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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
Pneumatic Tires.

The pneumatic tire is the turkey
buzzard in the ointment of the auto
mobile owner. 1t was invented about
20 years ago by a man who thought
h recording angel had sinecure. 1t
was a complete success. Within five
years. the r. A.. had put nine assist
ants in the profanity department, had
been compelled to install adding ma
chimes and loose-leaf ledgers. and was
working a night shift right through
h summer.
The pneumatic tire is a hollow tube filled
with wind and is fastened to the wheel
with the aid of bolts. nuts, screws,
cable wires, hooks and glue. It makes
moter of walking. The tire is made
by the rubber trust out of gossamer
silk. spiders webs and butterflies
wings. 1t is. therefore, no trick at all
to poke a hole in it with a nail, a
rock or a bottle. When this is done,
the imprisoned air at once rushes forth
and mingles with the surrounding at
mosphere SO thoroughly that it is al
most impossible to get it back intact.
n occurrence is called a puncture.
A bad puncture is accompanied by a
loud Kissing rush Of air on the part
ter. to. fix the tire, must remove it
with the aid of levers, crowbars, screw
drivers, derrfcks and blasting powder.
1t is, while persuading the tire to get
back on the rim and become fat and
useful again, that the automobilist
uses the rich, redolent words which
clog up the adding machine in the
Recording Angels Office. and has COM
PEELED him to do away with the girl
angels in that department.
Automobile tires not only have pune
lures. but blow-outs. A blowout is a
$45 explosion with apoplexy trimmings.
Tires also have creeps. skids, burns,
blisters, slow leaks and necrosis of the
fabric. Any one of these disorders will
strand a $1,000 touring car full of
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
Dur Efficient Government Railway.
From Success Magazine.

N>>D1
The first heterodox fact which is
likely to surprise the visitor from home
is the sight of a high power locomo-.
tive, with u. s." stenciled on the cab.
says Albert Edwards in his article.
The Lesson of Panama. in Success
Magazine There are two railroads
on the canal zone owned and operated
by the governments: the 1sthmian
Canal Commission system, used exclu-
sively for construction purposes. and
the Panama railroad, which besides
helping in the ANAL work. does a large
and profitable commercial business.
Compared with other tropical rail-
roads, the Panama railroad is a model
of efficiency and economy in every de-
partment. There is no system at home
SO thoroughly equipped with safety
appliances. The accident rate 10Th for
employees and passengers sets a stand
ard which none of our privately owned
lines have ever approached. The two
systems together operate about 300
miles of track in the zone, and carry
more traffic per mile thar any railroad
in the states except a few terminal
systems like that of The Chicago stock
yards.
The annual report to the stockhold-
ers of the Panama Railroad pan
so that 1t can conduct a commercial
business-for the year ending June 80,
1910, shows a gross earning" of &c.
1OO,78S.83. Extensive relocation work
is in progress, but the operating
penses were only $4,35S.426.92. The
mpan also operates a direct line OF
between Colon and New
these ports in a day less than the com
peting lines and in the ear ending
June so. 1910, they earned over $780,.
900 net.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26

drill. A veteran will carry four
bundle and a garden rake under one
arm. hang from q strap with the other,
and hold up two large men on his feet
for hours at a time.
The American standing army is very
useful. 1t Is used to build costly man
sions and provide titled sonsinlaw and
other trinkets for street car magnates.
When a magnate wants a new yacht
or an old master. he takes a few cars
off his line and thus increases his
standing army. In New York as many
as 200 members of the army are often
crowded into a single car. This is ac-
complished by other members OF the
army who are framed to push on them
from behind. Sometimes the cars
burst. and sometimes the patrons do.
The former is considered more unfor-
innate by the company. New York
magnates are very kind to their stand
ing army. however. and have already
put sanitary straps in their cars. New
York Is the only city where the stand
ing army has a regular waiting list
each night. This is because women
are allowed to belong to it. however.
Contrary to custom in other coun-
tries. the American standing army
draws no pay. On the contrary. 1T
pays for the privilege OF standing. This
leads to the belief that the army would
not be worth two bits in time of war.
An army which bays 3 cents per head
for the privilege of hanging from a
strap and being punched in the back
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
JEWS FLOCK TO PALESTINE.
No New Colonies Were Founded This
Year, But the Influx Continues.
From the Maccabean.

