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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-24
The Debt
s. RANDALL PARRISH.

\ Young fellow came back 10 our
town the other day. struggling along
on crutches; he had left one lex in
France. A friend met him. and said
SympathetiCally: I'm mighty sorry,
Fed. you lost your leg" The lad
/ looked nj him and smiled. Il didn't
lose my leg. Charlie" he replied quiet
~ 81 gave IT,"
That Is Just what thty have been
doing, those splendid Ids 81 ours.
They have been giving their legs. heir
prms, their eyes, their very lives. that
we might have our homes, our shops,
orr farms; that We might live In
peace, in prosperity, in freedom Of
thought and action.
Don't we owe them anything?
Haven't we Il debt unpaid 70 the dead
in France to the MANNED and crippled,
who are coming home from the battle
front?
That is the appeal Of the forfhcom-
ing Victory Liberty loan. 1t Is a debt
we Owe-to the aviator who went
crashing down in flames IA the dough-
boy who went cheering over fhe top
through II rain Of Shrapuel 10 the gun
ner, who fell with The lanyard in his
hand.
We can never pay tho, Money
does not work that miracle. Just down
the street from here a flag hangs IN
the window Of n little cottage contain
iug two golden stars. What is my
money, or yours balanced against the
priceless gift of the henrt-hroken IA
ther and mother there? If every man
in this town should throw his dollars
into the scale. those lives would weigh
the most.
Cheer and welcome those who re-
turn; honor their manhood. and thus
pay to them, in a small measure, the
debt YOU owe their service.
But do not forget those others. who
will not return--the voiCelesS dead.
You owe a greater debt 10 them. They
died with faith in you.
HELP FINISH THE job
The war in its larger sense is not
over, and our duty to support our
soldiers is not over until they are
all home. The Victory Liberty Loan IL
to be used for the purpose of main
tanning them overseas rs an army of
occupation and bringing them back.
The Germans. not the Americans
were the cutters. but our work is not
finished until we have brought the
victorS home, Let's finish the lob Ivy
notwithstanding the Victory Liberty
Loan as we did all its predecessors.
We may speak of the Victory Liberty
Loan as a peace loan or a victory loan,
but in sense it is memorial loan
to our soldiers who died on the field
Of battle,
Buy Victory Liberty Loan Bonds and
help finish the job it took 100000
lives to start.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-24

We may speak of the Victory Liberty
Loan as a peace loan or victory loan,
but in sense it is memorial loan
TO our soldiers who died on the field
Of battle,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-24
HELP FINISH THE JOB

The war in its larger sense is not
over, and our duty to support our
soldiers is not over until they are
all home. The Victory Liberty Loan IL
to be used for the purpose Of main
taining them overseas rs an army of
occupation and bringing them back.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-24

The Germans. not the Americans,
were the cutters, but our work is not
finished until we have brought the
victorS home, Let's finish the lob ny
notwithstanding the Victory Liberty
Loan as we did all its predecessors.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-24

80 cents pound-the difference
between the raw cotton aud the
manufactured cotton being round
So cents. Now. with cotton at 30
to 80 cents, pound of manufact-
ured cotton is worth from 81 80 to
S3.35. The other day. the secre-
tary of the Cotton States Merchant
Association said, frankly. that on
the present basis of cotton goods,
cotton ought to be selling ut s1.05
a pound. What is true of cotton is
true of everything else produced by
the farmer which is converted into
a manufactured product And it is
this outrageous difference that Is
bearing down so heavily upon the
people, Magnolia Gazette.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-24

to do so, buts conform to the pre-
.yiOus practice of tax collectors. at
the same time giving publicity to
the provisions of the new salary la W
80 that the public may not be re-
quired to pay ten per centum addi-
tional to their already high taxes.
Yours very truly,
Ross A. COLLINS,
Attorney General.
1O-18-3t
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-24
A Wide Disparity.

