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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14

DIR. Thomas A. lie Breton, who has
just quit Washington for France and
his native land, after a service OF
three years in the United States as
representative of his country.
Ii was his love for public service,
coupled with the expressed wishes OF
the voters in his "home town" which
prompted DIR. LIE Breton not long ago
to allow his name to be placed in
nomination to represent h impor-
tant and populous federal district OF
Buenos Aires in the Argentine senate.
And the majority by which the radi-
cal, or progressive party, of his dis
trict elected him indicates the popu-
larity of his decision.
DR.. lie Breton will be missed in
Washington. AS representative of n
of the greatest and most progressive
of the Latin American republics he
has filled with distinction and merit
a most important position In the corps
of Latin American diplomats. Sim
pie and direct, easy of access. free
of the wiles so often associated with
the professional diplomat, he has
| striven to serve his country through
a system Of practical diplomacy.
which is the key to a real basis OF
International friendship and under
standing.
Hiah Service to His Country.
There are doubtless many farmers
in the United States who don't
know, and don't care, who happens to
be the United States ambassador to
Argentina. But there are numbers OF
! farmers in Argentina who have learned
10 know Ambassador lie Breton
through his service in this country,
and through him have come to lave
Il better understanding and u higher
regard for the United States.
During his mission here he has
seen in the United States a vision OF
what his own country has n store.
He has studied the methods by which
common to the United
States and his own country, have
been developed here. And he has made
it the chief duty of his office to pass
on to the people of Argentina the prac-
teal knowledge of how to do things,
gained from experience here.
Under the administration of Mr.. lie
Breton, the Argentine embassy has
come to occupy a unique position
among the embassies in Washington.
1t has become a channel through
which information on every conceiv-
able subject is gathered and passed
on for use in the Argentine. Scores
of agricultural and scientific bulletins,
compiled by the federal departments
have beer adapted and translated al
the embassy and sent direct to Ar
gentinians. There are experiment
stations scattered through Argentine
which are exhibiting plants today
grown from seed obtained in the
United States by the embassy. The
dissemination of this information by
the embassy has established a direct
correspondence between manufac
turers and farmers in the Argentine
and the embassy in Washington
(which is growing larger every day
Rsaf making inquiries of theil
~ sAthaVs 2 - ssNform
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
DOCTORS DILEMMA IN CHINA
Ignorant and superstitious Natives
Beseech Physician &c Perform All
Kinds of Impossibilities.

The rain was coming in sheets, and
we had to stop at three this afternoon.
Since then l have had a number of
patients. A boy of eleven, who fell
over a cliff and broke his arm. eleven
months ago, is here with all his rela-
tiyes, asking me to make the n
grow together again. There was no
treatment for the arm when the acci-
dent happened, for the native doctors
know nothing of surgery. They bound
some vile-smelling connection 10 the
arm with bamboo splints and put an
other plaster of the anne mixture ON
the back, ito draw the bone up" The
arm is, of course. useless. | suggested
nn a%mputation, 1ut the relatives will
not consent TO a mutilation of the
body. The boy tried to prove TO me.
by opening and closing his hand. that
| the arm had life, and he would not be-
lieve me when ' told him that the
ends of the bone could not be brought
together except by IN operation. An
old woman, bedridden FOR many years.
is lying in the rain, on a stretcher
made of sackcloth and bamboo poles.
while her half-blind husband, who al
most fell into the water when he came
up the plank, pleads with me to give
her some medicine to make her feet
walk, her tongue talk and her fingers
able to hold her chop sticks" A leper,
blind. footless and without hands, Is
sitting on the bank, begging for relief
from the terrible disease that is slow
ly killing him. He promises to spend
his life in making prostrations before
me if l will condescend to zeal him. A
girl with tubercular sinuses in hen
bound foot tells me that she Is to be
married soon and that her future hus
band says he will beat her if SHE
to him in poor health.
About four O'clock we went out fol
a bit of a walk. A poor woman on thu
bank held out her emaciated baby ant
asked me to make il see. Som'
ignorant medical practitioner had I'll,
needles into its eyes to drive a demon
out of its stomach. The mother Offered
to bow before every shrine within
radius of three miles If | would onl.
give her baby power to look up int
her face.-From "a Fortnight in
Cargo Boat" by William l.. Hall, il
Asia Magazine.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
AN NOW WALK
4 AS WELL AS EVER
Esteemed Lincoln Resident Declares
'Tanlac Has Made a Clean Sweep
of Her Rheumatism and
and Other Troubles.
25& and 75& Packages. Everywhere
Aseconomy."

