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00X FLAYS USE OF GERMAN IN OHIO SCHOOLS Favorable Action on Ake Bill Taken by Senate "Freak" Measure Introduced. COLUMBUS, O., April 2. Through a maze of Incidents, largely unrelated, but each of general Interest, the legislative program rnoTed with extreme tardiness yesterday, although day and nipht sessions were held. In the House the long-expected Calendar committee, composed of three Republicans, two Democrats and the Speaker thrown In for good measure on the Republican side, was proposed by Majority Leader Rupert R. Eeetham and carried unanimously, to go into effect tomorrow. Added to the sudden appearance of uovernor James M. Cox with a rigorous message against German language teaching in the grade schorls and in private, public cr parochial schools, mere was ravorable action on the Ake bill in the senate embodying his Ideas and introduction in the house of a bill that, in its present form, has a freakish, turn. It Is by Representative J. W. Correll, of 'Carroll, author of other anti-German bills. It would prohibit German language operas and musical entertainments In whole or In part. Interdict Use of German. To this provision, however, is added a provision that any use of German is Interdicted, under penalty of a fine of 150 and Imprisonment from 30 days to six months. Under the terms it la Indicated that any man who told how many things were "verboten" In Germany under the Imperial regime, or who introduced a phrase from the proscribed language, for any purpose whatever be imprisoned. Whether the bill represents a serious effort or is designed as a piece of satire, to mitigate the circumstances into which the majority has been placed, is not tertain, taking rank as questions with thone raised by the executive budget providing for German teaching in the Ohio State University. The Republican caucus, and hints of possible serious internal trouble over the Miller Industrial Commirsion bill and the fight over the Miami Conservancy measure, were the other isolated incidents of the day that comprehended many motions but little action. The senate disclosed Its attachment to Representative , Hughes's health bill by refusing to return It to the hou.p for reconsideration, and : It Is Indicated that it is to be sent out of the Public Health Committee with a favorable recommendation and enacted soon. EX-KAISER SAYS (Continued From Page One) kaiser tor a few days while they turned about and considered what should be done with him. . Explains Domestic Crisis. ' Count Godard replied that it was impossible for him to receive the kaiser, nnd explained his domestic crisis. The governor brushed the influenza aside as a thing not worthy to be mentioned in such a situation. Count Godard weakened, and said he would consult his children. The children thought the matter might be arranged. The end of it was t'.at the next day the kaiser and his suite were received into Amerongen castle and Count Godard provided dinner for forty-five persons. The two days have now lengthened Into twice as many months, and the problem of the ex-kalser's domicile 13 still unsettled. It Is thought by a number of people that Count Godard offered the kaiser hospitality of his house and that he Is an old and intimate friend of fhe former emperor. This is not true. Count Godard had seen the former emperor but once, and this In the days when the kaiser wa3 Prince William, not even Crown Prince. Didn't Know His Jailer The emperor, on hearing that he was to be received at Amerongen Castle, looked up Count Godard in the Almanach de Gotha to discover his relation with the house of Bentlnck. The two men, host and guest, met as absolute strangers on Nov. 11. I invite you to think of the ludicrous element in this historic event the great and powerful German emperor held up by a sergeant and a private soldier of the Dutch army, looking tip Count Godard Bentlnck in the Almanach de Gotha to discover the quality of his jailor. V Count Godard tells me he was actuated by two motives in receiving the kaiser. As a good citizen, he felt he ought to obey the Dutch government, and as one who humbly endeavors to be a faithful Christian he felt he ought not to turn his back on a homeless htranger. Let me say I believe him nnd honor him. The ex-kaiser had been a week at Amerongen when the empress arrived from Germany, and Count Godard Uentinck found himself called upon to rrovlde dinner for sixty-two persons. It was necessary for him to commandeer two hotels in the village. Not a Broken, Old Man Since those November days tho glory of the fallen emperor has diminished almost to the point of vanishment. His staff consists of three gentlemen, a general, an adjutant, and a doctor; the suite of the delicate empress is reduced to one lady. There are other changes. In those early days of his quasi internment