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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
What He Was Going to Say.

C. 7. Williams Of Toronto was COM
PEELED to make m unexpected business
trip to Ohio. He entered hotel In .
small town In that state without bag
gage.
Can I get q room here for the
night?" he asked.
"Yes, SIR" answered the proprietor
~if you can put up"
Mr.. Williams placed bill on the
desk.
II started to say" continued the
proprietor, "if you can put up with
room without bath. Boy, show thii
gentleman upstairs"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30

there was lack alliances But Jesse
he In his statements For
he might a for "A country girl
his cell
station:
Womenl Help proftng by them
in amt 1t the truth?
Yes sir If out of this I'm going to
in Tibet and
they'll find out where
wive best She No. D.
tro To tell the truth
anything
a1aston vho the trouble
world hardest
the chin and she thinks
oh and the first thing know
nailed"
Yes Jesse 8 considerably changeable.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Uncle Sam Is to Conserve
Gold Only by Distributing
It For the Essential Uses
Need a new gold tooth?

Need a new gold tooth?
Going to wed during the war?
Better order that ring right away.
Expecting to invest In gold luxuries
Better forget that-it can't be done
during this mans war.
For our Uncle Sam has decided to
keep a little red book on the gold sup
ply.
The gold administrator may not
come to rival the fuel administrator,
the food conservator and the gasoline
checker.
But gold-the commodity-willh here
after be distributed in bullion as the
wholesale manufacturing jeweler and
the dentist and other finer craftsmen
set forth their absolute requirements.
Use of gold, the commodity, will be
restricted to the essentials.
An officer of the assay Office ex-
plains as follows:
"As far as we know, first instruc-
lions to stop exchanging gold bullion
for gold coin or cash has been rescind-
ed. We have resumed the exchange In
a modified or restricted way. The fu-
ture course will be governed by the
drain that Is made on the supply. 1t
will work out as simply as the cam
paigns to conserve sugar. wheat, fuel
and gasoline. And In close way the
plan follows the same general pur-
pose. The government will keep track
of its gold supply, see who needs 1t
and who gets it, and win stop any at
tempts to hoard it"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
How the German laborer
Is Chained to His Job

Control of labor power in Germany
is absolute, according to information
obtained from that country. Just how
each workman Ii chained to his Job
may be realized when 1t is known that
he cannot change positions without the
written consent either Of his employ
er or Of a board Of seven members
appointed by the military authorities.
The boards Of seven include an army
officer as chairman, two government
officials, two employers, and two work
ingmen. The workingmen, therefore,
not only have small representation on
the board, but are denied the opportu-
nifty Of choosing their own representa-
tives, for that is undertaken by the
war Office.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30

G. A. R. Organized in 1866.

The Grand Army Of the Republic
war organized in Illinois in 1895 by
Or. 3. +. Stephenson Of Springneid.
he was surgeon of Union regiment
drr,nr the Civil war and afterward
librarian of congress for several years.
The object of the society was to pro-
mote the interests of veteran soioiers
and maintain the principles, memories
and associations of the Union army.
The fret national convention OF the
order was held at indianapolis Novem
her % 1896 the second at Phiiadel-
phia in 1868, and later ones annualy
In many Other ritias
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30

told shoenbah to wrap up tho
home and put them in the Ice box ana
peculiar
refrigerator
chickens black
stated all violently
cleared He said he
q physicians BILL
trial both
pistol without permit
under 1000 attempted assault complaint
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
At the Patent Office.

In 1903 there were 67,9S6 appllca-
tons for patents, and 35,O25 were
granted; in 1914, there were @,311 APP
plications and 36,276 granted; in 1915,
c. 97 applications and 1874 granted;
in 1916, 67,34S applications, and 44,155
granted; in 1917, $3.50 applications,
and 52,32S granted.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Food for Thought

A woman would be mighty un-
happy tied up for life to a man
she couldn't find fault with now
and then.
A woman is always wanting
something her husband can't af-
ford and man always seems to
enjoy telling her that he can't
afford 1t.
The best way to win this war
is to send our soldiers so many
guns and shells that it won't be
necessary for them to have to
rise to. sYperhuman deeds Of
bravery.
The fourth Liberty bonds
should go as fast as the Yanks
are going along the German
frontier.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Itchlno Burnlnu Skins.

