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Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
FACE the FACTS

EFT us face the facts. The situation is critical.
- e. unless tne Allies fight as they never yet have
fought, defeat threatens Hungry men cannot fight
at thelr best nor hungry nations France, England,
and Italy are going hungry unless we feed them
Wheat Savngs-They must have wheat It is the
best food to fight on 1t is the easiest to ship We
alone can spare it to them By saving just little
less than quarter of what we ate last year-we can
support those who are fighting our battles. And
can 90 it without stinting ourselves We have only
TO substitute another food just good
The Corn of Plenty-Corn is that food There's a
surplus OF it. Providence has been generous in the
hour of our need. has given in such bounty
as was never known before. Tons of corn. Train
loads of corn Five hundred million bushels and
above our regular needs All we have to do is to
learn to,appreciate it. Was patriotic duty made
so easy? And so clear?
Americas Own Food-Corn! It is the true American
food. The Inc aHs, hardest of races lived on it.
Our foretather3 adopted the diet and conquered
continent. con 1 For great SECTION of our country It
has blong cen tbN staff of life How we'll the South
fought on it, histo tells. Now it can help America
win a world
Learn Something-Corn! 1t isn't one food. It's
dozen, It's a cereal It's vegetable. It's bread
dollar for dollar, than meat eggs or most other
vegetables. It's good to eat; how good you don't
know until you've had corn-bread properly cooked
Best of ALL it's plentiful and it's patriotic.
Corn's Infinite Variety-How much do you know about
corn? About how good it is? About the many
delicious ways of cooking it? And what you miss
by not knowing more about it? Here are few
of its uses:
There at least fifty ways to use corn meal to
make good dishes for dinner supper, lunch or break
fast Here some suggestions:
HOT BREADS DESSERTS
Boston brown bread. Corn-meal molasses cake
Hoecake. Apple corn bread.
Mullins. Dumpings.
Biscuits. Gingerbread.
Griddle cakes. Fruit gems.
Waffles.
HEARTY DISHES
Corn-meal croquettes Corn-mea fish balls
Meat and corn-mea dumplings.
Italian polenta. Tamales.
The recipes in Farmers Bulletin $685. Corn
Meal Food and Ways of Using It," free from the
Department of Agriculture.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04

A man who was very vain of
his personal appearance went to
see doctor one day and asked
him to explain a singular circum-
sstance.
Doctor" he said, my hair
is perfectly black, but my whisk-
ers are turning white rapidly.
Now, how do you account for
that?"
WELL" replied the physician,
Il do not know, unless it is be-
cause your jaws have worked a
great deal harder than your
brains. "-Exchange.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Then-Snence.

Mr.. Jagsby: Where the devil
is my hat? l can't keep a thing
about this house. It's a shame
the way things disappear. /
would like to know where that
hat is.
Mrs. Jagsby, icily: So would
i. You didn't have it on when
you got home at 2:30 this morn
ing.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Enough Hunting.

A young Swede appeared at
the county judges Office and ask
ed for a license.
What kind of a license?" ask
ed the judge "a hunting license?"
No." was the answer. AYE
thank aye bane hunting long
enough. Aye want a marriage
license. Team Work.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Some Shopper.

lnever saw a woman so crazy
over shopping as she is.
is she really?"
why the other day she went
to a prominent surgeon and
priced a number of his opera.
tions. Team Work.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Smoke Up.

Tobacco is dirty week
" | like it!
1t satisfies no normal need
| like it!
It makes you thin, it makes you
lean,
1t takes the hair right off your
bean,
It's the darndest stgff I've ever
seem
Hike it'll Exchange.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
The Reason.

Don't you love our song, The
Star-Spangled Banner'?"
i do" replied Senator Sor-
ghum.
Then why don't you join in
the chorus?"
my friend, the way for me to
show real affection for a song is
not to try to singit. "-Exchange
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Master Commissioners Sale.

