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Wilson Goes to Work ?t ?nce I Met at Station by Leading j French Statesmen, Inclo.d- j ; in$ Poincare and Ciemenceau. Paris, March 14.?President .Wil son returning to the peace conference after his-trip to the United States, :ar rived'hi "Paris shortly after noon to d^vV lie president's. train,. which had ose? delayed, reached: the Invalides J ^^?^1^7 '.O'clock. ' ; The demonstration attending thei president's arrival in Paris for his second. visit lacked the .magnitude of that upon ?ihS occasion of his initial ape^r?hci"last December. Neverthe le^ it . spontaneous and cordial. The- ?ebple had' been* purposely . kept in i&or?n.ce as to which rail road \ station his train would enter. The president had requested this, as he, desired to come into the -city, this -tbT^^mwely as a private citizen. ^everTheless, the population heard early' in the day that the station se lected was the Invalides and they had assembled there in great numbers by /tl5e t(me his train was due. , The president* was.met at <the sta _ -t?brbyTi^?eht -P?incare and Mad ame Poiacare. Premier Ciemenceau, - Foreign Minister Pichon, Andre Tar dieu, General Berdoulet, the military. >? '"'^;^wernor:-dt Paris,. Major General ^ordacq, head of the military cabinet o/; the ministry of war; Secretary Lan- { sing. General Bliss, Henry White of the^ peace mission.. Ambassador Sharp .5J?_Ad?iiral Benson. ; /President Poincare g?ve President --- ^Ison a cordial greeting during a briet conversation. ..With Premier ?"?^^eheeau the American executive sjpoke .for/.^ome time^ congratulating ,tbe French, statesman on his escape irom;death in the recent attempt to assassinate trim. . .Pxesident Wilson appeared to be in-excellent health and spirits. ? -Thfc. - president did not tarry cwttifhe station paltform. He let his \n2Lhd~:,linger longer in that of M. CJemenceau than any one else and [ spbie: earnestly to the premier as ' t*$ey strolled: down the long platform. . After he had congratulated Mr. Ciem enceau on his: escape from death by ibe -. assassin's bullets, the premier. , turned.and smilingly said: "My hide ! is too thick for a little piece of lead to edo me any harm." . t % Emerging from the station Presi den5?Wiison immediately entered his t nio^br car which drove at high speed j ?jQng- the left bank of the Seine, c^CfSsbig the river on the Alma bridge. Airrjvinir in the Place des Etats-Unis- , thfe. streets., were virtually deserted, t I jf?ct sharply. in. contrast with th? j prestdjent'S ; appearance in Paris just , three months ago. i ] President- Wilson got to work im- t mediately* after his arrival at his new . ?es?ence in/.the Place des Etats- j IlniaA. Premier. Lloyd Geprge was wai?ng.. there for the president and the two had n, long conference. The president;- then .arranged for a con ference at 'the Hotel de Crillon this Afternoon with Premier Ciemenceau. P^mier Lloyd . George and Colonel House. }i The'president is fully conversant ^ ::. ^ by the ? ?pj^e.*v.d|iiej^Ws.;- ?During his voyage j fW^jthe.* ?ftited States, he was cqn- J Sten^?y- ;? in/ . communication with i ? p?qti&^ry ^'reless. " Colonel -.-House < tPd^to; Brost a* large number of pa- t ijfi^hearhflf- on the work' of the con- < ?rence during - the .' president's ab- j ? qfsi&&l;.-. x^'- * ? '..' < ; "The,; president" "spent several hours j l*^nig*Ht;in going through the papers i and? r*eeiN#hg "explanations from Col. < "fiTouse^ He _ resumed work with; a grasp-.- of -the'. matters under discus ^ ~~yr'- " " '?<.; L ??' ' Reduced 33 1-3 per cent v Tabulation of Reduction Pledges ;5f;?4b Bai^we? County . "Barnweily atar*ch. 1^.?A tabulation ? * df 'jthe-.^r^feictioA pledges received ui> t? Saturday, March 8,. by the tabulat "iftg.Committefe indicates a reductioniof a ; little, over .33 1-3 per cent in the j- acreage td^ tfe. planted in - cotton in ?L B?rhweil cbuhly this year as coai ,c pared with. .i}^18. The figures, given otti_bVJttbe cbnimtttee. are: Number ^ffcacres planted in 191&_.10,*>I6; to % b^vpla^ated la, 1913, 7,253; total re "?? 'd^ctte?