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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
II YEAR OLD YPRES
VETERAN STOPPING IN
OTTAWA FEW DAYS

Bugler Cornelius Lavendar. who was
discharged from the Canadian forces
in lglT after being gassed and suf-
fering from shell shock, was in OF.
tawa today en- route to Chicago. Lay
endar, who is now only II years oil !,
shows the effects of his experiences
at Ypres where he was brought down
by Hun poison fumes and inyalided
by shell shock. He appears to be a
man nearer ,hirty-tive in years than
seventeen
He is hiking from Oskaloosa. Ia,
to Chicago, from where he will en-.
rain to Ontario, his home STATE in
Canada.
His discharge shows he saw a years
fighting abroad and was honorably dis
charged from the army He was only
l. years old when he entered the serv.
ice for overseas duty. To help him
defray expenses he is selling a metal
polish and people DESTROYS OF lending
hand will buy UP his wares rapidly.
l.avendar spent several months IN
English and Canadian hospitals. try
Ing to recuperate While looking
none too well now he does not com.
plain. His nerves. it can be seen, are
In bad state Of repair and need con-
siderable fixing before he is back 20
normal again. He wears Canadian
button showing him TO have been hon.
orably discharged from service after
being incapacitated for further duty.
He will remain in Ottawa a few days
before continuing on his way.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
STREADR IN NEED
Of MORAL CLEANSING
AS WE'LL AS OTTAWA
PURITY league OPERATIONS
HERE ALE HELPING NEiGHBOR-
: ING CIT TO KEEP ITS OWN
DOOR YaRO CLEAN

Need OF moral cleansing, as pro
pounded y the Ottawa Law and Or
der League. is not wholly confined to
Ottawa To-day up IN the county jail,
products Of Streator's underworld are
patiently awaiting the time they ca
walk out into the sun light and again
breathe he air OF freedom. Whether
the arrests We're resultant from a
purity wave sweeping over StreatoI
has not been made known 10 Sherih
+. NJ. Davis. custodian OF two lives
entrusted in his care for the next TWO
fortnights
All the county officials know is that
they Will keep Florence Becker. age
AZ. and Gus Peal. her Official repre-
sentative on the streets, until tht
twain have satisfied law and justice
with forty days each.
The Becker woman, who resides /
the northern part OF Streator, and he
paramount, were brought to Ottawa
this morning by Deputy Sheriff frit.
GOebel. They were taken 10 the
Hotel d Davis, where they are nov
guests They are being held undei
fines of 5000 imposed upon them BY
Police Magistrate Bean, before WHOM
the Becker woman was tried Tor ope'
ating a house of I'll repute.
When the raiders were AZ thei
work they found that Peal was sole
iting for Mrs. Becker, who Is said
be the mother of three small chi
dren He was caught in the draene
and found guilty along with the keep
er Of the house.
Mrs. Becker seemed dissatisfied
with the treatment accorded her ant
was very doubtful for her future. Sh
said she was the victim of many pain
and the only stimulant that woul
do her any good was an abundan
quantity of corn juice. When inform
ed she would no. commune with oil
John Barleyeorn while in the count
iail. she entered her cell in despa
bu. resigned TO the fate that await
her.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
A Pair of buffers.

