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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-13
Lucky Indeed.

Lucky Indeed.
did you have any luck in your stock
market speculatiOns" Eyes, indeed.
l escaped with part of my money"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-13

Once there was q woman who
thought large feet preferable to a small
understanding.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-13
Talking Her Over.

Ketchum-"He says his wife Is the
apple Of his eye" Kittye-"She looks
like one that's been baked"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-13

Sometimes fellow Is like hydran-
yea blOOm-cultivates q blush with
aga
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-13
illustrated.

illustrated.
"How is your son getting on with
the lawT' Finely; he is already pros
ecuting his studies"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-13
Man,s Part In Dairy.

The dairy cow can be depended upon
for production, but preservation Of the
milk IL mans part.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-13

POliteness is easy currency and 1t
goes long way at that.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-13

There's no use In rocking the cradle
while you pinch the baby.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-06-06

the gratitude and the sacrifice Of
those fighting our battle for liberty
! in France and Belgium. II any man
can look upon those wonderful works
4 without a moist eye and an irrigating
sensation in tn throat he 10 pro-Ger-
1 man. HS
A visit to the top of the Washing
ton Monument will more than repay
the time taken. Beneath the eye, like
d huge map, lies the nerve center of
this great nation. The Potomac suck
les youthful ship building yards, n.y.
dro- planes and host of war factories.
Beyond the vision up the river lies the
testing grounds for Americas large
and small calibre guns and the boom
of exploding shells is plainly heard in
the Capitol.
had the pleasure of seeing the
first aero-mail service from Washing
ton to New York, and the second and
third. Where once those of mind
played the polo fleet Of Curtice and
other makes of by-planes start on
their cross country flight, and the Wis
ion of decade ago is now reality:
Do not worry about the care OF
your boy, and do not believe those
furnish stories of your boys dis
graceful life. Temptation is rife and
the hawks and scum of the underworld
are laying their nests, but the U. 5.
Government has treated this problem
in a most thorough and effectual man
ner, As an instance in this moral bat
tie I saw an individual victory won.
Seated in a public space were two
sailors: no exception to the rule, just
two plain sailors with deeds TO do and
the will to do them. A male hawk OF
the underworld squad approached and
poured out his tainted wares and or
fered his services as guide to the land
of sweet-bitters and renorse. Inc
manner and speed with which the grey
headed old rat departed prompted me
to find the reason. One of the sailor
lads told me how the Government
points out the easy paths and the re-
suits, by moving pictures especiaily
produced from life and run in the
form of real life dramas. have often
declared that if the child could get q
sample of the punishment prior TO
stealing the tarts and cookies from ms
mothers larder, he would not steal:
There is no doubt that the majority OF
young men fall through, first the love
of adventure, second to test the adage
stolen frits are sweeter and third
sheer solid, unadulterated ignorance OF
the result The other sailor boy re-
marked as l rose to leave, We were
born and bred in Chicago sir, and l
guess we are bit fresh, but since
Joining the Navy ten months ago we
have learned to respect out manhood
so that other men will respect us. The
Navy teaches US. to be men and we are
coming out of this fight dead or alive,
but clean, and all boys at our station
the same way about it,
Soldiers and soldiers and then some.
Everywhere, in every restaurant, no.
tel lobby, every office, every building,
every street and alley. Hundreds of
them, thousands of them, pouring in,
pouring out Some from the west, the
north the south. All going east event.
ually, but what a job. An army in the
making and Washington the labor
atory. If Washington was asleep in
the past it is awake, both hands. now
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-06-06

Thousands upon thousands Of uniform
ed and un-uniformed men and an
army Of girls crowd the hundred of Of
fees. Boys and dusky. skinned gentle
men rush from room to room, and
floor to floor, from building to build
ing in their mad haste to settle this
Kaiser affair. They all know it is up
to them individually, and with a spirit
like that the nation l have heard Of in
Europe with an appetite for babies
and weak women will have no trouble
in going west
When you have seen all these
points of interest and located the
Smithsonian Institute, the White
House, Congressional Library, manag-
ed to find the Capitol, heard your par
ticlar representative speak-in his
private office and not left stone
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-06-06

