davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-09-26
serbians Great Walkers.

All Serbian peasants are great walk
ers. A servant, given short leave,
will think nothing of footing it to his
home, five and twenty miles off, and
walking back after a short day spent
with his family.
1t is quite in the ordinary way of
their business for both men and women
to be two days on the road to market.
Owing to their remarkable march
ing powers Serbian troops are mobil-
lied and moved with surprising rapid
ity. In spite of the great lack Of rail-
way communication. And then they
march light.
With little in the bread-bag that
hangs at his belt the Serbian soldier
is quite content IL only he can roll
himself a cigarette now and then and
look forward perhaps to tot of plum
cognac.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-09-26
MOVING pictures for the Home.

A comparatively inexpensive combi-
nation moving-picture camera and pro-
jector for amateur use is illustrated In
Popular Mechanics Magazine. 1t
bears about the same relation to the
costly and heavy professional ma
chimes as a compact, light camera does
to cumbersome apparatus employed
by portrait photographers. Exclusive
of its tripod, the new movie camera
weighs less than three and half
pounds. 1t uses standard film and is
operated as easily as any simple "still'
instrument. The capacity of its maya
zines, designed for daylight loading, Is
twenty feet, which, because eight In
stead of sixteen pictures are taken per
second, records as much action as
forty feet of film in a professional ma
chine. Sharp, clear pictures capable
Of reasonable enlargement for stills"
are obtained. BY changing the lens at
taching a light frame with reels of
200-foot capacity, and mounting a
small, cylindrical lamphouse, the cam
era is converted into protector.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-09-26
Too Many Servants In Britain.

Duncan Miller asked the minister Of
national service, says the London
Times, whether his attention has been
called to the number of advertisements
for servants In households Of one, two
or three persons, where seven to ten
indoor servants are already kept, and
whether he proposes to limit the num-
Der of indoor servants employed In
each household. The minister of ma
tional service replied that he had al
ready pointed out how essential 1t is,
In the national interest, that no per-
son should employ more servants than
are absolutely necessary. The min
lister trusts that the awakened con-
sciences Of those who have in this
respect failed to appreciate their duty
will provide an immediate and sum-
cient remedy. II not, he win tell his
plan in the general statement on man
power.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-09-26
PLEASANT WAY ALWAYS BEST
Nothing Ever Lost by Effort to Take
Sting Out Of Request That Must
Be Refused.

Do you know how to take the sting
out of anything unpleasant you have
to do? 1t Is a good plan to learn how
to do this.
"She said she couldn't do ii, but you
know how Fife would say such.a thing.
She tries so hard to make everybody
feel pleasant. Now, when / say no,
people understand that / mean no."
Marcia looked as well pleased with
herself as If she had announced more
amiable characteristic. She was girl
with a peculiarly blunt and uncom-
promising manner. If she refused a re-
quest, her refusal was as downright as
a blow. 1t was never softened by any
little phrase suggesting regret. And
Marcia was so well satisfied with her
self that she felt something like con-
tempt for the way Effie took the sting
out of saying no, and made the people
to whom she refused favor as CRATE
full as If she had granted 1t.
The girl who starts to go through
life with her elbows out Is going to
find the road har' to travel. If she
prides herself on being blunt and out
spoken, she may reed to use that as
consolation for her sore heart many a
time. 1t pays to make even refusal
pleasant. 1t pays to take out the sting
whenever possible. and drop in the
honey. One who starts out as Marcia
did, priding herself on being blunt, and
cOntemDtuOuS of the little cOurteSieS
is likely to come to old age friendless
and embittered. Learn to be pleasant
and take out the sting.-Exchange.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-09-26

The Fat Customer want half Q
dozen collars, please.
The Clerk-What sizef
The #. C.-Thirteen and a half.
The Clerk-Surely you must take a
larger collar than that. What size
shirt do you wear?
The f. C.-Sixteen.
The Clerk-Then why do You wish
such small collar?
The f. C.-Why, confound ye, I'm
buying them for my boyi
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-09-26
upIIft Of Coyote.

The despised coyote has lived to see
the day when his pelt is sought in the
fur markets of the world as one Of
the prizes of the trapper's pack. The
skin of the prairie wolf today brings
a price up to SIS, according to the
quotations In the fur buyers list. Up
till last year this fur was drug on
the market.-Dawson News.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-09-26
All Male Inhabitants Shot.

