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Show I Aowle rbert .Hoove esHeiv ArUuw ALMOST HELPLESS Mr. Reuter Went Through a Terrible Siege of Kidney Doan'a Trouble. Brought Back His Health. After an iniury ,1 was in terrible shape from kidney trouble," says' I) Reuter, North fct.. West Chicago, li; I couldnt stoop because of the awfui pains in my back and the steady, dal misery, almost drove me frantic. I had to be helped out of bed mornings,' the pains across my kidneys were so bad and nobody knows the agonv I LMilltf-t- r in Boston Hera id NEED OF BETTER HIGHWAYS t - went through. I couldnt do anvthing ana was al- Parmer Convinced That Improved Road Are Eeeentla! and Promlee Financial Aid. OhJo At a recent convention of the Ohio Good Roads association the farmer delegates spoke with Ihe utmost xont vlctlon of the need of Improved roads, good 365 days in the year, if they were to do their part In the mobilization of the resources of the country in the cause of humanity. Moreover, these delegates from the farms did not ask to have the roads improved for them ; they promised their full proportion of financial support for their construction. An entirely different condition is reported from New England, New York The American who fed stricken Belgium for three yearsyatid who now is head ofthe United States Food Administration . makes us believe we. can... do what we ought to do, as a matter of patriotic service Here's a good pen picture ASIIINUTON. Things have changed rapldly.VThe eap-Itand White House are dimmed by a plain brick building (evidently used to be an apartment house or family hotel) on the corner of 1 and Sixteenth streets that would pass unnoticed were It not for a plain black and white sign over one of the entrances which says ill modest letters, FO9D busses as they and the ro1 an Instant or the bally 'hoo while ,nck UP y I ' A? , i through his megaphone Impressively announces, this Is where Mr. Hoover Is." That tells the story. To my mind congress may resolute and chatter, the White House wires may whir steadily with messages fraught with grave import, but as I look at it today, the fate of this nation and her allies, the success of our own soldiers on the fields of France, depend In greatest measure on what Is being consummated day after day In that unpretentious red brick building wherein sit Food Director Hoover and his food generals. To me that building appears as the very center of the world. I can think of It In no other way. . I am a newspaper taan of 27 years experience, I have participated In state, national and international conferences of grave Import, but the most serious session I ever sat in was that lafit' week ' In" the food administration building In Washington and the most serious talkI ever listened to was that delivered to us by Mr. noover at that time. I have een activity In many forms departments working at high speed, great newspaper offices at press time, firemen battling great conflagrations, congress and parliament In session, but never have I been so Impressed as with the indescribable, noiseless, ceaseless, feverish methodical action I saw no, I didnt see It; I felt It In this building, where Is being mapped and planned and plotted the bloodless food battle of the world, a battle In which if we will only follow as good soldiers and patriots should, the orders of "General" Hoover, victory will be ours. Here is the doctrine of "Speed up thats the slogan of the food administration, you know exemplified In the nth power. We were gathered In one of the hearing rooms, 68 of us. e of myself the gathering was wholly comprised of fish producers and distributors who had come for this conference at the behest of Mr. Hoover. They represented the largest fish centers and the largest fish concerns In ' this country. f Mr. Hoover quietly entered the room; quietly I say, for no one noticed his presence until he had taken a seat near Kenneth Fowler, fish expert of the food administration. There he sat, an Interested spectator, until two speakers had finished the thread of a discussion necessary to clear up a certain point, and then Mr. Fowler, with no fuss and feathers, remarked, "we " will now hear a few words from Mr. Hoover." "A few words!" I wish every man, woman and child In the country could have heard them. He wasted no time on preliminaries, no got down to cases at once. He outlined conditions and then elaborated oir'every point With cold figures he Impressed upon the gathering what the United States