the ex-kaiser walked freely about the little piece of wooded land on which the castle ! built, paid visits to the village, and made excursions to different points of the surrounding country. Todar he seldom goes out of doors, and when ho docs leave the house it is only for a brief walk around the Inner moat, but it is quite untrue thaj he is a bowed and broken old man. You may Fee him on one of his occasional after-breakfast walks round ihn mnnt dressed in Plain clothes with n cloalt - thrown over his shoulders, itriding forward, his head up, his arms swinging, the whole body of tho man still electric with that nervous cnergv which msde him something of n whirlwind In former days. IIi3 eye keeps Its fire, Us Hps their firmness, his voice its ring, but there are hansos. Hi hair is white, the pointId beard which he has grown adds

ten years to his appearance. He has lost all that bolstrous hilarity which sometimes mado his friendliness a little difficult to bear, and the spirit of the man, while It Is still cheerful In company. Is more subdued, perhaps even more gentle and considerate. The Ex-Kaiser Impenltant, I propose now to furnish the reader with an account of the ex-kaiser'f opinions. It must be understood that In this dispatch, which is an authentic account of the ex-kaiser's opinions concerning the events which precipitated the war, I am attempting to write simply, as a secretary, of his state of mind. I am neither, attacker nor defender, neither protagonist nor historian. I set myself no other task than most faithfully to present the reader with the thoughts of William Hohenzollern, myself nothing more Important than the pen in his hand. The former kaiser Is entirely Impenitent He is not only convinced of his innocence, he sees himself as one who strove harder than any man in the world to avert war. As for being put on his trial, he laughs at such an idea. There Is no power on earth

that can try him. If he thought he was to be arraigned before an International tribunal he would destroy himself, not out of any fear of the result of such a trial, but because no would regard such an ordeal as In tufferably undignified. He says: "I am answerable for my conduct only to God, and God knows how I strove, to my own peril, the peril of my throne, to avert the calamity of war." He does not often protest his Innocence. It Is a more frequent occurrence on his part to express amazement at the opinions of those who regard him as the guilty cause of the war. Questioned as to any plot on the part of Germany, he asks how it was that with the consent of his War Minister, Germany, manufacturer of munitions, supplied Russia in the early days of 1914 with 30,000 machine guns, 400,000 rifles, and 400,000,000 round of ammunition. Puts Blame on Russia. He declares he imperiled his throne by withstanding his generals when alarmed by Russia's action. In the days of the crisis they pressed upon him the instant need of mobilization. He says he received a telegram from the Czar thanking him for his efforts to avoid war. and tellirig him that Count Taticheff was on his way to Berlin with a letter which would strengthen those efforts. Ho says that, in spite of the protests of his generals, who said they would not be answerablo for the safety of Germany, he delayed mobilization in the hope that this letter from the Czar would save the world from war. Count Taticheff never arrived, nothing more was heard of him. Russia mobilized in secret without the consent of the C2ar. and pressed forward to the German frontier. Germany, he declares, was the last power on the mainland of Europe to mobilize. "I did not want, as Nicholas did not want, war. George did not want war," he says with energy. "No ruler wanted war. We were all dead against war. The war was made by the dip lomats. The whole guilt of the war rests on the Russian government, and there were secret forces at work in the Russian government." His argument Is that the rivalry In the Balkans between Russia and Austria led to, the conflict of 1914. Russia was beginning to get upon her feet, Austria was falling more and more into decay, France was financing Russia. England had assured Russia of her friendship. The finances of Russia and her army organization were in a comparatively sound condition, and the Russian government, feeling Itself thus powerfully buttressed, decided that the hour was ripe for a definite contest with the wormeaten empire of Austria. Germany was drawn into the war because she was pledged to defend Austria against Russian aggression, and because Bhe herself could not be Insensible to the increasing menace of Russian activity.. He denies with a kind of fierce ridicule the charge that there was any war party In the German empire. He quotes with fiery energy the statement of Lloyd George that Germany was Just as much entitled to her large