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GEN. JOHN. J. PEJtSHINC. >»■ the Nn Ytrt Tarn. Fame rlaimad John Joseph Per wW the Alaanaaa Amy in hun la tha Qraat War. TMay hu por tMtt. dona by Jaan Boucher, the of Acial painter, banga aa tka walla at Ifee French Army Muaaiua at tka In valida, flanked by (ha facaa of aoldiera whom Franca haa alwaya hoaaiad. Turarna, Conde, MackMahon, and. the moat illuatrioaa warrior of all. Napoleon. England ha* beetowedg up on tha A mar lr An commander tha Grand Croaa at tha Ordar at tha Bath. Ha waa already a knight without fear and without reproach. An ordar of knighthood could do no more for tha •on of tha Missouri general store keeper than Went Point had done for him and than he had done for him ■alf by living up to Went Point ideaU, and that ia not easy when a man must rant content to be a lieutenant in a cavalry regiment for more than (If-j teen yearn. That wan Pershing's ra.ik in the Santiago campaign in 1HH0. nnd he served in the Quarter-1 master's Department. Twenty yearn later the tall, silent I LieuU'nant of tha Cuban expedition, unimportant now but picturesque in its pe-iod, ia world-famoua aa the leade- of an American army of 1, 900,000 men on historic flebls in France, where men have ^warmed like anta in combat for nearly 2,000 yearn. The native of Linn County must mime times wonder what the old folkii at home 'Jiink of hia translation from its quiet fields and homespun waya to auch dazzling eminence and vast res ponsibility. but it wan certainly felicitious, that President Wilson selected an Amcr e«n sfV.er of Alsatian descent to corrunaril our armies in France. On ly the other day the Association flen emle des Alsncinns-Lorraine d'Amer ique 'iniled (ienemi Pershing, in birthday congratulation, a* of kin to its members, and, said the telegram to him, "we hope to celebrate short ly with you in the village of the fam ily of Pfloershing the victory of civ ilization and the deliverance of op pressed people*." At school he showed an aptitude for mathematics, hut was thinking of the law as a profession when ha heard of a competition for a cadet ship at Wast Point in hia district. By one point only he excelled r.nd hia ca reer was made. Long after he grad uated from the Military Academy General Weaiey Merri t said of young Pershing: "He gave early promise of becoming the superb offcar he ia now known to he. He was earnest, ambitious, energetic, and manly." The senior radet Captain at West Point is always "energetic and man ly." Pershing with his determined face and six feet of frame looked the part in his close-fitting uniform He was a handsome youngster, with the air of command. West Point's most soldierly cadct when he left "the best military school in the world" in 188G There was nothing ahead of Sec ond Lieutenant Pershing but Indian campaigns, brushes with treacherous Apaches and wily Sioux; and the desert v as to he his home for several | years. He always won distinction. | In Dakota he commanded a band of j Sioux scouts. In a quiet time he ac-j cepted the detail of military instruc-1 tor at the University of Nebraska,, and there he studied for the degree of Harhelor of Laws, and was ad mitted to practice. Two years were spent at the Military Academy as teacher of tactics. In 1R98 he went to Tuba as First Lieutenant of the Tenth Cavalry, a crack negro regi WOMAN'S NERVES MADESTRONG By Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Winona, Minn.—"I raftered for more than a year from ncrvouaneaa, and waa to duo i couia not rest at night would lie awake and Ret w> nervoua I would have to gat up and walk around and in the morning would be all tired out. I read about Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Coin pound and thought 1 would try it. My niTvou«ne«e toon left me. I aleep «» iy i iMliro «TI WP iWOi m»K ""U | able to do mstoork. I gladly recom mend I.ydla B Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to\ make weak nervea strong."