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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-02-22

dune he found
a place for him
self, and while
she wa tcheG
him Indignantly
he curled up il
the su n hine
and, droppin {
his head on the
hot sand, calmly
closed his eyes
upon my
w oPd!" s h {
breathed aloud
He nnclOSad
his eyes. Now
you may dream
Won oonsf ouOiI
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-02-22

out q memoran-
dun book and
stood under a
lighted sconce
studying the fig
ures. His losses
at S b o t CIV e I
staggered him,
but he had look
ed to his wife
heretofore in
such emergen-
cieS.
His uneasi.
ness had pro
ducod q ra Oino
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-02-22

full, and If he could not smoke, what.
in PHYS name, was he to do?
For hours he sat in his room or
paced the four walls, doubtful. cha
grined, furious by turns. Once he drew
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-02-22

Mortimer, peeping down at them
over the thicket above, yawned impa-
tiently and glanced about him for the
most convenient avenue Of self efface-
ment when the time arrived.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-07

with the exception that the police force is prob
ably critical in regard to cases of intoxica-
ton, realizing that the public will not tolerate
any open exhibition of drunkenness. Also it is
to be noticed that there are no saloon back rooms
to hide the drunks now.
Yet these are the facts regarding police bust
in the city during the first four months Of
the present year, as compared with the same
months of 1907
During the months of January, February,
March and April, 1907, 1881 people were arrested
by the police of Atlanta, going to make that
sorry procession whose feet, during the past
dozen years, have actually through the
floor in front of the wicket where fines are re-
ceved in the police court Of this group of TN
fortunates 1887 were arrested for drunkenness.
In the present year the months, January, Feb
ruary, March and April show total of arrests
to the number Of 1874, or just trihe over half
the arrests of the same months last year, while
the number of arrests for drunkenness totals
only AIS, or less than t7Venty-fVe percent of the
arrests of the same months last year.
What this means in the welfare and happiness
and peace and comfort of the people of Atlanta
can hardly be put in words
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-07
DRUNKENNESS REDUCED HALF
Knoxville, in Spite of the Jug Trade, Rid of
More Than Fifty Percent of
Intoxcation

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, May 1.-(Special cor
respondence. "A comparison of the four months
which have already passed of the year 1908 with
Prohibition in force in Knoxville with the four
months of the saloon year, 1907, is in every way
favorable to the Prohibition policy and particu-
larly in the matter of the reduction of crime and
drunkenness
The closing of the saloons in the city has
duced crime in Knoxville more than so percent,
as shown by the recorders docket comparing the
month of April 1908, with the month of April,
1907.
While several have been arrested for illegal
selling of whisky during the month of April,
1908, without saloons, the number being fifteen,
it is only four than arrested during
the month of April, 1907, for illegal selling of
whisky, zVl1en the city had no saloons, showing
the law selling whisky was violated when the
saloons were here nearly as much as it is now
without saloons.
The police more stringent in making the
arrests, and the man who gets drunk now has
no back room in saloon in which to sober up
one of the FOUNDERS to call cab and take
him home, as he did when the open saloon was
here.
The recorders docket shows for April, 1905
and 1907, the following
Arrests 1908 1907
lotal arrests $500 ........t...... S4o 40
Arrests for drunkenness .......r... 1o4 244
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-07

The liquor interests in Western Pennsylvania
under the name western Branch of the German
American Alliance of Pennsylvania" are circu-
lating pamphlet printed in the national coors
and adorned with the national flag, in which they
quote Jesus Christ. the Apostle Paul, the Pope,
Cardinal Gibbons DR. Parkhurst Waggoner Of
Kansas CITY fame. Colonel Watterson and numer
Gus others in favor of the licensed gin mill
Curiously enough the classical old lie that repre-
scented Abraham Lincoln as an opponent of Pro-
hibition is omitted
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-07

