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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-10
DEFENCE INQUIRY
URGED BY TAFT
Ex.President Believes in Making
the American Army and
Navy Effective.
fBy Telegraph TO The Tribune.

Boston, Dec. 9.-Speaking before the
Hepterean Club, of Somerville, tonight
ex-President William II. Taft urged in
vestigation into the military condition
of the country.
"The exhaustion of the belligerents,
whether victor or vanquished,' said Mr..
Taft. will make CONT. ued peace a
greater goal than ever, and they VIII
listen with more ready ear 70 the sug-
gestion of an arbitral court of justice
as a means of making war less likely
than ever before. ! am in favor OF
ideals, and | am an optimist. An OPP
timist is one who believes that we are
making progress toward ideals. But
idealists or optimists, 70 be useful, must
strain their hopes through the sieve OF
common sense. IL does not seem 10 me
TO be reasonable optimism to expect
that in this day and generation, by
treaty or arbitration. the possibility oil
war can be removed.
ut seems to me that those who OPP
pose adequate defences for our couh-
try exhibit an optimism without
reasonable view of the facts. We have
between us and Europe an ocean OF
2,7O0 miles in width and between US
and Asia an ocean twice that width.
This is a tremendous advantage for US
in the matter Of defence against mill
tary aggression, but we should be, IL
seems to me, blindly sacriflcing all inc
benefits of that splendid isolation II
we did not take reasonable steps TO
give it military effectiveness.
"Such steps we can take without 40
ing anything inconsistent WIN the
policy of peaceful nation. We can
do il without navy larger than that
which il was the policy OF the seVerai
administrations before this TO MAIN
tain, kept up to date with modern IN
strumentalities of offence and defence.
We can do it by making the needed APP
propriations for ammunition and artli-
isry and by an increase OF our army
= ,orortioned 10 the new calls upon the
army in the last decade-tnst is, oy hi
increase of from 20 10 % per cent
"All this is possible IN snort time
and without enormous or extravaganl
We have extensive fort'-
fcstions on the isthmus TO protect the
canal we have extensive fortihcations
AZ Vonolulu. also 10 protect the canal
and our Pacific trade, and we have ex-
tensiye fortifcations at the mouth OF
Manila Bay 10 protect our possessions
there. The supply OF soldiers needed
Al the isthmus, at Honolulu and at
Manila. together with the reasonable
need for them on the continent between
the two oceans. would not make an
army Of $4,000 or 10000 excessive
for . population Of 100,000,OoQ.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-10

Evenir ( Journal | wrote 10 him then,
and J wrote to him again after talking
with gou"
After The Tribune had the above in
terview with DR.. Stone Pulmonol's in
ventor, or as he describes himself, Pull
monol's perfector, called at The Trib-
une Office and insisted that DR.. Stone
never wrote 20 him.
Here is another example of DR..
Payne's promoting of Pulmonol:
REV. Father Malloy, of the Church
of Our Lady Of Lourdes, Brooklyn,
y. Y, will certify TO the genuIneness
OF the remarkable story of Mrs. Scott" y
Underneath this unauthorized state
ment, which appears in the Pulmonol
literature. is a story Of how a little
girl of Mrs. Scott. who lives at No.
1853 Cooper St, Brooklyn, was cured Of
consumption, when at the point Of
death, by Pulmonol.
"Dr. Payne came to me and asked
me TO indorse Pulmonol." said Father
Malloy. when found by Tribune rep
iesentative. 81 told him | could not.
I never Endorsed Pulmonol. I never
recommended 1t and never used it. |
never bought it and | cannot certify
20 the genuineness of what DR.. Payne
says | can. | wish The Tribune would
ask DR.. Payne 10 stop using my name
know me Scott family. but ! don't
know anything about the value of Pull
monol."
Now, in Pulmonols literature are
testimonials of men and women who
we're induced to write testimonials
saying Pdlmonol cured them of con-
sumption and who have since died Of
consumption. Explaining this bit Of
ghoulishness. Dr. Payne said:
well. consumption generally comes
back again. Observe he earlier said
that Pulmonol cured consumption.) [
suppose that not more than ten or fif-
teen Of the people who wrote me testi-
monials have died Of consumption.
When I find out they died Of consump-
ton stop using their testimonials"
II the Salvation Army is interested
in stopping the use of its name from
giving color TO the claims OF Pulmonol
il might ask these high officers in it's
service if they are indorsing Pulmonol,
as Pulmonol literature says they are:
Colonel W. A. Mcintyre, attached TO
national staff headquarters in New
York City; Colonel John Dean. at
tached to the training college; Envoy
Charles L. Smith. of Norwalk, Ohio;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-10
WOMAN KILLED IN SUBWAY
Fell from Platform to Track
After Train Passed.

