The Ringwood Leader. (Ringwood, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1918 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LEADER RINGWOOD OKLAHOMA
'toplhat
Catarrh
It weakens
you and dis-
gusts your
friends It
offers a prepared ground
for dangerous diseases
It will not get well by
itself but many thous-
ands of just such cases
have yielded to
PERUNA
which for forty-five years
has been the household’s
standby in catarrh and
debility during conval-
escence from grip
Experience has taught
a great number that Peruna is
a reliable tonic that aids the
membranes in recovering from
inflammatory conditions regu-
lates the appetite and dears away
the waste At your druggists
THE PERUNA COMPANY
Columbus Ohio
POWERFUL
PENETRATING
LINIMENT
Quickly healing and sooth
ing the pains of Neuralgia
Headache Rheumatism Cuts
Bums Sprains and Bruises
35c and 70c bottles at your
druggists
A A tickets Hc4Cs he
&mssTuss
In the Big City
He had come to New York from a
remote village In the hinterland to run
over to Europe and straighten matters
out over there in short order so spring
plowed back home might not be Inter-
fered with
The Hudson looked wide and deep
from the Jersey side “How do you
ford her?” he asked a more traveled
companion
The latter pointed to an approach-
ing ferryboat “You ford her on the
ferryboat” he elucidated
“Gosh" said the hinterlander “Is
that a ferryboat? I thought site was a
battleship” — New York Times -
That Was Different
Fierce anger revealed itself In Ar-
nold’s eyes as he talked
“I told you If I ever came In con-
tact with Bill Taylor I'll thrash him
so his own wife won’t recognize him
He’s going around telling that I beat
him out of $10 in a poker game”
“You’re wrong there Al I heard
the remark myself He said yon beat
him out of $10000 in a wheat deal”
“Oh well that’s different I hardly
thought Taylor was the type of man to
go around telling stories that reflected
on my character”
Easy Wisdom
“All things come to him who waits”
“Yes one never knows what one can
do until one loafs”
Punctuality
“Telephone service prompt?”
“Parts of it The bills always get
around on time”
It is easy to make both ends meet
when the financial end isn't short
'CTSlf
There is no purer'
or more healthful
food for children
than
Grape-Nuts
Its natural sweet-
ness appeases the
child’s appetite for
added sugar and
thequanityof milk
or cream needed
is about half that
required for the
ordinary cereal
GRAPE-NUTS IS AN
eco:omicalfood
ji
DIG NAVAL BATTLE
IN DARDANELLES
BRESLAU IS 8UNK AND GOEBfeN
BEACHED RURING LIVELY
ENGAGEMENT
ENGUSH LOSE TWO MONITORS
Gortner Giant Battleship of German
Empire Pounded to Frazzle by Brit-
fall— Naval Aircraft Attack Goeben—
Black Sea Hun Domination Ended
London Jan 21 — In e naval action
between British and Turkish forces
at the entrance of the Dardanelles the
Turkish cruiser Midullu formerly the
German Breslau was sunk and the
Sultan Yawuz Selim formerly the Ger-
man Goeben was beached This an-
nouncement was made by the admir-
alty ltvst night
The official statement says:
“The Gohben and Breslau — Turkish
names Sultan Selim and Midullu —
with destroyers were in action with
the British forces at the entrance to
the Dardanelles this Sunday morn-
ing The Breslau was sunk The
Goeben escaped but was beached evi-
dently badly damaged— at Nagara
point In the Narrows of the Straits
“The Goeben is now being attacked
by naval aircraft
“Our reported losses are the monitor
Ragland and a small monitor the
M-28"
(By Associated Press)
After an adventurous career of
nearly three and a half years in
fighting and raiding operations !n
the Black sea the famous former
German cruisers Goeben and Breslau
have met their fate at the hands ot
British warships in a fight at the en-
trance to the Dardanelles The Bres-
lau renamed Midullu was sunk and
the Goeben rechristened Sultan
Yawuz Selim was beached
The two cruisers escaped into
Turkish waters shortly after the out-
break of the war and were purchased
by the Turks
STRIKERS RIOT IK STREETS
London Jan 21 — A general strike
is on throughout Austria according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Paris today which reports 100-
000 men quitting work in Vienna and
Neustadt closing down all the war fac-
tories The strikers are described as
openly anti-German and the movement
as both political and economic and es-
pecially aimed at securing peace '
Public demonstrations It Is added
have been held in many places at
which hostility was voiced toward Ber-
lin for trying to force the Austrians to
continue the war
The Han-German newspapers of
Germany are hailing the removal ot
the emperor's secretary Rudolf von
Valentlnl as a triumph for their
cause and the disappearance of the
last remnant of the Bethmann-Hollweg
system Herr von Valentlnl was one
of the most hated men In the eyes ot
the Pan-Germans His successor
