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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-05-28

through the bayous and swamps back OF the
city.
Dispatches printed on May 80 gave rise to con-
siderable anxiety over Grants safety. Johnston
was not more than fifty miles In his rear with
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her eyesight is impaired and one up
per lid paralyzed. The other child
didn't develop symptoms Of poison.
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ERUPTION SPREAD ON FACE

$40 East Elm St.. Streator. Il.--"A
running sore broke out above my
right eye, which spread over my en-
tire face. It started as a small PIN
pie. l scratched 1t open and the con-
tents of this small pimple ran down
my face. Wherever this ran a new
sore appeared. They itched and
burned terribly; couldn't touch my
face It burned SO. 1t disfgured my
face terribly and couldn't be seen
for everyone was afraid of 1t. It
looked like disease of some kind; II
was all red and a heavy white crust
on 1t. Everybody kept out OF my way,
afraid 1t would spread. lost rest at
night and / couldn't bear to have any
thing touch my face, not even the pill
low. had to lie on the back Of the
head. was always glad when morn
ing came so could get up. It was
extremely painful.
AT last thought Of Cuticura Soap
and Ointment and commenced using
Athem. It took three weeks to COM
etc the cure" (Signed) Miss Caro-
IN Miller. Apr. 80. 1918.
n0t;ura Soap and Ointment sold
WA aut the world. Sample OF each
4 up Skin Book Address post
Ct mcna, Dept. L. Boston. ADV.
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Fortunate is the man who is never
afraid of being taken at his own hon
est, actual estimate of himself.
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ranks this year than they were
last-of veterans file through the
crowded streets Of hundreds Of
American cities on Memorial day,
the minds of those who fought be-
meath the blue or for the gray will
turn to May 80 of 81 years ago,
when ashore and afioat men we're
doing those deeds which will be
commemorated nv Memorial day
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The Youth Napoleon.

COME years ago a French historian
- searched the papers of the military
school at Brienne for traces Of the boy
boy Napoleon. who was n student there.
and some OF his school papers were
actually discovered.
One of these. a geography paper. has.
as the last line on the last page. this
underscored note, in the young Bona
parties writing:
est. Helena: A small English island"
There is nothing very mysterious
cbout this, but the underscoring.
which, If II was Bonaparte's own. may
seem almost prophetic.
The fact recalls the story Of 4 GER
tain play In which Napoleon. az a
young officer. appears. and In looking
at map Of Belgium. puts hi. finger
claims tragically: That fatal namew
The story may be classed AZ amusing
rather than authentic.
It is related that some autograph
letters of the great Napoleon were once
exhibited in Paris. Among those who
went to see them was a writing master.
He was filled with contempt. 7 can't
understand" said he the admiration
of certain people for Napoleon. Why.
he scarcely made mark with his up.
strokes!"
An authentic story of the emperor
relates that when NJ. Seguier was put
forward for the place Of first judge Of
the court Of appeals. he was presented
to Napoleon. who said:
But you are young for such an oflice,
sir. What 10 your ageT
The same as that Of your majesty
when you won tho battle Of Marenge,"
said Seguier.
He received the appointment
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The Grenadier's Retort.

TT is related that when the Csar Alex
1 ander / met the Emperor Napoleon
at Erfurt. they walked arm and arm
together one morning up and down the
alleys of the park. They and their
armies had been at war with each other
more than once, but were now friends
At the foot Of a flight Of steps lead
ing from a terrace stood an old French
Rrenadier on guard. AS the two en-
perors walked up and down. dividing
the world between them. the old
grenadier saluted them. but his stern
face was as expressionless as wall
However, both emperors noted upon
this old soldiers's face something that
interested them-a great white saber
scar which extended from the foreneao
we'll down upon the cheek.
Napoleon paused. smiling proudly as
he looked at the grenadier's scar. Then
he shook his head significantly.
What do you think" said he to the
csar, ''of soldiers who carry into new
battles such wounds as that?"
And YOU" answered Alexander. smii-
ing in his turn, what do you think OF
folders who can give such wounds!
Then voice came as II from tne
air:
They are all dead-those fellows.
It was the grenadier. who. without In
the least disturbing the bronze Inn
mobility of his statue-hke salute. hao
vandicated his record rs warrior Win
this remark.
