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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-20
LOCAL MENTION

Everybody is getting their boats
ready to put into the water.
Miss Abbic Rome was up from
her claim Sunday and Monday
+. p. Thornc accompanied the
stage to Gettysburg Wed. in the
snowstorln
a. j. Gecr left for Pittsbnrg,
Pa, this morning to make a visit
with relatives
Circuit court, at Gettysburg,
was to have adjourned today, after
a three weeks session
Alfred 1owslcv and Frank
ONei)l OF Gettysburg were over
night visitors here the first of the
week
With a snow all day Wednesday
and nearly all day today, the week
has been quite stormy but not ex-
tremcly cold
Mrs Ell Eliason was in from the
country last Sat. and helped out
the ''quorum" ut the meeting of
Sylvan camp.
Frank Worries and the Misses
Amy and Bea Ellis composed a
party who went to the st. Patrick's
day dance at German
Emil Eliason and Raymond
Smith left yesterday for Canada.
where they expect to get a job OPP
Grating a traction engine.
Miss Margie Gates has been
cQmpeld to remain at the Agency
all week with her school owing to
the dangerous condition of the
river
Mrs l.. Oliver and son Will took
Il trip to Gettysburg, Wednesday,
where it is understood the latter
took the train for q business errand
out to Montana
Mr. Lone Dog, from the Agency,
was a passenger eastward ON the
Gettysburg stage this morning,
enroute to Pine Ridge to visit rel
atives for a couple weeks.
AS usual, the Gates House cele-
ebrated the spring breakup by
serving its guests with ice cream
Thursday made with some of the
ice piled up along the shore
Mrs. w. Ripley. vice-oracle of
Sylvan camp R.N.A., presided at
the meeting of the camp last Sat
urday, the river being in such bad
condition that Mrs. Ashley could
not get over
Sup't F. G. Campbell and party
returnd from their trip to Buffalo
Gap Tuesday evening, just in the
nick of time, as the next day, at
| p. m. the ice all broke up here
and went out.
Mrs Rose and son, John, return
ed from a visit to her husband at
Anacardo, Oklahoma, Wednesday.
They were detained on this side of
the river over night on account of
the ice breakingsup
We have several copies still left
at The Press Office of Hicks Alma.
nae. This almanac is famous for
telling you in advance when. to
look for dangerous or destructive
storms, floods and earthquake.
Geo. Comeau, a member of the
Onida camp Of Woodmen, has
placed his transfer card with the
clerk of the Forest City camp, but
the camp will have to vote on it
first before his transfer is COM
plcted.
Will Brehl is busily engaged at
repairing and repainting his fine
launch "Mcrcedcs'which did good
snrv;co For fho c;fv l.St cu,r,,o,.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-20

The regular examination for
tirst-sccond- third grade and prima-
ry certificates will he held in the
court room at Gettysburg on April
8 and 10th. w. j. Breene
Co. Supt. Of Schools
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-20

Perkins County Signal /: : Perry
Denison, who owns a quarter sec
ton of land in the vicinity of
Breckenridge, was in Lennon last
week and Informed his many
friends that he was on his way to
the farm to commence farming
operations this spring.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
RIoloND VA SUNDAY OCTOBER 25 e4
in New York. This is the wife of a well-to-do

In New York. This Is the wife OF well-to-do
physician, accused of numbering trained
nurse who was in her husbands Office. APP
plfcations for seats have been made by the
society of fashionable Long Island, precisely
as applications are made for theatrical EN-
tertainments. Not one III a hundred Of the
society women has the slightest business
there. They are going to listen. to turn the
sweet morsels Of scandal OH their tongues
to fill their brains with Impressions, to
scrutinize the face, the dress the manner of
the woman on trial, and chatter necessarily
about her afterward.
degradation OF justice, and 1t is mockery
of the law. "A trial with a life at stake is
serious matter. Society will make of it IL
substitute for tango tea, To that extent
the whole deliberatjon will lose the sanctity
with which such an event should be invested.
The cloak of solemnity which should protect
court in such cases will be torn aside, and
the proceeding turned into sort of cheap
vaudeville for the amusement Of women who
are idle enough to have leisure for such graz
Ing in poisoned pastures.
1t is too bad. 1t is reflection upon the
courts, a shame upon women. If the court,
in this case, could find it possible, without
injustice to the defendant to adjourn the
hearing to chambers, to exclude all but ma
terial Witnesses legal advisers, court officials
and near relatives, 1t would be proper re-
Duke to that silly sisterhood in silks and
satfns. racing for their pastime in limousines
to the arraignment Of all unfortunate.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
Were the Specifications 1gnoredY

