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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
GENE

A nationwide celebration is 10 be |
held on May ! in COmmemoration of |
the good feeling between France and |
America Franco-American Day.
An explosion of an oil tanker in the
bay at Venice resulted in 20 deaths.
Sunday school workers are critical
of the covenant of the League of Ma
tons because no mention is made
therein Of the Deity.
Juanita Miller. daughter of Joaquin
Miller, Poet of the Sierras, has been
divorced from what she thought was
her soul mate.
japanese paper is reading the
world lesson on Christianity, declar-
ing that revenge breeds revenge, and
everybody should love the Germans.
Secretary Baker announces a new
automatic guide for airplanes which
would make them even more terrible
in war
The peace congress at Paris now
announces plans to have all treaties
signed, sealed and delivered by May l.
A H. Stevens, trothe: of L. V. Ste
vens, once go, ernor of Missouri. was
sentenced to IL months in prison for
ENLIGHTENMENT from a Boonville bank.
Word comes from Washington hat
American manufacturers are being
| shut out of EUROPEAN markets, but il
| sounds like German propaganda.
Ford declares that his auto company
is not at present preparing to put any
kind of new car on the market il
| numbers.
A Peruvian pianist has undertaken
10 educate New York music lovers up
TO the beauties of Inca Indian melodies
which he says are passing sweet.
Landladies at Urbana, III, the home
Of the university, declared that young
men use too much light and heat in
calling on the girl students Shutters
Up.
Two of the German steamers allOt-
ted to the United States have arrived
al Cowes. They are to be used in
bringing soldiers home.
Two farmers of Wichita, Kan. are
losers TO the extent CT $4,000 by in
vesting their money in a fake copper
mine.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
PERSONAL.

prof 7 p NcNaughr Of the Uni
vers.tv Of Kansas declares he has $50
lated the germ Of influenza
Charles f. Hughes, in charge OF me
labor troubles of New York has asked
tue striking lonszhoremen for their
best terms.
President Wilson is in daily confer
cuco with V. H. Taft via cable, on
changes in the league Of nations GOV
enan'
William OB-ien, a valiant soldier
OF SteGbenviIle. O. who went over the
TOP three times refuses 10 come unless
they will let him bring his dog, who
also went over with him every time.
President Wilson has decided 10
make no trip TO Belgian until the
peace treaty is signed.
DR.. Henry Van Dyke has been made
a Chevalier Of the Legion Of Honor
OF France for his good work for Inc
allies
Senator King j. TO make trip 10
Paris TO present what he considers
needed changes in the covenant of The
League of Nations.
A congressional medal OF honor has
been voted d Tennessee corporal, A.
c. York. who with seven other MEN
captured and brought in 1872 Germans.
Pope Benedict announced 10 com
pIetion of the canOniZatiOn of Joan
of Arc on March 20
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
Is TOneSOmeSt
Man In Germany

to business only. There are other con-
venienceS, too, including electric lgh'S
and running water. and wonderful
stove reaching halfway to the ceilln!'
and at the bottom the old German
makers name and the date, lIGl. But
To the lonely lieutenant even the hre
in the stove sometimes seems almost
cold.
Lieutenant Scott's nearest American
officer neighbor is five or six miles
away out across the 5000 acres owned
by the count After dark visits are out
of the question. And so, when over
come by IOnesomenesS and WEAKNESS
from reading, the lieutenant tullhleS
into seventeenth century bed which
stands in the same position it has been
all these years. And within easy reach
is the telephone, by which he knows
eventually will come the welcome news
/ for which so long he has been longing
We've been ordered home"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
FOREIGN.

