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AMERICAN PRISONER* , HHAMKFl'LLY TREATED. Germany Starves Prisoners and i Treats l|hein WiUi Fiendish j' Cruelty. ! x i1 American prisoners of war are be- i ing shamefully treated in German i prison camps if all bad tin- expei ience of an American in!miewed by a French soldier, also a prisoner in Germany, just before he escaped. < The Frenchman's story, as told to ^ American officers, follows: "A short time before 1 b it llumcln Hanover, I was able to have a few minutes interview with an American soldier who was taken prisoner several months ago on the French front. Being unwounded he was assigned directly to a prison camp. Weakened by excessive work he was forced to do in the sale mines and be:ug unable to stay longer he was sent to Hameln. "I do not remember the name ofj the man or the number of his regiment, but he had been among the first Americans in the trenches and ! bis home was in New York. He told me that during the three months he was in the Harz mines he had lost 33 < pounds. He was a man who was solidly built and it could be easily seen that he had been vigorous and healthy, but when I saw him he was incredibly thin and so weak that he could hardly cross a room without stopping repeatedly, leaning on pieces of furniture or supporting himself on boxes piled there. "Englishmen also are being badly treated in the mines. I found out that three of seven who were sent back to Hameln died. I*uckage ser-' vice does not exist in the mines and j the prisoners receive practically j nothing. Their only nourishment is i from thin soup made of barley or! cabbage, sometimes salted, codfish eggs and those of other fish which it i is impossible to eat. There are few ] potatoes and very little breud. It is] impossible for a man to work without' becoming sick or weakened to the | point of falling down. "The men are struck with rifle butts and the flat side of bayonets and are placed in dark cells on bread and water. These cells are known to the mine prisoners as hot chambers; as they are heated by steam to a high temperature. After the men are held in these cells they are turned. out in the snow where tiiey are required to stand at 'Attention' for a certain lenirtli of time. Needless tn says deaths are frequent. "This American hail been punished several times this way and told me all that I am relating to you. I am able to confirm his history hecause other Englishmen and Frenchmen I saw did not have the strength even to hold u cigarette." f| 0 r || Weak | H Women A Y\ y In use for over 40 years! y KThousands of voluntary y WyM letters from women, tell- /y WyM ing of the good Cardui y f/j has done them. This is y mym the best proof of the value Wym ofCatdui. Itprovesthat yt y/J Cardui is a good medicine y Kyk for women. y There are no harmful or /y WyM habit-forming drugs in y l/l Cardui. It is composed M E/l only of mild, medicinal m/yl ingredients, wiih no bad ffyS TAKE ^eT. 'nan's Tonic You can reiy - Cardui. myn Surely i; will do . - you what it I.*:* done for so ^many thousti. 's of other 1VJ womenl It shu.'1 help. *'I was taken .'~k, tya ^1 KPPmcd tn Kp E/fl writes Mrs. Alary E.Veste, y/M K/| of Madison Heights, Va. Kr |/1 "I got down so weak, 1^1 could hardly walk . . . ft/jk \/Jk just staggered around. wyM m/jk ... I read of Cardui, Wym WyM and after taking one bot- Kl WyM tie, or before taking quite W^M K^l all, 1 felt much better. I Kl lyj took 3 or 4 bottles at Iv4 t/i that time, and was able to ft/4 v K4 do my work. 1 take it in ?