CHARGES made to the Administrative
~ Board by one Of it's members, that in
the paving Of Marshall Street, between
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-sixth Streets the
contractor failed to comply with the specif-
cations under which the work was to have
been done. demand investigation. If the
charges are supported, the contractor should
be required to make good whatever defsen-
cies exist.
AS The Times Dispatch has said, rigid
and competent inspection system is the only
real guarantee city has that it is receiving
full value for the money it spends on public
improvements. If the paving contractor, for
example, uses all inch and a half asphalt
binder, where the specifications call for two
inches, the fact that he is charging a small
price will not prevent him from making a
large and improper profit Bids have only
an incidental bearing on value. 1t is when
prices are compared with work actually done
that true values are determined.
Nor is the guarantee to which the City En-
gineer refers a sufficient protection. 1t may
we'll happen that thinner binder may an
swer all the purposes of thicker one, and
long outlast the pavement's promised life
That possibility, however will not excuse sub
stituton. If maj. purchase ten yards of
carpet lie is entitled to ten yards, even
though seven or eight will present just as
handsome an appearance in his living-room,
make the apartment just as comfortable and
the owner just as happy.
1t is so with paving. The contractor has
| no right to substitute his judgment for that
of the author Of the specifications the more
especially as he hardly ever increases, but
nearly always decreases, the amount of ma
terial used.
| Cities that in recent years have done
smooth paving on an extensive scale usually
| have, found themselves involved In such diff
ferences with contractors. Not one of them
| it is safe to say. would be willing to accept
City Engineer Boling's view, that any five
year guarantee is full protection. They all
want what they pay for. which. in the case
of asphaltic concrete, means specified depths
| for concrete foundation, of asphalt binding
and of topping. When they don't get what
f, they pay for. they protest strenuously If
Richmond has suffered, that is what Rich
mond should do.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
prc served together with unfnilinE rcgu-
Iarity in the Hest Homes of Richmond.
Is your morning program completed
Financial Cloud breaking Up

~ PTIMISNI and good cheer were the DOM
~ inant notes OF the conference at Wash
ington on Friday, in which members OF the
Federal Reserve Board, Sir George Paish,
special representative of the British Chan
cellor Of the Exchequer, and delegation OF
New York bankers participated.
Sir George was convinced that the United
States stands ready if desired, to pay the
$500, 100000 it owes to England, and he ex-
pressed very clearly his country's willing ess
10 accept payment in commodities, rather
than in gold. Wheat, oats, flour, cattle, arms
and munitions of war and other exports to
Great Britain already are steadily reducing
the amount Of the debt, and when the Lanca-
shire cotton mills begin to purchase cotton,
as they are expected to do within a few
weeks, the financial condition of the whole
South will be bettercd enormously, and tho
balance of trade may wear different aspect.
This country is not in a desperate condi-
ton, despite the prophets Of evil who raise
their voices every hand. If they would
stop weeping and try working, it is surpris-
ing what change they would effect in their
financial, physical and spiritual health. If
they keep crying, their eyes will be SO
filed with tears they will not see the train
of prosperity when it, passes their station.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
Wasting Good Men

\YTAR is wasting good men i'll other lines
w who ought to be arrested, guarded and
kept away from ball and powder. Vanni
MarcouN, conspicuous member of the Bos-
ton Opera Company, has been killed in &C
ton with the allies in France. There are
plenty of men who could have been killed in
the place OF MarcouS, and, considering the
failing number of decent singers there are
in opera, it seems pity to waste a voice to
stop bullet.
Again, OH the other side we have the death
at Rheims of Herman Loens, author OF der
Wehrwolf" and many volumes of poems and
stories translated into numerous languages; ;
and at Verdun OF Hans Lesker, painter of
Munich-two men OF art and letters to whom
Germany owes more for what they did in
life than for the pitifully little they could do
by falling in ditch
Among the women at the front, any Of
whom might accidentally or by design fall
victims OF warfare, are Mary Garden and Lima
Cavalieri. Can any one say, who retains
his reason, that any result of war could pos
sbly justify the exposure Of two such artists
either to bullets or scourge? The death of
either would be a calamity-a useless,
thoughtless waste of genius.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
Fran tho Chicago Tribune.

