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MARCH TO VICTORY

Courage IL q matter Of the blood.
Without good red blood a man has q
weak heart and poor nerves.
In the spring II the best time to
take stock Of ones condition. II the
blood Is thin and watery, face pale or
pimply, generally weak, tired and list
less, one should take q spring tonic.
One that viii do the spring house
cleaning, an old-fashioned herbal rem.
edy that was used by everybody nearly
cause It contains no alcohol or narcot.
lc. It is made up Of Blood root, Gold.
% Seal root, Oregon Grape root,
Queens root, Stone root, Black Cherry
bark-extracted with glycerins and
made Into liquid or tablets. This blood
tonic was FIRST put out BY DR.. Pierce
In ready.to-use form and since then
has been sold BY million bottles as DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. II
druggists do not keep this In tablet
form, send 90 cents for q vial to DR..
Pierce's InvalidS' Hotel, Buffalo, N. 7.
Kidney disease carries away q large
percentage Of our people. What 10 to
b donsf The answer 10 easy. Eat less
meat eat coarse, plain food. with plenty
Of vegetables. drink plenty Of water
between meals, and take an uric acid
solvent after meals for a while. such as
Anuric double strength). obtainable at
almost any drug store. It was first
discovered by DR.. Pierce. Most every
ono troubled with uric acid finds that
Anuric dissolves the uric acid a. hot
water does sugar. You can obtain a
trial package BY sending ten cents to
Doctor Pierce's Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute in Buffalo. N. 7.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04
eoap Nven

More use should be made Of rain
water when procurable and hard wa
ter may be softened BY boiling II and
then leaving It exposed to the air out
Of doors for . while. The effect Of
these precautions will be good for the
skin and thrifty In soap usage.
By the simple practice Of drying
soap before using, It q large saving
will be effected. The bars or tablets
may be placed In an airing cupboard
for . few days. or anywhere In mod.
crate heat. piled not one bar on an
other. but with space between.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04
Enquire See Ne -..
W1Dsa Ilsvw Dtsak Iraes sxrctSsY -,
Guaranteed DGNvI4
W. n. u. DENVER. NO. t4..,s,a
College Men on 70 War.

Only six Of the rs Harvard studso>g
who won their III" last year are ~
In the university. The rest are ~
the war" More than nifty Yale pro.
fessors and instructors are engaged u
war service.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04

Tho man who has no enemies mAZ
be considered good. but It's Qusse1s6
what he's good for.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04

Too many men pray for the thing
they are too lazy 70 work for.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04

When a man tells q woman that u
understands women he II at 800
classified - N easy mark.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04

An entertaining man says but little
but listens impressively.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04

show the following increases from 1918
to 1917 inclusive:
Value Of Field Crops
1918 1917
Manitoba ...$ 64.5b7. 900 1881. 40. $50
Saskatchewan 129. S76. 900 $40. 48S, 200
Alberta 49,. 46,712,O0O 178,086, 800
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04

To keep clean and healthy take Dr.
Piefce's Pleasant Pellets. They reHu.
late liver. bowels and st0mach.-Adv.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04

r have Just completed my farewell
tour"
"And did you fare wsllr'
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04

Alberta .......... 1S.SO Zs.Io
It will be observed that the average
price Of land has not kept pace with
their producing value. 1t Is therefore
pointed out that the opportunities for
the purchase Of high-class land Is still
within the reach Of those with linn.
tied means.
A good idea Of advancement in a
country's progress may be obtained by
a knowledge Of what has been done In
the production of cattle, and when
these figures are studied In connection
with Western Canada. a country whose
fame having been heralded as grain.
growing country. giving the idea that
that was what It was mostly adapted
to. It will be realized that there 10
there . vast storehouse Of wealth
awaiting those who choose to take ad-
vantage Of It. In the three provinces
in 1912 there were-horses. milch cows.
other cattle. sheep and swine. four mil.
lion head, while In 1917 the number
was seven million.
In 1901 the entire population was
1852; in 1915 1905. 220.
One marvels at the rapid progress
Of the United States during the nine
teenth century. But Americas oppor-
tunities for growth at the beginning of
that century were nothing compared
to the opportunities which are Can
ada's at the present time.
The fact that Canada has al its next
door neighbor nation of over 100. 000..
000-the richest nation in the world
II bound to have a stimulating effect
on it, progress. Already one sees
signs Of It on every hand.
Canada not only has the largest area
Of unoccupied. but fertile. land Of any
country. but this land 10 already made
available BY q network Of railways.
Cost Of production Of grain 10 lower
than elsewhere. while the prices are
on q basis Of those Of tho United
States.-Advertiseme
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04