army as England to her strong navy. He says he was surrpunded by enemies. He asks what England would have done In Germany's geographical position, with France financing Russia in order that she should build strategic railways to tho German frontier. Bernhardt, he declares, was scarcely heard of in Germany before English translations of his works had made him a kind of military Shakespeare. The people of Germany desired peace, the Jingoes were a small party among the serious statesmen of the Fatherland. There was fear of Russian aggression, but no movement toward a war of defense. Victoria Warned Against Edward? Asked why he did nothing to enter the entente, he replies that he could not trust Russia. The entente seemed to him an organization of tremendous power, aimed directly at the German empire and Inspired by fear of German industry and envy of German prosperity. He was governed in some measure, in this respect, by his feelings toward Edward VII. He says tjueen Victoria warned him again and again against the Influence of Edward. "Don't have anything to do with him," she would say. "He will do you no good Intellectually, morally, and socially." He was antipathetic to Edward VII, and the antipathy overflowed into their political relations. He protests his love of England, and is never tired of talking about his English friends. He said the famous Kruger telegram, which made him so many enemies in England, was sent against his wishes. He declares that Prince Hohenlohe Infisted upon the dispatch of this telegram, telling him the Reichstag strongly desired that Germany should express sympathy with the attacked Boers. He is emphatic in his declaration that he did not wish to send that telegram, and sent it eventually with deep misgiving and sharp regret. He is given to laughing in mordant fashion at those who insist upon treating him as an autocrat. He says he never knew what it was to exercise autocratic power, and during the war was made to feel himself nothing but a puppet. The generals did what they would with his Imperial majesty. A journalist was attached to him and he was sent hither and thither into uneventful places to posture and gesticulate and hold forth for the benefit of the home population. When he was allowed to be at headquarters, if a telephone bell rang, he was asked tol go, and almost hustled out of the J

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LEAGUE OR CHAOS, IS HOLT'S WARNING Hamilton Holt. The world must choose between a league of nations or bolshevism, in the opinion of Hamilton Holt, magazine editor and a member oy the League to Enforce Peace, who has just-returned from the peace conference. Mr. Holt says that before he left Paris an eminent Frenchman told him that if the U. S. senate failed to ratify the peace treaty there would be a revolt in Europe that would be akin to a volcanic eruption. room, pushed by the shoulder to the door, and then led out of hearing. He was never allowed to know the strategy of his generals or the true course of the hostilities. I think he Is affectionately disposed toward Hindenburg, but very bitterly disposed toward Ludendorff. Regrets Lusitania and Cavell Cases As to the character of the war, he hotly resents the charge of organized atrocities and steadfastly refuses to believe that any evidence worthy of the name exists for such monstrous wickedness. He says of the sinking of the Lusi tania that It was a great blunder, and one that he will never cease to regret, tut he says England's policy of attempting to starve the women and children of Germany had driven his people out of all patience and quite maddened them against England. Of the shooting of Miss Cavell he declares that the order was given by a general who was the worse for drink, and that directly he heard of the execution he sent orders to headquarters that henceforth no woman was to be shot without his own personal sanction. He deplores that execution. He says the German armies fought with incredible courage and absolute devotion to duty, and he fires up and becomes furious with indignation when they are pictured as brutal Huns. The question of Belgium 13 so clear In his eyes that he cannot understand how honest men can doubt the right of Germany to go through that neutral territory. He says that under Lord Haldane's administration of the British War Office he regarded Lord Haldane as England's cleverest spy. Plans were laid with the consent of King Albert's government for attacking Germany through Belgium. He possesses a British overcoat found, as he says, at Maubeuge, with immense quantities of British stores. He says that with Russia threatening Ger many on one front, it was absolutely essential that Germany should take no risks on the other front. The violence of German methods In Belgium he defends on the score that Belgian francstlreurs were attempting