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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16
Some Names

There was q curious transforma.
ton OF names among the refugees
who fiocked to England after the re
vocation Of the edict OF Nantes. In
order TO shake on al association
with the country where they had been
SO badly treated many OF the Hugue-
nots translated their names into Eng.
lish, sometimes with slight alterna-
ton Of the sense. Boileau became
Drinkwater; Delamere, Bythesea |;
Jolifemme, Pretyman; Loiseau, Bird:
Lefevre. Smith; Dubois, Wood, and
Savage, Savage or Wild. Similar hav-
&C. though less on q less extensive
scale, has been played with English
names In France. Mazarin's successor
Colbert, descended from an English
man named Cuthbert; and the real
name Of the famous artist who decor
ated Versailles was not lie Brun. but
Brown. And we may counter that
with the Telfers, who are the Tail
letters Of France-London Chronicle
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16

tcopyright 1914, by Herbert Quickly
They say the chameleon feeds air Well SO do
We. And this calls to mind true story.
Once there lived on the good ship Eafth-aHd stu
lives for aught know-an Engllshman named North
Colonel North. The Nitrate King OF all the earth
beings who have gained dominion their fellowpas'
sengers on this great globuar zeppelin Colonel North
than that Of Rockefeller or Cecil Rhodes Of South Az.
rca Give the conquerer OF Hindustan, or the Gen
than the dominion of Genghis Khan Of Tartary Attla
the Hun, Alaric the Goth Genserc the Vandal For
II seemed at time II Colonel North the Nitrate
King and his descendants would be able through their
ownership OF the nitrate beds OF Chill. to make all
their fellow Passengers buy niates of them until the
beds should be exhausted-and then all the Passengers
OF the good ship Earth-after moving about from one
ntrogen-exhausted place TO another. and warning and
wasting ravaging peoples always do when they
moye-were to starye together for lack OF nitratesl
What greater deed could monopolist hope to
for all of us-who all in the boat remember
sell 1t at starvation prices and lord IL over the
OF though at the last We should use up
acterstically nineteenth-century conception!
The thing the Colonel had cornered nitrogen
for the growth Of crops What s nitrogen? II Ii
of the ten of plant food that must be found
by the roots OF the plants they die. And all animal
life is based plant life-and Passengers ami
mails So there you are! OF these ten elements only
three four often scarce in the sol-nitrogen.
phosphorus potassium and probably sulphur and the
Colonel had the nitrogen-or he thought For
though 70 per cent OF the air in which every plant
grows Is nitrogen. the crops cannot use It, 1t Is free
nitrogen and the crops can't eat II unless II s Fixed
that is tied up with some other chemical element.
There 75oo0O00 pounds of nitrogen In the air which
rests every OF land and the dies for want
OF II unless II is fixed" tied up with something else
In chemical bondsI A soil Is In good condition for
crops possesses tons OF this 900 pounds
per acre-but how TO get 1t?
Science in despair. But Colonel North, / sup
pose was in high feather For In Chill nitrogen has
accumulated the form OF nitrates In the soil until
that dry region is the storehouse OF the fixed nit
rogen OF this great airship Earth in which all
Passengers going know not where. Sir William
Crookes put his black cap and the sentence
OF science. This was the verdict:
A good soil possesses only from $500 to 10000
pounds of nitrogen per A good crop takes from
this store rs to 400 pounds per depending
on the crop Call 1t rs ourselves little
possible and give 10000 pounds which 10
twice what count upon, and where we?
Why, we see way to 134 crops and part of
another But there's Colonel North with his paper title
nitrate parts Of the decks of the ship God
al-how about Colonel North and his nitrate beds?
Well, said science at the preapnt rate Of shipments
80 years some 800-because nobody knows just how
much Colonel North had. And thenf Why then, with
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16
MAYBE CONGRESS WILL STOP
JACK FROSTS LITTLE TWENTY
NSTT r ON vN<NI r
~ REPRESENTATIVE JOHN :. RAkER