"a shell burst near the Eleventh
company, and wounded seven men,
three very severely. At Ave o'clock we
were ordered by the officer In COM
mand of the regiment to shoot all the
male inhabitants of Nomeny. because
the population was foolishly attempt
ing to stay the advance of the German
troops by force of arms. We broke into
the houses. and seized all who resisted,
in order to execute them according to
martial law. The houses which had
not been already destroyed by thu
French artillery and our own were set
on fire by US, so that nearly the whole
town was reduced to ashes. 1t Is ter
rible sight when helpless women and
children, utterly destitute. are herded
together and driven into France"
(From the diary of Private Fischer,
Eighth Bavarian regiment of infantry,
Thirty-third reserve division.)
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-09-26

wide areas of Belgium and France Ia
which not a penny's worth of wanton
destruction had been permitted to oc-
cur. In which the ripe pears hung I'M
touched upon the garden walls and
saw other wide areas where scarcely
one stone had been left to stand upon
another; where the fields were raw
aged; where the male villagers had
been shot in squads where the miser-
able survivors had been left to den in
holes, like wild beasts"
Even Soldiers Mortified.
Some German soldiers, we are glad
to see, showed their horror at the foul
deeds committed In Belgium.
"The inhabitants have fed In the vii
lage. 1t was horrible. There was clot-
ted blood on all the boards. and what
faces one saw, terrible to behold The
dead, 60 in all, were at once buried.
Among them were many old women,
woman, awful to see; three children
had clasped each other, and died thus.
The altar and the vaults Of the church
are shattered. They had telephone
there to communicate with the enemy.
This morning, September 2, all the sur
little boys carrying a cradle, with a
baby five or six months old In it, on
two sticks. All this was terrible to
see. Shot after shot Thunderbolt
after thunderbolt Everything Is given
over to pillage; fowls and the rest all
killed. saw mother, too, with her
two children; one had great wound
on the head and had lost an eye
(From the diary of Lance Corporal
Paul Spielman of the Ersatz, first bril-
gade Of Infantry of the Guard.)
In the night the inhabitants
of Liege became mutinous. Forty per-
sons were shot and Is houses demol-
ished. 10 soldiers shot. The sights here
make you cry.
"On the 23rd Of August everything
quiet. The inhabitants have so far
given in. Seventy students were shot,
200 kept prisoners. Inhabitants re-
turning to Liege.
august "a. At noon with SO men on
sentry duty. Sentry duty is A 1. no post
allocated to me. Our occupation, apart
from bathing is eating and drinking.
We live like God in Belgium" (From
the diary of Joh van der School, re-
servist Of the Tenth company, Thirty.
ninth reserve infantry regiment, Sew
enth reserve army corps)
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-09-26
behaved Like vandals."


august II. In the afternoon / had
a look at the little chateau belonging
to one Of the kings secretaries (not at
home). Our men had behaved like
regular vandals. They had looted the
cellar first. and then they had turned
their attention to the bedrooms and
thrown things about all over the place
They had even made fruitless efforts
to smash the safe open. Everything
was topsy-turvy-magnificent furni-
ture, silk, and even china. That's what
happens when the men are allowed to
requisition for themselves. l am sure
they must have taken away heap of
useless stuff simply for the pleasure of
looting."
august 9th crossed frontier. Inhab-
itants on border very good to us and
give us many things. There is no diff
ference noticeable.
August 23rd, Sunday (between Bir-
nal and Dinant, village of Disonge).
AT IL o'clock the order comes to ad.
vance after the artillery has thorough
mp prepared the ground ahead. The
Pioneers and Infantry regiment IT'S
were marching In front of us. Near
a small village the latter were fired on
by the inhabitants. About 900 inhab-
itants were shot and the village was
burnt-artillery is continuously shoot
ing-the village lies in large ravine
Just now, six o'clock in the afternoon
the crossing Of the Mas begins near
iDinant All villages chateaux
and houses are burnt down during this
night. 1t was beautiful sight to see
the fires all round us In the distance.
August 24.-In every village one
finds only heaps of ruins and many
dead" From the diary of Matbern
Fourth company, Eleventh jaeger bat
talon, Marburg.)
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
CALL $50 900 MEN FOR DUTY
Second Increment Of Great Draft Army
Has Orders to Report at
Camp April rs