During a camp parade of the buglers
recently an Irish corporal was in
charge. He was asked by the COM
handing officer if all the buglers were
present. He replied mo, sorr, wan
man absent
Well, them" said the officer. go
and find him and ask him what he has
To say for himself y
A few minutes later Pat came run
ming back. "Shufe, sorr." he cried,
and weren't we a pair OF buffers not
TO know that wor meselt. Bedad, sorr,
OF forgot to call me own Iame en-.
toirely."
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
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Are you afraid to sit down when
r0u would make The thirteenth at the
table? Wen. then, you very likely are
afraid to pick up a pin when the point
is toward you, or TO see the moon thru
glass or over your left shoulder. May.
be you don't 20 under a ladder with
out splitting, and If you break d mirror
you doubtless watch for grandpa to
die Gives you a sort of thriil-Oh, of
course you don't believe in anything
so foolish-but IL does give YOU a sort
of thrill TO have an umbrella opened
in the house.
Then, whenever you say, Il haven't
mad touch OF hay fever this summer
you hasten to rap on wood. Mention
ing your good fortune wouldn't give
You hay fever but not for worlds
would you let the remark 20 without
rapping. Ii you smash dish YOU are
worried until YOU smashed two
more There's no end 10 the little sup
ersttions that poster you, half with.
out your own knowledge, every day.
Would you begin an undertaking on
Thursday or Friday? Would you get
married on the thirteenth Of the
month?
Believe in all these Omens If you
wish. Take fiendish delight in wonder
ing who is to die next when any ono
o. a number OF death signs" occur
Take pains to pick a quarrel with your
best friend because she went round
the other side OF a tree when YOU were
out walking. Do all Of these things
and as many more as will make you
contented-but don't fall into the hab-
ii of believing that good things are
not going TO last
Life is sometimes hard problem.
In fact, for we NAV as well be honest
about it, life is about always hard
problem. And yet. life is likely to be
much better than we give it credit for
being. We don't give it half a chance.
ANY good fortune gets discouraged
when the welcome it receives Is:
well, come in il YOU like hut know
you won't stay more than a minute
and then bad luck will be knocking at
the door. 1t is a very poor habit to
get into this looking for joker in
each piece of happiness that is given
you. A better way--indeed the best
ways TO live in the present. Easy
enough to preach, hut dismally hard
10 practice. We clutch the present ner.
vously, with backward glance at the
past and one hand trying to ward Oft
tie future. In some things, naturally,
we must look ahead But why do this
more than is necessary? The future.
with whatever 1t holds Of good or i'll,
is coming toward us relentessly. No
amount of worrying or of pleasant an
ticipation will hurry or delay ii.
Bring your children up to be happy
Don't let them be any more supersti
tous than YOU can help, But, at any
rate, avoid one horrible. haunting be
lief that good things can't last. The
good things are the only eternal
things Of the world.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
Hard to Tell.

Little Gertrude had been especially
inquisitive all evening. Her father had
answer d her questions patiently, but
he was becoming exasperated, Finally
she said:
What do you do at the office all
day, daddy"
Daddy's patience gave way.
ooh. nothing" he said.
Gertrude pondered over this answer
for a moment. Then she returned
valiantly to the charge.
But how do you know when you
have fushed?' she ed
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
Universal Electricity.

The Increasing use of electricity for
household as we'll as business pur-
poses has led 10 the prediction Of uni
yersal water The cost viii be- re-
duced 10 ii minimum and 1t will be as
unhenrd Of 10 charge even stranger
for nominal amour, of electricity as
10 charge water tax to the person
who asks for drink.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
26 KILLED IN
IOWA TORNADO

Lake Charles, La. August TWEEN
ty-tive lives were lost and propert'
damage estimated at several millions
of dollars was wrought in the storm
which swept this section at eighty
miles an hour last night
Gerstner Field, Aviation tranins
camp near here, suffered $4,000 dam
ages.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
ALPHABETICAL Possibilities

All the inhabitants of the globe, on
a rough calculation. could not In 1000.
ODm0 years write out all ;he posi-
bic transpositions of the 26 letters o.
the alphabet, even supposlng that each
person wrote 40 pages daily, and each
of which pages contained. not less than
30 transpositions of the letters.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07

A man travelling in Maine met q
middle-aged farmer, who said his ia
Their, 80 years old. was still on the
farm where he was born. Ninety
years Old, eb?'
Yes, pop is close to 90"
Is his health sood?
faint MUCH now He's been com
plainin for a few months back"
What's the matter with him."
81 dunno sometimes | think farm
In don't agree with him"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
CLOCK TALKS THE TIME OF DAY
phonoeraph In Case Is Medium Of
Vocal Expression.

A clock which speaks the time at
intervals Of a quarter OF al hour has
been devised by H. Hartmann. who
is also the inventor OF a submarine
camera. The clock is not greatly dill
ferent from the typical timepiece in
appearance. but in its case there is
embodied, in addition to the regular
mechanism, an electrical device with
a phonograph. and the time IS called
off in a very human-llke tone. instead
OF by the use of bells and chimes.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
Psychological Moment.