Many . living picture Of health d
badly framed.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04

Old Stuff.
Hes always talking about his fan
ny tree"
Yes, its Q chestnut"
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04

Women who laugh al the time Ia
public nag all the time at home.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04

Surely Must
He signs himself q Nebuchadnss'
Sar Wombat. Wonder what the n
stands forr'
Dunno. But II he prefers to usa
The name Nebuchadne1sar, the n
must stand for something terrible."-
Louisville Courier Journal.
II you wish beautiful, clear white
1othsi, ~ Rcd Oto0 Bag 1tus. A. ~
Dood eroeses. Adv.
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Total 80. 4O.e45. 900 $eeS. e24.65O
The total value of field crops for
1917 was SECS, 924, $50. produced on less
than 100000 acres Of land.
Further evidence Of prosperity and
progress IL found In the Government
estimate Of the value Of farm lands,
and increase in value since 1905:
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

fage it with a wig, but not he. Earlier in the
the press, had dismissed an optimistic article on
current events as mere camoufage." The next
day a schoolbOy back for the holidays two weeks
In advance of the proper time said that a scare
of measles had brought about that desired result;
at least, that is what the schoolmaster said, but
personally he thought 1t was just camoufage to
cover the fact that grub was getting so jolly ex-
pensive. And a little later a ~facetious gentleman
near me in a restaurant asked the wine waiter to
bring him some claret instead of the camoufaged
water which he called whisky. Probably the
word is IL the nursery by this time.
Another French word which also gets its full
native value in the Anglo-Saxon mouth is 'bar-
rage" but "barrage" has no general usage. The
word raid" is as old as the Scottish border, but
will never again be employed, l imagine, except
in association with attacks by air. AT first we
always said "air raid" but now raid" alone is
sufficient. Should the enemy find any other way
of hitting at the heart of us there will be another
word than raid" to describe his efforts. And to
these | would add that early flower of Arranged
don speech, moratorium which for a while most
OF us took to be the name of a new liner.
Perhaps the most notable slang phrase that the
war has produced is ito get the wind up" mean,
Ing TO upset, or rattle" or put the fear of God
into. But l speak only from the point of the
housekeeping observer, aware merely of such ex-
pressions as get into London parlance.
Here let me thank many correspondents for
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
Coinage of War Words

II is obviously impossible In limited space to
mention more than a few of the more striking
words which the war has given us; and that is
why my article of three or four weeks ago was
so incomplete. Let me supplement 1t today and
begin with the most glaring of the omissions
'camoutage." l cannot remember any instance
of a foreign word so peculiarly un-English as this
not only being so rapidly and universally adopted
but also being so rarely mispronounced. 1 still
often oyerhear knots of men who In their talk
about the war refer to the Kay-ser, and the utter
anglicization of French battle names by public
house military experts is perhaps the most charm
ing feature of their discussions but "camoufage'
remains as French in sound In this country as in
its own, and every one uses 1t. Here, however,
1t has become so elastic as to be the recognized
form for any kind of pretense whatsoever. l am
not sure that Sir Walter Raleigh should not have
added 'camoufage" In his list of our "gains in
the war; MS enumerated In his recent lecture.
have been astonished recently by examples
of the hold of "camoufage' on all types of mind.
Journeying the other day from a Sussex station
TO London, under war conditlons-ffty of us
standing all the way In the guards yan-I had
some talk with the guard, who, on removing his
cap to wipe a heated brow, revealed himself as
bald as the dome Of ST. Pauls. 1t caused him
no distress; some men, he remarked. would camou-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

