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The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20
PATHETIC RUINS OF FRaNps
Once Pretty Villages Which e.
Dead as the Remains Of the =
Roman Forum.

Most of the villages of nor.h
France are as dead and cold q ~ ~
ruins of the Roman forum-ana ~
half so beautiful. Here We're no 'o. Ivy
architectural splendors. No price,
art collections. They were noth,s
but plain, humble little hamlets y
plain. hard-toiling peasants. qa
houses were destroyed and the ei,,a,
brave, hardy folks who owned ~
were also destroyed. The graverasa u
of the men had seen at Soissoaa
Champagne, Verdun, row upon oila1e
row. Here were the grayeyards :.
their homes, village after VILLAGE
dead as the men. The only differanas
was that the soldiers had been buros
underground while these ghastIy mn
tilated wrecks still remained exnosas
to view, writes Elizabeth Frazer :
Saturday Evening Post.
There was more OF this kind :.
scenery. And more. And more ana
more. And at last-so soon does ~
mind become stated by mere flat extor
nal spectacles of horror began f.
feel yelling up inside of me yama
irritation against all these gravo
yards of gaping, mutilated speeters ~
what had once been human hahito.
tions for being so monotonous. 50
repetitional, so drably, blankly I'M
pasSibly the same. | wanted them -
get better or wanted them to Got
worse-or wanted them to be bIotted
clean off the map. Those mutilated
corpses of towns, with their stark in.
mobility, their contorted postures
their shattered members lying rigidlv
outstretched on the pavement, began
to get on my nerves. They had tbs
same stiff fixity; the same grotesQus
sprawl that one notes in q human
corpse frightfully mangled by shell,
had heard OF men blown to pieces
in battle and unreeognizable, even
their Identification plates gone. Here
were their counterparts in hamlets
The lieutenant. searching his man.
murmured doubtfully: ut might be
4 or it might be b. It's hard
to say"
These nameless ones 1 put into list
all by themselves and called them x.
But presently gave 1t up. It was too
much like trying TO count the volume
OF water in a reservoir by means Of an
eye dropper.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20
Trees as AerIaIs for Wireless.

It is difficult indeed to find some
thing really new in radio eommunica'
ton. Things which are hailed as new
in the daily press are more often
apt to prove merely developments OF
Improvements along well-known lines.
and it is in that class that the recent
tree aerial tests at Washington FAN
AS far back as 1907, experiments were
carried out in which trees were eur
ployed as aerials. In the recent tests
messages were received over quite .
distance by means of tree aerials. Il
was also pointed out that messages
could be transmitted through ln'
agency of tree aerials over short dls'
tances. However, in view Of the g
markedly sensitive receiving apparatus
available today, the use of tree aefiais
is no more remarkable than II "s'
back in 1907, with the relatively craas
instruments of that time. -Sclen'ln'
American.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20
American Chemical Products.

The interest in chemistry and chem
ieal products has greatly increased in
the United States owing to the fact
that this country has been forced by
the war to depend upon its own re-
sources in this direction. The follow
ing uses are aseribed to these chemical
products: In making soap and paper
pulp, mercerizing cotton and purifying
mineral oils, caustic soda is used; soda
ash is necessary in the manufacture Of
soap and glass; silicate of soda (bet-
ter known as water CLASSY Is utilized
in the manufacture of soap and in dye
ING and printing calico, finishing cot
ton goods, preventing wood rot, bleach
ing jute and preserving eggs.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20

Il have been giving the matter
Senator Sherman after has been proclaimed
law can be passed which will limit landlord the
charge would a
charge wheat other
1T has been reported that there will
landlords
duce transferring the
possibly st Louis
Il do not think that here realize the Of the
which
charges food clothing
bill the
From military point
that could be selected for capital of the nation.
centrally the
concern
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20
HAD GONE VEST
Pathetic Incident in Hospital
BoaTbarded by Huns.
Wounded Young French Infantry Off
Ger Thought He was Going lover
the Top" and in That Be-
lief Passed On.