Total, four months. .............. 401 SOL
Ibis shows an average decrease in the arrests
for drunkenness of 115 per month
And this has come to pass in spite of the law
less efforts of the liquor crowd; in spite of the
Hourishing jug trade from Chattanooga and
other points; in spite of the thousands of dollars
spent by the brewers and dstillers to break down
and discredit the Prohibition law.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-07
ANOTHER DUFFY FAKE
Poor Old Man in Iowa Town Used to Bait
Their Poison Trap

TAMA, Iowa, April 80 Especial correspon
dence)-People from different parts of the coun
Try are making inquiry concerning a Duffy malt
whisky advertisement which presents test-
monlal from an aged man, Mr. Henry Clarke
Moore who lives in this town. The ADVERTISE
ment represents Mr. Moore as ninety wears Of
age strong and active, with clear and alert brain
and makes the startling assertion that he has just
completed the construction of a flying machine
which will revolutionize the world" All this
is represented to be the result of the use of
Duffy's malt whisky.
There Isl indeed feeble old man named H. c.
Moore in this town. During his better years he
had local celebrity as an inventor although he
never completed any work, some one else always
taking his ideas and perfecting the machine Of
late years he has been in state of dotage and
has been playing with notion of flying ma
chine which he has prospect of completing
which everyone knows is merely an old mans play
thing. No one takes him seriously. Some time
ago the Duffy people heard of his advanced years
and persuaded him to accept a present of some
six quarts of whisky and in return secured from
him testimonial of its medical value, which, of
course, under the circumstances has just as much
force could be expected from a poor old
dotard lettering on the brink of the grave
The testimonial represents Mr.. Moore as being
Temperance man" To this title he never had
any claim although he has never been known as
a hard drinker
The advertisement taken whole, is simply
another of the notorious lies that the Duffy Malt
Whisky company have perpetrated in their efforts
to delude the public concerning their wretched
poison.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-07

ATLANTA GA, May 2.-(Special correspond
rnce.) with midnight Of April 80, which fell
on Thursday of this week, the state of Georgia
closed it's fourth month of Prohibition and the
lime is now opportune to take an observation
III the results of the policy in Georgia's capital
and metropolis.
When the Prohibition law went into effect 1t
vas recognized that the policy must operate
against tremendous odds. 1t could not even be
said to be in the hands of its friends, for the
public officials of this city and of the state,
while uniformly determined to do their duty
and give the law fair enforcement, were in many
cases drinking men who had formerly been favor
able to the saloon and had opposed the adoption
ot Prohibition. The direst adverse predictions
we're made regarding the result of the policy, and
the liquor interests in Georgia and throughout
HE United States have left no stone unturned
bring those predictions to fulhllment. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars have been spent to
spread false reports through the country and to
prejudice the public mind in Georgia against the
Prohibition policy. Liquor has been into
the state by the carload under the protection Of
tie Federal inter state commerce law. Through
the columns of those of the daily papers that
willing to sell themselves to such dirty work, and
liquor dealers of Chattanooga and other whisky
cities have advertised their wares and kept up
perpetual temptation of the appetites of drink
ing people Free samples Of liquor have been
shipped to men who were known to be hard
drinkers and likely to be easy victims for the
persuasion of the jug traders
In spite of all this the Prohibition policy has
been magnificent success.
Not one of the sinister predictions that
made concerning the results that would come to
pass from the enforcement of the law has ma
tcrialized. The liquor advocates told us that
the town would be full Of empty business build
lngs. The very contrary is the fact. Practically
every building that is fit for occupation is today
occupied Scores of places that have been inhab-
tied by miserable dens of crime and vice in the
past have been cleaned out and today occu-
pied by some reputable business. And in addi-
,ion during the first four months of the year,
building permits have been issued for business
and residence structures that will aggregate a
cost of almost two million dollars.
The department stores report that the winter
months months of unprecedented good
trade while the grocery and provision stores
have enjoyed more prosperity than ever before.
And this is in the very heart of what the rest
of the country has been considering panic.
Perhaps the most notable result of the adoption
Of the Prohibition policy is the remarkable fall
ing off of crime and drunkenness. 1t needs to
he remembered that Atlanta has exactly the
same police force in, personnel that was in
power wear ago: that the laws in general are
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-07