Morgan Circuit Court.
H. NJ Walters, Guardian, Plaintiff.
against
Ina D. Walters, Defendant.
BY virtue of a judgment and order of
sale of the Morgan Circuit Court, rendered
at the September Term, 1917 in the above
cause, | will offer for sale at public auction,
at the front door of the court house in
West liberty. Ky.. on
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
The Goods.

Daughter, who was here with
you last night?"
"Only Myrtle, father"
We'll, tell Myrtle that she left
her pipe on the piano" "-Ex.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Take a Tip
From Old
DiOgenes
BY MOSS.

LATo having a
- i couple OF thou
""w'DkS lSgS sand years ago de-
AY VA fined man as a
al 1,AV two legged animal
HIN NN without feathers.
uSIH Diogenes 1.-THE chap
,'hlAAk NJ, who went around
"" In the daytime
with a lantern looking for an
honest mani plucked Il rooster
and took 1t into the academy
where the ancient philosophers
discussed everything under the
sun and said, This is Plato's
man." On which account this
addition was made to the def
milton: with broad, Hat nails"
We all admit that old Diog-
enes was a pretty smart Greek,
with a fine sense Of humor. II
he lived today he wouldn't have
to use his lantern among day
light newspapers to find m hon
est advertiser. SUCCESSFUL
ADVERTISERS MUST BE
HONEST. Dishonesty doesn't
pay In advertising or In any
thing else. No daylight paper
wants to have anything to do
with the space buyer who delib-
erately tries to fool the public.
But. coming back to Plnto's
modified man, the moral Of that
story is: Be exact. BE specific.
Don't overlook the details.
Do you watch the ads. In this
paper CAREFULLY enoughy
Do you keep posted on the de-
tails? Do you make II your busl'
ness to read them with EXACT
NESS?
DON'T SKIP THE
BROAD, FLAT NAILS"
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04
Let US do that next job of
yours. Well do it right.

Blank Deeds for sale at the
Courier office.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-04

DLAT0 having a
i couple Of thou
sand years ago de-
fined man as a
two legged animal
without feathers.
Diogenes 1.-THE chap
who went around
Connecticut western news., 1918-02-21
Where History Is Romantic.

Nowhere is history so romantic as In
the Caucasus region, says historian.
Alexander the Great was its first au-
chemically recorded conqueror. The
legions of Pompey assailed 1T, trying
vigorously to force their way through
the Darrell pass. The Turks by STRAIT
ngem and by surprise attacks frequent
ly got through in later days. The first
sustained freedom which the noun
taineers received was when the cru
saders so decimated the tribes of Is
lam that they could be driven out by
the Georgians.
Connecticut western news., 1918-02-21
GREAT MASS
OF PROOF
Reports of $4,000 Cases of Kidney
Trouble, Some of Them
Canaan Cases.

