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N* -• L_ A 'DEAD SHOT" ' ~SATS MINISTER FOUR IK OF W (MB WHOLE / - Black-Draught Given High Praise As a Stomach and Liver ^di^ cine by Well-Known Old . Gentleman Who Has > C / Used It. .. . r / Mlneola, Texas.^-The Rev. M. G. Jenkins, a retiredf irtlnlster of/the M. E. Church South, living In this city, cays: “I have used Black-Draught as a stomach and liver medicine, and have never found its equal. Qnce I suffered for two months with cramps and pains, tried everything I could hear of without avail, but Black- .Draught was a ‘dead shot.’ I am known here and all over.the state for my honesty and truthfulness. / RANGE AS A NATION I am 78 years old and have used Black- Draught for years. I can highly recommend it to any one as a liver medicine that has no .equal. It Is excellent for stomach, liver and other aliments. I use It for a bad taste in the mouth, henduclie and other sicknesses that come from the disorders of the liver.” Thedford’s Black-Draught Is purtdy vegetable; und acta actively on the bowels. g a ntiy stimulating the liver, and helping to Increase the normal discharge of bile Into the intestines. It assists in the digestion of food and relieves constipation In a prompt and naturnl way. Try Black-Draught. Buy a package of Black-Draught today.—Adv. Beat These if You Can. Saco. Me., is acquiring fame for long- lived animals. A short time ago a party discovered a rut In a bag of grain bought the wevk previous, the cat Mill having Its nine lives, so fur as could l*e_ judged. Now come* the story of Tux Collec tor t’barles ||. Innes, who h*»t n tun key, Ids j»rlz»* bird, «hih> eight ago—eight weeks, lie says that the other day. when pitching off some hay from a high tuow*. he disoivcred the bird, which had become wedged he tween planks. The gobbler was allfe. thin as a turkey ghost, but able to dls |mmw* of a hot uia«h. t Turkeys are *ahl to Im* hard t<| raise at least In this part of the country, loll Mr Innes ctaluis_ an .Indewtrwtibla l N .il Ills friends urge him to go into the business and propagate such en during aftecles. Has New Ideals Undreamed of in 1914—Future of the Country ‘ tucnetf From Agriculture to Industrialism—While r Distant Future Is Bright, Problems to Be ^ - Solved Are Mighty. ~ * GERMAN OFFICER SELLS 8 r R€D PARK OF AIRPLANES - 7~:,: ' -• 7— By LLOYD ALLEN. Western Newspaper Union Staff Cor respondent. (Copyright. 1919. by Western Newspaper fnion.) Paris.—Four years of war absolute ly changed the character of France as a nation, changed her economic situa tion, altered her outlook on the world and turned the whole future of the Country toward Industrialism rather than agriculture. T The France of today has new Ideals that were undreamed of In 1914. Only out* big characteristic of the pre-war days remains, and that is the unalter able and deep-rooted fear of Germany, »•« London.—I.leufemiht \ Porten. y former officer in the aviation service, has be GIRL ESCAPES FR8MMNDITS Was Held fpr^ Ransom by Smug* glers on a Lonely Island. n CAPTIVE FOR 12 YEARS V alrplantv were valued at 10,000,- y ^ 000 marks. Porten t1e<l to Koe u ft keep the exchange rate from mount ing higher against France. ‘ Mere fluctuation of exchange was not the primary reason for barrtfjg obt the American automobiles. As it happened, a well-known French concern operated by Andre Citroen, whose name is as well knowu in France as the name of the leading manufacturer of cheap automobiles is known in America, had turned hi* fac tory. over to munition production dur ing the war. While the peace con ference was starting. Citroen was converting his works Into a plant for j . _ ‘ manufacturing a small and fairly j French textile industry, the Germans, ft 4 nigsberg and headed a con- j? spiraoy .in the local working- *♦« ^ uen’s council against the com- V >5 ma ider of the German garrison »*« ^ at Kovno. The plot wnstlHcov* *5j cred and Porten urrested. ►J .