The war air envelopes Washington.
Soldier and civilian hasten to their
respective destination with a look on
their face never before seen, for this
IS not mine owners war, or a war
over boundary dispute, or an effort
to force another nation to apologize
for some fanc1ed insult or act of dis
respect. 1t is a war of such magnitude
and Of such vast importance to the
generations to come, as well as those
who yet have years to traverse ere
the lapse of the allotted span, that his
torians will expire before their chron-
lcle is complete. This is your war and
my war, individually. A war for your
personal safety and my personal safe
ty and this fact, already beginning to
be felt by those further east, is stamp
ed indelibly upon the workers in
Washington.
AS humble member of the army of
outsiders ! was ordered to present my
self to Major Washington
D. C. left Minneapolis on the Satur-
day evening amid the latest transpor-
tation confusion. Two gentlemen were
disputing the possession of berth No
6. Each declared he was the occupant
Seeing but one way to settle the dis
pute was forced to disclose myself as
the rightful fully paid possessor Of
said berth and the calm eye quelling
the rising storm the litigants retired
to the day coach anathamatising the
Kaiser very strongly. The gentleman
occupying the opposite seat to me
said there was evidently mistake as
he had overlooked lower 6. discretion
being the better part of valor, he was
Of the superdreadnought type, grac.
iously retired but later secured the
only remaining upper which happened
to be over my large friend.
However, despite the fact of the elm.
ination of parlor cars, observation
cars, gin rickies and moving picture
cars the travelling public cheerfully ap
prove of McAdoo's conservation pol.
icy. When the U. S. Government wants
the car porters and station hands we
will cheerfully make 'up orr owr
berths and carry out out our owr
grips, for this is our fight.
To those whose business takes
them to Washington during these stir
ring times I urge they check theil
baggage and plan a campaign to VIII
a room. Plan, if possible, to arrive il
Washington in the early morning so al
to allow plenty Of time for the all i'm
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-06-06

unturned in the sight seeing line, tarn
your weary mind and body to the light
railway depot or steamboat pier and
book for Mount Vernon, Americas
first home. After wandering through
out the simple, yet dignified home Of
the Father Of this country, cast ysur-
self down upon the green swad and
forget the hurry and hustle of war
ridden city. Dream Of the days when
the world will be bathed in the sun,
shine of peace and prosperity, and
life's vista reflects the beauty and
calm so wonderfully encompassed on
the banks of the Potomac, for the day
will come and nought will rob reflec-
ton of it's due. The worlds foulest
crime will be horror Of the past,
paid for by blood and sacrifice of tNe
upholders of democracy. W
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-06-06
Notice of Poundm asters Sale,

The following described animal was
impounded with me May %, 1918:
One yearling steer, solid red, with
horns. ] will offer the same for sale
to the highest bidder for cash, at my
home, Sec. 33-154-84, on Saturday,
June 20, 1913, at two o'clock in the
afternoon, unless claimed by owner
prior to that time.
OLE HOLUM,
Poundmaster Burt Township,
5-3O-t4 brady, N. D.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-06-06
WASHINGTON D. c.

Robt. B. Stacy Judd, Minot N. D.
According to science large bodies
move slowly and in ratio to size so the
speed. A Mexican border sqauble is Of
mushroom conception and natures in
one night. But when nation of one
hundred and and ten million people
decides to enter the war lists under
modern& conditions the unalterable
laws must be obeyed.
The capital city Of this great ma
tion, at the present time, resembles
very closely a colony of exceedingly
energetic ants, especially to an outsid-
er. Yet all the apparent aimless &C
lions of the vast army are the infinit-
isimal atoms comprising a definite or
ganism.
Meade County news., 1918-04-18
(THD END.)
PLAYING the Man.