The head nurse watched the stretch
er bearers clatter slowly and awkward
ly down the path and disappear in the
darkness hearing between them a ST.
lent, blanket-wrapDed figure. Then
slowly and thoughtfully she turned and
entered the field hospital tent The
pale little nurses aid, CARRIED in the
picturesque blue of the American Red
Gross, rose and came to meet her. In
subdued whispers, scarcely audible in
the big vacant stiffness of the tent,
she told the story of any changes
which had taken place in the condition
of the boys who lay so braYely silent
on the 50 tiny cots
'Bartfand. that young infantry Off
GER in bed No. 3, with the bad chest
wound-he does not seem right" she
said softly. His lips are blue, and he
sleeps SO much"
Bring your fash" replied the head
nurse as she led the way over to the
dark corner, where, in bed separated
from the rest the young Bartrand lay.
apparently sleeping. Leaning over him
lightly, with a mother touch she laid
her hand on his forehead The boys
eyes opened dazedly, and blinked in
the glare OF the aids fashlight Then,
as with an effort, he smiled.
Suddenly the tent flap nearest them
opened. The Scotch orderly entered,
reached quickly for the knob that gov
erned the big center tent light and
switched 1t Off. Without word the
aid covered her flash and sprang to
extinguish the desk light while old
Macdun, the trusty. crept along the
tent wall behind the beds to be sure
that each window was tightly closed.
Overhead there gradually came into
hearing "a steady, regularly interrupted
drone, like that of a malignant insect
then tiash-a great roar, not very far
away-and the tent shook like leaf
in the wind At the first sound of the
raid Bartrand had started, sitting up
right In bed. The head nurse, helpless
In the intense darkness and fearing to
make him more restless by attempting
to put him down, held him in her arms.
1OVktf bays nVuCIH 11OSp1tdtp III ESluL~
ing the story, he began to call out or
ders, rapidly, precisely like man who
WIS used to being obeyed, and then
still louder, with more spirit, until his
voice rang and reverberated through
the open spaces of the tent "Atten-
ton ! - Allons, mes enfants = En-
avant !"
From somewhere in the darkness
the voice of the aid, trifie shaky,
said: "He thinks he's going over"
Another flash-another defamation
this time nearer The head nurse felt
something warm and wet soaking the
front of her uniform. Then silence
it seemed for ages. Finally Macdun,
flashing on the light, called out:
They're gone, the beggars !"
He came over to the bed and gave
one look at the burden the head nurse
held in her arms. Then, taking off his
hat, he held it, folded, in front of his
coat.
"You can lay him down, miss.
think there's Just work for me and the
stretcher bearers now. The puir lad
dies gone west"
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20
Farm and Country.

Secretary Daniels said at allne''
when the layman tries to talk nau
tically he makes as many mistakes o
the city girl on the farm. -
This city girl was smoking ~
after-dinner cigarette in the llaInino. -
on the lawn when COW began 70 ~
mournfully. The city girl pew
smoke cloud into the air and saiu ,,s
Listen to that poor heifer News
for her coltp"
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20

safely be ter
the population of the United
real than
Such would with military
would afford trnkne
form of transportation intensive
a to
ways in each state construction of equivalent mileage highways
mi ost
This with the national mil
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20


motions
of its with the declaration Germany all this
making special for the and
godetc back
best
Panama canal Others being repaired
an Pacific
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20

dIW SVHdIUT bdIkHVdU, TVIITIIIg CIIdII-
man OF the senate committee on post
offices and post roads, that they stand
for national highways tremendously
strengthened and probability of pass
age of the Townsend bin at the extra
session of congress" says David Jane
son, president of the American Auto
mobile association.
"a national highway system can
be kept within 3 per cent of the total
mileage of highways in the United
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20

lords of the District Of Columbia and
says if they persist in gouging the pub
lie after wartime legislation restrain
ing them becomes imperative, he will
''up and move" the capital westward
to grow up with the country. Wash
ington never was good place for it.
anyway, he insists.
But the Illinois senator does not
even have his own state or its metrop-
oils in mind. He suggests st. Louis
as the probable place he will pick
for the future capital of the nation.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20