had been doing In the matter of sending supplies to theallies and that the allies, besides doing the fighting for themselves and us,had drawn upon their own food resources to such a serious extent that the continuation of the war and Its successful outcome actually depended qn their receiving their main food supply from the United States. Then he very quietly, but very gravely said, with just a perceptible lift of his eyebrows and a sweeping glance that took In every man in the room, that the people of the Uftlted States were not going to fall down on the Job. Rut before we go any further let ns take a glance at this Wonderfully resourceful man, who has become a world figure ; perhaps at this time THE world figure, and thlsis suld with all respect to a plentltude of great men I have In mind, who'lmve done, are doing and will continue to do to the end. Imagine befofe you a man of medium stature, well set up, broad of shoulder and thick of chest. Place on this body, a head, face full cheeked and deep-se-t eyes well apart; eyes that you can feel, eyes that you realize are Instantly helping a big brain behind to make a mental Inventory of you at first glance; eyes, the heavy lines around which are the only indication of the stress and strain the man Is Working under; eyes that once looked into, give an Impression of concentrated power, force and absolute confidence; the greatest pair of "I can, I will, I must" eyes I ever gazed Into. Now dress this man in an immaculate suit of blue serge, double breasted coat and lie to match ; part a handsome head of smooth laid hair absolutely In the middle; fit the whole being with a low Intensive voice, a voice wonderfully even In tone and seldom raised above the conversational tone, which lowers rather than raises when he makes his telling points; add for the only gestures Just a now and then raising of the eyes and a straight, boring look at his auditors; hands resting easily at his side, In pockets or finger tipped on the table In front of him thats Hoover as I saw him. mental impression of the man While we were all. forming a once-ove- r wasuf-loslna detail be explained In Just what mlnute.In be g before us, measure our allies were able to cater, to their own needs and that measure wasnt anything reassuring, I can tell you. lie then, always giving the exact figures to prove or back up or intensify his statements, told us exactly of the1 immense quantities of grains and meats the United States had poured into the most helpless; would, never I The urine passed far too often and burned like scalding water. The pas- - n, Xstr sagea were seasty and I bad over them. , At times everything u, front of me grew dark and I couldn't see for several minutes. I perspired profusely and I waa thirsty all tug time. For two years I suffered, trying medicine after medicine without relief I was just about discouraged and didnt think I would ever be able to work again. no-rant- ol vine-covere- six-stor- d, Hearing about Doans Kidney Pills I used them and four boxes cured me. y My kidneys became normal, my back got well and strong and all the other troubles disappeared. Sworn to before me, j, ense-hardene- DOANS i I fiend Clay Road. . and New Jersey. There the congestion of railway trade makes the highways of great value in delivering manufactured materials from one city to another; the motor truck has suddenly become a real necessity in meeting the urgent requirements for transporting the products of the cities. In short, the rational Improvement of roads is an essential element of the grave economic problems of the day, to make the valuable products of the farm and shop available to the user at the lowest possible cost This subject should be studied at once as an economic problem, the same ' as the provision of railway and water-.wa- y transportation, the increase In cultivated acreage and the Improvement of manufacturing facilities. Crops that cannot be moved from the farms except at enormous expense and manufactured products that must Ue In storehouses because of congestion of railways are of little value to a nation which needs such things now. IN NEW YORK Total Designated Mileage Placed at Work Hindered by Scarcity of Labor. 