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LAY FAIR VOLUME XLVT. STJ3. GENEVIEVE, MISSOURI. SATUKDAY. JUNE 10.

1917. NUMBER. 8. NEWS OF WEEK Told Herewith in Tabloid Form Condensed Items of Interest for Every Member of the Household MISCELLANEOUS. Secretary Lansing lias written to the Chinese authorities, urging them to como to mi agreement and to devote their energies to Internal development rather than war.

lUots at the workhouso In St. Loulo resulted In the wounding of a dozen men. Sixteen vessels are caught In an lco Jam Just north of Duluth, Minn. An unnamed, armed U. S.

merchantman is reported to have sunk a German submarino after a running battle of 90 minutes, during which CO shots were exchanged. Fear of a repetition of last summer's prevalence ot man-eating sharks along the Atlantic coast Is felt as the result of an attack by a shark on Wallace Plerson, son ot Savannah's mayor. Women who want to farm and thus help Undo Sam feed the world began studying ngriculturo 'at tho Maryland agriculture college. COURT PROCEEDINGS. Charles J.

Iteis, 28 years old, pleaded guilty in tho Monroo county circuit court to setting fire to three buildings in Waterloo and Columbia, 111., and was sentenced to the penitentiary at Chester. CRIMINAL. Canada Is planning a conscription law whereby every male between tho ages of 18 and 45 are made liable to continued military eervico. Bruno llerold of Austin, despondent over the condition of his crop, slew his wife, beat his two children to death and then shot himself In tho heart. Prisoners at Jollet rovolted Tuesday, set fire to tho shops, defied troops sent to quell tho disturbance, with the result that ono la dead and nlaa wounded.

John V. Clark, until recently a high school Instructor in New Orleans, was arrested In Los Angeles on a charge of violating tho Mann act. PERSONAL. Gen. J.

J. Pershing with his personal staff of CO officers and a force of clerks, has arrived in England to look after American interests on tho European front. W. C. D'Arcy of St.

Louis was chosen as president of the Assocated Advertising Clubs of tho World at tho convention Just closed In St Louis. Galo Carr, 22, a negro boy, born and reared Clarkavllle, but now serving in tho British army In Franco, rccontly was awarded two medals for bravery. Edward II. Clift of New York, first vlco-president ot tho American Protective Tariff league, left bequests exceeding $260,000 to relatives and friends, but made no provision for hi3 widow. ACCIDENTS.

Paul Engel, 2 years old, of Cincinnati was paved from drowning In a sewer by a human chain. Chris Geis-ler and Edward Bitters were the "links." When an auto in which they wero riding slipped from the road into tho Goose river, near Gadsden, Miss Farris Fry and Preston Peak were drowned. A factory in Auberblllcrs, a suburb of Paris, was demolished by an explosion which lifted the roofs from nearby buildings. CONGRESSIONAL. President Wilson has nominated J.

7. M6rrison, W. L. Slbert and C. a.

Morton to be major generals in tho army. Eighteen colonels wero promoted to brigadiers. Senator Harding of Ohio criticises the campaign for tho salo of Liberty bonds as "hysterical and unseemly." A bill Introduced congress expatriates citizens who flod to escape registration and bar's ther re-entry. Former Representative Herman' A. Metz of New York and Dr.

Georgo Walker ot Johns Hopkins university came to blows at tho senate patent committeo's hearing on legislation to coihmandeer German patents on sal-varan n. A prohibitive tax on whisky and other distilled spirits for beveraso purposes during tbo war of J5 per gallon' was decided upon by tho sonato finance committee. DOMESTIC. St Louis has subscribed for of tho Liberty Loan bonds and is tho first municipality to "do its bit" Tho, reply of Uermany to Spain regarding tho gunfire attack by a U-boat- on tho Spanish steamer Patricio la' understood to be extremely cordial. John L.