>to..date* 'XfiOZ acres. ?"Of. course, , the above figures are very: incomplete, only , a few. of the members of the- township commit tees, haying reported their pledges ijrhett the .first tabulation was made. "VCbeja complete reports have been re ceived from all of the townships .in the- CQUJvty .the grand, total will show a**\reduc.tion~ of many thousands of aer^ef^.. The local papers are publish . Ih^^?ch, we?fk. a. list Of the farmers wh6^ have'signed* the pledge, and the namesT of those who refuse to line up. m the fight will also be m.ade known t? the public. -The., work of canvassing the furm ?s.'ftas been somewhat delayed on account of t'rie e.xtremeiy bad weather of'the past two. weeks, but with the coming of more favorable conditions thorough canvass will be made of the.' entire county. Justice Pryor Dead New York. Marth 14.?Roger At kihson Pryor, former justice of the; New York supreme court nnd famous | $s.;a soldier in the Confederate aritiv, died at his home here tonight .it the j age of 90. ? Justice Pryor had been ill for sev eral weeks- A week ago pneumonia, which was the immediate cnuse of his death, set in. Nine Sailors Drowned . IjOndon. Mnrch 15.?Xin^ sailors are. reported to have been drowned in-thersinking of the American naval transport Yselhaven, F.altimore for Copenhagen; which stru?'k a mine Friday morning, according to Lloyds. Tliirty-five survivors were landed at Hanpooi b7v. a ^riti5h jtft&zatr., . ? Germans in Belgium Belgian Government Finds Dif ficulty in Ridding Country of German Carpet - Baggers. Brussels. Feb. 26 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?Despite] the passing of a. law providing for! the expulsion of enemy subjects fmm i Belgium, numerous German civilians! are. often seen walking the streets of j this city and other large cities in Bel-j gi?nr.at the present time. While the, law went into effect more than a month ago, the Belgian government is experiencing as much difficulty-, in getting the enemy civilians out of the cptintry. as the allied soldiers had in expelling the enemy army from the trenches. Tue Minister of Justice has found the ttndertakihg a greater one than he had expected. In the Belgian Charhber yesterday, Deputy Lemon - nier, who acted as Burgomaster of Brussels during* the enforced absence of Burmogaster Max in Prussian jails and until he was removed himself to Germany, asked Minister of Justice! Vanderyelde what measures he in tended taking to expedite the undesir. ables, beyond the Rhine. Deputy Lemonnier brought the minister's at tention to the fact that several Ger mans were walking the streets^ of Brussels; with impunity and that some of them had been recognized as being, Paid agents1 of the Kommandantur during the occupation. Vandrevelde replied: "The Min istry of Justice is doing its utmost to rid, the country of German civilians but the difficulties encountered are formidable. In times of peace unde sirables are escorted to their frontier but since the signing ?f the armis tice, the allied general staff had re fused absolutely to allow Germarts to; pass through the zone of occupation. Holland permits them to go through the country but not singly. Groups only are allowed in transit. At the present time one train of undesirables : is leaving daily. Beginning February 23.. two trains will leave for Holland ; Jaily carrying an average of twelve hundred Germans every day from Belgium." An idea of the number of Germans in Belgium hefore the war and the still greater number who have elected :o make it during the occupation svhat they thought would be their permanent living place, may be gath ered from the-fact that trains are jxpected to leave for weeks and per- ' taps for months. The case of German subjects who : lave .? resided in Belgium for long ' r'ears, have married Belgian women - md whose sons have fought against he Germans is particularly sad.-Un ler the terms of the law they should 1 >e expelled along with the others as. ' hey have remained enemy subjects. : vandervelde ? said however: "It isj1 mpossible for me to send that class!1 if Germans out-of the country." p Prices in France Paris, Feb. 25 (Correspondence of ' ?he Associated Press)?Americans ? .re cheerfully paying the exorbitant , ?rices charged them for necessities in - Trance, while" the natives pay and \ rroan; declared ah Associated Press \ iorrtspondent wh.o has been making | m investigation pf French high cost i it living. Three American newspa- ] >er'men recently p. d $2 for a taxi- < :ab ride that the taximeter showed ? should cost about 70 cents. A meal without wine for the three hungry < scribes cost $20. i The following /figures show the dif- , Terence between the prices now pre- , vailing in France and those of the \ inte-war days. ' . . ] : Butter $2 a pound against 30 cents- j before war; eggs $2 a dozen versus 22 - cents, and vegetables ranging from fourteen to fifty