—Mrs. Albbkt Sultze, 003 Olmstead St., Winona, Minn. How often do we bear the expression amon* women, "I amMnervous, 1 run not slesp." or "it aeema aa though I should fly." Such women should profit by Mrs. Hultaa's experieaee and Riva I 'Is fai^ous root and berh n mrtly, i'ljrJla K t'inkhum's Vegetable torn I u 'I. a trial. for fatty Ti ars It has been overcom ing inch serious conditions u displace (nents. inflammation. ulc. ration. irreg nlsriiiea, periodic psiiu. backache, dis xin>>*. and nervous | rnstrntton of women, ami t* now con>i In'A the itu dard rc.jarfy tutuzU aiUautU, tunily cum Pintag*! way, aad ha «h raady. Aa rnmnai.r at mili tary upaiatluna iftwl dM Mom of Miml.aado ha eaugkt PnMnl l<» • Captaincy la IrtpiMr Gaamal ovar Lh« hwih rf maca Hm MO ■Amw wto ragiatwad ailaat pro taau. FraaUaat Boaaavalt'a prtfar anca haa tone tinea baan rindicatad. Both aa ramaumiar of tha Da part mant of Mindanao and aa Go* am or of Moro Prarinca hnktef provad hi* worth on many occaaiona^ in hia military oparationa ha «aa uniformly ■uer«i*ful with light caaualUaa and hia laporta aa Go*amor ara modal* of aound judgment and claar writ ing. Aa nilar of tha nativaa ha in variably showed tact, patianca, and hrmncaa. I he I ninuanua vxpeumon wii Perahin's chance to prove hi* rapac ity for responsible command. For ■urh a high-spirited and red-blooded man it van sometimes difficult to hold the American Army in leash— •specially after Carrizal. But he had hi* orders from Waahiatrton, and he obeyed them aa a aoldier should. To the Mexicans he had to *how a firm front and yield notning. There is a "elehrated answer to General Tre vlno which wa* a model of resolu tion, in tertnit that rould not be mis understood. It proliab'.y averted a war with Mexico. Beyond doubt General Pershing would never have been selected for the command in f'rance if he hod not powerfully im pressed President Wilson with his discernment, restraint, and patience as well as with his soldierly quali ties. Some day the whole stary of Gen eral Pershing'* organization and training of the American Army in France will be written. It was a her culean task. It bristled witii diffi culties. The French and British high commands could look upon the American troops cs little more than raw material, and the requirement that they be brigaded with the Allies was reasonable. American officers had to go to school to French and British officer:. The men had to take a Ions and vigorous post-graduate course in the A B C of European warfare. But all the time General Pershing was working for a separate Amenc.ui army that could be put in a place of danger in tho line in any emergency. At the e.id of a year, or in less time, the Americans' under hia skillful hand w«ce rerdy to fight like veterans when called upon. The French command was distrustful un til the glorious brush at Cantigny. Then came Chateau-Thierry, and af ter that nothing was too good to say of the valor, fortitude, and stamina of American soldiers in France. It was Pershing's army. He de served the credit of fashioning it into a formidable force. The army knows him for a very plain and kindly man, whose first thought is efficiency and his second the comfort of the private in the ranks, whom he will never al low to be neglected. Marshal Foeh and the British commander know General Pershing as a soldier of the quickest intelligence and of high pro fessional attainments, a perfect prod uct of West Point training, adapta ble, resourceful, and equal to any re sponsibility. The American Army to day can go anywhere and execute any movement in co-operation with French and British troops, excelled by neither veteran army in dash, gallantry, and tenacity of purpose. Hoover Sayi Food Price* Won't Drop Immediately Washington, Nov. 11.—Immediate reduction of food prices as a result of the conclusion of an armistice cannot be expected. Food Administrator Hoover tonight in a statement said that while the prices of some food stuffs will decrease, other* will in crease. "With the war effectually over," said Mr. Hoover, "we enter a new eco nomic era and its immediate effect on prices is difficult to anticipate. The prices of some food commodities may increase, but others will decrease, be cause with liberated shipping, accum ulated stocks in the southern hemis phere and the far east will be avail able. The demands upon the United States will change in character but not in volume." All activities of the food adminis tration will be continued through the armistice period, said Mr. Hoover, ad ding that "there will be no relaxa tion of efforts to ke*p down profiteer ing to the last moment." Stat* of Ohio. City of Toledn, Lnena County, m. Frank J. Cht-nay mukfi oath that na i* niior partner ««f ti>* Am of F. J. Chanar Jk Co.. dolni? bualnra* in tha City of Tolado. County and Stnta afora antd. and that aatd Arm wll) pay tha aura of ONR HUNDRED IX»l,L.A)t8 for aacto and #t»ry «•■.«.> of Clttrrh that i rannot bo rtirrd by tha u*r «f MAI-LW CATARRtf CITtr FRANK J CHKNkT Sworn to hafofn ma and aubacrtbad In my praaanre. th'« *th d.\y of Drc»n* fcar.A D. 1IM A W (tLKASON. (Saal) Notary Public, flails Catarrh Cnra la tak«n intern ally and art* tbrouf h tha Blood on tha MUraua Surfaca or tha Systato Sand for taattmnnlala. fraa F. J. CHHNBY A CO . Tnla4«, a B*'d by nil drurrlata. 