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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-06-08
information Limited.

rs this a bureau of information OF
is it not" asked the cauStic person.
ITS bureau of information to
limited extent replied the clerk. I'VE
are not trying to tell anybody when the
war Will end
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-06-08
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Wise and Otherwise.

Many a worthless man has i ;:
good disposition.
All typewriterS are not types :
OF feminine beauty.
. That man is generous TO q :
: fault who never correctS il.
. LazineSS isn't exactly crime, :
: hut il is the next thing to it. .
A double wedding might prop :
erly be called a fOur-in-hand tie. :
. It would be pretty tough on
: some men if others did the right .
; thing by them.
Discretion is the salt that pre-
: serves life and fancy is the
sugar that sweetens it.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-06-08
Mothers Cook Book

The people who indulge in honeyed
phrases seldom have any fear OF eating
their own words.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
SOLDIERS MINDS IN
NEEDOF RELAXATION
Are Given Something to Think
of Besides the Art Of
Killing Huns.

H na,a,,,or+ar, of +ba Ap,ar;oop
eaoaual.eis " ~ Aiieicah
Troops With the British Army In
France (by maiD .-American boys in
the war zone learning from British Of
ficers and soldiers what the war has
taught in the way of battle tactics are
getting an antidote for the mental ef-
fects of their fighting education. This
is offset by a of gardening
and pets.
ut is not a good thing for these
bows hat their minds be centered sole
Nv on stabbing, shooting and throttling.
said a young colonel Of the British
army to the correspondent of the AS
ISOLATED Press today. This officer,
| who won his promotion at a little over
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
Nora viii Know Better Now.

"Wliy, Nora, l am surprised"
claimed the head of the house as the
cook came rushing into the parlor while
he and the missus were entertaining
company. 'It is very unseemly of you
to rush into the parlor in this manner.
It shows a lack of proper training, to
say the least. Now you should have
Knocked at the door and asked my per-
mission to speak. Let US see if you
can't do better. Walk out into the
other room and approach as I have
told you"
Nora walked away and then went
through the ceremony of knocking.
.Tilat is better, Nora, much better.
Now what was it you wished to tell
me-
"Oh, sor, it's mighty sorry I am to
disturb yc, but / thought ye'd like to
know tliatlthe house is on fire."
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
No Time to Experiment.
From the New York Tribune.

The reports of the national banks of the United States under the
call OF May 10 show that their resources have increased over
$2,OOO,OO0O00s during the year. Their deposits have increase since
May q year ago $1,3O9O00O0O, and their loans have increased $685.
uOuyOOOs 1t is not possible to find in that statement evidence Of infa-
ton OF credit, as it shows that depostors are banking their profits,
rather than relying upon the banks for loans to bolster declining
business. The reserves are now over $1,OOO,O0OO00, the excess
reserves over legal requirements having increased by $38,748,OOO
during the year. It is an unspeakable benefit that our banking affairs
both the expansion and contraction Of the banking figures in this
city IN connection with the Liberty loans.
MI. fireman, deputy governor Of the federal reserve bank, in his
address at Atlantic City gave similar figures in connection with all
three loans. In connection with the third loan the expansion was
from $~262O000O0 to $~655,O0OO0O, with a contraction within a month
to $53o,OOOOOO, andsthe reverse of the expansion is not yet done.
simultaneously, the treasury publishes the figures of the country Is
currency for june l. The decrease during May was So, 1884, 200, and
the increase ofgold within q year was $265,384,O0 The federal
reserve notes have increased $l,O896S6,OOO. That is a remarkable
growth, but not more remarkable than the growth of trade on which
Within a year it has doubled, to over $1,000 100000. Under old
conditions there would be anxiety about an increase of $1,OOO,OOO,0OO
in bank notes, but they would have been irreducible. Now the total
will shrink when trade shrnks, as naturally as it increased when
trade increased. $50 AS #a s.
tt is singular to remark that. despite this satisfactory functioning
OF our banking affairs, there is a deluge of proposal in congress to
improve upon it, and outside Of congress a like surprising number Of
protests against such action. In a single day a score of banking
amendments were introduced at Washington. None of them was
asked for, and some. OF them were almost unanimously condemned.
For example, the bill to guarantee deposits. The loss Of deposits is
only nominal, and a guarantee would work to increase the loss by
making care unnecessary. Considering how satisfactory the situa-
Of Superintendent Skinner, addressing New York state bankers at
Atlantic city:
To m mind, my m WI proposes radical changes in III banking rs
law or the banking systen Of the country at this time invites disaster.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
Paper Bullets Paralyzed.

