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them, while others stood guard over
her husband with a revolver. This
was told me by the woman herself.
At the depot at Vlaanderen / saw
an English soldier wounded that had
no hat or shoes or socks and it was
cold and he complained because he
suffered with cold and | found an old
blanket and covered him up and then
the soldier on guard knocked me down
for doing it. / saw German soldiers
have in their possession the cutoff
fingers of women and children with
rings on them.
saw French aeorplane shot down
and the aviator wounded and then l
saw the wounded aviator thrown into
hole by the German soldiers and
buried alive. / could hardly stand
the sight. / saw German aviators
fly over our village and drop bombs
on the people. Under penalty of
death we were then forced by the
German soldiers to say it was done by
the English and French.
Mrs. Peter de Broom and Lillian
Wineberry told me that they were
forced to submit to being outraged
by the German soldiers. Mrs. de
Broom also told me that her husband
came to her assistance and then the
soldiers shot him through the head,
the ball passing through both cheeks
and sheet iron stove.
i was standing at a small house
with my mother, sister and children,
and German officer came in and de-
manded that | submit to his wishes.
He forced me into a small room, but
l fought with him and got away. All
this happened in the town Of Len
delede in Belgium.
left Belgium on January 8, 1918,
to come back to America. When
came to leave Belgium before they
would give me my passports, | had
to swear before German official that
/ would not tell any of these things,
either to the French or the English
nor to divluge anything / had seen or
knew to have happened in Belgium.
travelled on foot to my destina-
ton with my two little children from
Lendelede, and when / got to my des-
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Musical Topics
Edited by Mrs. X. L. Skahen