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. inauguratet
her second year Of the great war with
q call to service Of 10000 men.
Orders were sent out by the provost
marshal general to every state asking
their quotas be ready to move to camp
between April rs and May 1. The call
includes 116,700 whites and $4,000 ne,
groes-the largest single draft mobilt
sation of the war.
The call laid grim phases upon Pres,
ident Wilson's address in Baltimore
when he answered in kind Germany's
threat of peace by force. The order
practically winds up the first draft
in all states, including the South,
where the movement of negroes has
been delayed until warmer weather
And 1t fixes in April a stirring answer
to the French and British appeal fol
more men. Between March ~ and
May / Just 263,13O men will have re
sponded to the service call.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
His Righteous Wrath.

II received compliment yesterday
In which did not thank the giver,"
grumbled old Festus Poster. "a total
stranger wrote me letter and ad-
dressed me as the Hon. ! do not
know why he should have applied that
epithet to me, unless 1t was because he
did not know me. feel safe in saying
that even my enemies would not
charge me with having many Of the
characteristics of an Hon. / tim not
fawning, Sinking blatherskite, too
lazy to work, nor am I liar and dead
beat. 1t may be that ! have one at
tribute of an Hon.-very likely I am
a bore, but beyond that | am not
guilty."-Kansas City Star.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12

Building-up for the Spring Attack at
the Front Ia good deal like putting
the body In condition for an invasion
Of the germs of grip, pneumonia or
"Spring fever" here at home.
At this time Of the year most people
suffer from condition often called
Spring Fever. They feel tired, worn
out. before the day IL half thru. They
may have frequent headaches and
sometimes "pimply" or pale skin and
white lips. The reason for this Is that
during the wintertime. shut up with
In doors, eating too much meat and
too little green vegetables, one heaps
fuel into the system which Is not burned
up and the clinkers remain to poison
the system-a clogging up Of the circu.
lati0n-with inactive liver and kidneya
Time to put your house In order.
For an invigorating tonic which win
clarity the blood, put new life in inc
body. sparkle to the eyes, and q
wholesome skin, nothing does so well
as a glyceric herb extract made from
Golden Seal root, Blood and Stone
root, Oregon grape root and Wild
Cherry bark. This can be had In con-
venient, ready-to-use tablet form at all
drug stores, sixty cents, and has been
sold for the past fifty years as DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. By
reason Of the nerves feeding on the
blood, when the blood is pure the
nerves feel the effect, and neuralgia or
other nerve pains disappear because
such pain Is the cry Of the starved
nerves for food. When suffering from
backache, frequent or scanty urine,
rheumatic pains here or there, or tina:
constant tired feeling. the simple way
to overcome these disorders Is merely
to obtain DR.. Pierce's Anuric from
your druggist. In tablets. sixty cents.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
Lemons Whiten and
Beauty the Skin!
Make Cheap Lotion

The Juice Of two fresh lemons strain
ed into bottle containing three ounces
Of orchard white makes a whole quar-
ter pint Of the most remarkable lemon
skin beautifier at about the cost one
must pay for small Jar Of the ordi-
nary cold creams. Care should be tax
en- to strain the lemon Juice through o
fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets In.
then this lotion will keep fresh for
months. Every woman knows that lem
on juice is used to bleach and remove
such blemishes as freckles, sallowness
and tan and is the ideal skin softener,
smoothener and beautifer.
Just try 1t Make up quarter pint
Of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion
and massage 1t daily into the face,
neck, arms and hands. 1t should natur-
ally help to whiten. soften, freshen and
bring out the hidden roses and beauty
Of any skin. 1t is wonderful for rough,
red hands.
Your druggist will sell three ounces
Of orchard white at little cost, and any
grocer will supply the lemons. Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
The Safest Guide.

The much-praised optimist, although
to be admired. is not safe guide. He
tells us all is well. when 1t Is not.
He fails to see the pitfalls and urges
us forward and we fall into them.
Likewise the pessimist, although
Stunned and berated, leads US to be
over cautious. Under his influence we
hopelessly sit down for fear we will
fall into the pit, when there is none.
The cautious leader who watches,
waits, and withal is patient expecting
the werld tc move forward. is always
most trustworthy.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
w ELL PUT.