Villa, the bandit, was much surprised.
The rich old man had fallen as the guns
of the firing squad roared. On almost
any other occasion of the kind Villa would
have expected his victim to fall, but
this time
"Por Dios!" Had his men forgotten, or
had they disobeyed?
Puzzled, the chief walked up to the
ccllmpled figure and bent over. There
were no wound marks. Yet the man
neither spoke nor moved. Nevertheless,
he was alive
Unable to understand, Villa and his men
left the PROSTATE, motionless form. A
little later came rescuers. They found
that the man had not been touched by a
bullet. in fact the bullets We're made of
paper-at Villas order. For some mys-
.erious reason, he did not wish to harm
the ma but merely to brighten him into
giving hin money, but the suspense and
worry brought on the shock. The man has
not spoken or moved a limb since.
This story is told by the nephew of the
man, Count j. NJ. Eschevarria de Rigis,
of Mexico City, who is visiting in Seattle,
Wssh. according to the Seattle Post-In.
ielligencer.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
From a correspondent,


Every Thursday morning some one must
go marketing for the mess to the neigh
boring village Of K. 1t is an agreeable
coat lane on a Sunday to the many
colored glories of K market?
The villagers themselves make as 1t
were the groundwork Of the pattern-the
men In their dark blue braided Elton
jackets. the women with their red or
brown aprons. These are good to look at,
but there is better still, for the whole
countryside has come in with its dogs
and its goats and it's donkeys. There are
the knitting gypsy women who make
stockings, and never cease from knitting
as they walk up and down. With them is
g little barefoot, elfish girl. with a Won
derfully dirty facesand a tangfe of black
hair. who looks at us out Of the corners
of her ava eyes. Then there are the
long bearded priests In their black gowns
and tall black hats, ragged, benevolent
and dignif1ied. There is a sprinkling Of
Turks in fezzes, and best of all there are
the shepherds. They wear white stock
ings, white kits, white jerseys; round
their waists are red sashes; round their
heads bright handkerchiefs; and they
carry their long slender crooks in their
hands. The shepherds do not appear to
do much business, though one or two are
interested in a booth where a man is
uldhIIlk COInDS LOT WOOL. COT LIE WOSl
part they sit round tables, gossiping
ferociously, drinking tiny cups of coffee,
rolling and smoking cigarets. There is
among them one old man with a narrow
hawkish face, sunburnt and crinkled,
great flaps of ears and a long grey NOUS
tache. Surely there is a history written
in that face, but is it Of cutting threats
and holding to ransom or simply of piping
to the lonely flocks? He is too. inscruta-
BILE for me.
The shops are as varied as the custom
ers. That one which announces itself as
"Canteen b. A." pays the penalty of
greatness by having no native trade; but
there is q village Whiteley't pantopo-
leion-its frontage decked with gorgeous
handkerchifs, that is full to overlooking.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
ENDED SHOW FOR THAT NIGHT


Two little colored bards from News
alley were giving aSconcert d la carte
before q Washington hotel. The
crowd which gathered was larger than
any that ever regarded q seapbox ora
tor. The boys sang, the, dimes few,
they paused, and sang and danced some
more. The two kids wove in Witty
lines us they went, and really made
the thing a vaudeville net. But finally
they decided It WIS about tltno for an
intermission.
We're goin' away announced tho
larger, who was perhaps eight years
old.
Jaw, don't do that admonished the
crowd.
You didn't treat US right; that's
ALL"
Dimes few again. The boys started
to sing. They saw that their audience
was growing to a capacity crowd. But
they started up on the last tune.
Somewhere out on the East side
tome n had had IN argument, or
tlse an automobile had tipped over,
Tor an ambulance was hurrying back
to the city hospital, Changing It's bell.
The performers heard II. Up looked
the youngest.
"Um, police" he yelled to his little
partner, and the two Of them scurrled
rs quick as lightning down the nearest
alley. The crowd went on to Its mo-
sies.-Indianapolis News.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
Four Years Ago.


