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Middletown transcript., 1918-01-12
Curinq Elephants Cold

A circus man, caught in the act of
curing an elephant of a cold. was dared
to take his own medicine. He declined
but invited the interviewer to return
the next day and see tha elephant
cured. And the next day, sure enough.
the elephant was rid Of the cold. What
was the treatment? Nothing compli:
Gated at ali: The keeper placed q
bucket of boiling hot vinegar in q bag
ard then tied the latter spugly ahout
the indisposed animals trunk SO thai
he was compelled to inhale the bene-
fetal fumes whether he wished to or
not.
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Wanted

Firms and Property wanted
in every state and every County
to sell onone per cent commission.
If you want to sell write TO day
how we sell properly In your
section and you pay the Com mis-
sion after sale is completed.
Farms for sic in every state.
Mass. Farm and Poultry Journal
PIP Lewis Street,
LYNN, MASS.
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Astrologers say the war will last I'M
Ill 1919. But it is not the stars but
heavy artillery which will be the deter.
mining factor in this war.
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If the Germans think that our ay!.
stors are bluff all they have to do il
70 call them.
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The years may paralyze a mans in.
terest in baseball, but pie, circuses and
politics will remain a passion with him
to the last breath.
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There's many a mother who is glao
her boy is little there's many daddy
who's glad his boy is big. That is just
the man and the woman of it.
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With coal and wood going up, the
weather man, if he is any kind Of
patriot, will decree mild winter.
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Getting Some SIaes.

"Selfshness don't git you nowhere, I"
said Uncle Eben. DE man dat makes
de most of his opportunities is de man
dat makes de most opportunities for
other folks"
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Lord, what lot Of hideous noises
are perpetrated in the name Of free
speech!
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The Worst Evil.
Bad as any government may be, It
cannot be worse than anarchy.
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NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
Of
Red Lion Hundred

The taxable residents of Red Lion
Hundred, and all persons liable to pay
tax in said Hundred are hereby notified
that the Taxes for the year 1917 are
now due, and the undersigned Tax
Collector for said Hundred, will be at
Parlor of Robinson House, Del. City
August 18th, 18th; September 18th, 70
October 18th, 9th; November 10th,
24th; December 9Th and goth. From
ga. M. to IL M.
Pennsylvania R. R. Station. Kirkwood
September 10th, Oath, November 10
oath.
From 9 A. M. to IL NJ.
AT HOME ALL THE TIME
Tax bills can be obtained by making
personal application to the Collector, or
by sending written communication en-
closing stamps.
Extract from the Laws of Delaware,
Governing the Collection of Taxes of
New Castle County, Section 3. Chapter
80, Volume 81, Laws of Delaware, as
Amended:
SECTION 3-That on all taxes paid
before the first day Of October there
shall be an abatement of five per
centum. On all taxes paid before the
first day of December there shall be an
abatement of three per centum. On
all taxes paid during the month Of
December there shall be no abatement
whatever. And on all taxes unpaid ON
the first day of January there shall be
added one-half per centum per month
until the same shall be paid.
j. C.. STUCkERT
Collector for Red Lion Hundred.
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Different Methods.

Many women get red nose from
shedding too many tears over a man
who got red nose from taking too
many "smiles. Farm Life.
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Hydraulic Power

Hydraulic Power.
The use of hydraulic power in Spain
for mills and other business places is
rapidly increasing.
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ELEPHANTS Cats.

Elephants Cats.
The elephant can neither trot, canter
nor gallop; it's only pace is walk,
capable Of being fastened to a fast
shuttle.
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Almond Supply.

