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j I GENERAL NEWS. NOTES OF THE DAY Buy a Liberty Bond today — keep on buying until it hurts. Invest everv cent vou can spare from your living in LIBERTY" LOAN BONDS. The Government is the safest borrower in the world. Uncle Sams promise to repay you is backed up with wealth by the hundred "billions. The Government will pay you 4V4 per cent interest, too. A BIT OF FINANCIAL HISTORY.— The credit of the United States was so high ami unquestionable that in 1900, two years after the war with Spain, 2 per cent bonds were offered at par and oversubscribed. This is a financial performance no other nation has ever equaled. United States 4 per cent bonds in 1888 sold as high as 130 and in 1901 brought 139 7-S in the open market. The United States has never defaulted in any of its obligations. Not one of its bondholders has ever lost a cent of principal or interest except those who have voluntarily taken losses by selling their bonds in a period of temporary price degression. One hundred cents on the dollar, principal and interest, has the United States always paid. Back of the approximated 50,000,000,000 of national resources stands the rugged honesty of America. Liberty Loan bonds are the safest security in the world. — BUY A LIBERTY BOND TODAY. STENOGRAPHERS AND TYPEWRITERS MEN AND WOMEN WANTED — The United States government is in urgent need of thousands of typewriter operators and stenographers and typewriters. All who pass examinations for the departments and offices at Washington. D. C, are assured of certification for appointment. It is the manifest duty of citizens with this s| ecial knowledge to use it at this time, where it will be of most value to the government. Women especially are urged to undertake this office work. Those who have not the required training are encouraged to undergo instruction at •awe. Examinations for the departmental service, for lwith men and women, are held every Tuesday in 450 of the principal cities of the United States "and applications may be filed with the commission at Washington. D. C at any time. The entrance salary ranges from ,000 to ,200 a year. Advancement of capable employes to higher salaries is reasonably rapid. Applicants must have reached their eighteenth birthday on the date of the examination. For full information in regard to the scope and character of the examination and for application blanks address the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington. D. C, or the Secretary of the United States Civil Service Board of Examiners at Boston, Mass.; New York, X. Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.: Atlanta. Ga.; Cincinnati, O.; Chicago, 111.; St. Paul, Minn.; St. Louis, Mo.; New Orleans. La.; Seattle. Wash.: San Francisco. Cal.; Honolulu. Hawaii, or San Juan, Porto Rico. JOHN A. McILHENWY, President United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. All indications point to Germany trying to force Holland into the worlds war. The German minister to the Netherlands has left The Hague for Berlin and the Dutch minister to Germany is on his way from Berlin to The Hague. German garrisons guarding the frontiers between Holland and Germany have been reinforced. The Dutch foreign minister declared yesterday that the situation was serious. A dispatch from Paris says: The Germans have captured the village of Haugard on the front southeast of Amiens. The battle continued with violence through the night in this sector. The French lost Hangard. recaotured it and finally were again forced out of the town, but are holding the ground immediately around it. The British have lost nearly 1.000 guns, between 4.000 and 5,000 machine guns and the total manufacture of ammunition of between one and three weeks Wnce the nresent battle iu France began, Winston Churchill", minister of munitions, told the house of commons yesterday. All these losses have been made good. The American steamship St. Paul overturned yesterday while being wariK-d to her pier at an Atlantic seaport. It is feared many workmen were lost. United States marines fighting in France have had a total of 274 casualties, marine corps headquarters Jit Washington announced yesterday.