eminent in lS1S-l0O IeeC from Tue
base-is of blue granite, not laid in
courses. From this point to within
short distance of the beginning Of the
top of the roof the inside of the walls
is of regular courses of granite, CORE
spending with the courses of marble
on the outside. For the top marble is
entirely used. The work has been de-
clared the best piece of masonry in
the world. By a plumb line suspended
from the top of the monument inside
not three-eighths of an inch DETECTION
has been noticed. The keystone that
binds the interior ribs of stone that
support the marble facing of the pyr-
amid cap of the monument weighs
nearly five tons. 1t is four feet six
inches high and three feet six inches
square at the top.
ION the 9Th day Of December, 1884,
the capstone, which completed the
shaft, was set. The capstone is five
feet PA inches In height, and It's base
is somewhat more than three feet
square. At it's cap, or peak, it Is five
inches In diameter. On the cap was
placed a tip or point of aluminium,
composition metal which resembles
polished silver, and which was select
ed because of its lightness and free
dom from oxidation and because 1t
will always remain bright.
Staircase With 600 Steps.
"a staircase OF 900 steps winds its
way to the top, around an interior
shaft OF iron pillars, in which the ele-
vator runs; few people walk up, but
many descend that way, in order to
examine more carefully the inscribed
memorial blocks which are set into the
interior wall at various places. With
in the shaft formed by the interior
iron framework runs an elevator, max
ing a trip every half hour and carry
ing, if need be, thirty persons. AS
this elevator and its ropes are of I'M
usual strength and were severely test
ed by use in elevating the stone re-
CURED for the upper courses as the
structure progressed, its safety need
not be suspected. The elevator is
lighted by electricity and carries a tel
ephone. Seven. minutes are required
for the ascent of 500 feet; and one can
see as he passes all the Inscriptions
and carvings sufficiently well to salts
fly the curiosity of most persons, as
none of these memorials has any ar
tistie excellence. An officer in charge
of the floor marshals visitors into the
elevator and another cares for the OBJ
servatory floor at the top; but no fees
are expected. The surrounding grounds
form Washington park.
1.-THE view from the eight small win
dows, which open through the pyra-
midon, or sloping summit of the ODE
lisk, SIT feet from the ground, in
cludes a circle of level country hav-
ing radius of from fifteen to twenty
miles. and southwest extends still
farther, for in clear weather the Blue
Ridge is well defined in that direction.
The Potomac is in sight from up near
Chain bridge down to far below
Mount Vernon, and the whole district
lies unrolled like map. To climb the
Washington monument is, therefore.
an excellent method of beginning an
intelligent survey Of the capital and
of getting ones bearing"
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20

ners with such data as will enable
them to navigate the waters under its
jurisdiction with the greatest possible
safety. The obligation has not been
discharged by the United States.
Many lives and property worth mill
lions of dollars are lost annually be-
cause the task of charting the coastal
waters of the United States and its
possessions has never been completed.
Now that the war Is over, the fin
ishing of this job is one Of the most
pressing necessities which the nation
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20

UdVKtU Dy sCIVHTHc and DuslneSS or
CARNATIONS in all parts of the country
has been started to accomplish this
change. And the meter propagandists
have made strong case. The chief
reasons why we should abandon our
system for the metric system are that
the latter is much simpler and easier
to learn. that it is more accurate. and,
above all, that 1t is now the compul-
sorry system in every civilized country
in the world except the United States
and Great Britain. That is the big
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20

In all
American scientists compelled long since adopt the metric
with the result that publications ncomprehensbe
the has convinced thousands Of of the necessity for the
ew nj
This the
quantity child
essential Hubbard
weights
the metric
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20
Adoption of a National Highways Policy Likely

tHE highways policy the United Chamber
coupled with
by chairman the senate finance committee
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20
Do You Know Meter and Liter? Better Brush Up

YoU do understand the metric
win disnace the
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20
Says He'll Move National Capital to St Louis

WASHINGTON sherman Illinois threatened the other day to
w Washington the
middle West The senator M The waIpa agaIst podeeng land
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-06-20
Dangers Of the Uncharted Seas Move Uncle Sam

nation
n
duties
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-05
1t Was Decided at Meeting
of Crown Council in
Brussels
HONORABLE TERMS
ARE OFFERED
But Belgium Wants Her
Economic Future Made
Sure