The czar smiled. Here, as everywhere
else, the victory is yours" said he to
Napoleon
""And here. AZ everywhere else. 1t 10
my grenadiers who give 1t TO me-" said
the French emperor.
Then the two potentates marched on,
leaving the grenadiers SCARED face -
irnpassive as ever
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to swell the volume of foreign COM
merce notably.
The italian electrical industry has
reached a high state of development.
and copper imported to the value Of
s14,oO0,0 900 to $1S,O00,00o is largely used
for this purpose. Italy competes in
several foreign fields with Germany
and other countries in supplying cleo
trical apparatus, and should get some
of the war-interrupted trade of the
belligerent nations.
The automobile industry-although
the exports are not large-is another
illustration of highly finished work
Italian autos are we'll known for their
special qualities. Collateral to this
industry is the manufacture of pneu-
matte tires. These are exported to the
value of sS,0OO,00O and upward.
The manufacture of vegetable ivory
buttons, the raw material Of which
is imported from South America, has
some Importance, since the exports ex-
ceed $3,00O,0O0 in value. Italy may
get some of this trade away from
Austria and Germany.
Artistic specialties, such as worked
coral. are peculiar to Italy. but they
are not capable of great expansion.
The value of coral exported ranges
from 100000 upwards. Films are
also manufactured for export to the
value of s3,0OO,000.
Lumber is another leading raw ma
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mainland, also are an important factor
of the foreign trade. Palermo as port
handles immense quantities of these
specia1ties.
Italian wines and spirits have a very
extensive foreign market, which is sub
ject to little fuctuation. The exports
in a recent year were S7,000.000. Yer
muth. which is an Italian speciality,
forms separate item and amounts to
$4,00O,0e0.
Italian fruits have a world market
which varies greatly from year to year.
partly on account of variation in local
production and partly because the for
eign demand is not fixed one. Tariff
controversies have made the extent of
the Italian industry in fruit raising
fairly well known in the United States.
The exports in good year amount to
s25,00O,000 and upward, of which
oranges and lemons comprise about
one-half
These miscellaneous food products
for export, while not complete. give
an idea of the extent and variety of
Italy's agricultural industry, but the
country, as whole, does not feed it
self. since immense quantities of
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cereals are imported, especially wheat
The imports of wheat during the last
two years have ranged from $73.000,0O0
to S7S.O00.0OO.
Corn amounted to $11 100000 to $17.-
100000. The Importation of meats
fresh and salted. is trifiing, since the
domestic live stock industry appears
to come pretty near to supplying the
local demand.
Aside from cereals and other food
products for consumption. Italy's great
imports are of raw materials which
enter into her industries. and which.
after the local demand is supplied. are
exported in the form of finished prod
ucts. The great drawback to the
basic industry of iron and steel Is the
lack both of fuel and of ore.
Coal imports in 1918 reached $75,0OO.-
900. These were for the Italian navy
and state railways. as well as for in
dustrial and domestic purposes.
Iron ore is imported, and domestic
industry exists which in partial way
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cotton Italy has 20 per cent and should
be able to get some of Belgium's IA
per cent.
In cotton lace Italy supplies per
cent, as against Germany's 80 per cent
and Frances per cent. In cotton and
woolen goods Italy has only per cent,
as against Germany's 55 per cent and
Belgium's 10 per cent.
In colored cotton yarns Italy has "a
per cent. as against Belgium's Is per
cent and Germany's 12 per cent.
The parcels post trade, which is
very valuable one, consisting mostly
of fine drygoods, yields Italy 25 per
cent, as against the same amount to
Germany and % per cent to France.
Italy. however. supplies almost ex-
clusively the Italian population. while
Germany and France supply the Ar
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terial which Italy imports in large
quantities. The value during the last
two years has varied only a trifie from
100000 Most of this lumber is
used for the domestic industry, but
Italian furniture is an appreciable item
in the export trade.
Textiles are the leading industry.
Some of them are centered in Milan,
which is the center also of the metal
lurgical and electrical industries. Lom-
hardy Is really the industrial and COM
mercial pulse of Italy. although the
bulk of Milan's exports go through
Genoa and are credited to that port
Raw cotton imports range from $62,-
100000 to $75.000,000 annually, the bulk
of them. of course. being from the
United States. Some of the raw cotton
which the United States supplies is
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many and Austria, but the above will
suffice as examples.
