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lackjno In Respect.

A burly and brlstling exemplar Of
German mlitarsm, with captains
knots on his shoulders and an iron
cross on his chest, was included in q
bng Of prisoners that some American
soldiers made just before the arms
tice was signed. He was indignant. to
say the least and his mood intensified
as he was marched back to the intel
ligence officer.
He had not heard the questioning
officer speak more than five words Of
German before he burst into the con-
versatiOn.
"Do you allow privates to call off,
GERS by their first names In this army 2"
he demanded witheriDgly, according to
Stars and Stripes.
why" asked the officer.
"Well, this pig" said the Prusslan,
"called me Heine every time he ad-
dressed me."-Youth's Companion.
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Bent Castlron Pipes.

Accustomed to bend pipes Of
wrought iron and steel for the sugar
mills, Cuban pipe layers are reported
TO have applied their novel method to
castiron material. Through mistake,
the 10inch castiron pipe for a water
main passing through a crooked two
mile canyon to the town Of Present
was supplied only in straight lengths
II feet long. with thickness Of shell
Of GIG inch; and to avoid long
whit for bent sections a cradle of the
desired curvature was built with old
rails, six or eight pipes at a time were
placed on II, when a hardwood fire so
heated the pipes that in about two
hours they bent and settled by their
own weight TO the cradle. Bending
10 various radii down to 80 feet Is
stated to have been effected without
a single broken pipe.
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NOW BUT MEMORY
Caballeros of California Prac-
ticaIIy Extinct.
Passed With the Disappearance Of the
Wonderful Horses Which We're
Their Pride-Noted for Court.
Illness and Hospitality.

The persistent disappearance Of the
horse from the life and labor of Cali
fornia, and the substitution of the au-
tomobile and auto truck in its place.
must serve rs mental depression to
the old-timers. For there was a time
In California when the horse was not
only Indispensable, but also the chief
ornament OF the country.
In the old days before the gringo
came" and indeed for many year
after that, the horses of California
were both a wonder and a delight.
They were the Joy Of the caballeros.
that is to shy the Spanish gentlemen
Of California.
With the disappearance of the horse
1t seems that the caballeros are also
disappearing. 1t is high time that
Jackson A. Graves gives us his long
promised book. 1.-The Passing of the
Dominant Race" book that no other
man is so well qualified to write.
The California horse was a truly
wonderful creature-a cross between
the pure Arabian strain and the native
wild horse. 1t was on the backs of
such horses that band of Californians
under command of Gen. Andres Pico,
armed only with lances, defeated sig
nally troop Of United States soldiers
under Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny ut
the battle Of San Pasqual in San Diego
county.
The caballeros who bred and used
those horses were also wonderful
class Of men. The saddles and brides
they used were nearly always very
beautiful and of great cost. They were
ornamented with silver trappings, md
the spurs on the caballeros' heels were
also Of silver.
Courtly and hospitable were the ca
balleros. Their homes were like the
old feudal homes Of Europe. Indian
and Mexican servants were there to do
ones least bidding and to anticipate
ones slightest desire.
But we never see them now except
when Los Angeles holds an all-too-in-
frequent fiesta. Then q few of them
emerge from their obscurity, riding
down the shining highways of the town
with memories Of the happy days of
the past glowing like embers IN their
dusky eyes.-Los Angeles Times.
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KEEP The DOLLARS GROWING,

The Governments plan for maxi
ing interest earn interest will again
be put into operation on June 18th
when s36.63S,o0O will be paid to
holders of the First Liberty Loan
Bonds. June 18th is Interest Day
and the Treasury Department has ar
ranged for the exchange Of interest
coupons fer Thrift and War Savings
Stamps in any post Office or bank.
Keep the Dollars Growing" is the
slogan that is being sent out from The
United States Treasury at Washing
ton. $36,0OO.000 in Liberty Bond
Interest Coupons if invested in War
Savings Stamps will pay four per
cent and is automatically compound
ed. Children are being urged to car
~ the Thrift message from their
schools 10 their parents. The
Treasury is asking children TO draw
fosters illustrating the slogan and
The plan is to have these posters scat
tered broadcast throughout the
country. The posters may he drawn,
painted or made Of cut-outs. The
slogan Keep the Dollars Growing"
should appear on every poster.
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TO PLAY POLITICS.