The recorders docket, where all arrests and
fines are recorded, shows that drunkenness in
the city of Knoxville is on the decrease and the
law is more strictly enforced than ever before in
the history of the city The comparison with the
arrests in 1907 with the open saloon and the law
not strictly enforced, is as follows in regard
to drunkenness by the month
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-07


PROHIBITION RESULTS IN ATLANTA
What Georsias Capital City Has Months
the NoSa1oon Policy
0 arr months O. January Fe5uary Aouh and
o.
ton year.
fo four of under
of hf0 four n mdeP
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-02

daughters have taken hand in the af-
fairs of the nation in quite the same way
that American wives of prominent Eng
lishmen have recently done, hence the
present furore.
The secret of the matter is that very
few British politicians.-or business men
either, for that matter,-have been in he
habit of making their wives partners in
all their affairs in the way that Ameri-
cans do. They have been we'll content
to have their helpmates amuse themselves
by taking part in the spectacular. supec-
fetal portion Of the activities such as che
public meetings and enjoy the red IRE
and the shouting but when it came down
to settling the grave problems of state
and shaping careers the gentler sex were
supposedly unequal to the responsible
ties. American wives of British public
men are bravely changing all this. In re-
peated instances has Yankee girl not
only proven by her discretion and judg-
ment her right to WELD influence beyond
her domestic realm but indeed it is noted
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-02

intervals of foot throughout the length
are placed crossbars. A ladder of this
kind enables a fireman to readily scale
the face of any building where there are
windows. By means of the big hook, the
ladder is secured on window ledge and
the fireman ascends the cross pieces or
rungs. Taking position on the window
ledge occupied by the hook he draws the
ladder up after him and raising 1t to the
window directly above, fastens 1t by
means Of the hook and ascends in the
manner described. By repeating this
operation, any desired floor OF the root
may be reached and far from being a
slow process as might be supposed, an
experienced fireman can by the use of a
"pompier" scale the face of five or six
story building in less than three minutes.
The life line is familiar and very as
sential feature of the modern apparatus
for work at fires. One end of the line IS
conveyed to the roof of burning build
ing either by a fireman using a pom
pier" or else by means of shot from a
life line gun. This latter is of course ne
more picturesque method. The gun EN- /.
ployed is of a design similar to an ordi-
nary cavalry carbine but is much more
heavily built, the stock being of solid
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-02

maintained in city streets even by fire.
men. The chiefs wagon of this type has
well stocked tool chest attached to the
rear and in this chest is included a sail
portable searchlight.
Among the most interesting OF the new
appliances for the use of fremen are
those designed to facilitate the saving of
human life at fires. Conspicuous among
these Is the life, net. Most of these are
circular in form and fully thirty feet in
diameter. The net is suspended from a
rim OF steel. being attached by springs
which serve to take up the force of i'm
pact of falling body. During recent
fire in large apartment house in New
York, twenty-five persons jumped with
out injury into one of these nets. which
was supported by eighteen fremen. Of
the persons who thus escaped number
jumped from the third story while others
leaped from the fourth. fifth and sixth
stories.
What Is known as the "pompier" or
scaling ladder is another important mod
ern appliance in the present day fireman s
equipment. 1t consists of narrow strip
of very tough hickory, fifteen feet in
length at the end of which Is two-foo
steel hook armed with sharp teeth. AT
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-02
-HERLRL LKplER
BY -vALDoN FAwcETT.