The Germans at Cobienz are not so
well disposed toward the Americans
as ar first, and streets fights are fire.
quent
Four English companies are work
ing with feverish Taste to complete
airplanes to compete in the transat-
lantic flight.
Germany announces that when she
quit she accepted the ii points as
aid down by President Wilson and
will sign no elaboration of these doc
uments
Germany is unable to shed any light
on the disappearance Of the U. S col
lier Cyclops, missing since March,
1918, with 293 souls on board.
Bodies of four Russian officers were
found fith ears cut off and hands
nailed to back at Vladiyostok. Cana
dian officers have been warned.
A few sane ones in Ireland have
discovered that Ireland's only saliva
ton is in the formation of a League
of Nations.
Great quantities of American goods
on the decks at Rio de Janeiro are
being rejected because of a fear of
FALLING prices.
French in the devastated regions of
that country are underfed, and are
| preparing to leave for moe salu-
brious climes.
Other questions than the plan Of
covenant are causing delay in the
League of Nations conference. They
are boundary-line squabbles.
Plots discovered in Berlin indicate
that German leaders are financing the
new revolution in Hungary.
Martial law has been declared in
Spain owing to recent bread riots at
Barcelona and other places.
Kaiser Wilhelm has received SC
much black-hand mail lately that the
guard around his retreat has been
doubled
Berlin sends word that Hungary has
joined the Russian Bolsheviks and
together declared war on the world.
| The post Of high commissioner fol
France at Washington was abolished
BY President Poincare April l.
The British government has forbid
den all meetings and parades in Dub
lin Ten armored TANKS go with ths
! order.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
mISCELL-ANE OUS.

Liberty Bond prices are not satis-
factory TO some Of our statesmen and
special session is advised TO remedy
the matter.
W. s. Keith. Waukeegan. H.. MI
lionaire. left 81 .0O0 70 be expended IN
the care Of his pet horse and dog.
During all the French war cross
AWARDING. CIemenceau received no
decoration. so an old Po.ll has donai-
sd his
Germany's ruler now declares that
she must be in the League Of Nations.
or else she will sign no peac" docu-
ments.
Additional time has been granted TO
Victor Berger. Milwaukee congress-
man. 70 perfect his appeal from a sen
tence OF - years.
Under an cid law Mrs. Il. Fllier
Of Newark. y. ], is being tired on
the charge @: being a common sco!u.
A ducking Is he penalty.
West Virginia has adopted law
any OF The schools Of the state.
Foreign sailors on foreign ships can
collec, half the wages due them on
arrival here. says New Orleans fed
eral court.
Kate ODowd. I l5-year-old scnooi
girl Of Kansas City, who has been IN
q state Of coma for 73 days, is d@ac.
The Western Electric Co. warehouse
In Chicago was destroyed by fire sun.
DAY with a loss OF 100000.
The supreme court of the L. 5. has
upheld the Arizona S-hour law on APP
peal from tbhe district court.
II. J. Hennings, of Los Angeles. Is
suing a neighbor for $1,000 because
he called him dirty German.
A London writer estimates that the
cost of the war-directly and Indirect
ly-at $4,000 100000
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
interned in Hungary Upon Allies
Demands, His Guards
Were Friendly.
Fooled BY ALERT OFFICER
French Lieutenant Cuts Wires and
Entertains Guard Officer Until
Cavalry Arrives-Marshal is
Furious at Being Baked.