he lkcned TO the cars has Is. been
patented. This is az mic. ophone.
which catches the sound of the ships
propellcrs and steers the torpedo to-
ward that sound
IN sections, torpedo may be de-
scribcd thus:
Il The pistol and dctonator
CD The explosive charge.
CD Air chamber containing the
compressed air motive power.
t3l Balance chamber. In which are
the controls Of the ruddcrs.
CD Engines.
90 Buoyancc chamber
% Rudders.
'S) Propcllers.
THIS Is, OF course. only the barest
outline of what is one OF the most in
senious and complicated death deal
ing machines in tho world. Improve
mcnts in the design OF the torpedo
arc the most jealousy guarded secrets
Of any admiralty. Germany long ago
abandoned the practice or buying tor
pedoes from any armament firm, and
made them in her own government
works. close To a suitable expansc OF
water. where they could he tested In
absolute scccrcy. And even with ell
the improvements no torpedo lcutcn-
ant trusts his Tin Ash" 1t liz
trcacherous and ungratcful animal
that may play It's master false at any
moment, though IL will hardly turn
and rcnd the hand that fired IL. Even
the temperature CT the water may not
bc TO its liking and will make all the
difference In tho world To its speed.
The torpedo Is, or course, the primary
weapon Of the submarine and the tor
2cdo oat-dcstroycr But every Dread
nought is designed with torpedo tubes,
too, and in Il fleet action, IL Ii is fought
within the range OF the torpedo, 1t may
well be the seventeenth foot under water
,lnf tInG hat N,iI IL la,
than the shccls OF the I3.5-inch gun.
For one torpedo with warhead Of
23p pounds. OF Il. y. T., that gets well
home on the hull of a e7,000-ton battle
ship Will do enough damage to put her
right out OF control and hopelcssly Grip
pied as a lighting ship. The chance OF
such a success for the enemy is great
er stu if he fires two torpedocs stimuli
tancously on parallel course, the dis
taEce between them being approx
matcly tho length of the ship aimed at.
SalYoSs OF torpedoes have been fired
with 4 result of one hit out OF three
rrojcctilcs, both in the German and
British naries, ut SQuadrons of ships a
a range OF three and urarter miles.
and one German technical writer
claimed last year that similar results
can be obtained even up to six and a
Quarter miles. This, however, has been
questioned by torpedo experts.
1t is against the peril of this weapon
that the feet in the North Sea has TO
euard at the moment Germany would
consider herself we'll repaid II she sac
"iuccd eight torpedo boat destroyers
aLd sent two battleships TO the bottom.
The loss of the U-ij would have been
Il small thing If, at the same time. her
Consorts had been able to torpedo ship
like the Conducror. which is u finer
lighting machine than any that flies the
German ilaS.-~
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25