Herr von Berg former governor ot
East Prussia enjoys the complete con-
fidence of the conservatives
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ‘
IS DECLARED OFF
““ N
Sailor Guards Cloeed Russ Meeting
EaHy Saturday Morning— All Rus-
sian Congress Supports Gather
Petrograd Jan 21 — The Constitu-
ent assembly has been dissolved by
the Bolshevlkl authorities It is offi-
cially announced today Sailor guard
closed the assembly at 4 o’clock this
morning and a decree of dissolution
will be issued during the day the
official statement says
During the day the official state-
ment says:
“The text says: When the constitu-
ent assembly voted against the dec-
laration made by the president of the
central executive committee after aa
hour’s deliberation the Bolshevlkl left
the hall and were followed by the
Social revolatlcnlsts on the left of
the assembly who showed their un-
willingness to approve the manner
In which the peace pour parlers were
being conducted At four o'clock thU
morning the constituent assembly
was dissolved by sailors Today s
decree dissolving the assembly will
be published"
Liquor Blamed for Coal Famine
Chicago Jan 21 — That the liquor
traffic Is largely to blame for the
present coal shortage was the state-
ment last night of V G Hinshaw
chairman of the Prohibition national
committee asserting that the brewing
businesses In the United States con-
sumed 7740300 tons of coal s year
' Pershing Asks for Mechanics
Washington D C Jan 21 — General
Pershing yesterday sent word that tbs
“motor mechanics regiment" being
recruited by the IT S public service
reserve Is wanted In Francs Imme-
diately As s result the reserve today
Issued s call for all skilled artisans
between th ages of 18 and 20 and
between 31 and 40 to apply at once
to any army recruiting station If they
wish to aid their country defeat Gap
many In the sir
(Special Information Service U S Department of Agriculture)
BILLIONS IN FOOD: HARVEST— PROTECT THEM
Ratproofing Dwellings and Storehouses Will Reduce Food Loises
Estimate of Department of Agri-
culture for 1917
STATE OF ILLINOIS IN LEAD
Farm Value of Nation’s Production
Two and One-Haif Times That of
1909 — Crops Include Cereals Po-
tatoes Hay and Cotton Lint
Thirteen principal farm crops in this
country in 1917 had a value at the
farm of $10700 000000 according to
estimates of the United States depart-
ment of agriculture or nearly two end
one-half times the value for the census
year 1909 This amount Is about four-
fifths of the value ot all crops These
crops Include seven cereals flaxseed
potatoes sweet potatoes tame hay to-
bacco and cotton lint Three states
stand out far in the lead In their share
of this great and unprecedented total
Illinois Is in the front with a valud of
$775000000 for these crops Iowa Is
next with $712000000 and Texas is
third with $647000000 k
The position of Texas Is determined
by the cotton crop which was much
damaged by drought in 1916 and in
the average of the preceding five years
Texas led all the states in the total
value of these crops and this with-
out Including cottonseed In the value
of the cotton crop The states that
follow in order after Texas in 1917 are
Ohio Missouri Indiana Georgia and
Minnesota with values ranging from
$470000000 to $418000000
Great Achievement
These figures - represent 1 a great
achievement by the nation's agricul-
tural forces and the workers well de-
serve to be cited for commendation
But it ia not the time to rest on these
gains It is a time to plan for greater
efforts this year as Secretary Houston
recently pointed out
In comparing the geographic divi-
sions of the country with one another
for 1917 the great predominance of
the North Central slates Is conspicu-
ous and their production Is mostly hu-
man food nnd animal food The 12
chief crops produced In these states
for cotton does not appear had a value
that is nearly one-half or over 48 per
cent of the value of the 13 crops for
the whole country Of this division
the section west of the Mississippi
river produced the greater value or
over 27 per cent of the nation's total
while the eastern section produced 21
per cent
Production In South
The entire South produced nearly
three-eighths of the total value of the
nation's 13 crops or 3654 per cent
and this fraction was divided among
the three sections so that the South
Atlantic states produced 14 per cent
the South Central section east of the
Mississippi river 954 per cent and the
section west of the river 13 per cent
The smallest share of the total value
of the 13 crops remains to the North
Atlantic states and to the Western
states 7 per cent each
The relative standing of the various
divisions of states In value of chief
crops may be better understood when
it Is remembered that the corn crop of
1917 has an estimated value of $4054
000000 cotton lint $1452000000 hay
$1359000000 wheat $13070001100
