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The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
NAMES BOND
 SLACKERS ARE
 BEING PRINTED

SEATTLE. Sept. 29.-The following telegram has been received from the war department at San Francisco, dated September 2S. by direction:
 The same arrangements as applied to the Third Liberty loan campaign will apply to the Fourth loan.
 AS a feature of the Fourth Liberty lean campaign ten fighting teams are to be named after counties in the dis trict making the highest record ot over-subsCription.
 One will be named after the high est Alaska county. and one after the second highest county of the district. Signed, Van Smith"
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
Soldiers Vote of
 New York Will
 Not Be Counted

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-Because the. constant movement of the armies in Europe will make it impracticabls, to obtain the soldiers votes, the war department has declined to permit the state of New York to send a commis- sion abroad to take the votes Of the New York soldiers.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
President Urges
 Passage of Equal
 Rights Resolution

WASHINGTON, Sept Presi- dent Wilson has stepped into the breach in the senate fight on t.c woman suffrage question.
 Beside personally addressing the scnat" today on the subject he asked the passage of the resolution as d war measure.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
Price of Corn
 Breaks Sharply
 on Peace Rurnors

CHICAGO. Sept 3D. Sensational breaks in the value of corn occurred today as bulletin came which the traders inferred to mean the begin ming of the end of the war
 Corn dropped 7h cents bushel.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
German Foreign
 Secretary Resigns

AMSTERDAM. Sept. 30.-lt is re ported that the German foreign sccre- tary. Von Hiyze, has resigned. The rumor persists that Chancellor Non Hcrtling also has resigned.
 Kaiser Wilhelm has accepted the resignations of Non Hertling and Non Hint2e. according to the Berlin Zei- tung Om Mittag.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
U. 5. 5. Minnesota
 Now on Drydock

WASHINGTON, Sept. @o.-The United States battleship Minnesota, which struck n mine off the Atlantic coast. has arrived safely in port and is now in drydock. The number ot casualties is unknown.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
Bulgarian King
 on Way to Vienna

PARIS. Sept 30,-King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is expected to reach Vii enna soon His two daughters already have arrived
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
Publishing Names of Slackers

TuUTTsH7Tg TF"T7Te0 0T
 PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 3O.-Ihe Liberty loan bond committee is pub fishing the names of well-to-do persons who are considered to be slackers be- cause they do not buy bonds or do not buy as much as they can afford.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
Five Battles Simultaneously in Progress


 Five Battles Simultaneously in Progress
 PARIS Sept 3O.-Gencra Foch is fighting five battles simultaneously and successfully feat unparalleled m the hs rv of warfare Each battle is timed and placed that each army supports anoter all forming indispensable part of tIlc whole cortS all trying down the Germans. IL believed the Germans will soon withdraw to the Ant N"rp- Metz line The Germans still fighting well.
 Fighting Resumed in Champagne
 An official statement issued this morning that the French drive in Champagne resumed with an attack at break this morning. The Germans south of St Quentin attacked the French effort to recapure Hill SS but they repulsed.
 Breaking Up the Hindenburg Line
 The Begians close Rouers and the British marching up the ys will oufank Lille. The Siegred line is breaking points, namely, Cambrai and St Quentin. Le Cataet, the central pillar of the nenbug line is outfanked and the French driving the north the Chcmn des Danes
 An Indication of Allied Progress
 The progress the allied in breaking the hold of the Ger invader upon French territory shown by the fact that longer there French departments entirely occupied by enemy This situation has been established by the capture of four commnes of the department of Arcnnes.
 British and BelgiGns Make Important Advance
 LONDON, Sept. 3O-The British north of S. Quentin have smashed the dcnburg line depth of two miles trent of more than eight miles.
 The British and BelanS attacking in Flanders advanced maximum depth of eight miles Saturday and captured more than thousand prisoners and two hundred guns They threatening Rouers and the entire German system of municatons in Belgium and Flanders.
 Advance Cambra Continued
 General Iag reports that the British Americans and Aus raians continued their advance Cambra yesterday Four thousand prisoners and forty guns were captured
 French on the Chemins des Danes
 LONDON Sept 3O.-Pushing the Germans hard along the north of Aisne the French have reached the Disc Asne canal and progressing along the Chemn des Dames The enemy is retreating behind the Aiette.
 British Meet with Slight Reverses
 An official statement that northwest of L Caelet the
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30

forced the British back the outskirts of NlllerS GusIan To the southwest of M Catce similar pressure sent
 British back Bony village Southwest of Douai the Brit i~h have withdrawn from ArcuX Aubcncrul and Aubac.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
Cambrai at Mercy of British