11,988 Mile I- - I' The total designated mileage of state and county highway systems In New York state at the 'present time Is 31,988, of which J5,920 miles had been completed and Accepted on January 1, while contracts In force at that time covered T, 185 miles. This with the contracts awarded during the year T916, leaves a balance of designated jtalleage not yet cared for of 4,210. Highway construction during the past two years has been gravely hindered because of the fact that surplus labor has been largely absorbed in munition making and other abnormal Industrial activities. In New York state daring 1916 It was Impossible to secure even at largely increased cost, more than a quarter of the labor actually required . . for highway work. For. Constipation ASPHALT IN UNIVERSAL USE First Pavement ef Any Importance Waa Laid In Washington In 1871 Wearing Qualities. -- The use of asphalt in paving construction has become so universal that one never thinks of It as a comparatively recently developed material. Yet , probahly,,tha. .first , sheet. . of. asphalt, pavement of any Importance was that laid In Washington. D. CL on Pennsylvania avenue In 1876 and on Verqjont avenue in 1879. The latter is still in existence today, and it is an evidence of the wearing qualities of this type of pavement even whenjald, it .was, without JbeseleaUflc methr.. "oda of the present day. Cheaper Than Other Mat Chickens and fowls give us a supply meat that, of wholesome, at the present time, is as cheap as any other meat we can buy, and far better food than a good deal of meat that Is r quick-grow- n offered. Clean Up Garden. Clean up the garden and burn all You will destroy Weeds and trash. and make homeless many Insects that had figured on eating your next years pep. Carter's Little liver Pills will set you right over nighL Purely Vegetable Small Out-sid- Evle Greenes Ghost Story. Miss Evle Greene, the musical comused edy favorite who has Just died, she whlch a about ft ghost to tell storyhad seen, says she believed firmly The London correLondon Sheffield Dally Teleof the spondent at Sunderwas vision the says graph was playing principal land, when she boy in a pantomime. , Miss Greene was lodging in a, fishermans cottage, and one night, when she and some girls from the pantomime were going to her rooms for supper, there overtook them on the stairs the transparent figure of a little sailor Tad, "bis" arms raised, his eyes closed, and his body dripping with water. The figure hurried up to the attic of the cottage, and Miss Greene and her companions ran trembling into the nearest room. Afterwards they went all over the house, but could discover no trace of the visitor. - Tit-Bit- s. Like the Germans. Apropos of the murderous German air raids on open towns. Mayor Edwin IV . Flske of the Mount Vernon exemp' tion board aaid: "Why, the Germans have no more regard for womens and childrens lives than the old California Justice had for the Chinaman. This Chinaman had been killed hj a drunken rancher, and the proof against the murderer1 seemed Irrefutable. - The Justice, however, wound up the case in short order. There hatnt no use of this here case goln to the Jury, he said, looking up darkly over his spectacles from a law book. Ive studied all through my Law Cyclopedy. and there aint no law nowhere agin a mans killin a Chink. Turn the prisoner loose, sheriff. But, say, .young feller, dont you go doin it agin. Some Justices Is more Ignorant than me, Buffalo bee had Just .She landlady received a telegraph from the owners But Hs Knsw One. Kind of sTsblp In which her boy had saitedr A school teacher had asked a class lost saying that tha vessel had been of grade pupils' for composition- s- on with all hands. the violet. On looking over the written compositions she found the folPlatinum Dcrxae. lowing; The violet has sepals, petals, and Notwithstanding present high prices th .in a Urals gun." ef platinuSn, production Perplexed, she called the author to Curing 1916 showed a further decrease. The total output amounted to 8(1508 her desk and asked what be meant by tunees, as compared with 118,709 saying that the violet bad a gun. He Gfeehe--foun- Next" grief-stricke- fJV. BUFFALO. d well-round- ROAD SYSTEMS CO, FOSTER-MJLBUR-N i , . JAS. W. CARR, Notary Public. Grt Doan's at Any Stare. 