-Four years ago the red god Mars
was resting, drowsy, on his throne;
and so we talked Of choo-choo cars,
and small beer gossip was our own.
Then trifling things important seemed,
and tWaddle was our stock in trade;
reformers Ger the country screamed
you will recall the noise they made.
Bridge whist employed the lazy danes
at country clubs throughout the land;
and stories Of the baseball games at
eeventide were in demand. Would links
be chosen county clerk, or would he
run against defeat? Discussing this
our Jaws we'd work, for hours together
on the street. Would Willard get the
dinge's goat? That was one theme of
long ago. Were girls entitled to the
vote. or should they stay at home and
sew? The neighbors used to come at
night and talk with me of many things;
and We would whoop AROUND and fight
Ger cabbageS and cats and kings. But
since the wal flags were ~unfurled and
battle eagles raised their scream. it
seems We're in another world; the old
time planet was a dream. The country
ciubs are drear and bare, no giggies
from their porches rise; the girls no
longer gather there, to see who gets
the BOBBY prize. And men have learned
to think grave thoughts, and let the
beer and skitties go; to plan how they
may hand some swats, by sacrifices,
to, the foe.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18

EATONIC tablets after your meal, so
light and pain-free you will feel. :.
There is not a harmful thing in
EATONIC tablets. They taste incl
just like eating candy. Druggists will
tell you that EATONIC users say they
never dreamed anything could give
such quick and wonderful results; you
stomach, you can eat what you like,
and always have the appetite to eat it.
EATONIC is absolutely guaranteed.
Get a box from your druggist today.
Use it to get rid of and prevent the
stomach and bowel troubles that are
bound to come in hot weather. If
EATONIC fails, return to your drug
gist and get your fifty cents back. If
you cannot obtain EATONIC where
you live drop a card to Eatonic Remedy
Co, Chicago, Ill. They will mail you
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
Cold Drinks Bad
- -
for Your Stomach
How to Avoid the Digestive Miseries
That Hot Weather Brings
t-H sss g

..r --- sJ~ .
Cold drinks in hot weather are bad
enough for anystomach but doublyso,
in fact, dangerous-when the stomach
is out of fix and you suffer from indi-
gestion, acidity, food-repeating, heart
burn, sour stomach, and that awful
puffed-up, bloated condition after cat
ing. In fact, all stomach and bowel
miserieo are greatly aggravated in hot
weather. You can't be too careful.
Sunstroke can be traced in many cases
to pear digestion. Everyone should
watch their stomach in hot weather.
Keep it sweet and cool. Here is an
easy and pleasant wayto correct stom-
ach ills. A compound has been dis
covered which surely takes up the
harmfuljuices and gasesfromthest om-
mach, leaving it sweet, clean, cool and
comfortable. You won't know you
have a stomach if you take one or two
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
PetHcoat Lane, Macedonia.
in the London Times.

IN n London Times.
Next come the tailor, the cobbler, the
barber, and up IN alley hard by the
blacksmith is shoeing a donkey, which
he does by throwing the poor beast IN its
back n flashing its four feet to a stake.
The taps of his hammer blend with q
mournful dirge from the village school
where the children are chanting the
alphabet. How odd and delightful to find
that small Greeks have to learn their
own alphabet; and they certainly seem
not to pronounce it as well as we do.
Over the way lives our friend whom we
call Alexander the Coppersmith. He sits
on a table by his big bellows, a copper
dish on his knees, while the wood smoke
curls up from his fire on the floor. On
other days he deals only in copper ves-
sells which he makes himself with a very
graceful art. Today his shop has become
a general store, and he sells lamb skins
and onions and cloth of a peculiarly hide
GUS check. Another friend is the grnning,
~blackavised boy at the vegetable stall.
Spinach he say in answer to our
question: Spinach finish. Today salad"
But when We spurn the lettuce and garlic
that he wants to foist on us, he naively
produces a secret hoard where there is
spinach in plenty. He Is, I believe, not
u~nreasonably dishonest. It is he. more
over, who, as interpreter. makes a bar
gain for us with the knitting gipsies. 1t is
he who, by calling on the awful name of
the control post officer. strikes terror to
the heart of a cheating mat seller. So
what matters a little short weight of
spinach?
Last and loveliest Of all are the shops
that are, with unconscious poetry, called
fancy shops-low and dark, with little
grabbed lattice windows, full of the most
beautiful things. / cannot tell what they
are, for these are fairy shops such as we
see only in dreams or, perhaps, once in a
lifetime as we fit in a car through a
sleepy southern country town at home. In
front Of them the women gather thickly,
and come away bearing ribbons and trink-
cts. but WE stand afar off, for we know
that IL we looked too closely all the colors
and the glitter and the mystery would
crumble before our eyes.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
The Worm Turned.