their communications about the origin of "Blighty,"
the derivation of that word having been a nation
al industry for about three years now. One gen.
tleman even goes so far as to say that l asked
for the information; whereas no one has any idea
how careful I was to do nothing of the kind, hav-
ing a head only too full of devastating memories
of the Hindustani word "Wilayati," or "Balait,"
meaning foreign or English, and its gradual trans
formation by Mr.. Atkins In India into the now
familiar (and very ugly) term for home. "Bligh-
tvs" adventures are ancient history, but 1t was
new to me that, as a reader kindly points out,
"'padre,' In its meaning of Clergyman; was car
ried to India by the Portuguese and adopted into
Indian languages long before the, first English
chaplain set foot in India. Like other Hlndustani
words used in our army, such as 'rooty' for bread
and dixie for camp kettle, 1t was brought home
by our soldiers from India many years ago."
In my structures on the word "Hun" 1 was too
sweeping. I said that to borrow the name of in
vaders of the past with which to stigmatize in
vaders Of the present was tame. But another
correspondent reminds me that it was the kaiser
himself who first applied the term. In the time
of the Boxer rebellion In China the kaiser issued
a 'bombastic proclamation to the German contin-
gent in Pekin under Count Waldersee bidding
them to behave like the Huns of Attila. This
gentleman goes on TO make the very interesting
suggestion that some photographers should col
lect the words which each of our great wars has
added to the language.-E. v. Lucas in the
Sphere.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

sage" The Germans, resenting their attentions,
turned two guns on to their balloon and made
some rather good practice, holing it badly. This
annoyed the English balloon officers considerably
and they decided that the German gunners needed
punishment. They accordingly called up the Of
fcers In charge of a British six-inch gun and in
dicated to him the position of the German guns.
The balloon was now rapidly losing height as the
result of enemy fire, and the position of the Off
GERS was dangerous. However, they stuck to their
basket and continued to direct the fire of the
British gun, having the satisfaction of witnessing
the putting out Of action of one of the hostile
guns before the balloon had sunk too low for
further observation.
Then they got out of their basket and climbed
well up the rigging Of the balloon to save them
selves in the now unavoidable crash.
A British two-seater machine lowering at night
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16

Damascus under the kalifs, and of its
moval of the kalifate to Bagdad; of
the coming of the Egyptians, the Car
mathians, and the Seljuks; of the cam
paigns and mighty conquests of the
Saladin; of the ravages of the Mon
gols, and of the final inclusion of
Damascus within the Ottoman empire,
early in the sixteenth century, fol-
lowed by a long 400 years of stagna-
ton.
Beautiful, From a Distance.
The modern Damascus, like the
Damascus of all the ages, is, in its
distant view, as are many Eastern
cities, a place of great beauty. 1t lies
at the northern edge of the plain of
Ghutah, at the foot of the Anti-Leb-
mon, $3.50 feet above the sea, and all
around, for q circuit of so miles,
tend the famous orchards, gardens,
vineyards, and fields of Damascus,
which have always made its fertility
proverbial throughout the East. The
Arabs regard it as n of their four
earthly p~aradises. Close at hand, the
city is not so beautiful. The rough
mud walls of the houses contrast
strangely with the splendors Within
for the houses of Damascus, with their
mosaics and carved wood, and their
ceilings rich in arabesque ornaments,
deliberately gilded, are amongst the
most beautiful in the East. The
bazaars, however, are the great fea-
ture of Damascus. The masses OF
color and the wonderful effects OF
light and shadow which they present
have made them the delight of paint
ers. As one writer has described such
a scene, here are displayed all the
riches of the Orient rare carpets and
rugs from Persia, and shawls, scarfs
and kerchiefs of every dye from the
far interior of Asia, with gold and
silver embroideries in exquisite taste
or of barbaric splendor There is mo-
pavement, but the ground is hard from
the tread of many feet, for a motley
throng is ever passing to and fro, of
turbaned men and of women closely
yelled; q musician playing his tam
BOURNE, and cavaliers or a train Of
camels slowly filing through. The
long streets are dim and cool, being
arched in high above, and through
apertures the sunlight falls in misty
streams on the gorgeous wares and
moving multitudes beneath. Then, the
old city walls are still there; and tho
Roman gateways; and the Derb ell
Mistakim, or the street which is
called Straight" still runs through the
city, from the eastern to the western
gate, as it did nineteen hundred years
ago, In the days of st. Paul.
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Relics in England.