60c a Box sight-seein- g -$ it seemed get velL n. d waiting mouths of our allies and impressed on us that this procession across the seas must contlnue in increasing volume. ne explalnedx ftt length just the food supply condition of the United States at the present time, and at what expense to ourselves we had been supplying the allies. Then hgaln reminding us that the output to the friends acrosstnust continue in Increasing quantities, in a quiet, but most impressive manner, reminded us that now our own people were over there, and thftt soon there would be more of them. And you know, gentlemen," he remarked, what you must do for them, what you will do for them. They are fighting our battle on the forefront Our duty is to keep them well fed. We will dq it" He then went on to show exactly the foodstuff condition; that the world supply of wheat was short; at the same time giving the encouraging statement that our corn crop probably would exceed last year. lie cited the flesh food status, 1 vlng in Retail just how we stood on our beef, pork and poultry, aud what portion of the whole we must send abroad to feed our troops and our allleft. He showed, in short, that in order to live up to our food duty abroad, we must eat less wheat and meat at home. And right here he got down to the fish question. Leaning the tips of his fingers on the table and gazing at every man in that room at once it seemed so, anyhow he said quietly: You gentlemen here are going, to help your country as a patriotic duty. You must realize from what I have told you today Just how your own country and her allies stand in the matter of actual food supply, and what we must do to keep up a food supply for them and ourselves. You are going to Increase the fish production of this country by 50 per cent I am not going to try and tell you how you are going to do I have faith in you as patriotic men and business men, who know your own business t the minutest point, that you will make the great effort and that you will succeed. Remember that this is no personal call to you; it is the call of your whole country. Now, these are not exactly Mr. Hoovers own words, but that Is the way a newspaper man remembers them, and those-ar- e the lmpresslons this wonderful talk left in my mind. He was not demonstrative at any point He was cooler than a college professor explaining a geometry proposition to a class of beginners. He was calmly enthusiastic, if you can sense the scope . of that expression. One or two points more remain in my memory ; not bis exact words, but what he. was driving at ne didnt try to tell us that we were going to starve, but he did try to tell us how to prevent ourselves and our allies from sighting that danger point He did claim that if the advice, the appeals of the food administration were, followed, our armies would be able to fight better, ourselves and allies in Europe, the men, women and children all would not see the shadow of the gaunt specter of want in their door-yarand that final vlctorywould be ours Lin short, that "food will win the war. He, did counsel us to eat less wheat and wheat products, less beef and beef products that they might be sent Jo supply the abnormal demand abroad, now made even larger by the' constant increasing of our own armies across; and to eat In their place more fish, poultry, fruit, vegetables and all cereals except wheat Oh, the words and thoughts he crowded Into that hourl The former none there can remember, but the thoughts they conveyed will never be forgotten by the men who heard him. He stopped as suddenly as he began, smiled wlnnlngly;, bowed and. walked, toward the . rear of the room and the door, and then as though imbued with the same feeling of respect and confidence for the man who Is carrying such a world-wid- e burden every man In the room rose to his feet, and as this food Atlas came down through them, gave hljn a round of applause which must have made him feel, well, those fellows will help me, I know." And then that body of fishermen got right down to business, talked and how to do the bidding of the man who had planned like Just two and after room, the days of Intensive labor went their ways to their left various homes, each, determined that the fish supply of the country should be Increased or hed know the reason why. It was one of those meetings that tells why the Hoover way Is winning all over the country, why the Hoover Idea is gradually forcing itself on the public mind as something That MUST be lt ved Up to, why the United States is going to keep on feeding hersPlf and her allies, why food will win the war." and carried within Every man In that assemblage went home "Ilooverlzed Mr. Fowler. Catch em for his busy brain the slogan so aptly suggested by ' Uncte Sam. I would like to quote a few real Hoover paragraphs shot across the table at us and which "to my mind are vital. has been a surplus of foodstuffs, and we have In America there ale-aythe Kipportof, ether. countries- .