The widest disparity ever known
now exists between raw cotton as 1t
comes from the fields of the farmer
and manufactured cotton as it APP
pears on the merchant in the form
of cotton goods. Prior to the war,
when cotton was selling at II cents.
calico was 6 cents yard, or about
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-24

Good roads maintenance fund. i mill
Good roads int. and sinking fund mill
Adyalorem road fund ....3 3 mills
Drainage Districts.
James creek. Tuccaluba and Talo-
boneia drainage districts. 80 cents
per acre on all lands within the dis
tricts.
School Districts.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-24

Lega. allowances for per diem and
mileage were made Ito members and
officers and board adjourned to first
Monday in November.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-24

Cedar Point school fund. A mills
On recommendation of the county
school board. it was ordered that at
the November session TO issue bonds.
to the amount of $500 900 for the es-
tablishment of an agricultural high
school, and that the clerk give notice
of such issuance. Supervisor Jone-
entered his protest against such act
ton for the reason that he thinks is
not for the best interest of the coun-
ty to incur this obligation at this time.
Following claims were allowed out
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-24

Present A. @. Lowe, president. J. IT
Gregory. j. 8 Howell, g. w. Rob-
erts, NJ. A. Jones, members; d. G..
Taylor, sheriff. q. q. Ray. clerk.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-02

every country. There are millions of women who must be given their heritage.
 lndias women number 150,o00, 900. Their yoke, despite all the British government has done to aid them. is still heavy.
 They are bowed under the institution of child marriage which disposes of their lives before they old enough to know what life means. And the custom is 500 years older than the Christian era.
 They suffer under the contempt of widowhood. More than so,O0oO0O of them, widowed in girl hood, even childhood, live lives of outcasts, with shaved heads as badge of their widowhood, and practically prohibited from remarriage
 Young girls are devoted to idols in infancy and early childhood by their parents in some parts of India. About their neck is placed the necklace of the seven cowries They are welded to the dagger of Khandabo. Their lives are devoted to singing obscene songs in praise of the god, performing night worship and song services, selling them selves.
 These are the muralis. Akin to them are the devadasis, or slaves of the gods, and the nautch girls of Southern India. They are taken in child hood to sing and dance before the temple gods and in the idol processions. Through centuries they
Arizona republican., 1919-05-02
v W4ves of the god Khendobo

woman's children. She had brought them to the city to offer them for sale.
 Up the steep incline ca a road in Northern India, under & merciless sun, twenty women strained at the traces of heavy roller Their bare feet, cut and bistered, scrambled painfully in the gravel of the new roadbed. At their head an over seer-a man-urged them on.
 As trans-Pacifc liner slipped into the harbor of Nagasaki, innumerable Aat-bottomed boats laden with soft coal made fast alongside Scores of little Japanese women, heads bound for protection from coal dust, and some with babies bound to their backs, scrambled up the hastily erected scafoldng Hour after hour they stood, catching the baskets of coal tossed to them by men in the boats. Night had fallen when the coaling was done. The little women took their days wage, fifteen or twenty cents, and went home.
 Are these the mothers of universal democracys
 They are types, living illustrations of the sub jecion of women in oriental countries, whether un- der the yoke of custom of ignorance or of poverty
 Lifting the yoke is the objective of the cen- tenary program. The small army already being recruited to apply that program will undertake not only to help mako them free, but to halp make them better mothers, better home makers, greater influences in the lives of their men and of their countries.
 There arc strange wrongs to bo rightcd in
Arizona republican., 1919-05-02

, A bNseden becrer Of North Aeicn a have become courtesans, sanctioned by religion and custom
 The women coolies of India work from sunrise to sunset. They carry upon their heads baskets of concrete for the smooth automobile roads of modern India They carry earth from excavations, bricks for building, and water. They mix mortar And often, they steal moment from their work to look after the little baby they have left under the shadow of bush near their tasks.
 For the bowed millions of India's women, the Centenary program promises the beginning of ea new life.
 Woman" wrote Confucius, 's a mindless soulless creature"
 The bound feet, the bound minds, the too early marriages of China's women tell the story of their suferings under such philosophy.
 China has bound it's women's feet for 1000 years. Within the last two or three decades many of the women have unbound their feet. But SO old
Arizona republican., 1919-05-02

