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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1919-02-16

In looking over the Hrisiow Rsc-
ora wr 'dn -" why Lea Nichols
thought hU needed "a IliggeTHtaft
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1919-02-16

our idea ~ precooiiy. ayr tho
Guthrie Leader. IA a peach tree that
viii ny Ia bloom Ia February.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10
The Greater Task.

A few weeks ago we thought we had
a supreme task on our hands-the win
ming of the war. Today we have a
greater one. A just peace settlement
will be harder to effect than victorious
end of the war. Never was a peace
conference held in which the rank and
file had so vital an interest. General
ly the overlords of the nations have ar
ranged the terms of treaties, while the
ordinary citizen who has fought the
battle and will pay the bills, has been
ignored.
That day has passed. The patient
everyday citizen, the toiler on the farm,
in mill and factory, and shop, and store,
who in person, or through his sons, has
paid the stupendous price of victory,
has awakened to his right to say that
in the interests of the great mass of
men and not in the interests of the few
shall peace terms be made. He has
believed he was sacrificing and fight
ing in war that was TO end war. He
has made up his mind that this sort Of
thing shall not happen again. The
peace conference of 1919 is not to be a
peace conference of kings and pres
idents Should it prove such, should
it forget the unnumbered millions who
have won the great victory, and revert
to old underhanded, selfish methods
whereby the elect by birth and financial
power of each nation seek their largest
gain at the expense of the common
good of all, then woe betide remaining
kings, presidents, plenipotentiaries.
The curtain has fallen on that stage
where the destinies of nations are de-
termined by men who have not "look'
ed at the calendar for two hundred
years"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10
CHINESE YOUTH
WINS WAR MEDAL
General Pershing Pins Award
on Breast of Sing Kee, Who
Braved German Fire.

Here is a text book on American.
ism written il Chinese character and
translated for use when Victory Lib,
erty Loan salesman tackles you to do
your duty. 1t is an official American
communiQue:
pvt. Sing Kee, Infantry. Chung
Kee, father, 604 North Fourth street,
San Jose Calf For extraordinary
heroism in action at Mont Notre
Dame, west Of Fismes, France, Au'
gust IA, Is, 1918. Pvt. Kee. although
seriously gassed during shelling by
high explosive and gas shells, refused
to be evacuated, and continued, prac
tically single-handed, by his own ini
tiative to operate the regimental mes
sage center relay station at Mont
Notre Dame. Throughout the critical
period Pvt. Kee showed extraordi
nary heroism, high courage, and per
sistent devotion to duty and totally
disregarded all personal danger. By
his determination he materially aided
his regimental commander in com
munication with the front line
Sing Kee wears the Distinguished
Service Medal Of the United States OF
America.
Sing Kee Is for Amortization heI
enough to lay down his life. Are you
for American Are you as good man
as Sing Kee!
Then buy Of the Victory Loan to the
limit
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10
How the Beaver Builds His House.

Beavers not only make dams and
canals and ponds; they construct what
are called lodges as we'll, TO serve as
dwelling-places These are made by
piling up a number of logs, mingled
with clodS of earth, stones, and clay,
and digging out the soil from under
meath so as TO form a sort Of hut. These
lodges are oven-shaped, and are from
twelve to twenty feet or more in d.
ameter, the inside chamber being about
seven feet wide. So, you see, they
have very thick walls. And they are
generally entered by two underground
passages, all of which open in the river
bank below the surface Of the water,
so that the animals can go straight from
their lodge into the river without show
ing themselves above ground at all.
Inside each lodge is a bed Of soft
warm grasses and wood-chips, on
which the animals sleep; and it is said
that each beaver has his own bed.
AT any rate, several animals of various
ages live together in each lodge. Then
near the lodge these wonderful
creatures make a ditch or hole, which
is so deep that even in the hardest
winter the water in il never freezs quite
to the bottom; and in this deep place
they pile up a great quantity of logs
and branches, so that in winter they
may have as much bark as they require
to eat.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10
Find Preventive of Chicken Gapes.