The new Congress which began it's
work Monday will probably spend
more time playing politics than in
enacting wise legislation.
II the American people wanted
the war hquidated. the way TO get
the quickest results was through a
Congress in political harmony with
the President. The way to get every
thing muddled was the way they
chose, and they will not be entitled
to much sympathy If Congress spends
its time in playing politics. as it
probably will. 1t will be on the hunt
for issues in the next national cleo
ton.
Republicans have interpreted their
majority, slim tho it be, as a man.
date to fight the President. If they
proceed to carry their theory into eff
feet, Government will be deadlocked.
That is the result whenever the leg
islative and executive branches work
at cross purposes. In ordinary cir
cumstanceS little harm can come
from strained relations between the
capitol and the White House; but
there happens to be no ordinary cir
fronted with all the momentous is
sues Of peace and reconstruction and
these problems cannot be solved by
divided Government working in
the white heat Of a party passion de-
liberately inflamed preparatory. to a
national campaign.
If Congress acts as the Republic
can leaders talk in private, little
will be accomplished in the way of
reconstruction except the obvious
things, for legislation that is aimed
chiefly at the President will natural
ly encounter the Presidential veto.
and there are not enough Republi-
can votes to pass any measure that
the President disapproves. 1t is true
that the Republicans can take their
case to the people in 1920 and appeal
for a vote of confidence, but in the
mean time the country and it's indus
tries and its interests would be mark
ing time.
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Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska,
ranking Democrat of the Senate For
eign Relations Committee, predicted
in 4 statement recently that he SeE-
ate would ratify the covenant Of the
league of nations and that the neces.
sary majority vote to amend it or
separate it from the peace treaty
would MT be obtained.
Senator Hitchcock has been the
chief spokesman for the administra-
ton throughout the long Senate con-
troversy over the league of nations
and his statement generally was re-
garded as a reply 20 that issued by
Senator Lodge, the Republican leader
who said the league covenant was
not acceptable to majority Of the
Senate
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ATTEMPT TO PERVERT CHAUTAUOUA
WITH POLITICS.


Hays of the Republican National
Committee to politicize the Chautua-
quas and make them serve the pur-
pose of partisan propaganda, has
brought quick rebuff to him and his
party from DR.. Paul NJ. Pearson,
secretary of the Chautauqua and
Lyceum manager in the United
States, Alaska, Canada and Austral-
ia.
1t was the plan Of Chairman Hays
to mobilize a large number of speak
Grs, obtain engagements for them to
appear at Chautauquas and then have
them make Republican speeches
camoufiaged as lectures on good
government" In letter which he
sent 10 various notables he thought
eligible for THIS work, Mr.. Hays
said:
I'VE want to get as many Republic
can speeches made in the next eigh-
teen months as possible. y All
these speeches, of course, will not be-
under direct Republican auspices,
but we are enlisting the help Of
thousands Of public speakers in order
that they may, as occasion arises,
use Republican matter in
whatever kind of speech they may be
making.
Chairman Hays informed these
potential orators that they should
get in touch with DR.. Horace Ellis
In the western headquarters of the
Republican National Committee, and
have him arrange for their engage
ment and assignment as spakers.
When DR.. Pearson's attention was
called to the letter written by Chair
man Hays on the subject of using
the Chatauqua to camoufage the
political activity OF Republican
speakers, he is quoted by the New
York World as having said:
Evidently Mr.. Hays has been get
ting some up-to-the-minute infor-
nation about Chautauquas. He has
probably learned that 10000 Ameri-
can towns in every state have their
intellectual life stirred by visit
from Chatauqua speakers each
year, that no less than 100000 per-
sons purchase tickets to these pro-
grams and that more than 10000
600 people attend Chatauqua and
Lyceum courses during the year. He
may have learned that about $780,
600 practical and successful bust
ness men guarantee the financial sue
cess Of Chatauqua in these 10000
towns. and that the people gladly
pay $S,500,000 annually for its sup
port. Qnite naturally Mr.. Hays
would like to take over this greet
organization for the G. o. p.
This purpose of subverting Chau-
tauqua 20 the uses Of the Republican
party will prove only boomerang
1t is safe bet that no speaker will
be heard from the Chautauquua plat
forms for whom DR.. Horace Ellis,
who mas been selected by Mr.. Hays to
carry out this scheme, is sponsor
The Chatauquas have occasionally
invited party speakers to their plat
forms, always impartially making a
place. usually on consecutive days,
for representatives Of at least the two
leading PARTIES
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TO EXPLAIN REASONS FOR TERMS.