NO new colonies Were founded In Pal
estine this year with the exception OF
Kinereth, a large farm ounded by the
Palestine Land Development
with the assistance of the National
Fund, which employs many Jewish la
will become Independent %colonists by
and by.
Work has also begun preparing the
land for the cooperative colony of DR..
Oppenheimer, which was named Mer-
habiah. A large number of new olive
trees were planted this year In the
Herzel forest. The Agudath Nctaim OBJ
tanned it's charter from the Turkish
government and Is continuing to cover
new land with all kinds of plants. Thus
more and more of the arid Pedestrian
soil is being reclaimed to new life.
Jewish immigration into the cities Of
Palestine is much more evident.
Wealthy Jews from Russia are visiting
Palestine in large numbers. 1t is true
that not all of them find the possibili-
ties In Palestine which they a%nticipat-
ed. but many of them, who are more
enthusiastic and whose desire to settle
there is strong, succeed in finding va
rious activities n they settle there.
These Jews, who nave been used to
a life OF comfort in Europe, have Joined
some of the old settlers and have
really, near Jaffa which they named
Tel-Abib. This town. built on the
American style, inasmuch as 1t spranR
out as if by magic within one wear
Of the sand of the s%eashore. is very
beautiful. 1t is we'll planned. has wide
paved streets line with trees, every
Gus is fitted up with water pipes and
specified Oriental style. surrounded by
a garden.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
The English Sparrow.
From Harner.s w,.ak,r

oii Iial lSi ; NethlN.
The English sparrow has so few
friends III this country that it is inter-
eStlnS to learn that there is some one
to put in Il good word for him. The
government naturalists at Washing
ton have gathered considerable data
With reference to the sturdy little alien,
derived from Il careful study of the
food habits of the foreigner.
WITH all his faults. ii is claimed. the
English sparrow does some good by as
slsting In the work of destroying the
seeds of noXious plants. Flocks of thou
sands of these birds may be seen i'm
various parts OF our country, feeding
upon crab grass and ward grass, two
weeds that crowd out good turf maxi
ing grasses. The little rowdy also de-
serves credit for destroying seeds of
the dandelion.
In the destruction of dandelion seeds
the sparrow is aided by several native
birds. Chiefly h song sparrow, but
so Ear as observed the native birds
do not usually cut open %dandelions, but
feed upon those left by the English
sparrow.
In summarizing the work OF these
birds as weed destrovers, it may be
pointed out that not less thar SO diff
ferent species of bird serve man in
this capacity, and that the noxious
more h 60 species. During the cold
err half of the year almost the only
food of many species of birds consists
of the seeds of we'll known and widely
distributed weeds.
Goldfinches. destroy weeds that are
not touched by otner birds. combining
their attacks chiefly to one group OF
plants. many Of the members of which
are serious pests; but the birds that
accomplish most as weed destroyers are
the native sparrows that flock to the
weed patches in early autumn and re-
main llnfll late Snrjnp Dl1rinu Gold
weather they require a good deal of
food to keep them warm. and because
of their gregarious habits they are eff
ficient consumers of seeds of ragweed,
pigeon grass. crab grass, birdwood.
Durslane. smartwood and pigweed. In
short. these birds are little weeders
whose work is seldom noticed but all
WayS felt.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
A Laborious Word.
From the Ave Maria

There is no word, long or short, in
the English language capable of per-
forming SO much labor in a clear. in
telligible sense as the verb to get; and
here is an old time specimen of its.
capabilities:
II got on horseback within 10 min
utes after / got your letter. When l got
to Canterbury 1 got a chaise for town:
but / got wet through before 1 got to
Canterbury inc i have UGH a cold
as 1 shall not be able to get rid Of in a
hurry. / got to the treasury about
noon, but first of all l got shaved and
dressed. l soon got into the secret
of getting a memorial before the board,
but i could not get an answer then:
however. / got intelligence from the
messenger that 1 should NEST likely get
n the mex morning. AS soon as 1
got back to my inn l got my breakfast
INC then got myself dressed that l
might get out in time to get an answer
to my memorial. AS oon as l got it 1
got into the first chaise and got to Can
terbury by 3 o'clock, M about tea
time ! got home.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
The Law in Berlin.
From the

