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THE NEW SECRETARY OF THE U.S. TREASURY DESCRIBED BY A MAN. WHO WORKS FOR HIM) Carter Glass, Editor, Livestock Farmer, Financial Expert, Congressman and Secretary of the Treasury. WHERE BOC. BARNETTE nehburg Daily Ad- ‘arter Glass, Writ- paper Enterprise By CIVARL: Editor of the 1 vance, owned b: ten for the Ne' association, Lynchburg, Va., Dec. 26.—Represen- tative Carter Glass of the Sixth Vir- ginia district, just appointed secretary of the treasury by President Wilson, was born in Lynchburg, Jan. 4, 1858, the son of Major Robert .H. Glass and Elizabeth Christian Glass, Mr. Glass was born in the newspaper business and has spent most of his life in it. His father was editor of news- papers in Lynchburg and Petersburg during the reconstruction days, after the Civil war. Carter himself got his first experience in the business as a printer, and then as a reporter on the | Lynchburg Republican. Later he as- sisted his father in publishing a news- paper at Petersburg. He was edueated in private and pub-} lie schools in Lynchburg, leaving school | et the age of 14 to become a printer. He now owns two daily newspapers. | HOBEY BAKER Be Lynchburg News. a morning paper. | o ’ knd the Lynchburg Advance, an after-| “None but the brave deserve the noon pape th are published from | fair, the same | ne of the best in the! Which may explain the ending of a state. jromance which had its beginn uid college town of P: on in the batt ) ss, wh le a youn: ried Miss Anre in Callwel four children, Majer Powell. 1 ant Carter. Miss ¥ Arch ss Augusta car = red land ¢ nd) When Princeton jjuncheon Baker star of the imi Scott at game at thar the me h w the beautiful belle York and ort, he would ing the uniform of the Ameri- Mr. Glass has served continuously Seed Geo a eho tne a in congress for mine sessions, und. at "So. theip meeting was in the day: the thne of his appointment as secre. bicers America had set out to cag > house x and com: = inni 3a mittee. Ag such. he was the author of | With ‘the Serer a etal ce tiie fedeeal Fescty eset: ker enlisted in the aerial forces of | Aside from his newspaper business | #2® United States, and soon found; and. lls qrork aS a congressman: Me himself in France, where he displayed Glass takes the greatest interest in his | the same cool daring and utter fear- stock farm, in Campbell county where | eer that he had shown on the Nie Owne ais football field. ; ; nble cattle in V nown |. Miss Mimi Scott, immediately on as an excellent judge of Jersey cattle the declaration Ot wary entered une ‘end Berkshire swine. ‘i {Ww omen’s Hospital in New York, and | His time, when not attending ses-j) sions of congress, is divided between his home in Lynchburg and his coun- try place. Since the first inauguration | of President Wilson, he has been com- | pelled to spend most of his time in| Washington, but his tamily has lived | in Lynchburg. except for occas visits to Mr. Glass, at the capi In Washington, Mr. Glass lives Phys Hotel ‘Raleigh. would be considered instirmountable Mc. ‘Glass is a>forceful speaker and |handicaps, are overlooked by the writer, his editorial work when he was French in thelr cagerness to play the activein:the newspaper business hav- {2ational game of their American broth- ing wonchim wide recognition. He Js | ers-in-arms. ayclose student of financial matters, In proof of this, Johnny Evers, now and.-as.author of the present federal | cngaged in teaching baseball to the poi- banking system, he came into national ae vouchés for the following yarn: ;. prominence. ‘When I was trying to teach base- SCHOOL-DAY STRAIN A ‘parent troubled over a child or a fast-growing youth, could do no better than to utilize th definite help that ee SCOTT'S EMULSION affords as a stren ening and nourishing factor. A very little of Scott’s every, day, during a tima of stress, furnishes elements of nourishment essential to the blood and tends to confirm a growing child in robustness. For your boy or girl, you will not be satisfied with anything set of Scott’s. Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, sons seription act w and both are now where ther have won rapid ] He also has three nephews.in the army} j and navy. 26.