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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-10-04
Can Now Eat and sleep IN Comfort

II troubled with indigestion or
sleepIesanegs you should read what
Miss Agnes Turner. Chicago. Ill. has
10 say: "Overwork, irregular meals
and carelessness regarding the OTdin-
airy rules OF health. gradually under
mined 1t until last fall became a
wreck OF my former self I suffered
from continual headache, was unable
to digest my food. which seemed 70
lay as a dead weight on my stomach.
| was very constipated and my com
pIezlon became dark. yellow and
awake as tired 81 when ! vent to
added 70 my misery. and ! would
awake a stirred AZ when I vent %
sleep. / heard of Chamberlain tab
lets and found such relief after TAX.
ing them that kept up the treatment
for nearly two months They cieansed
ny stomach. insigorated my system
and since that time ! can eat and
sleep in comfort. ] ain today entirely
veil"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-10-04
Dlsrrl,oea IN children.

FOR dimrrhoea In children one
year cid or older you will End a0th-
ing better than chambeFiain's Collie
and DiarrhOea Remedy, followed ~
\ dose Of castor oil. Il should be
kept IT hand and given a. soon -
the avss unnatural looasneas Of the
bowels appears.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-10-04
Bronchial Trouble.

Mrs. A. e. sidenberder, Rockwell,
Ind, states: For an attack Of bron-
chial trouble which usually assails
me in the spring find Chamberlain g
Cough Remedy the only thing that
gives me relief. After using it for a
few days all signs of bronchial trou-
BILE disappears.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-10-04
Sincere Gratitude.

Mrs. William Bell. Logansport, Ind.
writes II deem II my duty to ex-
press my gratitude for the good
Chamberlain Collie and Diarrhoea
Remedy did me when had 3 severe
attack OF diarrhoea three years ago.
Ii was the only medicine that relieR-
ed me"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-10-04

The worst thing about the skeleton
in the family closet Ii that 1t refuses
to remain there.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-10-04

The experienced maid wants to be
4 mans HrAt love. but this visa wldow
prefers 20 BE- bis last.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-10-04

A man il never in love with = wo-
man nutil he begins TO tell her his
troubles.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-10-04

II Il we're not for politics a lot Of
lazy men would staTye to death.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Houston Urges Quick
Work to Save Seeds
Secretary Asks Congress for
So, 900, 900 to Protect Food
and Feed Crops

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-If normal
production Of the nations food and
iced crops is to be had this gear,
prompt action to protect the seed sup
plies is necessary, Secretary Houston
warned Congress in asking for aN
urgent deficiency appropriation for
government purchase and sale Of seed
to farmers at cost
There is urgent and immediate
need for at least $4,000, 900, and i. is
probable that an additional sum will
he required in the near future" said
the Secretary. THE seed situation
presents many difficulties. Two gen
eral areas have suffered severely from
drouth during the past sesson--the
Southwest, includin. a large part Of
Texas and part Of Oklahoma, and
considerable part of the Northwest.
These regions represent large part
Of the grain producing areas Of the
United States.
''The seed corn situation in the
northern half Of the corn belt is more
serious than it has been for many
years.
The secretary said it is important
that adequate seed supplies Of SOY
beans and white or navy beans are
available for the next planting season.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
New York Women
Founded Eagle Hut

Lady Ward, daughter Of Mrs. White
law Reid, wife of the former American
Ambassador, ard Lady Alastair Innes-
ker, formerly known to New York So
c!ety as Miss Brcese, arc two of the
prominent American women who have
taken the lead in assisting the work
OF the Y. NJ. c. A. in London. They
were the sponsors for the Eagle Hut.
the largest of its kind in the world.
Under their supervision many Ameri-
can women and girls have volunteered
their services and ore waiting on table
or serving iced drinks at the soda foun-
tain.
All these American women. whatever
their age, arc "mothers" to the Sam
mics.
Mother, please give me a chocolate
sundae," says a grayhaired Sammy to
ahc little American girl behind the
counter.
"Mothcr, will you pick me out q
good book to real?" asks another. not
knowing nor caring that his smiling
helper IS Lady Cheylesmorc, a former
New York society girl
The "I" has done its work well. The
American soldiers, 90 per cent of whom
had probably never been inside Il y. NJ.
G. a. at hcme, find in the huts close
Ink between themselves and the folks
tney lett behind them.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Spain Grows
Rich Trading
In War Goods
Catalonia Greatest Gamer bv
World Strife, While Rest
of Nation Looks on
By Herbert ]. Osborne