whole tone. Thus if c natural were
required the G pedal would be pressed
down half way, and all the c strings
on the instrument would be affected.
Further pressure on the pedal would
raise the pitch to c sharp. Any pass
ing chromatic notes are very difficult
to perform on the harp at q quick
rate as they need quick pedal work.
Noted Irish Composers Of Last Gen.
tury.
Among names scarcely remembered
but who have done great work for
Irish music may be mentioned John
Field, born in Dublin, and who before
his death in 1887 was recognized as
one of the greatest pianists of his
time. Thomas Cooke also born in
Dublin, played on nine instruments
and was composer of operas, mass
es and songs. The author Of the
opera, .'Valkyne", was also native
of Dublin, and Balfe, the composer
of the Bohemian Girl" was another
son of the Irish capital. William
" Wallace, a Waterford man, was
the composer of Mariana" His
name is well known all over Europe
and America. Of present day writer's
this article will refer to only three
names-Rev. James B. Dollard, the
Irish poet-priest of Canada; to Denis
A. Mccarthy, associate editor of the
Sacred Heart Review, and, lastly, to
the lamented Ethna Carbery, the wife
of Seumas MacManus, who too soon
laid aside her pen and passed out to
the Great Beyond! She was the
most gifted, true-souled Irish poet
since the days of Moore. Many of
her beautiful songs have been set to
music.
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I is not only the man or woman
who sympathizes with Germany who
is pro-German.
Profiteers-that despicable class
that lines its Golfers with gold,
squeezed out of the life blood of the
countless millions of Americans-are
pro-German.
The inefficient are pro-German.
The over-eaters are pro-German.
The luxury lovers are pro-German.
Those who loaf are pro-Geman.
Those who complain are pro-Ger-
man.
Those who make needless expendi-
lures are pro-German.
Those who refuse to invest in gov
eminent securities are pro-German.
Those who idle away time which
belongs to their employers are pro-
German.
Those who visit during business
hours are pro-German.
Those who seize every opportunity
to go to summer resorts when they do
not need the rest and relaxation are
pro-German.
Today, when the great crisis in our
national life-in our individual life
has arrived we must have outspoken
declarations of allegiance. Nothing
must be tolerated but Americanism.
No one who lives here, and earns his
livelihood here and enjoys the PRIV
ilcses offered by this country, no mat
ter whence he originally hailed, has
any right to be pro-anything but
American.
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10y 81. M. AlilSOu.l
In 1454 musicians were Impressed
that is, forced by law--into the SER
vice of the Chapel Royal and cathed-
rails in England; and this practice con-
Qnued until after the reign of Queen
Elizabeth.
The music Of the ancient Greeks
was founded upon the tetrachord-.
. musical interval which we now call
perfect fourth, as from G to c. The
intervals Of the third and sixth upon
which all modern music is largely
based were not regarded with favor.
The tones within the interval of the
tetrachord were extremely vaiable and
included quarter tones as well as half
and whole tones.
The Russians sometimes amuse
themselves by means of hunting horns
combined to form "horn band. Each
performer produces only one note,
which he plays whenever it occurs in
the music.
While hymns as we know them to-
day are a comparative recent innova-
ton in church services, before the
Christian era. Many important coll
lections of hymns date back to about
500 years before Christ though of
course hymns existed long before that
period. Among the collections which
have come down to us from then are
~ Sanscrit Rig-Veda, a Chinese
Book of Odes, the Buddhist Hymns,
the Grecian Homeric Hymns and the
Odes of Pindar. The Latin Hymns
or hymns of the Western Church date
from the 4th to the 18th centuries,
while the Lutheran Chorales date
from the 10th century. The hymns
which play so prominent a part in
the services of the modern protestant
churches were not in wide general use
until about 1860.
Only one system of lingering is
used on the harp, and there are no
scales to be learnt as on the piano.
The harp is tuned to the key of c
flat-seven flats, one for each note in
the scale. There are seven pedals,
which, if pressed down half way raise
the pitch half a tone, and if pressed
down all the way, raise the pitch
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fruits; pears at our feet and apples
by our sides were rolling plentiful;
the tender branches, with wild plums
laden, were earthward bowed"
Poetry. and romances are perhaps
the best books for the garden, though
certain inspiring or tranquillizing es-
sayists are very much in place there;
but the book we read in the garden
whatever its nature, should always
have q certain tSauty and dignity
about it. II we leave our book be-
hind US on the marble seat by the
lotus pond with the expresses rustling
overhead as some particularly gentle
readers are apt to do, oh, let it be no
book the mere presence Of which will
insult that stately setting-some Grass
novel of the moment or some vulgar
humorist Of the hour. Neither news
papers nor magazines should ever be
read in q garden. If it's
20 for a booke
And a shade nooke"
see that the book matches the neck.
And while a garden of course, is a
joyous place, it is no place for levity.
Noise nor foolish voices should ever
enter there. All such profanes it,
for the nymph, who, together with
the garden-god presides over it is that
"Fair Quiet" whom Andrew MARVEL
found in one of the NEST famous gar
dens in literature, that garden which
caused him to exclaim:
What wondrous life is this / lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine, the curios peach,
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as / pass,
Ensnared with flowers, fall on
grass"
Gardens to be found in books are,
as a rule, the friendly haunts of low
ers. Some few, like the Acadeones
in which Plato and Epicurus walked
to and fro among their disciples, or
those in which Horace and Virgil pol
ished their verses, or those Italian
gardens of the Renaissance where
scholars discussed metaphysics, or
some newly discovered classic text
some few such are dedicated to learn
ing and "divine philosophy; but NEST
of the famous gardens that, in the
mere reading, seem so green, and
smell so sweet in books, are the very
setting and stage of love. All! how
often have lovers seen each other for
the first and the last time-in gar
dens?
/ made another garden, yea
For my new love:
| left the dead rose where it lay
And set the new above.
Why did my Summer not begin?
Why did my heart not begin?
Why did my heart not haste?
My old Love came and walk'd therein,
And laid the garden waste.
Personally, / have an old fashioned
love for that garden where the lover
of maud" stood there at the gate
alone"-and sang her out to him with
lyric music which not all the derisive
quotation of youthful posterity can
state
She is coming, my own, my sweet;
Were it ever so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat,
Were it earth in an earthly bed;
My dust would hear her and beat,
Had / lain for a century dead;
Would start a tremble under her feet,
And blossom in purple and red.
Some day will make a list of
books to be read in gardens and list
of gardens to be found in books.
downright Hoggson Brothers.)
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w. C. T. U. ITEMS