Each Of some 5000 newspapers of
the United States is publishing from
week to week, names of people in it's
particular neighborhood, who have
used and recommended Doan's Kidney
Pills for kidney backache, weak kid
neys, bladder troubles and urinary dis.
orders. This mass of proof includes over
30, 900 recommendations Canaan is no
exception. Here is one of the Canaan
cases.
George r. Morris, retired machinist,
Main St., says: "About four years ago.
/ suffered greatly from kidney trouble.
1 had annoying pains across the shall
of 10y back and the kidney secretion,
were burning and irregular in passages
/ often felt all tired out. A friend tod
me of Doan's Kidney Pills and gave
them trial. must say they helped
me wonderfully. / still use Doan's
Kidney Pills once in awhile and al
ways get good results.
Price coo, at all dealers. Don't SIM
ply ask for q kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Morris had. oster.Milburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.-adv21.
Connecticut western news., 1918-02-21
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER 1.-The story opens in the
&wn of Granville, Ontario, where Miss
Eazel Weir Is employed as stenographer
ez the office Of Harrington and Bush. She
= engaged to Jack Barrow, a young real
tseate agent, and the wedding day Is set.
Ehfle wallsing with lo him one Sunday they icy.
rhe first time seems to notice her at
ir@etiveness. Shortly afterward, at his re-
she fter these ms oBhs Mr. B%s
proposes marriage which Hazel declines,
md after a stormy scene in the office
fa1ei leaves her employment. Mr: BUSH ISL!
esfusing him.
4 GIFT of flowers, to compromise Hazel in
hem. The next day Bush is thrown from
Ifs wh ahr refases to ns see hm BEFORE he
E1unced that f he left a legacy of 5000 to
bay have done her" Hazel recognizes at
Ence what construction will be put upon
ahA words. Bush had his revenge.
CHAPTER III-Jack Barrow, IN @ -
@ Jealous rage, demands from Hazel an
tEpianation of Bush's action. Hazers pride
# b ana h and Hsss to
ksaye Granville. She sees an advertise
sasnt for school teacher at Cariboo
&eadows, Britt Columbia. and secures
CHAPTER Iv-Cariboo Meadows Is in
wild part of British Columbia and Ha-
bel. shortly after her arrival, loses her
Nay while walking in the woods. She
Nanders until night, when, attracted by
Nle light of campfire, she turns to 1t,
hoping to find somebody who will guide
her home. At the fire she recognizes
character known to Cariboo Meadows as
AFoearing Bill Wagstaff," who had seen
her at her boarding house there. He
nroxnises to take her home In the morn
ing. but shc Is compelled to spend the
&ight in the woods
CHAPTER v--They start next daE.
Hazel supposes. for Cariboo Meadows, but
FagStan finally admits he Is taking her
C his cabin in the mountains. He is re-
epectfM and considerable and Hazel,
62ough protesting Indignantly, is helpless
and has to accompany him.
CHAPTER VII-With the coming OF
NprBng Hazel insists that Wagstaff take
Eer out OF the mountains He endeavors
Do persuade her to marry him and stay,
AuS on her persistent refusal, he accom-
hanfes her to Bella Coda, from where
fine can proceed tofVancouver.'
Connecticut western news., 1918-02-21
CHAPTER TX.
An Ending and a Beninninn

Unconsciously, by natural assimila-
hon, so to speak, Hazel Weir had alb
e0fbed more woodcraft than she real
lied In her over-winter stay in the
high ATTITUDES. Bill Wagstaff had once
told her that few people know just
what they can do until they are COM
PEELED to try, and upon this, her second
journey northward, the truth of that
statement grew more patent with each
Bassing day.
So trailing north with old Limping
George, his fat klootch, and two half
grown Siwash youths, Hazel bore
steadily across country, driving as
straight as the rolling land allowed,
for the cabin that snuggled in woodsy
basin close up to the peaks that guard
Pine River pass.
There came day when brief uncer-
fzinty became sure knowledge at sight
of Lrshaped body of water glimmer-
tng through the 6re-thinned spruce.
Aer hart fluttered for a minute. Like
q homing bird, by grace of the rude
map and Limping George, she had
collie to the Like where the Indians
lad camped In the winter, and she
could have gone blindfolded from the
lake to Roaring Bills cabin.
She urged her pony through the
Eight timber growth and across the
little meadows where the rank grass
and strange varicolored flowers were
springing up under the urge of the
warm spring sun. Twenty minutes
brought her to the clearing. Silk and
Eatin and Niger, loafing. at the sunny
end Of the stable, pricked up their ears
at her approach, and she knew that
Roaring Bill was home again. She tied
1er horse to a sapling and drew nearer.
Nhe cabin door stood wide.
A brief panic seized her. She felt a
Sudden shrinking, a wild desire for
headlong flight. BIT it passed. She
knew that for good or ill she would
never turn back.
On the soft turf her footsteps gave
forth no sound. She gained the door
way as silently as a shadow. Roaring
Eil faced the end of the long room, but
lie did not see her, for he was slumped
tn the big chair before the fireplace,
his chin sunk on his breast, staring
straight ahead with absent eyes.
In all the days she had been with
him she had never seen him look like
chat. That weary, hopeless expression,
Che wry twist of his lips, wrung her
heart and drew from her yearning
RttIe whisper.
sBill"
He came out of his chair like pan
fher. And when his eyes beheld her
IA the doorway he stiffened in his
Connecticut western news., 1918-02-21