Ject The scientists there have nj.
ready looked into this matter To some
extent. particularly In the Rogue
river valley In Oregon, and have pub.
nshed brief bulletin on the subject.
These experiments were wholly con
fined to smudge fires az q means OF
preventing fruit loss through frost.
The experiment stations of various
states have also conducted inyestixa-
ton along this line and have publiah-
ed the results. II n for the puruoss
Of gathering all this information and
conducting further inyestiaations
that my bill was introduced.
In the citrus fruit region of Cali
fornia the fruit growers have tried
various means OF frost prevention. 90
far the most efficacions seems to have
been smudge fires. There has been
considerable use Of petroleum oils IN
specially constructed smudge pots. I
know OF one farmer who has used a
regular hot water heating plant In his
orchard, constructed exactly az n aim.
ilar system would be for house. An
other successful method which has
been used IL a system Of gas heatsrs.
A dangerous frost such A that
which devasted California this veal
only occurs at comparatively long Ia.
tervals. about once In several Years.
II the agricultural department
through Investigations and experi.
ments can establish the best mefhod
Of combating frosts, It viii confer :
great blessing on the fruit grover
and the money and time win have
been well spent
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16
junior offs boy is a sufergette, but he
says the female sufergettes is bugs

n. y, jan. 16.-gee. but them suf-
fergettes are bugs
now get me steven, amt hooking
the suffergette idea, am . suffergette
myself
think that a woman has got a
right to vote
II not, why not
look at the buns and yeggs and
souses that helps to eleckt our presa-
dents
and then look ut the fine, nobel wo-
men that runs our homes and bosses
our husbands and saves our money,
and everything, and amt got durn
thing to say about the laws nor the
offis holders nor nuthing
by golly, here am making a suffer-
gette speech insted Of telling about
what the suffergettes pulled of down
here when they was feeling partick-
lerly silly
II wasent none OF that inglish stuff.
putting glue In the letter boxes nor
trying to wreck trane, thank good
ness our danes amt as crazey as that
these n. v. suffergettes they thought
they would like to convert some
milyenaires on 9Th avenoo to their
cause
the point was. how to get next to
the milyenaires
anybody IN this town that has ever
tried to get IN touch with one OF them
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Is This An Attempt to
Intimidate the Press?
The United Press, Serving The Times With Its General
News Replies to an Unwarranted Attack Made by
the Citizens Association. Of Lawrence, Mass,
Upon the News Association for Carrying
Dsagreeable Truths About the
Lawrence Strike
TO ALL EDITORS:

TO ALL EDITORS:
Recently association" Lawrence
furnish evidence satisfy unprejudced that United
ress service was series OF % and
important facts since the termination Of that conflict This
statement has Just attention indirectly copy OF IL
having been by the Association"
Though emphatic in its statements of its ABILITY to prove its
ing itself why
snapshot pictures OF disturbance taking place at m on mid
under oath.
So far the clients United the
by this censorship ridiculous
having
Investigations made by Congressional Committee Federal ocas
publishers
United Press stories bearing on this situation who might be tempted
we would as an answer refer TO the sworn testimony published
the hearings
whose probe the situation subntated vital
OF in the United Press OF situation
association" was
put make out even phantom against the United Press
ONE lone which tho
p this aa nD1 sGS sa1 sa and
zaion Of omission Of important This slime
iaton prosecutor copied in long
hand by the United Press who handled the
When the citizens association at
cacay meantime regardless attempted intimidation
ALLEVIATE the clientele this organization
having planted
Ws IN Su ~ the ss. or III. Of
the city except 1t newsproducing We
and biased press BY mo-
ves that has never dared 70 voice complaint
1ys TO .ns % % a Own b s and and
good faith present specific be pre-
pared make equally specific answer
UNITED D' Fas sssy z ssss,
hoy Chairman Ia 1aDS'i Board Of Director.
New York January
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16
Touching the Cardinal