—Fr has Paris, Dec. over baseball 1aU) eights, h enthusiasm risen to great at “ul defects that in America AS 22 Traveling NAHHQOUAARODAHIODAGUOOUEEEUEUEROAT AUDA Sell your prospects by mail and reduce your expense—through the use of prop- verly designed and well printed: G TRIBUNE BUILT. ADVERTIS lergarck Tribune Co. |WHAT'S A LEG IN BASEBALL? NOTHING TO THE FRENCH POILU CooL Expenses Are High BROADSIDES CATALOGS ‘BOOKLETS MAILING CARDS. “CUPID'S ARROWS FIND A MARK HE ARCHIES FAILED | _BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE MARGK HGH SCHOOL ALUMNUS Alfred K. Humphreys, 53rd artillery, GA. at Pierre, 8. Ds: claasmateg of class of a8 “the Birminrék high sthool: ¥ France. Noy.-14, 1918, Dear Médher: that’s all you ean hear-now. F wish you could see these Frenchmen--T nev- er saw such a crazy lot in all my life. They are so happy they don’t know what to do'with themselves. Last night I was up in the old fort waiting for the radio report, which came: in about:8:30 p. m., saying that the armistice had been signed an] that the kalserhad abdicated. - Well, those Frenchmen is belleve me, we had'some oplebration. This morning when I came out of the tunnel,’ F expectedseverything would he calm on the front, ‘but to mv surprise there was a terrific’ bombardincrt, and it lasted ‘until exactly 11 o'clock this morning, T° knéw- the oki doughboys must have made q big advance. Well, this afternoon everything seems so still. “Those hills where every day you could hardly see them for smoke and which for four years. have iheen covered with artillery, seemed so | quiet, that everyone remarked about jit. Tonight you cannot hear a single | gun, nor‘ airplane, but everything ‘is: x0 calm and quiet that wwe all feel sort of Jonesome (at Teast Ido), and it Mim of Scorr t up a course of training as aj On its completton she was | nt to France, where she was put to/® | work nursing refugees in thed evast-| | ated section. There she met Baker who literally} ; dropped in on her from the sky. \ From his plane he had seen three | childreh wandering in tg woods; and he landed to make sure that they | were found and taken cake ‘e of. | This meeting was followed by many been announced, i al to some of the French soldiers we finally got a game under way at one of the camps. I noticed a man on the sidelines shouting and jumping up and down in his excitement. “Pretty soon he asked to try’ A turn at bat. I threw him an ensy straight ball. The pollu swung at the piliowith all his might. But he missed it-ind I heard something snap. “The disappointed soldier held up his hand and called ou ‘Attendez un petit instant, monsieur, s’il vous plait.’ I gathered that he wanted me to wait for a ‘little instant.’ I. watched him. The poilu unbuckled his helt, made a few passes at sonte-important connect- ing points and got hold of a strap that ran from his-shoulder to his knee. “I nearly passed away when’? saw that the man had a wooden leg! And he got it buckled up again and went on batting. He hit the ball, too. And, a lot of ball players I know who have a full set of legs If your stomach's. wrong, have in- digestion. don’t relish food, appetite gone, feel heavy, brain dull, bowers not regular, liver torpid, kidneys not acting right, can’t sleep well, out of} sorts generally—you need Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea. That's all. Jos., Ereslow. Call C. A. Finch Lum- ber Co., phone 17, for Old Hickory Lignite. eee ma HN ING LETTERS BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA others, and now their engagement has| f say—that fellow could run ‘taster than}. an =e 53 looks so strange to ‘see lights ever Where, The French flag is now fiyi ing over ithe old fort, and over across ‘the river lis our flag, Old Glory, which some field artillery outfit set upon top of the hil. This morning at 11:05 I went out and pulled ‘away ‘alk the camouflage from the top of aur. dugout (office), ind as I sit here writing, with two / candles burning, ‘the ‘shades are all up. Gee! I wish Twas in some French town tonight! Bué here I'am up here, with no place-to go, but down in the old tunnel fo my bunk on the ground. The Frenchmen. have all gone—some- where—and we all fecl so lonesome, thing is so quiet. : all along the front line the doughboys and artillerymen are send- ing up skyrockets and star Shells, and they nre having some célebration up there. 