What holds true of Argentina also
holds true of Italian trade with Brazil,
Chile, Peru and other South American
countries, although the relative volume
is much smaller. Although Brazil has
very large Italian population, there
Is not the same broad basis for recipro-
cal trade as with Argentina. Italy gets
some of her coffee from Brazil, but it
bears no proportion to the quantity of
cereals obtained from Argentina. Sim
ilarly, there is not the same market
for cotton textiles and for Italian spe-
cialties in Brazil. although the Italian
currents Of migration keep up fairly
steady demand.
On the west coast there Is a strong
italian commercial colony at VAL
paraiso, while in Peru there Is a more
numerous one. These are customers of
Italian specialties, yet there is also an
exchange of miscellaneous commodities
Coming back to the Mediterranean and
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lean tobacco the government monopoly
taking S6,000.000 worth,
Italy has not shown herself especially
hospitable in the way of tariff conces-
sions to the importations of cottonseed
oil, one ground Of objection being that
the cotton seed is used to adulterate
the olive oil. but it is not assumed that
olive oil is harmed by the addition Of
another purely vegetable oil. The I'm
ports of cottonseed oil from the United
The United States buys olive oil from
italy to the amount Of 100000 an
nually, and there is a possibility that
some American cottonseed oil is mixed
with this olive oil before 1t reaches the
consumer.
Italian cheese finds a good customer in
the United States. which In some years
takes upward of $5,000.000. Macaroni
flour Is also consumed in large quantities,
the importations amounting to $4,000, 900
and upward. italian wines and liquors
do not have an extensive North American
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from Germany and So per cent. from
France In existing conditions Italy
should absorb some of both the French
and the German trade in drugs. since
it is one that requires prompt and GER
tain supplies.
Italy, through the excellence of her
electrical industry, should also be able
to get some of the trade now sup
piled by Germany. At present Italy
supplies Argentina with about 10 per
cent of her electric wire cables. as
against 40 per cent supplied by Ger
many In dynamos and electric motors.
Germany supplies IA per cent, as
against less than 8 per cent furnished
by Italy.
In motors some Of the market might
be taken away from England. which
supplies % per cent, as against Z per
cent by Germany and 6 per cent by
Italy. In spare parts of autos the gain.
If there be any gain. would be chiefly
from Germany and France. Each of
these countries supplies about q per
cent Of these commodities, as against
IA per cent by Italy.
Other competitive articles offer an
opportunity to Italy as against the
United Kingdom. Belgium, France. Ger
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market, yet they come in to the amount
Of nearly s2.0oo.0o0 annually. Dried
fruits reach approximately the same
amount, and oranges and lemons. 49,
100000.
The United States is one of Italy's
best customers for raw silk, taking
anywhere from $10.00o,000 to $4,000
600 annually.
From every angle the United States
Is interested in seeing Italy come
through the European war with her
own industries undisturbed and with
her foreign commerce expanded.
X
South America is the great neutral
field where Italy's opportunity for In
creased trade on account of the war
would seem to lie. at the expense of
European competitors, Just as the op-
portunity Of the United States lies
there. There is. however. the draw
back for Italy that she does not pro-
duce Tor export machinery, steel rails,
railway material and construction
material. An advantage is the large
italian population in South America
and the currents of trade and immi-
grafton.
Argentina is the largest Italian mar
ket in South America. both because ~
because of the natural basis of recipro-
cal trade. There is something like an
equilibrium. since in 1913 Argentine
products to the value of S33,50O,O00
were imported into Italy. and Italian
products to the amount of $36,7OO,OOO
were exported to Argentina The Ar
gentine official statistics do not con-
form to these figures, but the dis
crepancy is due to the usual causes,
difference in export and import values.
and the Argentine system Of azores. or
fixed custom valuations, on certain
commodities
Italy takes from Argentina corn,
wheat and other cereals, wool, hides.
Anseed tallow and some meats. The
cereals form the preponderant imports.
In 1918 out of total of $33,50O, 900
they amounted to a fraction under
$24.000.00O.