Great strides have been made during re
cent years in the introduction of new
apparatus for fire fighting and in no conn
try has the advance been more nota ble
than in the United States. The progress
which has been made is possibly attrih-
utable in some degree to the exception.1
eSlgenclcs which confront American fire.
men The great proportion of buildings
OF frame construction to be found in maay
American cities and the ever increasing
number of skyscrapers causes the Yam
kee ire fighter to be brought face to face
with many perplexing problems which
never trouble their slower brethren IN
the other side Of the Atlanti,.
How really superior are American fire.
men and their methods was best proven
during the exhibitions of the last Inter
national Fire Congress at Paris where
Uncle Sans fire ladies came into com
petition with teams of picked men rep
Norway, Switzerland. Belgium, Italy, Den
mark, Germany, Turkey, Mexico, Ind1a,
Austria, England, Scotland, Ireland and
Wales. During these contests none of the
fire engines operated by foreign compan-
les was able to throw stream more
the foreigners required from eight 10
twelve minutes to get up steam in r
engines. The American team from IAN
sas City had steam up in five minutes
and threw stream that drenched people
on the opposite side of the river, $40 feet
away. In the most difficult of all compe-
titions. that OF having engines, hose
wagon and ladder truck run distance Of
quarter OF a mile, some of the firemen
laying hose, making connections aud
throwing a stream of water while the
others scaled a temporary building with
ladders and rescued imperiled persons,
the Americans beat all competitors in a
still more decisive manner. The American
lads did all this, shut off the water and
removed the hose and ladders fro, the
building in three minutes and forty two
seconds. Their closest rival was en- Ital-
ian team whose time was ten minutes and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-02

Lnat young Br1tlSherS Win AMBITIOUS anu
tactful American brides are forging to the
front SO rapidly that there promises to be
a greater stampede than ever on the part
3f English politicians to secure as brides,
daughters of the greatest republic.
A browning example of the present day
influence of the American wife in British
aolitics is found in the general belief that
It was Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain who in
uced her distinguished husband to enter
pom his great fight for the establishment
VI protective tariff In England. Mrs.
chamberlain Is accounted the most pow
rful woman in Great Britain,-more
'7werful in many respects than Queen
Nlexandra herself. Mr. Chamberlain con-
-Ults her in everything and 1t Is admitted
that the only way to reach England's
most popular leader is through his wife
Mrs. Chamberlain who was born In 1866
ras Miss Mary Endicott, daughter of w.
:. Endicott who was Secretary of War
nder President Cleveland.
Although Joseph Chamberlain had been
vice previously married there was 4 de-
idedly picturesque romance connected
18th this, his third venture. He is exact
~ thirty years older than his wife and
re first heard of her when his son Austin
chamberlain wrote asking his fathers
consent to pay his addresses to the
american girl with whom he had fallen
madly in love. The old gentleman was
somewlat chary of American wives for
British politicians and so he posted ,ff
in hot haste for America to meet the lady
in person and Investigate her family A
night or two after his arrival in Wash
ington there was a ball at the British
Embassy and Chamberlain, Sr., straight
way fell in love at first sight with a
stately and beautiful girl to whom he lost
10 time in seeking a presentation. What
was his surprise to be introduced to Miss
Endicott The upshot of the matter was
that the old gentleman took his sons
place as an ardent wooer and won the
American beauty. Austin Chamberlain
who had been thus uncermoniously left
out in the cold accepted the inevitable
and now it is whispered that after all
these years he is about to marry an
American girl,-one who can help him
follow in his fathers footsteps in a dis
tinguished political career,-Miss Muriel
White, daughter of the First Secretary
of the American Embassy at London
Possibly the most striking illustration
do toward arousfng the ambition of a til
tied husband not known ms possessing,
prior to marriage, very Ego ahead" pro-
pensities is afforded by the influence
which has been exerted by the reigning
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-02
NozzZE or MRzER
GIN on TIE PICK
or n IIRE BQHI


