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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
A Free Prescription You Can Have
Filled and Use at Home.

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A lady who used it says; THE atmos-
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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14


These are only a few Of the most
knotty problems that await the presi-
dents return. The fixing Of arma-
ments for the various nations, inolud-
ing Germany, has ticklish aspects.
SO far the conference sessions HAYS
been comparatively mild affairs, but
there will be real doings when the
time comes to go into rival claims,
presented by claimants with high tenn
peratures and feverish pulses, "Presi-
dent Wilson has his league Of nations"
they will say; now let him stand aside
while we get what we came for"
Premier Hughes, of Australia feels that
way. So do the Italian delegates. So
do some others.
The French leaders are, Of course,
hoping that President Wilson will not
in erpose any objections to their pro-
gram for putting Germany In her prop
or place, They are bound to put Ger
| many there; absolutely determined
about it, and they hope that America
may not have any foolish notions about
mercy.
We do not know what President Will
son thinks about all these issues, ex-
cept for the knowledge that he wants
a square deal for each of the small
nations in the allied group, and favors
a general settlement that will insure
peace instead Of SOW provocations for
q whole flock Of new wars.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
Hidden 81 Months.

The Bulgars left the scene before
daybroak. Father Yontsehitch made
his way on foot to the village Of Ponor,
and eventually to Prot, his home. From
that time, 81 months he concealed him
self from the BulgaFs, under the floor
Of the house, He lived almost like a
rat, food being lowered to him through
a hole in the floor. The Associated
Press correspondent visited this place
and saw the wretched conditions under
which Yontschitch lived.
When the priest emerged from his
self imposed confinement, his appear
ance had so changed that his friends
failed to recognize him. He was later
seized by the Bulgars and sent to a
prison camp at Eski Djuma, near the
months his only food was a slice of
bread and a few pieces Of leek each
day, When the war ceased, Father
Yontschitch and 100 other Serbian
priests were returned home.
To confirm the priests story, the
correspondent visited the spot where
the victims Of tho massacre were buried.
The place Is obseured on all sides by
mountains, Many bones, skulls and
parts Of the priests vestments being
scattered about In confusion. The cor
respondent found nea the bones a num-
Der Of empty cartridges Of Bulgarian
manufacture. Little candles had been
placed in the ground by local peasants
who came each day 10 say prayers over
the graves after the Bulgarian vacu-
alton.
An international investigating com
mission ls expected oon 10 .examine
the scene.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
Give California Syrup Of
Figs" at Once II Bilious Or
Constipated.

Look at the tongue, mother! II coat.
ed, II IL a sure sign that your little
ones stomach, liver and bowels need a
gentle. thorough cleansing at once.
When peevish, cross. ~listless. pals,
doesn't sleep, doesn't eat or act natur.
ally, or is feyerish. stomach sour,
breath bad. has stomaohache, sore
seaspoonful Of California syrup q
Figs and in q few hours all the foul,
sour bile gently moves out OF the little
bowels without gripping, and you have
4 well. playful child again.
take this harmless fruit la5xative%%;
they love Ito delicious taste and It a.
ways makes them feel splendid.
Ask your druggist for a bottle OF
california Syrup, Of Figs" which has
directions for babies, children OF all
ages and for grown-ups plainly on the
bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold
here, To be sure you get the, genuine,
ask to see that II 10 made by the Cali
sornia Zig Syrup Company" Refuse
any other kind with contempt.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
England's Attitude to Us.

It must be apparent that England's
attitude through the second phase OF
the peace conference is most important
to us. If Lloyd George and his as
sociates continue in close accord with
President Wilson, the settlement will
bear the impress of American ideals,
Otherwise, America may have little to
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
A REMEDY FOR
N WHOLE FAMILY
castOr-JeV -- ne Concentrated
Castor on In Jelly Form.