cents a pound co?ld \ be obtained for four, five and six cents . previous to the war. Cheese has ad vanced from, forty cents to ninety, coffee from for-ty cents to $1.9.0. Meat j has advanced three hundred per. cent, chld^ns,. which i were, sixty cents are now $2 and very slim birds at that. The-cheapest business suit cannot be obtained under $50 to which must be added $10 as a luxury tax. Silk stockings sell for $3 a pair and one must.be careful to use the subway as much as possibie inr'order not to walk through them on: the first 4ay, es pecially when - the fourteen dollar pair of shoes . which one is. wearing absorb dampness like a four dollar ?ponge. Washing comes high with soap at thirty cents a cake, and a bath is a luxury. Monsieur Jjsserand, the French ambassador in Washington has re cently returned after a lpng absence. \ The collars for which he used to pay thirteen francs the dozen now are thirty-nine francs fifty in the same great shop, at which he has been tradr ing twenty years and his sixteen franc hat has mounted .to forty. . Frying a S2 steak for two in o S4 saucepan is a privilege enjoyed only by the rich and a glass of beer at twenty cents plus a five cent tip to j the waiter tastes very bitter to a thirsty wayfarer. The laboring class at one time wasj eating much rice. But lately that eom-j modity rr-a -V I figures out of proper--] ii-on to the salaries of tbe working.] man. A few days ago Food Minister! Boret caused the arrest of speculators' who were offering rice for sale at ! forty cents per pound. It turned out j thai ihp rice has been obtained from; the food ministry at the legal price of'j sixteen cents a pound. But it had] had a circuitous journey before reach- j ing !lie consumer passing through sixj alleged brokers who in turn levied a \ percentage on the rice. They were.! each fined two hundred francs .md! costs. DfsCTSK I>KA?17F OF NATION'S, j ! Paris. March 15.?The peace con-; kfererice invitation to neutrals to par-j : ttcipatc in tire disrusipn of a league j of liajtions has brotigbt responses j from Switzerland, Holland, Denmark. pKorway; and Sweden which for-1 ! wared statements of their views to! 1 Confederate Secretary. ' 1 [ War's Greatest Deed Breaking of Hindenburg Line by 27th and 30th Divisions. _ ? *In a speech iu the senate Tuesday, Senator Wadsworth,. of Xew York, who had returned from a visit to France, where he inspected the hat? tlefields and especially studied the^op erations of the 27th and the 30th di visions, which broke the Hindenburg line, referred to the .achievement of these two units ua.:. one of the great events of the war. Senator WadS worth said: "The two American divisions that were left with the British served with the British during their entire service in France, They, were-the 27th and 30th divisions, the-first made up af the New York national guard division and the second the national guard'di vision fram Tennesseeand North Car olina and South Carolina. "Those two divisions, in a sense, were an integral part of the British army. They did not even have their own supply trains with them. Their artillery, too, had been sent to the! St. Mihiel sector to operate with the American First Army and later with! the American Second Army in Ar g?nne. : "Those two divisions consisted onlyj of Infantry, the machine gunners, the engineers, and the signal corps bat-j talions, all, .practically, foot soldiers. I Everything was supplied by the Brit- j isb. They served for many weeks, hi' Celgium in the trenches. It was they, I Mr.' President, who reoccupied Kern-I me! ftill. But in the middle of Sep- j tember they were moved down faith- j ;r'to the south. On September 29 tho-yj were thrown against the Hindenburg. line. "1 ? have attempted to descrilKJ ?omething of the Argonnc country: uerhaps Senators will bear with me if I attempt to describe, inadequately, 1 Tear, something of the nature of the ( lefehse which these two divisions : found confronting, them and which I hey attacked and captured. The Ca-j' tal du Nord which if 1 remember cor- J *ectly. connects the Oise river and the} Rheidt ^tinning approximately north j' md south passes through the towns!: of St. Quentln and Cambrai. Ski 3uentin and Cambrai, senators will -em ember, were towns sUuated upon 1 ??r close to the famous Hindenburg 1 tine.. Midway between those two ' .owns the canal itself runs under a Ix?j through a tunnel which is ap- ? iroximately three miles long. The. 1 tlindenburg line in that sector w.