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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-03-19
Hereditary HAY Fever.

DR.. w. Scheppegrell, president of
the American Hay Fever Prevention
association, has recently made an an
alysis of 415 cases treated in the hay
fever clinic of the Charity hospital at
New Orleans and elsewhere in That
city in order TO determine the influ,
ence of hereqity on this disease. He
finds that in more than One-third of
the cases the patients had father,
mother, brother or sister who was a
victim of the disease Probably the
influence of heredity is even greater
than indicated by these figures, as spe-
citic susceptibility may exist indef-
nitely without developing hay fever, ny
reason of insufficient exposure to the
pollens that cause the malady. The
question of the development of nat
ural immunity from continued expos.
ure TO the specific pOllens is, says Doc
tor Scheppegrell difficult one to set
tie, on account of the difficulty of elm
mating the question of decreased eX-
posure.-Scientific American.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-03-19
JAMES KNEW IT WAS COMING
90, Contrary to All Precedent, He
Pleaded With His Mother to Ad-
minister the Dose"

James, his mother called him, but
he preferred the name Of Jimmie, by
which the neighborhood knew him.
He also preferred rough-and-tumble
clothes to starchy clean apparel-the
movies to Sunday school--and almost
anything to grade school, although he
had given IL only few weeks trial,
the Kansas City Star says.
While his father Is overseas with n
government permit to hunt the Hun,
the mother adds to the family income
by working in an office close to home.
James had made II custom to meet
his mother at the closing hour and ac-
company her home.
Early one morning james started for
school dressed In clean new suit.
That evening an almost unrecogniza-
BILE six-year-old youngster awaited his
mother at the office. Immediately
upon her appearance he stepped forth
with the explanation, forestalling any
thing that might be said or done on
her part. II didn't go to school. l
went riding with the coal man. |
'spect you're going to whip me-" rlac-
ing snudgy hand upon his mothers
arm, hs continued: "Comc on, let's
hurry home and get 1t over With"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-03-19
Material for ExpIosive

As to the source of the toluol need
ed for explosives, it is pointed out that
there has been recently great in.
crease In the number Of by-product
coke ovens in this country. However
says the Scientific American, If 10000.
600 tons of coke are made in these
ovens during the present year we shall
get from this source only 1OO0O,OOO
gallons of tOluol, which is about one.
fourth as much as the government es-
timated 1t would need for munitions.
Another promising measure recently
inaugurated is the stripping of city
gas of this material. which can be
spared without any serious detrlment
to the gas, and amounts to about .Oi
gallon for each 1000 feet of gas. II
is estimated that ten Of the largest
city gas plants of the country will
yield about 100000 gallons of
tOluol.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-03-19
DON'T BE MISLED.
Hartford Citizens Should Read
and Heed This Advice.

Hartford Citizens Should Read
and Heed This Advice.
Kidney trouble is dangerous and
often fatal.
Don't experiment with something
new and untried.
Use a tested kidney remedy.
Begin with Doan's Kidney Pills.
Used in kidney troubles so years.
Recommended here and every
where.
A Hartford citizens statement
forms convincing proof.
tie local testimony-it can he
Investigated
Il. l.. Ashley. farmer, Griffin St.,
Hartford, says; Il consider Doan's
Kidney Pills a reliable kidney medi-
cine. | suffered with backache and
too frequent action of my kidneys.
This medicine helped my kidneys,
relieved my back and made me feel
better generally"
Price Coo at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-ge,
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Ashley had. Foster-Mllburn
Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
Advertisement.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-03-19
NO MORE FREE SEED
FOR THE. CONGRESSMAN.