CASTOR -JELL 10 simply plain, old.
fashioned CASTOR OIL favored and
concentrated into Jelly form. Doctors
recommend it, the same as Castor Oil, sad
you will always use IL instead Of Castor
Oil II you try it once.
A Csc. jar of CAsTOR-JELL contains ten
fun doses -3kc. per dose - and it costs
you less than Castor Oil such as you have
been used to taking from childhood.
Buy a jar OF CAsToR-JELL from your
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You are not satisfied, That's our guarantee.
Nearly every family has CASTOR OIL
In the medicine chest. Go to your druggist
now and buy 3 Jar OF CAsTOR-JELL and
the next time CASTOR OIL is needed by
any member OF the family, give them =
pleasant surprise by administering 1t In
the form Of C~ASTOR-JELL
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14

lery now on display; and the first wording of this
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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
A Midnight Moon.

About two hours walk from Bella Pa
lanka, the priests came to a halt and
were ordered to turn off the road into
q very small valley 10 the right. 1t was
after midnight and half a moon gaVs
the only illumination to the lonely
mountain roads and valleys. The
priests had not gone far when the
guards shot them in their backs.
Father Yontschitch dragged himself
in tho darkness behind a large rock
whence he could see the whole scene
Of murder being enacted by the Bull
CARS.
He saw his colleagues dragged, some
dead, some half alive. to pyres which
had been prepared for them and their
bodies thrown to the flames.
Many OF the e said Father Yont-
sehitch, were stu alive when the Bull
gars saturated their bodies with case
line and set them Attire. Flames spread
about them and they pleaded piteously
for mercy, but their pleas were met
with sneers, After the flames had
spent themselves, said Father Yont-
schitch, the charred bodies Of 2t VIC
Tins were thrown into two holes, Arms,
legs, heads, he said, were left protrud-
ing, exposed to the raVages Of dogs
and wolves that infest the mountains
in the neighborhood.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
ATTITUDE
TOWARD j. REAL
IMPORTANT POINT
With Many Knotty and DAN
gerouS Problems to RaveI,
Peace Delegates Aided by
U. S. and EngIand'S Position
eY VICTOR M'NAUeHT.

PARIS, March IA. Especial Corre-
spondence 1.-THE most significant and
important development OF the peace
conference up to this time, outside the
framing OF the league of nations pro-
gram, has been the growth of har-
mony and understanding between Brit
ish n American representatives. The
league constitution Is in reality the
work Of Lord Robert Cecil and General
Smuts( with a few minor clauses and
ldent Wilson preferred indorsing a
good program drawn by someone else,
10 submitting one of his own, and in
this he no doubt showed tact.
This disposition of English and Amer
lean delegates to look at things in the
same calm and dispassionate way Is
particularly interesting and significant
when we look ahead to the probable
developments Of the second phase OF
the conference, which opens on the
return of President Wilson TO Parts
after his brief stay in Washington.
The second phase will be crowded with
practical problems, difficult, and filled
with possibilities of friction. Let us
examine briefly a few of them;
Rival Ambitions.
/. Japan and Australia are watch
ing a other ~neryously, each anxious
for control of islands in the Pacific,
and neither quite satisfied with the
program for manufactures. p
2. Italy and J~ugo-Slavia both desire
the territory on the east coast of the
Adriatic. The Italians claim exclusive
domination of the AdFiatic, the annexa-
ton of the ports of Ffume, cara and
Valona, the possession of the whole of
Dalmatia and a pFotectorate over AL
bania. They base their claims on
secret treaties made with the allied
governments. The Jugo-Slavs assert
that zoo, 900 of their people would be
included within such territorial limits,
hence their resistance.
3. Japan makes claims on China
which the Chinese are bound to OPP
pose. The japanese desire to take over
all the concessions in China that the
Germans once possessed, and some be-
sides.
4. Poland is badly divided internal
ly over the claims Of two rival fac
tons, each claiming the right to speak
for and control the territory.
5. Then comes the problem Of fixing
the new boundary line between Ger
will regain Alsace and Lorraine; shall
minerals, and shall she be given some
sort Of control Of the German territory
west of the Rhine?
6. What indemnities shall Germany
be forced to pay? Each of the allied
countries will ask to be reimbursed for
its total war expenditures, in addition
to the reparation that will be required
for damages and for the looting of in
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14

probably will not wish to be a. gen
erous as that,
However, we ought to feel compli-
our iiberality and our financial pow
ers, as manifested by such large scale
proposals for us,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
BULGARS BURNED
SERBIAN PRIESTS
Massacre Of Twenty Priests
Told by One Of the Pastors
Who Feigned Death.