<s j1 ;>ased upon that canal along most of ' .hat distance between St. Quemin J ind Cambrai. IU strongest point was j 1 he point where the canal pierced this ! lill and ran through this long tunnei. j' The Germans had established two im - [1 nenscly strong lines out in front ef.rJ he hill pierced by the tunnel, and rnj mmrnseiy strong defensive position j/ Uong the top of the hill pierced by\{ he canal. From the tunnel Itself theyj1 lad cut long pasriageways, built in the ' 'orm of stairway s. at least five feyt. : vide, at frequent intervals, which is\-. ' t.bled their troops, talcing refuge jrij ' his three-mile tunnel, on a moment's: j notice, to climb the stairways , and! *et into the trenches on top of the! lill and in front of the hill. It was!] l vast maze of underground passage-1 vays. Qhe tunnel was lighted with j, >Iectricity. and the German troops \' tad their ' kitchens, there. Canal: ?arges, had been backed into the tun- j tel'by the. Germans; the German |( roops living in bunks built into the] , ?arges! Each end of the tunnel was * rtocked by an* enormously thick cour , irete-Avail, with slits in it for machine * runs. . .s. -? "On September 29 the 27th and 30;h ' livisions of American troops were aunched against that position. It re lulred three days for thera .to over ;ome it; Their iosses were very se-! , ?ere-. frankly, senators, T do not see j ' low men could have - gone through! mch a position and come out aliv?.j The achievement was astounding. I{ ;h!nk it would seem so to any civil- ? * an after seeing that maze of trench* * j md underground passages, acres and! ;icres of barbed wire,, and the canal (* tself. The men were subjected to :i j tearful enfilading fire from their lett j flank as they pushed their way irko j this position. A British division a*- j * listed upon the right flank: a famous j. division, the 4dth Highlanders,;1 they crossed the open canal south.of [ the-tunnel. The American objectives were three kilometers away from 1 their starting point, but they reached !' them on the first day; ? j "Then ensued a terrific hand-to, hand contest to hold what they hart!1 taken. .An Australian division was'' thrown in to help them, and the Aus- j " tralians and Americans fought side!3 by side there for two days. One bat-1 talion. the 107th infantry?which sen-; ators may be interested in knowing is! the old 7th New York?Was for two i and a half days separated, far out In ! advance, having reached the objective ; assigned to th**m. and was reached by j airplanes, which dropped cartridges' und chocolate to the - men/ -At the j end of two and a half days support j' reached those men. and the action;' was eomplfete. I' "Gen. Haig and Gen. Rawlinson.! the- field army commander, showered j compliments on those two divisions. ? They had achieve,! what I honestly!" believe to be o'ne- of the. greatest j' achievements of this war, but it stag- ' g^red and shattered th? strongest Oer-J., man offensive position in France, and: resulted ia lb*-, crumbling of that!1' whole",port.r>h of tlie German line." i Quiet at Tientisn Washington. March 17.?Minister: Ueinscb, at Peking; advised the State) department today thai :?!1 is quiet :it TJ<*n Tsm. Where there was trouble last week between American soldi ~S and Japanese, and that he is sendi rj a Cull report by mail. The department instructed him to report all important farts l?y cftbi?? immediately. The fact thai Minister ftoinsch believed it unnecessary send :.> report hv <-:ibi<? is regarded' here as indicating that be did not at tach Ki*<:it importance to the matter. VVashinglon. March 17.?The as-i Signmeut Cor e:r/y convoy of the! S2d Division. Alabama, Tennessee national army, was announced today in cablegram from Ges. Ptrthiag. 1 J Watching H?n Army j American Intelligence Officers Keeping in Touch With Affairs in Germany. i Coblenz, Feb." 27 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?The in telligence section of ' the American Army, continues to keep strict watch of the movements of the. German army and will, continue to do so. until the American Army of Occupation leaves the Rhineland for home after the signing of the peace treaty. ...Recent reports to the Americans holding the Coblenz bridgehead are to the effect that the few units of the old German standing army which were performing any active service early in February apjieared to have been reorganized on a uniform plan. The majority of these troops, information in the hands of Americans indicate, are simply