A few years ago there was sold by
auction the spear that was used by n
rebel dervish to kill General Gordon.
The relic ultimately fetched 30 guineass
On another occasion the sword used by
Lord Cardigan in the battle of Bala-
clava was disposed Of at the same III
ton mart for Sh guineas. A very diff
ferent war relic realized a very differ
ent price. This was the silver-gilt ta-
BILE service used by Napoleon In tho
course of his many campaigns and II
went for f650.-London Tit-Bits.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
EVENT IN A SOLDIERS LIFE.

Just to show what makes an event in a sol
dier's life that-as the soldiers see it's really
worth recording, here is a bit out of a letter from
Harley johnson, a Butler boy, printed in the
Bates County (Missouri) Democrat:
"Well I am sure going to have something good
for dinner. The cook told me that If l would get
enough gooseberries to make two pies he would
make them. So l started out to look for goose
berries and found them. 1 asked an old French
woman to sell me some, and, don't you know, she
said they were no good and I had to laugh. She
would not sell me any, but gave me all I could
carry away and they were big ones, about the
size of my thumb. So 4 had a pie all to myself"
What are bursting shrapnel and red blood to
write about when a man has gooseberry pie?-St.
Louis Republic.
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WV HEN General Allenby and
A/V/ his victorious army captured
Damascus from the Turks,
= they took what is called the

