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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
REMARKABLE TEST OF LOVE
Surely Any Woman Would Be Salts
fled With Proof That Was Of
fered Mrs. NewIywed.

For while. as they walked along
neither spoke. The silence became
quite strained. AT last she said in n
hard, tense voice:
you don't care whether I'm happy
or not, do you? We've been married
nearly week and now you don't
care whether I'm happy or not
'My angel, 1 do" he said miserably.
"But simply cannot permit you to do
that. 1t is asking too much"
Two tears rolled down her checks
one for each cheek.
you DON'T You don't!" she cried
biting her lip tearfully. you don't
care whether I'm happy or not !"
1t was more than his tender loving
heart could stand. He gulped guiltily.
"Oh. very we'll 90 ahead if you like. =
he said gruffly.
And while she took out her powder
puff and powdered her nose and vi
cinity right on the crowded pavement,
he turned his back and looked into the
show windows of a piano shop so no
one would know he was with her.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
Won MackenSen
Planned Escape

tected at any moment, and such dis
covery would impel Mackensen tc
leave at 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 him get away
Genevrier knew that the officer com
manding 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 We're the cause of it.
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 regaling Mackensen's
jailer-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 Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11

ing them on 10 his cllas.lneu cunlpan-
ion he exclaimed. My Job IS done ~
and hurried out 10 join the troopers
Colonel Guespereau. who command
ed the cavalry forces. entered the cha
teau and demanded 10 see Mackensen
The marshal, furious at having been
outmaneuvered. sent back Il fiat re-
fusal.
Guespereau said quietly: Tell him
unless he consents to see me imme-
diately | shall have my Spahis break
down the door of his room"
Mackensen gave in and received the
colonel forthwith.
The Frenchman saluted him and
said: "Sir, you are my prisoner.
have called on You merely to assure
myself that you were here. That is
all"
81 understand" the Field Marshal
replied in low tones.
A week later he was removed In a
special train to the Chotek chateau.
where he will remain sinterned until
the conclusion of peace.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
Is IOneSOmeSt
Man In Germany

to business only. There are other con-
veniences, too, including electric lights
and running water, and wonderful
stove reaching halfway to the ceiling.
and at the bottom the old German
makers name and the date, 1854. But
to the lonely lieutenant even the fire
in the stove sometimes seems almost
cold
Lieutenant SCOTS 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 lonesomeness and WEAKNESS
from reading, the lieutenant tumbles
into a seventeenth century bed which
stands in the same position ii 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 Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
American Lieutenant on Outpost
Duty at stepping OFF,
Place.
Has Quarters in Great Castle at
cobIenz, and Under Anti-Frater-
MIXING Order He Cannot Visit
With Other Inhabitants.

CoblenZ.-In a great castle on a hill
and with count and countess and
their four daughters as his nearest
neighbors dwells today the lonesomest
American in all the occupied territory
of Germany. He is Lieut.. John w.
Scott of Detroit, commanding Com
pany X, Twentyeighth infantry, on
outpost duty at the stepping off,
place of the CoblenZ bridgehead where
it skirts a beautiful valley stretching
away toward Berlin,
Just across the hallway from the
quarters of the lieutenant on the sec
ond floor of the castle. Count and
Countess Won Walderdorf have been
allowed to remain by courtesy of army
officers. But the Germans keep to
themselves, looking upon the Ameri-
cans as invaders, and an army anti
determination order prohibits Lieuten-
ant Scott from visiting them.
Spends Evenings Alone.
On the first floor of the castle so
American soldiers have their beds and
IuGSS anu ldl llNihS lOOth NhVi
they play cards and enjoy each others
company during the long winter eve
nings and tell of their war experiences,
and of all the wonderful things they in
tend to do when they get home again.
Lieutenant Scott spends his evenings,
alone, devouring book after book.
Visitors are few at this Furthermore
outpost across the Rhine twenty miles
| from Coblenz. During the day the lieu
tenant makes his rounds, visiting one
sentinel after another, always alone.
AT the foot of the hill crowned by the
castle of Molsberg is the village of
Molsberg, of which Lieutenant Scott is
military commander, but he talks to
the townspeople only on questions of
business. And so, day after day, the
| lieutenant meets no one excepting his
soldiers and the civilians on routine
matters of duty.
The meals of this loneliest of Amer
leans are served in his quarters, where
he dimes, alone, with gIddy green war
rior tapestry figures gazing down upon
him from their places on the walls.
! just where they were hung something
like 300 years ago. The figures of one
panel picture gay and jolly party and
all the others suggest companionship
in some form
Phone for Business Only.
The officer has telephone which
reaches to Montabaur, the LIST division
| headquarters, but it's use is restricted
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11

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 90 per cent of the farmers and
ranehers cooperating. AS result,
80 per cent of the ground squirrels ON
the land treated with poison bait were
Killed. The results were so striking
that practically every farmer in these
TWO sections is expected TO cooperate
this spring.
The ether two farming sections have
recently been organized, so that this
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
GOT NEW IDEA OF RELIGION
Colonel Roosevelt Admitted He Had
Taken to Heart the Simple Faith
of the Doughboy.