The British have the ndcrburg line along eight mile and penetrated through depth of thre" miles
 fIankng operations about St. Quentin The German nuncaons in this under such intense fire that It
 impossible for them get quantity of materials m The British in hurry clear the situation around (ambi and may be three or four days before they actually take the The Germans there also ruined and thcy bring in help bring out much nrial
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
ALASKA STOC-

NEW YORK, Sept. Gold, 3%; Alaska Juneau,
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
FIVE SEPARATE BATTLES NOW
 BEING WAGED BY THE ALLIES

ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR SUMMARI.-The Bugar ian armistice first break in the Teutonc alliance It is officially reported that the allies include the de mobilization the Bulgarian any and the retirement of the i'urarans from allied soil.
 Berlin iS off from communication with Consantl
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-30
Heavy Fighting in Flanders


 HANRE Sept. BOA Belgian official statement says the Begians and British have defeated the Germans ill heavy gh ing Flanders ridge and the Mcssines ytscaete ridge"
 Laborious and Dreary Occupation of Americans AMERICAN HEADQl ARTERS, Sept. 30,-Fyhtn9 along the front northwest of Nerm has settled down to dreary business which machine guns have reduced mod warfare The progress made big measured by the aboI reduction of small points held by small groups
 Americans Advance in Face of Great Difficulties WITH THE AMERICANS Northwest of NerIun.- -OVrr hills swept by artillery and machine gun fire and through the lowlands and woods often filled with suf"catmg Americans have crowded slightly forward between tn" Mouse and the Ar,enncs forest
 Bugarans Still Retiring
 LONDON, Sept 3OAn official statement says tn" Serb an in Macedonia have captured the city of C"rv", mor Bulgarian base with hundred prisoners and twenty As result of the heavy fighting east of Nc"s the 'uI garians have retired,
 Doughty Mackensen to the Rescue
 British cavalry operating in Bulgaria. and Al' preaching Pctrch where they will the communications be and Sofia Allied Armen bombing the BuI and Austrian magazines and stores only fifty miles in air line from Sofia
 It is reported that Field Marshal Von Mackensen has rived at Sofia huryng Germans divisions souhward to help the Rugaran and Austrans strengthen the defensive works at Nish
 Italians Pursuing Bugarans in Macedonia
 ROME Sept. 30-The Italians the western wing of the allied advance in Macedonia Sunday continued to the Buarans rereang toward Uskub along the etovo river
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Bulgarians Still Retiring

LONDON, Sept. 3O.-An of ians in Macedonia have capture tant Bulgarian base, with seven guns. As result of the heavy warianS have retired.
Evening star., 1918-02-17
EARLY HISTORY OF SUGAR

and in some in very large proportion.
The American Indians, before the COM
ing of the whites, were familiar with
the sugary sap of the maple. The ex-
traction of sugar from beets and the
making of excellent. sirups from the
starch of corn are industries that have
of late years been developed to great
proportions. 1t is said that in the corn
sirup industry 50,000,000 bushels OF
American corn are used each year, and
from this corn 100000 tons of corn
sirup are obtained. which is used by
confectioners, Gamers and preservers,
and which also finds extensive and
growing use on the table.
1t has been written that over 1000
years ago the Japanese made sirup from
the starch of barley. and it is related
that during the Napoleonic era, when
sugar was desperately needed in
France, it was made from the starch Of
potatoes.
Some time ago the United States con-
sui at Turin, Italy, reported to the De-
partment of Commerce that because OF
the great scarcity of sugar in that dis
trict attention was drawn to the sweet
ening methods used during the sugar
famine of 1796-1S00, when a sirup was
made from grapes. Not long ago the
Italian government prohibited the use
of sugar in sweetening wines. and il
was said that grape sirup would be
substituted.
Evening star., 1918-02-17

