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When « ' visked for an expression of his opinion 1* J% s , of the results thus far achieved in the <f" ,»•„ ^battle Lieut. Gen. Count Oadorivn, *!_ ^ - *?or»miander in chief of the Italian W^':~rsmilingly replied: "We 'are f ^ if. <doing nicely, thank you.** 1 * Raining death on their Tectonic Ifoes, Italy's victorious. troops are 3$rweeplng around from the north of ' {Joritz upon Trieste. Forcing the passage of the Isonzo at 14 points and taking 23.600 prison­ ers, the forces of Victor Emanuel III are hurtling toward the Istrian ob­ jective, with the Austrian troops fall­ ing back all along the line. The swing from the north, which "was marked by the seizure of Monte Santo, with legions Of captives and much booty, goes on unabated. Austrian counter-attacks along the Carso have been everywhere re­ pulsed. The total losses of the ^ustrians ;from all causes are reckoned at near­ ly 100,000. The Italians capture 7"> large guns. * gS®:;; m -- v~i •' Scene in Geneva, Switzerland, on the occasion of a reception given to Guptave Ador, hepd of the International committee of the Red Cross, immediately after his election «s a member of the federal eounclL At tile right is a portrait of-Mr. Ador. ' . WOMrS BIGGEST SAILING VESSEL IN AMERICA m Sfcf w 13^ U. S. MUST FEED ALLIES i, t • 4- ^ " /: • Hoover Sound% Warning in Address to Farmers of the Natidn at Chica­ go--Fight for Our Existence. Chicago, Aug. 28.--Herbert C., Hoo- er, federal food administrator, told e farmers of the nation the part they re asked to play in helping the United tates and its allies win the war. He Outlined the agricultural features of " the administration's policy and gave a v - . forecast of the difficulties which must ^t>e faced to solve national food prOb- I 1 Jems. Mr. Hoover jnade his statement kl, * jpp Saturday in the Hotel Sherman, ; ..lichen he spoke before representatives. aQ; • t* "*<»f 126 farm journals. | "* , r. Intelligent co-ordination of all 'die p.;". . '"'forces of the country is the greatest ^ * j % "fieed of the hour, Mr. Hoover said in s talk. After giving his views in de- he said: "It is no loose statement that we. ce a race of people under a gttvern- t intent upon mastery of the world, war seems far away to most of jjT*' * „ . * tmr people. But as Surely as we were H"! : ̂ Jpehtiog for free<lom In 1776. we are C . y JBghting for our national existence and , r* _ "W national faith this day and month, ^ - 1917. .. • . ' *y~ "The fact Is that Is is our war as >\ **7 cauch as their war, and unless we can -""keep the women and children of our * iiiiles fed the western line will surely «%e thrown to our Atlantic seaboard tmd it may be thrown in an infinitely v 'more dangerous quarter, in the ransom -'•W'trf Canada as penalty foe England ^ Mflefeat.- m The largest and fastest sailing vessel of the world, the flve-niasted bark France of Bordeaux, painted a purfl glistening whitev,put Into an American port recently after running the submarine gantlet. The captain said he had had a couple of brushes with German submarines, but that his 90-millimeter guns mounted on the stern had made the submersibles keep their distance. Under a fair breeze the France can make 17 knots an hour, and in a calm her two Diesel engines can give her a speed of ten knots. She Is 400 feet In length, 75 feet bearqfand has a tonnage of 7,000. * CARRYING THEIR NEW AVIATION CORPS FLAG ^FRENCH GAIN AT VERDUN ^CAPTURE Hill 304 and Other Important Poota Big Victory for the **• Allies. Paris, Aug. 27.--The French made* "ii'Van attack on the left bank of the; ? ' % Meuse, between Avocourt wood and J „ i,_Dead Man's hill. The war office an- > > Jf nounced on Friday the capture o^ Hill * --."8)04, Camard wood and the fortified v.:T ;, ^ works between Haucourt wood and • / Bethincourt. Prisoners were taken in ...-.^'•^vthe course of the action. The Frern-h gained more than their objectives, ari- vancing to an avenge depth of t\v»> kilometers (one and one-fourth miles). Hill 304 is one of the most bitterly ^disputed positions of the war. In the struggle tot which thousands of men * have lost their lives. The French are now masters of al? the important points on the Verd. r. front which they held before the be­ ginning of the great German attack last year. Berlin, Aug. 27.--The evacuation by the Germans of Hill 304, the famous stronghold on the Verdun front, is an­ nounced by the war office. **£»(# orfft/AL *mr« French aviators carrying the new flag of their corps in the Bastlle day celebration in Paris. SWISS MINISTER'S WIFE |fe" . Adele Pankhurst Is Jailed. London, Aug. 25.