That a practical remedy for the pre-
vention of gapeS in little chicks has al
last been carefully worked out W. !
come as welcome news TO many poul-
try raisers, since it is entirely probable
that this bugbear of the chicken bus
ness is responsible for the death OF
more "little peeps" than any other on
disease. On many farms the loss from
gapeS is so great as practically to dis
courage the raising of chickens alto
gether.
TIE new remedy is entirely in the
nature of a preventive and Consists SIM
ply in the addition of not more than
three drops of creolin, a well-known
and cheap disinfectant obtainabe at
any drug store, to each pint of the
drinking water of the chicks. In ad-
dition, the owner must see to it that the
chicks secure drinking water from no
other source.
while studying the life history Of the
cape worm, its habits, curious methods
of reproduction, means of distribution
of its eggs, and various other things Of
this sort it was discovered by the eX-
perimenters, Professors Horace NJ
wood and Dr. c. A. Lueder Of the West
Virginia Experiment Station, Morgan
town, that the cape worms were par
ticularly susceptible to a dilute solu-
tion of creolin. The thought then oc-
CURED that since in an early stage of
their life, these worms were attached
10 the hack Of the chicks mouth they
must necessarily be flushed with any
LIQUID which they might drink. Know
ing the deadly effect of creClin on the
young worms, the project OF adding this
chemical to their drinking water w9s
tried out thoroughly, in many cases,
and often repeated, and in no case
has the remedy proved TO be anything
except absolutely effective on the many
badly infested poultry farms on which
it has been tried.
From their knowledge of this worm
as acquired through some years Of care
full experimentation Professors Atwood
and Lueder recommends three things,
all Of them practical on any farm,
whether much or little poultry is
raised:
First, burn or bury deeply all chick
ems which die Of the disease.
Second, if possible, keep the chick
ems shut in until the dew has dried
of fully in the morning.
Third, if the disease is very prevalent
add not more than three drops OF cre-
olin to each pint Of drinking water and
prevent the chickens from drinking
elsewhere
Finally, if these precautions have not
been fully carried out and few chicks
become infected, remove the worms
with a gape-worm extractor, and burn
them so as TO prevent the eggs from be
coming scattered about
Anyone wishing further details re-
garding this disease OF poultry should
send TO the Experiment Station for
Circular 30 which gives a preliminary
report OF the work conducted.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

DARED GERMANS
TO SHOW HEADS
Sergeant Of Marines Hurled
Pointed Query at Boches
When Fire Was Most Ter.
riflo in Belleau Wood.

It isn't nice to swear In type. Meth.
er is war nice. This is war story.
1t was told by Brigadier General Cat.
lin in his book, With the Help Of
God and a Few Marines" Belleau
Wood Is the setting.
The General had given his troops
the order to advance. His last words
we're, as they started across the wheat
fields under withering fire. Give 'em
hell, boys"
Some one has reported" the Gen.
eral continues, that they advanced
on those woods crying. Remember
the Lusitania' If they did I tailed to
hear it.
Somehow that doesn't sound like
the sort Of things the Marines say
under the conditions"
Then General Catlin tells what they
did say. When the lines were waver.
Ing under the terrific German fire, a
sergeant cried out:
Come on you - - -, do
you want to live forever?~
Tell the marines that you are not
going to take your share Of the COM
fng Victory Liberty Loan.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10
Why Report yenereal DISEASES?