"I couldn't believe all they said
about Tanlac until I tried it myself,
and now I never doubt what l read
about it," said Mrs. Anna B. Crawford,
$500 N. 23rd St, Lincoln, Neb., wife Of
a w~ell-known retired business man.
81 got into a badly rundown condi-
ton" she continued, land suffered
greatly from Indigestion. l had head
ache for days at a time, slept poorly
and woke up mornings sc weak and
dizzy I could hardly get up. Then
rheumatism set in and made walking
difficult and I could scarcely use my
arms for the pain.
But Tanlac has made a clean sweep
of my troubles. brought back my ap-
petite and enabled me to gain much
weight. 1t is a pleasure to make a
statement in praise of this great medi-
cine"
Tanlac is sold by all good druggists.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
The Tipping Problem,

1.-THE tipping problem in Italy," said
a traveller, has been ~solved-incor-
rectly. Ten per cent is added to your
hotel bill for tips these tips the man
agement distributes among the hotel
staff you give nothing yourself.
"a solution, but an incorrect one,
for by it the Italian waiter who has
been rude to you gets as much of
your money as the one who has been
devoted. That is wrong, of course.
"In a Nice hotel i encountered a
solution that was better. There 10
per cent was added to my bill for
tips, but l was given paper vouch-
ers, a kind of hotel currency, for the
amount, and they told me to distribute
these vouchers as l pleased. | did so.
The people who had served me well
were generously rewarded. Those
who had neglected me got nothing.
"a solution, Ell? But | asked my
self, as l distributed my paper vouch-
ers, how | vas any better off by the
new system than by the old one"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
How Our Grandparents Talked.

An elderly contributor favors us
with a list of odd words and express
sions current a generation or so G
We have room for only a few of them.
"Sniptious," meaning smart, perky,
was used in New York.
II bonas it," meaning | claim II.
was an expression in general use, and
might be a variation of 81 bone it,"
"Manavelins" ,5as said to be exclu-
sively used in Long Island and meant
toothsome bits of any dish at table.
"Gawmed up" OF a child eating
bread and molasses a Southern nurse
would say, Ills face is all gawmed
up" A variant, "gaumed," was also
used in England.
"Scamuljugated" referred to two
young people being fond of each other.
John and Jane seem quite scamul-
jugated."-Boston Transcript.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
"Not at Home"

ITO sport ones oak" is a phrase
Simplifying that one is not at home to
visitors. The saying originated at the
English universities, where the STU
dents chambers have two doors-an
inner and an outer one. The outer
door is made of oak, and when this
is closed or 'sported' it denotes either
that the occupant of the apartment is
out or that he does not wish to be dis
turbed.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
Social Climbers in Germany

Old decorations and titles are still
craved by social climbers in .epublican
Germany. This is shown in Il case in
which an international imposter and
his accomplice, who is a l%unatic, were
tried for fraud, says the Montreal
Herald. The prisoner was charged with
having travelled owe Germany repre-
senting himself to be a papal count
and chamberlain of the Vatican and
selling papal baronetcies and orders
for thousands of marks each. The
titles are said to have been solemn.
bestowed>by the demented accomplish
NnsaArlY q. veterinary sur
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
Trade Dollars

The total number of trade dollhrs
coined was 35,9G5, 924. The number re-
deemed under the act of 1887 was =
6e9,O36, and from the bullion resulting
from the melting of these dollars there
were coined in subsidiary silver 50. 6cs.-
614.3O and into standard silver dollars
S5,07S'472. Since the expiration of the
period of redemption trade dollars
have been purchased as bullion when
presented at the mints.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
Speed of Electricity.