"Pa, what is meant by the psyche.
logical moment
Have you never seen your mother
ask me for a check SOM
"Oh. yes, pa"
"And did you ever notice that she
always waits until | have had a good
dinner and she has brought my slip
pers and has pulled my easy chair
around to the light and struck a
match for my cigar?"
yes, pa
well, that is what is known az the
psychological moment for making a
domestic touch
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
DEVICE FOOLS THE CHAUFFEUR

Invention Permits Passenger to Regu
late the Speed
A device that enables q person in
any seat of an automobile 10 regulate
its speed without the knowledge OF
the chauffeur has been invented by d
German.
A brush 10 be suspended on the out
side of an automobile wheel To pre-.
cent it splashing mud has been patent
ed by two London chauifeurs.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
Standard Specific.

Some taceti0us persons want to
know what We polish the seat of our
pants with 10 make them So bright
and shiny It's no ''get-Slick-quick"
preparation, but an intangible and
NATURAL element known as tempt at
trtus.-Houst0n Post.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07

II you do not want to make rings
on material cleaned with gasoline,
naphtha or other cleansing fluids. put
bIotng paper underneath or hold the
fabric rather tightly over thick
Turkish towel Or folded pads Of
cheesecloth or other soft material.
II this Is neglected the dirty fluid
that soaks into the material fails to
be absorbed and spreads badly.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07

"Why do those judges wear THIN
Times"
CHOSE are their robes. They seem
to Impress You"
YES, | was just thinking they mpst
be unhaudy when a man wants TO
reach for his plug of tobacco"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07

Hubb-'l just read an account OF
two girls getting lost in the Alps in
midwinter."
ih-"Terrble, Were they frozen
to DEATH"
uubb--"No they warmed thom-
selves on the mountain ranges"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
Serving Notice.

"NOrah,' said the mistress Of The
house to the awkward maid, you
must never commit faux pas Ike
that again"
Yes ma'am, But there amt no
USE of you giyin it foreign naIae,
ma am. simply tripped on a rug
an spilled the soup, ! never was talk
ed 10 that way before. ma'am an if
YOU Go it again I'll quit
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07

Boiled potatoes are an excellent
substitute for soap when the hands
have become soiled by contact with
blackened pots and pans. Potato water
should, besides, be kept for removal.
Ing silk
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07

"Did you fry to make peace between
those two men who are always quar-
reling?"
yes"
with what result"
Zach seemed to regret that he
wasn't too busy with the other to turn
in and give me a fight on my own
account"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
Notice to Water Consumers,

All consumers of the city water are
hereby notified to conserve the water
supply by not sprinkling either on
lawns or gardens nor allowing any
waste of any kind whatever until this
dry spell has passed over.
NJ DUFFY,
Superintendent.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07

The woman who worries ovprmuch
about the kind Of hat She Is going to-
wear shows that the hat will be worth
a good deal more than the head 1t Is
to cover.--New York Mail
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
CHICAGO MARKETS

Chicago market report furnished To
The Free Trader journal by ". l..
Etnyre. member Of Chicago Board or
Trade, Moloney building phone l04l
Correspondent LamsOn Bros 4 Cu,
Chicago
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
MAIN want add section page i've,

FOR SALE-Twenty acres of good
timber land near town; quick sale.
$1,000 cash. Inquire at office.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
VALUABLE AGENCY OPENING.

A large Eastern Life Insurance
Company has very valuable posi-
ton open for district manager for
La Sale county. and surrounding ter
ritory VIII pay salary, commissions
expense allowance and renewals tc
right party. Correspondence conf
dental. Address G. H., Free Trader
journal.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
Don't Forget

The Geo. Gahan sale on Aug. H. at
the residence on 312 Norris street, at
$3.50 O'Clock sharp.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
Don't Foraet

The Geo. Gahan sale on Aug IL. at
the residence on 312 Norris street &C
2.30 o'clock sharp.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07

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tor results
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
ALLIES PUSH FORWARD.
REPULSEC HUN ATTACKS
CONTINUED from page -