*< a fear hiyd by generations of worry cheap car which w^nid take its place , when they did not steal the imtehin- Ihat started long before 1870 and tliat i as the cheu|»est car in France as soon cry. broke souui of the-vital parts and hus imprinted itself on Freijcli clmr- acler as a murk that will endure for decades to come. Dread of the German wilt not pre- Distress Signal Answered by Small Fishing Vessel Off Texas Coast— Succeeds in Reaching Main* land. Itockport, Tex.—Being kept on a lonely Island for more than twelve years by a gang of bandits or smug glers, who hoped to secure a large ran som from relatives for her release, and only making her escape through an act ;*f fate. Is the renfflrknble experience of a young woman Just budding into womanhood who luis arrived at Rock- port, Tex. . The young girl knows noth ing of herself or relatives. other than she answered to th^ name -of /•Nellie” for several yuan*. - * _' “Nellle” came to the niulnhtnd from Any fool enough to an umbrella when it rains, but the wise man is be who rics one when r/ ... i it is only cloudy, jjt Any man will v j . lend for a doo- , tor when he geti bedfast, but the. wiser one is he who adopts proper measures before his ills become serious. During a hard winter or the following spring one feels rundown, tired out, weak tnd nervous. Probably you have suffered from colds or influenza which has left you thin, weak and pale. This is the time to put your system in order. It is time for house-cleaning. A good, old-fashioned alterative tnd temperance tonic is one made of wild roots and barks without the jse of alcohol, and called Dr. Pierce’s Golden Modi calXfcacovery, in tablet or liquid form. This is nature's tonic, which restores the as production could l*c gotten under , took away ah electrical fittings and way. ~ 'every scrap of copper.. In the meantime Citroen was .pro-1 What hntmened then nfier the war teeted. ^fhe lot of American cars wn s had censed ? vent the French from- embarking on i not to be thrown on to a market that The French government made it Im- a national career of prosperity und the French considered to he legitimate- possible for the Lille factory owners will not prevent France from trading *y Citroen’*, with Germany—they must trade with Close to Industrial Paralysis. tl**lr old enemy. It Is a vital neces sity; It cannot he arranged otherwise Americana in Paris did not appreci ate the French situation as revealed for the simple reason Unit Germany ; In cold figures of the statisticians, still holds her supremacy as the big namely, that France was on the very foul producing nation of Europe, verge of absolute Industrial paralysis While France has some coal she must —that the country, with only one or stili depend on Germany for some- two false moves, might easily go into thing like 23.0004)00 tons a year even that vicious circle of Industrial rala- after the supposedly rich coal fields ' fortune that had already hit Austria of Alsace-Lorraine go to France, as where the whole economic fnhrlc had they undoubtedly will In the penctri degenerated to a I’sdnt that brought treaty. ' rank ruin to the greater portion of the It’s going to he a rather strange population. — Situation between the French and Ger-.i .Wtille Fram e yg* enacting laws that mans. Fran.*? will lack coal and the prohibited the Importation of Amerl- Germans wilt lack iron. mu manufactured articles and thereby France will sell iron to the Germans • hoped to protect tu*r own disrupted and get coal In return. factories while they got hark from a Immediate Problems Mighty. wor bust* to a peace footing Ainer- Whlle the somewhat distant fut Jre | ^ ** *** «*'" *° * hut U very bright for France the hmne , u « " n - *f prinelM mratnodltlc* 1 dlute proldetns she must solve are ! mighty. She has the beginning of her hrmnd,< * ,,od ' new Industrial syatem In the form of VrohfhltUm amendn.eni cut off at one a series of factories that made mu ’ Mr " k * ° r ** j the French have to sell abroad: wines. Our national to replace rim stolen and destroyed spindles by -buying them In America und England, and France could not re place them. It was |Miintcd out to the men of Lille who wished to buy. and who had the money to buy, that it was illegal to send money out of France. If the spindle buyer happened t° have a fund handy In England or America, with which to pay for bis stuff there was a slim chance .