Colonel Roosevelt was deeply re-
jigious man, and one evening at Oyster
Bay he said to an editor:
'How this world war has clarified
our ideas 1t has clarified my own
ideas about religion.
Before the war | was inclined to
agree with the philosopher who said /:
Religion is the experience consti-
nted by those thoughts, feelings and
actions which spring from mans sense
of dependence upon power or powers
controlling the universe, and which
have as their center of interest the
cosmic fortune of values
But how different is the definition
Of religion that the doughboy has flung
US from the trenches and how heartily
is our agreement when he says:
Religion is betting your life on the
existence of God.
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informed 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 Off
GERS concerned in the affair New
York World correspondent obtained
the hitherto unpublished story of the
extraordinary capture of the German
Field Marshal Won Mackensen, at pres
ent prisoner in a chateau near TEN
esyar. 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 vain effort
TO reach Germany, should be interned
by the Hungarians The marshal him
self was quartered in the castle of
Foth.
Toward the end of December, learn
ing that Mackensen was planning to
escape to Germany, Colonel Vix, COM
manding 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 at five O'Clock the next aft
ernoon, December 81.
Cuts Telephone Wires.
Colonel ViX Immediately dispatched
Lieutenant Genevrler, an exception
ally able intelligence officer, to Foth
by motor. The lieutenant reached his
destination in the night and immedi-
ately 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 final
message to his staff. When he found
the telephone "out of order" he de-
cided to wait in the chateau until COM
munication could be re-established.
This was extremely fortunate for
Lieutenant Genevrier, for the re.
endorsements. without which the ar.
rest could not be carried out, had not
yet arrived Four squadrons of Spahi
cavalry We're on their way by train
from Belgrade, but there were unfore,
seen delays, and at five, o'clock in the
afternoon-the hour of Mackensen's
intended fiight-the lieutenant had nc
news of them. Moreover, the cutting
of the telephone wires might be de
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11

Representative EscIl was defending
his bill for the unscrambling of the
railroads.
Il believe in the railroads" he said.
Il am an optimist, PessimiSts. you'll
find, are poor stuff all around.
"A preacher said to pessimist:
How dare you rail at Providence
like that? How dare you say you have
nothing to be thankful for? Why. man,
look at your neighbor. Curtis. His wife
has just been carried off by the grip
"'WeIl snarled the pessimist, what
good does that do me? | amt Cur
It's"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
KILL GOPHERS; SAVE 100000
Wyoming Farmers Find Poisoning
Campaign Against Rodent Pests
Gives Good Results.

ashington.-Lincoln county, Wyo-
ming, saved 100000 worth of grass
and grain, it is estimated, as the result
Of q campaign carried on in co-opera-
ton with the farm bureau and biologi-
cal survey of the department of agri-
culture. The damage formerly done in
this county has been particularly
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
Riqid Economy,

Mr.. Pester-Youve been downtown
spending money again after l told you
we'd have to be careful.
His Wife, think you're perfectly
hOrrid | took a car to the city to
mail letter to mother, cause / could
mail it there for two cents when it
cost three out here.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
Literary Center.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
City boasts a literary COW and an in
tellectual pup, Mrs. Mary Hayes-Mara-
BILE announces. The bookhunger of
each has accounted for volume. she
says. In all, fifteen books have been
lost.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
Disqusted.

Hostess-Fm sorry you found Miss
Bigger a poor conversationalist.
Jack-Poor c0nrersa;lonalist? She's
absolutely the limit! Why, the only
thing she said to me the entire evening
was no" and had to propose to her
to get her to say that.-Boston Trans
cript.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
A Shooting Fish.

A shooting fish in the East Indies
has hollow cylindrical beak. When
it sees Il fly on plants that grow in
shallow streams it elects single drop
of water, which knocks the fly into
the tide.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11

| year all the farming districts of the
county will be waging war on the ro-
dents Similar campaigns were con-
Quoted in four other Wyoming coun.
| ties during 1918.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
Too Much Realism.