LONDON, October 19.--In the titanic
struggle now rcndinG the European
continent, torpcdocs already have
| served not inconsiderablc pur-
pose. Modern torpcdocs are the
| most deadly machines OF war ever
evolved. They arc much more powerful
than those used In the last great war,
the Japanese-R Russian conflict Tor
pedocs arc manufactured to-day SO
deadly that one OF them is capable of
sending the most powerful Dread
! nought TO the bottom
Trinitrotolucnc. which. for the bcnc-
| ft OF t.'a uninitiated. may be printed
observation-disclosures, and is CURLY spoken
OF by navy me" as L. y. r., il the
compound on which Germany is relying
to reduce our battlcship strength be-
| fore her main feet puts forth 10 give
battle.
1t Is the explosive in the warhcad
OF the modern torpedo. Until quite
recent years guncotton twhosc other
tname Is trinitroccllulosc) Was used. but
the discovery of means whereby 7. y.
L. coud be detonatcd made the use OF
that much more deadly explosive pos
| siblc in the torpedo. 1t Is a rival to
picric acid COT which lydditc is u forin).
and is derived from nitric acid and
toluene, which is one OF the bcnzinc
series.
1t is remarkably inscnsitive TO shock
I or friction, and can be sawn through
| or fired on at short range by rifle bull
let's and will not dctonatc. Even fulrni-
nate Of mercury, for many years the
only detona,or used, is not powerful
and. consequently. next to the fuim:
nate of mercury in the cap of the
| dctonator, quantity OF ietryl Is
! placed, though II has been stated that
! In the most modern torpedocs this has
been replaced by lead ABIDE. which is
absolutely inscnsitirc 10 damp, and has
other advantages.
The latest pattern of German tor
pcdo is Of 81 l-2-!nch diameter. carries
a bursting charge of 800 pounds of Elk
! plosive and has q range OF about 1900
yards.
| Most people know that a torpedo Is
| a cigar shaped projcctile, but only q
few realize that 1t Is about seventeen
! feet long. Nor probably arc many PEG
| pie aware Of the uncanny devices which
have been added TO the torpedo one
| by one. TO insure that 1t shall do its
work.
The torpedo is fired nearly alwaya
| from n tube beneath the water line.
and travelling as it does, through the
water aud not through tho air. is al
ways Liable to be detected from it's
i course. Moreover, now that il Is dcs-
/ tined to be used against ships Of high
| speed on the move. instead of merely
at anchored vessels, as was originally
the case. the torpedo lieutenant. in
arranging the nriug of the torpedo.
L has to allow both for the speed of the
projcctile towards the enemys ship
and the speed at which the ship is
travelling across the path OF the tor
pedo.
To correct the tendency TO leave the
straight course, a gyroscopic attach
ment was invented, and, TO make adj
ditionajly certain that the torpedo
shall find its mark, a device which may
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
THRILLING STORY OF IRISH GUARDS

HAVRE. October l?.-This is the
story. as ii has been told. of the way
in which the Irish Guards at All
met the charge Of three German cav
airy regiments and emerged from the
encounter with undying glory.
1t is the story Of what those saw
who were not themselves in the firing
line and who waited with apprehension
and wondermcnt the collision between
the gray hordcs of the Kaiscr's horse
men and the thin, but answering line
Of Britishcrs in khaki, who, with bayo-
nets fixed, made ready for their on
coming. These same Britishers had
jovially shouted their adicux- to French
troops who had been retired from their
immediate ncighborhood and in the
brief interval before the crash came
tho watchers could see officers walk
inE-up and down the lines, cracking
jokes with their men, and otherwise
assisting to maintain their excellent
spirits. I am told that when the Ger
man cavalry was only 200 yards away
one man momentarily put down his
rife and begged cigarette from /,
comrade, which he coolly lit.
Then they prepared to receive cav
airy" and did it in better order and
with much less excitement than If they
had been about to witness the finish
Of a st. Leger. Three regiments of
German cavalry, splendjdly horsed.
Splenuluiy equipped, charged rcSl-
,nent of Irish infantry. The men, who
had been joking and smoking. rose up
to meet them, n bristling bulwark Of
giants holding weapons Of steel in
steel grips.
For n few minutes there was an aw-
full chaos OF horses, soldiers gray and
soldiers yellow, giittercd lances and
bayonets. the automatic spit OF machine
guns. the flashes Of musketry. Amidst
1t all the men in khaki stood immobile.
Grimly. and without budging, they
threw back at the bayoncts point, ir
utter decentralization, the troops OF the
Kaiser, the men who terrified the peas
ant villagers of Belgium and France.
They wanted something to put on
their banner, and their casualty list
will show that, "if blood be the price,"
they achieved their aim. French Sold
iers tell me that. rising from the ranks
Of the Irish. just before the crash came.
there reached them the strains of songs
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
Export Flour Instead Of ,yheot

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-There has been very much written in
reference to the use of cotton bags and baRginE
moro especially for in the flour mills all of
which most heartily concur in. think, how
ever. this practice could be extended greatly
II our government would place embargo
on the shipment of wheat to Europe, and allow
this enormous quantity Of wheat to be export cd
IN the shape OF flour. If have 325. 900 600
bushels OF wheat to export to Europe, this
amount OF wheat. made into flour at five bushels
TO the barrel. would make IS, 100000 barrels of
-four These bags will weigh Approximately
one pound to the barrel OF flour. making the
total weight 65,ooo.ooo pounds OF manufactured
cotton. or 100000 bales
This embargo on wheat would not only !.elp
the cotton farmer and the cotton mill but II
would put in full operation thousands OF flour
mills which. arc either running on half time
or not running at all, due to the discriminating
freight rates against -four compared with wheat
The steamship companies say 1t Is so much
easier to load wheat than -four; that wheat
goes at almost r ballast price The greater
part OF our surplus wheat goes TO Europe in
the shape OF raw material, instead OF as nour
II 1t were manufactured 1t would give thou.
sands of our people employment in our cotton
and flour mills; 1t would have a further bcne.
fetal effect I'm s:eadying wheat market and
keep flour and wheat prices q parity
j. LEE KOIS-:S,
Proprietor Koiner Flour Mills
Richmond, October "a, 1914.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25