--A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Melbourne says Adele Pankhurst, daughter of the English suffragette leader, was sen­ tenced to a month's Imprisonment for a demonstration she started outside parliament building. I: Allied Airmen Raid Metz. Amsterdam, Aug. 2^.--A semi-official telegram from Berlin says that during an enemy air attack Tuesday night a girl was killed at Metz. No military damage was done at Eglsheim, Frei­ burg and Schlettstadt. ^ ' dfl,'i-' A1'* ' ', i ky;: ci&f'".' if" 'i" • -iti*,, i •Z£ ' * * W' /.u, Chihuahua Pauport* Barred. San Francisco, Aug. 27.--Orders to discontinue issuance of passports to persons desiring to go to Chihuahua Were received from the department of •gate by, Carl W. Calibreth of tho Unit­ ed State? district court »' ' ^ BELGIAN TRENCH BOMB MORTAR Mrs. Jean Adolphe Sulzer, wife of the new Swiss minister to the United States, and their son Frederick, who with the minister and a Swiss com­ mission have come to Washington. An Exception. "Let us do sway, njy friends* cried the orator, Mwlth the mailed hand In business." "But," objected a voice In the crowd, "how about the postman?" Food "Teach in as Days Named.' ' Washington, Aug. 25.--The food ad- Mlnlstratton has designated Aug. 28, 29 and 30 as educational days, when public speakers throughout the coun­ try will disseminate information ea food conservation. / Chicago Flits Draft Quota. Chicago, Aug. 25.--Chicagd has Completed its draft quota. Although the city's quota is only 24,982, the ex­ emption boards have accepted 25,073. Of the 83,838 examined, 16,835 were ejected and 42,883 claimed exemption Unappreciated. Experienced Wife (to bride)--Can you work your hubby, when you want anythlng-T-a shower of tears or a fit of hysterics? Bride--Oh, too: lite Is kindness itself. Experienced Wife--The mean thing Meanest Man. Hllpln--^Taggers would make $20 more a week by taking that new Job. Brassette--Why doesn't he take It? Hilpln--He's, too mean. By order of the court he has to give up half kip earnings tahis ex-yrtfp. This Belgian trench mortar, used for firing bombs from the trenches. Is small in size, but a powerful engine of destruction. The bomb is loaded with high explosives and causes fearful destruction. ^^ " CONDENSATIONS. Rubber hose for spraying vine is needed in Greece. The United States bureau ards has tested and approve leakable gasoline tank. A perfumery atomlz< enough to be carried in book is the idea of a Frenl Sweden formerly supplif nails to Argentina, Uu( have been Irregular on NUROtS WHO KILLED If] WHITES AT HOUSTON, TEX.. MAY FORFEIT UVK6. WAS BEYOND THE ADVOCATE Counsel Could Think of No. Possible ^'•" RMNkson Why Judge Should Ba >: c- r i on the Benok. ' . , ,v •• cmr UNDER MARTIAL LAW Majority of Blacks Who Murdorsd Citizens Have Boon Captured-- Troops Patrol 8treeta • Quiet Is Restored. San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 27.--Gen. James Parker, commander of the southern department, issued orders for the return to their station at Colum­ bus, N. M., on the border, of the bat­ talion of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry at Houston and the battalion at Waco. The movement Is to start as soon as transportation can be furnished: and the necessary ar­ rangements made. , Houston hps been transformed as, a result of a raid on Thursday night by a mob of negro soliders bent on slaugh­ ter of whites, into an armed camp. A soldier or a deputy sheriff is on every street corner. The rioting has ceased, The situa­ tion is in hand. The county is u'ndetv martial law, with all of the saloons closed and all citizens, with the ex­ ception of authorized officials,'^ dis­ armed. 