New York-Edward Dillon, director
of moving pictures. says he's on
scenarios calling for holdups. To make
one realistic the other day. he hired
former stick-up man. Now he has no
watch.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
Explainino Phenomenon.

This report that Germans are hiss
ing soldiers is something astonishing"
1T is" replied Miss Cayenne. "Evi-
IDENTIFY the goose-step has gone to their
heads"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11

is free from opium, morphine,
chloroform or poisonous drugs
which are found in many of
the patent medicines; it con-
tains no alcohol or other
stimulants. 1t is a Food
Medicine, pure and whole
some. Father Johns Medi-
cine has had more than 50
years success for colds, grip
and throat troubles. 1t is
invaluable as a tonic and
body builder and restores
weak AMI rundown systems
to health and strength. 1t
nourishes the system = and
makes flesh.
We want to warn YOU
against the danger in taking
medicines which rely on slim
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
Thousands of Mothers Endorse
Father Johns Medicine

Mating nervedeadenng drugs They
and leave exposed disease prostraton
and a craving for drugs.
Johns Medicine medicine for all the family for
the children well older people, becarse does contain alcohol
dangerous drugs form.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11

When married man has no mind of
his own his wife is apt to give him a
piece of hers.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11

When soldier becomes insane
there is something wrong at head
quarters.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
Poor chollY.

Cholly-"Fish is a wonderful brain
food, they say" Miss Kawstick--''I
noticed you weren't eating any,"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11

It's an easy matter to fool any one
with the exception of yourself.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11

Lots of men know how to cure
hams, but are unable to procure them.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11

Father Johns Medicine an odashioned family remedy
medicine learned doctor
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-01-23
SUMMER FOUGHT
At CHATEAU TH|ERRY

Frank Summers, of this city. in
writing to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
F. T. Harris, tells of the battle he was
in in France. The following is an ex-
tract from his late communication
home from overseas:
We are glad the war is over and get
ting homc is the next thing that con
Germs US most. I don't know when it
will be. Our letters are still cen
sored but not so much. | can tell you
of my trip now. w left the States
10th CT Sept. 1917 and went to Hall
fax. MS. From there to South Hamp-
ton, England. Our next stop was at
LaHvre, France. We were Their
sent back of Toul,from there to Yer
dun, st. Mihiel and Chautau Thierry
Here | was shell shocked, and disabled
for a time. They gave me a vacation
and | visited Paris, was there 2 weeks
Then was sent to Base Hospital. Their
Blair and was put in T. =. f. Co. No
two. and sent to St. Na,!zaire on the
Atlantic coast, and have been there
since.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-01-23
TWO DAUGHTERS
TWO IN HOSPITAL

Among the recent deaths in this
county caused by the influenza wera
those of two little girls, five
and ten years old, who died IL days
apart, daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. W.
D. Baysinger, formerly of Rush Hill,
now of Mexico. The older child was
buried on December ID, and on that
day another daughter was brought TO
the Mexico Hospital with pneumonia
as a result of influenza. The fourth
daughter was brought to the hospital
with the disease a few days later.
One of the daughters entirely recoy-
cred while the other, who is Miss An
derson, probably will be in the hospital
for some time longer. She is suffer
ing with an absess on the lung.
Besides these four children Mrs
Baysinger has two other daughters
and a son.. The family moved to Mex
leo Thursday and will make this city
their home.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-01-23
OUR ALLIES AND OUR DEBTS