1t appears now, from adviceS from
Paris that oral exchanges TO a GER
tain extent will probably be allowed
between the Allies and the Germans.
But This nus: not be taken to mean
hat the gates arctic be thrown wide
open to debate on all points but only
III certain matters which the German
plenipotentiaries regard as Of over
whelming Importance to Germany.
The plan which. we are told, has
been definitely approved by President
Wilson and has been tacitly accept
ed by his associates of the Big Four,
is to arrange for series OF meetings
cstensibly of experts Of the various
commissions, who will exchange ideas
en- certain phases of the treaty.
The new plan will bring together
members Of the Allied and enemy
delegations, at what will be termed
meetings of experts, at which efforts
will be made to change the real or
fancied German belief that the treaty
was designed for the economic or po-
litical destruction of Germany.
l am informed that the first sug-
gestion for meetings came from the
French, who do not relish the
thought that Germany may refuse to
sign the treaty. The Americans
thought we'll Of it and they put it up
to the President, who favored it as be-
ing a natural means of aiding the
speeding-up process in bringing back
peace to the world. He has all along
favored any plan from which bene-
fits might be expected, even though
the no-oral discussion programme
night thereby be disarranged.
There seems to be no likelihood
of any vital changes in the peace
terms
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PUBLIC SALE OF Personal
PROPERTY.
On Saturday. June 1ath. 1O1O

On Saturday, June 14th, 1D1D
Three miles west OF Fort Spring, |
will offer for sale at public auction,
the following personal property, to-
wit:
Three Horses, Three Cows. two
fresh. One Stack Hay, One Bind
er, One Mower, One Rake. One Road
Wagon, One Buggy, One set OF farm
Harness, One set Buggy Harness,
One Buggy Pole. Plows, Harrows,
and other farming implements.
Household and kitchen furniture.
Terms made known on day OF sale.
5-30-3t X. s. FINK, Administrator
Of estate OF G. w. FINK.
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NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING

The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Meadow Bluff Mutual
Telephone Co., Inc, will be held at
Meadow Bluff, on Monday, June 9th,
1919, at / o'clock p. m. Owing to the
fact that the farmers are late with
their work, this meeting is set one
week Iaer than Asual in order to
make IT convenient for stock hold
ers to attend and all stock holders
are urged to be present II possible.
5-30-2t. w. b. JONES, President.
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TEACHERS UNIFORM
EV ANUNATInN

The second Uniform Examination
for teachers will be held on June 5-6,
1919, at the following places:
Frankford, Lewisburg and Smoot.
Applicants for Primary, High School
and Special Certificates will take the
examination at Lewisburg. Teachers
will meet at 7.30 a. m, to enroll.
5-23-2 w. F. RICHARDSON.
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BLACK KENTUCKY JACk-15
hands, 2-in. tall will make the seas
on at DR.. Arbuckle's farm, near Max
welton. Ter1ns-$6.00, due when
mare is served, with privilege Of re-
turn. For further information call
G. NJ. Lightner, MaXwelton, w. Va. st
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CLASSIFIED COLUMN.
List your farms with H. A. Muir
ill. Office over Bank of Lewisburg.

