-
more, Md, and is survived by his par
ents and two sisters. Misses Flora and
| Olive Engle, of Baltimore, and an aged
grandmother, who residss in this ham.
let. Private Engle was born and reared
in this community, and was a most ex-
emplarY young man, esteemed by all
for most excellent traits of character.
He was faithful and dutiful son and
pursued his manly way on his grand
fathers farm, living clean, Christian
and Industrious life, winning the adm-
ration and goodwill of all with whom he
came in contact until he was called to
his country's service, when he cheer
fully responded. thus fulfilling all the
noble duties of manhood in both public
and private service.
Mrs. Melchor Hetrick spent part of
last week visiting relatives near Oak
land and IN the vicinity of Mountain
Lake Park.
Joseph Bowser has purchased the
John 8. Hartman farm near this village
and will take possession of his new
home in the near future
Miss Flora Engle, of Baltimore, was
here part of last week with her grand
mother.
Mckinley Harman, who has been con-
! fined to his bed for some weeks by an
attack of typhoid fever, is reported as
rapidly improving.
The strongest evidence of an abund-
ant apple crop in this continuity is
found in the nightly noises produced by
too free imbblng of hard cider.
A party of neighbors met last Satur-
day afternoon and INDUCED in an old
fashioned wood cutting bee" which re-
suited in the stacking of a supply of
stove wood in the yard at Mrs. Patter-
son Engle's home.
Private Arthur Resi-, of Camp Meade,
spent last Sunday with his parents near
here. returning to camp Sunday even
ing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-11-14
JURORS FOR DECEMBER
Were Drawn Saturday by Judge
Robert r. Henderson

Last Saturday Judge Robert R. Hen
derson motored to Oakland from his
home IN Cumberland and in the presence
of the members of the local bar drew
from the jury box the names of those
who are to serve as jurors at the De-
cember Term OF the Circuit Court for
Garrett county, with Mr.. Charles A.
Bender of .Grantsville, as foreman of
the grand jury.
The names drawn by the Court are as
follows:
William +. Queer, James H. Fike,
Thompson P. Gilpin, Andrew j. Alex
ander, Bruce Friend, Courtney Wilson,
Dorsey l.. Ashby, Orvllle G. Stark,
Webster W. Frost, Artemus W Beachy,
W. h. o Brien, George B. Pew, Harry
F. Speicher, Roy E. Moon, Franklin ].
Bowser, Thomas A. McRobie, Lewis
Smearmaa, Marshall H. Lohr, Floyd L.
Wensell, George c. Mckenzie. John C.
Riley, William F. Montgomery, Charles
Miller, James A. Amman, William B.
Sweet. Alfred B. Mason, Charles A.
Bender, John W. McCulloua h. John D.
&. Spiker. Russell A, Price. Robert L.
Fries, Samuel B. Brydon, Richard H.
West. Enoch o. Robson. David 0. De-
Witt, Isaac N. WEIGH, jeremiah G. Up
ole, Wallace A. Junkins, William A.
Hauser, Ohio S. Fike, Lloyd F. Bren-
Immediately after drawing the iury
Judge Henderson heard and determined
the case in the matter of the tax sale
of the Dennet Hotel, sold some months
ago to Messrs. Thomas A. Gender and
Bowie johnson for the taxes due and
unpaid for certain years. Later a ten
der OF the money covering the taxes,
interests and costs was rendered the
purchasers by duly authorized agent
OF the owners, but which was refused.
In the meantime the property was sold
by the original owners to DR.. T. D.
Richards and his brother and to get
title and possession the suit was dock
eted and tried as above stated. The
court rendered decision in favor of
DR.. Richards.
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THE DEATH RECORD.
THOMAS HARNE

Thomas Harne, aged three, died
at his home in Cumberland last Friday
of pneumonia, superinduced by an at
tack of influenza. The deceased was
resident of Oakland for many years,
having recently moved to Cumberland.
His remains were brought to Oakland
Sunday afternoon and inferred.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-11-14

working was very soft and instead of
the shrapnel flying over large area. as
it usually does, the shell sunk deep into
the ground before bursting and could
not spread. On the whole We consider
ourselves the most fortunate bunch that
ever put over job of that kind. We
completed it at six o'clock, having had
but one casual and his wound was not
serious.
"You will probably agree that we de-
served good supper, which awaited US
at camp after our hike of six miles back
especially since we had not eaten since
six in the morning. Also you may
agree that this day of rest which we
are enjoying, is really coming to me.
"Our camp is now on the side of hill
and American and French artillery is all
around US. This time it is the larger
guns and they surely do make it tough
for poor engineer who would like to
sleep at night after hard and danger
Gus days work.
Hardly day passes that we do not
see a couple of balloons or an aeroplane
brought down. A German aviator will
succeed in crossing our lines and make
for one of our observation balloons.
Three times in the past week l have
seen them succeed in setting fire to a
balloon, but each time the observer has
come safely to the ground in his para
chute and each time the Boche aviator
has paid with his life as we'll as the loss
of his aeroplane.
Lots of love,