A Richmond tva.) man who mo-
iored down to the resort where his
wife and baby We're spending the sum-
ner was called on to help prepare the
morning meal Of his son and heir. He
proved a little unskilled tn removing
the top of the car that was handed
aim. and his wife became scornful and
impatient.
Il do wish ! had married a man!
she said, with fine sarcasm.
The unfortunate continued to strug-
gle vainly with the stubborn tin.
And / do wish I had married a
woman" he grunted. Then / would
not have had to bother with these ar
tlficial breakfast foods"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
WOMEN FARMING IN
WESTERN CANADA
Success Has Followed All Their
Efforts.

On the train from Edmonton to Win
nipeg the writer took q seat beside q
soldier who had returned from the
front. On his breast he wore the
beautiful distinguished service medal.
One coat sleeve vas armless, and on
his left cheek he bore scar that he
would carry to his grave. He had
served his country faithfully and well.
AT the first call for soldiers in August.
1914, he fastened to the recruiting
Office, leaving his 32O-acre farm, with
Its crop ready for harvest, a full
equipment OF farm implements, plenty
Of horses, and a wife. The wife should
not be last on the list for she proved
the master of the situation, and 10y
ally took hold of the question Of pro-
6uction, while her husband was on his
way to fight the Hun. And she sue
ceeded. In 1915 she succeeded, and
again in 1916, and when her husband
returned in 1917 she was able to show
some contemplated farm buildings
completed, the Indebtedness Of the farm
paid OF, q considerable addition to the
stock, and the land ready for a 1917
crop. This was the story told by the
soldier, and wasn't he a proud man!
He was now ready to do what he could
to keep up the period of prosperity
and provide food for the allies. The
women Of Canada have done nobly
during the struggle.
Among the most successful farmers
OF the Oak Lake district, Manitoba,
are the Misses Clara and Beatrice For
ward, who, for the past fourteen years,
have farmed their w land, doing all
the regular work on the farm, such as
blowing, seeding, summer following
and reaping. They have been espe,
cially successful with stock, and have
a splendid herd of shorthorns, both
purebred and grade. At the recent
Brandon sale they purchased a new
purebred stock bull for $7OO. Their
herd was last year increased by %
calves.
Miss R.. NJ. Hillman of Keller, Sas-
katchewan, is another successful
woman farmer. She has gone IN ex-
tensively for grain growing, and farms
1,120 acres. She also owns some of
the finest Percheron horses In Sas-
k~atchewan.
The prairie now boasts of many
women who have had more or less sue
cess, though few are farming on the
same large scale as Miss Hillman and
the Misses Forward. These women
have demonstrated, and are still dem
o%pstrating, that a versatile woman
may be just as good and successful a
Farmer as her brother.
There are other women, too, on the
Canadian prairies, who, though they
have not had thrown upon them the re-
sponsibilities Of running a farm"
have been decided factors in making
the farm a success They assist their
husbands by keeping the farm &C
counts, reducing the grDcer's bills by
their management Of the poultry and
butter, taking care of the house. and,
very often, proving good advisers in
the economic management of the men
and gencralSconduct of the farm work.
The man who. moves to Canada car
rics with him a wonderful asset in d
good managing Observation-Disclosures
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18

ing education he-left to his instructors.
This policy prevails at other Brit
ish school of the same character. Some
of them add bee keeping to their pro-
gram All of them nave their pets and
most OF them their gardens. All Of
them will give their American pupils
much to relieve the depressing effects
of continual thoughts of bloodshed.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
Comfort skin

When red, rough and itching with hot
baths Of Cuticura Soap and touches Of
Cuticura Ointment. This means sleep
for baby and rest for mother. For
free samples address, "Cuticura, Dept.
K, Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap Is, Ointment IS and 5O.-Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
Crisp Criticism of Gossip.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes
from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those
who difruse it; it proves nothing but
the bad taste Of the smoker.-George
Eliot.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
a. E-iiss;ns STEAK.
From Boys Life.