For eczemas, rashes, feelings, irrita
tons, pimples, dandruff, sore hands
and baby humors, Cuticura Soap and
Ointment are supremely effective. Fol
free samples address "Cuticura. Dept
X, Boston" At druggists and by mall
Soap %, Ointment Is and 50.-Adv.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30

distress and finally resulted In his ap-
pearance in the Heights police court
on charges Of attempted felonious as
sault and Carrying a weapon.
The principal actors in the feath-
cry drama are August Heithaus, resi-
dent of Hackensack. N. j., and Julius
Schoenbach, a poultry dealer with an
establishment in New York.
The testimony showed that Heit-
haus, who is the proprietor Of a pool
and billiard parlor, was passing the
atnra on his way to Fort
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
A Fathers Disappoinsren&.

'sThat was a fine letter Josh wrote
home" commented Mrs. Corntossel.
every line Of 1t was jes' ~ grammati-
cal as 1t could be-"
That's what worries me-" replied
her husband. HE has spoiled his
style. thought at first he was goln'
to have a great future as one Of these
natural-born comical dialect writer's"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Consolation.

He-Mr. Cadby refused to recognise
me today. Thinks, l suppose, that
am not his equal.
She-Ridiculous OF course you are
Why, he's nothing but conceited id
iOt.-BOston Transcript.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30

"Well. 1 don't know. Maybe II the
right kind of a girl came along-a
country girl who could make pies
you know the kind Of pies, with naky
crusts-and If she owned farm and
had no ear for music-and didn't OBJ
tect to a mans going out nights-Weu
maybe; who can tell?'
But chances are against any more
wedding bells for Jesse for some time.
Y'see, he's under 5000 bond pending
a hearing because two Of the previous
sly uiuas got tnpather and ascertained
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
The Missing Link.

Algernon (excitedly)-Oh, Miss
Deerins, half an hour ago I was just
minute too late to assist in rescuing
man from drowning! The crowd
formed a human chain and
Alice (interrupting)-You were the
missing link?
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
In the Dark.

"Your daughter,
sir, has referred
me to you"
"Well?"
"Can I have
herr"
81 dunno. She
hasn't given me
any instructions,
young man."
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
JESTS AND JINGLES
Partly Right.

Partly Right
II don't like your heart action" the
doctor said, applying the stethoscope
again. "You have had some trouble
with angina pectoris."
you're partly right, doctor" said
the young man, sheepishly, "only that
amt her name"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Dogs Of War.

"Some of these
war devices of the
Prussians h ave
proved clumsy"
~ e s. T b ey
were the sort Of
thing to be ex-
pected from q nal
ton that regarded
q dachshund as
an improvement
on a regular dog"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30

Groves Tasteless chill Tonic
restsres vitality and energy by purifying and s1
rchfng the blood. You can soon feel it, StrenGA
ening lnvigorsttng Eject. Price oc
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Chickens Caused Purchaser All Kinds OF Trouble

Anew tale the chameleon
black
caused the all kinds trouble and
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30

The silent partner in firm Away
has lot to say.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Her Specially.

HAS your wife been canning mucf
fruit this season."
mo; she has been canning me.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Mothers Cook Book
sssssssssssssssssss<
What to Eat.

