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The Robesonian., 1918-07-18
25gELRD RHODES DARN Is.

RlgELRD RHODES BARNES.
.. ... gt Wohml Rhodes Barnes
ca. r-a-r@a's close at his
hon.. GAINESVILLE June 4, 1918. Bu.
aral. eaA- Life as expressed tnrouoh
ar.. .ml Influence was Developed
cr. .a lateles5.n4 ccnma0i5is4 oi
Rd a ..ua-v, the nucleus OF which
be Ms.a3 t.rouah his nsaTcan-
tile t a-li.a'5ura. activities begin
nne about foIty-fjve years ago, and
which has continued to grow through
the addition Of varied other inter
ests.
To be called tie father of such a
community is no small distinction.
and it will be heightened by under
standing the career of Mr.. Barnes.
1t is given to few men so completely
to utilize opportunities, and leave so
much behind them of enduring go I'd
and benefit.
He was born in Robson county in
lS44 near the present town of Poe
tOrville. His parents were Meredith
and Eliza Ward Barnes. His grand
father Jethro Barnes came to Robe
son county before the close of the
eighteenth century from Nash county,
where his ancestors, coming originally
from England, had lived for several
generations. They have always been
a sturdy, substantial race of people.
Meredith Barnes was born and reared
and spent his life on the old Barnes
place near the present town of Proc
tOrville, about ten miles south of I.un1-
berton.
1t was in that vicinity that Richard
r. Barnes spent his boyhood days.
In March, 1862, when only sixteen, he
enlisted in the Confederate army in
captain Atkinson's company of vol
nnteers, which became company 3 of
tne 5Oth North Carolina regiment of
infantry. In spite Of his youth he
served with the valor of a seasoned
veteran in number of campaigns of
'rginia and the Carolinas. He was
at Savannah when that city was evac-
Hted by General Hardee's army just
before Generael Sherman's occupa-
1Ion, and going northward reached
Fayetteville, North Carolina, where
ne was captured. The latter weeks
Of the war he spent as prisoner at
Point Lookout. Maryland, and was re-
leased and returned home in July,
1866. u'
Soon after the war he located a few
miles south of the old Barnes home
place IN Sterling township, in the ex-
neme southern part of the coun ". In
1000, ne married, ard with that add
ea responsibility, being a man Of en-
FrprlSng qualities but with exceed
..ngly limited capital, he turned to the
'ufpehtlne industry. At that time all
The Robesonian., 1918-07-18
Advertised Letters.

List Of advertised letters remaining
at the Lumberton, N. c., postoffice for
the week ending July 18th, 1918:
Miss Adah Davis, Miss jessie Fila
nenomon, Miss Julia Mae Floyd, L. J.
Howard, Misses jamie Matte Holder,
Mrs. jamie Ivey, Mrs. Emma Inman,
James Carson Hill, Mrs. Mary Bell
The Robesonian., 1918-07-18
Doing Good

Few medicines have met with NOR
favor or accomplished more good aa tllaai
Chamberlain's Colic, and Dlarrhoea
Remedy. John F. Jantzen, DelmenS H
Sask., says of it 81 have used Cnalh- aa,-
berlain's Colo and Dlarrhoea NeIneuy
myself and in my family, and can rec
ommend it as being an exceptionally
fine nreparation."
The Robesonian., 1918-07-18
Lumberton. N

Cheapest accident insurance-Dr.
Thomas Eclectic Oil. For burns,
scalds, cuts and emergencies. All
druggists sell it. 30c and 6Oc.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-03-29
FIT TRIBUTE TO WASHINGTON
Shaft at National Capital Is Ono Of
the Most Remarkable Ever
Built by Man.

The foundation of the great shaft Of
the Washington monument is 80 feet
square and is set in solid rock eight
feet below the surface of the earth.
The interior is only rs feet in diameter,
while the exterior diameter is IS feet.
This shows the tremendous thickness
Of the walls, which are made of per-
fectly fitted stones. No wonder that
this obelisk has been called "the best
piece Of masonry in the world
Many nations, as well as many cities
and states, wished to contribute to this
great cenotaph, and as the visitor en-
tiers the monument and takes his place
in the big elevator, he may see, as he
slowly mounts, various Interesting
stones from all parts Of the world. he
may catch glimpse Of stone from
"Braddock's field" one from the "bat-
tlefield of Long Island" one from the
Alexandrian library in Egypt, one
from the tomb of Napoleon at st. Hell
ena, mosaic block from the ruins OF
Carthage, lava from Vesuvius and
stones from Jerusalem and Mecca, be-
sides blocks contributed by 40 states,
16 cities and towns and A societies.
Ten foreign countries sent blocks OF
stone, suitably inscribed, to testify to
their regard.-Mary V. Worstell in st.
Nicholas.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-03-29
Remedies for the Earache.