/4 ft/4 the spring when run- K/4 /4 down. 1 had no appetite, E/j E4 and I commenced eating. E/1 L^l It is the best tonic I ever E^I L/l saw." Try Cardui. yl M AD Druggists ^ l/l J. 70 ||j22SSSSSsi Don't "Knock Your Competitor* One of the worst mistakes a merchant can make is to assault the integrity or the veracity of a competitor. If this competitor is uot honest, it he sells inferior grades, gives short measure or is guilty of disliono:. hie acts ?.i' any natur> , it >s hotter to let the public or the law pass judgment upon him. .Merchants cannot ailord 10 take even a small chance of being misunderstood in such matters or to have their motive questioned even when they feel sure that their charges are warranted by their facts. The trouble is that so much 0 1.1 UUI1V ill lilt" nil} . 11 knocker is usually a cowrd. He usually says, "Don't say 1 told you don't use my uaiue." Then again, "knocking" is indulged in by many clerks, thinking to sell their good by this comparison, it is well to remember that ev? ry knock is a boast." By criticising another man's product you advertise it the very way he would want it advertised. Here is an emample: Some time ago the owner of a well advertised store asked a customer what advertisement attracted him to his establishment. The customer replied: "When I started this morning to buy a vacuum cleaner I went direct to a concern that was recommended to me by a cousin. I knew the make I wanted and the price 1 wished to pay. "Not seeing the make desired I asked your competitor to show the Jones vacuum cleaner. This did not please the storekeeper, as I judged he no longer sold the make my cousin had purchased and paid $35 for." "Upon telling the dealer of this fact, he explained: "Thirty-five dollars! We never sold a cleaner as low JU ??.. .1-1-1- - - n.? tiim. fu ;uu uiiiiK mis is me Blank store, whore they sell those cheap $35 cleaners? "Why," replied the customer, "I did not know the Blank store handled cleaners. 1 am a regular customer there, and it you say they sell cleaners I will certainly go there and look before I buy from you. That, my dear sir, is how 1 came to visit your store." The result was the Blank store got the sale because the dealer slurred another. Deception and exaggerated statements enter largely into the column i?f lost sales. Sometimes the deception is through ignorance and at other times it is through actual mist epsent-ation. Of course, no store will tolerate this, but clerks in their overanxiety to make sales exaggerate or misrepresent their merchandise. Stick to the truth and don't "knock" your competitor> is a good rule to follow. Freak Inventions. Then* is an inventor who is <n a class by himself. He is the "petpetuoi-motion crank." At frequent intervals he turns up at the Patent Ollire, in Washington, with a new idea on the subject. Do the examiners turn it down Not at all. They simply say that the desired patent will be gran'e.l a- soon a: a model is offered that will ready \\ ork. The inventor has no reason to eon sidor that liis eonlrivanee is di credited l?y this stated condition. The same thing was saiil un'il recently to the makers of flying inaehinvs. which were ollicially regarded much in tlt?' same light as contrivances for perpetual motion. lly accident a perpetual motion machine did get through the Patent Otlice a while ago. The examiners thought it was merely a new kind of summer resort railway, which hv a trolly arrangement, ran down one inclined plane and up another. Put it violated the physical law that interferes with a man's liberty to lift himself by his own bootsteps. \ favorite type of perpetual mo tion machine involves the use of a pair of springs, one of which, while i union down wind up the otlur. If . i. k !..: ! t in- co.arm-ted that would go nn :<.!'\<r without winding. live-., on. in .t long while, win a ..n ?