1 don't. know: when we'll leave here, but it can’t be long, for we aren’t do- ing any good here, I hope, vow, I ean get, a. pass, but there are hinndeeds of others who, want, the same thing and. I. don't, know how long if will take, I expect pea fow days, but in Feadiness.” I doubt very munch. if the ¢ A, C will be among the’ first to go’ back to the states,:but its hard to tell. 1 only hope they’ send us:hack iis the same order that we @amé over here. Wells mothér : dear, I ought to’ be home to you by next June at the yery latest, :so -cheer’ up, for’ the’ war is over, and we are’ coming home. T guess I'll never: get a@ wound stripe now. No mafl in yet! All for now. Loads ‘of love, PVT, AUK. HUMPHREYS, Fidqrs Co., 68rd “Art GF ALC. MOT ALS, ° Somewhere, ¢ a8 Sept. 30,1918. Dear Mother: Well, this makes the third big drive I’ve been ‘in ‘within the last two month: _F watched: one, of the prettiest bar’ rages ever. thrown over the other night, from the top of a hill near here. Voor- hees and I watched ‘the battte for two nights.from a hill, where thé old Ger- man dugouts and trenches were in the days of the battle.of Verdun. We were will be declared in a intil then ‘we: “remain sere. inthe. old: trenches ‘tip ‘there; we" were much safer than we would have been here in the town, for they shelled us for five nights straight. Our dugout fs‘only a few yards from our office; (what we call an’ office). and one night as T was writing in the office Fritz started to“ shelling us. 1 could hear aguns hiirk, and in a few from the office, ich were high € Of course: Y€ ‘shook’ me up quite ‘a bit, but 1 fond the door just nother one-hit, which hrapnel, and T ducked just in time, for I heard the gl in our rash, and the stuf! whistled ri yy; the door: T threw on my mask anéjputled my hel- met over my ears, ad wan for the dug- out. “1 got there-ul ‘right, but had a ose. shave. The nest. mornihg, the office, was “fini and we picked out what stuff we could say About-the only thing FT Jost: which was of much importance was Aunt Els: wrist. wateh “which T left iyfme on the table: TF tried ‘to find it the next. m but nearly thing was buried, Well, we've moved into anothers old everythii iy to pack, for we ‘on't be here much longer, ‘cause Fritz hag been driven back out of our range. The night of the 24th. Voorhees and I watchedthe most beautiful and won? derful sight we baveceyer seen. For 20 mites ai id Wik We could sce notlr| iit a sky of fire.;“We were right ind our: big. guns, ne re fee most of the “orers,’ | i ears were good: protection. ¥6 lasted all the next day and by t¥at ht we had adyanced ‘cight - mites. ‘and E had ‘a, hunch, the town ‘wold be gassed that night, so we mone back up on the Fatt ‘to escape mera And*sure enough » the iS AS. that was enough, for by that time our masks were on. But a wind came up about’? o'clock and all was well from bat on. now Fritz fs refreating or being Ariver: eo ‘20 kilometers and are out of our, Tse r hundreds of prisoners go through: and some or most ‘of them are f60 weak to walk much farth- er, 80, Ee Still here. I've got: belt about ' inches wide & bis aluminum buckle on it which fs in- scribed, “Gott, mitt uns.” I took it off of one of the Fritzes ade other day. T'm going to try gid keep ey HB WRITES OF WAR ‘the ielwine letters from Private C., to his mother, Mrs. H. M. Humphreys of the U. S. Indian school will be -of laterest to e ‘pthe*ammunition It takes~to kill them “Pinis’ ta guerre YY | FILTERED in. those’ trenches, and. although wé Pre shat eeiened k bd 2 hag got another stunt now. He yattacks: ‘our halloons with his machine painted in our colors, I saw bim get two of our balloons and kill one of our observers the other day. He also wears'2 Red Cross on tis right. arm and on the other is a ma- chine gun ebevron. He'll be carrying a would-be wounded man on a stretch- er who’s got a machine gun under the blanket, and when he vets near a few ericans’ he cuts loose, on: us. Some dirty trick, eh? Well, tonight I saw a bune “Red Cross machine gu call ‘em, and from the wa they had been pretty bad!y bruised up. I ‘guess: the doughboys kil most’ of then instead of taking them prisoners, forihey‘only*eat up our ‘ations, and of those isn’t worth as niuch as the rations théy eat up, although it is worth more than those squareheads. The doughboys have a new_ style now. ~They don’t need a pistol or a gun any more. Just sneak over in one of their trenches with a big club fall of nails and right away ‘you~ hear “Kamerad,” and you've got, 50 or 60 prisoners, It’s'a shame to kill such kids as they've got fighting now, ‘and In fact, most of the youngést kids aré saved,’ but the poor fellows that were once big, strong men and are now skinny and frail and sickly, why it’s best to pat them out of their: misery. I‘ don't know ‘why I’m talking ‘so much about the war tonight. “Guess dt’s ‘cause T’ve seen so much of it late- ly. Gen. Pershing sent messages up to us by airplane which congratulated us on our splendid success, but it’s not over yet. On our