oats $1061000 UU0( and that the North
Central states enormously produce
corn wheat oats and bay and the
Southern states cotton with strong
WINTER RATION FOR LAYERS
Com Ground Oats Wheat Bran Buck-
wheat Linseed Meal and 8craps
Are Favored
The following makes a good winter
ration for the laying hew: Corn
ground oats and wheat bran 100 tons
each buckwheat bran 50 pounds old-
process linseed meal 25 pounds fine-
ground beef scraps ten pounds Fig-
ured out this gives a nutritive ration
of one to five
support from corn tobacco sweet po-
tatoes and rice
PROTECT FOOD BILLIONS
DESTROY RATS AND MICE
We have billions of bushels
of food worth billions of dollars
Let's protect these billions We
need all of them Let’s not al-
low rats nnd mice to take their
toll of millions this year — $200-
000000 is their annuul bill of de-
struction Trapping poisoning
and rat-proofing buildings will
help reduce this enormous food
loss Organized- rat hunts by
communities are effective In
one Ohio town a few years ago
each of two organized teams
killed more than 8000 rats and
a dinner for ail the hunters was
the penalty for the losing side
Boards of trade civic societies
and citizens’ associations in
towns and farmers’ and women's
clubs In rural communities
should find this matter worthy of
their efforts Farmers’ Bulletin
89G tells how individuals and
communities can fight rats and
mice Write to the United States
department of agriculture for it
Get Rid of Rats and Mica
In the United States rats and mice
destroy each year la homes factories
stores and warehouses in cars and on
ships crops poultry and other prop-
erty valued at more than $200000000
— an amount equivalent to the gross
earnings of an army of 200000 men
Grain eaten and wusted by rats and
mice on many farms would pay all of
the fanner’s taxes
States communities aDd Individuals
can help eliminate rats end mice:
By requiring that all new buildings
wharves and other structures be rat-
proof that existing buildings of rat-
proof construction be further protect-
ed by having basement windows and
drains covered with screens gratings
etc and that existing buildings that
are not rat-proof be made so by re-
modeling By constructing sewers and drains
so that they will not provide entrance
and retreat for rats
By Insisting on greater cleanliness
about markets stores and generally
throughout cities villages and the
country districts
By threshing and marketing grain
early so that stacks will not furnish
harboring places and food for rata
By removing piles of straw trash
and lumber which harbor rata in fields
and vacant lota
By protecting tbe hawks owls and
other natural enemies of rats which
are not so destructive to poultry as
rats themselves
By keeping well-trained dogs on
farms and about city warehouses
By keeping provisions which rats
and mice will attack In rat-proof and
mouse-proof containers
By destroying rets and mice sys-
tematically by poisoning trapping and
by organized systematic bunts
The sugar specialists of tbe bureau
of chemistry have devised Improved
methods of preparing cane sirup that
will neither crystallize nor ferment
These methods are being adopted com-
mercially The department Is develop-
ing Improved methods of clarifying
this sirup
The preparation of sweet potato
flour is under Investigation by the
United State department of agricul-
ture Preparing Hotbada
Tbe help of having an abundance of
early plants for the garden that can
be started and rooted In the hotbeds
Is alone worth tbe trouble of prepar-
ing for th hotbeds
Effect of Charcoal
If the poultry have plenty of char-
coal their droppings will be healthy
and normal In appearance Powdered
charcoal should b usd for little
chicks
The Heads of Canada’s Western
Provinces arid Their '
Message-
The United States having been In
the great world’s war for about nine
months the touch of war’s spirit has
permeated the great commonwealth
and In every hamlet and district Is felt
and shown the Interest that was to be
expected from a people whose love of
liberty and Justice rises supreme to all
else Day by day their appreciation
of what it means to give up now for
the future happiness of themselves
and the generations that follow grows
greater and greater There will be
losses of loved ones but there will be
no badge of mourning to Indicate the
great sorrow that will be felt It is
realized that the sacrifice Is the toll
that Is demanded for making the whole
world better and sensing this there
Is preparation and willingness to sac-
rifice until the goal— the defeat and
downfall of despotism — Is assured
When the people look back and see
what Canada has done and learn that
Canada today Is bigger and better than
ever they will take heart and with In-
creasingly growing vigor carry on with
a greater courage Canada has been
In the war for three and a half years
She has sent 400000 out of a popula-