q custom cannot be eradcated in few years. There are thousands of Chinese women who have never gone more than 100 yards from their homes unless they were carried. And in the interior one may see women of bound feet, compelled to work, dragging at the ropes of boats, along the towpaths of canals And. in the cotton fields, they work, sit ting, hitching themselves along as they proceed. They are carried to and from the fields in wheel barrows.
 China's coolie women labor like beasts of burden. One may them by hundreds, bowed under heavy yokes. One may watch them, in the mud of the rice paddles, while men stand by on dry ground, directing their work.
 China's women are even more numerous than Judia's But the program of the Centenary is for them as well. The American millions to be spent will help them to higher place in the new scheme of things that is in the making
 There is work to be done among the women of Japan, advanced though that country is. There are the superannuated women hired out at few ven day to carry babies on their backs for many consecutive hours-the Komori. There arc the rirls of the tea houses, some of them work for twenty or even twenty-two hours day.
 And there are the So,ooo geisha, each taken tn childhood, to become the property of old women who support them, and train them in singing, dancing, playing the samisen and in repartee. After years of the most rigid instruction, these girls may be hired by men for their entertainment.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-02

Stripping the veil from the face of the oriental woman and the bandage from the feet of the Chinese, is plank in the new program of recon struction
 Slave girls, held in the inccnsc-blurrcd shadows of Hindu temples as victims of the rituals of anc- ent crceds are to find the temple doors thrown open for their escape.
 Young brides, welded by strange rites to grotesque Asiatic gods, are to be delivered from their stone masters.
 Women in many lands-millions of women who arc beasts of burden, slaves of cruel custom, play things and property-are to be made free.
 The program of their delivcrance is Amer lean program. The will of millions of American men and women has created it. The power of SI4O,Ooo ,OO0 now being raised by the two branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America is being put behind it. And the of it is the world reconstruction program of the Methodist Episcopal Centenary.
 Inspiring this program is profound conviction that only free women can bear generations capable of fulfilling the promise of universal democracy that is in the political reconstruction of today.
 In narrow, winding streets and sun-drencEed market places from Algiers to Teheran and from Bombay to Picking, white-draped women may be seen gliding by. And their eyes look out like the eyes of prisoner, above the ''purdah the white veil of Islam.
 All the light of occidental civilization, stream ing in upon China, has not completely flooded out the shadow of the binding of women's feet. Still among the Chinese, despite the efforts of their intelligent classes to end tradition of suffer Ing, women whose goings and comings amid life are limited to mincing steps upon contorted ex- tremities.
 In Shanghai, upon the Yangtse Kiang, not long ago, country woman shufaed along, unsteady under the bamboo yoke from which hung two swaying baskets. Over the side of each peeped the immobile face of Chinese child. They were the
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-02-06
Acid Stomach Ruins
Health Of Millions

Besides those painful attacks of in
digestion; that awful bloated, lumpy
feeling after eating and. downright
stomach misery that you who have
experienced II know so we'll; besides
disgusting belching. food-repeating,
sour stomach and distressing heartburn
besides all this, ACID STOMACH
undermines the health and saps the
strength of millions.
If you don't get rid of those stomach
miseries there is no telling where your
stomach troubles will end, for 1t Is a
well known scientific fact that many
serious ailments have their start In
an acid-stomach.
Start nOw-this very day--tO get rid
of your stomach miseries. Take
EATONIC-the wonderful remedy
that absorbs the excess acid from the
stomach and brings INSTANT relief.
You simply have no idea how much
better, stronger and brighter you feel
at once. 1t drives out all the gas and
bloat, puts an immediate stop to belch-
Ing and heartburn, ends stomach suf-
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-02-06