007H1LE the knowledge OF sugar
NAV and its uses is no new thing,
w the almost universal use
of sugar, and especially of white sugar
as human food is a relatively new de-
yelopment and the tremendous CROWN
of the sugar-using habit is one OF the
maryels of the years. The use of sugar
in the far east goes back before the
beginning of recorded history Inc
classic writer's of Greece have made the
world acquainted with the use Of sugar
by the people of India
1t is to the natives of India that
credit is given by the earliest writers
now known to the world for the discov-
erv of the sweet juice of the cane, which
many of the Greeks called DOC.
According to Seneca, a honey bearing
reed was to be found IN mora, anu
TheophraStes wrote that the people OF
India ate a honey which they obtained
from the bamboo. The translators make
Pliny use an equivalent for the Woro
sugar, wherein he says that the sugar
of India is more renowned than thdt oi
Arabia. Sugar in the earliest Gays ;e
not used to sweeten food, nor was
looked on as food itself. II was useo
for the purpose of making certaln
medicines palatAble and was itset con-
sidered a medicine TO winch ihaaS
tues were ascribed.
The Greeks and the Romans esteemed
honey as a sweetmeat and gave very
little heed to sugar. But as the centu-
ries rolled by the taste for sugar grew
among the people of the far east ana
in Arabia and Mesopotamia- AT the
time of the Crusades. and. OF course.
before the first crusade, there were
crude sugar mills in operation IN Meso-
potamia, and the Crusaders acquired
taste for sugar and carried the sweet
stuff back to Europe. Its fame spread
fast and a trade in sugar sprang up
between the countries of Europe and
the warm lands of the orient. Venice
became the port of sugar distribution
for Europe The Venetian ships brought
in the sugar and then in the rude, lum.
bering caravans of that time 1t started
on its journey for many parts of the
European continent. The planting OF
sugar cane was extended to Sicily, Ma
deira, the CanarieS and then, on large
scale, sugar plantations were set out by
Portugal in it's colony of Brazil. The
Jesuits introduced cane growing and
sugar making into Santo Domingo and
it is to priests of this order that the
introduction of sugar growing in Louis
lana late in the seventeenth century Ii
ascribed. -.
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boy of Potsdam-he's his great-grandS
son, or his great-grandnephew, or his
great-grand- nd-God-knowS-what! b t .
anyhow, what do you suppose he said
about him? He actually had the face
to tell me that Willie was the greatest
soldier the world has known since him
self. Greatest warrior since me. says
he. Why stop at your says /. Why
not the greatest soldier since Samson
and Uncle Josh?'
"Uncle which," said Napoleon.
scratching his head perplexidly, as
though the name were not familiar to
him.
Uncle JOSH" said Caesar. You
know the chap mean-the Jericho guy
Joshua -doa't you remember? With
his cornet Stunt?"
"Oh.-ah-yes," said Napoleon. Il
do remember that But, to tell the
truth. I hadn't really thought of that
as military operation. 1t struck me
rather as bit of musical virtuosity.
that would have appealed more strong
ly to Wagner than to the Duke of Marl-
borough, and I had always. conse-
quently, thought of Josh as a cornet
player rather than as a soldier. But
what did Frederick say to that"'
He actually had the nerve to say
that none of US fellows who followed
Evening star., 1918-02-17
Hunbug.