At the Democratic convention in
Baltimore last summer two OF the
sergeants-atarms were Ohioans, Col
John Bolan. Of Toledo, and Capt 10
seph Bowling. of Dayton. Bolan Is
the wit who laid down the maxim that
fanny man who parts his hair In the
middle n no Dimmycrat."
When Cardinal Gibbons had finish
cd the opening prayer. he descend
cd from the rostrum and made his
way toward the door. AS he neared
the eYt where the two Ohioans were
on guard. Bolan whispered:
"Joe. touch him whin he passes ye."
"All right, colonel" replied BOWL
ing. with an innocent air. What poo
ket has he got 1t in7"-Popular Mag.
azine.
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9Th avenoo persons knows there's
only one way.
you write nice letter, saying just
what you would like, and mark It
personal" and send Il
and then the persons privit seeker
tary opens 1t and reads II and chucks
II into the waist baskit
the suffergettes thought they could
beat the game by going and calling
at the homes OF the milyenaires
80 they went, about IL dozen Of
Thorn
they went to about 20 houses and
rung the door bells
did they see any milyenaires or
milyenairesses
no, gentle reader, they did not, they
seen 10 inglish buffers and one french
parlor maid
1t must have been CRATE mite In
society, for mrs. aston and mrs. van
derbilt and mr.. carniggy and all the
rest was all out
at least, that was what the 20 but
lers and the parlor maid said
well, let the dear girls 20 to II
don't know OF no more nice. harm
less, iadylike amusement than ringing
9Th avenoo doorbells and saying hello
to bunch Of buffers johnny
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16
IN ENGLAND,
and THE LESSON FOR OTHERS

msazne writer describing Immediately recent conditions Eng
land, presented two pictures.
fifty thousand people literally starving because they
cculd get no work to do
the Duke Of Westminster possession
which by the time Of Queen Elizabeth
M 81 90 pounds 500 per year. which still
basis while fact it has become fashionable residence
hon and worth on rental basis slOoOOo,ooo or
II these pictures found the in which country
M i making the and thu
r1 xoher.
Il seems to and stin is easy
that necessary il TO stand patio keep right
v things just they done in the time Of Queen Eliza
that's ALI
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Editorial Page Of The Detroit Times
Lara rs GETTING THE MONEY
IN CLRCULAIION, At ANY RATE

Clara sOks ut loose paint things burn EN- up
~ ,..se, nav remember that we had smile when Clara
M irving to drag her half Of Lue Baldwns SEA 100000 estate ont
tie hands Of lawyers claimants including widows BY reve
ncrfanafio children AL al, the lawyers would say
Not very long ago. got 100000 her share and announced
hat he was eoing have the very Of good time"
A she had been having only ordinary time became interesting
observe Clara being having ordinary time
would do.
she sailed into Tfanys bought $25oooo worth Of diamonds
being ponae fond Of diamonds having
pug in diamonds
She jounsyed to California dear old "LuO used
Is jy the life and bought residences valued
10000
Ao hs put on her list $4,000 private car some worth
10000 $4,000 automobiles and 100000 yacht
Good time Clarai
Gee whiz!
Moreover you expect "hs very best
Il good time" without Clothes would youi
Not for Clara, anyhow
he didn't do thing but buy 100000 wardrobe.
Wcman just think Of riding 100000 yacht $4,000 private
@ 100000 wardrobe gnshsd with $4,000 worth Of
diamondsl
Well think Of "Lns Baldwin old tired urfed with
hing sitting years millions trying hatch mil
lons out Of them that he couldn't spend
Really i anything ally than tha.i
% it. Carai say we.
You are the sort who make tn. Tiffany. 60.
paydays desmaks yacht builders
md carpenters 60.
blow il ini
"Bu1np It'll
one thing the country needs mil
lions had h best sort Of good time start
out to buy good time
There already many old rooster monaes and old han mil
onares sitting their ducats trying sweat out dua and
letting 90 Of any Of them.
it's likely you bit silly, Clara than would
IS IS per women they heres Of old "Lucky
Buy rafting good time Clara it takes the last bill the roll!
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16
wireless Monograph
Il Youths Invention