REFERRING to what III country
owes and the financial condition of
our Allies, The Saturday Evening
Post says:
The allies now owe the United States
nearly eight billion dollars for advan-
ces made during the war. There is a
Christmas-tree notion of after-the-
war settlement which pictures Uncle
Sam in the role of Santa Claus pluck
ing each Ally's debt from the tree and
handing it back with a benevolent
smile and a pat on the head.
This notion appeals to some SIM
pie and sentimental minds. But we
can hardly fill in the other side of the
sketch-that is, we a hardly picture
j. Bull for example, in the role of or
phan child, his meager cheeks prop
erly believed with grateful tears as
his wasted hands receive the benefac-
ton. There is a historical tradition
that patting ]. Bull on the head is a
dubious undertaking. As for France,
we do not want to try to picture her in
that role. Giving aims to France
might enlarge our sense of virtuous
self-complacency, but it will not do.
France does not want gifts. And me-
rely %canceling- Frances debt to US
would change her after-the-war posi-
ton relatively so little that-aside
from staging a show which some of us
might find edifying it would not be
worth while. That debt is so small a
part of her total war debt that strik-
ing it off the balance sheet would
leave all her problems Of reconstruc-
ton just about as before.
There is a big open joint-account
between the United States and its
Allies. Every item in the account pre-
sents, in various ways, a special case.
Frances is a very special case. In the
war that freed the world from the
Prussian menace France, among the
most effective belligerents, bore the
heaviest burden in proportion to
her resorces, and contributed most to
the result. Her debt is much heavier
proportionately to resources than Eng
lands or Americas, her industries are
more severely dislocated, her recon
struction problem harder.
But nobody knows now just what FIR
ance's after-war state will be. FIR
ance herself does not know. Nobody
can say what measures will be most
effectual in extending such assistance
as she may need. All anyone can say
is that those measures shall not take
the form of aims. In a general way
they will be such as Independent, cap
able, selfrespecting and mutually re-
speeding individuals would agree upon
in a like case.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-01-23
PROHIBITION BEGINS JAN. 16.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-Discus-
sion as to whether the new prohibit
ton amendment becomes a part of
the Constitution now that Sc states
have ratified it, of whether it be-
comes a part of the basic law only
when each state certified its ac-
tiGn to the Secretary of State, led
to a search for precedent, which
showed that the only two amendments
ratified in the last half centuary, prov
iding for income taxes and direct
election of Senators, were considered
effective Immediately the thirty-sixth
state had taken affirmative action.
Senator Sheppard, author of the
prohibition amendment, holds that
national prohibition becomes a per-
manent fact Jan. 16, 1920. Fourteen
states have certified their action to the
State Department.
Proclamation of the ratification of
2 new amendment is made, but this
is said to be a formality. Laws for
enforcement of the amendment will
have to be passed by Congress.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-01-23

All Missouri insect scourges are
vitality Influenced by climatic condi-
tons. They have their favorable ard
unfavorable years the same as crops.
The chinch bug is especially subject to
such conditions. Dry years and mild
winters are sure to prove favorable
for the scourge. The pests appear IN
waves of great abundance followed by
years when few bugs are to be found.
The University of Missouri College
of Agriculture has been studying and
recording the activities of this pest
since 1912. In 1912 the pest as a
scourge was restricted to the west
border counties. In 1914 it suddenly
sprang into prominence as a severe
scourge over much of western, cen
trail and north central Missouri, doing
great damage. The following year it
declined rapidly, being abundant only
in a few counties in the north central
part of the state. In 1916 it was prac-
tically a thing of the past but during
1917 and 1918 it seemed to be getting
on it's feet again for another attack,
according to L. Haseman.
This year, Oklahoma, Kansas and Il
linois had local chinch-bug outbreaks
of Importance and it is not at all un-
likely that Missouri farmers will have
the pest to fight next summer unless
steps are taken during the winter to
destroy the pest in it's harboring
places. In all localities where the pest
attracted any attention at all during
the past summer and fall the winter
harboring places should be burned
over or plowed. Clump grass, weedy
fence rows, road sides land other dry
shelter serves as harboring places. By
burning over such places many of the
bugs are killed by the heat and others
exposed to the weather, and few are
left in the spring to fly to wheat fields
to do damage next year..
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-01-23
ENSIGN HERBERT PLUM
kETT TO MARRY SOON

The engagement of Ensign Herbert
Plunkett, U. S. N, to Miss Eleanor
Connolly, of H~arrisonville, Mo-, was
recently made at a party given by one
of Miss Connelly's friends in Harrison
vile. The wedding will be as soon as
Ensign Plunkett can secure a leave
from his ship and return to Missouri.
Ensign Plunkett is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. w. Plunkett, of this city and
has made a splendid record since en-
tering the service. He has risen rap
idly from an enlisted man in the navy
to an officer. He is one of Mexico's
finest young men and widely popular
here.
Miss Connolly is a graduate of Har-
din College and a member of the Beta
Sigma Omicron sorority. She has
visited here a number of times and is
very popular.
She is quite pretty, accomplished
and a most charming young woman.
The Ledger joins friends of both in ex-
tending best wishes and ~congratula-
tons in advance.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-01-23
DRY HONOR FOR MISSOURI

CHICAGO, Jan. 20.-Missour may
be named the thirty-sixth state to rat
fly the prohibition constitutional
amendment, an honor now held by
Nebraska. Indications are that the
Michigan Legislature, which has beer
credited with passing the amendment
on January ?, 1919-making this state
the sixteenth to outlaw drink-must
act again on the measure because of d
technicality. Missouri, which raced
closely with Nebraska to cast the de-
Gliding vote, would thus be elevated to
the place of honor.