\ -drier is sle< pv or absent i ..:.?! !, an invention is pa. d ?nd p.itented that is sheer ahsurdiiy. Patent Olliee folk, like most others, are human. Thus, a while ago. a patent was granted lor a corncob. It was supposed to lie covered with corundum paste, for polishing metal plates; but, essentially speaking, the patent was for the corneoh. Now nature surely invented that. More remarkable yet, perhaps, was a ingenious scheme for punch ing pii.n h s in eggs. The inventor's '? :? was . I?y this means the gas atod in . i led eggs could lie al low. to osca. thus preventing them li :m exploi.i when boiled. Patent No. 2515,It 111 for ?r "tempering solution to make iron hard." It consists of jimson weed, one ounce; apple juice, one ounce; turnip juice, two ounces, and one gallon of water. Could anvthillir he more nlwnrrf'' Yet it got through. And the same is true of a process of chopping beef and potatoes into small pieces and cooking the altogether. You and 1 would call that plain hash; but i patent was granted for it just the same. o "l)o you think the financiers in the case will float this loan till right?" "Sure. It's coming along swimmi ncU I VIOLENT AKT1LLEKY DUEL. ?? Huns Arc Having Trouble In Filling * C|? Their IK^ilcltil Hanks. Fair weather during the past few days and a great increase in aerial p activities have not resulted in a re- |i nevv.il el heavy infantry lighting.'a 1 lie aitillerv duels go on I no t vio- p loilllv 'III l III poll it III sectors, till? 1 I neither the lo-rnian intaatr.v mu "'! tillerv displays the activity which j I usually mail;.- tiie coming ui blow j v against the allied lines. ! Tin* enemy. il is l???li<*\ ?} hi l.oti-lli ton, is preparing tor a mighty attack greater in force, if possible, than the smash oti March 21. along t 1m- fit) I mile front southward from Arras. t Tin* Genuans, however, are having f dillicuity in tilling up their greatly v depleted ranks, some divisions hav- h itig hist more than ho per cent- -one I 7tt per cent of their effectives in the recent fighting. In addition, the al- j lied artillery is causing havoc with ii preparations near the front lines, while their railways stations and bil- C j lets behind the lines are under an c almost continuous rain of bombs c dropped by allied airmen. S Enemy artillery and man-power < concentrations probably become t stronger as Field Marshal von Hin- s denburg delays a new advance, but t the allied defenses gain strength in the same ratio and a new source of t ; fighting power, the American army, ii 'grows in power. General Pershing's b 'men are now on both the important o ' battlefronts, Flanders and Pieardy, 11 but in what numbers is not disclosed [Their coming, however, is having a 11 ! great moral effect on the British and t i French and the longer the Germans s 'delay the greater will the American b aid become. s Aerial activity is the most promi- t nent feature of the news from the fighting zones. French and Hritshja iiruien nave mopped many more tons of explosives on enemy military tar- 1 gets, while the Germans are becoming more active in attempts to net 1' J behind the allied lines. In 'aerial ?' righting the British have brought 1 down :;r? Gel-man machines, while 1 British guns accounted for to more t iBerlin claims the destruction of IS 'allied airplanes. Another attempt to !raid Paris Friday night failed. \ On the American sectors, west of Montdidier, northwest of Toul and . 'in Lorraine, the aerial lighting also J. |increased. The American positions ^ in I'icardy and in Lorraine are being s bombarded heavily by the Germans. v The artillery fire has fallen off in , the Toul sector, but American patrols ^ ;are active there. r A plot in the interests of Germany j has been discovered in Ireland. An- () nouncement of this latest develop- ( ment in Irish affairs was made in a , proclamation issued by the lord lieu- ,, |tenant, calling on all layal Irishmen ? to aid th?' government in putting | down the conspiracy. Four prominent Sinne Fin eaders, including |x Prof, lie Valera. the president, have J ^ | been arrested, a.^ has Dr. Dillon. . t Three of the Sinn Feiners were act I s ive in th?' Dublin revolt in Master,,, week ot l!?lfi. The proclamation < lis upon Irish to enlist voluntarily to aid in the . maintenance of the government and , says measuia were taken to facili late such recruiting This ma\ be | an ind int ion that the government ; has decided not to enforce couscrip .. i mil a I i mee. I'oihI lor s?i|ilici> t'ntefully Inspected 1 11.