1 The mob, composed of members of the various companies of the Twenty- fourth United States Infantry (negro), started on its hunt for blood shortly after eight o'clock at night. Within a few hours 15 white m6n, one Mexican and one negro had been shot to dea{«b% All were citizens, with the exception of Capt J. W. Mattes, commanding officer of Battery A of the Second Illinois Field Artillery,,and the negro. A general court-martial, consisting of 13 officers, will be hpld as soon as the evidence in the rioting^ can be got infco shape for presentation. The army regulations provide death for mutiny. " It is apparent that the attack on the town was premeditated. There was n<f intoxication, and from all signs it wal a carefully thought-out plan. ( II vaa one of those tense moments »ls.a crowded court when the prisoner's >4 *ate seemed to depend on the next an­ swer of the witness. There was an' expectant hush on all present, when suddenly the opposing counsel butted In with a noisy objection based on some obscure point of law. says Lon­ don Tit-Bits. < For ten minutes *w more the prls- 1°ner was forgotten, while judge and ^counsel were Involved In a tangle of legal phrases and precedents. Although the controversy was absolutely unin­ telligible to the crbwd present, It was clear enough to the dullest intelligence that counsel was more than holding his own in the argument. This was also "painfully apparent to the judge himself, who, in a desperate effort to recover his official dignity, snapped out-: "r v1 •. "What does counsel suppose I am on the bench for?** - - "Well," said the learned advocate, slowly and reflectively, "I must confess DISASTER FOR RUSS FEARED ^<pj! lordship has got me Not a Dependent, "Have you anyone dependent on you?" asked the exemption clerk, "Well," replied Mr. Meekton, "Hen­ rietta shows me what to do with my money. But she is most Independent about it.* - • -•" • v:>V? Don't think that b^eatwe ysoti get a ham from a small hog that you can get a hammer from a large one. What Clone From '-It Pinkham tisement Paterson, N. J. -- "I thank yon for > l* the Lydia E. Pinkham remedies as the# . have made me wei) " . and healthy. Some* time ago I felt so. - run down, had painf ̂ in my back and side, »" J was very irregular, , tired, nervous, had such bad dreama, : did not feel like eat*, ing and had short; breath. Ireadyouf> advertisement ii| the newspapers axu) decided to try a bottle of Lydia E. Pink- * ham's Vegetable Compound. It worked ̂• - from the first bottle, so I took a second,: e and a third, also a bottle of Lydia E« ; ̂ Pinkham'a Blood Purifier, and now 1 ant , just as well as any otter woman. 1 vis© ©very woman, single or married,. - Who is troubled with any of the afore* said ailments, to try your wonderful Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifief *> - asd I am sure they will help her to get „ 1 rid of her troubles as they did me."--*., >4 ̂ Mrs. ELSIE J. VAN DER SANDE, 86 No} York St., Paterson, N. J. ; Write the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicfnt «"1 .Co., (confidential) Lynn, Mass, if yo»|.̂ - ̂ .•Bed special advice,," • . ̂ WiitJon E.Coleman,Was{*» '̂v PATENTS ington.U.C. Books fr»e. Hti esf: references. Best Feed the Fighters! Win the War If Harvest the Crops --Save the Yields On the battle fields of France and Flanders, the United States boys and th* Canadian boys are fighting side by side to win for the World the freedom that Prui*. sianism would destroy. While doing this they must be fed and every ounce ojf muscle that can be requisitioned must go into use to save this year's crop. A shox$ harvest period requires the combined forces of the two countries in team work, sucfc as the soldier boys in France and Flanders are demonstrating. the Combine! Fighters In Franet and Flanders and the Combined Harvesters In America WILL Bring the Allied Victory Nearer. A reciprocal arrangement for the use of farm worker® has been perfected between the Depart ment of the Interior of Canada and the Department* of Labor and Agriculture of the United State*, under which it is proposed to permit the harvesters that are now enraged in the wheat fields of Okla­ homa, Kansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota. Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin to move Rig^, Gateway to Petrograd, Rumored in Hands of Hindenburg-~JLJ> S> - to Aid Slavs at Onc4 •• • _; Washington, Aug. 25. -- Riga, the' gateway to Petrograd, is in perlrfrom the Germans, if it hds not already fallen into the hands of Hindenburg's men. The rumor of the fall of the Bal­ tic seaport was current In Washington all day Thursday. Our state depart­ ment denies that it has received any confirmation of the story and the Russian embassy is as noncommittal, but there have been "conferences all day about some untoward happening In Russia, and the indication of Ger­ man aggression In the Riga section is generally taken to- be the reason for them. The United States government has decided to meet every demand upon it by the Russian government. A series of conferences participated, in by mem­ bers of the president's cabinet and