Thare amt nobuddy but a butterfly kan
1iv on buty and git phatt.-Josh Billings.
Bananas, like everything else In the
food line, have scared in price, but
when they can be bought by weight
they are not very expensive in the
average market. Variety is the spice
Of food as we'll as life, and we need
to vary our menus as much as possible.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30

For speedy and effective action Dr. A.! PEER ny,
vilI clean out Worms or Tapeworm A4S
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Sad but Not Unusual Ending to Youthful Dreams

H1CAGo-George Ernest Mamoen the boys
will manter
a memorable night In an Egn poce
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
PROVING You Can't Keep a Good Man Down

ANsAs that idea of organizing
unhapper
Mills Already had picked out
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Much Married Man Might Tempt Fortune Again

hasn't had enough OF women yet ANA
TO the query YOU
might yagainY
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30

plOGc q nCChs VA SS''~NN N-~S' ~-~>
station, the boys were turned over to
their respective parents for further
treatment.
The boys left Chicago two days
ago, taking an electric train. which
happened to be going to Elgin.
Simultaneous with their departure.
800 that George Stoves father had
put away for the winter coal disap-
peared.
It was while they were stocking
ND for their long trip with cans OF
sardines, sausage, matches, bread and
other essentials of camping that the ST
of bills, notified the police.
The air guns, previously purchase
something less than the purchase pri'
Besides these the boys had Dough
knife and innumerable sodas.
Ernest spoke lightly of the escapa
cream he had consumed.
But George, the real instigator OF
,shment. He Is held in solitary confine
quite forgive him for being the first OF
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Easy Proposition.

Easy Proposition.
"Whatever induced her to marry the
man she did?"
II think the principal induccment
was because he asked her to-"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30

registered for the draft began poster
He boards offices and
visit saw him little matter OF inch or
Finally the bod
locked Franks approach
One cay threshold passed. he made
disrespu q the eXemptors
he q I'd made for France You can't
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Baked Bananas, Belgian Style.

Remove the peeling from eight small
bananas and scrape each to remove
the coarse threads. Lay them side by
side in q baking dish suitable to
serve from. Crate over them the rind
Of an orange and half Of lemon;
mix the juice Of half lemon, an Or
ange and a half cupful of honey;
pour over the bananas; bake in a
quick oven until soft. Serve from the
dish. One banana will make serving.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30

uniform to wear to war, and he had
notion that nowhere else In the seTv-
ice awaited a welcome for a man who'd
fit into 1t.
But Frank did his best, anyhow.
Army, navy, marine corps, tanks; avi-
alton. signalers. intelligence; cavalry.
infantry, artillery-Clvilian Mills tried
'em all.
But even when he stood on tiptoe
he rose to no grander height than 4
feet IL and the recruiting officers
would have mono Of him. Frank had
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30
Baked Bananas, SuItana Sauce.

Remove the banana from the skins,
scrape and return to Its original place
in the skin. Set bananas in an agate
saucepan to cook until the skin is
well blackened and the pulp Is soft.
About 20 minutes will cook them In a
moderate oven. An hour before pre-
pairing the bananas put three-fourths
Of a cupful of sultana raisins with
cup of boiling water on to cook, adding
more water as needed. Mix a half cup
of sugar and two teaspoonfuls Of corn
starch, a teaspoonful Of butter and a
grating of lemon peel with the juice;
cook until smooth and pour boiling hot
over the peeled bananas.
Bananas added to q custard pie or
riced bananas put on top Of a fresh
custard pie and served at once make
q very tasty pie.
Mashed bananas in whipped cream
for cake filing Is delicious, adding
sugar to sweeten.
Bananas Fried In Crumbs.
Remove the skin from six bananas,
scrape and remove the coarse threads;
cut in halves lengthwise, then cross
wise. Sprinkle with salt, pepper,
lemon Juice, dip in -four, egg and
crumbs and fry in deep fat. Drain on
brown paper and serve garnished with
lemon and parsley. Serve with lemon
sauce. =,
Bananas as a salad are so well
known that it needs but reminder
that rolled in nuts and served with a
good dressing they are well liked. The
peeling itself may be used for q nest
when serving.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-30