DdlldSCuo lIUln lht IuIhS,
y they took what is called the
"oldest city in the world" The claim
Is based upon frequent mention in the
Old Testament-where it is referred
to, by various names that serve to
identify it, and in the New Testament.
Josephus affirms that it was founded
by w, the son of Aram, who gave to
the region the name of Syria, which it
has retained to this day.
Damascus was a flourishing trade
center in Abraham's time. One of the
earliest novels" in all literature
equally so whether true or fanciful)
is the story Of the Jewish maid taken
captive by Naaman, a Syrian general
Oh Kings). Naaman was a leper, but
the captive suggested getting the ad-
vice of a prophet at Samaria. He did
so, but when told to battle in the Jor-
dan he was vexed, saying that plenty
of water existed nearer home. How
ever, he did go to the Jordan and was
cleansed. Good story.
If you doubt it, the next time you
visit Damascus any of the old inhab-
itants will point out Naaman's house.
Elisha figures in the early history
of Damascus. Ben-hadad (946 B. c.,
at a guess), a king of Damascus, was
murdered, and the assassin improved
conditions so greatly that king killing
became popular. The king of Judea
resented the success of the upstart
monarch and, with help from the ruler
of Assyria, took the city and killed its
ruler. This made good a prediction
of Isaiah.
The early prophets appear to have
chad 1t in" for the people at Damas'
Gus; they spent a great deal of time
in prophesying i'll of that city. And,
bad cess to their activities, most of
their predictions came true.
The city was under the sway of AS
syria for nearly 1000 years-a mere
episode in its history. Its people first
awakened when the Romans under
Pompey moved in, about "a B. G,
Herod had controversies with the
Syrian rulers in which he came of
second best.
Made Familiar by ST. Paul.
1t is in New Testament times that
one seems to be brought into most in.
innate touch with Damascus. The
memorable journey of st. Paul to the
city of Jerusalem, and all that hap
pened during and after it; the "street
which is called Straight :" the house
of Judas; the visit of Ananias; the
subsequent preaching of st. Paul II
the s~ynagogues; the plots to kill him
and his escape from the city by night
are all names and incidents familiar
to Christians the world owe 1t wa:
to Damascus, too, that st. Paul re
turned after his three years sojourI
In the wilderness, and in no Other
period in its long history does the an
cient city on the banks of the Abans
seem to come so clearly into view.
Later on, under Trajan, Damascus
became a Roman provincial city, and
on the establishment of Christianity
the seat of a bishop, who ranked next
In authority after the patriarch of An
tioch. Even when this point IL
reached, a wealth of history still liei
ahead: There is the great story o.
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GE9NhHM OSSEeN47H0N REL00W 1/
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over an enemy concentration center observed
easily distinguishable in bright starlight-a col
umn of transport consisting of about 20 wagons.
Descending rapidly to 300 feet he landed two
bombs-a hundredweight apiece-plumb in the
center of the column. The destruction was
enormous, and the remnant of the column scat
tered wildly in all directions. The British pilot
rose again and waited, giving time for the German
transport to reassemble. Diving once more, he
found it, together with two other large lorries, In a
sunken road where the Huns apparently hoped
to escape further attack from the death-deaGng
raider. The British pilot released his remaining
bombs from an altitude at which he could not
miss his target, and then diving lower still opened
fire with his machine guns, putting about 25O
rounds into the confused mass Of w~reckage.
A British two-scater machine while on patrol
was attacked by a German triplane. The OBJ
server in the British machine promptly took up
the challenge and opened fire, upon which the
Hun made off eastward. Meanwhile eight Ger
man scouts had rapidly approached and, taking
up position, four above and four below, attacked
simultaneously. The British pilot realizing the
danger of his position Unanswered desperately
rolling and side-slipping to avoid the enemy's con-
centrated fre-whilst both he and his observer
kept firing as opportunity offered. One of the
German craft was sent down in flames and then
the British pilot was badly wounded. The work
of both fighting and flying the machine now de-
veloped almost entirely upon the observer, who,
by a really remarkable exercise of skill and pluck,
succeeded in eXtricating the machine from its ap-
parently hopeless position, whilst at the same
time firing occasional bursts from his gun at the
pursuing Huns with his left hand, when they
pressed too closely. He succeeded In safely land
ing his pilot and machine behind the British
lines.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
Meditation.

Meditation is M way OF handling
the Gospel history. Instead of a vague,
aforementioned, less than half-com-
pretended, story, the life Of Jesus,
steadily meditated on, passes into the
life of the Christian, by an insensible
but real transfusion.-Rev. Ii. p. Lid
don, ID. d.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-16
A snIrltua, Relation

True friendship is a spiritual rela-
ton. God reveals himself to us In
many ways through our different
friends.-E. v, II. .N.1,
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1918-10-23
Nation Goes Beyond
Goal in Loan Drive

Washington, Oct Decentralization of the Fourth Lib
cry campaign closed
Saturday night While official reports lacking appeared
that again the American people have to their
not only what asked but than
the against Germany her allies may be
cessful conclusion.
How far the total will above the dollar goal
cial would not attempt to estimate 1t all depends, they said,
whether the big financial interests filed the big lump
ons expected Of them and whether the number of small uLcrp-
tons by individuals is found to meet expectations
New subscriptions entered during the last day
made effective by payment of the 10 per nstamen prob
ably will amount to billion and half dollars for the
ton said Before business opened Saturday morning
800 l950 had been reported Federal Reserve
the next five days banks in every city and the United
States will be busy adding up subscriptions
Reports and payments then be made to Federal Reserve
Banks which expected take least five
port to the Treasury
Indications that the number of individual subscribers will
far exceed 10000 600 and break all records for distribution
bonds for either this nation or any other