Skinner pO years old, ot Blo'omington, 111., was married to Mrs. Elizabeth CD, following a courtship by mall that lasted a year. An agreement has been reached between the Italian commission aud the federal authorities whereby Italy may recruit Italians ot military age pair In tbli country. The American Medical Assoclattjn Is considering a rsoltition that alcohol has no value as food, drug or stlsv ulant, and Is only fit for a preserva tlve. In answer to "What can people beyond tho military ngc do to help in this wnr7" former President Taft said: "Tho more Important nro to fcubserlbe to the Liberty loan, the Red Cross and the Y.

M. C. GENERAL. Tho long-projected tunnel unltln? England and Franco Is again belns considered by a body of British ani French engineers. Judgo Dyr In tho United States district court Issued an order permitting Illinois roads to raise fares from 2 to 2.4 cents per mllo.

Interference by tho stnto commission will resull In Jail terms for the commissioners Troops aro called to Ilockford, 111. to guard 140 slackers who havo re fused to register. They nro said tc bo I. W. W.

members. German submarines sank fowcr ves scls last week than in slmllnr period since the unrestricted campaign began. European countries havo mado application to tho U. S. treasury for $100,000,000 In loans during Juno.

Elmer O. Wadlow, chairman of the Missouri army registration board, resigned and asked Gov. Gardner to ap point his successor. Dr. Charles H.

Mayo, tho famous surgeon and president of tho American Medical association, favors a new official In tho president's cabinet, to be filled by a physician. Twenty-six people are dead as a result of storms In Missouri and Kansas In tho first week of Juno. This year's wheat crop Is estimated to reach bushels, as against 040,000,000 for last year. Four children ot It. L.

Wilkerson of Durant, confessed tho murder of their father. Mexican raiders crossed tho lino near Mission, slow a rancher1, mistreated his wife and daughters and escaped. Brazil's war minister explains break with Germany by declaring Germany was making war on all Latln.Amerlca. The socialists at Stockholm refuse to consider tho restoration of Alsace-Lorraine to Franco as annexation. Invaluable records ot the United States navy, believed to havo been stolen by traitors from tbo U.

S. S. South Dakota, were found In the waters of San Francisco bay near Emeryville. Government investigators into tho reasons for high-priced coal in Illinois recently discovered 15 cars loaded with spoiled potatoes on a siding closo to a coal mine near SeatonvIUe, III. His mind unbalanced over tho European war, James Bruno, 38, Italian coal miner, ended his life In tho Christian county (111.) Jail by Jabbing his throat against tho steel support of his cot.

COMMERCIAL. Railway owners In convention havo appealed to tho I. C. C. to permit lines to Increaso rates In order to stabillzo securities.

WAR BREVITIES Tho allies account for tho failure of the 1917 campaign by saying that Russia has laid down on tho Job. The U. S. Is asked to furnish 1,815,000 men in tho next few months. Tho British exploded 1,000,000 pounds of lyddite under Gorman positions In Belgium.

Tho Teutons wero panic-stricken. The sound of tho blast was heard 140 miles. The Chinese Interpreter at Ellis Island, Philip persuaded COO American-born Chinamen to enlist In the United States army. Six American hospital units are now on duty In France, tho personnel consisting of 144 doctors and 390 nurses. Regular army recruiting established a new dally record Monday when 4,201 men wero obtained as against an aver-ago dally figure ot 1,500 since April i.

Tho United States court of appeals denied tho potltion of Attorney J. D. Showalter ot Kansas City for a writ of habeas corpus for the releaso of six persons imprisoned for opposing the draft law. Russian warships in the Black sea on May 29 destroyed 147 enemy sailing vessels. FOREIGN.

Arrangements have been completed with tho German government for tho withdrawal of all British wnr prisoners from the firing line. They will bo kept a dlstanco of 18 miles from the front. The German government's desire to facilitate tho departure of Americans wUhlng to leave Germany was reiterated by Baron von Dem Bussche-Hnd-denbausen, undersecretary for foreign affairs. President Polhcare has signed a decree creating a Polish army. Tho Poles now serving in the French army will form the nucleus ot the now forcti and all other available Poles will bo invited to enlist.