to unnerve the German armies nnd break their discipline. He declares that no harm would have befallen a city or village of Belgium if the Germans had not been exposed on all sides to secret attacks of Belgian citizens. Thinks England Was Deceived His full blame for the cactastrophe of war Is laid on Russia. His attitude toward England is curiously sympathetic. He does not think, as he was once minded to, that England's Machiavellian . statesmen deliberately brought about the war. He now Bays England was deceived by Russia and that she had nothing to do when the war came but to keep faith with her allies. He deplores her entrance into the conflict which sealed Germany's fate, but he Is not at all bitterly disposed toward England, although his hatred of British journalists, of whom he says that they have deliberately perjured their souls in a most Iniquitous determination to blacken the German character at all costs, is strong, vigorous and unforgiving. No English newspaper is now retid by the kaiser. He says he finds their uncritical abuse and libelous villificatlon beyond the power of his tolerance. Russia's war minister is for the fallen German emperor the Judas Iscariot of the world. He has no language too strong for his condemnation of this "dishonest and treacherous" man. The doom which has befallen Russia seems to him like the judgment of God. As for Germany he Is convinced that she will rise in righteousness and power from the ashes of inescapable defeats incurred in defending her freedom from a world in arms. He feels that England has never realized the justice of Germany's dread off Russia. England at one time feared Russia, at another time vilified and scorned her, and at another time fell upon her neck and kissed her, but for Germany Russia has always been a world menace, inscrutable and treacherous, a mass of black ignorance, savage ferocity and almost soulless animalism, which moving westward would one day flood the world with anarchy and death. Always for Germany Russia has been Bolshevist. Denounces Free Masonry. As to the future of the world the kaiser entertains the conviction that everything" precious in human life is now menaced with destruction by the organized forces of evil. He has found a new peril. Bolshevism for him is only a criminal alias for Free Masonery. He Is convinced that atheistical and socialistic Free Masonry, as it exists on the Continent, is a

power comparable, in its organization and its international ramifications,

I with the Latin church. He sees in the destruction of German unity and German discipline not so much tho physical victory of the Entente as the spiritual victory of this atheistical secret society. He reads a number of books on the subject and his eloquence about Free Masonery is as earnest and didatic as in former days was his denunciation of the Yellow Peril, socialism and Slavism. He sees in front of humanity a fearful abyss of agony and ruin towardwhich the hidden hand of Free Mosonry is fast driving the unconscious masses of the world. He says that two great powers still stand in the midst of the world's ruin, the Church of Rome and Free Masons. "The Church of Rome st least stands for law and order," he says, "but as for me, I am true to the church of my forefathers and the Bible is all I need for guidance. My grandmother, Queen Victoria, used to say, too, 'in the Bible you will find all that is necessary; do not seek elsewhere'." He is convinced that atheism has fastened political tenacles round the body of civilization and is ' preparing to destroy its existence. Free Masonry for him is satanism. This anxiety which chiefly concerns Germany, is the first and principal preoccupation of the fallen emperor. He prays daily, almost hourly, that his people may be saved from the fate of Russia. Second to this prepossession is his eagerness to know what educated people in England think about him and say about him at their dinner tables Does Lord So-and-So, does Lady, does Mr. , all former friends who knew him intimately do these people really believe that he is a monster? His love for the country life of Eng. land still exists. He likes to talk to his host about practices in England they both know and people there who were once their friends. He is continually exclaiming: "But can they . reany Deiieve all these outrageous j things that are said about me?" men ne win cry, almost with a moan: "Those were wonderfully happy days in England! Gone! Gone! Gone!" Mistakes of Hie Past. He never dreams that the hapolness of the past can be restored. Everything has fallen, everything lies broken at his feet. He has failed, and his doom is lifelong. When he is in these moods he speaksWith freedom and compassion of his past. "I have made mistakes." he will say. "I see now where I might have done better. But consider my difficulties. I came to