- We- - have 'never had contributed materially to make a particular effort to conserve our food supply or to avoid hunger and starvation by thrift We now find ourselves the one great source of the surplus food that must reach F,urope,if we are to win the war. That surplus will be scanty, particularly this year, because of the comparative use of our and by the most restricted use of food by our European allies. supplies -The problem of feeding ourselves and, feeding our own Irmy abroad and of feeding our allies ts the most pressing one Jthat Is Immediately before each and every Individual. -I feel confident that the splendd volunteer spirit of service of the American people will demonstrate Itself to solving our food problem and that all American producers, manufacturers, merchants and consumers will work together toward a common end. The available supplies this harvest year are less than last year- - the demand upon ns Is greater than last year, and from tne last harvest ws exported more than we really could afford. We can only meet the call mwn us next year by saTlng and by substltuton of commodities which carnot be ounces in 1915 ; the production in 1913 explained : "Why, you told us that the violet and 1914 was 158,084 and 156,755 ounces, respectively, while in 1909 tbe had sepals, petals aud a pistil, and I couldnt spell pistil." transferred." mtput amounted to 214,042 ounces. - it . ds, " s PQ1, . Small Doss, Small Price Carters Iron Pills Will restore color to the faces of those who lack Iron in the blood, d as most people da pale-face- TYPHOID no more than necessary Army Smallpox. hsstorarxriltd eapertance the almost miriculoos efficacy. sad haiBlessaeo, of Antityphoid Vaccination. Sis vaccinated NOW by your physician, yon nod fear family. It Is more vital than bouse Insurance. Ask your physician, druggist, or send for Hast yen had Typhoidf" tell ins of Typhoid Vaccine, results from use, and dancer from Typhoid Carriers. the orrret iaboiatoky, bebkeley. cal a sas. aaeaeciee vsccmss a aaaana onset a. uciau lad lw lu. FLORIDA SrtSsMisiestr at SsImSW kepectallv adapted to tracking, trait and ponltn Siin luhwlllr Xrtqhm Imp, tie, hanwiHi. OWN SPLENDID Can Z'atroln Valley land, near Iresno.now hems settled as liankard community. Biehest alls toil, tin limited water produces very heavy tonnage alfalfa, pas. raisins, all Held crops. Beet referenoea. Will sell Improved or aaimproved portion an longaaey terms Take your property Arthur Verao, k'reano. Caiit part coTtare. WILL CAST MONSTER INGOT Lump of Steel Js to Be Turned Into Now Type of Sixteen- - Immense Inch Naval Gun. - There has just been cast at the Bethlehem steel works a monster Ingot for the first of the rifles that are to arm the great new tattle cruisers of the United States navy, under construction at Camden. So far as knowa, writes a Bethlehem (Pa.) correspond-?r- t of the Philadelphia Record, the foremost ship of this class now atioat Is the British cruiser Lion, with engines of 110,000 horse power.. Her sped Is alilt better than 40 mites Than hour and she carries h guns. American battle cruisers will have engines of 200,000 horse power and each rifles, will be armed with four which will shoot 20 miles. From pres .ent Indications there will be six of them'and Bethlehem has the order for all the guns, which will be the largest on any ships of this kind in any 16-Inc- h .14-Inc- 16-lnc- h navy.''""" '' .The Ingot required the contents of three furnaces, being 15 open-heart- h feet 7 Inches long, 100 Inches In diameter and weighing 310,000 pounds. It will take several weeks to cool such an enormous mass of metal, after which It will be cut, bored and hollow forged on the great armor jplate press Into a tube 80 feet long. It Is Pr0 guns la posed to finish these record time In the new gun shop, which is wide enough To turn the with room to spare. Special lathes and other machinery had to be constructed to handle these guns, whose parts, such as jackets, rings and yokes, are already being forged. 16-ln- tube-arouui- Dr. Pierces Pellets are best foriiTfrI bowels nd stomach. One little Au--.for a laxative, three for a eatbarti P-e- I t-'- Money doesnt malce the man, ut. little thing like that doesnt worry U1 man who makes the money. Most people are willing to lend hand If they think there Is a chance of borrowing two a little later. man This Is a sour world for the with a sour disposition, IVfccn Ycur Cazz t'.zzl Ccr: Try Murins Eye Ccrr.c No Amrut-)- nn Nve Cotnfo-- t. r i Ivte or roalL Write pmr f- - u t ,t. O |