II is estimated by the most compe-
tent authorities that the venereal dis
eases, syphilis and gonorrhea, are di-
rectly responsible for one-eighth of all
human illness and suffering.
In order to become convinced of the
truth of this estimate one has only to
visit the various elemosynary institu-
tions of our country and investigate
why each individual has become a pub
lie charge. He will find that a con-
siderable proportion of the inmates OF
the homes for the blind, the insane
asylums, the hospitals, and prisons are
there because of the ravages of these
diseases. Because of these facts their
tremendous social and economic i'm
portance is evident.
In order that the proper measures
may be instituted TO prevent these
diseases, il is essential that their in
cidence and whereabouts be known.
Obviously the only means of obtaining
this information is system of report
ing to some central authority by per-
sons cognizant with the facts.
This fundamental principle, which
applies TO all ills, must be carried out
in the case of the venereal diseases.
First-In order that the carriers
(those persons who are actively en-
gagged in spreading the disease) may
be discovered and rendered non-infec-
tious.
Second-In order that measures may
be instituted TO prevent infected per-
sons from spreading their infection to
others.
Third-That unaffected persons, the
potential victims, may be informed as
to the danger of infection to which they
are exposed in order that they may
protect themselves.
In accordance with this principle th
United States Public Health Service, in
cooperation with theI various State
Boards of Health, is now conducting
nationwide campaign for the control
of these diseases.
This program includes, first, the es-
tablishment OF free clinics for the in
tensive treatment of carriers; second,
the detention Of carriers until cured /;
third, the education of the public in
respect of the dangers of venereal dis
eases.
Forty-three of the forty-eight States
have already passed laws which provide
for the reporting of the venereal dis
eases. Legislation is now pending ir
the remaining States which, when pass
ed, will make the reporting Of venereal
diseases compulsory throughout the
country.
The ultimate efficiency Of these laws
will depend upon public opinion. For
our own protection, and for the protec-
ton of generations yet unborn, we, the
people, must see to it that these laws
are not permitted to become dead let
ters on the statute books, but are en-
forced in every detail.
West Virginia is one Of the forty
three States that are cooperating with
the Federal Government through the
Bureau of Venereal Diseases at
Charleston which is under the direction
of DR.. F. F. Farnsworth, A. A. Surgeon,
U. S. Public Health Service.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

work for me and / know it will help
others if they will give it fair trial.
Mrs. LIZZIE COURTNEY, 10S Sth Ave-,
West, Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Why will women drag along from day
to day, year in and year out, suffering
such misery as did Mrs. Courtney, when
such letters as this are continually being
published. Every woman who suffers
from displacements, irregularities, in
flammation, liberation, backache, ner-
vousness, or who is passing through the
Change of Life should give this famous
root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, trial. For
special advice write Lydia Z: Pinkham
Medicine Co, Lynn, Mass. The result
of its lonp exnerience is at Your service.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10
TO THE PUBLIC

Get your water tapped into
your home at low cost. No more
high prices. Plumbing and pipe
fitting of all kinds. Modern bath
room outfits installed. Estimates
furnished for steam, vapor and hot
water heat. Furnaces repaired
and overhauled. Parts furnished
for all makes. Water tanks put
in. Radiators bronzed. Leaks of
all kinds repaired. All at low
cost to you. Your patronage So
licited. A card will reach me, or
use Hartzelps phone.
FRANK J. DOBBIN,
ShepherdstoWn, w. Va,
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10
Vaccines.