Cotton tissues were the largest ex-
port commodity from Italy to Argen-
tina. They were fraction under ss.-
100000. Woolen tissues amounted 10
nearly s2,o00.ooo. and silk tissues to
were $1,3OO.OO0.
The Italian population is a large con-
sumer of the wines of their own coun-
try-although the consumption is not
limited TO them. olive oil is exported
to Argentina to the value of $1,000, 0Ov
and upward.
t..
A comparison of Argentine imports
of some leading commodities by per-
centages shows where there is further
opportunity for Italy legitimately to
profit by the war conditions through
the dislocation of the trade of the bel
ligerents.
The most promising field is in tex
tiles. Italy supplies Argentina with
only per cent of her wooden cloth, as
against II per cent furnished by Ger
many. In cotton prints Italy supplies
a fraction under per cent and Ger
many a fraction over IL per cent.
In bleached cotton goods italy. how
ever has 8 per cent. as against Ger
many's 10 per cent. In unbleached spun
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the value of s14,O00,000. Miscellaneous
legumes and vegetables are fairly i'm
portant, both fresh and in oil, as well
as some dried vegetables. In ordinary
years their total is S12,00O,000. Rice
exports amount to approximately $5.-
900, 900 to s6.00O,00O.
Secondary food products, such as Ital-
from Sl0,000,0O0 upward. Hazel nuts
and walnuts, chestnuts, almonds and
filberts. pistachios, from Sicily and the
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THE GENOA LIGHTHOUSE.

supplies the local demand for sheet
iron, beams. steel rails. engineering
and tin plate. But since the
domestic production of pig iron rarely
reaches 100000 tons, the limited nature
of the Italian iron and steel industry
Of pig iron are imported. Some of the
output is in the form of artistic and
highly finished products. which go
abroad, but not in quantities sufficient
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beyond Suez. 1t can hardly be said that
there is a neutral market. though not
all of the countries are yet actually
involved in war. Should Turkey be
drawn in, the extensive italian popu-
lation at Smyrna and Constantinople
would be cut off temporarily from the
big market which they create. and
which they have created, for Italian
products The same condition exists at
Alexandria. in Egypt.
Libya or Tripoli or Tripolitana. can
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gentinos. with the German parcel
post Interrupted, and with the French
mails uncertain, Italy should be able
to get some Of this trade.
Italy has a considerable export trade
In pharmaceutical products and patent
medicines. About II per cent of the
Argentine imports Of these commodities
is from Italy. as against per cent
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Should Italy succeed in remaining
neutral to the end the development of
her agricultural and industrial re-
sources can continue unchecked while
the other European countries are striv-
ing to fill the economic void in trade
and industry caused by the war waste
OF men and material. The greatest
saving will be in men.
There are conflicting currents of ma
tional. sentiment with a strong popu-
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asset in the trade gains
from the war and furnish the basis
for a further upbuilding of the mer-
chant marine. which means further en-.
pansion Of Italy's foreign commerce.
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spEcT FOR GREAT WORLD COMMERCE BY KEEPING OUT OF WARE
WAR

and the coastwise commerce. ana
hardly enter into overseas trade.
In building new merchant ships,
Italy has been fully as progressive a.
Germany. all things considered. Tho
South American service is possibly the
most important. The italian ocean
liners for Rio de Janeiro and Buenos
Aires equal. IL they do not surpass. the
new steamers put on by England,
france and Germany. They are fast
mail steamers. and have a very heavy
nrst-class passenger service.
immigration traffic. nevertheless, 10
the most profitable part of the trans
portation business for the Italian
steamship lines. There is not only the
stream of immigrants who 20 out to
Argentina and Brazil to settle perma-
nently. but also the many thousands
who simply go out for the crop sea-
son. and whose round trip passage adds
materially to the revenue of the steam.
ship companies.
These big italian liners. being built
SAAss"y ASA paooSuBCH 6hu
service. are not suitable for bulky car
goes. but since the Italian exports are
not as a rule bulky. their limitations
are not felt. Some of the wheat car
goes are brought back in them. but
most of this is transported in slower
vessels.
An Italian line runs between Genoa
and Colon, and its service will be ex-
tended through the canal. down tho
west coast to Callao and Valparaiso.