objective lay east of the head of the
Mas proper, where amid wild tangle
of mountains and mountain torrents
three turbulent rivers, the Stikine, the
Skeena and the Mas, took their rise.
A God-forsaken region, he told her,
where few white men had penetrated.
The peaks fiirted with the clouds, and
their sides were SCARED with glaciers.
A lonesome, brooding land, the home
of q vast and seldom-broken silence.
"But there's all kinds of game and
fur in there" Bill remarked thought
fully. "And gold. Still, it's a fierce
country for a man to take his best girl
into. I don't know whether I ought
to tackle it."
eve couldn't be more isolated than
we are here" Hazel argued, eff we
were in the Arctic. Look at that poor
woman at Pelt House. Three babies
born since she saw doctor or another
woman of her own color! What's a
winter by ourselves compared to that.
And she didn't think it so great a
hardship. Don't you worry about me,
Mr.. Bill. I think it will be fun. I'm
a real pioneer at heart. The wild
places look good to me-when you're
along"
She received her due reward for
that, and then, the long twilight hav-
ing brought the hour to a lateness that
manifested itself by sundry yawns on
their part, they went to bed.
With breakfast over, Bill put COM
pass in his pocket, after having ground
his ak blade to a keen edge.
"Come on" said he, then; "I'm going
to transact some important business"
"What is it?" she promptly demand
ed with much curiosity.
'This domicile of ours, girl" he told
her, while he led the way through the
surrounding timber, sis ours only by
grace of the wilderness. It's built on
upsurveyed government land land
that 1 have no more legal claim to
than any passing trapper. But I'm
going to remedy that. I'm going to
formally stake a hundred and sixty
acres of this and apply for Its pur-
chase. Then We'll have a cinch on our
home. Well always have a refuge to
fly to, no matter where we CO."
She n appreciation of this. The
cabin j. clearing stood for some
Connecticut western news., 1918-02-21
AN INTERVIEW WITH MRS. q. A
JACKSON OF WATERBURY,.

American women are vitality inter.
ested in this war, and the most imTor-
taat thing that women San now do to
help their country is to create, guide,
form aud foster a public opinion favor
able TO President Wilson's conduct of
the war declared Mrs. Charles A.
Jackson of Waterbury when she was
asked, "What is the most important
thing a woman can do to help win this
WARP" Mrs Jackson is mem Der of the
committee on woman's activities Of
the Connecticut State Council of De-
tense and governor for Connecticut Of
the International Federation of Catho-
lie Alumnae The following interview
with her was made public by the STAGE
Council of Deferse:-
"The mental attitude of the women
# the nation just be one which will
strengthen. not only the morale of the
army, but the morale of the people ,
she continued. 1--WE must stiffen their
determi nation, bolster up their cour-
aae awaken the spirit of sacrifice,
and give them the will to win. In
his war we need large accession of
aoral passion and the passion of pa
trIotism in war becomes a matter of
moral obligation We Americans are
fhtC nate in the nigh and lofty motives
for which we entered the war Our
conduct of it and the peace for which
we seek will, in generations to come,
prove US, as people, TO be capable of
the highest firm of moral passion, pa
triotism
lin war time women can not be
considered separate part of the body
polite. Ali American women will sup
port President Wilson until an honor
able and permanent peace shall be
brought about by the great army under
h direction
again, repeat, we need an Access
sion of the passion of patriotism. This
can be created and kept alive only
Connecticut western news., 1918-02-21