An efort on the part of German Catholics to got Into communication with the French Catholics on tho subject of peace is rovealed in La Croix by Mgr. Baudrlllart, rector cf tho Catholic institute in Paris, It Is said there aro 12,000 deserters, mostly Italians, who aro hiding out in tho Swiss mountains. Sixteen German airships raldod the cast coast ot England lost week. Six ot the machines -were destroyed. The damage dono by raiders was reported slight.

GERMANS UNABLE TO STOP FOE'S ADVANCE Enemy Disorganized by Fierce Attack of Allies. DRIVEN IN DISORDER FROM MESSINES RIDGE. Mine Explosion Begins Work Completed by Artillery Fire and Brilliant Infantry Advance Old Score Made Even. With the British Annie In Truiice, Juno 7, via London, June 8. Tlu British armies struck todny on new front and won victory wh'h supplements the successes nt Arrns during the lust two Months.

The Germans, though apparently nwnre Hint the Mow wns coming nnil pccmlngly prepared to meet It, were driven from their nearly three years' hold on Messines ridge, opposite "poor old" Ypres. Ypres In wwe wns nvenged today, for Messines ridge has been the vnntiigo point from which the fiermnns linve poured torrents of shells Into the stricken city. The British nlso wiped off nn old score against tho Oer-mnns, for they held the ridge In October, 101-1. and with very thin forces, nnd virtually no nrtlllery, fought bloodily but vainly to hold It when the Prus-slnn troops massed their modern nnd overpowering weapons of war ngnlnst It. Prisoners taken declared thnt the bombardment of Vlmy ridge wns child's piny compared with the gunfire turned upon Messines ridge.

Artillery Fire Devastating. This fire reached Us climax Just ns dawn wns graying the eastern skies nnd While the full moon wns still suspended high In the heavens. The nttnek was nceompanled by nil tho arts nnd deviltries of hitter-day wnr. The enemy guns nnd gun crews had leen bathed for days In gas shells sent over by tho long-range British guns. The night wns filled with red incendiary llnmes.

Shells thnt spurted lend In streams crashed In npp-illlng numbers about the bends of tho defending soldiers. Hlgh-exploslve nnd shrapnel lire wns carried out with such rapidity that the earth writhed under the force of the nttnek. Mines thnt had taken two years to dig and lilt with nn overwhelming explosive broke Into nn nvalnncho of flaming destruction In the half light of dawn. This wns Indeed nn Ypres day of retnllntlon nnd victory for the vicious sufferings of two years nnd eight months. Superfluous Clothing Discarded.

It was day of Intense hoot, nnd the gunners worked strlpiied to tho waist. The nttnek went forward with clock-like regularity. Tho British casualties wero slight. Three out of four of the casualties were reported to bo wnlklng eases, who would return to duty In few days. Tho nttnek began nt dawn, nnd tho setting wns us picturesque ns can well ho Imaginable.

Tho day before had been hot and sultry. Toward evening there wns series of thunder storms which extended well Into the night, tho lightning mingling the Hashes of the guns, but tho thunder being virtually unnoticed nmld the din of tho cannon. A full moon struggled continuously to break through tho clouds. Sing on Way to Fight On tho way to the front were nil the familiar pictures of the war endless trains of motor trucks; all varieties of hilrso transport, tho British soldiers nmrchlng to battle light of heart and singing songs fnmlllnr in every American community. From the German lino the snmo lazy, looping rocket slgnnls wero ascending to Illuminate tho treacherous bit of ground between tho trenches known ns No Man's Laud.

Tills nightly "strufllng" had been going on so long thnt the enemy considered It entirely iiormnl nnd took no alarm. Oc-cnslonnlly blue and yellow rockets would bo flung Into the nlr by Germans holding the front line. Like Volcanoes In Eruption. Day was scarcely breaking when from tho dimly visible ridge score of fiery volcanoes seemed suddenly to spring from the earth. The night hnd been filled with strange noises aud still stranger sights, but theso masses of llame, leaping from the ground, had a meaning all their own.