Almond Supply.
About One-fOurth of the worlds sup
ply of almonds are grown in SPAIN
Christian Science Monitor.
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NOTICE DIVIDEND

THE PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK.
MiddIetown, Delaware, Dec. 22, 1917.
The board of Directors have this day
declared dividend of THREE and
ONE. HALF q IL PER CENT for the
last six months, payable on and after
January lst. 1918.
W, K, Belts, Cashier.
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The taxab'e residents OF St. Georges
Hundred, and all persons liable to pay
tax in said Hundred, are hereb, notified
chat the Taxes for the year 1917 are now
due, and the undersigned Tax Collector
for said Hundred. will be
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Mexico InHun1ed
By euton Lies,
Say Labor Men
Continued from page I

moment because German interests pro-
cured the refusal OF the theatre in
which the meeting was to have been
held. At the same time a free lottery,
which is more alluring to the Mexican
than baseball game to an American,
was advertised as rival attraction.
In spite of this, the meeting was held
in another hall, which was filled to
OVERLOOKING by the working classes.
Mr.. Lord reported that about half a
million workers in Mexico are members
of unions, the chief industries being
the mines. textile mills and railways.
The unions vary widely, however, in
organization and aims. An attempt is
being made to form Mexican fedora
ton Of labor as a result of meeting
called recently by the Governor of
Coahuila, who paid the expenses of the
delegates. Prospects for the forma-
ton of pan-American labor fedora
ton loog bright, Mr.. Lord reported.
The third member of the mission.
John Murray, has not yet returned
from Mexico. He will report directly
to Washington. The whole mission, in
Guiding Santiago Iglesias, president
of the Porto Rico Federation Of Labor,
will then return to Mexico to complete
it's work.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Allies Need Twice as
Many Men as Germans

From another army source than Gen
eral March it was learned that the
Allies will have to outnumber the Ger
mans considerably before they can stop
them absolutely. 1t was estimated that
the Allies woud have to have so per
cent more men than the Germans to
bring about a deadlock, and that they
would require twice as many men as
the Germans to be assured of victory.
The reason for this is in the posi-
ton of the two armies. The Germans
are mobile while the Allies are not.
The Allies have to keep one arm in
front Of the chin, Paris, and guarding
it, and the other in front Of the stom-
ach, the Channel ports, and guarding
them, because those ports are vital and
constantly threatened. The rest of
the Allied anatomy Is open to severe
pummeling by the whole of the en-
emy's strength. Moreover, the enemy
has the advantage of interior lines.
On the man power question 1T was
learned that the losses Of the Allies
in the Amiens drive and in the Marne
drive greatly exceeded the losses of
the Germans. In the Flanders drive,
where resistance was more effective,
the reverse was true, and it probably
is also true of the latest drive which
has been so quickly stopped. On the
whole movement army authorities here
say that the losses of both sides have
been about equal, but they acknowledge
that the exact losses of the Germans
are not known
The hope Of the future, and there is
every sign of confidence here, lies in
our capacity to send men to Europe as
fast or faster than we have sent them
since March 21. And to less degree
in the efforts Of the English and
French to effect the replacement OF
the men they have lost.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Caught
On q Farm in
The Far West
Continued from page 1

men of good standing to testify to the
Colonel Fielder owe will show that
he knew nothing whatever of his
brothers alleged activities with per-
sons interested in propaganda"
The attorney then said that if Ar
thur Lyons had made any statement
or confession in connection with the
flight of Jeremiah OLeary he did so
on promise of immunity as the chief
conspirator
1--WE are not at all surprised at the
so-called revelations made by Mr..
Barnes, when he told the jury in his
opening statement at the trial of John
OLeary, about having Lyons in GUS
tody," said Colonel Fielder. 1--WE asked
Judge Hand last Wednesday if he
could issue an order for the persons
who were held incomunicado to be
produced in court. Judge Hand said
he did not know of any procedure by
which he could do it,"
The defendant was in the Office Of
his attorney when newspaper men
called When Colonel Fielder was
asked if it were true that John OLeary
knew Nine. Victorica, he took them
before his client for personal denial.
" AcdIy Sdlu Ic Ulu IlOI kIOW uoT anu
did not know whether his brother
knew her.
O'Leary refused to discuss his case
with the reporters except to say, "I
knew from the first that I was doomed
to cell because I was brother of
Jeremiah O'Leary."
There was persistent rumor around
the Federal Building yesterday that
other persons, including prominent
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
u. s. to Haze Army
OF 100000 by
Aug. I, Says Cro1Uder