the throne too young. I really succeeded my grandfather, the hundred days of my father's reign do not count. I succeeded my grandfather, and 1 found myself surrounded by his statesmen. They were all old men. They regarded me as a bov, they treated me with the amused tolerance which old men In those days employed toward their younjgers. It was really insufferable. I determined to assert my power. I determined to be the leader of young Germany, the true king of a great people destined to be a mighty nation and the strong rock of law, order, and culture in the centre of Europe; the opposition I encountered made me headstrong. I can see now how bad it was for me. I became Impatient, Intemperate, but in spite of my faults I did help Germany to grow to great power, and I kept the peace for many years, and if Russia had not betrayed the world there would be peace now. I have made mistakes, but no man is more innocent of this war than I." In Touch with Loyalists. There is a strong loyalist party in i Germany, and the former Kaiser is in- J terested in its progress. He main-' tains certain relations with It and is j In frequent communication with his brother, Prince Henry of Prussia, who supplies him with all new German literature of any significance. But I think that no hope exists in his heart of a return to his throne, and that he ie quite impersonally interested in the future destiny of his country. He and the former Empress would like to buy a place in Guelderland and there end the evening of their days in peace and seclusion. The ex-Emperor is conscious that he has failed to save his country from ruin, and that his reign has culminated in a disaster fatal to his fortunes. The end of that reign, as one feels it here in this Dutch village, is certainly tragic enough. The once puissant and mediaeval Emperor, who mado himself the mouthpiece of God and whose sword would flash from its sheath on occasion like terrible lightning that threatened thrones and nations with destruction, sits on one side of a hearth In Holland, talking of Freemasons and shaking his white head over the world's lapse into atheism. And on the other side of the hearth, often struggling for breath, sits the former Empress, whose one task is to comfort and sustain her fallen lord in his broken fortunes, while her own heart is crying out in secret for the presence of her children and grandchildren, from whom she now feels herself eternally parted. These two human beings, paying the penalty of failure, discuss the world across their fireside and are more remote from the great world than the viJlage policeman lounging in front of the cr.stle gate. They are prisoners and the jailer who turned the key on their liberty is the world they discuss in their prison cell. Whatever the exKaiser may tiiink will be history's verdict on his part in the war, no one knows better that he that for the rest of his human existence he must live the threatened life of an outlaw. The strong tide in the affairs of men has borne him out of the ocean of great trafficking and cast him up as a piece j of broken wreckage on the shore of unvlslted monotony. The Ex-Kaiser's Day Somewhat to the disturbance of Count Godard's household, the former kaiser rises every morning at 7:U0. By 9 he is downstairs with a list of hymns which he wishes sung at morning prayers. It is one of the pleasures of his present life to choose the hymns and to Join heartily in the service of family worship. He says very often how greatly the burden of his imprisonment is lightened by the religious atmosphere of the castle. "I have stayed in many houses," he says, "which professed to be religious, but in which it was impossible to feel the spirit of Christianity. Here on the other hand, one breathes the very air of religion." . After prayers, if the weather is fine and he is in the mood, William II. throws a cloak over his shoulders and takes a swift walk around the Inner moat, this walk never extending beyond a half hour. He then retires

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! CAMBRIDGE CITY PHONE COMPANY IS GRANTED INCREASE IN RATES (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, April 2. The public service commission has issued an order granting to the Cambridge City telephone company, the right to increase telephone rates at Cambridge City, Kagerstown, Losantville and Blountsville. The new rates are in effect immediately and increase the business town rctes of $1.50 at Cambridge City and at Hagerstown to 1.75 net, and the residence rate of $1 at both cites to $1.35 at Cambridge City and $1.25 at Hagerstown. Other rates are changed somewhat in proportion. to his own room, and is not seen by the Bentinck family till dinner, at 8 o'clock in the evening. The days are over when his doctor considers it necessary for his health that the former emperor should saw