They were tho spectacular outward and visible evidences of more than million pounds of high oxploslves which had been burled deep In mines below tho one-, uiy's positions for mouths. All the world appeared luriil nnd horrible under the sinister glow. Tho earth shook us If torn by a great seismic disturbance. It wns not single shock. The foreo of tho explosion actually set tho earth rocking to and fro, and 'under the liilluenco of tho giant guns, which Immedlutoly began to roar from fur unci near, tho trembling continued indefinitely.

PREMIER HEARS GUNS ROAR From His Residence In England, 140 Miles Away, British Statesman Listens, to Battle's Opening. London, Juno 7, Tho tremendous, explosions that openisl tho British nttnek on Wytschaeto bend wero heard by David Llpyd George, tho British premier, who was staying for tho night nt his residence, Walton Heath, 140 miles cwny. Tho plans? for tho nttaclc had been It has seemed thnt the luittfe of tie Somine utttiliicd thu ultimate In the close assembly of wnr weapons, but this sudden outpouring on Messines fldge was beyond nil caleulntloii. The lighter Hold guns fnr forward set up perfect eurtnln lire, under which the assaulting troops trudged confidently to their ullotleil goals. Further back Hie deep-lhroated heavies began to pour out torrents of high explosive shells on the German trenches nnd communications, while still other guns enough to win nny ordinary battle confined themselves solely to tho task of deluging German guni and In baths of gits llred In shells of every conceivable caliber.

The effect of tills counter buttery work wns not uppreclnted until Inter In tho dny, when the Infantry sent back word that thelr I -ogress had not been hampered by the enemy artillery nnd that their casualties amounted to virtually nothing. Enemy Signals for Help. Great black observation balloons had stolen skyward during the din of the nowly begun battle. Ill the wood back of the windmill spring birds, akened by the deafening clamor, bud begun to sing Joyously. Like so many children who have como into the consciousness of being In tho midst of the war, these birds regarded the appalling noise of the battle ns a normal condition of life.

Tho smoke of the glnnt mines exploded along the battle front meantime rose In great, curling plumes to-wnrd the sky and wns punctuated by red slgnnls for help from tho stricken Germans In tho front and support lines. Never wns the air filled with more frantic notices ot (lunger. The entlro horizon glowed with red balls ot fire sent up by the nervous Ger-innns. More and moro British airplanes began to make their appearance. Ono Hew over the lines, the Hashes of the guns being retlected brilliantly on Its highly glazed wings.

I'mler this nppnlllng fire trudged forward on the ten-mile front General PI amor's army. At ninny places the men found German troops utterly dazed by the mine explosion nnd the ordeal of the artillery fire. Get Idea of Real Warfare. Mnny of theso troops hnd but recently come from Russia, where they had spent IS months nnd knew nothing of what actual warfare wns like on the western front. They had bolted at the first mine explosion and had only been gathered together In groups by their noncommissioned officers when the British appeared out of tho smoku and shells nnd made them prisoner.

They said they had been given to understand by their ofileers that the British nhvays killed their prisoners. It wns really pitiful In some Instnnccs to see tho manner In which these prisoners cringed to their captors. As matter of fact, the British soldier, when tho fighting Is done. Is Inclined almost too strongly to tren the German prisoners as pals. Some of tho prisoners tnkon todny had only gone Into tho German lines Inst night and hnd made their way forward under galling Are nnd had lost heavily.

But the troops already In the line were calling for relief In such manner that their nppeals could not be denied. German Commanders at Fault. In view of the fact that tho attack had been expected the German com-mnnders wore endeavoring to get their host units actually Into the fighting front, but had underestimated when the British would strike. The troops In strange lino were utterly bewildered when tbo nttnek begun nnd fell easy prey to the advancing British. The battle was far more visible during the first uncertain moments than later when tho sun grndunlly burned Its wny through the eastern banks of clouds.