WASHINGTON, June 15.-Three
million Americans will be under arms
by next August l., the Senate Military
Committee was told to-day by Provost
Marshal General Crowder.
Extension of the age limits in the
army draft will be necessary, General
Crowder said, if the present rate Of
draft calls is continued. He estimated
that all the men in class one would be
exhausted soon after next January 1.
General Crowder said that 1,347,O0
of the 2,428,0 900 men placed in class one
already have been called to the colors.
He estimated that some 100000 addi
secured from the men who registered
last June 5 and tlat another 100000
will be added by the reclassification
of men in the determination of the
questionnaires now being made.
acquisitions from the draft to COM
plete the 100000 total by August /,
General Crowder said. have been made.
Of these 100000 will be draft regis
trants and the others volunteers and
National Guardsmen. OF the draft
2S3G54 are called for June and 100000
for July.
Everybody thinks there will be
heavy calls during the first six months
of 1912" was significant statement
made by General Crowder.
General Crowder approved the gem
eral principle of the bill introduced by
Senator France, of Maryland. extend
ing the registration ages to from eigh-
teen to forty-five years, thereby pro
viding additional men for military and
industrial service. He did not, how
ever, approve the age limits fixed in
the bill
After outlining the plans of the War
Department for additional calls, Cen
eral Crowder said that at the present
rate class one will be exhausted by the
end of the present year, and that unless
the age limits are extended and another
registration held, it will be necessary
early next year to call men in class
two, and probably soon thereafter in
class three.
Final figures of classification of the
first registration, totaling 8,6Se,447,
were given. The registrants were shown
to have been divided as follows:
Glass one, 2,428,729; class two, 509,-
666; class three, 427 1870; class four,
3,483,326; class five, 1,829,S56.
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that it was the opinion of physicians
that the gas and not his illness caused
his death.
Not long before the raid Sullivan
and Lund had been talking together.
1t was perfectly evident that Lund soon
would bc sent back to the United
States and, partly to console him for
his disappointment in beng left be-
hind when his company started fight
ing, Lund promised that if his return
trip took him near New York he would
postpone his start for hcme long
"nough to call on Sullivan's parents.
When he discovered that Sullivan
was one Of the fifty that the Germans
succeeded in killing, the promise took
on added solemnity and Lund mentally
resolved that he would visit Passaic if
he was sent home by way Of the Pacific.
But, as it. happened, no such detour
was necessary. Tomorrow he will
start for Leavenworth, Kan, where q
sister lives
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Veteran Keeps
Promise to Churn
Slain by Foes Gas
Both Were in French Hos
pital Bombed by Ger
man Airmen

PASsAIC, N. j., June 15.-Michael
". Sullivan, Of this city, whose parents
were notified Tuesday of his death in
france, was one of about fifty victims
OF German air raid upon an Amer
ican base hospital, according to Ser
geant Harry B. Lund. Sergeant Lund
called to-day upon Mr.. and Mrs. John
sullivan, at 135 Monroe Street, to tell
them the manner of their sons death.
bombs laden with poison gas were
dropped, as we'll as explosive bombs.
Lund said, and SulIivan's death was
que to gas poisoning.
sergeant Lund's left leg is on Virnv
Ridge and his right bears scars Of
5hrapnel. He also is veteran of the
Fershlng expedition into Mexico. His
nome is IN Lawrenceville, New. Before
he was able to use an artificial lep he
was sent from a hospital in EngTanS
to the one in Franco, where Sullivan
was a patient. He was able to get
aoout on crutches and, as his cot was
the third from SulIvan's. the two ba-
came acquainted.
Sullivan's ailnent was merely q
slight disorder of the stomach. and bnt
for the fact that it was discovered
When the rest of his company were
about to start for the front line, where
men must be in prime physical con-
dltlon, he might never have been sent
10 base hospital, Lund said. AS it
was Sullivan was a man with griev-
ance and Lund took it upon himself to
reconcile him to army vieissitudes.
1t was on May II that the hostile
bombing planes spotted the hospital,
They concentrated their missiles upon
1t, completely demolishing one wing
and enveloping the place with fumes
from their gas bombs. 1t happened to
be at moment when Sergeant Lund
was taking a bit Of exercise on his
crutches and he escaped both ex-
plosives and gas.
The gas, he said. was freakish. roll.
ing through wards and apparentlv
eddying here and there, with the result
that men who were able to use thei,
limbs and had sought shelter from the
raiders sometimes fell victims to the
gas, while others who we're completely
bedbound and in a ward to which the
gas penetrated escaped entirely.
AS Lund was not in the ward in
which Sullivan's cot was at the time
of the raid he did not know precisely
what occurred there or how the gas
caught Sullivan. He did know. how
ever, that Sullivan was gassed. and
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Students From Forty Col
leges Make Record Show
ing in Training
Many Are Good Shots
Rifle Range Results and Prog
ress in Drill Please
General Mann
tspecia, Dispatch to The Tr,bane)