Surprising results are being obtain
"a hv means Of the new invention Of
- italian youth, Francesca al Bernoc
rhI called the wireless monograph
~hich has recently been tested be
tween Milan and Turin His
.rbaratus Il Tar In advance OF
4rrfhing OF the kind yet TO
corded. Besides ordinary messages
a also transmits autographs, short
hand characters and all sorts Of de-
.I<ns. So simple Is the arrangement
mt ne transmittcr and receiver Of
1I|1 instrument may be applied with
800 % any ordinary wireless tale
.<aph plant, Chicago Tribune.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16
Rubber Substitute
Provided by Sea Fish

A scientist Of Amsterdam has -
Gently perfected method by which
he secures very excellent substitute
for rubber from sea flsh. II II claim
ed that the product has al the quail
tiles Of rubber at one-sixth the cost
Another new source Of rubber substi.
tute II the -triuca,l' tree OF Natal
This plant has been heretofore regard
ed a. commercially useless, but 70.
Gently about one ton q week has been
shipped 70 London, where II Is used
az Insulation for electric wires.
Job Printing Done Right. Tines
Co. II John N--St.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16

Congressman John Z. Raker. OF Call
fornia. has introduced a bill In con-
gress appropriating 100000 for use OF
the agricultural department. In investi-
eating methods by which Jack Frost
can be totally defeated when he makes
suoh attacks as this week when he cost
the orange and lemon growers OF
caiifornia SIS. 5000 loss. Represen-
tatfye Raker has written the following
article onI the subject for The Times.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16

an additional ap-
preparation for the
agricultural de-
partment to In
vestigate fros {
prevention Ii to
e n a b lie expert
ments to be made
In the deciduous
and citrus fruit re
gions Of the Unit
ed States. which
may result in the
adoption OF some
practical scheme
for preventing loss
to the fruit grow
ers In times OF
frost.
My bill provides
an appropriation
Of 800, 900 for the
,isa Of the deDartf
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16

Business-lil<e Printing. No fuss and
no feathers. The plain. neat kind that
looks right. Times Pyinting Co., I6
John R--st Pm. Main 1898 or City lass
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az REP. JOHN z. RAkER.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Jan. 1s.--
The one object In mind In providing
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16

OL VAVVJVVV TOT ~ NA = In.
use of the department In investiga-
ton and experimenting on this sub
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-16

Job Printing Done Right. Times
Printfng 90. n John R--st.
The Calumet news., 1913-07-16
Child Hurt by Falling Fence

The five year-old daughter of Ar
thur Boudreau of Manistique, re-
ceived severe injuries when "A board
fence sixteen feet long and eight feet
high located between the bottling
works and the star cafe. was thrown
over by strong wind. The fence,
which was an old one, had long been
considered in a collapsible condition
ana unsafe. George Hamel and Ar
! thur owen, who were standing close
! by. succeeded In catching hold of one
end Of the fence as IL went down,
thus lessoning the force with which
II struck the ground. III they had not
done this, the child would have been
| Killed. IT is believed. Hamel crawled
under the fence and released the child,
whose bacl, was badly injured as well
as her face. Her nose was crushed
and the physician in attendance fears
IL is broken.
The Calumet news., 1913-07-16
Powerful Electric Locomotives.

The New York Central is to put In
service on the New York terminal di-
vision ten new electric locomotives
which will be the most powerful OF
their kind In existence. says Power
editorially. Although weighing only
100 tons, which Is fifteen tons less
than those now in service, they will
be more powerful. rs the whole weight
Is carried on the drivers. Normally
they will develop 1,4O0 horsepower
continuously and will be capable of de-
veloping as high as 5000 horsepower
for short periods. They will exert suf-
ficient tractive effort to- haul n train
weighing 1000 tons at sixty miles per
hour.
One of these locomotives has already
been thoroughly tested out on the Har-
lem division, and the remaining nine
are being finished as rapidly as possi-
BILE. On both divisions OF this road
they are now operating l3O electric
trains per day. and the equipment has
been In operation for more than six
years,
The Calumet news., 1913-07-16
SHOOTING A SALMON.
Il Was Mighty Exciting Even il the
Fish Did Escape.