PROT, Serbia, March II. (Corrs-
spondence Of the Associated Press.)-
C~onfirmatory evidence Of the slaughter
OF Serbian priests by Bulgarians DUR
ing the war. was given to a represent
alive Of the Associated Press by the
Rev Milya Yontschitch, pastor Of one
OF the churches here, who personally
witnessed the massacre Of twenty OF
his colleagues and one Serbian officer.
All, he says, we're shot and many were
burned alive.
Father Yontschltch escaped a similar
fate only by feigning death after he
had been shot, He exhibited TO the
Associated Press correspondent two bull
let wounds in his left shoulder. Another
priest the Rev. Thomas Popovitoh, OF
plrot' escaped by fleeing across the
The murder Of tho priests took place
NOV. 20, ,9l5, IN the village Of Kre-
maencia about 3B miles east of Nish,
according to the story Of Father Yont.
schitch, which follows:
Father Yontschitch In mpa with
" other Serbian priests was taken BY
~Bulgarians from Prot to Nish where
they were thrown into a cell and forced
to live for five days without food or
water. After his release he and his COM
panions, who included Lieut.. Tasa
G~eorgevltch Of the Serbian army, were
marched by their captors for Is hours
to Bella Palanka, 30 miles east Of NIsh,
an armed guard walking behind each.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-02
CAN WE AFFORD IT?

Many people, considering the BaIr- chase of notes in the Victory Liberty Loan, begin by asking themselves whether or not they can afford it just now. One can waste a, great deal of time in that way, for 1t leads to thoughts of all the things we would like to have money for and may never have, as well as those we really might buy soon if we did not pur- chase Victory Notes.
 By far the simpler and easier way is to face squarely the question of whether we can afford not to partic- ipate in the final popular loan to pay for the war we won.
 How would the soldiers from Bridgeport and the surrounding coun- try look at this matter? They fought. The War Department lists 24 of them among the dead. Lieutenant J. B1ur- phy of S6 Liberty street, and Lieuten- ant Frazier, IS Pixley Place. and all the other Bridgeport men who gave their lives for their country, consid- cred only one thing as they received the call to service. That was the triumph of America
 America did much to win the war. It would be a. shocking and costly thing if the American people now should refuse to lend money to pay for the war after victory IS won.
 Can we afford not to buy Ldverty Notes? Can we afford to delay the iresum ption and expansion of business activities and industrial enterprise? :? Can we afford to permit other nations to go ahead of us in extending their foreign trade, while our Government devises means of paying the war debts which the American people failed to pay? Can we afford to com pei the Government to maintain and extend an expensive system of emer- gency taxation, and take the money from us in taxes which never will be restored, with interest or without ? Can we afford to ten our home-com- ing relatives or friends that we for got to- or didn't buy Victory Notes? |?
 Consider thafl
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-02
TWO MILLION TONS OF MEAT
 ADDED BY AMERICANS IN 1918