PLATTSBURG. June 15.-One man
found to be not physically fit out of
5000 enrolled is the record of the
present training camp of students
from forty colleges at Plattsburg, a
record unequalled by any camp and
one that caused Major Keene. in
charge of the camp hospital, to take
hand personally in the examination.
The young men are in perfect ply
steal condition and the officers regret
that they are all under age and
therefore cannot be commissioned until
reaching age which will be within a
year for q large percentage. They
arc the most energetic lot that have
ever appeared at Plattsburg and are
sure to make fine officers. They will
not be commissioned at the close of
the camp, but will receive recon-
mendations from company officer"
and the camp commander which will
be the stepping stone to a commits
sion when they become of age.
In order to be entered at this camp,
a
year of military training at a college.
A large proportion of the students
have had two years and some two
and d half years. This training has
been under the eye of army officers
who have been at the colleges as pro-
fessors of military science and tao
tics.
Major General William A. Mann,
in command of the Department of the
East. visited the camp on Friday and
watched the students at drill and on
the rife range. He was greatly
pleased with their showing snd COM
plimented Colonel Dentler.
The end of the second week of
training now brings the companies to
rife work and the French method of
bayonet fighting. For instruction in
the latter. Colonel Dentler has twenty
young officers from his own regiment,
the Forty-second Infantry. Baycnets
are lacking, however, the SHIPMENT
having been lost in transit.
Rifle practice was begun Wednes-
day and will continue all next week
and part of the following week, each
battalion having three days on the
range. the first day being given over
to practice at 100 yards with the reg
ulation circular target, each man fir
ing ten shots; the second day from
the 100 and 200 yard range, shooting
at targets, rapid fire, representing
heads and shoulders of men which
pop up and down at one minute in
tervals from within the rife range pit.
The third day will be at the same
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Hitch in Farley for
Exchange of Captives
Germans Insist on Return Of
All Prisoners in Canada
and Africa

LONDON. June t5.-Because the
German delegates at the British Ger
man war prisoners conference at The
Hague are pressing for the return Of
all prisoners in Canada and Africa as
we'll as those in Great Britain hitch
has occurred in the negotiations, tele-
graphs the correspondent at the Dutch
capital of "The Times"
The difficulties Of such course, 1t
is contended by the British delegates,
particularly in respect Of shipping
transport, make it impracticable. The
negotiations have now reached most
critical stage, but the correspondent
says there is no reason to think they
will prove abortive.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Berlin Already Finds
Aeros on Hospital Ship

AMSTERDAM, June 15.-Referring
to the report that the American hos
pital ship Comfort is to be sent to
Europe without escort and that Ger
many has been notified of this by the
American government. the "Lokal-An-
zeiger" says:
"We humbly venture to ask the ques-
ton what will the Comfort carry on
her first voyage to Europe, as she will
have no sick or wounded aboard? We
greatly fear American flying men, and,
perhaps, few dozen airplanes.
after the ample experience we have
had in the course of the war of hos
pital ships bearing the sign of the
Red Cross, the gentlemen of America
and their President will perhaps not
take it amiss if we ask this question"
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men, would be involved in further ac-
tion by. the grand jury which investi-
gated the escape Of Jeremiah O'Leary.
This report could not be confirmed, but
was not denied.
1t was learned that John OTeary
would be witness in his own defence.
1t is also understood Nine. Victorca
will be brought to the trial, and sensa-
tional developments are looked for. 1t
was intimated the alleged German spy
would be brought in for identification
as the woman who Jeremiah OLeary
feared would get him into trouble with
the Federal authorities
Mr.. Barnes denied that Lyons re-
ceived any promise Of immunity when
Colonel Felder's statement was shown
to him. He said: "No such promise Of
immunity has been made nor will be-"
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kind of targets, but at 300 yards