7Sr. I Jj'a Family rum for corvatlpatldm. MILES AND ROLES OF MILITARY WAREHOUSES Edward M. TWtj writing trmm a French pact rtcMitiy my: "Cm fM (Man I string at great than fourteen milaa U»*T" Thaee are the wa rah oqsss the United gutaa government la build ing at M , two aUlee up tha river from ihta part, says Mr. Thier ry. They ara rloea to the new aiile lone docks itretdunx out into the broad upper harbor, where noon 10 ocean ships will be unloaded s.mul taucously la addition to tha lock, basin docks in the lower harbor where now 16 nhipa are unloaded at the name time. Here are stored food rations for a million and half soldier* for 20 days. Also clothing, choes ammunition, ri fles, big guns, equipment of all sorts, harness, hay hardware, oats. Held ranges. Here is everything nn army needs. iji course inow warenouses are not jammed U-geliier in • 14-mile line. Tiey are built—or being built —on flat ground along the river front an area seven miles long and more | than a mile wide. There are lKfl warehouses and 2261 milca of railroad track in the (Treat storage area, which covers seven and a half square miles. , The largest buldings hold ordnance material. There are four of them, each 500 feet long and 240 feet wide —a total of 480,000 square feet. The other 182 warehouses are each 400 feet long *nd a trifle more than 51 feet wide. Between the parallel lines of warehouses are open spaces each 50 50 feet wide for tracks and open air storage. This great warehouse terminal— the largest in the world—has 14, 027,40? square feet of storage space. That includes 4, 215,008 square feet of covered storage and #,812,400 square feet of open storage. Every inch of the warehouses and every foot of railroad track was built by engineers of the United States army. The first building was begun last April 1. Before that the ■even and a half square mile area waa meadow, lowlands that had to be reclaimed and protected from the menace of high water. Eevery building has a concrete and rock foundation and each floor is built op with a All ai 3,000 yards of :ian4. Most of the buildings are of con structural steel frames, though a few have wood frames. All are covered with corrugated iron sheets. The American engineers did--and are doing—the job. TTie cement came from England, the rock from French quarries, the lumber from French for eata (cut by our own forestry regi ments) and the steel and wymgated iron came from the United Suites. Four thousand soldiers, mostly en gineers with a few infantrymen, are on the job. The rougher work is done by Spanish, Morrocan and Chinese laborers and German prisoner*. Nineteen of the finished warehouses contain nothing but food. Four hold clothing; one contains enough coats, brecches and overfeoata to equip 300, 000 men another contains 400000 -tuits of underwear and as many pairs of socks. One warehouse has r,00,000 pairs! of shoe* and 200,000 pairs of rubber! boots. Another is jammed to the roof with harness and light hardware , another oilskins, cloths, raps, jerkins, and puttees; another is full of oats j and bran, with thousands of bales of * hay -tackcil under canvas outside. The army quartermaster depart ment used up most of the spare in the vast warehouse group. Space al-1 so is allotted to ordnance, signal corps, medical and aviation depart- j ments. And all these warehouses are in addition to a couple of dozen big French buildings in use at the old docks here. There are millions more square feet of storage spare used by the army of other French ports and supply depots, but the warhouse ter minal at M , just outside this town is by far the largest. Reidsville, Oct, 26.—The Reidsville school committee 'ias tendered the use of the Ltwsonville Avenue Grad ed school building fur use as a tem porary hos.ual during .he present in fluenza epidemic. The town commis sioners have a?ie*-i to e«|iiij» the building and the locai P.ed Cross chapter has offered to secure the nurse* to -aro for the sirk.The hos pital will be ojur-ci at once for the reception of natk'iita. (•really Rrnditnl by ( hamlx rUin - TableU. "! am thankful for the gn »1 I have received by uninjr ChambcrlAin'* Tab let*. About two yt-ara ai?