<f being able to put through the .deal, but It was by nn means a certainty. * Back of this seemingly suicidal pojU ld) was ihe French government plan tone of the stomach, activity of one Of th.. Ihf .mail i«l.n.l« lyine itv, thc i ivcr 6tea jj neM to ths miles off the coast, in a snmii tt*hing a strengthening the whola tress. She had been on the island alone for two days following the death of an <dd negro woman who constant ly guarded her. Lived in House Made of Rocks. The girl said the grenter part of the time she was on the Island she lived with the negro woman In a house ? made of rocks. “Nellie” declared her old jailer never beut her but once. LmtimHU, Ky.—"Wh*n 1 *ssdsd 11 1 naad Dr. Purse's Goidsa Mtdktl Discovery. X course, I ra trying to Improve a run-dowm mditioe. Thfa imdiriw had a nry good effect la Baking mo itroAgrr Aad more ready to do a? muaI work. It U tbo kort remedy at it* kind * V. Coo*. 1930 41* m. It Had No Torror*. A snapshot taken by a noncoin. A and that was when she asked If tbere | xmijMdiy marching by file* on each were other benrded men and hlnck i pde of the road uot far from the women on ships which wuuetlme* Marne. A nu»unte«l Frencli officer ap- passtsl In sight, and why they could ! peers n round the turn and ride* up to not go away to some other houne on t he captain, who checks the advance one of the ship*. 1 >f his column by signal*. In *.nuewli*t Aoem-dlng to the :trange ntury relat- broken English the French officer ed by the girl, the bandit* contefnplat- mys: “Why do yum go abend «*o this to nmke France as nearly s. it sustajfc i«j ffiRrlf litr t« inr* i in r‘n ••‘in pi v«o «re g.sng lownrrl she said they could get lots of money ’ -Well.’’ I guess that was what w for her. “Nellle , • said the no n had »,. meet, wasn't Itf a large Railing t*oat. The bandit* nev- | -Hgn ia m «tr>Hig line ahead >f you. Niid It I* the I’ruudaii guard ” “The I’russlan guanl? What the WHY DR06GISTS RECOMMEND SWAMP-ROOT For many years druggists bars wstebod with much interest the remarkable record Buiataiaed by Dr. Kilmer s bwaropRoot. tbs groat kidney, beer sad bladder medi cine. It is a physician's prescription. Swamp Root is a strengthening medi j nlfIons during the war. * Her former ludustrle* are mum•*bed I At the first German Invasion France lost NO per cent of her woolen Indus- | try. 1st per cent of her sugar mills, four- i fifth* of her coal production, four- 1 fifth* of her Iron and steel output and four-fifth* of her coke. The Germans t struck France right through the heart the French had hoped to sell in the VntTpd tttnte*. There was of course no Hplrtt of retaliation nn the part pf America In this—It wn* simply tha working out of a strictly national prob lem. American official* here In I'arl* who were watching the *trnlne«l relation* between the American* and certain clique* of the French used to point ng n* possible, to keep Frem-h money at- home and to keep the rate of ex- ebmige «s favorutde a* |Mi*sible to France. It dbLtlot occur to Hie French «»ffi- j clul* that reconstruct ion problem* i could b»- solved more rasttv tf tlie Lille people ami other* In the *nuie preillcn- nn-nt were permitted to buy factory j ma.-bluer) abroad and thereby haatet. j the day alien the textile mlila would 1 resume production. Would H«lp Labor. With prmluctlon started. even , With factory reconstruction started. , the French econoiuir system would lie benefited, because such an outcome ' would give employment to French workmen. And exportation of tex- , tile*—-whiefv Imve to be iiiniiufaciured j In-fore they are whipped—would nut»“ er *alle«l toward the Texan coast, aha j of her industrial region. Todnv this , [■*■ to f..r the m ,.n , '“**«" “ 1, 1 11^.11.1.11) tli, Im. lowatice* for th«* t*rltl»*al proidems of ! rute into n |M»*ilion favoring France, rvs-onstructIon dujr* In France and re- ( Vet the whole chain of reconstruc- memlH-r that any unjust commercial . tl<>n wa* blocked by tlie prohibition discrimlnntlmi onlereil by the French j on lui|Nirtliig folVlgn spTudles and the government would right Itself quickly ! French textile |»eople themselves were enough liecause of the Inequalltlea | .»