Brussels, MAY 5 (By the Associated
Press The Belgian government has de-
eded to sign the treaty of peace, which
was discussed at crown council held
here last night, it Is announced.
The council met at the palace at S
o'clock and continued in session until
midnight Paul Hymans, minister of for
eign affairs and head of the Belgian del
egation at the peace conference, speak
ing for himself and his colleagues, Emile
Vandervede and NJ. Vandenheuvel who
remained in Paris, completely outlined
the situation and gave a review of the
peace terms He expressed the opinion
that the treaty as it is now standing
gave-honorable and satisfactory terms to
Belgium and recommended that il should
be signed.
The council unanimously endorsed M,
Hymans view, but was equally unani-
nous in expressing the opinion that
the attention of the powers should be
drawn to the financial and economic sit
uation in Belgium and to the necessity
that the allies assure Belgium of com
plete support looking to her economic
restoration. The council was further of
the opinion that the allies should be
asked to support the initiation of ne
gotiations with Holland regarding the
settlement of the question of the free
dom of the Scheldt and the waterways
Of East Belgium.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-05
THE MAKING OF
A FAMOUS
MEDICINE
How Lydia E. Pinlzham's
Vegetable Compound
Is Prepared For
Woman's Use.

A visit to the laboratory where this
successful remedy is made impresses
even the casual looker-on with the reli-
ability, accuracy, skill and cleanliness
which attends the making of this great
medicine for woman's ills.
Over $50, 900 pounds of various herbs
are used annually and all have to be
gathered at the season of the year when
their natural juices and medicinal sub
stances are at their best.
The most successful solvents are used
to extract the medicinal properties from
these herbs.
Every utensil and tank that comes in
contact with the medicine is sterilized
and as final precaution in cleanliness
the medicine is pasteurized and sealed
in sterile bottles.
1t is the wonderful combination Of
roots and herbs, together with the
skill and care used in its preparation
which has made this famous medicine
so successful in the treatment of
female ills.
The letters from women who have
been restored to health by the use of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound which we are continually pub
fishing attest to its virtue.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-05
Motherless Children Were Told Part Of
the Tragedy.

Some of Mrs. Broadwell's acquain-
tances speak in high terms of her 9th
ers say that she was not always careful
as to the companions she went with.
She had made friends in the Baptist
church, where her children went to Sun
day school, and some of the ladies of
that church went to the house yesterday
afternoon and did what they could to
care for and give comfort to the be-
reayed children, who until Sunday after
noon had not been told Of the terrible
tragedy which had come upon the house
hold. During the forenoon the children
were taken in charge by neighbors but
when they saw their father coming home,
after his interrogation at the states at
torney's Office, they could not resist the
temptation to troop home and give him
welcome. Doris, aged nearly eight, Hill
dred, year younger, and Wendell, who
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-05

the river, but failed, the allies having
guns mounted which covered all parts of
the channel Artillery fire continues
from both the river totilla and the boil
sheyik batteries at Tulgas, but up TO
this morning no allied casualties were
reported.
Archangel. and though the channel is
still mass of swiftly floating ice cakes,
it is only matter Of few days until
the allied gunboats can force their way
upstream and 80 to the aid OF the allied
land defenses.
On the Naga sector the bolsheviki suf-
fered heavy losses yesterday when, after
a long bombardment, they attacked the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-05

village of Bereznik, which was defended
by Russian and British infantry and
American engineers. Moving to the
north of the village, the boishevik IN
fantry attempted to penetrate the allied
wire entanglements. They were COM
pletely rcpused leaving 80 or 40 dead
in front Of the wire defenses and more
in the forest nearby.
Another enemy force which attempted
TO cut the allied line of communications
east of the Vaga was also repulsed.
Twenty of this party surrendered vNn
surrounded by the allies. Artillery FIRE
continues in this sector. The allied cas-
ualties there yesterday were only four
wounded.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-05
CONFERRED WITH IRISH LEADERS
American Representatives Were in Dub
lin Sunday.