Washington, D. C., May 2-Ameri- can dressed meat production, incIud- ing lard, amounted in 1918 to 2O,129,- So0,00 pounds-a quantity never be- fore approached in magnitude by the livestock industry of this or any oth. CT country. The corresponding fig ure for 1917 was 16,317,3O 900 pounds.
 Three-fourths of this enormous in crease was in pork and one-fourth was in beef
 The meat surplus in 1918 was so great that extra export demands made little impression on 1t, although 1918 export shipments of meat and lard nearly doubled the 1c17 figures-ris- ing from slightly less than 1 3-4 bii- lion pounds to slightly more than three billion pounds-and these fig ures do not include shipments to American military forces abroad
 The aggregate 1917 consumption of dressed meat and lard in the United States was approximately IA 1-2 bil- lion pounds, but in 1918 1t rose to IT If billion pounds. This means, after allowing for increase in popu- lation, an addition of 23 pounds for every Hldl, woman and child In the country--despite the food conserva- tion campaign which in 1917 caused consumption to decline considera bly,
 Hcw Shortage Becamc Surplus.
 While the people whole through their abstinence averted the immediate crisis, it was the farmer wl:o was the really big factor in the ultimate situation,' says the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States De- partment of Agriculture, which is au- thority for the foregoing statement. The producer, of course, was ex- pected to do his part, but he did it with such powerful effect that in a single year the meat shortage was turned into a pronounced surplus. Thus in 1918 there was not only meat enough to supply all foreign demands compatible with the restricted ship ping facilities, but a greatly enlarged quantity was available for the home consumption.
 ITO be %lre, it cost the farmer more, much more, to feed his animals and get them to market. Likewise, all other steps from producer to con-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-02
Workers DenOunce
 Labor AgitatOrs

Washington, May 2-Fomenters of discontent and preachers of anarchy come in for scathing denunciation in contributions by wOrkmen appearing recently in various shipyard papers Revolutionary agitation has evoked a veritabIe avalanche of letters, articles poems and quips from men whom U agitators sought to influence, Il which the writers arraign imported doctrines in no uncertain terms and demand 100 per cent. American ism" of every man working on the ships which will fly the United States fag.
 A compendium of the various arti- cles makes a vigorous, common sense manifesto" according to a state ment today by the Shipping Board, quoting the verdict of the work men.
 The American citizen is ready at all times to render justice when jus tice is due, but if the Bolsheviki in this country cannot see the American point of view, they are liable to feel it-on the way out" asserts SPEED UP, published at the Newark Bay, N. J., yard of the Submarine Boat Corporation.
 
 property is quoted by a writer in the COMPASS, of the Chester, Pa, Ship building Co.,, in refutation of commu- nistic agitation. The quotation reads:
 Let not him that is homeless pull down the home of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself-thus by example he will be assured that his own will be safe from violence"
 A committee of the workmen ask ed for a page in the RIVERSIDE REVIEW of the McDougall-Duluth Co.,, Duluth, Minn., and ran on it a denunciation Of some of their fellows who had been scattering radical pro paganda.
 "When we want a revolution, we can get it with our votes" their state ment said. We are out and out, from top to bottom, and through and through, against BoIshevism and the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-02

sumer became more costly, hence the high prices. But the unprecedented prosperity of the people as a whole enabled them to afford the increased cost. In fact, laboring people prob ably consumed more meat during the past year than in pre-war times.''
 Quantity Increases Remarkable"
 'ST-le total number of cattle slaugh- tered in 1918 is estimated at 15, ,75O,- 40O,' says the bureau, "as against 13,723,9 300 in 1917.' Their average weights were practically the same for both years, and the beef produced from them was 6,686, 100000 pounds in 1917 and 7,641, 100000 pounds in 1918. This was 3, remarkable achieve ment, as it hardly would have been credited that beef growers could in crease their production a billion pounds in one year.
 ''The hog natures quickly, there fore a much more rapid increase would be looked for than was the case with cattle. Even so, the re- suits for 1918 can be described only as stupendous. The hogs marketed d in 1918 numbered 69,S54,70O as against 57.483, 800 in 1917 Further more, the average weight was g IS pounds more per hog in 1918. Thus when the animals are turned into pork and lard we have a total produc- ton of II, ,225, ,664 pounds in 1918 as against SAYS, ,289,0OO pounds in 1917, an increase of 2,747,355, 900 pounds, or SPA per cent. nearly one-third."
 Striking increases in exports are also shown by the bureau. Beef shipments abroad in 1918 were 94 per cent. more than in 1917-the chief 1918 i,ems being 514,0OO,OOO pounds of fresh beef and 100000 pounds of canned beef. Exports of pork and lard in 1918 amounted to 2,279, ,2S7, ,030-wh-Sa was TIT per cent. more than the quantity sent abroad in 1917.
 The bureau shows that in the ag- gregate more meat by far is eaten in the United States than in any oth- er country in the world-althoug some sparsely settled countries rais- ing much meat have a larger per capita consumption. It also says that there is room in the United States for a great expansion in the use of mutton and lamb.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-02