THE -bolsheviki peace wran-
Il giles led Morris Hillquit, the mil
lionaire socialist. to say in a Cooper
Union debate:
The boisheviki have found out what
German pacifist promises are worth.
When the German militaristic autoc-
racy talks democracy and peace, it's q
good deal like the case of Lush. That
is. it's humbug.
Lush was wondering one evening IL
there was anything he could swear or
from in celebration of the new year.
His wife said:
Swear OF bad language. being late
at the Office. playing poker. frequenting
Hogan's saloon, borrowing
Here. hold on grumbled Lush. One
thing at a time. Suppose ! swear on
Hogan's for 1918? viii that content
your
TT certainly WILL said Mrs. Lush.
if you mean it.
"T mean it, said Lush.
"'And you won't go near HoGAAse
once in 1887
NO. WON'T said Lush. Thav eHu
me that ,Ranertxs stu6iassvas aeinDcA
0tAA &AA - - ~. 49,
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that's where you make big mistake.
I am already an experienced hand at
going on the opera When I was by
Old Man Baum we had a customer by
the name Harris Feinsilver. which II
you only got him started on how he
heard Jennie Lind at what is now the
aquarium in Battery Park somewheres
around 1852. y'understand, you could
sell him every sticker in the place.
and him and me went often on the
opera together. In fact, I got SO that
I didn't mind it at all. and that's how
1 become acquainted. with the differ
eut grades of singers which works by
grand opera Take. for instance. So
pranos and they come in two classes.
There is the soprano which hoI1ers mur-
der. police and they call her dra-
matte soprano. And then again there
is the soprano which gargles. That
is a coloratura soprano"
"And people is paying $40 "a orches-
ira seat to hear woman gargfeS' Nor
ris exclaimed.
"of course. I don't say she actually
gargIes, y'understand." Abe explained.
anyhow not all the time. Mawruss.
Once in a while she sings a song which
has got quite a tune in it pretty near
up to the end, and then she carries on
something terrible anywheres from two
to eight minutes till the feller that
runs the orchestra couldn't stand it no
longer, and he gives them the signal
they should drown her out"
L should think he would get to know
when it is coming on her and drown
her out before she starts" Morris said.
What do you mean-drown her out
before she starts?" Abe continued.
That's what she gets paid for-carry-
ing on in such a manner, and them peo-
pie up in the top gallery goes crazy
over it,
Then why don't the fe1ler which runs
the orchestra let her keep it up:' Nor
ris asked.
"a question:" Abe said. 'fThere is
from forty to fifty men working in the
orchestra, and If the feller which runs
it let them top gallery people have
their way it would cost him fortune
for overtime for them fellers that
plays the fiddles alone"
He should arrange wage scale ac-
ccrdingly," Morris said. because it
don't make no difference if it's the gar
ment business or the grand opera busi-
ness. Abe, the customer should ought
to come first"
'I always felt that got my moneys $
worth. Mawrrss." Abe said. TN par
ticular when it come to one of them
operas with coloratura soprano in 1t.
understand. it seemed to me they
could of cut down on the working time
without hurting the quality Of the
goods in the slightest. There's always
a good fifteen minutes wasted in such
OPERAS where a feller in the orchestra
plays a little something on the flute
Evening star., 1918-02-17

seems to have on them Is that they
yell: Down with the bossesr and they
insist on a closed shop and that the
terms OF the protocol should be lived
up to.
~This gets caruso crazy. He grabs
his vest with both hands and makes
one last big appeal, y'understand. in
which he tells them that the delegates
is sta1ling and that they are being
made suckers of. and that If it would
be the last word he would ever speak.
tho sensible thing is for them TO go
risht back to work and leave it to ar
bitration by joint board consisting
of the president of the Manufacturers'
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and tho coloratura soprano sings the
Same music on the stage-the tdee be-
ing to show that you couldn't tell the
difference between tho fe1ler playing
the flute and the coloratura soprano
except the feller playing the flute has
all his clothes on. Then. again. dur
ing the deathbed scene in the last act.
they kill a whole lot Of time Also"
DO you, mean to say there's death
bed scene in every one OF fthem-operas?
Morris inquired.
Practically" Abe replied "There
amt many grand operas where both
the tenor and the soprano .stfcks1t out
alive till the end of the last act, Nav
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chautauqua tent to live in, all hung with
filagreed brass lamps, and parlor rugs
galore, and feeding on fried hasheesh
morning. noon and night why one OF
my Roman legions could have handled
pny two dozen Xerxes' best armies with
it's left hand, and needn't have been
much more than carpet beaters at that
And as for those Greeks and TroJans,
Achilles and Hector and Priam and
the rest of that nightgown outf1t-the
best you can say for them is that they
were nothing but a lot of neurological
boobs and homeric lunkheads."
Sure they were," said Napoleon. I'm
with you there. I always have a fit when
! read about that Trojan horse. The idea
that anybody could find room inside OF a
horse for more than enough soldiers to
less an empire, gives me pain. And as
for that old piker Achilles, held up for
ages as a hero-wby. julie. he's joke,
just a plain, every day. common garden
bit Of laugh"
"Oh, don't know. Nappy!' said
Caesar. 'T know Ach pretty well. and
nobody can deny that he's brave
laddie."
'Brave"' sneered Napoleon. ''Why
shouldn't he be brave? Who wouldn't
be brave if he had hole-p proof skin
If my mother had dropped me in the
waters OF the Styx when l was baby
and thus provided me with an armor-
plated veneer that nothing under the
heavens could penetrate. I'd have spent
that whole day at Arcola running to
and fro across that bridge just fof eX-
ercise and the pleasure Of seeing the bull
let's bounce of my cuticle. Brave?.
notice the old boy passed out from shot
in his heel, which proves just two things
to me-irst. that he wasn't running
toward the front at the time, and, Sec
ond, that his heart must have been in his
boots or the shot wouldn't have killed
him"
"Ah, well." said Caesar, with a sigh.
'It matters not what warfare was before
me. or what 1t degenerated into after me.
until you came and restored it to its
pedestal in the esteem of the world. It is
what is viewed in the light Of warfare
today that I hate tC think. about. All the
poetry. all the rich romance of chivalrous
adventure, seems to have been taken out
of it."
II fear me so." said Napoleon '"rhere
is evidence of 1t everywhere. 1t not on'J
produces no great poetry of its own, but
it makes ridiculous the poetry Of the past.
schoolboy would dare recite that immor-
tai poem now, with all the meaning taken
out of it by modern methods, with Gen.
Slaves working a hundred miles away
while the battle RACES? Twenty miles
away? Why says your schoolboy, liz
that am Hindenburgs generally ninety
miles aNay.'iWhy shouldn't, Sheridan hay0
been twenty miles, away. II 1T sis all right
for q general Sta6 to b 6ttinE in q deli.
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russ. Tenors in particular is awful
risks, Mawruss. which l. bet yer that
so per cent of the times seen Caruso
he either passed away along about
quarter past eleven after an awful hard
spell Of singing or give you the i'm
preston that he wasn't going to sur
vtve the soprano more than couple OF
days at the outside"
And yet some people couldn't under
stand why everybody takes in the mu-
sical comedies" Morris commented.
"Of course, don't say that the audi
ence suffers as much as if it was in the
English language. but even when
lady dies in French or italian couldn't
enjoy it neither" Abe said
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The GRAND Opera Business p