Washington, March 17.-Hon-
est, congressman leads a hard
life nowadays.
Two of the time-honored "per-
quisites" of membership in con-
gress have been ruthlessly torn
from our solons in their desperate
efforts to save a few nickels so
they can spend a few more millions
of dollars.
One of them is free seeds.
No more will you bank clerks
and stenographers who haven [
two square inches of front yard in
which to plant seed be lombard
ed with packages of peas and beans
The appropriation for free seeds
has been stricken from one of the
appropriation bills.
The perQuisite is one that hits
congressman right in the bread
basket.
The annual custom has been to
vote each member of the house S2,-
GOO year in addition to his ST.
500 salary for clerk hire. 1t was
up to the congressman whether
they preferred to spend the money
for clerks or for buying new tires
for their automobiles or papering
the house back home.
If a congressman felt that his
need for clerk was not very press
ing, he could let his wife or his
daughter do the clerical work of
his office, and pocket the $4,000.
1t is not on record that any mem
Der who didn't need the $4,000 ev-
er returned it to the treasury.
Now it is all different and the
house itself has gone and spoiled
it all. 1t voted recently to in
crease each members allowance for
clerk hire from $4,000 to 5000
but omitted the seeds.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-03-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


Don't pick quarrels before they
are ripe.
The office never has to seek the
man on pay day.
It's one thing to have an idea
and another to carry it out.
Self-esteem is about all the salts
faction some men get out of life.
The man who tells you that all
men are equal really believes that
he is a little more SO.
Why does a man always say that
he's out of practice when he is
beaten at any kind of game?
It might be well to remember
that one little apple did the world
more harm than all the cider ever
made.
It's all right to pray for the
things you want, but it's a good
idea to work for the things you
actually need.
A man is usually able to conceal
his middle name while he lives,
but it always crops out ON his tomb
stone.
1t is some consolation to man
when a girl refuses him in a hesitat
ing manner. It's the negative pro-
duced by the instantaneous process
that hurts.-ChicagO Daily News.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-03-19
Japan Larger Than Germany.

In the Worlds Work there is chart
which shows a comparison of Germany
and the japanese empire. Japan is
the greater Of the two both in territory
and population. G "many's area Eek.
elusive of cOlOnies) is 20S,7S square
miles, while that of japanese empire
is 2GO,73S square miles. This includes
the peninsula of Korea, which is a
part of the japanese nation, but il
does not include Manchurian and 9th,
er Asiatic territory in which Japan
has secured ninety-nine-year leases of
ports and railroads as well as bust
ness advantages of all sorts and min,
ing rights. Gormany's population ut
the beginning of the great war was
about G7000,000. There are now IL.
100000 people living under the jap.
anese flag, and there are also great
numbers of them scattered over the
islands of the Pacific and in foreign
countries.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-03-19
Talked Too Much.

Joe had been instructed that II he
did not stop running away he could not
go to the movies. Supposing the days
slate was clean. Joe's mother was tax.
ing him to show. As the two reach.
ed the door Joe said: "Just running to
the bridge wasn't far, was II. mother ?"
Joe was turned homeward, and put to
bed. Hearing the little fellow talking
to himself a few moments later, moth.
er eaves-dropped: There's one time,
old man, you talked too much"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-03-19

WANTED-Men or women to
take orders among friends and
neighbors for the genuine guaran-
teed hosiery, full line for men, WON
en- and children. Eliminates darn
ing. We pay soc an hour spare
time or $24 a week for full time.
Experience unnecessary: Write, In
ternational Stocking Mill,
9-St Norristown, Pa.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07
10 EXPERT CHAUFFEUR FOR
THIS MACHINE.

Nobody knows very much about the
human body.
Any doctor, old enough to have
had the bloom taken OF his college
ounipoteuce, will tell you that.
In surgery we have progressed
miles; in industry we have gone
furlongs, but in materia medica and
diagnosis and 'fsich" we have gone
by inches, and many times have
Numbered ahead for ten years TO
wake up and go back to where we
started from.
We know a man who is "a years
old.
He works on a farm from dawn
till dark.
He can swing ten-pound sledge;
can cut cord wood with the average
woodsman; follow 14-inch plow all
cay; generally do the work OF an
average husky farmer.
He never has cold and he can
work all day with wet feet and never
eEen sneeZe.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