I. w. w. When you find one, don't wait. Lead him to the gate and tell him to go. We will back you.''
 From the South also come many protests against agitation which might cause the loss of important ad- vantages gained by labor during the war.
 'Labor-organized and unorganfz- ed-has gained more substantial rec Ognition and progressed further dur ing our year and half of v,"~ +1-Hn it did in several previous decades,' ,'' declares the MOSiICO LO1, u -e Mobile, Ala, ShipbuiIding Co. The permanency of these forward steps will, in a large measure, be determ- ined by labor's attitude in the next few months toward the controversies that are bound to arise. In the main, labor has acted very fairly thus far in the readjustment period and, barring the outbreaks of a few BoI- sheviki and I. W. W.'s in it's ranks, has played fairly
 Virtually all Pacific coast shipyard papers denounce radical propagan- da, quoting experiences in the re- cent Seattle strike as support of their argument. The question from the standpoint of the men who built the ships necessary for victory, the Ship ping Board statement says, is sum- med up in a paragraph, printed in OVER THE TOP, published for the employees of the G. M. Standifer Coh- struction Co.,, in Seattle and Vancou- syer. The paragraph asks:
 What was the use of building ships to feed the world and save civ ilization, if we are to have a pax alyzed industry, plundered and ruin ed homes, famine, pillage, rapine and a riot of lust, in America ?''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-02
Easy Way to Remove
 Freckles and Blotches

Some women have skin of such texture they occasionally are annoyed by the sudden appearance of freckles, slight eruptions or fine lines. In such cases if one will procure an ounce of ordinary mercolized wax at any drug store, apply A little of it be- fore retiring, like cold cream, she can easily overcome the trouble. When the wax is washed off next morning, minute fia.ky skin particles come with it. The entire outer cutfcle is remov- ed fin this way in a. week Or so, with all it's defects. No bleach couldb so eff fectually remove freckles or blem- ishea The new surface is smooth. clear, fresh looking. No pain or in convenience accompanies this simple treatm ent.-Adv.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-02
Gel No nouriShment
 From Food You Ea'
That's Why You Are Thin and Run Down-You Can Get Real Food In Father Johns Medicine.

You may have a good appetite and eat as much food as a. person in nor mal health, but if you are thin and rundown the reason for 1t is that you get no nourishment from the food you cat. A weakened digestive sys- ten which does not take nourishment from the diet will easily take up the nourishment contained !n Father John6 Medicine because the real food clements of this old fashioned family medicine are so prepared that even a weakened digestion will quietly turn them into solid flesh and tissue This enables the system to resume it's nor- mai functions and a steady gain in weight and renewed strength follows the faithful use of Father Johns Medicine. Remember, this pure food body-buiIder is guaranteed free from aIcolnol or dangerous drugs.-Adv.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-02
LONDON CHURCHES.

London, May 2-Fifty-one places of worship in London were struck by bombs during the various air raids by German Zeppelines and airp1anes during the war. Among them were St. Paurs Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, Westminster Abbey the City Temple, Chapel Royal, Choir House and the General Assembly Hall, Mile End. The damage gener- ally was limited to roofs or art glass windows
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-02
CascaretS Work
 While You Sleep
No headache, biliousness, up- set stomach or constipa-
 ton tomorrow

Spend 10 cents---feel grand! To- night take Carcarets to Hven your liver and clean your bowels. Stop the headaches, bilious spells, sourness, gases, coated tongue, bad breath, sal lowness and constIpation---TalSe Cas- carets and enjoy the incest, gentlest 'dnsioe cleansing you ever experi- enced- Wake up feeling fine. Cas- carets is best cathartic for children. Taste like candy, No disappointment! Thirty million boxes of this harmless, famous cathartic are sold each year now,