Vaccines are among the compar-
atively new discoveries in medical prac-
tice, but they have already been in use
long enough to have demonstrated their
value both in the prevention and the
cure of disease. The chief question
that remains to be answered in rela-
ton to vaccines is how far they are
pplicable-whethe all infectious dis
eases will eventually be brought under
their influence or whether, under some
biological law as yet unknown, their &C
ton will be found to be Of limited scope.
The theory of the action of vaccine
is this: Whenever disease germs get
lodgment in the body and begin to grow
and TO create the poison, or toxin, that
causes the disease, the cells and the
tissue secretons assume the task OF
destroying the germs before they can
do any serious damage. The ability
to destroy the germs or microbes like
any other function of living tissue, in
creaseS with practice. The physician
takes advantage of that to fortify the
system in advance against the expected
attack. He makes a culture OF the
special germ,-for example, the germ
of typhoid fever or the inhuenza,-and
after he has killed the germs in the
culture by heat or some other means,
so that they cannot excite the disease
against which he wishes to protect the
patient, he injects them two or three
times, in gradually increasing doses.
At the first injection the system at
tacks the invading garms,-the fact that
they are dead makes no difference, for
their substance remains unchanged,-
and elaborates a substance called an
antibody, which destroys them. The
second time, the physician injects a
greater number of dead bacteria, and
the human tissues and fluids, made
stronger by the former victory, elab-
orate more antibodieS to destroy the
new army or invaders. Now, or per-
haps after third injection, the system
is so we'll fortified that it can easily re-
sist infection by large number of liv-
ing bacteria; with its newly created an
tibodies it kills them before they have
an opportunity to grow and to excite
disease. We now say that the person
has acquired an immunity against that
particular disease.
Nature does the same thing when
ever a recovery from an infection takes
place, but she does it brutally by a
large dose of living bacteria, and then
for time it is question whether the
disease will kill the patient or the
patient kill the disease; if the patient
conquers, he has acquired immunity
just as he might have acquired it less
unpleasantly from repeated small doses
of dead bacteria artifcally introduced
Physicians also use vaccines even
after the patient has acquired the dis
caes the action Of the vaccines is less
up the supply of antibodies, but in that
case the action OF the vacines is less
certain than it is when prevention is the
object. That exemplifies the old say
ing that an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound Of cure.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10
Contentment.

"Give me neither poverty nor riches,
said Agar; and this ever will be the
PRAYER OF the wise. Our income should
be like our shoes; IL too small, they will
gall and pinch US; but If too large, they
will cause US to stumble and trip. But
wealth, after all, is relative thing,
since he that has little and wants less,
is richer than he that has much but
wants more. True contentment de-
pends not upon what We have, but up
on what We would have; a rub was
large enough for Diogenes, but world
was too small for Alexander
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

The Sydney Bulletin tells new story
of the shirker caught at his own game.
1t was a soldier, who said:
"Please, sergeant major, may ! be
excused from church parade? am an
agnostic."
Don't you believe in the Ten Com
mandments, then ?"
"No, don't"
"Not even the one about keeping the
Sabbath 2"
"No."
"Well, you're the very man I've been
looking for to scrub out the canteens."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

Not all our fighters will return TO the
land of their birth. Most of the men
those that are living-will come
home, but many of the horses will not,
for there is great need of draft animals
in the reconstruction work in France
and Belgium, and there are plenty Of
war-worn horses that few weeks or
months of rest will restere 10 useful
ness. The Red Star Animal Relief or
ganization in New York is interesting
itself in the pleasant task of getting the
poor old war horses into fresh fields
and pastures green.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

At Sunday School last Sunday little
fellow startled his teacher by solemnly
telling her that the devil was dead.
Chow do you know the devil is dead,
Johnnie ?" asked the teacher.
"Why," said Johnnie, "Pa and were
going down street yesterday and passed
a funeral procession and pa said, poor
devil, he's dead at,last.'"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10
Good Vegetable Plants.

If the people generally understood
how easy it is to get vegetable plants
brought to their homes we might be
Swamped with orders.
We are preparing for that BY increaS-
ing our plant each year. 1t has been
proven that transplanted plants, es-
pecially tomatoes, yield more and ma
ture earlier.
Transplanted hardened cabbage plants
now ready. Also onion sets.
Give us a chance TO add you to our
rapidly growing list of satisfied Gus
toners. Drop US a card for prices if
not within calling distance. We pay
postage on 50-cent orders.
BENZ. HARTZELL.
March IA, l9l9-2m
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

"How many children have you?
asked the tourist, affably.
81 dunno exactly" answered the tired
looking woman.
"You don't know"
"Not for certain. Willie's gone
fshin'. Tommy's breakin' in a colt.
George has borrowed his fathers shot
gun to 90 huhtin', and Esmeralda Ann
is thinkiR Of elopin'. never know
how many I've go, till supper time
comes, SOS can count EN-.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

aW1ul palnS-a n u
nothing seemed to
do me any good. A
friend advised me
to take Lydia E.
Pinkham's V ege-
table Compound. /
did so and got re-
lief right eway. 1
can certainly re-
commend this valu-
able medicine to
other women who
suffer, for it has
=
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