"Down with the liquor traffic, and
up with the liquor dealer" is the pur-
pose that animates the men and wor-
en- who are working for prohibition,
says the Union Signal. In all their
holy war they keep in mind not only
the salvation of the men who have
been or may be tempted by liquor but
the redemption as well Of individuals
engaged In the trade by forcing them
by law to engage In some business that
will permit them to recover their self
respect and earn clean money. The
attention Of those misinformed people
who waste sympathy on the poor
liquor dealer whose business prohibi-
ton is supposed to destroy should be
directed to some Of the many enter
prises that are taking the place Of the
old breweries and distilleries.
Especially notable is the success Of
the former Coors Brewery Of Colorado.
As a beer factory 1t had capital Of
$4,000; as a manufacturer of matted
milk and pottery, it enjoys trade Of
$150000. 1t formerly had one sales
man where now 1t keeps twenty-eight
busy. 1t had payroll Of eighty, and
now has one Of 200, all receiving
25 per cent better pay. 1t would not
be difficult to multiply similar in
stances in other prohibition states.
Be assured that every one who helps
to secure for the state or the nation
the adoption Of prohibition, thereby
forcing the liquor dealers to seek a
decent and more lucrative means Of
livelihood, is placing them under a
debt of eternal gratitude.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
WILSON ACCEPTS
Def OF GERMANY
PRESIDENT SPEAKS At sALTI
MoREs on Anniversary or !
AMERlcRs ENTRY IN WAN.
USE FORCE WITHOUT sTIHl
When Psaes 10 Finally Declared n,
Strong and the Weak Shall Fars
AiIke-Deeiarss HUNS Success
In Russia Cheap Triumph.

Baltimore.-President Wilson cam,
to Baltimore and formally opened tn,
third Liberty loan drive with a review
Of $4,000 troops of the National Army
from Camp Meade, Maryland, and /.
speech in the evening in the hall II
which he was nominated for his frs,
term as president.
The soldiers, tanned by the wint
and sun, marched by the reviewins
stand for nearly two hours, in forma
ton that showed the effects of intens
fled training. A few months ago IL
civil life, they had been whipped into
training in a manner that gave then
the appearance of regulars in the ser
vice. The men were from Pennsylya'
mia, Maryland and the District of Co
lumbia
The troops marched to Baltimore
from Camp Meade and marched back
again. They comprised the Three
Hundred and Fourteenth and Three
Hundred and Sixty-eight Infantry. The
Three Hundred and Fourth Field Sig.
nal Battalion, the Three Hundred and
Sixteenth Field Hospital Company. the
Fifty-fourth Field Artillery Brigade,
the Three Hundred and Fourth SAM.
tary Train and provisional machine
gun company.
An airplane, piloted by o. M. Bounds
and rorrviro No poesapoar Caarga
Creel, which was bringing Liberty loan
pamphlets to be scattered during the
parade, was smashed when 1t attempt
ed landing, but neither of its occu.
pants was hurt.
The presidents declaration that
nothing was proposed for Germany but
Justice was warmly applauded, as was
his statement that Germany's course
in Russia is cheap triumph. The
presidents arrival had been the signal
for great demonstration. The hall
was packed with about $4,000 persons.
The presidents audience was plainly
with him in his denunciation of Ger
many's military masters. It applaud
cd his declaration that he is ready at
any time to discuss q just peace sim
eerely proposed.
When the president declared that he
accepted Germanys challenge and that
force must decide the issue the audi
ence arose to its feet and cheered for
several minutes.
At the conclusion Of the presidents
address subscriptions were opened for
Liberty bonds. The Savings Bank of
Baltimore Immediately took $1,000, 900
worth Other large amounts were sub
scrfbed.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
BRED IN THE BONE.