drawing pay and passing j the time the best way possible in | their home depots, patiently awaiting! discharge or having made up their j minds to remain in service in pref- j erence to seeking employment in civil; life. These units are divided between j those who are perfectly willing toj perform active service and those who! are not. The willing ones, usually j including most of the officers and j non-commissioned officers, have tak an a new name for their organization, j but continue to use the depots and j other facilities of the old unit. The I unwilling soldiers also have been re-; maining in the depots of the old unit. I It was in: this manner that the; P-iinhardt regiment which fought thei Spartacans in Berlin and which earlv in February had companies assigned to Weimar when the national assem bly was convened and also other de- j fach merits sent to eastern front, was; formed from Fourth Foot Guard regi ment in P.erlin and has retained pos session of that depot. , The new German Sen netzen division eonsists of volunteers of the Tfiirty- j first division, the volunteer regiment being: stationed in Berlin, while the j remainder of the Thirty-first has been in.depots in the Hartz region. German press dispatches from the region of Polish-German clashes re cently mentioned the. "Volunteer Bat talion Koop" which was reorganiz ed from the One Hundred and Forty Ninth regiment of Sehneidemuehl. Another recently mentioned unit was the "Yorehsche Jaeger corps" which reports indicate was the volunteer contingent of the First Jaeger battal ion, the crops using the battalion de pot at Ottelsburg. Each of the Units appeared to in clude many volunteers from outside their ranks, and all of them were ictively conducting recruiting. According to recent estimates of American army officers, the standing German army the first, week in Feb ruary numbered between 300,000 and 100.000 officers and men. These esti mates do not include several hun dred thousand soldiers, who hav^j volunteered for the defenses in the aast *agalnst the Bolshevik! or the Poles. Bill Against Germany France Making Inventory of Property Destroyed. Paris,- Feb."-17 (Correspondence of :he Associated Press)?A balance <hect drawn up from official data by the Paris ,'. Information shows the ?tate of account on February 1 as be^ :ween France and Germany for de struction'and damage to railway |)lant: On the debit side, destroyed by the Germans: French northern railway system; I 2.062 miles of track; French eastern railway system, 1,-J '37 miles of track; . ? j Bridges, aqueducts and culverts de-i <troyed: 1.510. Tunnels destroyed. 12; Telegraph and telephone lines de-f jtroyed-. 1,9.8? miles; I Railway buildings destroyed, f>90 j Food depots destroyed/ 165; Metal tubing and pipelines destroy ed. 20.000 tons. Twenty-live great machinery repair ing centers have been entirely wreck-; ?d or seriously damaged, including j; :hose of Lille, Douai, Arras. Valen-j nenues. Cambrai, Rheims and Ver- ? lun. .On the credit side: l.-'^o engines and 34.071 cars sur rendered by Germany to France out) t>f th<s 2.<;00 engines and 70,000 cars stipulated by the terms of the ar-j mistice. RESOURCES OP KAMCHATKA. Rich in Fish. Lumber and Coal, * Awaiting} Development. Vladivostok, Feb. 15 (Correspond- j, enoeji?Immense resources in fisher ies, lumbering and coal mining await'. Development in the sea of Okhotsk , tnd the island of Shaghatien. dolos ( Primorya in an article pointing out , Lhe need for improved shipping ajiid j transportation facilities in thatk northern region says that with onJyj", nine seagoing steamers available-, wfihj] nt aggregate capacity of 527 to?>s. \ i N'lkolaevsk. the center of distribution, j exported 3.6,000 tons of fish last year. I The crying need of the industry is< more ships, according to tbe newspa per in question. !, "The commercial fleet," continues j the paper, "must be made ten orj twenty times larger. The coastline of i Kamchatka with its rich fisheries, tbei Sea of Okhotsk as well as the coalj producing regions of Shaghaiien use; JsikoJaey.sk as a center for distribu-i Hon. To meet the requirements ai commercial (le.^i of 20,000 tons is necessary. There is enough limber available to supply al! Europe, and there is enough iron to supply local j Herds. London, March 17.?Special Berlin] dispatches report the suppression of.j the recent Spartacan outbreak there,i It is shown that {he military aid' monarchist reaction is growing and. overshadowing the new government, j According to a dispatch to Tin* Mail,; the Spartacan revolt will recur in ever increasing force unless a miracle happens. 