BARCELONA. Dec. 2O-That Spain
Of to-day is not quite the Spain Of
yesterday-the land of menana that
tor decades has languished through cx-
lstence waiting for tho morrow that
never turns UPS not due to the er-
forts Of her sons to move out Of the
old rut, but rather to the ill-wind, the
world connagration, which has left her
free to profit thereby.
A nation with grit would have taken
every possible justifahle advantage of
its neutrality to make itself felt
among other peoples and would not
have neglected the opportunity to de-
velop its country's great natural re-
sources. But that would have needed
effort, and effort does not exactly &C.
cord with the Spanish temperament.
Speaking generally. the people Of
Spain have energy for most things but
work.
There sic some exceptions. The
Bnsqucs are sturdy toilers in the
northern mining district and the Cata-
lans arc manufacturers who supply
the whole OF Spain, in particular with
textile goods. 1t was not difficult for
the Catalans to earn q reputation as
workers and of being tho English Of
Spain,' while the rest of the country
WAS chiefly occupied in looking on.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Britain Needs Fighters
Most, Labor Man Says
Recruits From Munitions Ser
vice Necessary to Maintain
Armies, Asserts Minister

LONDON, Jan. 6.- Representatives
of the government and the trAdes
unions met at Washington in what is
considered most important conference
to discuss tho question of man-power.
George Nicoll Barnes, member Of the
War Cabinet, presided.
Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of
National Service, speaking il behalf
OF the government, said that the posi-
tion in the last six months had been
completely altered by the Russian sit
ustion. Ultimately the balance would
be more than eQualized by the Amer
can armies. During the intervening
period. however, a great strain would
be thrown on the country's resources.
After the closest scrutiny OF the
whole position, said the minister, the
government was convinced that il
would be impossible to maintain the
armies in the field unless a large NUM-
Der OF men were recruited from the
munitions services, not merely for the
technical units, but also for the 6ght-
ing units.
The meeting was adjourned until TO-
morrow.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Germany Still
Has irm Hold

,betore the war Germany was gradu-
aI!y ousting England in many branches
OF industry. Difficulties that must
necessarily n exist have made it hard for
h19tlsa manufacturcrs to keep their
trade going abroad, but had tilev not
found highly lucrative market at
nome Tor their output they would no
ooubt from necessity have made spccisl
eHorls TO Keep their foreign trade 60
ing. AS IL is, with minimum output
AHu the corresponding minimum ex-
pense and the atrociously high nriccs
they are obtaining at home, they can
afford to give their foreign customers
the cold shoulder. All Of which NAV
De right enough from their commercial
point OF view, but business which
consists OF taking one anothe1's wash
ing Is pretty rotten one from The
national standpoint. When the world
returns TO sanity the national cashbox
VIII need to be continually replenishcd
with tangible currency.
Inns war is so far different from any
other in the vastness of its aims and
responsibilities, and fighting men have
gwen so many proofs Of hcroism that
pears fair relation to the immensitv
OF the undertaking, it might have been
expected that the commercial comnu-
lrlty IN all belligerent countries would
nave risen superior 30 the shopkeepinc
level; that would have been putriotism
in its real Significance.
Those practical people who know the
world az it is and not as it ought to be
are not the least bit surprised to find
traders arranging their programmes in
way to assure to themselves q fortune
while the war is in progress. National
aspirations are adapted to commercial
convenience. Side by side with the sol-
dler in the trenches ready for the SUI
preme sacrifice it is an unsavory thing
to look upon this merchantinp with III"
calamities of mankind.
The Spanish people are generally
ro-German in their sympathies-and
particularly so the army. There is
very little probability of Spain taking
nm active part in the war. She 10
rendering Us good service now in tho
shape OF providing foodstuffs Of ali
Klnds; and that is of moro value than
her Indifferent military help would
mean. 1t takes quite wise person
from the outside world to understand
the domestic and international politics
OF Spain. Occasionally one runs across
a Spanlard who processes to know
something of the subject, but he does
not bear much cross examination.
country that has had nineteen
governments in twenty-five years can
not have had a very clearly defined
QolIcy; that ls very certain.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Huts Scattered
All Over Continent