Dublin, Sunday, May by the Asso-
ciated Pressl Frank p. WALSH, who
with former Governor Edward f. Dunno
of Illinois and Michael j. Ryan Of Phil
adelphia, representatives of the Irish so
cieties in the Enited States, arrived here
yesterday to confer with Irish leaders on
the question of securing safe conducts
for Sim Fein leaderh to go to Paris, left
for England tonight, Professor Edward
De Valera, Sim Fein member of Parlia.
ment for East Mayo, accompanied him
to the boat and later said that Mr..
Walsh would return on Wednesday Mr.
Dunno win visit Belfast on Monday and
will be entertained at dinner at Mayl
nooth college on Tuesday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-05
Mrs. Broadwell ostensibly Started for
the Pictures"

In the meantime, Mr.. Courser had sup
piled more information as to the actions
of Mrs. Broadwell, his daughter Mr..
Courser said Mrs. Broadwel put the
three children to he'd and told them that
when she returned home she would tuck
them in. Then she told her father that
she was going to the pictures" and left
the house, never to return.
II is thought probable that she took
with her the money which her husband
gave to her just before his departure
from home. She wore gold bracelet
and two gold rings, one of them having
a red stone and the other an opal. The
bracelet and the rings were found on the
body, but, as stated previously, there
was not a cent in the pocketbook It is
not thought possible that Mrs Broadwell
spent all the money for merchandise at the
stores; and the empty pocketbook. hurled
some feet from the body indicates that
the wallet may have been Invested of its
contents there. However, robbery is not
considered as the motive for the crime.
Some instinct far lower than robbery is
held accountable for the act, the woman's
naked body being strong contributing
factor to the theory
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-05
Three Paths Lead to Spot Where Body
Was Found.

III the BODY OF Inc murdered woman
was carried to the place where it was
found yesterday morning, there were
three possible avenues of approach by
which the place could be reached without
physical difficulty. The first Of these
avenues is from North Main street, but
that is eliminated from consideration at
the outset because of the fact that the
street was occupied by many people un.
til late hour Saturday night, as usual
during the summer months, and it would
scarcely have been possible for anyone
to carry body by that way without
detection.
Another avenue leads from Summer
street and it is the bypath which young
Jackson took on his morning stroll be-
fore breakfast, leading to the discovery
of the body. The third unobstructed
approach leads from Pearl street and is
past the cinder pile of the Barre Steam
laundry The path is the shortest one of
the three from any street, being only 60
feet from Pearl street, while the other
approaches are from 200 to 300 feet. 1t
was not possible TO detect from foot.
prints what approach was used. if the
body was carried there, because the rain
of the early morning had obliterated the
traces effectually, and, in addition, the
trampling of the feet of thousand and
more persons during the day of Sunday
completed the work of obiteration.
Spot Secluded Yet in Heart of City.
The place selected for the murder or
for the depositing of the body was cal
culated to add to the temporary safety
of the perpetrators because, although it
is only few hundred feet off North
Main street and less than that from
Keith avenue and Pearl street, the scene
is enveIoped in gloom after midnight.
Nearby is the woodworking shop lof
Charles Rowell, while not far away are
sheds for storage of lumber and still
further along toward Summer street is
blacksmith shop The bypath between
these buildings is not public way
although it is used by scores of people
as a short cut between North Main and
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-05

Summer streets. It is rarely used at
night, however, because of the murky
obscurity Of the surroundings SO it
was a place well selected to cover up for
the time.being the CHASTITY evidence Of
one of the most fiendish murders ever
committed in this section Of the state.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-05
BOLSHEVIK GUNBOAT
ATTACK REPULSED
Enemy Attempted to Approach Allied
Position on Dvina River But Allies
Guns Covered All Parts of
the Channel.

Archangel, Friday, May (By the As
sociated Press Allied forces succeeded
Yesterday in repulsing the first attack
by the bolshevik gunboats on the Dvina.
The enemy fleet attempted to approach
the positions held by American, British
and Russian forces on the right bank of