Paris.-FrOm one of the French ON
GERS concerned in the affair a New
York World correspondent obtained
the hitherto unpublished story of the
extraordinary capture of the German
Field Marshal Won Mackensen. at pres
ent a prisoner in chateau near TEN
eSvar. Hungary, belonging to Count
ChOtek.
Under the terms of the armistice
signed with Austria-Hungary the al
lies insisted that Mackensen and his
entire army. which had fled from Rou-
mania to Hungary in a vain effort
10 reach Germany, should be inteTned
by the HungarianS. The marshal him.
self was quartered in the castle OF
FOth.
Toward the end of December, learn
ing that Nackensen was planning TO
escape TO Germany, Colonel Nix, COM
handing the French mission in Buda-
pest, applied to French headquarters
in Belgrade for permission TO place
him under arrest and for the force
necessary to accomplish this end.
Meanwhile he surrounded the castle
of Foth with French secret agents.
From the latter came reports that
Mackensen's baggage had already
been sent off and that the marshal
himself intended to get away in an
| automobile mt five O'Clock the next aft
/ ernoOn, December 81.
Cuts Telephone Wires.
Colonel Vix Immediately dispatched
Lieutenant Genevrier, an exception
ally able intelligence officer, to FOth
! by motor. The lieutenant reached his
! destination in the night and immedi-
atelv cut all the telephone wires con
Meeting the castle with the outside
world. Thus MackenSen was unable
to communicate with his general staff
| and the other elements of his army
His isolation. however. was not discov
cred until an hour or so before the
time set for his departure next day
MackenSen wanted to send a fina
message to his staff. When he fOunC
the telephone tout of order" he de
cided to wait in the chateau until com
municatiOn could be re-established.
This was extremely fortunate fO
Lieutenant Genevrier, for the re
endorsements, without which the ar
rest could not be carried out, had no
yet arrived. Four squadrOns of Spah
cavalry were on their way by trail
from Belgrade, but there were unfOre
seen delays. and at five o'clock in tn
afternoOn-the hour of Mackensen'
intended flight-the lieutenant had n
news of them. Moreover, the cuttin
of the telephone wires might be de
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
CavaIarymen Kill Bandits.

Maria, Tex.-Troops of the Eighth
United States Cavalry returned here
early from a pursuit across the Dor
der of Mexican bandits, bringing
with them So cattle and two horses
which had been driven from Nunez
by the raiders. Captain Kloepfer re-
ported that he had overtaken me
Mcxicans IS miles south of Ruidos.
and that five of them had been kill
ed in the resulting skirmish. None
of the Americans was hurt.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
UPRISING in EQypt.

misunderstanding the military
service in the House of Commons,
Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary
OF war, declared that the whole of
Egypt is in virtual state of insurrec-
ton. The position was so dangerous,
he added. that the government had
to appeal to men on the point of de
mobilization TO return and save theiI
comrades from being murdered.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
Nature of Love to Serve.

There is no other servan. -
Tbere is no other being thaI ~
with so much asslduity ana "A
humbles himself and so bows Of si.|
der weakness and so lifts up vi
strength and so wastes the G rDS n
existence Of the infinite as Nv Wv d
oIeparv service of love. MOI AZ, n
This that which constitutes ;, ID
hut it is the life and the y, Ia
doing 6ot = good. not easily not p
not reciprocally, but to ine sn 4 v|
TO the unjust, to the GOOD az 80
had alike. And it is the pa "a
love TO serve.-Henry "aiO
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
WILL
REPLACE TROOPS
WAR DEPARTMENT TO RELIEVE
SOLDIERS IN FOREIGN SERVICE
WHO WANT TO COME HOME.
$4,000 ARE TO Be RAISED
To Be Offered Early Duty in France
Period of Enlistment To Be For
Three Years-Ex-Army Men
Expected To Enlist.

Washington. - War Department
officials express confidence that no
trouble viii be experienced in rails
ing a force of 10000 volunteers for
overseas service. The men Will te
offered early duty in France, 10 r..
'ieve men in the eXpeditiOnary forces
who wish 10 return home.
The troops will be concentrated at
Camp Meade, Md. and probably will
b. sent over in contingents of 1000
The period of enlistment will be 20
three years. Most OF the men are
expected to come from recently dis
charged troops. who after short
vacation" dssire to return TO army
life
Another incentive expected TO have
a decided effect on the recruiting
campaign is looked for among the
men who. after having been drafted
and trained, were prevented from
going overseas by the PRONUNCIATION
OF the armistice. Opportunity 20 see
service in Germany, il is believed
will lead many of these to enlist.
Several officers. probably 10 or -
will be sent overseas with each In
crement of 1000 men leaving Camp
Meade
These will be used at the cOnCen
| tration camp TO give the preliminary
/ training necessary to whip the men
/ into casual organizations and Il
make the required examinations. Or
arrival in Europe, they will take III,
! places of officers who are eligible fOl
/ discharge.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
DOMESTIC.