wood. The little outhouse in which he performed this useful work is in the courtyard of the castle, close up against the house, and the former emperor was often seen there by the tradesmen who had business to transact at the kitchen door. But now, after half an hour's peregrination at the utmost, the exrkaiser goes to his apartments, and there remains, with the exception of one curious Interval in the afternoon, until nightfall. Closer Domestic Ties Suffering and sorrow have brought the ex-emperor and ex-empress into an intimacy which before the war was perhaps impossible. They are now seldom apart. . The ex-empress is not more anxious and devoted in her ministrations to the ex-emperor than he is anxious and devoted in nursing her through her frequent and often very painful heart attacks. They have become thoroughly bourgeois in their affection, sharing the same room, sitting by day at the same fireside, and manifesting toward each other all those little gestures and phrases of endear ment which we associate with middleclass domestic happiness. The exempress on one side of the hearth will sit with a piece of needlework in her hsnds, while the ex-emperor, on the other side, reads aloud to her from a book which has reached him either from Germany or England. Perhaps I may be allowed to say he is now reading my book, "The Vindication of Great Britain," in which I have traced back to its source the stream of causes which ended in the niagara of war. After luncheon, which is served in their own rooms, the ex-emperor takes a form of exercise so curiou3 and so suggestive of imprisonment that it Is difficult to imagine what pleasure he can find In it or how a man of such nervous excitability can endure its monotony. He walks for an hour and a half around the gallery which looks down upon the hall of the castle. Tho gallery is dark and rather cheerless. Moreover, it is not visited by much freshness from the outer air. Nevertheless, for as long as an hour and a half the white-haired man, dressed now in Prussian uniform, will here walk rapidly, and for the most part in silence, every afternoon of his life, listening to the conversation of his adjutant, a young captain, whose bright, and cheerful disposition Is greatly appreciated by the former emperor and whose loyalty to the fallen kaiser Involves the sacrifice of his own youth. After his walk around the gallery the ex-emperor returns to his wife and sits with her till dinner time. Sometimes he sleeps, sometimes he writes, but as a rule that part of the day is spent in reading and conversation What He is Writing. It. may be interesting for the reader to know that the former Kaiser has not written, and does not contemplate writing, any defense of his policy. What he is writing very few people know, and certainly it is most unlikely that this document will see the lisht of day until after the exKaiser's death. It is perhaps something in the nature of an autobiography. He is determined, as I said, to appear no more on the world's stage. Thousands of letters and telegrams reach him from Germany. He replies to none of them. His wish is to retire as soon as possible to a country place in Germany, and onthing that is likely to interfere with his yearning, this last ambition, of William Hohenzollern is suffered to suggest Itself to his mind for a single moment. If the health of his wife permits, both the ex-Emperor and ex-Empress join the Bentinck family at diner, and when the health of the ex-Empress is not too bad for anxiety, but not well enough for ceremony, the ex-Emperor comes down to dinner alone. The former Kaiser takes obvious pleasure in the society of Count Godard's children. He is kindly, bright, anecdotal, and Bometime playful. He j appears at the table in uniform and is ; the center of the party, always agree- j able and amusing, never morose or t sullen, but no longer disposed toward j those bouts of horseplay for which he was noted in the days of his glory. When the ladies have retired the exiled Kaiser smokes a cigar with his host, ano on these occasions speaks with absolute freedom of mind. I like to think of this once passionate and easily excitable Emperor, whose power the other day was so prodigious and who so nearly came in 1914 to domination of the world, seated in Quiet and reflective conversation with the Dutch country squire, who has ever kept himself out of public life and followed the path of simplicities with a quiet sense of responsibility to God and his fellow-men. These two men have an English bond of sympathy. The ex-Kaiser had an English mother and adored Queen Victoria, who died in his arms. The father of Count Godard was wounded in the peninsular war and served on Wellington's staff at Waterloo. Their conversation often takes them to England and is frequently conducted in English. His first words on entering the castle on Nov. 11 were in Englsh: "And now," he said, clapping his hands, "give me a cup of real good English tea." URGES BUILDING CONTINUED INDIANAPOLIS. April 2. Howard Coonley, vice president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, in an address last night, urged continuation of America's shipbuilding prograsv