The public health service reports
that the number of consumptives who
seek a cure in a change of climate is
steadily increasing, but that the af-
fiicted are showing better Judgment
than used to be the case. Time was
when a man stricken with the white
plague would wait, till the last min
ute, and then 60 to Colorado or New
Mexico, with hardly enough money to
pay a weeks board after arrival, look
ing to the climate to work a miracle.
Things are better now, but even yet 10
per cent of all deaths from tubercu-
losis In some health resorts take place
within 80 days after the patient ar
riyes. Modern medical science has
proved that, while climate is of great
value in treating tuberculosis, 1t Is by
no means the sole factor, says Chica.
go Journal. Other things being equal
moderately high altitude and dry
sunshiny weather will give the best
possible results. If patient has tc
choose between home and boarding
house in Colorado, however, the
chances are strong that he had much
better stay at home.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

within a short time. Wheat was plenti-
full in a district not far away, but there
were no facilities for transporting it TO
the starving sufferers.
For this reason the committee has
purchased the 200 trucks from the
American Government. and plans to
buy more from the British Army,
which, though impeded by the necessi-
ties of military operations. has greatly
aided the distress In the Near East.
AS a consequence Of malnutrition,
sickness is rife in many communities
throughout the Near East. Diseases
which the people could resist IL they
were adequately nourished have taken
root throughout all this territory on
account of the wasted bodies of the
whole population. Representatives OF
the committee report that aside from
starvation the sanitary conditions are
revolving and that children go un-
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

For years he has each night be-
fore going to bed performed mystic
rites that he calls pounding"
He whales himself from toe to
chest with a lengthy rubber hose
stuffed with sand. He pounds the
veins and rubs the arteries and
whacks the tendons and muscles and
that is all the medical attention his
body has required in many years.
He says this pounding chases the
sluggish blood through the body.
That this racing blood brings life
giving oxygen to every inner atom
That it keeps the arteries pliable
and workable.
And that generally all the world
needs to enable it to live and work
until it is a hundred Is bit OF rub
her hose and perseverance.
Maybe so; anyhow it works on
him and I'VE years ago he had
chronic case of sciatica that tied
/ him in knots whenever he over-ex'
Ierted. or suffered the least exposure
Nobody knows much about the hui
man machine
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07
A NEWER OUTLOOK.

Like everything else, our faith must
grow and comprehend more. The great
waste of life during the war should
teach us more unfOrgetfully what
precious thing life is. Men who have
looked into the face of death on the
battlefield or who have lived after
hours of almost hopeless waiting In
hospitals will treasure their life In a
new way. Sympathy will be as a liv-
ing thing, not mere local or selfish
interest In people, but worldwide ex-
preston of tenderness and generous
care for those who are in need to the
uttermost parts of the earth. How
far off now sounds that guilty question
Of Cain! We have learned lesson in
cooperation. We are beginning to
know what it means to work together
for q common good, says Indianapolis
Star. Here is lesson for the church
es. If they fail to see that it Is by q
unified endeavor that they can be real.
ly true to their trust, they will have
missed the great lesson Of the war.
Another great lesson which we are
being taught is the evil Of idleness. In
a world where much work Is to be
done there is much for everybody
Idleness will be looked upon as Grim
inal, idleness Of money. idleness Of
time, idleness Of effort.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

motor trucks, no longer needed since
the signing of the armistice.
Each of these hospitals contains 100
beds and complete equipment except
for kitchen utensils. The buildings In
which these hospitals will be housed
IN the Near East have been erected.
With the hospital equipment the COM
mittee will purchase large quantities OF
medical supplies which have been
stored in France to safeguard the
health of American soldiers. These
supplies will be rushed to the Near
East from a French port.
Careful surveys of the situation in
the Near East indicate that lack OF
transportation facilities is the chief
cause of famine There is food enough
10 keep the inhabitants from starving,
bat IL cannot be distributed to supply
$4,000 square miles of country. There
are only so miles Of railroad. Conse-
quently there is plenty Of food In some
sections of the country where food Is
grown, but great distress In those
which are not self-suppOrting. In the
cities especially there is great need.
On one occasion wheat became SO
scarce i'm a community in Persia that
the price increased 1000 per cent
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