All brewing to end December / by
order of the president. Heads of
fuel, railroad and food administrations
urge drastic step. Senate passes the
dry bill.
Washington, Sept 6.-Manufacture
of beer in the United States will be
prohibited after Dec. next as war
measure.
This announcement was made to-
night by the food administration,
which said the decision had been
reached at conferences between Pres
ident Wilson and representatives of
the fuel, food and railroad admins
trations and the war industries board.
Immediate suspension of the pur-
chase of grains for mailing purposes
was also ordered. ~
Factors which influenced the deci-
sion to prohibit the manufacture of
beer after Dec. /, the food admins
tration announcement said, were "the
further necessity of war industries for
the whole fuel productive capacity of
the country, the considerable drought
which has materially affected the sup
ply of feeding stuff for next year, the
strain upon transportation to handle
necessary industries and the shortage
Of labor caused by enlargement of the
army program"
The $4,000, 900 emergency agriculg
tuarl bill, with its rider for national
prohibition until the American armies
are temobilized after the war, was
passed by the seante without a roll
call.
Before the final passage of the
measure, the senate voted, 45 to 6, to
retain the prohibition rider. A final
effort to postpone the effective date
of the "dry" legislation to Dec. 30
1919, was defeated.
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Che Days Best sChoughts
The Art of Life
and Building

EDrrD BY NOBLE FOSTER HoCCsoN
PRESIDENT HoccsoN BRoTHERs BUILDERS


Charles Lamb has put himself on
record as mot much q friend to out
of-door> reading" but then, no one
would expect him to be. Lovablest
Of all Cockneys, we want him to be
nothing but himself. Yet, as with
DR.. Johnson, his jurisdiction lies en-
tirely within the city limits, and no
two men were ever SO out Of court
on the subject Of green fields, of
which no other than that adorable ras-
cal Falstaff "babbled" even in death,
So those Of us who like reading out
of doors need not let our hearts be
troubled. 1t is not necessary to
on this matter, we have no few with
nous but merely our familiar friends
and acquantances, tell us that nature
is good enough without books. A
book, say they, is as much out of
place in the fields as tobacco smoke.
To sickly Ger nature with the pale
cast of literature is like smoking a
strong cigar in a lane perfumed with
honeysuckle.
Still in this we have a powerful
witness for the defense in Walt Whit
man, who in one of his prose person
ALA, tells US that he always took a
book out with him on his walks,
though, he added, he seldom read it,.
When we take a book out of doors
with us, it is not for the purpose of
information. 1t is merely to have
with US silent spiritual companion
to hold by the hand. Usually it is a
book we know by heart, one that we
of 81 L.
of the moment.
have never yet heard of anyone
taking Euclid thus out for a walk.
Certainly he would seem the strangest
companion to choose for quiet hour
in a garden-but on the other hand,
how many books there are that one
can imagine reading nowhere else
than in a garden-Spenser's "Farrie
Queene," for example, book filled
with pictures of gardens of which
here is one:
There the most daintie Paradise on
ground
1t selfe doth offer to his, sober eye,
In which all pleasures plenteously
abound,
And none does others happiness
enoye;
The painted flowers, the trees up
shooting hye,
The dales for shade, the hilles for
breathing space,
The trembling groves, the christall
running by.
Theocritus is another poet to be
read in garden, and there is scarce
ly another garden in books lovelier
than this in his twelfth idyll, thus
perfectly translated by Andrew Lang:
'Then he bent his way to the left,
and took the road to Pvxa, while and
Emeritus, with beautiful Amyntas,
turned to the farm of Phrasidemus.
There we reclined on deep beds of
fragrant lentisk, lowly strewn, and re-
joicing we lay in cur stript leaves of
the vine. And high above our heads
waved many poplar, many an elm
tree, while close at hand the sacred
water from the nymphs' own cave
welled forth with murmurs musical.
On shadowy boughs the burnt cicadas
kept their chattering toll; far off the
little owl cried in the thick thorn
bralle; the larks and fnches were
singing, the ring-dove mcaned, the
yellow bees were fitting about the
springs. All breathed the scent of
the opulent summer, of the season of
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Cut out this advertisement. enclose
Il with cents to Foley az Co., 1888
Sheffield Ave-, Chicago, ILL.,. writing
your name and address clearly. You
will receive in return a trial pack
age containing:
"a Foley's Honey and Tar Com.
pound, the standard family remedy
for coughs. colds. Group, whooping
cough, tightness and soreness IN
chest, grippe and bronchial coughs.
(2) Foley Kidney Pills. for over
worked and disordered kidneys. blad-
der ailments. pain in sides and back
due to kidney trouble. sore muscles.
stiff joints, backache and rheumatism.
(3) Foley Cathartic Tablets, a
wholesome and thoroughly cleansing
cathartic. You can try these three
family remedies for only Be.
Wortley & French
Connell's Drug Store
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tination our shoes were worn from
off our feet.
Mrs. Florence Claerhout.
Subscribed and sworn to before me by
Florence Claerhout, this 18th day of
February, A. d. 1918.
(SeaD Henry Westphal.
Notary Public in and for Scott
county, Iowa.
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CHURCH OLE CHRIST