that only the hopeful call navigable.
The name he gives the captain is an
unknown one-Abraham Lincoln. The
bargain is struck. The pilots pay for
the round trip from Beardstown ON
the Illinois to Springfield on the San
CANON is to be $50. Abraham Lincoln
takes the wheel.
Down the Sansamon.
On and on goes the Talisman, creep
ing down the shallow stream, picking
its way among the Obtruding snags of
fallen trees, avoiding the shadows. If
the young riverman can make this
voyage, the promoters Of the expedi-
ton believe that the markets of the
East will be open to Springfield and
the adjoining settlements, for freight
no longer will have to be hauled over
land to st. Louis.
On and on chugs the steamboat in
the bright March weather, past groups
of cheering pioneers, who, lined along
the rivers banks, use their axes to
good purpose to clear distractions in
the way Of the first and nly steam
boat that ever came up the Sangamon.
The inspirer of the expedition, one
Captain Bogue, q mill owner on the
Sangamon points out his mill as
likely landing place; but the crowd on
the shore is landmark enough to the
man at the wheel, who has dwelt dur
ing most Of his twenty-three years in
lonely places. He looks with interest
at the group Of men, women and chill
dren that line the shore, shouting and
cheering in their delight to see
steamboat come up the Sangamon.
Many are on horseback, but some
and the youth notes it with interest
profound-are ''flourishing In car
riages." One equipage has lemon
yellow body, black leather top and
steps covered with carpet that can be
lowered for lady's descent. Young
Lincoln had not seen the like before.
The readers attention is called to
Lincoln's defeat for the legislature,
his experiences in the Black Hawk
war, his life as storekeeper in New
Salem, and the romantic episode Of
his love for and loss of Anne May Rut-
ledge.
In those days board cost 81 week
and good Illinois land could be
bought at $3.50 an acre. The reader
moves on with Lincoln to Spring
field; he now becomes a member Of
the legislature, and the writer gives
many details of the life in the capl-
tai, associated with the home "at the
corner of Eighth and Jackson" and
the events connected with the old
State house, where Lincoln was de-
feated by Lyman TrumbulL and
where later still Lincoln lost the SEN
atorship to Stephen A. Douglas, only
to win the presidency over his old
time rival.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-02-06
IN YOUTH
Incident of War Presidents Life
Before He Became Known
to Fame.
PILOT ON SANGAMON RIVER
Journey Of the Talisman, With the Fu-
ture Statesman at the Wheel,
Marked Epoch In the History
Of the West.

"HE world is unwilling that
any shred of information
about the personal life and
public career Of Abraham Lin
coin, the war president and martyr of
now more than half century ago,
shall be lost. Books and monographs
dealing with the character and the
opinions of Abraham Lincoln multiply
from year to year.
The Boston firm of publishers,
Houghton Mifflin company, some time
ago sent the well-known artist, Lester
Horribly, to Illinois to make series Of
sketches of the places associated
with the memory of Lincoln in his
home state. Some of these drawings
were published in the Century Maya
zine, and they appear I'm the volume,
issued by the publishers named, with
the title Lincoln i'm Illinois," The
writer Of this book is Octavia Rob-
erts; she is a native of Springfield,
H., the city that will ever be associ-
ated with the memory of the great
president.
Excerpts from this book appear up
on this page with one of the Horribly
drawings.
In the volume the reader sees Lin
coin as young man achieve one of
his first triumphs. The story is well
told, as the following quotation will
show:
Lincoln Steamboat Pilot.
The month Is March in the year
1882. The scene is prairie land in
the river bottom of Illinois. When the
spring shall give place to summer, the
prairie will be covered with grass so
high that the head of a man on horse
back will be barely discernible; but
today a man on foot can be seen plain
ly, from the crown of his "coonskin"
cap to the edge of his buckskin
brooches, though cap and feet are
some six feet four apart.
The man who strides along the
road is oung-twenty-three years, no
more. He Is lean but wiry, back
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-02-06