IN the American system Of court procedure
l there are many things to be regretted
which arise from the democracy Of the coun-
try and the equal justice and open hearings
guaranteed all persons in danger of losing
life or liberty. Some of these Weaknesses
are controlled by modification within the
spirit of the law. when the court may for
obvious protection of the morals of COM
munity, exclude all but material witnesses or
limit the crowd by selection of small trial
room.
There is one cha racteristic of American
court procedure that seems to be allowed too
much swing. That is the encoura cement of
morbidity, curiosity, idle audiences Put on
Il scandal and your courtroom will be filled
with women, who would be better off attend
ing TO their own affairs, and who have no
connection with the case Attempt to- ex-
Guide them, and instantly you have upset a
fundamental principle Of justice
AZ this time the Cartnan case is on trial
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
HO,itlStOOlS

THERE have recently been, III several parts
of the country deaths. and serious ILL
ness caused by mistakes OF lovers of mush-
rooms who picked and ate the poisonous
kind. When mushroom is poisonous, it is
popularity called a toadstool. AS a matter OF
fact, all fungi are classified as mushrooms.
Only one safe rule exists in selecting mush-
rooms. That is: Learn one good one and
avoid all the rest. Take 1t for granted that
any mushroom that you do not know to be
edible may be poisonous. If it is on rough,
scaly or cupped stem, or if the spore is white
that is, the under part--or if the mush-
room cXudes whitish Juice instead of red
dish, the chances are very good that it is
not good to eat. Such mushroom may kill
or may only cause illness.
1t is generally agreed by experts that
mushrooms growing in the average lawn are
good. The dangerous kind are found in
woods and in swampy places. Good mush-
rooms peel from the top; bad mushrooms
will not peel Good mushrooms, OF the
readily identfiable type, are usually Of a
pinkish color underneath. The stems are al
ways clean and straight. When a little old
they turn black. II is not safe to eat even
the good ones after they have begun to decay
These, just few hints; but the best OF
all is Learn one good mushroom and touch
no other. Then you will be safe.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25

they had never heard before. a French
soldier. hobbling along with a Bandaged
face. ana bullet in his back, vcntured
to repeat from memory the beginning
Of "A tune which | made out TO be that
of God Save Ireland" and / have gath
cred that whistle to Me- Said L." was
another OF these strains
The generosity Of Mr. Thomas Atkins
earns for that adaptive gentleman
tributes of surprise and admiration
from the French soldicry. He wants
TO give everything away--his JAM his
canned meats. and many other delica-
cies, whercwith lac is provided He be-
lievcs in sharing with his pals"
In the cafe the landlady said TO me.
we like the English soldiers but
the Scottish and Irish are not good
men, They won't pay for what they
have Now, this WAS Il slight on men
or my own race. and asked the good
patronne what sum she had lost by
reason Of their faulty commercial In
stncts Twelve francs. I was told, rep
resented the total. Then" said l. 81
VIII pay You your twelve francs, and
was about TO do so when some French
soldiers who had been drinking in the
restaurant stood up, and said, NO YOU
won't. If this be true that the Irish
and Scotch do not pay their bills. il
is true also that they do not run when
the krupps arc turned upon them.
They are cooler than we, and the Ger
mans fear them" After that, the land
lady, whose husband was fighting Mt
the front, refused TO take my money
And now something about the scami-
est side OF the war. Those OF us ut
home who, thanks TO our glorious
navy, know nothing of what war
means, need, perhaps, Il reminder such
rs a visit to the Continent will quickly
give them. saw some ladies to-day
ladies who lately held places in pro-
vincial society, like our own ladies of
the manor-dcstitute and begging their
bread. a.
made them line up with the children
of the cutters in order to get bread.
Remember this. and, while hoping that
England will remain as safe to-mor-
row as she is to-day, remember that
every one of us has his part to play
in assuring that safety.