- IJuailermastei tVrps. ehatired I | wiiii riie responsibility ??i leeditr; ! | and clot li int: I lie soldiers, is riu i 11 > > inspect inn the food purchased for then 11 oops to see that only pure articles j, ate supplied. As an indication of the , amount of food that must he obtain-', ed. says a stateiueiit ant Itori /.. <1 by ; the tjttarterniastei fietieral. l.aou, , lion men consume daily l.r.no.onn | pound- of licef, L'J' ilioi pound of j !>. con. 2 10,000 pounds of hunt. ' .a. ooi can- if tot i) a to* . urn! 22" . u) can- ot jat with o: :er a'tich .- i i .i in .'.iipioii ; uml. " ua: -dies o l.!-" . . 'j- e'ed to I In r< .u! in?pei ; w ii o i hen in at t h so, a i d a. u lit d tin I nod i . u.i II> con I I I ' 1 O t I1 i. I i i : l 'orp- as .i i t nf t a! I> i 1 lice I ii iocs- ot it- own. sup via:, tin camp-, cantonments. a\iat i in Id . an lioihoi post- in its tern ry The i subsistence o||i,ers ate held respon- ' si Id e for He it.?1 i t y e| tin mind- 1 they receive. t Ill-fore tile supplies l ' ai h t : de 1 H.in.-ui, I 11? > illl' pUSSe<| II p?>II i l?\ inspectors 111 the parking lumsi's, < : niifi i?-s. and 111? i- sources or > origin. Tin- iv, Is at Was hint: tun I shows th?? c-.ipa .< . character, ami |' standard of <\ v establishment fur-,' mshing food I the Arnij The spec fications whi-- tlu-ir product tnust meet arc el> r and exact. The insp tion branch maintains . a current tile of unreliable dealers , and unreliable products, insuring the . elimination of dealers who, having ( denied the right to supply some of . the many depots of the Army, make subsequent attempts to obtain eon- t tracts at other points ( lluhy Words Itule Songlund. 1 The simpler and clearer a lyrice is i the more chance it has of getting 1 .across. To carry simplicity to its lim- ' it, words of one or two syllables are 1 almost invariably essential to a pop- ( ular song hit. The writer has to think in the same terms as the great i nu?s?- of the people. . i 9 WHKAT SI liSTITI TK PKHKS. limb's tlial hciilcis iiiv Ih-maiulinu i; Kxliorhitunl I'tivo. i (JohimtHu, May 1" At im.-s.-hi Tires ol coi n, hurley -ami oals. mil I its are <?t sli<>ul?l oHi-titii; m< i ml I I-mi (I'll I "- i I nodity." Mr. Wallace said tiiat he cotton seed in one hale of cotton epresented in food value 'JOT.5 founds of hog lard and 1.050 pounds if wheat flour. That the making of lour from cotton seed will be anoher trreat asset to the cotton p'auer :oes without saving and the sway if "King Cotton" will he more firui> established than ever. With an increase of acreage every ear in wheat and Indian corn, the rowing ol immense forage crops, lie raising of meat both to eat and ell. and tin making of Hour front ? otton seed, the South will indeed i ire to the front and he in a lew itr.- the richest countrv on the lobe. Mi Wallace speaks with on I el'liee o. the stlcessful ptodtlc ion < ; tlt-tti iront the seed. and we tave no dubt that it will he a breau ootl nourishing to the highest d? :ree The l-'ayettev ill. observer. 4 ? Mail h) Airplanes. As.-oeialeti I'refS tl ispatelle.- > e ei'diiV a I tet itootl told o! a sillier, nil in.id : i ip n> .111 ail plane to tVashiiigt on tro.n Philadelphia We .n\? heeoim -o accustomed to intovalions in these times that the an tou nei men i v\; iin aid with little oiiiiin-r:t. hd the pnhlii will he inlesled III the follow i tl g facts 111 CO|llection with tlii. icu method ol dei\i ring mail: 11: plant's, fat'li capable ?>i ;i uiin ttiin speed < ! 11iri *; miles an hour, '? In: i I? . I 'II: !}.' litlfS id 1! i t.Lilation b? bitiK machine. Tlio.t are . ' ; .t : i . \11 Mi i < ' sMin t' de n -I 1 l r.' . '.it ! t>" t lp it" <>i mail I. . . 1. \ ; ! |> t : I I 1 U il: ,.i >i ij . i hoped in hat If u... i i!