kind of targets, but at 300 yards
range.
A large number made ten hits in
ten shots, while few made fourteen
hits out Of fifteen shots. Two recorded
sixteen hits, one in seventeen shots
and the other in eighteen. In the
army, twenty hits in minute out of
twenty to twenty-five shots is consid-
cred excellent
Sheldon c. Baker, Of Company s, 700
West 17eth Street, Manhattan, is one
of the men who made ten hits in ten
shots at zoo yards, and Glenn II. Al
len. Of Burlington, VI. Of the same
company. made fourteen hits out of
fifteen shots. The 4th Battalion will
go on the range Monday morning.
A big athletic field event is being
planned for the last Saturday in June.
Second Lieutenant Carl A. Peterson.
of the 5oth Infantry, in command of
Company o, is in charge of the affair.
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Transport of Troops
Limited Only by Ships

at is impossible to predict day
say, month ahead, or any other def
mite time-when q mastering superior
ity will be in the hands of the Allies,
but the number of troops we are send
ing across now is limited only by the
capacity Of the ships to carry them"
General March's review of the war
since the Aniens drive began was in
teresting especially because he treated
all the German efforts as parts Of one
great offensive.
"The four drives" he said, cone be-
ginning March q, the next April 9, the
third May q and the present one be-
ginning June 9. are all part of the
common scheme of offensive Looking
at this map, we see this red dotted line
running down to the Swiss frontier,
which represents the Allied line when
the Germans began their advance on
March 21.
Considering as whole the success
sion Of attacks, the first penetrated
this line some thirty-six miles into
Picardy. the second some fifteen miles
into Flanders and the third distance
OF thirty eight miles further along the
Marine. Under the present drive the
line has been penetrated an average
distance of from five and a half to six
miles.
Gone very striking feature in con.
nection with this whole advance is tho
extension of front which the Allies
have had to cover as a result. The
total stretching Of the line from
Rheims to the sea was sixty-six miles.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
42,146 More Are
Needed to Man Neu
Wurships of u. s.

WASHINGTON, June 15.-Upward Of
10000 men will be needed to man the
great feet Of warships the United
States will turn out in the next fiscal
year, the House Naval Committee was
advised to-day bv Secretary Daniels.
In asking the House to concur in the
Senate amendment to the naval appro-
priation bill increasing the navy's en-
listed personnel from $4,000 to i3l ,4s5
men. Mr.. Daniels transmitted letters
from Admiral Benson. chief of naval
operations, and Rear Admiral Palmer,
chief Of the Bureau Of Navigation,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Shell-Loading Plant
Dedicated in jersey

MAYS LANDING, N. J., June Is.-
The shell-loading plant Of the Beth
iehem Steel Company was dedicated to-
day to the destruction of autocracy
with flag raising ceremonies and an ad-
dress by Eugene G. Grace, president OF
the company. The plant is approaching
completion, and probably will begin
operations next month.
The village which is to house the
workers. 5000 in number, is about half
completed. 1t will be called Belcoville.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Japan Lands Marines
At Swatow, China

TOXIC, Wednesday, June 12.-
Japanese marines were landed on Sun
day at Swatow, treaty port of China
and centre of the sugar industries,
225 miles northeast of Canton.
According to an official announce
ment, issued here to-day, the Japanese
marines were sent ashore because of
the disturbed conditions at the Chinese
port.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

between Rheims and the sea than they
did on March 21.
"The matter of the number of troops
on the Western front" General March
said, "is question that must be con-
sidered with reference not only to the
enemy divisions which have been known
to be there all along, but with the po
tanned by bringing divisions from the
Eastern front.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Allies Forced to Use
More Troop. on Line

"In order to hold that extra line the
Allies have had to have more troops
than they had at the start.
"Obviously the objective of the Ger
man advance is. first, the Channel
ports, which would make it necessary
for England in shipping troops to