No matter what part he may be
playing In the strenuous game of life
as 1t is presented today, the brother
hood man, above all others, must play
the man. These are times when the
best that Is In us must be given to
carry on" Gnd the race run with
steadfastness and manly purpose.
AS Robert L. Stevenson so beautifully
puts it: whether we regard life as
line leading to dead wall-a mere
bags end, as the French say-or
whether we think of It as q vestibule
or gymnasium, where we wait our turn
and prepare our facilities for some
more noble destiny; whether we thun-
der In pulpit or pule In little esthetic
poetry books about its vanity and brew
ity, whether we look justly for years
Of health and vigor, or are about to
mount into bath chair, as a step to-
wards the hearse; In each and all Of
these views and situations there is but
one conclusion possible; that a man
should stop his ears against paraly-
sing terror and run the race that ID
set before him with single mind"
Meade County news., 1918-04-18

son and another cowboy at the Cove,
just preparing to leave. Marthy, It
transpired, had sent for them because
she wanted to make her will, so that
Billy Louise would have the Cove when
Marthy was done with it. Billy Louise
cried q little and argued q good deal,
but Marthy had not lost all her stub.
bornness, and the will stood un.
changed.
Billy Louise and Ward were married
just as soon as Ward was able to make
the trip to the county-seat, which was
just as soon as he could walk comfort
ably with a cane.
They stayed the winter In the Cove,
and part Of the spring. Then they
buried grim, gray old Marthy up on the
side hill near Jase, where she had
asked them to lay her work-worn body
when she was gone.
They were very busy and very happy
and pretty prosperous with their three
ranches. They never heard Of Charlie
Fox again, or of Buck OIney-and they
never wanted to.
If you should some time ride through
certain portion Of Idaho, you may
find the tiny valley of the Wolverine
and the decaying cabins which prove
how impossible 1t is for a couple to
live in three places at once. II you
should be so fortunate as to meet Billy
Louise, she might take you through
the canon and point out to you her
cave. 1t is possible that she might also
show you the washout which always
made her and Ward laugh when they
passed it. And If you ride up over the
hill and along the upland and down
another hill, you cannot fail to find the
entrance to the Cove; and perhaps you
will like to ride down the gorge and
see the little Eden hidden away there.
And If you should meet them, give my
regards to Billy Louise and Ward
who never calls himself a football
these days.
(THD END.O
Meade County news., 1918-04-18

swell, it's lucky thing for you he
won't let you," Billy Louise informed
him sternly, STOPPING to crawl under
the bottom wire. you've got about as
much sense as" She did not say
what. "GiVe me that rope, and you
take yourself and your crutches out
Of the corral, Mr.. Smarty. 1 just had
hunch you couldn't be trusted to be.
have yourself"
Brave Buckaroo got lonesome, y
Ward said, looking at her with eyes
alight, as he hobbled slowly toward
her. you'll have to open the gate for
me, William. Rattler'll make a break
for the open If he sees crack as wide
as your little finger"
By then he was near enough to
reach out an arm and pull her close to
him. "0h, William girl, I'm sure glad
to see you once more. 1 got scared. ]
thought maybe 1 just dreamed you
were here; so tackled"
"You tackled more than you could
handle. You ought to know you mustn't
try to ride Rather, Ward. What If he'd
pitch with your"
"In that case, I'd pile up, I reckon.
Say William, broken leg does take a
deuce Of a time to get well. But all
the same, I'll stop old Rather, all right.
I'd top anything rather than spend an
other night in that JAIL"
"You'll ride Blue" Billy Louise told
him calmly. "Tm going to ride Rather
myself"
"Yes, you are-notW
'Do you mean to say I can't2 Do
you think"
"Oh, / guess you can, all right, but"
swell, If 1 can, I'm going to. If you
think can't handle measly old skate
like that"
"He's been running out for nearly
two months, Wilhemina-"
"And look at his ribs If you'll just
kindly go in the house while I sad.
die"
"rll kindly stay right here, lady
girl. You don't know Rattler-"
"And you don't know Billy Louise
Macdonald" She wrintled her nose
at him and turned back to unsaddle
Meade County news., 1918-04-18
S&A