tion of eight million she has sub-
scribed to Victory Bonds over and
over again and there is no sound of a
whimper At each demand that Is
made upon her resources she meets it
and gets ready for the next Recently
her people were asked to subscribe
$300000000 She handed over $400-
000000 Having already contributed 400000
soldiers Canada was recently asked to
approve of sending another 100000
With a sweeping majority consent was
given
How the war affects Canada Is best
shown by the willingness of the people
to contribute They too realize the
great and noble part they ore taking
In this great conflict They are a unit
on making the world better Canada's
wealth was never shown’ to better ad-
vantage than in the present struggle
It possesses great wealth in the soil In
Its mines its other natural resources
and wonderful riches In the tenacity
and courage of its men and Its women'
The soil and the climute and the har-
dihood and determination of the farm-
ing class to win by cultivating and
cultivating growing wheat and raising
cattle to build up the resources so
necessary to carry on the war are fac-
tors that will count
Probably the best word of encour-
agement comes from the Premiers of
the three great provinces where the
bulk of the food products will come
from When one reads what these
men prominent In their country say It
gives Inspiration If there are any
who may be pessimistic of the future
the message that these gentlemen send
forward should remove all doubt
Three and a half yenrs In the war able
to speak as they do the future should
look bright to those who may have
their seasons of doubt I
Hon T C Norris Premier of Mani-'
toba says:
“Manitoba has prospered exceeding-
ly during the year 1917 and the new
year finds us not only still ready and
willing bat unceasingly able to bear
whatever burdens the fourth year of
the war may bring
“Manitoba farmers generally speak-
ing have never been In better condi-
tion to carry on Out of her prosperity
Manitoba Is giving lavishly toward the
winning of the war Every appeal for
funds has met with quick and generous
response The people of the Province
are well settled Into the Collar In all
war efforts There’s a spirit of deter-
mination of willingness to make sac-
rifices of confidence In the certain out-
come of which there Is no room for
pessimism Manitoba will carry on"
Saskatchewan had a prosperous and
successful year In 1917 and when Pre-
mier Martin sent out his New Year
message It was filled with an optimism
that was fully warranted
“There Is no doubt that the province
today Is In a better condition finan-
cially than ever before True the ef-
fects of the town and city real estate
boom have not altogether passed away
bnt speaking genera fly the farmers on
the plains and the merchants In tbe
towns are In a better financial position
today than at any previous time Our
people are Industrious and progressive
“While we have In some portions of
the Province a mixed population edu-
cation and scientific methods are mak-
ing rapid strides and we are looking
forward with every confidence to a
glorious future and the development of
a people on the central plains of Can-
ada of which the whole Dominion and
the British Empire will have every
reason to be proud"
While Alberta has given over to the
war thousands of her virile manhood
thus taking from the farmer a large
percentage of Its producers It still
stands up big and buoyant The farm
help thus temporarily removed means
a demand for farm help and Increased
farm effort to till Its highly productive
acres lion Chas Stewart Premier of
Alberta In a message to the people on
the 1st of January speaks with such
buoyancy and hope of the future and
so highly of the work of the past year
that his statement Is reproduced He
says:
"The prosperity of the fanning com-
munities Is reflected in th towns and
cities by Increased wholesale business
and bank clearances Wholesalers re-
port Increases from 20 per cent to 23
per cent and their collections the best
In the history of the Province Alberta
being essentially an agricultural Prov-
ince at the present time these condi-
tions are a source of great gratification
to our people and no doubt will be to
Canada as a whole — taking Into consid-
eration the fact that Alberta forms no
small part of the granary to which the
Empire at present looks as the source
of Its food supply”— Advertisement
Bold Husband 1
Wife — That odious Mrs Nexdore has
been saying that I have an unruly
tongue
Hub— Unruly? Nonsense Why
your tongue responds to your every
Impulse with explicit obedience -
80AP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will-barn out the
scalp Cleanse the scalp by shampoo-
ing wPh “La Creole” Hair Dressing
and darken In the natural way those
ugly grizzly hairs Price $100 — Adv
The Proof of It
“Marriage must be a failure”
"How do you make that out?"