For six months sailors OF the sub
marine crews have been spreading
propaganda against the G-boat cam
paign. many of the German seamel
voluntarily had themselves interne'
at neutral ports rather than carry OF
the iuhuman form Of warfare.
In addition to the twenty-three ring
leaders. who were executed, many &C
completes have been arrested ant
are being held for trial.
Destroy $50 U-Boats.
London. Aug. One hundred ans
fifty German submarines have beer
destroyed more than half Of them i,
the past twelve months. Premier LloyC
George declared this afternoon II
the course OF an address in The hous,
of commons.
Until the allies are defeated oil
the sea. Germany can never triumph,
the prime minister said.
Since the start of the war" con
tinued Mr. Lloyd-George, "the British
navy has increased its tonnage from
$500 600 to 100000
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07

LOST--A service pin with medical
insignia attached to the bar Valued
as a keepsake. Finder please leave
81 this Office and receive a liberal re
ward.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07

FOR SALE-At public auction, my
residence at 3l2 Norris street.
Property consists of large lot, garage
and furniture. Watch for space ad.
Geo. Gahan
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-07

Boston, Jan. 7.-(SpeciaD- Harry
Frazee, the young owner Of the Bos-
ton Red SoX, has recently declared
that big league magnates have no
reason to complain If the game
should have it's dull season. Frazee
goes on to point out that baseball as
business is a profitable one and
that it continues to grow bigger and
better.
In speaking of the games chances
next season Frazee has said, 81 am
sure that baseball will be a success
in 1918. l am willing to bet right
now that the American league will
play to more people this coming sea-
son than it did last year. And last
year was big success so far as the
American league was concerned.
The Red Sox were on velvet by Sep
TENDER and we made lots Of money.
We will do as well or better next
season.
Baseball is a great business and
], for one. am honest enough to speak
up and say so. The magnates who
ara bowling calamity these days are
beyond me. Some of them may have
been pinched bit last season, but
they have made millions out of the
game and can afford to lose now and
then. Why screech so much when
they lose a few nickels? Baseball is
growing every year and as a bust
ness it is continually becoming bet
ter and better.
In their ball plants alone the big
league magnates have enough to
make sure of their investment. 1
own every bit of Fenway park, the
land, the stands, the franchise, the
players and everything from the
front gate to the rear door. The
property alone is worth five times
as much as when 1T was first given
over to baseball. When the old Yam
kee park in New York was given up
the club could. have bought that
property for something like S250,000.
A little while ago the came bit of
real estate sold for $1,250,000 Per-
haps that will indicate something of
the business possibility of baseball.
But of course the commercial
phase of baseball is not the chief
thing in such times as these. The
people must have amusement and
distraction from the sad burden of
the war. What If the magnates do
lose a bit? They can do a great deal
of good by supporting the game in
the right spirit. A baseball magnate
can be patriotic as well as anybody
else"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-07
Sporting NeDS
DObie Little
Impressed With
Eastern Football
nv Associated Press

Detroit Mich, Jan. 7.-Gilmour s.
Dobie, the famous football coach,
who was in charge of the team at the
Annapolis naval academy last fan,
had his first glimpse at eastern foot GOT
ball and was not very much I'M
pressed Dobie, of course, took the
war situation into consideration, but
was not converted to the belief that
eastern football is superior to the
western brand.
the Pacific coast His University OF
Washington teams never were beaten.
Last summer he signed a contract
to coach the University of Detroit
eleven. He started to work with the
squad, then became dissatisfied ana
left, His contract was Cancelled, ana
he accepted the position of coach at
Annapolis. Dobie has returned to De-
troit to visit friends. $780,
From what / saw in the east, /
cannot say that the east is superior
to the west at football" Dobie said.
my last years University of Wash
ington team could easily have beaten
any eastern eleven this fall"
Dobie declared that eastern colleges
made a sad mistake" by canceling
their 1917 football schedules, and said
he expected regular season
Many experts have given reasons
for Dobie's success as a coach. He is
a driving, merciless teacher. He
grinds football into his men. He
forces them to tackle low and hard,
TO charge the same way, to block
fiercely and effectively and to ever
lastingly follow the ball. When his
men have learned these rudiments to
Dobie's at least partial satisfaction,
he teaches them team work and plays.
wades through it's opposition like a
tank through q EnOWEtOTTn.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-07