Italian commerce is certain to benefit
from this extension.
Another Italian line maintains full
line of steamers between Italian ports
and Bombay, with way calls at Afri-
can ports.
Tho italian transatlantic liners are
too well known to require descrip-
tion.
All the Italian steamers enter into the
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maze up into limitations OF standard
English prints, and sold in the Levant
and in Arabia as American cotton
goods, but the quantity Is not large.
What are known In the Italian trade
as cotton tissues are exported in vari-
able quantities; The value in 1919
$27.ooo.ooo the previous year. Yarns
are a more staple export, since their
value varied little from $7.ooe.ooo.
Hemp yarns and cordage are of some
er consequence. since their export
amounts to a fraction under $4,000. 600.
Italian tresses, known in prosaic statis-
tics as human hair, are of considerab BILE
of the world. In some years the value
OF the human hair exports reaches
100000.
1taly's foreign commerce is partly an
overseas trade. but naturally the traf-
fic with neighboring continental coun-
tries Is extensive.
Germany holds the first place, and
contrives to sell to Italy about twice
what she buys from her. In 1913 the
imports from Germany were $11S.000.-
900. as against exports of $65.000.000.
The United Kingdom has even a more
favorable trade balance, the imports
that year being $11s.o00.0o0. as against
exports of $50.O00.000. In a previous
year, however. the imports were less
than 500, ,00O, 900. as against exports of
$51 100000.
Trade with France is more nearly in
equilibrium. the imports ranging be-
tween $54,000.00O to $55, ,000.O and the
exports between $43,000,00 and $45,-
100000.
Austria Hungary is also nearer strik-
ing a balance, since the imports were
51.000.000. as against exports of s42.-
100000.
All Of this trade with the continental
countries and with the United King
dom is more or less dislocated. yet
Italy is able to sell to all of them. and
her industries are doubtless able to
obtain sufficient supplies of raw ma
terial.
The United States has no trade con-
test with Italy. either for the South
American markets or for world COM
merce generally. The trade between
the two countries now approximates
$160.e00.00o. The United States sells to
Italy two dollars worth Of goods for
from her. 1t is to our interest to have
Italian industries continue to develop
and to absorb more of our raw and
partly manufactured products. Raw
cotton must always form the bulk OF
the imports. the value ranging from
$60.000.000, upward.
\
The Italian market for American coal
has only been opened up within the last
few years, but it is bound to be a per-
manently valuable one. The coal is
wanted for the shipping lines for the
state railways and for residential use
American lumber. especially pine. from
Pensacola. is necessity to Italy, and
is imported in quantities to the value
of 100000 and upward.
Mineral oils are needed and are taken
to the amount of nearly $4,000 600. Italy
furnishes a valuable market for Amer
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and English vessels which call at Ma
pies and Genoa have a valuable share
in Italian shipping. The opportunity
now exists for Italy to expand her
merchant marine SO that she may be-
come not only the carrier of the bulk
of the cargoes which enter into her
own foreign commerce, but also may
serve as a sea carrier for the trade of
other countries.
Italy has a very progressive ship
building industry of her own. and
builds merchant ships as well as war
ships. The government encourages the
steamship lines by subsidies.
The merchant marine now numbers
about $50 steamers. Of a total tonnage
of 100000. and several thousand
sailing vessels. The latter are 60
gagged chiefly in the Mediterranean
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BY CHARLES M. PEPPER.

TALY'S trade gain
from the Euro
pean war is an
instructive study.
Neutrality is an
asset whose value
cannot yet be
measured fully.
: o u I h America
and the markets
beyond the SueZ
are part of the
asset.
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BY restrictive colonial policy, Italy
keeps the market to her own people.
but the market itself Is not large
enough to be of Importance to other
countries. Its interruption through the
war is unnoticed by them.
Suez and beyond as neutral markets
are brought close to Italy through her
strategic geographical position. The
starting point for the fast mail to the
orient from England is really at Brin-
disi. Before the war the Ens,lish mail
was dispatched across the channel and
overland to Br!ndisi. where the fast
mail steamer took 1t and overlook the
big steamers at Port Said.
Neutrality as an asset should be espe-
cially valuable to Italy in the upbuild-
ing of her merchant marine. German