III rnose moments that always loom
large and unforgettable in every wom-
ans experience. She had come there
once in hot, shamed anger, and she
had come again as a bride. 1t was the
handiwork of man she loved with a
passion that sometimes startled her
by its intensity. Just the mere pos
sibility of that place being given over
to others reused in her a pang of re-
sentiment. 1t was theirs, hers and
Bills, and, being n woman, she viewed
its possession jealousy.
So she watched with keen interest
what he did. Which, in truth, was
simple enough. He worked his way
to a point southeast of the clearing
till they gained a little rise whence
through the treetops they could look
back and see the cabin roof. There
Bill cut off an eight-inch jack pine,
leaving the stump approximately four
feet high. This he hewed square, the
four fiat sides of the post facing re-
Spectively the cardinal points of the
compass. On one smoothed surface
Hazel sat down and watched while he
busted himself at this. And when he
had finished she read, in deep-carved
letters:
w. WAGSTAFF'S S. e. CORNER.
Then he penned on a sheet of let
ter paper a brief notice to the effect
that he, William Wagstaff, intended to
apply for the purchase of the land en-
braced in an area a half mile square,
Of which the post was the southeast
corner mark. This notice he fastened
to the stump with few tacks, and sat
down to rest from his labors.
"How long do youNsuppose that will
stay there, and who is there to read 1t
if 1t does?' Hazel observed.
SEARCH me. The moose and the
deer and the timber wolves, guess"
Bill grinned. "The chances are the
paper won't last long, with winds and
rains. But 1t doesn't matter. It's sim
ply form prescribed by the land act
of British Columbia. and, so long as i
go through the legal motions, that let's
me out. Matter of form, you know"
4Ith WIldl else YOU nave W
Nothing but furnish the money
when the land department gets around
to accept my application" he said. 81
can get an agent to attend to all the
details. Well, let's take a look at our
estate from another corner"
This, roughly ascertained by sight
ing line with the compass and step
Aff QOn dc
on a knoll that commanded the small
basin of which the clearing was prac-
tically in the center.
"AhaI" Bill exclaimed. "Look at
our ranch, would you; our widespread
acres basking in the sun. A quarter
section is quite a chunk. Do you
know I never thought much about 1t
before, but there's piece of the finest
land that lies outdoors. If this coun-
try should get railroad and settle up,
that quarter section might produce all
the income we'd need. Just out of hay
and potatoes. How'd you like to be
farmers wife, huh?"
"Fine," she smiled. 'Took at the
view-it isn't gorgeous. lists sim
ply peaceful and quiet and soothing.
/ hate to leave it."
Better be sorry to leave a place
than glad to get away" he answered
lightly. "Come on, let's pike home and
get things in order for the long trail,
woman o. mine. I'll teach you how to
be a woodland vagabond."
To be continued.l
Connecticut western news., 1918-02-21