From Boys Life.
Waiter eail,ting FOR a tip5-Aad how dia
you finasthe isteak, esir2tea. 4
Diner-Oh. / just moved that little piece
Of potato and there it was.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18

W0Ek1 u 1pd0aouE0. ] Toll Oil my frten00
who have any trouble Of this kind Whist
Lydia e. Pinkham'a Vegetable Com.
pound has done for me.S-NHIIM b
BKT1MaHAM, coo Calverton Rd-. Balti.
II o only natural FOR any woman q
dread the Aoughtof On operation. 60
many women have been restored q,
health by this famous remedy, Lydia 8.
Pinkhan,s Vegetable Compound, aftes
m operation hao been advised that n
will pay any woman who suffers from
such ailments to consider trying IL b.
fore submitting TO such : trying ordeal
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
Vacuum Hard to Get"
From the Christian Register.

Among the answers to questions at a
school examination appeared the follow
ing:
Gross ignorance is 1+4 times as bad as
jus; ordinary ignorance
"Anchorite is an old fashioned hermit
sort of q fellow who has anchored himself
to one place
The liver is an Internal organ"
"Nacurrn is nothing with the air sucked
out CT it PIT UP in a pickle bottie-it *
very hard 10 get"
Electric light companies In Germany
ereauiro their lamp trinlnners 70. save
scraps of old cartons. which are
ccrlcFtGd together fer further use
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18

For genuine comfort and lasting pleas
ure use Red Cross Ball Blue on wash day.
All good grocers. Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18

Birmingham brass factories are get
ting ready for post war business.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18

Happy is the home where Red Cross
Ball blue is used. Sure to please. All
grocers. Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18
DAISY FLY KILLER .,.s:s:. 81 a., !:
SIOUX CITY PTe. Co, NO. 2s--1s,s.
conscriptina Cub Bears.

In response to appeals received from
men Of various units of the army
throughout the West, United States
forest rangers under the local of1cs at
Livingston, Mont, have been requested
to obtain cub bears for use as COM
pany mascots. There Is considerable
rivalry among rangers to see who will
be the first to conscript a young bear.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18

Many a man who thinks he is a mar
tyr is only q chumD.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18

Beyond Their Understanding.
1t is worse than useless to attempt
to create in the minds Of the young
unnatural ideals in which self-sacrifice
and se~lf-repression are the chief at
tributes of goodness.-Ella Flagg
Young.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18

When the Soul Is Hurt.
The most terrific thing in the world
Is sin. A man is neyer hurt until his
soul is hurt, and the only thing that
can hurt his soul is sin.-Plumer.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-18

California is extensively developing
spinach-grOwing.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-04-14
SAY EMPEROR WILL
HAVE TO ADVOCATE
Impression of Teuton Press
Over Charles Letter.

Washington, April 13.--The Austrian
semi official explanation OF the peace
letter of Emperor Charles, according to
a dispatch today from France, is that
1t was written by the Duchess Of Par
ma, mother Of the Empress Zita, to her
son. Count Sixtus de Bourbon. and that
the emperor must have added certain
lines over his signature
The dispatch from France. con-
Guides:
The following information was tele-
graphcd Friday evening from Berne,
which gives us an idea of the effect
which may be produced by the reve-
lations Of VI. Ciemenceau. IT has been
possible this morning to note the i'm
preston caused by this publication
among the journalists Of the central
powers living at Berne. During an
extremely animated conversation this
morning in which several German and
Austrian Journalists took part, one of
them exclaimed with the approval
Of his interlocutors, 1T is a veritable
bomb that has just exploded. He Will
have to abdicate.'
Before the publication of The text
of the letter the Austro- German press,
conforming with the insane lies of the