CHURCH OF CHRIST
Regular services on Sunday, 1920
a. m. Worship and communion.
1900 noon, Bible school; 600 p, m,
senior c. E.; 700 p. m, evangelistic
service.
Mid-week prayer meeting and
training class Thursday at 7:30 p. m.
You are cordially invited to all SER
vices of the church.
Chas. M. Pease, Pastor.
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BAPTIST CHURCH

Sunday-Morning worship, 1920 a.
M; Bible school, 1900; B. Y. p. u,
600 p. m; evening service, 700;
prayer meeting, Thursday evening at
1880. w. A. Bliss. Pastor.
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METHODIST
Sunday, 1000, class meeting; 1890,
% .eSoo ssaEss league 14S oo suUaay
ing service at TOO p. m.
R.raca room sna s yOung men
Thursday evening at 1880, general
prayer meeting followed by Bible
stury. P. Ray Norton, Pastor.
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THE RIrSy STORK

Every year 2,250,OOO babies are
born in the United States. The daily
birth rate is a little over GIG. -
From The Peoples Home Journal.
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To Ionia and Detroit, 11:29 a. m;
4:32 p. m.
To Greenville and Saginaw, 7:56 q.
m; 2:22 p. m; 6:44 p. m
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CHRISTTAN SCIENCE

OnNIO IAN OOIENOE
Christian Science society, log So.
Pleasant street.
Sunday morning service at 10:45.
Sunday school at 11:45.
Testimonial meeting every We'd
nesday evening at 1880.
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FREE METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday school, 1000.
Morning worship, HOO.
Class meeting, 1900.
Evening service, TOO. Sermon by
the pastor.
Holiness meeting. Tuesday evening,
7:30.
Prayer service. Thursday evening,
1880.
You are welcome.
J. Fred Iulg, Pastor.
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sssxs'zzsEzssx IN
Gl,urch tuN IsEs
zSuli1d1J School:

ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC
Mass every other Sunday at 8 a. m,
every alternate Sunday at 1890 q. m.
Mass every week day at 1880 q. m.
Rectory residence, 400 South Bridge
street.
Rev. John A. Klich, Rector.
HOLY TRINITY MISSION
(EpiscopsD
Corner Of Congress and Alderman
streets. Hours Of service Sunday:
1O:30-Morning service.
Rev. Robert 8. Nash,
Priest-in- Charge.
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Pere Marquette train time at Beldin'

To Greenville and Big Rapids, 6:ls
a. m; $40 p. m.
To Lowell and Grand Rapids, 1915
a. m; 1922 p. m; 8:0S p. m
] DAILY
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DAY SAINTS

LAI i ER ia CAINIO
Sunday school, 1890; prayer SER
vice, 11:30; religo, $50; preaching,
1880, ]. d. Aelick, Pastor.
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The Banner-News want
ads bring best results.
Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-02-22
DELICIOUS BERRY
THROUGH SUMMER
Long-Season Strawberries Have
Passed Trial Period.
or REAL VALUE FOR MARKET
Heretofore "Everbearlne" Varieties
Have Been Grown Chiefly by ANA.
tours and Commercial Grow.
ers-crop First Season.