Russian Ambassador Bakhmetleff re­ sulted in a cablegram being sent to the Moscow conference that "all is well." A huge loan and assurance of imme­ diate supplies to Ru^a^wWffcr£$»pg the things agreed upon. % . , ansas, Iowa, Mortn uaxoca, bouui uaicota, neDrasKa, Minnesota and Wisconsin to move over into Canada, with the privilege of later returning to the United States, when the crops in the United States have been conserved, and help to save the enormous crop* in Canada which by thai tirtie will be ready for harvesting. ' HELP YOUR CANADIAN NEIGHBOURS WHEN TOOK OWN CROP IS HARVESTED t i t Canada Wants 40,000 Harvest Hands to Take Care of Its _ 13,000,000 ACRE WHEAT FIELD. A. v £ae cent a mfle railway fare from the international boundary line to destination and the .HtaMl IMS morning to the international Boundary. *,.V^ ' High Wages, Good Board, Comfortable Lodgings*,: , An Identification Card issued at the boundary by s Caftadiin Immigration Officer wiQ guano* tee no trouble in returning to the United States, RICH TAXED 75 MILLION MORE Senate Adopts Amendments to the War Revenue Bill by Vote of 35 to 33. , Washington, Aug. 24.--Seventy-five million dollar^ more tax was laid upon wealth. By a vote of 35 to 31 the sen­ ate on Wednesday adopted the Lenroot amendments imposing much higher taxes upon individual Incomes than the senate finance committee planned. An hour earlier 74 senators without oppo­ sition had accepted the radical Gerry amendments. These taxed incomes of more than half a million dollars 35 per cent, more than three-quarters of a mil­ lion 45 per cent and more than a mll- llryi 50 per cent. The final addition of $75,000,000 to the war revenue bill was a combination of the Lenroot and Gerry amendments. VOTE TO IMPEACH FERGUSON Texas House Approves Report of th<t Committee of the Whole to Oust . vParBuaon^'"". Austin. Tex.. Aug. in committee of the whole reported a rec­ ommendation on Thursday that a bill of Impeachment against Gov. James E. Ferguson be presented to the senate. The vote was 81 to 52. , The house then adopted the report of the committee of the whole, 82 to 51. ' Navy League Official Quits. Wellington, Aug. 28.--Albert B. Lamb of St. Louis, vice president of •the Navy league, wired Secretary of the Navy Daniels that he has resigned. It is assumed his action grew out of the Daniels-Thompson row. Aaaigned to Indiana C»tnp. , Waishington, Aug. 28.--Major Alvln C. Reed was designated commissioner of the second officers' training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis* He was a wnk>r Instructor in the first camp. It is reported that an attractive mar­ ket for safe cabinets and steel office urnlture could be created In Js'ew land by educational advertising. As every year horses shed their old coats for new ones, so the defer drop their horns. Then in about thirteen weeks a new pair of horns arrive, but they are tender and easily hurt. Experiments by a British expert is reforesting :iome of the hills of China have led to the establishment of a comprehensive course in forestry in a university of that country. ^ Mra. Stoteebury Quits Navy League. Philadelphia, Aug. 27.--Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, wife of E. T. Stotes- bury, the Philadelphia financier, tut- nounced that she had resigned as a di­ rector of the Navy League. She re­ fused to explain her action. One Killed, flhree Shot In Strike Riot. JSan Francisco, Aug. 27.--Three men fcre In a hospital here with Injuries . suffered when one was killed in a fight j between a car crew of the United Rail- { roads, involved in a strike of platform man, and aU passengera. AS SOON AS YOUR OWN HARVEST IS SAVED, move northward and aasist your CanadialT*'̂ * neighbour in harvesting his; in this way do your bit in helping "Win the War". For particulars aa tO V routes, identification cards and place where employment may he had. apply to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or te £.IM* Raw 412.112 V. AdamSl, 0km.••; *. V.betas* 176Mm Ais*ft**.B*. Canadian Government Agents. Lost' His Protection. A Kansas City man, who is \ers ae- tKc in the' affairs of hi* lodge, was passing the week end at Excelsior Springs, a near-by mineral water re­ st rt. He confided to a Irtend that he ould like to scrape an acquaintance with a striking-looking woman they wcie both admiring. "Why don'tr you try?? asked the friend. * t " "Couldfi't think of flirting with her," came the horrified reply. "Her hus­ band cnu I are brother lodge meni- bers."' The next week end the friend again went to the springs. On one of the prominent promenades he soon saw the lodge member and the striking- looking woman they had admired, walking arm in arm, and apparently much taken up with each, other. At the first chance he asked his friend for an explanation. '"Thought her husband was a, lodge brother of yours," he said. "Oh, that's all right," was the an­ swer. "I looked him up on the books, and he hadn't paid his dues!"