By thnt time the smoke of exploding shells nnd tho vapors from the blinding barrage, which had been part of the artillery duty, obscured the more distant landscape to such an extent that the roaring guns could not bo seen nt all, although the firing was almost at one's feet. Tho brilliantly leaping shrapnel shells, breaking fnr nbove ground, appeared through thick mist only ns brief nnd brilliant elcctrle spnrks. German Airships Outclassed. For a month past, but especially since June 1, tho nlrplanes on this front have been Indefntlgnbly nt work during every possible Hying hour. They hnd brought down nearly .11) machines In six days us a means ot blinding tho enemy.

Lately the Germans have endeuvored valiantly to obtain nlrp'ano observations for their artillery, but their observing mnchlnes have seldom been able to direct more thnn one or two shots before the Brit-Mi fighting scouts had pounced upon them and either sent them crnsblng to (he earth or had driven them to cover nt breakneck speed. Today the British planes flew fnr nnd long over the enemy's retreating lines and were only challenged by some very bad-shooting untl-nlrcraft batteries. All through the day British planes ruled the nlr. They co-operated actively with tho British nrtlllery nnd Infantry In maintaining the success of this brilliant episode In modern warfare, long maturing nnd when tho preparations wero perfected tho premier was acquainted with the exact hour It was Intended to open It. Accordingly, on retiring last night Mr.

Lloyd George guvo orders to bo called ut three. Tho premier and oilier members of his household clearly heard tho tfe-inendpus ns nlso dd persons nt tho nremler'c official residence in London, who supposed tliejv were tho sounds of heavy guns until they learned that they came from ine exploslou of mine. THE NAME OF OLD GLORY BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY rLD GLORY! Vy By the ships and the crew, And the long, blended ranks of the gray and the Who gave you, Old Glory, the name that you bear With such pride everywhere As you cast yourself free to the rapturous air And leap out full length, as we're wanting you to Who gave you that name, with the ring of the sarne, And fne honor and fame so b'oVnins? to you Pi-'; 1 Your stripes stroked in ripples or white and of red, With your stars at their glittering best overhead By day or by night Their delightful lest light Laughing aown from rhefr little scruare heaven of gave you the name of Old Glory who Who gave you the name of Old Glory? The old banner lifted, and faltering then In vague lisps and whispers fell silent again. ii Old Glory, speak out are asking about How you happened name, so to say, That sounds so familiar and careless and gay As we cheer it and shout in our wild breezy way We the crowd, every man of us, calling you that WeTom, Dick.and Harry -each swinging his hat And hurrahing "Old Glory!" like you were our kin, When all know we're as common as sin! And yet it just seems like you humor us all And waft us your thanks, as we hail you and fall Into line, with you over us, waving us on Where our glorified, sanctified betters have this is the reason we're wanting to know-CAnd were wanting it so where our own fathers went we are willing to go.) Who gave you the name of Old Glory-Ohol Who gave you. the name of Old Glory? The old flag unfurled with a billowy thrill For an instant, then wistfully signed and was still.

TEL Old Glory: the story we're wanting to hear Is what the plain facts of your christening your name-just to hear it, Repeat it, and cheer it, 's a tang to the spirit As salt as a tear And seeing you fly, and the boys marching by, There's a shout in the throat ana a blur in the eye And an aching to live for you always -or If, dying, we still keep you waving on high. And so, by our love For you. floating above, Ana the scars of all wars and the sorrows thereof. Who gave you the name of Old Glory, and why Are we thrilled at jthe name of Old Glory? Then the old banner leaped, like a sail in the blast, And fluttered an audible answer at last. IE And it spake, with a shake of the voice, and it the driven snow-white and the living blood -red Of my bars, and their-heaven of stars overhead By the symbol conjoined of them all, skyward cast, As I float from the steeple, or flap at the mast, Or droop o'er the sod where the long, grasses nod, My name is as old as the glory of Xaod.