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Maimcd English soldiers learning marbling and trimming wall paper. Great Britain and France have greater problems facing them regarding the instruction and placing of wounded and maimed soldiers than America because these European countries have more victims of the world war. Some of the many trades taught British heroes are marbling and paper hanging. Fountain City, Ind. Ms. Jennie Scarce arrived home from Florida last Thursday, where she has been spending the winter with her sister, Mrs. Edith Powers ... Mrs. Jennie Overman spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Overman at Richmond Rev and Mrs. Henderson took supper Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs.J. B. Chenoweth... ..Miss Edna Todd, teacher in the local school, spent the week-end in Cincinnati, O Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Foreman had as their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Verlin Wooters and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wickersham of near Greensfork Mr. and Mrs. Ruford Wooley and children of Richmond, were Sunday gueBts of relatives at this place Mr. and Mrs. Scott Patterson of Richmond and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will Brooks Miss Mabel Reynolds of Richmond spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Woolman. Mr. and Mrs. James Hiatt of Richmond, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Edgerton Sunday Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Fulghum and daughter, Ruth, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas near New Lisbon Mr. and Mrs. Everett Davis and son Marian, of Indianapolis, have been visiting with relatives at this place for a few days Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hough took Sunday dinner with Stephen Thomas and family... Misses Geneva Wright and Alsie Fahien spent the week end with Miss Gladys Gifford at Earlham college... ..Mrs. J. M. Clark has been very ill with influenza for the past two weeks. She is not improving as rapildy as was hoped for Mr. and Mrs. Will Bond and daughter spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Mikesell of near New Madison. M'ADOO AGAIN WITH ROADS ATLANTA, Ga., April 2. Walker D. Hines, Director Ueneral of Railroads, here on an inspection trip, announced today that William G. MoAdoo, former director general, had consented to act as special counsel for the railroad administration with reference to matters arising from the state of New York. Director General Hines said that Mr. McAdoo In giving bis consent stipulated that he be permitted to serve without remuneration. CANADIANS TO RETURN (By Associated Press) OTTAWA, April 2. Arrangements have been made for the return of Canadian expeditionary forces in Siberia, it was announced yesterday. A Fine Medication for Catarrh, Colds, Bronchitis, Inflammation and Congestion Big Demand For It Now In This District, Say Druggists Since the virtues of Ice-Mint In the trratmfnt of catarrh, colds, ant! bronchitis became known in this section, druesists have been having an extraordinary demand for it. Ire-Mint rrprespnts the new theory of medication, containing hisrhly penetrating yet soothing oils which ro compounded into a snow-white cream by a special process in such a manner that when a little Is placed Just Inside of the nostrils that the warmth of tho ekin liberates a soothing:, medicated vapor that penetrates to every air-pas-r.-vko of the head, bringing Instant relief to the sufferer. These medicated vapors that or gradually released by the 'warmth In the nostrils, are with each breath drawn back and forth through the airpassages, soothing and healing the inflamed membranes. in this manner raw, sore places way back in the nasal passages are healed that could not be reached by the old-time methods of medication. Also when Ice-Mint Is applied to the cheat or where there is lameness or congestion It penetrates right down deep under the skin, drives out the Inflammation and brings quick, permanent relief. No waiting. Pain stops Instantly. Its quick action In relieving cases of catarrh, bronchitis, colds, neuralgia, lumbago, lameness and neuritis has caused it to be highly appreciated by thousands of sufferers. At this season of the year no one should be without a Jar of Ice-Mint handy. It costs little, is pleasant to use and acts without assistance. Try it. The restful, soothing, comfort of a single Jar will bring you many nights of refresh ing sleep and comfort. Adv.'