ana watched IL vanish up TOWARD the
dusky roof beams before he answered.
"Well, little person." said he, "that's
very true, and we can't truthfully say
that stern necessity is trCading on our
heels. The possession of money has
never been a crying need with me.
But l hadn't many wants when I was
playing a lone hand, and 1 generally let
the future take care of itself. 1t was
always easy to dig up money enough to
buy books and grub or anything l
wanted. Now that I've assumed Il GER
tain responsibility, it has begun to
dawn on ME that we'd enjoy life bet
ter if we were assured of a compe-
tence. We won't stay here always.
I'm pretty mucn contented just now.
So are you. But know from past eX-
perience that the outside will grow
more alluring as time passes. You'll
get lonesome for civilization. It's the
most natural thing in the world. And
when we go out to mix with our fellow
humans we want to meet them on
terms of worldly equality. Which is
to say with good clothes on, and fat
bank roll in our pocket. And last, but
not least, old girl, while love to loaf,
I can only loaf about so long in con-
tentment. Sabe2 I've got to be doing
something; whether it was profitable
or not has never mattered, just so it
was action"
81 sabe, as you call it," Hazel smiled.
"Of course / do. Only lazy people like
to loar all the time. love this place,
and we might stay here for years and
be satisfied. But"
"But we'd be better satisfied to stay
If we knew that we could leave 1t
whenever we wanted to-" he inter-
rupted. "That's the psychology of the
human animal, all right. We don't like
to be coerced, even by circumstances"
eff you made lot of money mining,
we could travel-one could do lots of
things" she reflected. 81 don't think
it would be nice to go there, some
times"
"Yes, dear girl, 1T would" Bill
agreed. "With a chum to help you en-
joy things. We can do things together
that 1 couldn't do alone, and you
couldn't do alone. Remains only to get
the wherewithal. And since / know
how to manage that with a minimum
amount of effort, I'd like to be about
it before somebody else gets ahead of
me. Though there's small chance of
that"
"We'll be partners" said she. "How
will we divide the profits, Billum?"
"We1l split even," he declared.
'"That is, I'll make the money, and
you'll spend it."
They chuckled over this conceit, and
as the dusk closed in slowly they fell
to planning the details. Hazel lit the
lamp, and in it's yellow glow pored
over maps while Bill idly sketched
their route on a sheet of paper. His
Connecticut western news., 1918-02-21
MADE IN CONNECTICUT
WAR INTERVIEWS
WITH WOMEN

Statements by Prominent Connecticut
Women on Vital War Topics Have Been Sc.
cured by the Connecticut State Council of
Defense. This Newspaper Has Made Ar.
rangements With the Council of Defense to
Publish These Interviews, and They viii
Appear Four Times Each Week.
Connecticut western news., 1918-02-21

sUe the dollar? Besides, how arc you
going to pursue it?"
Go prospecting" he replied prompt
~. "Hit the trail for a place I know
where there's coolies of coarse gold, if
you can get to it at low water. How'd
You like to go into the Upper Mas
country this fall, trap all winter, work
the sandbars in the spring, and come
out next fall with a sack of gold it
would take a horse to pack"
Hazel clapped her hands.
sob, Bill, wouldn't that be finer she
cried. "rd love to-"
ut won't be all smooth sailing" he
warned. "Tt's Ion, trip and hard
one, and the winter will be longer and
harder than the trip. Still, there's a
chance for a good big stake, right in
that one trip
but why the necessity for making
q stalker" she inquired thoughtfully,
after a lapse of five minutes. L
thought you didn't care anything about
money so long as you had enough to
get along on2 Ana we surely have
that. We've over two thousand dollars
In real money-anc 70 place to spend
.it--so we're COMP, ~ to save"
Fill blew smok, 1g over hts head
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-02
1907 WAGES IN 1917.

Two classes of workers there are,
on whom the high cost Of living has
fallen most heavily.
They are the school teachers and
the government employees.
Most school teachers sign yearly
contracts. The contracts they made
a year ago left but a slender margin
above the cost of existence. That mar
gin has been wiped out by the rise
in prices since then.
Many government employees, not
ably the postal clerks, have not had
an increase in wages since 1907. Any
housekeeper who tries to cover the
household bills Of 1917 with the al
Iowances of 1907, knows how utterly
impossible it is.
Despite Postmaster Burleson's at
titude toward unions, the postal
clerks Of the country are organizing
to demand an increase in wages,
They should have it without quesa
ton. T.
The Forum has no sympathy with
strikes in war time; or with efforts
TO extort radical wage increases with
the threat tn paralyze industry; but
this condition certainly does not ap-
pIv to either the teachers or the
postal employees. They have been
too meek for their own welfare. No
private employer finds it possible to
keep a staff Of employees on the wages
paid in 1907. and the government
cannot expect to do it.