The war department is selling sur
plus supplies and France has bought
$20o.o00.OoO worth
During the Victory Loan campaign
q battle tank is to make the ascent
of Pixies Peak.
Gasoline war on in the South. and
the stuff is selling at 10 cents in Mem
phis and other points.
Over a billion dollars was paid in at
the internal revenue offices by March
. IS from income taxes.
An organization of women has been
formed at Dallas. Tex, for the sole
purpose of warning on high heels.
A conference is called for Washing.
ton on May to consider all questions
1elating to the welfare of children
OF the 1000 enemy aliens held in
nternm{pt camps in the United
Dfn1es, 300 are to be granted i'm
nt1lste paroles.
The Modern woodmen are holding
IN Important session in an endeavor
~ A. rates so as to work 10 injustice.
ne first camp of World War Vet
ne has bee organized and char
- 1T Aurora, Ill. It is Leonard
IA Post No. /.
Eoorte of the U. S. since the armis-
I|@& show such an increase that the
(1(o1 lcr the fiscal year is said to be
Efcn1cE than ever before.
new malady has broken out
e|1ene ne horses at Sherdahl, Kan. 1t
|ecfs Their legs and is fatal.
ne novement to secure the recall
~ Mayor Kiel Of St. Louis is said to
mare failed again
An vhiskey seized by the federal
|clnla Nill be sold at auction. No
|Ing what the buyer will do witk
o1romS Ia the Ukraine have result
= 10 death Of 500 oJews at one
~ 49, Dl1ce.
~ ~ cold exported from the
Url(t1 G<ot<1 4 1he present time is
os1ng c1oc11e4 ~ South American
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05

heavy, fully % per cent of the feed on
the range being destroyed each year
Two of the four farming sections of
the county were organized for the work
with 80 per cent of the farmers and
ran"hers cooperating. As result,
81 PEI cent of the ground squirrels on
the lanG treated with poison bait were
killed. The results were so striking
Two sections is expected to cooperate
this spring
The CtEcr two farming sections have
recently been organized, so that this
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
NEUROLOGICAL.

Mrs. Louise MERCER was burned to
death in New York trying 10 save her
three children. All persisted.
Joseph Frey, head CT the German
Catholics of the United States, and
knight of ST. Gregory, is dead at his
New York home.
DR.. J. G. Clark, 80, pioneer inventor
of telegraph apparatus, is dad at bis
home in Washington.
The trial of Capt. Edmund Cham
belain, accused of forging evidence TO
secure a war decoration will be held
in Paris.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
Won MaCkenSen
Planned Escape

tected ut any moment, and such dis
cOvery would impcl MackenSen To
leave al once.
The marshal was nOminally in the
custody of Hungary, but the Hunga-
rian guards posted at the chateau
were favOrably disposed toward him
and quite ready To see hiIs get away.
Genevrier knew that the officer com
handing these guards suspected the
presence In the vicinity of French
agents. and that if he heard of Mack
ensen's trouble with the telephone he
would Immediately deduce that the
Frenchmen were the cause of il.
The lieutenant therefore determined
To entice the Hungarian commander
away from the guardrOOm on the out
skirts of the chateau.
Marshal Is Peeved.
While he was RECALLING MackenSen'S
iailer-ally in the village inn with tales
of that dear Paree which in bygone
years the latter had known and
adOred, Lieutenant Genevrier heard
the sound of gallOping hOOfs. He went
to the door and saw the Spahis charg-
ing up to the chateau Of Foth. Point
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
President Aids War Bureau.

Washington. - Financial stringen-
CIV of the War Risk Insurance Bu-
reau was relieved by a message FROM
President Wilson TO Secretary Glass.
saying the president had made an al
lotment from his war emergency fund
to pay expenses of the bureau until
Congress appropriates at the next
session.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
KILL GOPHERS; SAVE 100000
Wyoming Farmers Find Poisoning
Campaign Against Rodent Pests
Gives Good Results.