--Every­ body's Magazine. x YES! MAGICALLY I r: v CORNS LIFT OUf T WITH FINGERS You say to the drug store man, Give me a small bottle of freezone." This will cost very little but will positively 'remove every hard or aoft Corn or callus from one's feet. A few drops of this new ether com­ pound applied directly upon a tender, aching corn relieves the soreness in­ stantly, and soon the entire corn or callus, root and all, dries up and can be lifted off with the fingers. This new way to rid one's feet of Corns was Introduced by a Cincinnati man, who says that freezone dries in a moment, and simply shrivels up the corn or callus without irritating the surrounding skin. If your druggist hasn't anjjr freezooe {fell him to order a small bottle, from his wholesale drug house for you.--adv. Too Much to Cxpect. i We overheard, on a Collinwood car, the best excuse for not working that we could ever have imagined* File it for reference. . One fellow said: "How do you like your job down at the mill?' "I ain't workin' there no more," an­ swered the othcy:. '4- ' ̂ ^0 * "Got a better jobt" 4'Nope. Ain't got ao Jolk* .. ' "What did you quit tori" "Well, I couldn't see no use In keep- In' on at it. I figger It that if 1 did make good they'd expect me to keep^ right on makin* good. That's too mucl> to expect of anybody this kinda weath­ er. So I quit."--Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1 - A ' F o w l R e b e l l i o n . Fint Hen--The government la go­ ing to make us lay more eggs. What do you say? Second Hen--For one, I am firmly set against it. ' . Compllmenta of the Day. Soldiers have to do their own mend- ing, when It is done at all, and It ap­ pears--although few persons woul(|».. have guessed it--that the thoughtful; , war office supplies them with outfit® .' for that purpose. Otherwise, this Joke from the Journal of the American Med­ ical association would be impossible: Everything was ready for kit Inspec­ tion; the recruits stood lined up ready ' for the officer, and the officer had hi% bad temper all complete. He marehe<t up jmd down the line, grimly eyin^ *, each man's bundle of needles and soft soap, and then he singled out Private MacTootle as the man who was to re­ ceive his attentions. , i "Toothbrush?" he roared. "Yes, sir." - "Razor?" "Yes, slr»'4 "Hold-all?" . • ."Yes, sir." -v""' "" "Hm! Yon're all right, apparently," growled the officer. Then ho barked. • "Housewife?" . "Oh, very,well, thank you," said the recruit, amiably; "how's yours?" The Cure. . Slgnor Mascagnl, the composer, often leads the orchestra at La Scala in Milan and at the Constansi In Rome. He never refuses an encore. "In my youth"--thus he explains th® matter--"I was an orchestra leader at a dollar a day. Perhaps my low pay had soured me. At thht time, st any rate, I would not grant au encore for any consideration. "Well, leading 'Santanello' once in Naples, I refused an encore of a cer­ tain song in my usual manner. The Neapolitan audience shouted " and roared. I was, of course, firm. But suddenly I felt a blow on the back of my head and fell off my ij|gh chair down among' the violins. "I had been struck with a stool hurled from the top gallery. I rose and promptly repeated the song which the audience desired. From that day to this I have never refused an encore." Opposing Results. "fSTiat airs Mame does put on." "Well, her finishing school was the beginning or it." His Long 8tand. Percy, being down to recite at the temperance concert, stood up to do or die. He got along all right until he reached the words, "He stood beside the bier!" Then his memory failed him. . "He stood beside the bier!" he re­ peated, trembling. The evil spirits on the back benches murmured one to another. "He stood beside the bier 1" groaped Percy, and he drew a moist band aeross bis dripping forehead. "Go on!" yelled a voice from the rear. "It'll get flat while you'r* wait­ ing, you fool!" Moore niayor. Haven, FUu, ha» » woman "No bowl is too irid when it holds Post Toasties V* -