SLAVES WANTED-Several car
loads Of split white oak slaves. Ain.
wide clear sap; l 1-2-in. thick on
heart edge; 54-ir., 44in., 34in. long.
Will pay good prices. GOAD & De-
BARR, Lewisburg, w. Va. 5-9-tf.
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

Notice is herby given that accounts
of r. S. Fink. Administrator Of the
estate Of G. w. Fink, deceased, are
now before the undersigned Commits
sioner of Accounts for settlement.
5-232t SAM'L PRICE,
Commissioner of Accounts.
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FOR SALE-126 acres Of valuable
coal and timbr land on Big Clear
Creek, Greenbrier county. If inter-
ested call or write w. B. Jones,
Meadow Bluff or me at 200 Clenden-
min ST., Charleston, w. Va. H. G.
THOMPSON. 5-16-3t
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NOTICE To PIJRLIC.

hereby notify all persons not to
harbor nor contract with my two
sons, Roy and Ray, nor either Of
them, on my account. Both are
much under the age of FL years and
I will not be responsible for their
acts nor contracts. w. A. JAM
NINEY
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last were 2,050,4 AGO dead, 4,2o7,02S
wounded and 615,922 missing, to,
tal o: 6,S73,410, according to figures
published in Berlin
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LUMBER WANTED-If you have
lumber of any kind write me. The
Reese-Sheriff Lumbr Co.. Williams
port, Pa, need anything you have in
the timber line. LEM G. HANNA,
Renick. w. Va. tt.
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DIX. ID. II, NICKELL,
Graduate and Licensed
VETERINARIAN.
Lewisburg, w. Va.
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negotiation and demand from the
President what instructions he has
given to his representative. That part
Of treaty-making is no concern of
ours.
These words of Republican wisdom
In respect to the treaty-making pow
err Of the United States are respect
fully submitted to those Republican
Senators who are demanding that
the President submit to them at once
treaty of peace that has not yet
been negotiated, and are also threat
ening to intervene in the Paris ne
gotiations by framing amendments
of their own and sending them to
the Peace Conference.
Such action on the part of Republi-
can senators might be very helpful to
the Germans as evidence that the
treaty-making power Of the United
States Government is divided and
nullified. It might well serve to en-
barrass the Conference, which Is still
strugg hing over the most difficult
problems that diplomacy has ever
been called upon to solve. 1t might
greatly stimulate the Bolsheviki, to
whom 1t would be further proof that
no peace can be expected from "capi-
talistic government But 1t could
serve no other ends except to demonl
strate the insane partisanship of GER
tain Republican Senators and their
willingness to plunge the world into
anarchy in order to crafty their per-
sonal hatred of the President Of the
United States.
Until there Is concrete proof Of
the fact, we shall refuse to believe
that the United States Senate has
gone crazy.
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should not be lost on other States laboring
under similar difficulties with respect to SOL
Worlds Labor Program

D RESIDENT WILSON'S message to the
American people, given out at the White
House, and expressing his intense gratifca-
tion at the labor program to which the peace
conference has dedicated itself. directs atten-
ton anew to phase of the constructive and
reconstructive work in Paris. which promises
to have monumental effects in the future af-
fairs Of the world. This program, the
President intimatcs, has been somewhat OBJ
scurcd amidst the multitude of other and
perhaps more picturesque interests.
The achievement which the conference has
TO its credit in this direction grants full
recognition to practically every enlightened
demand which organized labor, the world
over, has made. This does not mean. OF
course, that the insane cravings for some
thing for nothng'-the socialism of the
|. w. WIS or the communism OF the d.
shevists-are given any encoura cement, But
it means that the clearly defined principles
on which the sane laboring interests of the
world stand have been given the most sweep
ing vindication at the hands of the conference
of world statesmen.
y very significant circumstance about the
labor program of the peace conference is the
similarity it bears to the labor program OF
the President in fixing his domestic policies.
When it is recalled that the Paris council
looks approvingly upon the proposition that
labor is not a commodity that it has right
W OiSdHlHe iOI It's Wcltdre, tnaI adequate
wages should be paid to all: that the eight
hour day and the forty-eight-hour week are
standards of wage fixing; that Sunday labor
ought to be discontinued except in rare cases,
and that child labor should be prohibited
when these principles Of the peace confer
ence are reflected on, the parallel they offer
to the labor policies Of this government is
slrkingly apparent II is impossible TO
escape the suspicion that the President him
Gpl iS neil fnr
the peace conference acted in this matter.
The wisdom OF the conference in providing
to the fullest extent OF its power for the vel
tare of labor cannot he questioned by any
thoughtful observer OF the upheaval through
which the world is now passing There is Il
Veritable tide of Bolshevism, OF communism,
rampant socialism to be combated. This is
not only true Of Russia or Hungary or even
of Europe. 1t is true to a mder degree OF
America itself. as was indicated by the May
Day riots, by the dangerous 1. w. w agita-
ton and the terrorism represented by the
bomb plottcrs.
The peace conference in adopting its pro-
gram has, however given the most emphatic
assurance that the powerful governments of
the world are prepared to deal with labor
on a basis of justice. humanity and broad
liberality. Such assurance ought TO he salts
flying to those elements OF labor which ask
no more than their right 10 live and thrive
and achieve their happiness and their pros
perlty as any other element in any COM
munty may achieve the same things
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FROM OTHER VIEWPOINTS
National Problems discussed
Authoritative Writcrs-A Daily Editorial
DELAY IN WATER POWER LEGISLATION
Is
Chief of Interior
There are in the United States many