For an earache, dry heat Is the SAT-
est remedy. Never should the mother
drop oil or anything else into the ear
without being especially ordered to DO
so by a doctor. A small hot-water bag
with a flannel cover, kid glove-finger
filed with salt and then heated In the
oven, or, simply, a flannel made very
hot and covered by another one to hold
in the heat, may be placed over the
baby's ear to relieve the pain. If this
does not seem enough, then a small
rubber ear-syringe may be filled with
hot water; and while the lobe OF the
ear is gently held downward and back
ward the mother should use the
syringe carefully, then apply the not
flannel after drying out the ear. When
pus has formed, or if this simple treat
ment does not relieve the acute pain,
a doctor should be asked to examine
the ear. Possibly the drum membrane
may need to be opened. Hot boric
acid solution or some other disinfect-
ant will be needed to syringe the
ear If pus is Observation-Disclosures
Wheeler, in the Peoples Home Jour-
nal.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-03-29
"cANNoT MATCH THE BIBLE"
Stories In Sacred Volume Have Never
Been EquaIed, 4 Yale Pro-
-, fessor Says. E$. 1:

The bulk Of the people-businesa
men, lawyers, doctors and others don't
read the Bible, but writer's universally
recognize it as the greatest book, Prof.
William Lyon Phelps Of Yale univer-
sity said in recent address. . g
"Being a serious book it is weak in
humor," Professor Phelps said. "But
I think Job intended grim joke when
he said: Would that mine adversary
had written book r
"No narrative writer's can match the
style of the Bibles Old Testament
stories-Hume, Gibbon, Rose-they are
all inferior. This is the day of the
short-story writer, Kipling, De Maupas-
SAINT, o. Henry, but their best efforts
fall short Of the stories of the Bible.
So it is with it's poetry in the Psalms.
Its wisdom of the Proverbs is just as
up-to-date as the morning paper, and
there is no political economy equal to
the Book of Gospels.
1T is impossible to overestimate the
Bibles influence on English literature.
Bunyan wrote great book because
he was saturated with the Bible, and
1t trickled out when he wrote.
"Lincoln knew only two books-the
Bible and Shakespeare, and yet he was
a splendidly educated man. To know
the Bible is to be educated. One Of
the finest metaphors in Keats ode to
a Nightingale is taken directly from
the Bible; Nearer, My God, to Thee
is simply a paraphrase of the Bible"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-03-29
Nicknames of Cities.

Baltimore, Monumental City; Bos-
ton, Hub, Puritan City and City of No
tons; Brooklyn, City Of Churches;
Buffalo, Queen City of the Lakes; Chi
cago, Garden City; Cincinnati, Queen
City; Cleveland, Forest City; Detroit
City of the Straits; Hannibal, No.
Bluff City Indianapolis, Railroad City;
Keokuk, Ia, Gate City; Louisville,
Fall City; Lowell, Mass, City OF SPIN
dies; New Haven, City of Elms; New
Orleans, Crescent City; New York, EN-
pire City; Philadelphia, Quaker City;
Pittsburgh Smoky City and Iron City;
Portland, Me-, Forest City; Rochester,
N. Y, Flour City; st. Louis, Mound
City; San Francisco, Golden Gate;
Springfield, Ill.,, Flower City; Wash
ington, City of Magnificent Distances.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-03-29
''Blemidji ''PaliInltleed City"
Not Painless Town

In a story appearing recently in the Saturday
Evening Post, the writer in describing the dingi-
ness of dead town, said that apparently there
had not been any paint used there for years.
A good many American cities are taking on this
same dinginess today. Property owners, because
of higher prices on paint deluding themselves
into thinking that they saving money and boy
cottng the paint manufacturers at the same time,
not realizing that they neglecting the only
insurance they get against decay, and waste
of their property, and forgetting that the value
of their property because of higher prices Of build
ing material and labor has advanced much more
than paint.
The extra cost of coat two of paint is not
much more in dollars, and cheaper than ever when
purchased with any other commodity-labor in
cluded.
Minnesota house paints have been the best for
over thirty years, and the formula is used
today that built this reputation.
When paint materials are high-the Minnesota
label is your protection. Minnesota Barn, Wagon,
Carriage Automobile, Floor and Interior Paints
are guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Let us figure the cost of your paint job. Our
prices at present are below the market
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-03-29
Push-Button Batteries.