I came by the name of Old Glory. COPYRICHTI900 BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Pa Pu Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa rat Pa S3 Pa Pa Pa lea Pa Pa Pa ha Ha Pa Pa Pa Nl fci Pa Pa Pa rot iPaPaPaPaFaPaPaPaPaPaPaPaPaPaPsPaPaPaPaPaPaPaftaPaPaPaPaPato HIS inspiring poem was read by Mr. Hilcy on February 23, 1903, when the Btato of imiral laylor, who commanded tho battleship Indiana in Before reading the stanzas, the poet paid an introductory 1 Indiana presented a sword to Admiral Taylor, who commanded the battleship Indiana in the engagement oil bantiago. tribute to the Hag as follows "It may seem a Into day in which to attempt a tribute to our glorious old flag, the Stars and Stripes; but that it is an ever newer glory in our eyes and an ever dearer rapture in our hearts. Tho coming generations of its patriot followers, high and low, can but lift to it continuous voices of applause and benediction.

Master orators may eulogize it till no further thrill of speech seems left with which to fitly glorify it, or ioet3 may sing its praiso till their song fcems one with the music of the ripples of the breezes in its silken folds; but no tribute-voice of forum, harp or clarion may well hold unite tho ono all-universal voice that breaks, with cheers and tears at every newer sight of our nation's hallowed emblem tho old ilag. Over its bravo heroes and defenders, since 'the shot heard round the it has been a panoply, a shelter and a shield, nnd yet how proudly have the embattled hosts gone down that they might lift it to securer heights. Its wavering shado has fallen on the weary marcher softly ns the shadow of the maplo at his father's door. lie has heard its fluttcrings, like light laughter, in the lull of noonday battle; hnd, worn with ngony, nbove thp surgeon's tent, that nil is well. Yea, nnd in death tho sacred banner has enfolded him, oven as a mother's fond caress.

So, but tho Tjord's own victory in which he shares; the land ho loved restored, inviolnto, to kinsmen, comrades nnd oncoming patriot thousands yet to be tho broad old land of freedom firm underfoot once more the old ling overhead I And what inspiring symbol must this banner bo to its bravo defenders who go down to sea in ships. One of these a hapless prisoner for a while says this of the old flag is nn odd thing about that ilag when you meet it on tho high seas and tho wind ia blowing Inrd, namely, flint of nil flags I know, it is the most alive; when tho wind blows, tho most eager and keen, with the stars seeming to dance with tho joy of excitement. So that there is none better to go into battle, or como down the street when the fifes nro piping "And with righteous pride it is recorded that upon tho sea-borne on tho throbbing bosom of the gale and baptized with tho salt sea spray this beloved flag of ours was first christened by the name of Old Glory." ra ta Pa Ha frj Ha Pa Pa Pa pa pa fcu fta fa ra rsj Pa Pa na a Pa ria Pa Pi Pa fi ta Pk Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa ra Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Ha Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa SCRAPS Ancient Koine was built on stoven hills. Tho Spitz Is domesticated jacknl. Klsslnj; wns nt one tlinu nn essential part of the iiinrrltiRo service.

Oerinnn nnvul nutliorltlos nro experimenting with electrlcul machinery for gatberlni; pent. In the olden times tho sultan wns nl-lowed seven knchlms, theft' were seven principal oflreers of th court, und ijycn fuinale court functionaries. In Asia tucks nro possessed only by the male elephnnts. Tour pounds per cnpltn is the cheese product of this country nnnunlly, Tho Christian churches planted by the nposlles. were seven.

It has lioen computed thnt 20,000 vehicles pahs rorly-second street nnd Fifth nvenub, Now York, each day. More than 700,000 gallons ot oil ard burned ench year the light stntlons of the United States, nbout gallons of which are for lighthouse II-luuitnatlon Sldeilno developments trom tho war-In Kuropo nro endless. Just now London shop? nre fenturlng nn egg cup for the ue cf men with only ono Illack paper covers for celery plantx make excellent blcnchers. Tho paper comes In tint und Is fastened nbout tho plnnt by means of string und buttons. Tho heavier the soil the deeper It should bo spuded.

Light soli needs more food und more stirring but only on the surface. Heavy soils nro seldom stirred deep enough..