There are in the United States many
commercially feasible water powers
which are in part the property Of the
or on rivers which are navigable' and
hence under the Jurisdiction OF the
Federal government. The principle is
OF this perpetual character must re-
main i'm the ownership and control Of
the nation. The issue as TO their de-
veloDment has. therefore, narrowed to
consideration OF the manner and con-
ditions under which the utilization Of
water powers owned by the public
AT the present time this Important
class OF power sites Ia practically with
under. which they may he legally ac-
CURED are so insecure as Il basis for
investment that capital is. as rule.
unwilling to make the venture. Some
have advocated. as an alternative. the
development of the power as Il public
function. either by. the Federal gov
municipalities The majority sec MS.
however TO favor development by .,ri-
vate agencies under lease from the gov
ton OF the problem.
But this solution requires legislation.
as existing laws do not permit the
such leases and setting forth their
terms. have been introduced at each
Some have even passed one house. only
TO fail in She other.
Because Of the fuel crisis Of he past
year. however. a greater advance per
maps was made at the last session.
hill introduced by Senator Shields
passed the Senate on December "A
l?i'. At about tho same time the
PRESIDENT had requested members Of
the House OF Representatives TO give
consideration TO a bill prepared under
MS direction and cmbodyinE the Views
OF the executive departments as to ap-
rropriate legislation on this subject.
After consideration Of this proposed
measure by special committee, this
niii was reported to the House. and.
AS An amendment to the Senate bill
This procedure threw the measure
into conference between the two
houses. where II has lain for many
months. The differences OF opinion
among the members Of the conference
committee have proved irreconcila BILE
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but divorce with permission to marry
,rase should he held responsible for
This evil either '''
iab states that woman sunrap.
VIII deprive the States Of ali now
oil using their Consciences. their iud9
men's or wishes" The expIana,ion -,
this broad statement was Withheld
ior reasons best known to him or
Excuse me for. being discur.iye
mat Lucretia Mott says ,ha, sufYrar,.,.
may enter !n.o the solemn covenant
or marriage without the aid Of eithsr
clergyman or magistrate Evidently
sIeikgmen ana magistrates are equally
sacred TO i'm or her. Does .'.ral," wany
20 dcny mat in the time of Mosee
women wer. not looked upon as a
species OF property? Women we're
e,sain'y given in marriage b. their
ttatheFs or nearest male rela tives.
EVEN now in these modern times ,hs
newspapers speak in their most unc
u0us tones ~hen describing weddings.
Inc bride was given away by her
father or her brother" what ~ ,hst
put remnant OF that most absurd
custom: Bishop Morland NAV crv h,s
heaTt out over the increase Of diyorcs
oul he can't trace the beginning nor
tn. Increase OF the divorce laws 10 ~.
outrage movement. Tab" viii hs"s
10 mo some better arguments for Tia
antisunraSe cause or II VIII he n.,sn,
indeed TO every reasoning benz That
II has no ground on which TO STAND
Richmond. Va. May I. 1919.