|>|jto op|M»*e a government |*dicy With the beginning <jf the |iefre con ference France wa* nut of essential raw materials. She wa* in a situa tion altogether different from England and America. She hud no cluuice of I starting out to build up foreign trade cine. It bdpa tha kidneys, hver and bind- ! and for that reason wa* anxious to der do tha work nature intended they should do. Swamp-Root bae stood the teat of years. have the altlea maintain their blockade against the neutral* and the central power* u* long as po**ihle. America- that hurt their huNlne**. American buNine** men in France LVfJr medicine baa ao many friends. Be sure to get Swamp-Root _gnd start treatment at once. However, if you wish first to teat this great prej.*ration send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer A Co.) Binghamton, N. Y., for r sample bottle When writing be sure and mention this paper.—Adv. —.— such ruling* made In France Itself. In other word*. It wn*-regarded a* only a matter of time before preaaur* J during the peace conference *li.**k\, brought to bear by five French^ bust-, their bead* when they were asked ne** house* who were unfavorably nf- M | )0 „ t t li*» possibility of immediate tk.t Ik. pnn of th. world n.u.t de-1 'h- -.nh.r*...„ln«A n «1. ln , 4 , n,u,„ ,„„l A p. n.1 •> iihi.1i no Ik. mnmpthm 11 ” ; » l«* 'k* *l,w | normnl trade a* nnon anv strlctlv no ' erT,n, ‘ >nt to do " n ,n mMn> ! tliat tight government control of trad.* itri<-,ii in-tion ^ ‘ } ^ liiMnnc s mil iMM-mit till-flow of trade ; as nt into effect by the French in f to ri**wtie. .. .| January ns u reconstruction uieuMirc j French Induttries Ruined. could not lust long. — Dlr*f*d_ Forecast. Thu pocki*t pireles* telephone wiH tie Itt everj'itny use at no (ttstnnt dRte. Thu* a iH*rson walking on the street may hear u bell ringing in ids pocket and put a receiver to hi* ear and hear the voice of another as f^ir from him a* Warsaw is from London.—News Item. ‘ r ~—i— — “Lord help us.” sighed Mrs. Peabody, keeper of tlie boarding house. “The first call I get on It will he a dlstunt relative who Is coming up for supper.” FRECKLES M*w Is tbs Tom b Get Rid sf That# Ugly Systi Therw’s do lrmirer th* sllshtwit n^wl of fpcllag aahamed of your freckles, ts Otlilne—double strength—Is guaranteed to remora these homely spots. Simply get an ounce of Othine—double Strength—from your druggist, and apply a tittle of It night and morning and you should soon see -> that eren the worst freckles hsTe begun to dis appear, while the lighter ones have vanished en tlrely. It Is seldom that more than one ounce la needed .to completely clear the akin and gal* a beautiful, clear CdmpT?xlon. ^Be sure to ask for the double strength Otbino, as'this Is sold under ( tarnntee of money back it It falls to remove fre. '-ties.—Adv. The Student. Pianist — Scanning tills piece of music makes me feel like an aviator. Friend—How’s that? Pianist—I’m trying to . crimpier the air.—London Tit-Bit*. - — No Worms In a Healthy Child *11 children tronb ed arltb worms bar# an m- bsalthr color which Indicates poor blood and as a nils, there Is more or leas stomach disturbance QROVB‘3 T**T«r W* ehlll TONIC given regularly for Vwo or three weeks will rnrlrfc ?he bWd Im- llticnl action Germany Needs Raw Materials. Pules* raw materials are pushed In to Germany the German factories can not ruii and Germany cnnfiot pay the To IliuHtrute: The country ani'.tid Whut happened to the textile Indus- f.Hh* In tlte north trf France wa* a ... .. ; great Hpinnfng center tiefore the war. tition of the *ad fate, of tUe brvwiu)Li mu > e peat-c con erence wiUjj t WHS the renter of some