< !? : ?! i' I'm- -mi: inn! ml l*.I thai : !: I ^uiilini; 111 nil tin- Mail Was' , ri*. i 11.< \? .isiiiii- i lit. in ti.ii in I*) iiic?i<'][>!ii;i. .iIh/ui I lies i \pi- I i| in li.- inaib' in about t:i !.o ii ami tumult uiinuti - At i.i- liat-u.T- in North IMiilad'-lpli'i iiinthi't* iiia-hini- will In- waning. ?'atl\ in .''aii ih" llmbl In m v. A'11?'ii i- .- i n a iln- iiiiDii iiia plane lands i !i < I '.In- Irunsl'oi o!' mail lines is na : Tl" si'iimil let; ni' 'hi- journey nun I'liilaib'lpliia to Helmont field, n tin- I .mi v Island suburbs id' N?-tt \ink. should In mad' in about an mui. The lamer planes tarry about pounds ni mail, or approximate y 2-1,nun letters. Thi- smaller mahines will carrj about halt thai imount. KmcrcctM y landing fields will he stahlished at IPaltlinore and llarve C.race, Md. Wilmington, Del., ind at either Princeton or New llrunswick. New Jersey In the ease :>f :t machine breaking down jit some nterurban point in its journey, th? mail sacks will he rushed b\ motor ruck to the nearest tailroad station where they will be sent forward in 'are of a courier The rate of postage has be* n es 1 ahlished 1>\ law at 2 1 cent- an ounce ">r fraetion tl mo 15 <?-. \< t" / lull I . SMJ till* K Mid A ill Hi \ i. -:;i ! .. I!* rl. Iim.V i. .1.1.1 . <ii .n u' , ;i - gi\?*n <nii li;. Willi .ii I,!].Mil iniii ii'liiiilil I I . 'in to: >u it i . : . inn, today li a<ii|itioii in ,iI>m.* In* stai< iii'*Mi i-i?iiiiiiui-ii <1 "("urn minl should Ii* >*;iii ?i i miii tin* mill ilour at nut ovei I vs -11 y-five per nI. less llian win a' lour and oat mini even less ratio, .j chile corn flour or barley should | e selling ai no) more than ten to | if teen per rent h?o\v wheat flour. "There is, therefore, absolutely no j, ustifieotion for present price levels n it tiiese wheal substitues." i. The food administrators in South; Carolina are being instructed to look arefully into the prices charged for " orn meal in different parts of the tate. These prices will be reduced o proper levels, based upon a cer-1 ain percentage of profit as pre-! cribed by the federal food udminis-j ration at Washington. Prices charged for wheat substi-! utes last winter, due to the shortage j n railway transportation, have now, ecotne, according to the statement] f the Food Administration, in nany cases, extortion. At this critical time?until the exi wneai trvest?when it is sovi-( ally necessary necessary tliut wheat ubstitues are used that every possi-j tie pound of what flour he saved for uffering Kurope. the Food Adininis-i ration statement says: "The time has now rome when redjustment of prices of these grains' wheat substitutes > should takej dace." The wholesale maximum margins inve been fixed at not over ten per ent. in bulk, and retailers cannot ake more than sixteen to twentj ?er cent, on the sale for handling hose products (iittnii Seed l-'lour. Field in:: Wallace, o! Augusta, tla , resident ol the Interstate Cotton teed Crusher's Association. declared ilonday in an address before the asocial ion "that cotton seed font vill soon heroine a household coin ntitles tht* sender to have the letle orwarded to the addresses by spei ;il delivery service, in case the aii ilarie arrives too late for the in city deliveries Letters in-ailed at Washinetoi !. t.1. .1 T.II ; . ... * .... \ ... i ? 1 n ; !>> rt >! tin- i'>u:ttr\ haf. !' ! ! ' 'J and i niir.- ;ii which ! ! i .i i; pin fc <l i- "a". < . n a;. If i ail' {?? jit I tailip ha- b'-i'li ' 1 J ! I "I : In- new i-rvii i If ha.- -a ?t bni . i fni show- an airplane in tin ! a a hlui- field Tlf first stamp was .-.?!?! ?. l'o>i iast"t <?i'i ' ial ISiiili-siifi wii>> . <1 M'-.-i-i| a l' tii-r fn I'ost master fat a. id Ni-w Vol k Afti r rani i-11'.i inn of thi* stamp, the letter was an ouraphi'ii hy ('resident Wilson, an daced in tin- first consignment n tail directed to New York. The lei ei will be sold at auction, the prr eeds to be devoted to war relief. IHE DEVIL A Sent to 1 ily ?v. M. Odom, Ambulan Tile Kaiser called the devil, Of course then Central listei "Hello!"