Wherever American troops are Ill
France or England, there are the Red
Triangle huts. At all the ports Of de-
barkation, where United States troops
arc landed, at every base camp on the
Continent, even at the very northern
most point Of Scotland, where some
American lumbermen chance to be
working, the open door of an American
y. NJ. c. A. is to be found.
There is 4 home atmosphere in these
huts to appeal to every type of man
the American army can produce. Take
the newly established Eagle Hut, in the
heart o. London, as an example.
Spread out over an acre OF the
ground, the hut, which in reality is a
great group of roomy one-story build
ilgs. is ready to receive the first de-
tachment of Americans to arrive in
London, as we'll as any Of the Allied
forces who care to use it. In this hut
alone are beds for 500 soldiers. A
restaurant, which is busy throughout
the day, caters to AS many more.
There is concert hall WHICH, when
completed. Will cover about 500 square
feet of ground. There are "quiet
tooms.' where anybody who wants to
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
F ortunes Made
In arm Produce

Spain has become rich since the war
started by exporting agricultural prod
uce to France and by manufacturing
military requirements, but her in
dustries, most Of which are in BARGE
Iona or some other town in the same
province (Cataluna), depend on foreign
supplies for raw materials The facs
Is sometimes forgotten by those not
acquainted with Spain that the Cata-
Ian does not style himself Spaniard
His Catauila happens by accident to
be a province of Spain, and though
he might not desire to form part of
any other country he makes 1t quite
clear to you that to be Spaniard
is one thing and to be Catalan some
thing very different. He discards the
euphonIous Castilan for his own
patois-his Catalan, which is not
pretty to listen to. He obstinately
sticks to the use Of his own language
and as Spaniards do not learn his
patois, it follows that the national in
tcrests suffer.
and he is close-fsred. The influence
of Hebraic origin is strong in the cha,-
acter of many Of the inhabitants of
Catalina.
AS manufacturer the Catalan is fire.
ouently suecessful; not OIL account Of
his technical ability, but because he
knows how to get value out of under
paid work people, and his industry is
we'll protected by customs tariffs.
He has not, however, the gentle man
ncrs, the good-heartedness nor the low
ableness Of the Spanard. He is essen
TALLY calculating.
And 1t is SO with the other sex. The
Catalan woman Is striking looking, but
she lacks the kind eyes and the charm
OF the Spanish doncella. She does not
attract you sufficiently to call for Sec
ond glance at her
Barcelona is very busy town, and in
relation to its size one of the most VIC
ious in the world. There are great
business opportunities in Spain for
American merchants, and to obtain a
footing now means to establish a last
ing trade for the future.
There is an opening here for almost
every class of merchandise.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
AuszsHMz=TNzzM~zzzem,,,

The Germans understood particularly
we'll how to handle the Spanish market
to best advantage. They did not waste
time endeavoring to educate their Gus
toners. They supplied their goods
adapted to Spanish requirepents and
afterward introduced, little by little,
their own German specialtics.
This is the only satisfactory method
of developing large business with
Spaniards and Spanish speaking coun-
tries. 1t may easily be understood that
IN country where at least 60 per cent
of the population can naither read nor
write the demand is chiefly for lower
grade goods.
The standard OF commercial morality
in Spain is not high, but, rs every
where else, there are good as we'll as
undesirable customers.
The American merchant would be
we'll advised to trade with the larger
distributing concerns who have a rem
EtEtlon TO maintain.
Spanish traders are anxious for the
war to finish SO that they may be able
to get once more into touch With Ger
man sources of supply.
France and England have not been
aole to take Germany's place as fur
nishers of Spanish needs.
England will have hard fight after
the war if she becomes candidate for
Spanish trade.
British merchants have in MANY in
stances unwisely alienated the sym
Pathles OF their foreign customers by
neglectng their old friends and by
treating Inquiries with scant courtesy.
People who understand the Latin char
ecter do not behave so stupidity. 1t is
SO easy to say and write what you have
got to say amiably.
Americans might we'll take A lesson
from from the lndiscretions Of the British
l mere Is an idea prevailing that there
will be an antipathy to German goods
after the war. Those who belieye tbat
way are not students Of human nature
scntlment is perfectly safe so long as
IT does not draw on mans BANKING
account.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Plants a Sprig
Of Oregon Pine