«> when I bewail taking them I war suffering »' (f:ont Heal from dintrwnii after ratiiiK. and hrailache and a tired lanruM feel- , inf due to iiidicextio i a .d a torpid liver. ('hiimbrrlain'ii Table*» ror> reeled their di«ord» in a nhotl time and ainre taking two botUe of them my Kea^it ha; been pood" wr.tr' Mr*. M. P. llarwuod, Auburn, N. Y. EXFLOSKXT ST1VKV SHIP Off MAAYLAND COAST Omm City Md. No*. »—The Am Iran stsomer Haetia bound from a French port U FUlaMpkli (track a m in* 26 miles off tlx Amsncaa rsa«t at 8 05 a. ■, today and Mk 20 minutes later.t Nineteen member« of the crow aro misaing, 47 having boon landed bore this afternoon and IS more having boon taken off a raft at 9 oVIork to night by a patrol boat. The chief engineer, Oiarles Toor nier. of Hartford, Cona., waa the only one of tho roacued who was injured His leg was crushed between two life boats in the heavy sea that has been running today. One of the patrol boats repulsed in the sea, but its oc cupants were reacued. The sinking of the ship wax pre reded by an exploewn a few minute* after 8 o'clock. Two more violent ex - plosions followed a few minutes later Although the ship waa light, having just left an American convoy off the Deleware capes she went down within 20 minutes, according to her master. Captain I-ynch, who landed here. Coast guard cutters and a number of destroyers rushed to the ve-*el'» md, bi ' she narik before any could get alongside. However, a number of the crew were picket) up in the water, hut late today 37 sailors still were miss ing. upsiroyers inn inning wniu naairhnl all ilay but no more aurviv ort were picked up. The explo*tons whirh followed the first, it is believed wero the holler*. T)e«pite a rrushed leg, th* eh»ef wr* able to talk at a hospital in Salisbury, Mil., and held very little hope for the en gine room crew. The Saetia was heading in for the Chesapeake. Several raft* were lighted About 20 miles off xhore tonight, which are be lieved to have some of the men miss ing from the Saetia. A de*troy»r put off for them a fen- minutes later, but had not returned at a late hour. Makes E>c«p« With Plain After Hiding Several Days Plainfleld, N. J., Nov. 9.—Ater hav ing fallen unobserved behind the Ger min line*, Lieut. Gordon Moy, an American aviator, reported missing since September 26, hid for neveral days with his airplane and then flew hack to his own lilies, according to a letter from the young officer received here today by his father, George W. Moy, formerly mayor of this place. Lieutenant Moy did not attempt his return flight until he had recovered from the effects of his fall. Then at tacked hy several hostile planes in full sight of bis comrades he downed three for which he received official credit. Such Women Just Have to "Give Up" "Man may work (imi son to sun, but woman's work is newer dame." That's why womb are overworked, nervoos, all run down, no appetite, and can M hardly drag around." Vinol creates a hearty appetite, strengthens the digestive organs, induces sound sleep, invigorates the nerves, and in this natural manner creates working strength. "*"*«■■■■" rur, u. "1 >u all ran-down, back ached, and tml ail the um. 1 kwp b«—■ for my boaband and foar children and mold hardly keep around. Finally I tried Vino) and It bu raatorad my health and helped me wonderfully, ao I recommend it to others who an In thia condition." llrm-HannahRandnlL ImMi «M >■«»!« Creates Strength L W. WEST DRUG CO.. and Drug-fist. F.vrrjwh*r«-. Cowardly Attempt of Treacheroua Hun Fail*. With the American Army in Fieid, Sept. —An instance of cowardly treachery on the part of a captured Germ :i officer who had been wounded and who had been offered help l.y an American officer, in told by Lieut, Ed ward NichoU, of Jamaica, N Y. After the laiit drive of the a'lies in August, Lieutenant NichoU war placed in eh. -f*e of a company of sol di:-™ who» t k wait to clear the field of Amircan dead and wounded. Al'hi. i«rh hi* duties did not req-.iire him to ai<l German wounded on the field until the Americans were dis posed of. Lieutenant Nichols, who is r>nly 23 year- old, went to the admit tance of a German infantry officer wh<- seemed more Uian any of his rotnmdea to be in need of succor. The li^utlnant was in the act of un fastening hi* canteen and riving the wounded man a drink of wa>or when the German drew a revolver while the unsuspected American's face was turned and timed it at the head of his rescuer. Before he could pull the trigger, however a quick-witted American Mr geant plunged I.is bayonet through the Germans heart. The German's act was condemed even by his captured comrade*. Auction Sale! —OF THE^ ALBERT FLYNN KOME PLACE On East Leh^non Street. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19th, 1918, at 3:30 p. m. This is a large loi/100 by 300 feet, with a good five room cottage, well painted and as good as new. This cottage has water in the building. TERMS EASY. At the same time a fine lot of household and kitchen furniture will be sold. This furniture is as good as new. Remember the date TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19th. 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