sector they are stil) advancing and capturing guns and men, so Fritz better do something pret- ty soon to stop us. The only kind of a church I've seen old churches which have been shelled, {/ Was-in an old chureh the ether. day which had been shelled, but the altar had not been hurt much, ‘There were, beautiful pictures still on the, walls. (What were once beautiful paintings of, Christ and the saints and aposfles.) Anyway they had been cut and sliced! S—— ATonicand. —. Health Builder Remove that warning .cough or cold, with Calcer (the, calcium tablet. @ strength to bom bat illness. Effective Immed ately, No More Direct Shipments Will Be Made Retailers. All Ship- ments Now Go to Jobbers for Redistribution. When the influenza: epidemic struck the country’ aud wiped out our ware- house and jobbers’ stock almost over- night, we were faced with the problein buting—to the stricken dis- ts-—in the quickest possible manner —our daily output of VapoRub. We solved this by offering to ship direct to the retailers in these influenza dis- tricts, by parcel post prepaid, quan- titles‘ of not more than three doze VapoRub in“any one shipment, and by shipping what was left from our dafly production to our jobbers. by xpress instead of freight. This was costly, but it solved the problem for the time being, Now, how- ever, We find ‘that these small ship- ments are: constantly increasing—we have received as many. as 1,306 in a single mail. “It is becoming impossible for US. to. fill these. promptly, and in- by. Fritz with his knife in the old days for two months is what's left of the OF. Yerdun. A, fook.a prayer-bovke. Cor’ (ft. was printed In Latin and weighed | ‘several pounds, ind of a book): off the altar, but W ish I could keep It, but T can't, bé hotliered with so wuen stuff to Ing around with me. le Well, must ¢. DOW. Lots. and “lots of, love. SON. Pp. 8. The other night I sort of wished I was back on my old job as gun_pointer, like I was when at Cha- tean Thierry. ‘and ink, maps and ete. Now. I fight with a pen Which- is. West? Call C. A. Finch’ Lum- ber Co. phone 17, for ‘om, Phi ladel phi ‘sof Rekman's Alterath eels fl Distributors of > MAXWELL, AND OLDSMOBILB AUTOMOBILES PORTAGE TIRES .GREEN DRAGON: SPARK. PLUGS . Automobile Acces sories of All Kinds _ GASOLINE Free Air and: Water SERVICE eon Day and Night Phone 100 W. W. Bashan. Licensed Embaimer.in Charge HARDWARE—IMPLEMENTS | Hygena auasanagsega “Battery Repairing Exide Service Statin RADIATOR REPAIRING | In All Its Branches. BLACKSTONE TIRES We give a nal guarantee of 4,000 miles and ke our own adjustments. ', MOBILOILS AND GREASES At a Big Saving in Freight. On all of these lines we quote regular factory wholesale to dealers. - CORWIN MOTOR CO. Old Hickory Lignite. MISSOURI ‘VALLEY. Factory Distributors of CHEVROLET AUTOMOBILES — ia _ pa ‘Form-a-Tracks, “Smith Tractors © Mate sraga and pe reas BISMARCK MOTOR COMPANY Distributors of STUDEBAKER s CADILLAC Automobiles Undertokere —- Eesbalaiers Licensed Ensbalmer fn eee “Day Prem. se Night Phone 65° ELECTRICAL —THE— ELECTRIC SHOP |! nee speci alizing in Extraction. id 5, Haggart Block, Goran Third and Broadway Sts. Telephone 250 Bismarck, N. D. EB. T. BURKE: NAG "FRIDAY; DEC: 27, 1918. NOTICE RETAIL DRUGGISTS NO MOREVAPORUB DIRECT ~ BUYITFROM YOUR JOBBER stead of: distributing, our.,goods more promptly, they. are really slowiig up the proces We believe that we, cnn serve you better now by reverting to our former policy of shipping exclusively through the jobber, and, effectively immediately, no more drop shipments will be made. While we have put on a night shift and have, therchy, about doubled our production, we are, still unable to fitt our, back orders and won't be able to give éach jober all the VapoRub be wants. Hence, it will be necessary for the jobbers to continue distributing VapoRub in small lots only. But we will be able to furnish each jobber at least twice the quantity. of Vapo- Rub. that. he purchased . for. the . cor- responding month Just year, so there should not be any difficulty. in’ your getting your pro-rata share. We veel that the public appreciates the service that the retail and whole- sale drug trade. have tendered the country; in this time of stress. We wish to. express to both branches of the trade our thanks for the kind co-opera- tion exended us in our efforts to meet this emergenc Expectant Mothers GND IN.NEED il in your rt Pe Cne. FINNEY’S DRUG STORE AND DYE WORKS Phone $94—402. Froat St. We call for and deliver. 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