Certifted PUBIC Acc0UnEant.
Member Of American Institutes
ADULTS. Audit Investigations, systems
Expert assistance. feoeral tax reports.
Resident Managers 3. "a. Gull, @ Il A.
BarRo National Bank Bldg. Phone 9eL
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-07

Continued from page IL
to make rules for the govern
ment and regulation Of the land and
naval forces
AS the mind cannot conceive an
army without the men to compose It,
on the face Of the constitution the
objection that~it does not give power
to provide for such men would seem
to be too frivolous for further notice
II is said. however, that since, under
the constitution as originally franz
ed, state citizenship was primary and
United States citizenship but deriva-
tive and dependent thereon, there
fore, the power conferred upon con-
gress to raise armies was only
coterminous with United States
citizenship and could not be exerted
so as to cause that citizenship to lose
it's dependent character and domin-
ate state citizenship.
But the proposition simply denies
TO congress the power to raise arm
les which the constitution gives. That
power by the very terms OF the con-
stitution being delegated, Is supreme.
First, we are of opinion that the
contention that the act is void as a
delegation of federal power to state
officials because of some OF Its
administrative features is too want
ing in merit to require further
notice.
second. we think that the con-
tention that the statute is void be-
cause vestinE administrative officers
with legislative discretion has been
so completely adversely settled as to
require reference only to some Of the
decided. cases. A like conclusion al
SO adversely disposes of similar
claim concerning the comforting Of
judicial power. And we pass with
out anything but statement, the
proposition that an establishment Of
a religion or an interference with
the free exercise thereof repugnant
to the first amendment resulted from
the exemption clauses Of the act TO
which we at the outset referred, be-
cause we think its unsoundness too
apparent to require us TO do more.
Finally as we are unable 10
upon what theory the eXac-
ton by government from the citizen
OF the performance of his supreme
and noble duty Of contributing the
Of the rights and honor Of
the nation as the result Of war
declared by the great representative
body OF the people can be said 10 be
the imposition Of involuntary servi-
tude In violation OF the prohibitions
OF the thirteenth amendment, we are
to the conclusion that
the contention to that effect Is refut-
ed hw its meEe Statement
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-07
GERMANY WOULD
FINANCE INDIAN
REVOLUTION
Indian Government Official
Worked Neutral Consuls
With Forged Letters

Bombay, Dec. 15.-(Correspondenc
of the Associated Press -How a dis
missed official Of the Indian govern
ment endeavOred to get into com
munieation with Germany for the
purpose of stirring up q revolutionary
movement in India, has just been told
at the arratgnment of Sitarama lyer,
charged with communicating with
the enemy.
Iyer, after being removed from the
British service as a revenue inspector,
got into communication with Ger
many through various neutral consuls
in Bombay, employing official British
stationery and counterfeit seals to de-
ceive the neutral consuls into accept
ing his messages. His detection was
due to accident-namely that for a
few days the French consul in Bonn
bay was in charge of the Spanish
consulate, and gained an inkling Of
what was going on.
Captured letters show that Iyer al
ready had received $4,000 from the
then German foreign minister, DIR. Al
bert Zimmerman, and later $500
direct from the German crown prince,
Frederick, as a personal contribu-
ton" to his work. The money was
delivered TO him through the Swiss
and Dutch consuls at Bombay, osten-
sibly for the use of a fictitious Ger
man missionary, Pax Muller, alleged
to be interned in India.
Iyer sent his letters to the Swed-
ish, Dutch, Swiss and Spanish consuls
in rotation, each letter being accom-
panied by an apparently correct let
ter on British official writing paper,
requesting the consul to forward the
enclosed letters of the missionary,
Muller" to Germany in the consular
mail bags. The signature of the chief
secretary of the government of
Madras was forged.
Some of the letters shown in court
mentioned ports from which troops
were about to embark, and pointed
out the ease with which India could
be invaded. They guaranteed" to
Germany the support OF 400 Home
Rule societies in India. and appealed
for the immediate dispatch of money
and weapons,