Something new in push-buttons has
been invented by an Eastern man that
bids fair to send the old dry batteries
now in use to ring your front door bell
to the ashcan. 1t is quite simple ar
rangement, and it is strange that no
one should have thought Of such SIM
pie device. The button itself Is con-
nected to rod that is geared to
small dynamo, and when the button is
pushed the dynamo armature rotates
in the field of permanent magnet,
thereby generating enough electricity
to ring the bell. The whole unit hard
ly takes up more space than the ordi-
nary push button, and does away with
the constant expense Of renewing bat
teries.--From the Electrical Exneri-
menter.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-03-29
Production the Thing

saving, even at its best, won't win this war.
This means, Mr.. Patriotic Farmer, that every avail
able foot of soil should be cultivated and planted
If you have good machinery to do this, or if you
can borrow it-jump into the work. If you have
not the machinery necessary, see your banker He
will stretch point to make you loan if you can
show him that you can and will plant your crop.
Then come into store jingling the coin and
will go the limit with you on prices of
John Deere Machinery necessary.
We have sold more Van Brunt grain drills this
year than in the last two years together. This
that your neighbor is looking for the best.
Among the John Deere Farm Machinery that is
boosting our sales and getting ready to- lick the
Kaiser, are plows harrows, cultivators and, Oh,
yes, John Deere-Hoover Potato Planters, the Per-
feet One-Man Planter.
Let us tell you how nice it works.
In the name of soldier boys, urge you
to plant more crops
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-03-29
Planter or Pro-Cerman?

Have you room for a garden plot? If you
have and don't use it, what will your neighbors
think? In what class will they list you?
Our government has passed laws setting the
clock ahead to give you chance to raise your own
food that our boys in the trenches may have more.
We have tried to do our bit by buying the best
of garden tools for your use
When you need hoe, rake, shovel or garden
planter, telephone and we will deliver quickly.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-03-29
NOTICE

The Bemidji Carnival Association,
at it's meeting held on the 25th day
of March, 1918, voted to dispose of
the toboggan slide on Lake Bemidji
to the highest bidder for cash. Mo-
tice is hereby given that bids will
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-03-29

be received for the purchase Of the
slide to be opened at meeting to
be held at the office of e. E. Nc
Donald on Saturday, March 30th,
1918, at 1880 P. M. The Associa-
ton reserves the right to reject any
or all bids.
All members of the Association
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-16
LOVE LETTERS
OF GERMAN spy
Mail From Sporemann to May
Stoops, Opened by Detec-
tives Who Caught
Him.
WILL NOT HANG HIM
Prosecution Expected to be Civil
Case With Penalty Of Fine
and Prison
Term.
WILL NOT HANG HIM
HIM

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The love
of Walter Sporemann, alleged Ger
man agent, for pretty, talented girl
musician in local hotel, led to his
arrest in the Hampton Roads naval
district.
That girl-May Stoops, who says
she is American through and through,
says she had warned Sporemann
against working around army camps
because he was a German and 1t
might be dangerous for him.
Letters which Sporemann sent the
girl. were stopped in transit and in
spected by the prying eyes of gov
ernment officials. In this way they
kept trace of him, arrested him near
Newport News, Va, and now have
him safely in custody at Baltimore.
The girl musician is not regarded
as in any way connected with Spore-
mann's alleged spy work. Govern
ment evidence indicates Sporemann
was probably addicted to drugs. The
United Press was informed that the
search of his effects showed several
drugs and hypodermic in his
trunks, along with damaging docu-
ments indicating an alliance with his
fatherland.
That Sporemann may have been
tool for bigger men is the belief of
authorities here.
The girl musician professed to be
dumfounded at the revelations of
Sporemann's work
"Oh, do you think it can be true"
she gasped. II can't believe it;
don't know what to think
Didn't you know that he was
German" she was asked.
"Oh yes, / knew that. And ! al
ways told him that he ought not to
work around army camps because he
is German. l begged and begged
him to get something else to do
where he wouldn't be in so much
danger. But of course l didn't think
he would do anything like this.
.Tm American through and through
and / wouldn't do anything against
my country Why I'd die first"
She paused to pull out a package
containing a handkerchief with an
American flag on it.
Look here; let me show you
something" she interrupted. ''It
was only yesterday that he sent me
an American flag that he thought l
would like"
The girl didn't know whether she
would attempt to see Sporemann in
Jail.
What will happen to Sporemann if
convicted, is still in doubt. But it
appeared likely today that the de-
partment of Justice would handle the
case and that it would be considered
civil with maximum penalty of $10,-
600 fine and thirty years imprison-
ment.
If he were retained by military
authorities he might be tried by
court martial and shot and while the
new espionage law apparently doesn't
prevent the death penalty, 1t does
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-16
IOWA MAY SHUT UP
SHOP FOR HALF WEEK