of the imstncss and the mining industry, us I*.,, mi li,r jjlmalilors. VvUn ll». # h|i a„j spinning mill, fnrtnri™ of l lpminnr nr, irnmlOrtt to { W( , ri , Stmj’cd by .boll US >nd by epornte the <l.'nn„n elvlllnns will not r „ lllK . rv ,,, Oerra.m. Of have work and If a lurge problem of unemployment develops, the revolu tionary ‘dement*—that Is the very rad ical revolutionists—will overthrow whatever government the Germans now have set ,up and the German sig nature on the peace treaty will be null and void. Out of these conditions the French government’s policies were naturally vomped along entirety rtf**«rent lines from the American and jtlsh i>ol- Icies. It was impossible .or France to plan for the future us America and England would. As a consequence there .whs a great divergence of. idelis during the early days of the peace conference that was more or, less mis understood by Americans in France and caused nn undue amount of erlt- i \ lclsin to tie launched against French methods and Frencli statesmen. The French for instance passed u governmental resolution about the middie of Jariuury that practically stopped the importation of American, English. amF other foreign, manufac tured articles into the country, this at a time when the average American was thinkfng and talking 7 of tlie closer trade relations that would spring up between France and "XiuerTea as a re- trolt of the two nartons having fought side by side in the war. American Firin Hit One of the first American firms hit the 570.000 Iwbbtns spinning linen thread before tlie war 280.0UO were destroyed and 80,000 stolen. In the wool spinning business in this section LPQQ.OOff Bobbins out of 2,500,000 were destroyed or stolen, .according to the minister of reconstruction, five Hundred cotton luibbins were put out of business. ,To complete the job of paralyzing the French Soinething like YANK HELPING. RUSSIAN try during the war was only a rein*- gwrinhsuig^yon DDdgct ** * o^Bsrgi SMwnrtk- <>n«» or trie nrst American nrms hit IT't 'i^i f M the-resolutlon was The inanufactar- t*rartsetUiHk HisiMiwuta. er of a well-known automobile ThN One way for u lawyer to rise at the bar 1* to *t»nd «n a chair. . - ‘ ■ GranilitH CyelMs, Eyesga Ann had several tlumsand curt In France orderetl for wur purpose* by the French government. It wn* im possible to aell the c*ra to civiHao*. since *uch a move would be the raune of Freoch money leaving tlie country. If money left the country the French fin*net*I MtnaUuu * iffered according foi ut. the above soldier well as tin* stigur husinenML x All of tills wreckage rust 111.* French something like 89UO.OOB.1NN) -that’* the first official estimate. Dream of Prosperity. In the mhlst of this despoliation France lias a dream of future Indus- r tri»il prosperity to lie realized only liy protecting all national industry against foreign competition. Never before lias she thought seriously of taking the German’s place In Europe, and now she believes that with' only a comparatively small amount of fa voritism she cun compete for many of tne German markets. From tlie despairing days of July, 1918. when it seemed certain the Ger mans would take I’aris and that { French public opinion would not stand behind a continuation of the war, to i tlie exaltation France feels riidsiy In the joy of victory is "a far cry, to any the least. The tables are completely turned. Politically und economically ’the French have made tremendous gains and they can only lie expected to mail ,the most "of their bettered (msltlon ^ln the world. If they, happened, to work at cross purposes to England atfd America, w. ‘•an exiK»ct some coni promise meftsufea —I Is that?**- th-rllttuT’* Magazine. GREEN’S AUGUST FLOWER Han been used for ul| ailments that are caused by a disordered *t.m**ch ' aad inactix. iu.-r. such aa alck head ache. constipation, soar xtomneh. nervous indigestion, ferment*tl<»n of ; food, palpltatloi *4 the heart caused by gases in the st< n*ch. August Mower j Is a gentle laxative, regulate* digestion both In stomach and Intestine*, clean* and sweeten* the stomach and alimen tary canal, sllmulatra the liver to it Crete the hlle and impurities from th* blood. Sold In all elvlltaed couutrten. Give It a trial.