Uncle Ben Brown was one OF the
earliest settlers in Oregon. He was an
Intelligent man with keen sense of
humor, and his tales OF pioneer DAYS
always drew an interested audience.
This story is one of the most popular:
There used to be lots of Indians on
the Rogue river when l came here
And they sometimes did mighty queer
things. There is place above Gold
Hill called the Dardaneles. where the
river rushes between steep rocks, with
big, quiet pool below.
IL was camped at the Dardanelles In
'53. and one evening packer came
along. going south. An Indian was
there with his canoe. He'd been sitting
on stone for an hour or more with
out moving. watching the big salmon
that kept shooting out of the pool, up.
ending like a stick OF cordwood and
then plunging back into the water. No
doubt he was thinking how good
steak off one of those salmon would
taste. The packer soon made bar.
gain with the Indian to take him over
THE Indian piled most Of the pack
in the front of the canoe and took his
seat in the middle. The white man sat
behind and towed his horse at the end
of lariat. The packer had an old fat
barrelcd, sawed off musket, called Il
'yauger,' that the Indian laid across
the pack in front Of him. Halfway
h
ed down into the water He saw a
monster salmon right under the canoe
Grunting 'Skookum salmon he drop
ped the paddle and. grabbing up the
yauger. rammed ii into the water up
to the locks. took aim and discharged IL.
IL guess he didn't know that he
couldn't blow hole in the Rogue river
with gun without startling results
The canoe turned over like flash
Pieces of the old yauger went twenty
feet into the air. The Indian and the
white man both disappeared Present
ly the packer came up and began 10
swim around. trying To collect his
goods. sputtering and making severely
critical remarks about Indians in gen
eral.
THE Indian didn't come up for some
time. When he did II was near the
foot of the pool. His face was covered
with blood. In two punges he made
shore on the other side of the foot OF
the rapids, rushed up the bank and
stopped Il moment to brush the wet
hair hurrledly out Of his eyes. Then,
with one dazed look in my direction, he
exclaimed. 'Ioosh, hoosh,' and dived
into the brush. He must have thought
that the salmon or the gun or the river
was bewitched. for | never saw him
know. the salmon was uninjured."- -
Youths Companion.
The Calumet news., 1913-07-16
Miniature Dynamo.

The smallest dynamo in the world
was exhibited recently before the
French Academy of Science In Paris
SO small is this dynamo that its base
would not occupy all the space on a
penny. The instrument is Il perfect
miniature of large machine and is a
practical model In every respect. II
works with II hum that sounds like
the buzz of mosquito. Ii weighs
only one-hfth Of IN ounce and is six.
tcnths of I'M inch thick. The little
dynamo can be used not only rs gen
orator. but rs u motor. consuming III
this latter ease two nmpcreS of elec
t-ic current Mt u pressure of two and
half volts a small pocket battery
will operate II.
The Calumet news., 1913-07-16
Steel That Won't Rust.

A new kind of steel is reported Ia
have been perfected by Joseph G.
Marsh of Cincinnati. The new metal
resists files. saws and drills and. whil0
II can he made so hard no drill can
penetrate 1t. 1t can he bent TO n sharp
angle without signs OF cracking or
flaw. Drills made from the steel have
been driven by blows Of slcdge ham
mers through four inches Of solid foun
dry iron with no sign OF breakage or
strain The metal takes fine polish
and Is said to he rustless. II Is close
grained In texture and weighs more per
cubic inch than any other steel on the
market.
The Calumet news., 1913-07-16
Force of Habit.

In New York. during the old Bo-
hemian days Of Ada Glare. Harry
Clapp. George Arnold. William Winter
and the rest. Nat Urner. the novelist.
knew every bohemian and had got so
used TO pathetic tales Of personal dis
tress that whenever he met man he
unconsciously assumed that man to be
In hard luck. Meeting Frank Patton
one day, he said to him. well. how
are you. my dear boy?" First rate"
said Patton; "got an editorial position
got a good wife, got bank account
and everything is lovely" well"
said Arnold, never mind, old fellow.
Cheer up, cheer up"