1 t J Minstrelsy in Prance ?Knights of Columbus Organize I Company to Entertain Ex peditionary Forces. i Paris, March 1 (Correspondence) ? The Knights of Columbus Minstrels, the largest entertainment project yet I attempted by that organization in j France began at Chaumont recently a tour of the entire area occupied by j the American Expeditionary Force. I The entertainment was heid in the j largest available hall, and \vas at tended by 3,500 .officers and men. 'Che ! troupe will tour the larger army posts j covering all embarkation ports as a j unit, say? a n announcement. Later the compauy will be separated into several small organizations touring the lesser camps. .. No camp garrison ed by over one thousand men will be omitted in the tour of entertainment The minstrels will visit all camps in Germany and Italy wherever Ameri I can soldiers are, and will probably j visit England. Nemesis Overtakes Tyrant Gen. Von Arnim Brute Com mander in Flanders Killed by Peasants London, March 17.?General Count Sixt von Arnim, the. commander of the German army in Flanders during a large part of the war, has been beaten to death-by" peasants at-Asch, Bohemia, according to a Paris dis patch. It is said .that von Arnirm shot at peasants gathering firewood on his land and.a mob invaded and pillaged Iiis chateau after killing him. Soldiers See Europe -i Leave of Absence Granted for Extended Tours. Coblenz. Feb. 14.?The leave of ab sence area for the American army of occupation was recently extended to include Greece.. Under the pres ent plan officers and men of the Third Army, in cases ?where leave is granted, may visit Paris, Belgium, England, Italy or Greece, leaves being for two weeks, except in exceptional cases. TRAVELING IX RUSSIA. En Route to Omsk, Aboard British -Military Train, Jan*. 3.?-(.Corres pondence of The Associated Press)? Harbin was crowded, to the bursting point when our train carrying British troops to Omsk arrived there. It was quite impossible .to obtain a room anywhere in the town. Prices con stantly rising. The temperature was 10 degrees below zero and the at mosphere dry and bracing. Hundreds of tiny droskies, drawn by two . shaggy-coated Mongolian horses driven by bundled-up Man ehus. took passengers only at exor bitant rates. The railroad station was swarming with people of a score of nationalities, all hurrying and jostling, incarnating the . fear and uncertainties of Russian ? life of to day. The correspondent visited the .largest grocery store and laid in an extra-supply of canned goods. The place was jammed with people. It was well stocked with goods, and many neople were buying wines, in cluding champagne. An American* ^o?sewife would have found the .^tore-system unbearable. A single cashier received the. payments from hundreds of purchasers who were forced to stand in line for an hour he fore they could pay their checks and receive their packages. Harbin is Chinese territory but Russia has always considered herself as posses ing primary rights. The great topic- of discussion was the future of Russia and everybody seemed to have a different view. All were unanimous, however, that the railroads must be put into better working shape. One heard pleasant things about America and Americans, and the conviction was freely voiced that America had no territorial de signs on Russia. Russian journalists, including j Z. Kliorin, the editor of The New Life, said the principles of Bolshevism probably were more deeply rooted, in the hearts of the Russian people than was believed by Americans. They said that allied intervention should be solely to restore order and not in terfere with internal politics. Rus sia, they said, should be left to work aut her own political destiny. Inter ference from abroad would only postpone a losriCii! evolution of Rus sia's revolution. i An American railroad engineer, R. !??. Ashby, of Pocatello, Idaho. one;of the 200 experts in Siberia under the direction of .lohn P. Stevens to help operate the Trans-Siberian and oth er railways came aboard our train dt Titsikar, Manchuria. The place] was a wild, uncultivated prairie, with j hillocks extending far away into the horizon. /1 "This place, said Mr. Ashby, "Is-, called "No Man's Land," and onej might well believe it. He said the;' American engineers were now as-j listing the Russian staff officers who j controlled different