Let if* Write Yon tin Ad. NO. 21 FARM VILLUS ?HW[d*kjtKW. JX- ^5 A person sui'fering from these diseases should bave a separate room, if possible, and should sleep alone A sick person should soeeze or apit into a handker chief, or, better still, into a small piece of gauze or cheese doth. "Such **&? or cheese doth should be bmrM. By < Thoroughly Competent Physician. Influeuza and pneumonia are infectious diseases which are caused by certain germs. Th? germs are car ried in the matter which is spit, sneezed, or coughed up by sick persons, or sometimes by person who, while car rying the disease germ* in their mouth and throat, show no sign of illness. These germs, even if they get into the no6e, mouth, and throat, are usually unable to break through and at tack a person who is in good health. ^ If a person is not in good health, he is usually unable to resist the attack of the germs and they break through some weak point and attack the body.. In order to be able to resist the attacks ot the germs which cause influenza, pneumonia, and other diseases, we must carefully follow these instructions. Special Advice For Preventing These Diseases. Avoid contact with matter which is spit, sneezed, oin coughed up. Persons who feel that they must do so, should spit, sneeze, or cough into a handkerchief. Do not use a cup, spoon, knife, folk or dishes which have been used by others, unless they are first thorough ly washed in boiling water. This applies to the home as well as the public restaurant and soda water fountain. One should avoid placing into the mouth pipes, cigar Mays which have been used by others. ? ? * ?' -V , J-- ; J? s/\>. : -i 1 sroorn _ places where nam* Be freety ventilated. Ear-. in good healthy as well as the | elderly, should be protected from being chilled or wet One should avoid over-eating, especially if, afrer do ing so, one may be exposed to cold, chill or rain. Proper selection of food and exercise in the open air, particularly walking, are helpful in making one's powers of resistance to disease stronger. Dry sweeping in factories, stores, as well as oth^r public places, and the shaking of rugs in public .places, 'ifu KIT A* .d as are cleaa. W" Care of the" Sick. T ' loe 1 ifi and whose symptoms suggest an SPANISH INFLUENZA THE TOBACCO MARKET CLOSED ? - . ? - < - ' ? '? v ? Tl/^SEWECjiif'- V FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD. Drugstores Not Allowed to Serve Drinks Only in Sanitary Drinking Cups. Theatre Closed, and no Smdv, Sdiool or Church Services Wffl be Held Until Further School Closed Tuesday. While ttereaite several ca! Of Influenza in to wn and in 1 surrounding country, a majori To aid !q preventing further spread of an epidemic of Spanish influenza here tb| Board of Health ordered first the doring , of the Pastime Theatre and then frame the closing of the Farm ville Graded School, and all places of public gatherings. The drug stores have been orders** to serve no drinks to anyone without using sanitary drinking to allow more than of the afces so mi!d and no on learned, has < pneumonia. There wiU be vice# of any natu churches of the i pertibleio diseasfcii Americans With British En gaged in One of Most Im portant Battles of War i ? With the British Army on the St Quentin Front, Oct." 8.? (By the Associated' Press)?' The* BritJ ash launched a terrific attack on a front of about twenty miles to day from Cambrai Southward. American forces co-operated and the French, at the south," also attacked in comformity with the general plan. This was the cuaswfcr of- the ^M'^SntofWar. . The battle is one of the most (continued on page Jour) TEXT OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S ? COMMUNICATION TO GERMAN CHANCELLOR MAXIMILIAN ' V it'' * A' ? "L ; ~ V '.. " . V, Washington, Oct.* 8.? The text of the communication handed to the Charge of Switzerland here follows: Sir:? I have the honor to acknowledge, on behalf of the President, your note of October 8th, enclosing the communication from the German government to the President and I am instructed by the PresidenLto request you to make this communication tt> th^ Imperial Ger man Chancellor; V". % 'Before making reply t the constituted authorities of the Empire who have so far contacted the war. He deems the answer to theses questions vital from every point of view. " 'Accept, sir, the renewed assurance of my high consideration; "ROBERT LANSING." ,-vr .. Washington, Oct. 8.? Presi dent Wilson has met Germany's peace note with a move which will, at one stroke, develop whether her prOposaP is sincere or merely a pretention, and. if a pretention it be, fully, justify for all time before the world the prolonging of the war with force to the utmost, force with out stint or limit. At the same lime the President has left wide open the door to peace. 'Master Stroke', Say Diplomrts. Among diplomats here the Piesident's communication is regarded as one of his master strokes. It is pointed out that upon ; cursory examination it may not show such strong terms as some may have desired. All the President's advisers, how lever, are confident that as a close consideration reveals its fu?i import will be apparent that it is a long step forward if Ger many really means peace, and that if she does not it will strip bare Another hypocrisy of Ger man diplomacy so completely ! that the reSponsib;!ity for pro-i ? lofrging the war never can ? be; [charged to the Allies, even By the Geiman people themselves. Punch is Tfi|re--T .. I vim at first satisfy a !C a very deep, but direct, method of developing an answer for all time to the question, do the Ger man people want peace. Unworthy of Trust. | To appreciate its meaning, this part of the President's an swer must be considered in con nection with a portion of his speech of September 27 in New York in which ?e declared.' "We are bll agreed that there can peace ob tained by any* kind of bar ain or compromise with governments of the Cen tral Empires, because we have dealt with them al ready and have seen them deal wite othef governments that were parties to this strug- . gle, at Gretf-Litovsk and Buchrest. They havef con vinced us that the>;are with out honor and do not intend justice. . They observe no covenants, accept no princi ple but force and their own A; interest We cannot 'come . to terms' With tbero. They have nfede it impossible. The Geiman people must & by this time be fuUy aware ? that we cannot accept the ; word of those who have forced this war upon us. We*do not ihink the same thoughts or speak the seme *: It can be authoritatively stat ed that this pronouncement will be thte answer to Prince Maxi milian if he replies te&t he speaks mr.