Captain Hardy planted sprg of
Oregon pine close to the Perry monu-
ment. with the prayer that the friendly
relations between the United States
and Japan be as fresh and ever con-
stant as the color of the pine. lie was
asked to go over the Kurihama beach
and locate many spots in connection
with the landing of the Perry party in
1858. From the accompanying photo
graph, it seems that the children of
five to fifteen took & good deal more
interest in this work of historical re-
search along the beach than did the
gentlemen Of historical society.
The old sailor was presented to their
Majesties the Emperor and Empress Of
Japan by the new American Ambas-
sador, Mr.. Roland S. Morris, and had
an interesting chat with MARQUIS
Okuma. The old sailor told the mar
quis that he had served the colors
through the Civil War and also through
the Spanish War. but he has steadily
declined to receive q pension from the
government. That impressed the mar
quis greatly. And he was reported to
have exclaimed:
Here is the true American spirit
which makes the greatness of the
United States."
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
"Y' Growing as
Fast as Men Arrive

When they want to write home thew
turn to the y. M. c. A. Fred LEIGHTON.
Dartmouth, '16, told nc he estimated
the soldiers had already come to the
\. NJ. {. A. for 100000 sheets Of note
paper. If they want button sewcd
on, or stamp, or to know if there is
a Cod they turn to the Y. NJ. c. A.
enough work to keep all the men the
"YN can mobilize on the job from
morning until night. The "Y" is grow
ing just as fast as the troops arrive
whenever new detachment yoes into
camp new Red Triangle hut springs
up.
Some idea of the scale on which
things are being done is given in the
following order sent to America by r.
(. Garter, who is in charge Of the
american !. VI. {. A. work in Europe
1"ehty tons OF tobacco, twenty tons
of soap, 10000 dozen Testaments
prayerboohs and hymnals, ten tors Of
chocolate, five tons of cocoa, five tons
OF coffee, two tons Of tea, five tons of
biscuits, thirty tons of writing paper,
fifty tons Of sugar, o,0O0 folding chairs.
zoo Photographs and 5000 records and
seventy-fve motion picture machines.
This is only a beginning; when the
real American army gets over here the
scale on which supplies are ordered by
the "Y" will be increased proportions
ately.
Hundreds of prominent American
college men are doing voluntary ser
vice with the Red Triangle forces in
Europe: d. d. Chaplin, +. G. Hercn-
Geen, +. c. Savage and J. c. Milne, I'd,
are some Of the Princeton boys who
have recently been sent to France. Ed
Smiley, former University of Penn
sylvania pitcher, is another who is play
ing prominent part.
PARKWAY Russia is to come in for
some Of the benefits of the American
Young Mems Christian Association.
Charles w. Riley has gone to Petro-
grad to start hut there among the
Russian soldiers. the first time the Red
Triangle OF any country has ever in
yaded the land Of SHOWS.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Bows Before
Stone to Perry

Iherc stands stone monument. And
it marks tho spot where Commodore
Perry landed, siXty-four years ago.
When Captain Hardy reached there he
was quite as much overcome with emo
tion as though he had reached the por-
tails of heaven. He threw himself
down IN front Of the monument and
let the emotional storm within him
escape in fcrycnt prayer.
Captain Hardy was entertained at a
luncheon IN q temporary structure
which was put Up close to the Perry
monument for the purpose OF receiving
the captain. Temporary, yes, but from
what the japanese newspapers say
about 1T one is led to believe that iC
was a much more pretentious building
than the thatched hut which the gov
ernment OF the Shogun erected on the
same beach TO receive Commodore
Perry and the personal letter from the
President Of the United States to the
Emperor OF Japan.
Presently the delegation from Lrsga
about forty leading citizens of the
historic community in. all the glory Of
ceremonial costume-trooped in to
present their respects and the words
OF official welcome to the captain.
In the company We're few old men
the captain had met on his first visit
to traga, back in the ancient days.
Captain Hardy took them to his bosom
IN tight embrace.
The reporter from the "Tokyo Asahi"
introduced ono OF the old residents of
uraga to the sailor: "And this is the
man who received cake of SOAP from
one Of you American sailors, when vo,,
were on your historic visit here, This
gentleman put the cakc Of soap in his
iron pot and cooked it long, long
time, but somehow did not find it very
palatablc."
That, Of course, is not the handsom-
est thing that could be said of the
people so widely advertised as the
cleanest cranks Of cleanliness in the
world. But tho fact stands.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
What Does a Girl
Care for Years?

