The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-11-05
UNITED STATES NEWS.
Cotton Irvine Contract.

Cotton Irvine Contract.
Postmaster General BurlesOn has
signed contract with a South Caro-
lima firm for years supply of cot
ton Irvine for the p. o. Department.
This consists OF a million and q half
pounds at 10 cents a pound. II is
estimated that there will be saw
ing Of 10000 this year by substitu-
ting cotton Irvine for the jute Irvine
that has been exclusively used.
No Postal Orders for Mexico
On the 30th temporary suspension
Of money order business between
the United States and Mexico was
announced by postal officials. This
order was TO the effect that no post
Office shall receive orders on Mexi-
co or pay any from that country.
This order was issued at the request
Of Mexico. 10 is thought TO be on
account OF the unsettled condition OF
affairs in Mexico.
Great Demand for Horses.
II is reported from passaic, N. j.
Oct 81, that agents of the French
Government are wanting 1000 horses
for The French army. The first ship
ment is TO be made in ten days. H.
OBJ head OF horses were shipped
from New Orleans sold TO be of use in
the French Army. Up 10 date there
have been nearly 5000 horses shipped
from that port. 5000 artillery sad
dies Of the English type are wanted
by a Chicago firm. This is said to
be a part Of an order that calls for
10000 full sets Of artillery harness
Why We Shall Not Have Real Hard
Times
In the November American Mag
azine appears a highly practical
and intensely interesting article en-
titled How the War Has Opened a
Business Opportunity TO America"
The author is Of the opinion that we
are not in for hard times-at least
not il we manage our affairs with
intelligence: On this point he says
in part:
"Of course, we can make hard
times out Of anything. But there is
no natural reason for il that ! see;
in fact, it's all in our favor. II man.
ufacturers, inventors, chemists, and
scientific experts generally all join
forces and study the problem, and
keep everybody too busy to talk, we
will be making the best use of our
luck. The situation is simply a big
call on Yankee resourcefulness.
Talented Young Who Die in Battle
In the November American Mag
azine Will Irwin, who went to Eu-
rope as special correspondent for
that publication, writes of the Ger
man invasion Of Belgium, of which
he personally saw much. In his de-
scription of the soldiers he sudden
ly comments as follows:
Amongst these men, as they sat
stolidly bObbing up and down on
the carts, or lolled at ease on their
horses, shone out now and then, a
fine, powerful, intellectual face.
And il revived in me. always. the
chief intellectual horror OF war. In
these ranks, and equally in the
French ranks, march incipient Pas
teurs and Ehrlichs, born with the
genius TO save suffering in our
world; incipient Faradays, born
with the genius 10 interpret the
forces of this world; incipient RO
dins and Sudermanns, born with the
genius to bring the beauty out of
the world. There they go, on to
the chance OF death before the
guns"
Cows That Laid Out Lower N. Y.
In the November American Maya
zine, John A. MorOso, the we'll
known New York newspaper man,
writes a fiction story about the
New York fire department entitled
'Cinders." Cinders is a wonderful
dog attached TO the department. In
The following paragraph Mr.. Moroso
the cows that laid out
lower New York:
Our engine house is south OF Di-
vision Street and just east Of Park
Row, where the streets are chopped
up like confetti because some COW
in the days of the Dutch wandered
around the island south of Canal and
made a path that later turned out
% be Pearl Street"
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