to take such action in cooperation
with five Of the middle western states
If Garfield considers such action ne
cessary.
Webster acted after receiving from
Federal Fuel Administrator Williams
of Illinois a copy Of a telegram which
the latter sent Garfield. Williams wir-
ed that Illinois must reduce the con
sumption of coal at least 100000 tons,
because of loss of coal production due
to storms.
All office buildings, theatres and
stores no. selling food, said Webster.
might be classed as non essentials,
along with others.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-16
Former Premier of France Ap-
parently in League With
Germany, According to
Documents.
BERNsToRFF'S CABLES
Now Under Arrest IN Paris Upon Tip
Given France by the United
States Secret
Service.
[By Carl D. Groat, United Press Staff
Correspondent.l

[By Carl D. Groat, United Press Staff
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, JAM 16.-That
former Premier Caillaux of France.
now under arrest, was on intimate
terms with the German ambassador
at Buenos Aires and apparently in
league more or less directly with
Germany, was indicated in telegrams
former German Ambassador Won
Bernstorff sent from this city Feb
ruary 4, 1915-given out by the state
department today.
The first of the messages warned
against German praise OF Calllaua
because "he fears Paris and fate OF
Juares;" a second message advised
Of Caillaux's departure from Buenos
Aires and counselled that the Ger
mans treat Caillaux courteously il
they effected the very desirable
capture" of his vessel.
On June 6, 1917, the German cen
sorship, 1t was shown. barred all ref
erence to Caillaux in the German
press, presumably to help protect
him in his own country.
Bernstorff's Messages.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Evfdence
upon which the arrest of former
Premier Caillaux of France was
based, was furnished to France by
the state department on the strength
of messages which former German
Ambassador Bernstorff sent his gov
ernment,s the state department Off
cially revealed today. The CORE
spondence was made public.
The statement issued by the de
partment said:
"rhe department Of state communf
Gates to the press the following tele-
gram sent by Count Bernstorff to his
government on February 4. 1918;
Number 17S Buenos Aires tele
graphed the following:
"No. 21 Caillaux has left Buenos
Aires after short stay and is going
direct to France evidently on account
of the (group undecipherable) scan
dial which he regards as personal
attack upon himself. He speaks con
temptuously of the president and the
rest of the French government with
the exception of BRAND. He sees
through the policy of England per
fectly. He does not anticipate the
complete overthrow Of France He
sees in the war now struggle Tor
existence on the part of England
Although he spoke much of the in
discretions and clumsy policy of the
Wilhelmstrasse and professed to be
lieve in German atrocities. he has in
essential hardly changed his polit,
cal orientation.'
"'Caillaux welcomes indirect cour-
tesies from me, but emphasized the
extreme caution which he is Obliged
to show as the French government
he said had watched him even here.
He warned us against the excessive
praise bestowed upon him by our
papers, especially the Neue F'reie
Presse, and desired on the other hand
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-16
,,ur Bullets Fired at Lenine,
81. None Of Them Reached
Him on the Streets
Of Petrog1.ad.
[lp SHIPS TO RUSSIA
.,m.uy objects to Russian Propa-
md, Among kalsers Troops
as Armistice
Violation.