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Ohio News in Flashes HAMILTON A rerdict of Justifiable homicide was rendered by Coroner Edward Cook in the death of Adolph Schramm, who was shot by Policeman Charles Nugent. Nugent had been charged with murder. LONDON Henry Potts, 70, shot and killed bis wife. Jealousy is said to have been the motive. After shooting her, he tried to kill himself, but will recover. DAYTON Charles Patterson, who had a machine for making money, approached the wrong person when he tried to interest Detective Horn in its purchase. Perfect $1.00 bills came out of a hidden reservoir, after blank paper had been fed into Patterson's "invention." He was arrested. TROY An automobile truck driven by Will Alsbaugh was run down by an interurban, Alsbaugh, bis wife and two children being injured, none fatally, however. fc DAYTON Col. Charles B. Hunt, veteran of three wars, the Mexican, Civil and Spanish-American, died at the Veterans' Home hospital. He was for many years proprietor of the Hunt house in Cincinnati. MIAMISBURG A. R. Stocker, 60, well known Miamisburg citizen and twice mayor, died following an operaI on- . i y GREENVILLE John KindalL soldier, just home from overseas, was arrested, charged with robbing a man at Union City. Ind., of $101. MARYSVILLE Mrs. Frank Moeely. 33, lost her life when a can of oil which had been placed on a stove, exploded. "CAP GUNS" IN DEMAND Nearly every boy in the city now owns a "cap gun" and a supply of "caps." Anyone going along Main street is aware of this fact Over six dozen "guns" have been sold in the last few days by the dealers. It is thought that the boys are laying In a supply for the Fourth of July, but there will be no ammunition left by the Fourth' if the rapid rate of using them continues. There is a city ordinance against using these "guns," but the boys are paying no attention to this. Richmond Man Pays Tribute to THE INTER-STATE DOCTORS Had been a persistent suffered for yoars with Kidney and Bladder Trouble Was promised nothing but the Operating Table But The Inter-State Doctors gave him quick and permanent relief without the knife, and his mind is no relieved he writes a letter to herald the glad news to a suffering and waiting public. To Inter-State Doctors, those master specialists, who have their permanent office located in Muncie, corner Mulberry and Main, are constantly in receipt of such letters as the following, telling of the great work they are doing, and they are well worth reading: Richmond, Ind., Dec, 20, '18. I want to add my testimony to the many I have seen about the InterState Doctors, for the quick results I got at your hands, for a most difficult and trying case. I had been an Intense sufferer for several years with a kidney and bladder trouble. And to say I suffered doesn't half express it. My father died from the same trouble by being operated on. Therefore, I became alarmed. No one seemed to be able to give me any relief. All suggested an operation. But no operations for me if there Is any way out of it All that was ever done for me was to make me suffer worse, until my wife and I visited your office in Richmond, No. 15. You examined me very gently and thoroughly, and much to my surprise, for I had been punished so much. You analyzed my case, told me what could be done, and told me there was no necessity for an operation, etc. In my desperation I was dead willing to try you. And say, it was the best day's work I ever done in my life. You relieved me that - . cay and I have been enjoying relief ever since. So I want the public to know what great specialists you people are. I am ready and willing at all times to shout your praise. And the beauty about it was, the absolute relief I got in such a short time. Doctor Culver certainly knows how to go after a case, and I shall always commend your methods and skill. I am your grateful patient, CHARLES A. STANLEY. Rural Route C. The above testimony is only one of many received by the Inter-State Doctors from grateful patients every day. Anyone Interested in their health and doubting the authenticity of thjs letter would do well to call on or write Mr. Stanley at the above address and find out for themselves if these great specialists are doing the work that is claimed for them. The Inter-State Doctors, whose offices ere located in the Neely Bldg., corner Main and Mulberry streets, treat all curable cases of the nerves, blood, 6kln, heart, liver, stomach, kidneys, rheumatism, neuralgia, constipation goitre, gall stones, catarrh, epilepsy, dyspepsia, ecxema, scrofula, ilepsy, dyspepsia, indigestion, dropsy, weak back, eczema, scrofula, diseases of women and diseases of men. Any sick person is safe in going to these specialists, for they accept no incurable cases. Their consultation and advice are free to prospectiTriT patients. i DOCTOR CULVER. The chief of the staff of the Inter-! Stale Doctors, is at the M uncle office V every day in the week except Monday' and Friday. Phone R78. Advertisement.