A party of Eastern bankers was be-
ing entertained at the Omaha club
during the convention Of the Nebras-
ka Bankers association recently.
There were a dozen at the table, In
Guiding N. II. LOOMS, general solicit
tor of the Union Pacific railroad. The
host, as was customary at the time,
ordered cocktails, but noticed that
seven glasses which CHANGED to be In
row remained untouched.
Hoping to have some fun at the ex-
pense of the teetotalers, he called at
tention to the fact and said: "Just to
start conversation, wish you fellows
would tell us one by one your reasons
for not drinking, all in good faith.
know that Mr.. LOOMS never touches
the stuff, because he is from Topeka,
Kan, but you others are all Eastern
men, and perhaps we can get story"
Mr.. Loomis looked up with interest
as one after another of these widely
known bank officers from New York,
Philadelphia, st. Louis, Chicago, Kan
sas City and st. Joseph stated, in
about the same terms, that they had
been born and bred in Kansas, and
for that reason, never having been
familiar with liquor, had never formed
a taste for 1t.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
Don't Bury Your Bond.

When you and your neighbor have
bought your Liberty Bonds. don't take
them home and hide them In the cup
board. Take them to your country
banker and have him give you certifi-
Gates of deposit for the bonds. Your
banker can take these bonds to a Fed
eral Reserve bank and borrow money
for your use In case you suddenly find
yourself in need of funds. Hiding a
bond is as bad as boarding money. Keep
the bonds and the money In circula-
lion and the country will pull through
this crisis all right.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
THE NATIONS CAPITAL A POWER.
Full PRohiDlTloN ARGUMENT.

"People can say what they please
about prohibition, but II there was ever
an argument In favor of II Washington,
D. c., is that argument, says the At
lanta (Ga.) Constitution.
"Oficial verification Of the wonder
fully improved conditions In Washing
ton under prohibition is furnished by
the superintendent Of police for the
District Of Columbia, officers OF the As
ISOLATED Charities, business men and
Salvation Army heads. They ought to
know! One Of them reported that in
one district during the saloon regime
they had IL nonsupport cases week.
Under the dry regime but one. In spite
Of the unusual war conditions, those
who visit the poor testify that the chill
dren are better clothed and better fed
than formerly.
ION every street the stores are
crowded. At the Central market two
weeks after the saloons were abolished
one tradesman said: We are sold out
People seem to have more money and
buy better goods since the saloons were
closed.
"A Salvation Army man, manager Of
the Industrial Home, said, 1T may be
necessary to close this part Of the es-
adjustment because there is such
scarcity Of "down and OUTS owing to
prohibition He said he had it straight
from the Occoquan workhouse that
there are not enough men In the insti-
tuition at present to do the work and
take care Of the stores. While about
200 men used to be sent to the prison
every Monday morning by the courts
Of Washington for drunkenness, and
petty crimes arising out Of drunken
ness, but few are sent there now. He
knows this, because 1t is his duty to
either go in person to the prison every
day or send a representative to take
care of the men who show DISPOSE
ton to lead better life. But he says
SO few are going in now, that for sew
eral days he has had no one to meet
coming out"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
IRISH CONVENTION OVER.

London.-The question Of Ireland's
future has reached crucial stage
with the announcement that the Irish
convention has finished its work and
decided upon a report to be made to
the government Premier Lloyd George
declared when the convention was or
ganized that IL 1t agreed upon any plan
It would be embodied in a bill and
placed before parliament.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
Bond, Feed the Boys.

Every farmer knows how his boys
like to eat. Mothers fried chicken
and apple dumplings and pumpkin pies
haven't a chance In the world when
the boys sit down at table. Lots Of
farmers boys are in France and tho
farmer doesn't want them to 60 hun
CRY over there. Liberty Bonds buy
food for them.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
Quite Harmless.

81 always enjoy seeing rural con-
stable on the stage" said Mr.. Chugs-
forth.
"You like that style of comedy, eh?''
"Not particularly, but 1t gives me a
great deal of satisfaction to see per.
son of that sort in position where
the number on my motor car means
nothing to him."-Birmingham Age
Herald.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
Must Eurnlsh own LINEN.

The Hague-visitors to Berlin no
tells are now required to bring their
sheets and pillow cases with them. A
new government order prohibits hotel
proprietors from supplying either bed
linen or table linen to their guests.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-04-12
Millionaire stays in Class 2.

Kansas City-David T. Beals, Jr., 2s
years old, millionaire resident of this
city and an extensive landholder in
Texas and New Mexico, has been de,
MED deferred classification by the
district draft board here.