FTOIn CNc bySVanU6r.
Berlin iaw certainly seems far-reach-
ing. Because he laughed, an ironwork-
err employed in hat city was. the other
day. sent to prison for a week. Going
along the street ne saw a merrymaker
being chased by a particularly stout
policeman, INC the sight tickled him.
He was promptly hailed before the
court for scandal.
Another man attempted to get into q
moving train and fractured his leg.
After six months in the hospital he was
discharged cured, when the state rail-
way department at once prosecuted
him for breaking their regulations. The
law and leg breaker was fined.
Stepping into an omnibus. a man
trod on the loot of q woman, who was
so annoyed that she said he walked
like a hela. She was fined IS for using
this term of reproach.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
The Street Car.

The street car is the mixing trough
of humanity. 1t is an automatic en-
forcer of democracy and is u great
est proof that all men arc equal. The
street car AXE the millionaire, the So
ciety leader. the minister. the gambler,
the poor immigrant n the plain drunk
who meet nowhere else and it mikes
them so thoroughly that ut the end of
five minutes the millionaire is holding
the plain drunk on his lap, the gambler
is leaning on the minister's bosom and
the society lady's hat pin is in the poor
immigrants eye.
The street car is another reason why
they have had to put adding machines
in the recording angels office. The
reason why moro men do not go in
sane trying to drive automobiles is be-
cause they have previously ridden on
street cars. HI street car is a short,
narrow box stall on wheels. 1t has two
rows of seats. which are only visible
after business hours. and a set of
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
Football.

Football is an effort on the part of
A shin guards to occupy the same
place at the same time. 1t is classed
AS a game. but ooksm moro like a clinic.
1t is called football, because the ball
is abou a foot long.
1t takes % men to play ootball and
keep them in repair. An automobile is
durability itself beside q football play
err. In u large colleges, the football
garage is constantly filled during the
fall with football players, Who have
had to go into the back shop for Il
thorough overhauling. The chief OBJ
jects used III the game beside the play
ers. arc a referees whistle, two goal
posts. Il red cross wagon, a barrel of
splirls. Il loud virulent yell, a carload
of flags and q few thousand rooters
with brass lined throats. A rooter is
a baseball fan with n cOld-weather car
burster He can stand for hours in the
SNOW and yell without disturbing any
one outside of his oWn congressional
district.
The football is used in the game to
locate the disturbance. Wherever the
ball is, there is no more peace than
there is in a love feast with an insur-
gent in it. The object OF the game is
to take the ball down the field to the
goal over. under and through the OPP
position without the aid of axes. saws,
carving knives, battering rams or DIV
Mantle. Those who have seen a good
football team in action will realize how
little these things are needed anyway.
Football is not a peaceable game, be-
cause of the great objection of the
team Which hasn't the ball to it's prog
ress down the field. A football PLAYER
is he greatest standpatter in the
world. II things can't go his way he
doesn't want them to go at all. Some
football players are so INSCRIPTIONS as
to fall down before the advancing rum
ner n twist his ankle by getting it
tangled up in their ribs.
also. the man with the ball will snag
himself severely on a broken bone,
while going through an opponent, or
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26