Strawberries from your garden
throughout summer and autumn are
nov a possibility as the result Of the
perfection Of "everbearlng" varieties
Of this delicate berry. Everbearing
strawberries are not a brand new dis.
covery, but heretofore they have been
grown chiefly by amateurs and COM
mercial growers who have tested them
In comparison with ordinary sorts. In
a recent publication OF the United
States department OF agriculture an
nouncement IL made that u sufficient
number Of trials Of these varieties now
have been completed to indicate their
real value for home use and for mar
ket In certain sections OF the country.
Primarily a Northern Type.
The regions where It Is known that
everbenring varieties can be grown
extend MS far south as the northern
parts OF Virginia, Kentucky. Arkansas
aud Kansas. South OF these limits
there are probably points where they
may be grown with some degree OF
success, but they are not definitely
known to succeed there.
The two leading varieties OF this
type Of strawberry. the Progressive
and the Superb, are notable not only
because they produce fruit from the
time OF the usual crop until late sum
mer or autumn, but also because they
are exceptionally resistant to leaf
spot diseases. They are also very
hardy. The Progressive has been found
Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-02-22
Too Fast for the Dictionaries.

Judge Ruppenthal says the language
continues 10 outrun the dictionaries.
In the judges own Kansas dictionary,
which he has complied through many
years In shortgrass courts, there are
more than 1000 western words and
phrases which are not In any other die
%tlonary. Judge %Ruppenthal also re-
ports that the latest Standard and
Webster l~cxlcons do not seem to have
heard OF Colonel Roosevelt's familiar
"Jugo.Slav," or of the army %"barrage."
Kansas City Star.
Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-02-22
KINDS OF EvER5EARERs
AVAILABLE TO GROWERS

Thirteen varieties OF "ever-
bearing" strawberries ire In the
trade at present. They are: Ad-
vance, Americas, Autumn, For
ward, Francis, Iowa, Onward,
Pan American, Peerless, Produc-
tive, Progressive, Standpat and
Superb. In addition, a variety
known as the Minnesota No.
1917. distributed by the Mime
sofa State horticultural society
and the Minnesota agricultural
experiment station, has been In
troduced. Only two OF the va
rletles introduced, the Progress
slve and the Superb, have been
widely grown as yet. The Amer
lcus Is grown to a slight extent
and the others very little. The
Minnesota No. 10i7 has been
widely tested In Minnesota and
is grown to a slight extent I'm
surrounding states. Farmers
Bulletin 001 OF the United
States department Of agricul-
ture describes these varieties I'm
detail and discusses their suit
ability to different sections.
Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-02-22
"cold In the Head''

son Who S'I are rs'S susj &c N 70 frsausnt aicoids
ia the head" viii md that the use Of
HALLS cATARRH MEDICINE viii
build up, the system. cleanse the Blood
and render them less liable to colds.
Repeated attacks OF Acute Catarrh may
lead 10 Chronic Catarrh
HALLS cATARRH MEDICINE ia TAX.
an internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces OF the system.
All nruggists 75c. Testimonials free;
$1,000 for n case Of catarrh that
HALLS cATARRH MEDICINE viii not
cure.
r. J. Cheney q Co. Toledo. Ohio.
Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-02-22
True Hard.Luek Story.

IN n Of the big Kansas towns lives
"Bill." Bill has never known what
health Is, consequently has had n hard
time to get along. For nearly a year
Bill had been out Of n job, until finally
last spring. he got out driving the
sLrInaling wagon. But Bits III luck
didn't desert him even then, for the
very day he got the Job II began to
rain and there wasn't anything that
looked like dust In BINS town for a
month afterwnrd.
Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-02-22
SET STRAWBERRIES EARLY
TO GET FRUIT FIRST YEAR

Early sprlng-as soon as you
can get into the garden-is the
time TO set "everbearing" straw
berries, or. Ia fnct, any straw
berries. With such an early
start n larger crop of fruit a
be obtained the first year. The
plants also have opportunity to
become established and TO de-
velop better root systems before
beginning TO fruit. The mark
eddy different behavior OF the
long-senson varieties has led to
the development OF cultural
practices differing In special de-
tails from those followed In the
production OF standard sorts.
Directions for the culture OF the
everbearlng types, In so fur MS
the methods differ from ordl.
nary practices with strawber.
rles, are given in Farmers Bull
letln 90t OF the U. s. depart
ment OF agriculture.