Blue. T really didn't intend to, go
back right now" she said, "but seeing
you've got your heart set on it, sup
pose we might as WELL" Then she
added: "We're only going as far as
the Cove, anyway; and 1 really ought
to hurry back to look after Marthy.
Charlie Fox and Peter pulled out and
left her there all solitary alone. I've
been staying with her overnight. 1
told her we'd be down there, and stay
till-further notice."
Billy Louise did not give Ward much
opportunity for argument. He was too
awkward with his crutches to keep I'D
with her, and she managed to be on
the move most of the time.
When she had helped Ward upon
Blue-and that was not easy, either,
considering that he only had one leg
fit to stand on-and had gone to the
cabin for her bag Of nuggets and
Wards roll Of money which he had for
gotten, and had exhausted every other
excuse for delay, she picked up Rat
tiers reins and wound her fingers in
his name, and took hold Of the stirrup
as nonchalantly as If she were mount
ing Blue.
"Now we're all right and comfy" she
announced breathlessly, when the first
fight was over and Rather, like his
master. had yielded to the inevitable.
"And we know who's boss. and we're
all Of us squindlciously happy, because
we're headed for home. Aren't we,
buckarooT
81 suppose So" Ward mumbled
doubtingly, for a moment eyeing her
sidelong.
"And say, buckarool" Billy Louise
reined close, so that she could reach
out and pinch his arm little bit.
"Soon as your leg is all well, and you're
every speck over the hookin'-cOugh,
why-yOu can be the bossp
"Can I?''
'Honest, you can. Pve"-Billy Lou
ise had the grace to blush a little
''Pve always thought I'd love to have
somebody bully me and 0e1s me and
Meade County news., 1918-04-18
Norfolk Bids Fair to Break all Rec
ords at Her Present Rate
Of Progress.

There is not city in this country,
perhaps none in the world, that is
growing at more rapid rate than Nor
folk" remarked G. w. Sizer, manager
Of one Of the leading hotels Of that
city, at the Raleigh, the Washington
Post states. "The last census gave
the population of Norfolk at less than
10000. Today 1t is estimated that Nor
folk is a city of 10000, or more than
double the size 1t was in 1910. Wash
ington prides itself ON the tremendous
growth attained In the last two or
three years. take considerable pride
In the growth Of Washington, for i
lived here many years, but the pro-
portionate increase in the population.
Of the national capital cannot compare
with that of Norfolk. OF course, both
cities are helped by war business.
Washington, I presume, is the busiest
city In the world, but Norfolk is al
most next.
Hampton Roads Is filed with ships.
Battleships are passing in and out
every hour, and soldiers and sailors
are filling the streets, hotels and resi-
dences of Norfolk. Only recently /
saw some 1000 soldiers from New Zea-
land paradlng through the streets Of
Norfolk. Many of them were not
young. New Zealand already has sent
close to 10000 men to the front in
France, and Belgium, out Of popu-
latlon of 100000 and is still sending
men, which should be an object les
son to us.
Business is booming in Norfolk as
never before. TIE hotels are filed to
Meade County news., 1918-04-18
The First RomanoT.

Romanoff is the name of the Rms
sian imperial dynasty regnant In the
male line from 1913 to 173O, and
thenceforward in the female line. Con-
slant intermarriages with German
princely houses, however, have made
the Romanoff strain Of today mopa
German than Russian. Nay; the old
est ancestor Of the house Of Roman
of. Andrew Kobyla, is said to have
come to Moscow from Prussia (1341).
The name Romanoff was given to the
family by the boyar Roman Yurie-
witch, the fifth Of direct descent from
Andrew, who succeeded in getting n
female member Of his family on the
throne Of the czars by marrying his
daughter to Ivan the Terrible. In
February, 1913, Mikhael Feodorvitch
Romanoff, boy of seventeen, was pro-
claimed car, grand duke and autocrat
of all the Russlas in the Red square
of Moscow. With this accession to
the throne Of the famous, or rather Ill.
famed, dynasty began a SO4 years
misrule that-let us hope-has ended
forever with the forced abdication q
Czar Nicholas, In March, 1917.
Meade County news., 1918-04-18