The Huns are as rats In trap. Nov
to keep them from gnawing out.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Mobilizing Medical Men

because OF the eVer-grOWlng needs OF
the army and navy and the necessity for
maintaining the health of those who stay
at home the government is about to take
control Of the entire medical profession
of the country. Physicians are to be en-
rolled in Il volunteer service corps, as
members of which they pledge them
selves to accept whatever service, mill
tary or civilian, is assigned to them; or,
if necessary, they are to be drafted, un-
der new legislation.
No profession gives more literally of
its time and talents to genuine public SER
vice, and no profession has responded
more finely to the demands Of war on it
than that Of the physician. The trouble
is that there are too few of them. In the
army and navy now are about % 900; at
least twice that number must be in uni
form eventually. Meantime physicians at
home are doubling up on work, the more
prosperous are doing without assistants.
the hospitals of this and other large cities
are almost stripped Of internes and have
lost many of the star members of their
stats. What the government plans to do
is to select the men desired for military
duty and to allocate those remaining for
civilian duty, taking them, if necessary,
from their own Offices and sending them
to communities not sufficiently supplied.
This plan, though imposing great hard
ship on individual physicians, will permit
the government to arrange for adequate
maintenance Of the efficiency of hospi-
tails, an obvious necessity for the con-
tinuance Of the work of medical schools
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
HE Emotions of Gold

ne other day very clever man. late)v
returned from England, said to us that
after the war gold would be dcmone.
tlzed. lie repeated the Bismarckian
phrase that there is not enough gold to
go around, not enough for the worlds
exchanges. He was quite sincere.
we wonder if we shall ever have done
with the delusion that either the kind or
amount of money in country. or in the
"orid, makes any especial difference to
anybody, so long as the amount of it
ooes not change rapidly. Mr.. Brvan
and fanciful Finance seem still oer-
vasively alive.
Gold will not be demonctized after
the war, but it is to all intents demone-
tlzed now. Nobody can take any GUAM
1lty OF gold out of the country or a
creditor enforce large payment in
gold even though it be so stimulated in
the bond
Does this make any notable difference
either IN internal or foreign trade? Suh-
stantlally none at all. What does mat
Ter is tor the supply of money (of all
k'nds) to be violently altered This is
what has happened in nearly all the
trading countries, and the resu]t has
peen great rise in prices. This has
brought an enormous amo.nt of dis
comfort and real suffering to MANY and
prod1glous gains to others.
The thrifty and all that huge class
whose salaries and incomes are more or
less fixed have had their slender earn.
lngs and savings cut in half. What thew
have lost has been transferred to othore--
largely to the spectators, the land own
efs, the factory owners and wage earnorc
N all the favored lines These have
been enriched incredibly, and it is parflv
due to so or 55 cent value Of the
dollar SO that a million now means M
more than half a million when the war
began. Why has all this evoked no
storm OF protest? Partly because of
general ignorance and Indifference.
partly because the disadvantaged classes
have been none too we'll Gked-bavo
hltherto had more than the common
snare. This economic revolution has
been wholly in the sense of Rrvs,,ic
fnance and stirs the same emotions tb.+
brought 100000 votes to the hanno,
OF the Peerless One
Inc rich man and the saver love gold
because 1T is symbol of power
great number hate it because It is q 70
mlnder of defeat.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Baseball or War

The decision of Secretary Baker to end
the favoritism that has been shown the
baseball players was bound to come. The
small numbers involved could not affect
the principle at stake. Here was group
of our huskiest YOUTH the best material
for soldering the world around. And
they were exempted upon the easy-going
theory that the pleasure of stay-at-home
crowds was more important than the
war
The whole psychology Of this theory
was wrong The deeper we go into the
war the clearer we see our mistake. Our
fighting men in France are not getting
any exciting seventh innings, nor need
we get them. Recreation is as necessary
for US as for the men at the front. But
it must never be permitted to interfere
with the making of war. That means
ball players; it means each and every
American, old and young.
We must reduce our recreation and so
plan it that it does not delay one stroke
of war work The sooner we all realize
this the better. We can think of no more
wholesome illustration Of the truth, no
better way of bringing it home to all
America, than the present act of draft
ing ball players, great and small, heroes
or bushers, simply because they are good
American fighting material.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Was II a U-Boat?