triaing little thing like eighty-two
years of age doesn't amount to straw
in the consideration Of a schoolgirl
dreaming an international dream.
AT 1880 p. III. OH the sunny 17th Of
November, 1917, the Mexico Maru. of
the Osaka Shosen Kaisha's Seattle Line.
turned her nose up tho persistently-
sung and much-storicd Yeddo Bay. If
you happened to be anywhere within
sight, you would have seen Captain
Hardy. 1t was impossible to miss him.
He was right there on the bridge, all
rugged up in the costume OF sailor Of
Commodore Perry's days, waving his
cap, with "Susquehanna" in gold letters
waving it to all the world Soon the
reporters from the leading Toxic papers
mobbed him. The old captain stood the
attack like a rock of ages. But the
reception which awaited him at the
stone pier at Yokohama, which the ship
made little after y. H., quite melted
him. lie had left Seattle simple
American citizen; he landed at Yoko-
hama right upon the lap of "a recep-
tion committee such as the ambassador
Of a great power is rarely honored with,
More than that, he received something
which the most distinguished ambassa-
dor who had come to the shores OF
Nippon had never received--a bouquet
from little Miss Yamamoto. Fact is
the old sailor scared the little girl
pretty nearly to faint with his hug
and kiss.
II never dreamed of ever seeing such
a sight as that" said the captain to the
newspaper boys who had crowded about
him. His finger was quivering in the
direction where the Yamashro and the
Fusc, the two newest 30.6Oo-ton super
dreadnoughts of the imperial navy,
swung at anchor. "Why. when was
here in 1858. all the ships you had
New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
BY 4Adachi kinnosuke
N AMERICAN boy is now il

4 N AMERICAN boy is now in
N Jspan-just fresh, unripe kid
out on lark. he is letting
himself loose upon the entire Oriental
Empire and having the time of his life.
He is eighty-two years old now, and
answers to the namc of Captain Will
lam II. Hardy And, SO far as know,
he is the fttest Of all the brave men
who forced Japan to onen herself to
the world under Commodore Perry in
1853, for he seems to have survived
them allthc only living witness of
the first international treaty, in mod
ern sense, Japan signed at Kanagawa--
the only living American who saw with
his own eyes how the Hermit Japan Of
slxtyfour years ago looked and acted.
And to tell the truth, Japan-both the
people and the official world thcrc-is
enjoying the treat Of the captains visit
even more than the American visitor
himself. For Captain Hardy--an OBJ
scure retired sea dog Of but yesterday
and mere, though sturdy, citizen of
the United States, just one Of one hum
dred millions-is to-day accorded the
hohors and attentions due to person.
age little short of q guest Of state.
Moreover, the way he came to make
the visit has about it flavor Of
Alice in w onderland romance. At the
Aoyama Girls School, in the city Of
Toxic, little Miss Yamamoto was max
ing her studious way with the rest of
her comely company. Just how she
came to hear of an old sailor who had
been one Of Commodore Perry's men
still living in America I do not know.
But she did. And the discovery must
have loomed much bigger in her vision
than the dream of distant continent
that haunted the restless imagination
Of Columbus. She sat right down and
wrote Captain Hardy, and hinted in a
gentle Girlish manner why in the name
Of all that is gracious and cherry-blos-
SONY the old captain did not wish to
come back to Japan and see his old
friends.
Editors of newspapers, statesmen in
The American Congress, windbags in the
imperial Diet of Japan and other horrid
lunatics talked Of the American-Jap-
ancse war. Of course. But there was
nothing to that sort Of poppycock. The
sixty~four years since the captain's
first visit have mellowed the temper of
the Nippon people a good deal, in fact,
in their attitude toward the redbeards
Her people would be glad to see him.