?it was the Kaiser' Just tell him this is Kaiser The devil cried, "Hello, old I'm running here a hell on tjld Satan turned to uoke tli Then in the phone "It seen "But listen, Satan, just a hi Just how I'm operating thh I made my plans for many For putting up a nifty job, "My army went through Belt Tore up the farming eounlr; "My Zepps dtopped bombs < Those unarmed tolks. prote "I started out for 1'atis. wit Those damphool Frenchmei t'lioue devils on my subnui They sneak uii en a mondial "I tan my hell to suit me u When a man named Woodn ' !! wrote to me. 'Bear Wil But you'd bettet tell your 1 " 'This is my final warning It's to you to <|uit riu'nt nov "1 didn't l'sit n to him. ant With a mil; .i) Yankee soldi*1 "They're just about to spoil 1 I eel that you will tell me The devil frowned hail new His earthly representative 1 "I>eat Ktiiser Bill, there isn I'm at a loss to say right i "From what yon say, howet Those Yanks will make it h "I've been a real old devil. There's plenty here in Hade I'm cleaning 'U> the thron My job is yours you'll 001 Those Sammies sure will g< King off. Hang up' (In get y I* I j^? The I t During the first months of the - service no flights will he made when - storm conditions make the journey i- very precautious. On those days the s icks will !>? forwarded hy rail and i. delivered hy special delivery service, i trie I'raeyer. Seeond \>sistatit I'ost: i.i. a i.o 1 i ha I '-> of that sulli . it t dur .id* an r le seri. , i . i. i. . i . i.i i.?. :i.. -: ully in d li? t\.. ... inn <> iimw -torni. \:- :I i ?<;i i. |?ro\ sue | I. i .. il . inad'1 l<>i ex;> ti<li'i^ tii?- i vi in \i sprint; to oil.ni part "t 'otiniry Tin* first. I- Mftioion \| I "a' -H'T says. probably will bo ti'iin N. v\ York t<> Boston i- 'i n ' liimnat" delay siriungements i ;?! taint; \M?rk'*?l out tor tin* cond st ruction of largo tints on tin- roofs if of tin* fontral postofliros so that the Irags may ho droppod while the ma* i fiiino is in flight. (Jreenwood Journal. , ND THE KAISER 'he Dispatch ce #'o , No. 24. Douglas. Ariz long distance phone one day; tied to all they had to say s voice?"Is old man Satan home? Bill that wants him on the phone." Bill!" und Bill said. "How are you? earth; so tell me what to do." o fire and said. "Now. what in hell!" is to me you're doing mighty well." t. and I will try to toll ? modern earthly hell." yr.~. 11)t* 11 started out to kill ? ju<l hand it t?? old Mill. -'iuiii and tramped tin- helpless down, > and leveled every town " m cities and killed them, old and young sting. were either sliot or hung. ih ai<l of poisoned gas, 1 stood there <md wouldn't let me pass. irines 1 wouldn't say the\ "fight"? iitiuan and sink the sliip a* sigln ntil a year ago, >w Wilson advised nie to go slow, liain. I would not make you sore. '-boats to sink out ships no more. 1 hope you get me right r. or you'll have us to fight 1 now he's after me, rs from their homes across the sea. my plans, so I come to you. just what I ought to do." ,s was this he felt his power slip, tad plainly lost his ?rip. 't much that I can say to you. now just what you ought to do. >er, there's one thing 1 can tell; ot for you?far hotter than in hell. hut I'm not classed with you; s for such as you to do. ic room. I'll keep the fires all bright; ine to if. when the Yanks begin to ght. ct you I've nothing more to tell, olir lint and meef me here in hell'" I.EYS s the great war-J me sweetmeat. J ? the benefit, the pleasure, the economy j of a 5c package of J? WaK EV'vS 3 J? : ^ j L . -T ~ - ,:jo si Vu- J vcrit? sweet ration** 9 of the Allied armies. 9 - send it to your friend 3 at the fror,:: si - it's t h e handiest. 9 lor r. ; st - lasting re- 9 freshment he can carry, HEW IT AFTER 3 EUERy MEftL ^p,v3 Flavor Lasts ~ \'*' J' agW :N^i>