Herr has demonstrated that electric
waves travel with the same velocity
as visible light. Light travels at a
speed of $4,000 miles per second. The
speed with which an electric current
passes along a wire depends on the
conducting properties of the material
OF the wire. One authority states that
If a perfect system of wires could be
provided. a dispatch might be sent
around the world during two beats of
the clock.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14

close application of the best farmiae
methods surpassed the efforts Of those
agri~culturists who have continued do
ing things on the farm in the way
their fathers used to do them.
For further particulars, pamphlets
regarding Canada, railway rates, etc.
apply to F. A. Harrison, 210 N. Third
St, Harrisburg, Pa.-Advertisement.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
For Falling Hair.

my hair is falling out" admitted
the timid man to the chemists assist
ant. "Can you recommend something
to keep it in?"
Certainly" replied the obliging
young man, who had only recently
left school. Here is a nice cardboard
box.'-Pearson's Weekly.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
Unmarried Americans.

Upwards of 1000, 600 men and wom-
en- over forty-fiye in the United States
are unmarried. More than 10000 men
about 76 are listed as bachelors, and
nearly an equal number of women 90
years or more, also are unmarried.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
The Rnad IN Aeaunn

"Dey ain no direct road t heaven"
said Charcoal Eph, moodily. Slit
may look lax hit, but yuh got T. 20
round "A heap o crap games whar de
deacons done stopped t rest."-Rich.
mond Times-Dispatch
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES

One size smaller and walk In comfort ~
using ALIENS F~OOT=EASE. the antisep-
tic powder for the feet. Shaken Into the
shoes and eprinkled in the foot-bath Aliens
Foot=Ease makes tight or new shoes feel
easy; gives instant relief to corns. bunions
and callouses, prevents Blisters. Callous and
Sore Observation-Disclosures.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14

tut a UTUVT, WHY
a Frankfort merchant underwent
solemn investure as a Maltese knight.
But when the new knight did not pay
the promised sum he was deprived of
his title, which originated only in the
fertile imagination of the false papal
count.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14

Why does a man lose interest In q
subject as soon as his argument Is ex-
hausted?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14

1t is utterly impossible to drive
a man to drink who isn't headed that
way.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14

Lewis Medicated Capsicum Plaster-A fam
lily remedy for burns, b~listers, boils. cuts,
lumbago, pneumonia and rheumatism. Money
refunded if not as represented. Postpaid 4Oc.
You st. Station. Box 172. Washington, ID. c.
GOVERNMENT POSITIONS-Railway mall
postal clerks needed, $1.60O-S2,1 lao. Vacation,
sick leave. Correspond. course unnecessary.
Free booklet. Box 842, Washington. ID. c.
AGENTS-Sell Master Furniture ahd Auto
mobile Polish; used in White House. Wash
ington. Big c2mm. Walsh's Pr0teepolsh'
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-14
Wanted Ginseng Spoilers
New World Ginseng Co.

HEMSTITCHING - ATTACH
MENIj hts any sewing machine; attaches
hrmly. Easily adjusted. Price SO delivered.
with complete instructions and sample work.
Orders filled promptly. Superior Attachments
Co., 500 Starr St, Corpus Christi, TexaE.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-01
HOPKTNTON

Teachers of the public schools of this town have been So far engaged as fol- lows: Hope Yaney, MaybeiIe c. Kenyon, principal of high school Laura S. Yeaw, assistant principal; Mary H. Mulligan, grades 7-S; NJ. Ida Dockery, 5-s; Pauline Elina Thomas, 3-4 May F. Hoxsie, 1-2 i; Annie D. Bohnirg. kindergarten.
 Ashawat t-Robert J. Torrey, principal of high school I4 Gertrude Stiilman, as sistant principal; Inez Jordan grades 7-8 Mrs. Samuel Watrous, 5-6; Elsie Jordan. S-4; Sara B. Welch, 1-2: Lillian Budlong. Kindergarten.
 BaFoerviIe--EAia E. Barber.
 Rockville Ruth G. Bindahl.
 Deacon Roger w. Lewis. who was op- erated on at a Providence hospital last Friday, is reported as recovering.
 Rain Saturday and Sunday somewhat affected the attendance at the Seventh Day Baptist conference at Ashaway, still 9 large number filled the church, also made gSod audience in the parish house. The music and speaking were of high order and all the services of the week were interesting.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank H Brown and daughter Bettie and Rev. B. P. Mathew son attended the picnic of the Pendleton Hill Sunday school and community at Beach pond Wednesday, Aug 23d.
 During the past week many former residents have been welcomed back tc town as visitors and attendants upon the s. D. B. conference.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-01
COLUMBIA