Heavy, impure blood makes a mud
dy, pimply complexion, headaches, nau-
sea, indigestion. Thin blood makes
you weak, pale and sickly. For pure
blood, sound digestion, use Burdock
Blood Bitters. Sl-25 at all stores.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

81 heah a LOT OBJ people singin' bout
dey wants Z be angels said Charcoal
Eph, as he plunged into the watermel-
on, "but jes leave me spring chicken
an a juicy melon an don't envy no.
body ner muffin, sub. Pass de salt,
Mistah Jackson"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

''What became Of the village belle
whose face was her fortune
"She cashed in"
ayes ?"
married millionaire"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10
IN MISERY
=" "'' FOR d YEARS
Mrs. Courtney Tells How She
Was Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Oskaloosa, Iowa." For years was
simply in misery from weakness and
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

Going to the bad is a poor way TO
prove that you are a good fellow.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

For a mild, easy action of the bowels
try Doan's Regulets, modern laxative
3Oc at all stores.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-04-10

When bad habit seizes a man II
marks the afternoon Of his opportunity;
when il rules him il brings the night.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-09-26
GEORGIA BAPTISTS To HEAR
DENOMINATIONS LEADERS next WEEK
ON BAPTIST Is MILLION AMPA|GN

DIR. L. r. SCARBOROUGH, DR.. GEORGE w. TRUETT, HON
j. H. ANDERSON MISS MALLORY AND OTHER WE'LL
KNOWN BAPTIST MEN AND WOMEN TO MAKE TOUR
OF ENTIRE STATE, BEGINNING SUNDAY.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-11-21
cuttina the Nations Tire Bill.

Forty makes OF motor tires were
submitted to the bureau Of standards
by the office of the quartermasler gen,
eral," writes Thomas H. Uzzell In Ey.
eryb0dy's. 'They were given labOra-
tory durability runs after which they
were autOpsied by the rubber special
lists. Their carcasses' were cut up aud
the pieces boiled, roasted, stretched.
The results were dlscourngIng. Even
the best Of them seemed to suffer
from improper 'toughenlng'
$50 into their little rubbermlll went
the experts, with notes furnished them
by the tire manufacturers, and pro-
ceeded to make up some tire rubber
which had the proper degree Of tough
ness. They succeeded. They passed
out the word The trouble IL that you
makers are not sitting your zinc oEld
before mixing It with the rubber com
pound
"The makers began to slft. Better
tires resulted. Some $30,0O0000 were
saved to the government. And today
you are enjoying cut In your tire bin
by getting better tlres-a result Of
that experiment with Zinc oxld."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-11-21
DAY OF POLISH REJOICING
For the First Time In Century the
Feast of the Vistula Had Spe.
clal Significance.

Toward the end Of June Poland
celebrated the great fete of the WIS.,
tula. No man knows when the GUS
tom began, but It Is old as old MS the
ancient rites Of the sun wOrshlpers,
who hailed the passing Of the sum
mer s'lstlcc. In those ancient days
there lived II queen In Poland Of the
name of Wanda. Legend has woven
romance around her name and on this
day of the Vlstula Polish girls and
boys throw flowers into the stream in
hel memory. The fete In these mod
ern days begins at the setting Of the
sun, when Warsaw assumes the aspect
of Venice Torches, fireworks and
Examinations effect the transfOrma-
tlOn, while the tOwnsfOlk crowd the
banks watching the lanterned sklffs
dart through the waters This year
the day cOinclded with the expiration
Of the delay granted the Germans to
nccede TO the allied peace terms. The
decision OF the Welmar assembly be-
came known IN the morning and War
saw threw mp its cap and gave itself
up to merrymnklng. The boys and
girls threw their garlands Into the
Vlstula. as they have done for cen
turtles, but for the first time In over
one hundred years they fIonted NIL
the way to the sea through Polish ter
rltOry.