—Adv. Bolshevism In Practice. “I thought you hail an umbrella alien you left home,” “I had.” answered tlie man who wa* drenched. “I went to n snt*lull*t meet ing where everybody was In fnvor of elim'nntlng any Individual advantage. Hy the time they got through dividing my utiihreHn nmtmd there wasn’t any thing left of it that anyt*Kly could u*e." • use (in* cen-sor L't'K nlT |R|- lob* *om*- i time in 11*19. but |y anythlns more «.»**ious. ’ . The Strange Man Was Carried Away 1‘ Dead. said, but went down the bay In the di rection of Mexico. At one time, long ugn, when she was but a little girl, the bandits brought" another man to the island, she said. “Nellie” can remem ber them drinking and singing gnd playing cards. The next day, she said, the strange man was carried away dead. r , Wifi Explore telands. “Nellie” is a pretty girl. Her hair is brown, and her bright, snappy eyes are hazel. From her general appear ance the people of Itockport believe she fnust lie of Spanish descent. A party has been organized .to ex plore the rock house on tin* island and to trap the bandits, with a view of -forcing them to tell something of th“ little girl, that she may be returned -to her parents or relatives. Important to Mothors Examine carefully every bottle of CA8TORIA, that famous old remedy for lufunts and children, andjxee that it - Bears the Signature oft In Use for Over .’N) Years, i Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Naturally. “Jim was keyed up to the highest- pitch the other night.” *\Vhat was the matter?” “He was locked out." CLIPS OFF WOMAN’S HAIR But Intruder Leaves Tresses Behind— —Also Steals $?0 Without Waking Cojple. Passaic, N. J.—Mrs., William Haw thorne, forty year* old, of 422 Harrison street, reported to the police*, that (lur- heated h*-»<Mii>**»p»‘rhn|>*■ W t log mght a thb*f Imd entered her Pickled for L*fe. Jucksou. Misn. ‘Tickled fur life, j mumbled a courtroom wag a* Henri l*lckle hstenisl to the supreme court’* decision affirming the lower court’* venllet of life Imprisonun-nL Seme Doq. Oklahoma City, Okir. —4 diver t. Black, lawyer. I* the only aura in th to tba i stain with a dug valued a* kigktf v * j all hla hn—Whaffi fauda. Aonaor Boat) [mm. Kuril t> Hated at $ BA bedroom iihd clippetTcTlier long, gold en hair. So quietly did the thief go about his work that be not 'Wily did not arouse Mrs. Hawthorne, bit was'not heaed-by her husband, jn an adjofning- rootn, n<>r by two children 1 ,n another room near by. The police found marks whir'o indi cated that the thief had used a Jonny on the kitchen window. They also found a pair of scissor*. Mr*. Haw thorne said *fie believed she bad been chloroformed, as when she awoke she felt sick. The thief m\m> took £» which was In a Ha hog. hot er deafly he hod «o oar for the hair aft t ritpptng tt is tt was f.mwT alsoostidiv the Some tnen are in advance of their age. but women are always behind IL Wright's Indian VegMabla Pills cuntsla aothlng but vegetable Ingredients, which Ml gently as * tonic and purgative. Adv. Nkjiace divides friends, not frbnd shlpsN. Weak and Miserable? „ • ' Does the least exertion tire you out? Feel “blue” and worried and have daily backache, lameness, headache, dizxmesg and kidney irregularities? Sick kidneys are often "to blame for this unhappy state. You must act'quickly to pre vent more serious trouble.^ Use Doan’s Kidney Pil^. the remedy recommended ever)-where*by grateful users. A North Carolina Case Mrs. 8. W. Beat- tie, 80T EL Ninth St.. Charlotte, N. O., says: ”1 used Doa:.’s Kidney Pills for a severe back ache tram which I had suffered for years and couldn't find anything that would give me re lief * I saw Doan's Kidney Ptlls adver tised and got some and used them. They entirely ewraA me. I am in good _ nealth at the pres ent time and give Doan’s Kidney pill* all the credit for this.” DOAN'S