Mrs. Anna Peck of Danbury was in town last week visiting her cousins, Mrs. A B. Brown and Mrs. J. N. Clark. Mrs. Peck returned recently from a three months / tour in Europe.
 Miss Mildred Robinson Of New Haven is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Porter.
 Miss Lily Little of East Hartford is the guest of her sister -in-faW. Mrs Abbott Little, un woodward HiIl.
 Miss Mildred Little of Springfield, Mass, Is spending q vacation at the home of MT. and Mrs. Fred A. Hunt, at whose home her parents, MT. and Mrs Harry Little, have been during the past week
 The W7lEmantic Salvation Army build ing cannFa6gn in the town of Columbia during the past week resulted in the col. lection of SIS at the dose of the week. The local committee collected $s5 from the Chestnut Hin section and the Center and $40 was collected by a member of the Salvation Army from the summer resi- dents at the lake It is expected that further contributions will be received from other sections of the town when the solicitors have had the opportunity to visit the people.
 very s1cce6SfM supper and sale was held Thursday afternoon and evening at Yeomans hail, the attendance being esti- mated at from 300 to 4s0. The supper was delicious and the fancy articles were handsome. The total receipts, were about s250. The net receipts will go for the use of the Columbia Improvement society, which has already made improvements on the Green, while others are in contem- ptation.
 At the church service Sunday morning William A Collins. IT., sang as a tenor solo Ave Maria, 0 Divine Redeemer. Rev. T. Newton Owen preached on the desire Of our lives to do great works, which deSre Is not always realized. as illustrat ed in Davsd's wish to build a beautiful temple for the worship of Jehovah, but was allowed only to ooilect the materials for his son Solomon to finish the work.
 The Saturday evening dances held dur ing the summer under the management of the Victor orchestra of Manchester hxye all been well attended.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-01
PHOENIxVLLE

Bids are stdn open for Transportation of papiis from General Lyon school to Phoenixville.
 Mrs. Sarah Latham is vis4ing her sis ter, Mrs. Jane Barrett, Of Manchester.
 Mrs. May Ethridge took four fresh air children who were from New York to Putnam Wednesday 50 they could return with the party with which they arrived.
 Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lyon, Mrs. Anne Russ and Daniel hane attended camp meeting in WillimaItic Sunday.
 Friday the coTnnsunlty picnic at Crys- tad lake was attended by the pupils of the three schools.
 Peter Ozut was a Putram visitor Sun day.
 Stanley Schumansli carried party of friends to New Bedford Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. Herbert Towue and fam fly were recent visitors here from 1s1E1zyUzrsnzu.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-01
AMERICAN FARMERS PATIENCE HAS LIMIT

pockets if in the process he shuts off the supplies for his stomach?
 So far as I can find out from The talk of my fellow=farIners, they have pre- cious little sympathy with the operators and railroad executives in the present ruction. They haven't a bit more for the striking employees. But they are more than disgu1sted at the way in which both combattants ignore the rights of the vastly more numerous public. ] haven't found many farmers who pro- fess to know who is in the right regard ing the pretexts now being squabbled over. But l have found many who think that the government which Tepr resents that greater public and is supposed to act for it, ought to take both parties by the maps of their necks and the seats of their brooches and soi1se them imp T. tially in the duck-pond till they are ready to listen to reason, and act hence forth less like hogs and more like hlis man beings.
 I don't think the ideas of the farmers, any more than those of others who com pose the general public which Is always the biggest victim in industrial wars are very clear as to the distinction be tween government management and government control of mines and rail tOd<1S e-lQ Ol4ACL pQbAlS deAAAt1SSA <2S heard them talk, I should say that the more thoughtful look with much misgiy- ing on any proposal to so greatly ex- tend the functions of government, But "sny port in storm is a per fectly natnral human feeling. It won'i take 6 great many recurrences of strikes aiming at the freezing and starvation oi 1 the country to drive public sentimen
 into demand for any action, howevea
 drastic, which shall put an end to sucf
 occurrences.
 It employers and employees are ithe or both So. greedy and So stubborn an<
 so short-sighted that they can't agrei upon what are fair profits and fas, wages, why, then. somebody with 9 btt
 stick has got to lay down the law t
 them and stand over them to see tha they obey it.
 If they are prudent, men they vii
 foresee the evil and hide from it. That
 up to them and not to US farmers = 1 THE FARMER
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-02