steel. steel cap is fitted over the mug
zle and to this cap is attached life line,
the main portion of whiaa is kept care
fully coiled in thin di=h with a center
core, in order that there may be nothing
to interfere with the flight of the line
once the gun has been discharged The
light line is merely used to draw up on the
roof of a burning building heavier rope
whereby persons may descend or be low
cred to the ground.
After all, perhaps no class of fire appa-
ratus has of late undergone such extern
sive improvement as the aerial ladders.
The ordinary trucks which formerly car
ried only plain ladders not exceeding forty
feet in length are now for the most part
provided with fifty and sixty-five foot
extension ladders while extension ladders
operated by means of cranks are now
made in all sizes up to ninety feet. which
latter length is sufficient to reach to the
top OF the ordinary six story building.
Indeed by aerial trucks Of this latter pat
tern men have reached the seventh story
of a building in space of forty-two seq
onds. OF course however, these ladders
will not compare with the telescope
aerial ladders such as the one
in use in Pittsburg, and which
are operated by compressed air.
The average telescope ladder is
operated under an air pressure of
three hundred pounds to the square inch
and on many ladders there is provided en-
auxiliary tank with air under one hun
dred pounds pressure for use in swinging
the ladder from one side of the street to
! the other so that in the event of an emer-
gency, buildings on both sides of thor
oughfare may be served Telescope lad
ders of eighty-five feet extension can US
ually be raised to their full height in
twenty-five seconds.
Finally, in the list Of modern fire fight
ing appliances great credit must be given
to the achievements of the fireboats which
range in price as high ss 100000 and
| some of which throw $4,000 gallons OF.
water per minute in zen streams. IN
many American cities the fire boats are
used to aid in battling with the flames not
only on the water front but in localities
some distance away. For instance in
Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago.
and Buffalo there are systems OF street
pipes extending from the water front To
various portions of the business and
manufacturing districts. By means of
these mains fire boat with its huge
pumps can send stream of water to the
scene of fire that surpasses in force and
volume any stream thrown by street
! engine.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-02

horseless vehicle has also been utilized
to provide fire chiefs and their assistants
with a means of quickly reaching burning
buildings. The machines used for the
most part in this class of work are built
on the order of the French racing cuto-
mobile. Speed is naturally a prime factor
but the matter of durability is not lost
sight of and the auto is much heavier
than the ordinary racing motor. Automo-
biles for such use are usually constructed
to run at four speeds, seven, ten, fifteen
and twenty miles an hour. The highest
speed is. however, used only in emergen-
cies, as gait of fifteen miles an hour is
accounted about as rapid as should be
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-02
SINz2zMG- IN
II FZRE RLHRu

twelve seconds.
The fire fighting force In anv moaa
American city might be comparad ~ 80
amy ana navy combined into one organ
.Aatton' mere is one branch for fighting
nie On OF near the water and another sor
Da1'lins with the flames on land. Mora
over the organization of the service 10
even more complete than that of an arn,n
OF navy for the reason that the ohia,r
ever to be kept in view Is pot the sn-
ing or months OF days or hours. hut III.
saving of fractions of a single minute
moreover, that the fire fighting force AZ
the up-to-date American city is no n,gmv
organization may we'll be apnreciat, d
When 1t Is stated that New York's army
Oh upward of 5000 fire fighters is more
numerous than the total rank and file in
the spanish Navy or the navy of NORWAY
and Sweden OF the combined naytes of
Denmark and Portugal.
Easily the most wonderful thing about
American fire fighting is found in the
scientific apparatus employed. This COW
ers every phase of fire fighting opera.
tions, from the wonderfully ingenious
systems of alarm boxes whereby noti1ca-
tion is given in the event of fire, to the
marvellous automobile engines which have
lately been introduced. Great improves
ments have been made of recent years !,
the construction Of fire engines. The
most up-to-date specimens are fitted with
large rubber tires and in order to save
wear on these tires while the engines are
at rest in the stations, it is arranged that
the entire weight of the engine
is supported by small steel
boxes, which remove all strain from
the tires. Most of the engines are, CT
course, for pumping water through the
hose of different sizes but there has also
been introduced of late years. chemical
engines consisting of sixty gallon tanks
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-02

of still fluid Upon arrival at q fire
quantity Of sulphuric acid is turned into
the tanks OF these engines and makes
carbonic acid gas which causes the fluid
to rush out through small hose, the
mixed gas and water thus being directed
against tie blaze. These chemical en-
gires and the protective companies whicn
handle them have done yeoman service CT
late years in small fires.
The era of improvement which has been
in other business of fire fight
ing apparatus has also eXerted it's infln-
ence in the case CT hose wagons. Motor
wagons for carrying hose have been in
troduced in a number of cities and the