Bullding-up for the Spring Attack at
the Front is a good deal like putting
the body In condition for an invasion
or the germs Of grip, pneumonia or
Spring fever" here at home.
At this time Of the year most people
suffer from a condition often called
Spring Fever. They feel tired, worn
out, before the day is half thru. They
may have frequent headaches and
sometimes "plmply" or pale skin and
white lips. The reason for this is that
during the wlntertIme, 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 clrcu-
lation-with inactive liver and kidneys.
Time to put your house in order.
For an invlgorating tonic which will
clarity the blood, put new life in the
body, sparkle to the eyes, and
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 40 DR..
Plerce'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 that
constant tired feeling, the simple way
to overcome these Disorders is merely
to obtain DR.. Perce's Anuric from
your druggist. In tablets. sixty cents.
Meade County news., 1918-04-18
CHAPTER XVIII.
All RIuht and Comfy.

T<HB next morning Billy Louise
rode up the creek at long lope,
and she pulled up at the stable
and slid off Blue. She went straight
to a corner Of the hay corral and
stopped with her hands clutching the
top wire.
Ward Warren, for heavens sake,
what are you doingT You couldn't
have told from her tone that she had
been crying, a mile back, from sheer
anxiety, or that she '1oved him to
pieces" She sounded as If she did not
love him at all and was merely disgust
ed with his actions.
"Tm trying to sink my loop on this
buzzard-head of a horse" Ward re-
torted glumly. I've been trying for
about an hour" he added, grinning a
little at his own plight.
Meade County news., 1918-04-18
CITY HAVING RAPID GROWTH

overfowing just as they are in Wash
ington. New business blocks are go
Ing up and the residence sections Of
the city are being extended far into
the outlying districts. l venture to say
that in another decade Norfolk will
come close to being the leading city in
the Old Dominion, both in population
and Importance"
Meade County news., 1918-04-18
Canadian Honored.

At Balaklava, Canada was represent
ed by Lieut.. Alexander Dunn of Tor
onto, an officer Of the Light Brigade.
He was the first native of Canada
to receive the Victoria Cross. At Wa
terloo Capt. Alexander McNab, the
first Canadian to hold commission in
the British regular army, was among
the heroic dead Of that historic battle
field.
Meade County news., 1918-04-18
Why She Broke It OF

Dlck-Everyone says I'm a puzzle.
Tess-In that case there's only one
thing for me to do-glve you up.
Meade County news., 1918-04-18
His Fear.
important to Mothers
More Than One Way.

Jonah entered the whale.
"Another way Of saving daylight"
he remarked.
Meade County news., 1918-04-18

THIS Is THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger If You
dArken your ugly. grizzly. gray hairs BY
using La Creole" Hair Dressing. ADV.
Meade County news., 1918-04-18

New Zealand WHEAT acreage n n
per cent short.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-11-22
HOOVER WRITES MESSAGE
FOR FRENCH FC0b CARD

Proof that the Allied peoples look
upon the United States as their saw
Jour from starvation is shown by the
fact that even upon the bread cards
OF France there is a message from
the United States Food Administra-
tor. The Ministere De L'Agriculture
ct Du Ravitaillement-co
ing to our Food Administrator-re-
Gently asked the United States Food
Administrator for message which
could be distributed TO the people OF
France, and this now appears on their
bread card issued by the European
Republic.
Mr.. Hoover's message reads: "Ev-
cry coupon in France is mute proof
OF the resolution OF the French peo-
pie to deprive themselves OF every
thing to one issue-the winning OF
this war. To win now rests on the
humber of tons of men and munitions
that America can ship in, and on the
magnificent French Army. And with
this daily economy in food there will
be enough ships-and there will be-
enough food to maintain health and
strength.
Herbert Hoover"