United Press Leased Wire Service.]
pETROGRAD, Jan. 16.-Four re-
ly,r shots were fired at Nicholai
mine Of the Bolsheviki government
|cnday when he was returning home
on witnessing the departure of red
lards for the front. Lenine was
shmt. All four shots went wide of
iii mark.
Swiss socialist who was accomp-
nyinx Lenine to his home after re-
ex q tie departing red guards Mon
y, vas wounded slightly in the
~ BY one of the wouM-be assas-
u tuIlets.
japanese Warships.
Ralph Turner, United Press Staff
Correspondent
10N0. Jan. 16.-Japanese war
~ hare been dispatched to Vladi-
sipk for protection OF allied inter
4 there, according to official an
gncement today.
no action follows long continued
pals from Japanese and other citi-
In the Russian port for adequate
glsction not only to their own lives
property, but to great quantities
Allied munitions and supplies there.
DNultory fighting between the Boil
evln and Cossacks has been in prog
N and around the city for weeks.
number Of the naval staff today
cared that communication with
divostok had been almost cut off
mat protection OF the city was
o. Japan's responsibilities, to be
NED out while the allies were fight
IN Europe.
Anclals emphasized today that for
present no troops would be moved
Tie Russian seaport.
Propaganda Of Two Kinds.
'oseph Shapfen, United Press
Correspondent
rhfROGRAD. Jan. 16.-Arrogantly
Sarlng ne did not represent any
,slnment but the German army"
asla hoffman of the German
~ oeiegation made violent efforts
ss.rday's proceedings at Brest-
.u'sA s. to force discontinuance of
s ssaa socialistic propaganda among
.man troops, according to official
,Ms received today. The informa-
came in telegrams despatched py
y. russian conferees.
:. ~ ssme reports told of the agree
German Foreign Minister
"a dAusnlmann to the Russian de-
mr,. hat a special commission
sSla.e ~ plan OF referendum by
d. ~ people of a conquered territory
Huu ior,s WORK out their own future The
~ 'aaent .s. of the peace meetings
~ nos a..er a rather heated discussion
esy esSncy OF the Russian propaganda
nar,i russian delegates reported that
[dina, linz, hoffman injected into the pry-
nes again on Saturday his em-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-16
u WASTING OF FUEL
IN STATE OF MICHIGAN
when the

hours, except Saturdays, when the
limit will be twelve hours
Other provisions are:
Churches may be heated six hours
each week
Theatres must remain closed TWEEN
ty-four hours on Mondays and Tues
days and on other days may be heated
five hours.
Restaurants desiring to remain
open at night may do SO for nine
hours, but if this is done they must
close during the day.
The temperature in stores must not
exceed sixty-eight degrees.
Street lighting is limited to safety
requirements.
Prudden estimates these provisions
will save 1000 tons of coal daily in
the state.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-16
Army Field Clerks.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The
house and senate military affairs
committees are considering a bill
making army field clerks assisting the
adjutant general, providing for their
enlistment and giving them the rela-
tive rank and pay, according to
length of service, Of second and first
lieutenants and of captain.
The bill is designed to correct
anamalous condition in the army
which accords to army clerks no
stated rank or position. They suffer
the unjust discrimination in their
present status of being denied privi-
leges and advantages allowed officers
of the rank to which they have been
appointed nominally, though not
actually.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-16
Non essential Industry Gould
Save Much Coal by Taking
a Lay Off.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
DES MONIES, Iowa, Jan 1G.-Every
ron-essenrial industry and business
activity in Iowa may be tied up for
three days of each of the next two
weeks because of the fuel shortage.
Federal Fuel Administrator Webster
today wired Administrator Garfield at
Washington that Iowa would be glad
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-16
=, y Drastic Regulations in
oaatry Are to Go Into
Effect Tomorrow.

bErPnr,rme Leased Wire seryicel
bst dra.,ii, d,i, Mich. Jan. 16.-The
Pited St.sa le iuei regulations in the
biness a.es' Sa including nine hour
chigan uas, .o, will become effective in
|nistrsaaict is eaict issued by state Fue, A..
olesale at rsudden provides that all
fldings ana u retail stores, office
y be bsa. other business places
pub11e 1n1eated, lighted and open to
oy nine consecutive
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-16
Chancellor to Speak.

IJrnited Press Leased Wire Service1
AMSTERDAM. Jan. 16.-Chancellor
Hertling will address the main COM
mittee of the reichstag on Friday, ac-
cording to Berlin dispatches received
here today. ~
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-16
Semi-annuaI Meeting.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servicel
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Jan. 16.--
The -semi-annual meeting of directors
and officers of the Order of Railway
Conductors which began here late yes
terday, continued today. The execu-
tive sessions will last week. l.. A.
Sheppard, of Herlin, N. j., vice presi-
dent, is the only officer who is absent,