WaShington.-Lincoln county. Wyo-
ming. saved 100000 worth of grass
and grain. il is estimated, as The result
If Il campaign carried on in cO-Opera-
ten with the farm bureau and biolOgi-
cal survey IF the department of agri-
culture. The damage formerly done in
this county has been particularly
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
Government Urges Gardens.

Washington Maintenance OF
home gardens to meet the continued
need for food is being urged by the
DepartmeE: of Agriculture in ma
ton wide campaign now under way.
Federal garden experts say that the
interest is as great as last yeag when
the patriotism of war was an incen-
tive
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
LABOR.

Police roughed II with soldiers and
sailors at Chicago who were said TO
be picketing a place where the |. w.
w. had called strike.
The labor department reports slight
ly better conditions as the number Of
idle men has been reduced by a small
percentage.
The big strike contemplated by
British labor for April l, has been
called Off
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
WHISTLER GOT EVEN FOR
ONE HOURS SENTENCE

One of the units at Camp
, Lewis, Washington. had in its
ranks chronic whistler. In
barracks. at drill, everywhere
and all the time. this soldier
whistled. Suggestions, threats.
sarcasm in regard to his must
cal efforts all rolled off him like
water off ducks back. There
was no stopping his whistling.
Finally an officer took the
man in hand.
You stand out there at at
Z tcntion." the officer commanded.
! "and whistle for an hour"
, The soldier grinned and
/; obeyed.
I For one hour he stood in the
: company street, whistling "The
: Star-Spangled Banner"
Z And for an hour officers and
: soldiers stood at attention with
I him.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
Bank Robbers Get Bonds and Stamps

Los Angeles.-Two men, who burn
ed their way into the vault of the
First National Bank of Artesia, near
here, escaped with $4,000 in war
savings stamps and $4,000 in Liber-
" bonds They used gas torch and
opened % safe deposit boxes. Fifty
thousand dollars in cash in an inner
safe was not taken.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
Literary Center.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Oklahoma
CITY boasts literary COW and IN in
tellectual pup, Mrs. Mary lIayesMara-
BILE announces. The bookhungcr Of
each has accounted for Il volume she
says. Ia all, fifteen books have been
lost.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
what Would Christ W, 4

In my daily life l am IN q
would Christ have ac'ea 80 "
cumstances? How would t,,i1-. ~ nj
act? How would Chrls' rlscs'
my difficulties, turn to.,'nD StUY'
IS TO be the law and insp', ,nr u
acts. but of all my ln* "a ;. q
and d desires. There Is 10 %., n
festation of the Divine Divine. sA'
THE Bishop of Vermont
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
To Control Soar Prices

New MISUNDERSTANDING on the
prices OF graduated and clarified SUI
CARS will continue in effect. the Louis
lana Sugar Committee of the United
States Food Administration decided
at a special meeting here.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
Switzerland Recognizes Germany.

Switzerland has replied cordially TO
letter from President Ebert an
nouncirr his accession to the Office O
president of Germany, a Berlin dis
patch says.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
Americans Escape From Budapest.

Washington.-Prof. Philip Brown
and Capt: Nicholas Roosevelt. Ameri-
can members of the inter-allied mis-
sion in Budapest, have succeeded in
leaving the Hungarian capital in
safety, it was announced by the State
Department.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
Mare German Onpositron

enhagen.-Germany cannot and
will not sign a peace which involves
the annexation of DanziS by Poland.
President Ebert declared in a speech,
a dispatch from Berlin says.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
Disease Races In Petroqrad.

Stockholm.-In addition to spotted
fever and typhoid fever. Petrograd IS
being ravaged by smallpox, according
to advices through Helsinfors. All the
hospitals are crowded and the mortal
itv is increasing daily.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05
loo Much Realism.

New YOrk.-Edward Dillon. director
of moving pictures, says hes OH
scenarios calling for holdupS. 1" make
one realistic The oIber day, he hlred
former stick-up man. Now he has no
watch.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05

county will be waging war on the ro-
dents Similar campaigns were con-
Quoted in four other Wyoming coun.
ties during 1918.