bathed for indefinite periods on &C
count Of the scarcity Of soap and that
the population is ridden with sores.
Every day more moving appeals
come from distressed Armenia, Syria,
Persia and the Russian Caucasus.
Tens Of thousands Of people are as
gaunt and hungry as those gathered
around the dead horse In the accom-
panying picture Many have been
without food for days. An Associated
Press dispatch from Salonika Of re-
cent date December 16 reports that
of the 100000 Armenians deported
by the Turks only 100000 survived
and that not more than One-f0urth OF
the present Armenian population can
survive until the next harvest without
outside help.
Distressing as seem these reports.
1T is encouraging to know that even
causes of advanced emaciation. such
as are shown in this illustration, readi-
Iy respond to treatment. With food
and medical care millions can be made
strong and healthy. Thirty million
dollars, the sum to be sought in the
January IL to 10 drive, will help save
4. 900 600 lives. Considered only as an
investment, 1t should be worth while.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07
SUGAR TESTED
MORAL fiber
Doubters Declared Saving Sta
Piles Would Be Easy Compared
With Sacrificing Luxuries.
FIGURES SHOW RESULTS
Americans Demonstrated Sturdy Sup
port Of War by Conserving for
the Benefit Of the
AllleA

When figures began to show def
initely that the people Of the United
States were actually reducing their
consumption Of foods needed abroad,
the United States Food Admins
tration was told that it was COM
paratively easy to bring about conser-
walton Of staple necessities, but that 1t
would be far more difficult to accom-
plish an actual decrease In the use Of
luxuries. The doubters took sugar as
an example, and declared that 1t would
be practically impossible to bring our
consumption Of sugar down to point
that would meet only the food needs
Of the people.
mage will be lightened, European ma
lions will be able to 60 farther afield
for foodstuffs, and will no longer be
entirely dependent for sugar upon
North American supplies. With the
stocks now In prospect, we will have
sufficient sugar to place this country
back upon normal consumption IL the
present short rations In Europe are
not materially increased. II the Eu-
ropean ration Is to be materially in
creased over the present low amount
1t can be only through the American
peoples making 1t possible by con-
tinued restriction to greater or less
extent here.
The fact that the Food Administra-
ton has been able to relax the volun-
| tary sugar ration is in itself proof that
| the ration Of two pounds per person
per month was generally observes
throughout the country. This conser-
walton allowed the Food Administers
ton to build up a reserve, and to tide
over the period Of scarcity. until the
the new crops Of Louisiana cane AMI
beet sugar were ready for distribution
The records Of the Food Admins
tration show that In July, August, Sep
TENDER and October 995, 900 tons were
distributed. Normal consumption fol
that period is 100000 tons. This
shows a definite. concrete saving OF
over 100000 tons. These figures ap
ply to sugar consumed on the table, IL
The kitchen and In the various indus
rirS. and show conclusively that ir
he humes and public eating places o
America, where 20 per cent. of all ou
sugar is consumed, the sugar cOnsump
ton has been reduced by more thai
one-third.
In the four-month period begin
ming with July, this country normal.
uses 100000 tons Of sugar per month
Last July 100000 tons entered int
distribution. In August only 225,OO
tons were distributed. In Septembe
the figures showed $4,000 tons, an
then fell to 100000 tons in October.
There could be no more defnit
proof that the American people hav
given their loyal cooperation and SUI
port Of the war.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

The Boston National league club
seems to have had legitimate expenses
during the season just closed amount
Ing to S1S5OOO. Along with several
other big league clubs, the Braves are
in financial straits. 1t would have paid
baseball magnates to listen to the
voice Of their country early In 1917,
says Houston Post. Had the essential
industry ruling been in full force then,
1t is probable no ball would have been
played these two years.. AS it is, fully
five years Of peace will be required for
the game to recover from the slump Of
the war.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