brakes powerful enough to throw q 200
pound mar 30 feet when the car stops.
Some motormen get SO expert that they
can throw a large man from the rear
door at a small man against the front
door, n make a bulls eye every time.
The street car, as it's name implies.
lnfests our streets. 1t can be found
either a block ahead of where you ara
or waiting behind six coal wagons two
miles to the rear. 1t averages six
miles an hour when you are aboard
and trying to catch a train. but when
you are chasing it, it frequently passes
a crossing at a speed Of 100 miles an
hour. Sometimes a motorman has run
by so many people on the corners that
ne a to lose his trolley to avoid get
ting in on time. .
There are two kinds Of street cars
bad and worse. In the bad kind. you
nave to- a our money before you
get in. In the other kind, the COMPANY
takes it's chance. In the latter kind.
the conductor climbs over the passen-
gers to get his fares. In the former.
the passenger climbs over him. Con-
enter cars are an utter failure, and
that the price Of living is getting
steadily higher.
The street car refutes the old SUPER
sutton that you can't put two things
IN the same place at the sam. time
eop keep getting into it. we are
told by scientists that a street car does
not become profitable unless IL has =
fringe of passengers hanging from the
straps. 1t is much more comfortable
therefore. to contribute to the ex-
penses of a company than it is to swell
IT'S profits. In England they use cars
with roof gardens. which enables them
to carry two layers of passengers at a
time. In this country. however. we are
more scientific. We carry three LAYERS
IN n story cars. Owing to the ex-
ertion of arranging the passengers. orr
street car conductors break down at an;
and cotton balers. $500
Because Of the vast number of street
cars in America and the waning non
ularity Of walking as an exercise. the
feet of this nation will soon be cal,
loused on the upper side only.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26

er should weigh 1870 pounds and should
have copper fastened teeth. reinforced
concrete shins, Il 1.-the, timber backbone
and angle iron knees. He should also
have a duplicate nose if possible. The
player should be so hard tina he can
dent a locomotive and yet SO flexible
that he cam emerge from beneath 81
men,, reach his arm 81 feet and plant
the ball between the goal posts. He
should also be able to grab a 13-inch
shell around the waist and hold it un-
til help arrives. If possible. a football
player should refrain ron marriage.
Football is played mostly by collie
gians because by the time a man is
out of college lie has sense enough not
to play 1T. An old PLAYER can be told
by the quiet way in which he doesn't
dodge street cars automobiles, hood
lums and lightning. If they hit him
1T Is their own fault. and he does not
hold himself responsible for the con
sequences.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26

io Paris hats a year to get by. Some
hats are very beautiful indeed, but are
not given a chance. Their owners in
sist on going with them n spelling
the effect. 1T is not possible for a
woman to obtain a hat that will hide
all but her most beautiful feature. This
is why some hats come clear down to
the chin.
The millinery art is very complicated,
becaus no woman wants a hat like any
other hat that has ever been made.
This necessitatcs the use of flowers,
vegetables fruits. ribbons. birds, cats.
ostriches. insects, small animals. liz
ARDS, lingerie grass. straw. hay, leaves,
lobster claws, sharks teeth and auto
mobile findings in trimming. 1t is also
necessary to the profit of the business
that no hat of this year shall ook like
any hat of last year. This is avoided
by changing the shapes. We have al
ready had large hats. small hats, fiat
mats, Dubious hats. lop-sided hats. con-
ical warty. umbrella shaped and drunk
and-disorderly hats. Two years ago the
velvet nosebag, shaped like a horses
year the inverted bath tub was the sem
sation of the season: while his year
the woman who does not possess a hat
that is a cross between a Greek helmet
and a champagne bucket, may as we'll
consider herself socially extinct.
Millinery takes the place in many
families of o and pictures and
fathers new o%vcrcoat. 1t is a tax
levied by style and there is no chance
of swearing off he assessment. No
body knows h mex years hats will
look like. except that they will look
worse than this years hats. BY that
time we will have become accustomed
to this years hats which is the worst
thing about millinery. Just as you get
! used to it. it begins to hurt you in a
new place.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
STRANGE Sands.

from EaIper'S Weekly.
The most notable of those curious
freaks of nature, Singing sands" are
those of the island of Kauai. When a
small quantity of these is clapped be-
tween the hands it is said to give forth
a sound so shrill as to resemble a boot.
Put into a bag and violently shaken.
these sands emit a noise strangely like
the bark of a dog.
On the beach at Manchester. Mass.
are the so-called Singing sands" but
these are outdone by the Hawaiian
sands that continually travel hither
and thither Over the vast plain of clay.
Their movements are, Of course. in
duced by the winds, and when a strong
breeze is blowing. h silicious par
ticles of which they are composed
give out an audible humming or sinr-
ing. Under the microscope these sands
show an almost perfectly spherical
form. SO that they roll upon each other
at the slightest impulse, q circumstances
that also accounts for the rapidity with
which the sands travel over the des-
ert.
One theory advanced with respect to
h Singing" Of the sands is that II
Is due to an exceedingly thin Aim Of
gas that overs the grains. Gathered
and removed from the desert, il n
said that III sands lose their vocal
properties.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
CAN'T MAR THE GRANDEUR.
Switzerland Probably Will Resent Fur.
ther Alpine Railroad Construction.
From the Queen.