1T seems to me. Abe, that q fef1er
which goes often on grand opera is
lucky IL he understands only English"
Morris observed.
That's what you would naturally
think, Mawruss," Abe agreed, -and yet
there Is people which is SO anxious that
they shouldn't miss none Of the tenor's
last words that they actually go to
work and buy for Is cents in the lobby
a translation Of the italian operas.
which got stung that way only once.
because to follow from the English
TRANSLATION what the singers is saying
on the stage in Italian. Mawruss,
fe1ler could be a combination OF
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| AS to War and Warriors

doom. At any rate. nobody can undo
those deeds
''Oh. perhaps not" replied Caesar, rue
fully. But, you see. I took some pride
in my profession, Boney. In my day
a general was a general, not a sort of
glorified absentee floor walker who sat
in steam-heated, cozy corner 500 miles
from the front, slipping denatured
Wurzburger and smoking gold-tpped
cigarettes while his soldiers dug sub
ways all through the enemy territory
and delivered the goods by means of
artillery planted in a violet patch
seventeen miles from the fighting line.
We fighters used to fight. not sit of to
one side like a lot of directors in a
corporation trying to put through big
business deal"
Napoleon laughed heartily.
What's started this bilious attack OF
yours, Juley?" he asked. You ought
to be glad of the way they are doing
things these days, old man. There's no
infringement of our copyright. and.
moreover, they leave us in class by
ourselves. What we did we did with
our hands, and everybody knows it and
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your little hunnyboy, Bill of Potsdan
or is it Potz of Billdam? Is it true that
you are cracking him up as a real SOL
dier?"
Most decidedly yes" said Frederick.
And why not? He iss the greatest st
the inventor of the stupendous thing
war hass become. The Zeppelin
Nothing new" said Caesar. The
Greeks had their harpies."
Veil, then, the submarine be-
gan Frederick.
NONSENSE. said Napoleon. Jonah
had one
"Ah-but camou1age-" said Fred
erick. :,
"Don't forget the Trojan horse"
smiled Washington.
"Vell, now aboud the sixty-centimeter
gun with the range of twenty-five
miles, said Frederick.
"An old idea" said Caesar. Jupiter
beat Krupp to it with his thunderbolts."
Frederick scratched his head as II a
trifle baff1ed-
"Ach;" he cried, triumphantly, the
trench"