William was not hero to his own
army, for he stunned the perils of the
battlefield. He has not been diStin-
guiShed as a legislator nor as an edu-
Gator. He has had no conception of
human liberty. His mental qualities
are commonplace. Posterity will re-
gard him as more responsible than any
other human being for the sacrifice Of
millions Of lives In the great war, as
a ruler who might have been benefi-
cent and wise, but attempted to de-
stroy the liberties of mankind and to
raise on their ruins an odious despot-
ism. To forgive him and to forget his
terrible transgressions would be to
cOndOne them.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

Impregnable positions have gone to
the scrap heap, invincible armies are
on the junk pile, the divine right of
kings has dissolved In air like q
pricked soap bubble, and the solemn
proclamations of kaisers are but
scraps of paper. These are some of
the results which Germany has ex.
tracted from the four years of war
she forced upon the world.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07
UNITED STATES SELLS
200 MOTOR TRUCKS
Fifteen Hospitals Will Be Sent to
Stricken Armenia.

The United States Government,
which is aiding in every way the work
OF the American Committee for Relief
In the Near East formerly the Arme-
MAN and Syrian Relief COmmittee),
has just given out the information that
it will turn over TO the committee for
a nominal sum fifteen American Army
hospitals i'm France and two hundred
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07
AN AMERICAN HABIT
THAT WAS EXPANDED.

Coming to the relief Of the dis
tressed is not q new sensation to Us.
Having sent shiploads Of food to the
famine sufferers Of India as offhand-
eddy as the housewife hands out cut
Of the loaf to the wayfarer. 1t seemed
the most natural thing in the world to
succor Belgium, to take on the feeding
of a nation quite informally.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

Wisdom will refrain from undertake
ing to realize with unreasonable swift
ness the prosperity which comes with
peace. There is still labor to be per-
formed and expenses to be met.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

Attorneys hempen necktie should
be adjusted in accordance with inter
national law and not by the irrespOn.
sible mob.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

All of which teaches US that no man
can fool all of the people all Of the
time-no, not even the German peo-
pie!
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

Next to a gold brick, how would you
like to have someone try to unload on
you a cargo of German-made toys7
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

Has q man between thirty-six and
forty-five got a claim for pension, on
account Of wasting so much time in
filling out his questionnaire7
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

The test Of peace Is to summon for
the healing Of nations devotion eQuai
to that given the tasks Of war.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

The fellow who only shaves every
other day might welcome general Or
der to wear gauze masks.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07
Save &f1A
that we may share
Save food
+ + :. + !. + i. i. + ! + !. + i + 4 4 + 1
METHODS OF DEMOCRACY.

+ vi = ! HOOS VT 6G"SShHSt
!. /"
!. The extent to which the United 1
+ States Food Administrator has :
+ relied on the voluntary support !
= of the American people Is shown :
i. by q statement made by the :
+ United States Food Administra- :
i. tor speaking before the Senate :
+ Agricultural Committee less :
+ than three months after this :
+ country entered the war. That :
!. he was justified in his implicit :
:. confidence in the strength Of de- :
/. mocracy has been clearly reflect. :
+ ed by the measure Of support We :
+ have lent the Allies.
+ III democracy is worth any :
+ thing" Mr.. Hoover declared. 1--WE :
4. can do these things by cO-opera-
!. ton, by stimulation. by self-sac-
!. rifce, by the patriotic mobiliza-
+ ton of the brains Of this coun-
{. try. II 1t cannot be done in this
+ manner 1t Is better that we &C
= cept German domination and
I. confess to failure of our political
1. ideals. acquiesce in the superior
1. ity Of the German conception
i. and send for the Germans to In
1. struct US in its use."
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-07

Also remember that the war is over.
buti the after effects are just setting In.