“From the obvious fact that every
single woman Is miss-mated when
she’s married"
SWAMP-ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS
There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre-eminent ai a medicine for
curable ailments of the kidneys liver
and bladder
Dr Kilmer’s Swamp-Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has proven
to be juat the remedy needed in thou-'
sands upon thousands of distressing cases
Swamp-Root a physician's prescription for
special diseases makes friends quickly be-
cause its mild and immediate effect is
soon realized in most cases It is a gen-
tie healing vegetable compound
Start treatment at once Sold at all
drug stores in bottles of two aizea medi-
um and large
However if yon wish first to test this
-rest preparation send ten cents to Dr
iiilmer & Co Binghamton N Y for a
sample bottle When writing be sure and
mention this paper — Adv
Ready-Witted
“You need a change of scene" :
“But doctor I’m a traveling man"
“Why — er — that’s the point Stay at
home awhile and see somebody besides
hotel rooms and railroad stations”
Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
original little liver pills put up 40 years
ago They regulate liver and bowele A L
A Different Answer
“Am I the first girl you have loved?"
“Oh no You are about the tenth
and my taste has Improved right
along”
BOSCHEE’S GERMAN SYRUP
will quiet your cough- soothe tbe In-
flammation of a sore throat and lungs
stop Irritation In the bronchial tubes
insuring a good night’s rest free from
coughing and with easy expectoration
in the morning Made and sold In
America for fifty-two years A won-
derful prescription assisting Nature in
building up your general health and
throwing off the disease Especially
useful In lung trouble asthma croup
bronchitis etc For sale in all civil-
ized countries — Adv
High Repartee
Lineman — “You’ve got me all up In
the air” Pole — “Go long You’rp
stringing me"
Two people may be able to live as
cheaply as one but It depends on
whether they are married or engaged
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR
To half pint of water add 1 os Bay
Rom a small box of Barbo Compound
and 54 oo of glycerine Any druggist can
put this up or you can mix it at home at
very httie cost Foil directions for mak-
ing and use come in each box of Barbo
Compound It will gradually darken
streaked faded gray hair and make it soft
and glossy It wUl not color the scalp is not
sticky or greasy and does not rub off Adv
Not So
He — This Is a bare apology for a
salad 1
She — Tlsn’tl 1 dressed It myself
Ptlee Cored In 4 to 14 Days
Dmiliti rfand bomt If PAZO OIKTMWT Mil
to core licbtna BMnd 0! Adding or Protruding PUM
flM ftgpiifiBUOB glYM rUL Mo
Knew His Book
Teacher — Johnny can you tell me
where Lake Ontario Is?
Pupil — Yessum page 18 — Philadel-
phia Telegraph
COVETED BY ALL
but possessed by few — a beautiful
head of hair If yours ia streaked with
gray or Is harsh and stiff you can re-
store it to its former beauty and lus-
ter by using “La Creole" Hair Dress-
ing Price I10U— Adv
Shop Talk
Pesslm — Life Is not worth living
Optlm — You talk like an undertaker
trying to drum up trade
“Cold la the Head"
Is an aeute attack ot Nasal Catarrh Ter
sons who are subject to frequent “colds
In th bead” will nnd thnt the us of
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE will
build up th System cleans th Blood
and render them less liable to eolda
Repented attacks of Acuto Catarrh may
lead to Chronic Catarrh
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is tak
an Internally and acta through th Blood
on th Mucous Surface of th System
All Pru exists Tie Testimonials free
them for snv cum of catarrh that
HAIXS CATARRH MEDICINE win not
euro
F J Cheney A Co Toledo Ohio
When a woman takes a man Into her
confidence he Is up against the worst
kind of confidence game
When Justice Is meted out whe
watches the meter?
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