Twin Cities Sunday on their honey
moon, stopped off and called on the
Drs. Allen. They have gone to Sea-
side, Ore.
e. r Harden's office building is
about ready for the stucco 1t will be
rushed to completion for the occupan~
cy of the tenants, one of which will
be the Western Union Telegraph
company.
| II. S. Denison has returned from
Seattle where he attended the appl-
shippers convention, and is again ut
his post.
J. NJ. Dunnng of the East Orego-
nian of Pendleton, was on the streets
! of the Twin Cities Monday
Monday morning a nine pound boy
was born to Mr. and Mrs. +. c..
Wright, in Milton. Mrs. Wright is
staying with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. G.. b. Hartle. Mr.. Hartle imme-
diately wired Mr.. Wright, who is in
Maricopa, Cal. DR.. Thomas was in
attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Shields, Mrs.
Stillman Dempsey. her children, and
Miss Opal Kicker, who composed
party that went to Seattle, some days
Iago. returned home, Saturday. Mr..
and Mrs. Shields were delegates to
the apple shippers convention, which
was a national affair, delegates COM
ing from all parts of the country, one
delegation, three hundred in number,
came in a special train from the East.
It is the first time convention of
this association has ever been held in
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-02

the West, and Seattle spared no pains
70 entertain the.visitors in a most
royal manner, the delegates from the
Pacific states receiving as much cen
sideration as those of the East The
delegates We're given free luncheon
every day and were taken o neNcIr-
sions in automobiles, street cars and
steamboats,, and were treated 20 free
admittance to the ''Wayfarer," thar
most magnificent play which is being
put on in the stadium of the Univcr-
sity of Washington, whose daily aG-
diences run into the thousands. and
whose chorus numbers a thousand.
|. ~ Price, of the fruit firm of |. N.
Price & Company of Cincinnati, Ohio,
accompanied the Shields home. He
is a member of the Apple Shippers
Association, and is looking our valley
over
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Brunton left Mon
day for Lewiston, Ida, in their auto,
where Albert Thomason has carpen-
ter contract, and Mr.. Brunton will as
sist in the work. During the Brun-
toms absence, Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd
BirdselI will take care of their home.
A number of relatives and friends
partook of the hospitality of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Brunto nof Milton at Sum
day dinner when the following were
present. Mr.. and Mrs. o. RAYMOND
of Pendleton, Mrs. William Bishop
and her children of Walla Walla, and
her mother of Hanford, Wash. Mr..
and Mrs. Willis Perkins and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lloyd Birdsell of Milton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-02

tThey left Sunday for their home
where they are engaged in apple
growing. They report the apple crop
rather short this season in their val
ley.
Max, the 17-year- old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. N. Rusaw of South Milton, wSs
Iaccidently shot Saturday evening in
ithe mountains above Dixie, Wash,
where he was engaged in working on
the road The bullet was from 3S
caliber rifle, in the hands of com
lpanion who was fooling with it, sup
Iposing 1t to be empty. The bullet en-
tered the breast directly over the
/ heart and by some obstruction was
deflected in its course from piercing
that organ and passed through the
chest, coming out on the opposite side.
The bullet was picked up from the
ground where it had fallen, by some
one standing by. The boy was
brought down to the hospital in Walla
Walla, where he is not thought to be
in necessarily hopeless condition,
the doctor SAYING that if the weather
is favorable that he will probably re-
cover.
T. a. Case and family started for
the Yellowstone National Park, Mon
day, expecting to he gone about a
month.
Rev. q. d. Harris and family left
Monday morning for Kallspell. Mont,
whore they will visit q few days, II