Tampa, 1ia. has over 100 cigar fac
:ories, which employ the major part
Of the population If that city.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-02-06

woodsman every inch Of him. A man
with set purpose, one watching him
would say, as he strides on and on
over the rough road that leads to a
pioneer settlement on the Illinois river
called Beardstown.
Once in this town, he mixes socia-
bly, with the young men; tells them
that he has come from the settlement
Of New Salem, on the bluffs of the
Sangamon, to see the landing of the
Talisman, steamboat hourly expect
ed from Cincinnati on her maiden voy-
age into the interior of Illinois. To
further questions, he answers that ne
was born in Kentucky, raised" in In
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-02-06

diana, and that he has but recently
come to Illinois to seek his fortune.
When at last the steamer, ut four
miles an hour, creeps into Beardstown
and throws out her gangplank amid
rejoicing, the young stranger is the
first to board. He seeks out the cap
tain, explains that he has recently
made voyage from New Salem to
New Orleans in flatboat and knows
the Sangamon, the tributary stream up
whose waters the Talisman next pur-
poses to go, as few men can claim to
know it; and he proposes himself as
pilot to guide the steamboat up waters
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-02-06

Keep your liver active, your bowels clean ny
taking DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and you'll
keep healthy, wealthy and wise. Adv.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-02-06

work Is pleasure. ! tell all my friends
who have any trouble Of this kind what
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound has done for me. "-NELLIE B.
BRITTNGHAM, 600 Csiverton Rd., Balti-
more, Nd.
1t is only natural for any woman to
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MAJ women have been restored to
he,N m by this famou, remedy, Lydia E.
Pinkhani's Vegetable Compound, after
an operation has been advised that it
will pay any woman who suffers from
such ailments to consider trying it be-
fore submitting to sach trying ordeal.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-02-06

fering and makes it cool, sweet, com
Portable and strong.
There can be no further excuse for
you to allow acid-stomach to wreck
your health-pile up misery upon mis-
cry until you get to the point where
you feel down and out and that life
has lost all its joys. Remember, just
as acid-mOuth ruins teeth, so acid
stomach ruins health.
Take EATONIC. It's good, just like
bit of candy and makes the stomach
feel fine. You can then eat the things
you like and, what Is more. every
nouthful you eat will count In creating
power and energy. You'll feel so much
better-have punch and pep-the pow
er and will to do things and get re-
suits, and your stomach misery will be
gone.
Take our advice. Get a big box of
EATONIC from your druggist today.
1t costs so little. II II fails to remove
your stomach distress, he will refund
your money. That is guaranteed; yQp
are to be satisfied or money refund
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-02-06

Mrs. Peck--My FRS husband never
acted like you.
Henry Peck-Well, If you can per-
suade him to come back. Pm willing to
exchange places with him.-Boston
Transcript.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-02-06

vouhneSs and head
aches and e very
month would have to
stay In bed most Of
the time. Treat
meDts would relieve
me for q time but
my doctor was al
yals urging me to
haze an operation.
My sister asked mo
to ny Lydia E. Pink
b Q ms Vegetable
Compound b 9 fore
coisenting to q n
Operation. / took
ffe bottles of it and
IL has completely
cured me and my
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-02-06
DOCTOR URGED
AN OPERATION
Instead l took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
and Was Cured.

Baltimore, Md.-"N.arly four years
! suffered from organi: troubles, ner-
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-05-23
DEATH CAR DRIVER
SUED FOR $4,000

Esther M. Troster, widow Of John
Trester, formerly of Litchfeld town
ship, this county filed suit for $4,000
last week in common pleas, court at
Akron against Sidney Strauss, who
ran down and killed her husband on
the night of March 27.
Z Strauss is now in the Summit
county Jail serving six-months
term for manslaughter. At the time
he was sentenced, he was ordered by
the court to pay $1,000 to Mrs.
Troster.
Mrs. Troster states that Strauss was
going at the rate of 40 to 60 miles
an hour when he hit John Troster,
and that he drove away at 55 or 60
miles an hour. She says her husband
was dragged It's to 200 feet.
After hitting Troster with the Stutz
car he was driving, Strauss went by
a circuitous route to Turkeyfoot Lake
where his parents own cottage, and
left the car in friends garage.
Strauss gave himself up to the police
the following morning.