C11O VQCCIIs
In a memorial presented recently to
the Swiss government the ligue for the
preservation of scenery in that country
asks that no more concessions should
be granted for the construction of Al
pine railways.
1t is probable that concessions in the
future may not be obtained so easily as
In the past. as there is a certain
amount of feeling in the country that
these railways, though they certainly
appeal to a large number of visitors. do
not improve the beauty of the Alps.
Many of the mountaineering visitors
dislike these railways. but they very
seldom care to climb on foot a height
which can be scaled in a comfortable
carriage. Such a mountain loses all
charm. it appears, for the pedestrian,
and he generally goes off to districts
where the mountain railway has not
been introduced,
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
SURGICAL AID Often
IS SOUGHT TOO LATE
Congress of Surgery Complains
of Delay Caused By Ply
sicians in Many Cases.

Paris-Special: AT the cath
OF surgery, recently held here. sur
geons complain that physicians often
bring patients to them so late thai
a surgical operation is almost hopeless.
So, of course, the rate of mortality is
increased, in certain surgical affections,
by fatal cases which might have been
saved had they been operated OF in
time. 1t has been urged at the con-
gress that surgeons should go outside
their branch of the profession as far
as to learn to diagnose all diseases as
accurately as possible.
Several Americans are among the
noted foreign surgeons at the con
gress; one, DIR. Laplace, of Philadel-
phia. The chief subjects being con-
sidered were appendicitis and perito-
nitis. Both have afforded Or. Doyen,
the famous Paris surgeon. fresh OPP
portunity to astonish his colleagues by
his novel views and new methods of
treatment.
DIR. Doyen insists that the majority
of cases OF appendicitis do not need
Il surgical operation. and that most
appendicitis patients who are operated
on suffer from after effects. Doyen
treats such a patient by injections of
mycolysine into h inflamed appendix;
he declares this new agent cures the
Inflammation of the appendix when 1t
does not contain a foreign body, which
has caused the Inflammation. When
an operation is absolutely necessary in
appendicitis. DIR. Doyen uses what he
calls the only method that offers the
best chances OF success: he brushes
the appendix. which is only a useless
blind pouch. and ties the intestine with
a double Suture. like a purse string,
which he invented a dozen years ago.
DIR. Doyen affirms he has discovered
how to vaccinate he peretoneum
against inflammation-that is. against
peritonitis. He injects into the PEREZ
toneum 10 cubic centimetres of my
colysine "a hours before a surgical
operation which may involve it. He
says by employing this method, he has
performed grave abdomeinal opera
tions without provoking peritonitis.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
Our Standing Army.

The standing army Of the United
States is the greatest in the world.
They are statisticians who will indig-
nantly deny this. but this is because
they ride home in automobiles at night
and do not know how the other 1880
of us live.
Our standing army consists of up
ward OF 5.0O0.0 900 people. Thanks to
American chivalry. most OF these are
men. Some OF US stand only a mile
Or 80 each day. while others stand 10
0lles q day. and have % transfer three
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26

times in the bargain.
The discipline of the American stand
ing army is magnificent. This is be-
cause 1t Is drilled regularly, twice a
day. Every evening in every American
city. whole cars full of our standing
army can be seen obeying commands.
he answers the commands: "Step live
ly," Move up in 'front.'" and "Take
h next car" IKE a well oiled ma
chine.
Many members Of our standing army
are splendid athletes. Nothing 70 iner
for the muscles than standing army
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26

|$6.7o0.o0o worth of prominent citizens
10 miles from lunch. In fact, an auto
mobile tire is as unhealthy as an i'm
ported pup. and the man who has to
watch over four of them is generally
too busy to pay much attention to pol
tiles. The genius who will invent an
automobile with only one tire, will as
cend to fame with riches in a large
magnificent spiral.
Tires frequently show almost super
human intelligence. A chauffeur may