seetions or the railway line as far as Manehuli. He lived in :i barracks with six other American engineers. They had some baseball in the summer and skating in the winter. Tbe 'temperature was I generally about the same as that of Ca nada. One could hardly help feeling that the Americans should know and realize something of what these American engineers are doing, often under obstacles in fulfillment of the American spirit of humanity and helpfulness. .Mrs. David Fraser. wife of tbe cor respondent Oi the jjondon Times, came aboard the train to travel to Omsk to join her husband. Every body admired her. She wore a uni form with knickerbockers and car ried her own provisions and cigarettes for her husband, for there are ^no sijar*::ei fct had fti Oxntfc* . ' TO BED GROUCHY WAKE UP FEELING ! GLORIOUSLY i ?, . .. _ . ,: .. .......? j Wonderful How Calotabs, the j Perfected Nausealess Calomel, j Makes You Feel So Good the Next Morning j Doctors say that the old style calo j mel was best medicine in the world ? and only thing that would straighten j out a disordered liver, but it had some ': serious drawback. The salivating and j te sickening after-effects made many j people dread to take it. The new cal mcl called Calotabs, have all the liver i benefits left in and the sting taken out j Now you can take calomel without the j slightest objection. One Calot?b on J fhe tongue at bedtime with a swallow i of water, that's all. No taste, no dan I ger. ro griping, no nausea, no salts. I Next morning your liver is clean, your j system purilied and you are . feeling like a two-year-old,?with a hearty appetite for breakfast. Eat what you please.?no danger Calotabs are so delightful that your druggist will refund the price if you are not delightful with them. Sold jonly in original sealed packages, price .'thirty-five cents All druggists ? now ! have Calotabs.?(adv.) -? Disorder in Egypt Troops Subdue A Riotous Mob at Tanta. ljondon, [March * "5 7.?There, has been rioting at Tanta, Egypt, :in con nection with the disorders there the past deek. On March 12th three thousand persons attempted to rush the railroad, station at Tanta, but the attack was frustrated by troops and police. . ? .. , Propaganda in China Russian Bolsheviki Working for Revolution in China Pekin, March 12.?The Chinese government is alarmed over the Pe trograd report relative to the forma tion of a Chinese working men's or ganization, with sixty thousand mem-\ bers, for the object of carrying on revolutionary propaganda and estab lishing Soviets in China. Simonds on British Attitude. I think it is of the utmost impor tance that America should under stand how real and general is the British belief that the time-has come when the United States must accept a portion of the responsibilities in cident to her great strength as dis closed in the war. It is the view1 of the British in large numbers that. America should become in a certain sense the agent of the League of Na tion in many of the lost regions of the earth, not to raise the. American flag not to become a competitor in a new imperialism, but to undertake ji task of civilization and liberation so col ossal as to demand American resources to the utmost. Now with this fact in mind it is not difficult to see the British repre sentatives at work in Paris. They are ready to cooperate with Mr. Wilson and the Americans in practically every question that comes up. Precisely in the same way and in the little dif ferences of opinion in the world of journalism British journalists at Par is stand shoulder to shoulder with Americans. I can conceive of no policy uttered, no purpose declared by Amer icans at Paris which would lead the British to separate themselves from us, however considerable the cost to them. In any event this is the spirit of Britian in Paris. I do not lind anywhere any British appetite for territory. Rather I find the British reluctantly compelled to champion certain demands made by their Colonies?notably Australia and South Africa?with respect to the Ger many Colonies, but doing iz with out enthusiasm or great conviction. 1 do not find the British eager to extend their frontiers- or add to their Emp're but rather apprehensive of the great ness of the burden already laid upon their shoulders.?Prom "America and the Allies" at the Peace Table." by Frank H. Simonds in American Re views of Reviews for March 1919. IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW. 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