The unnecessary official mystery
thrown about the sinking of the San
Diego is in striking contrast with the
War Departments celerity in comment
ing on the progress of the Franco Amer
lean offensive in Champagne. While
Secretary Baker was forecasting last
Friday the fall of Scissors the Navy De-
partment was leaving the newspapers to
make what they could of rumors and
survivors tales concerning the loss of an
armored cruiser just off the entrance to
New York Harbor. If German subma-
rine had got in SO close to our harbor
waters the public was entitled to know
that fact. And if the incident was a
mystery to the department, that should
have been promptly announced. The Sat
urday morning papers assumed that a
torpedo from German U-boat sank the
San Diego. The department did nothing
to demolish that assumption. Yet there
was much room for doubt. and presenta-
tion of the uncertainties of the case would
surely have been in order.
1t would be extraordinary if a U-boat
had reached the neighborhood of Fire
Island and yet had sunk no merchant
shipping. 1t would be a strange de-
parture for submarine commander to
turn away from unarmed or weakly
armed merchantmen and take the risk
of attacking a warship--especially
warship Of an obsolete type From q
military point of view the loss of an
armored cruiser like the San Diego is of
much less consequence than the loss of a
frcighter.
" hat grounds are there for charging
the disaster off Fire Island to subma-
rine? In the absence Of any other evi-
dence of U-boat activities at the mouth
of this port, the theory that the San
Diego struck mine would seem to be
more reasonable. But in either OF any
case full information of facts and prob
abilities Should have been given to the
public. The people along this coast will
not be pancstricken, even if they realize
that our defence against U-boat incur
slons is far from complete.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

employees in other departments whose
pay at present falls below the demands
which living costs make on them. The
city's business, like private business, has
been losing men in two directions-some
to military service and some to employ
ers who pay higher wages. This cannot
go on indefinitely. Public employment
offers certain advantages in the way of
permanent tenure and retirement funds;
nevertheless, these may be offset by high
er wages. Workers follow wages. AIDE
quate wage revision inevitably results.
Also, there should follow revision of
city expenditures in order to save for the
taxpayers at least a portion of the salary
increase by the cutting out of unneces-
sary jobs and fancy salaries for politi-
clans who got their places by pull. Econ
omy is urged on the nation as a war
necessity. City governments should not
be above this any more than the indi-
vidual.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
The DANGEROUS Age

When is the dangerous age? Always \
little around the corner from where your
particular philosopher happens to be To-
Gated, says the cynic. But there are gen.
eralizations of some standing, and the
war is adding a new and important one,
true Tor men, at any rate, it is contended.
This particular dangerous age was de-
scribed by French lieutenant as begin
ming around forty and being those years
when man still feels young and can, in
fact, as result OF his years of experience.
do everything more skilfully than ever
before in his life, but cannot, in purely
physical contest, maintain his skill or his
pace. The sense of ability in these dan
gerous years is very great and very real,
but fatally deceptive. You feel better
than ever before in your life. And you
are better-while you last.
But in any gruelling contest of bodies
where stamina counts, where nerves
must hold not only through the first and
the tenth hours, but through the twelfth
as we'll, the man of forty not only fails
but fails suddenly and fatally, led on by
his false sense of ability.
Deceptive, treacherous years they are,
rather than necessarily dangerous For
1t is only on the purely physical side that
the failure comes. Mentally a man
grows, or should grow, better and better
And woman, too. If you would go to
war you must be sure that your task
does not ask the impossible of your body.
That is the immediate moral for the man
or woman over forty. But for the rest!
Listen to Mary Roberts Rinehart nurse.
mother and novelist, speaking at forty
one:
With the possible exception of starting
any taxing physical work like hospital
nursing, should urge every woman to
prepare for her best service at forty. or
forty plus. Let no woman who has
crushed down her dreams of q career be-
cause she was not free to start till middle
age be disheartened.
Careers, by all means. Start them
whenever you will--at sixty-six, as did
DE Morgan, if you prefer The more dan
gerous the year the better 1t is only the
bayonet and the aeroplane and such like
toys Of youth that must be denied YOUR
dangerous old codger Of forty-odd