Mrs. Anna Gibson Yates, sixty-tive
years old, OF 50 Pierrepont ST., Brook
Ign. was caught between local tram
and the platform at the l4th st. sub
way station yesterday afternoon and
sustained injuries from which she died
in Bellevue Hospital a few hours later.
How the accident happened WIS not
ascertained The woman fell from the
platform TO the track bed as a north
bound train drew away from the sta
ton.
William Siegel. of II ST. Marks Place.
and Thomas Ryan. of 100 West 9th
St. lifted her 10 the platform. Her
son, George L. Yates, went 70 the hos
pital and identified the body. He could
not account for his mother being in
the vicinity of l4th 81.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-10
$3.50 OFFERED FOR
LOST MRS. BRICK
Boy Scouts and Out-of-Works
Search Mountains, but
Find No CleW.

Orange, ~ j., Dec. 9-The lake IN
Orange Park and Crystal Lake, a.
Eagle Rock, we're dragged to-day. bu,
the body of Mrs. Walter NJ. Breek. who
has been missing since Friday, was not
found
The footprints discovered yesterday
on the mountain near Montclair were
traced 10 swamp in the woods and
there lost. In one place the tracks led
&c the ton of a cliff. At the foot OF
the cliff, however, no body was found.
Thirty Boy Scouts. scholars OF Co
lumbia School. South Orange. early
this morning set on; with Scoutmaster
the Rev. David De Forest Burrell TO
make a systematic search of the south
erly end Of the Orange Mountains.
They found no clew.
A reward OF $3.50 was offered to-day:
As a result a number OF men and
Youths who arc cut of work Joined IN
the search.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-10

Captain Hesse. Of Pittsburgh: Lieuten-
ent Colonel G. II. Richardson. OF New
York, and many others. From DR..
Payne's literature one would think that
Pulmonol was the official remedy of the
Salvation Army.
Dr.. Payne in his Pulmonol literature
says he perfected Pulmonol after he
had given his entire life TO the study
Of tuberculosis and diseases of the
lungs"
From the admissions Dr. Payne made
to The Tribune this statement is un-
true. He says he has sold chicken
coops, he has been one year in the
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, a
couple of months in the Hudson Street
Hospital and that that comprised his
hospital experience, and that he never
had any diseases Of the lungs to treat
while in either institution. But he
says he did study consumption with
some Health Department doctors,
whose names he can't just remember.
DR.. Payne told The Tribune he has
sold about 100. 900 bottles of Pulmonol
at 81 and 81 bottle. Its probable cost
is about 10 to 20 cents bottle. Here
is what an analysis at the laboratories
Of tho American Medical Association
showed il to be:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-10

To set those suffering from con-
sumption, who are now using patent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-10
Booklet Holds Out Hope.

And on some of DR.. Payne's Pull
monol literature, particularly his lat
est booklet, you are told that Pull
.monol is for asthmatic bronchitis,
weak lungs. rundown condition and
tuberculosis.
On DR.. Payne's letter heads, appears
the following, which is respectfully
submitted TO the attention of the
Board of Education of New York City:
"A New York public school teacher
saws: ANY consumptive who hears Of
Pulmonol and refuses TO take 1t is as
foolish as a drowning man who refuses
a life line thrown 70 him."
In the Pulmonol literature DR.. Will
lam Fletcher Stone. of 40l West End
ay.. New York City. is described as hav
ing prescribed Pulmonol for this
teacher.
DR.. Stone. when interviewed by the
Tribune representative, said he never
recalled prescribing Pulmonol for any
one. and that he had already asked DR..
PAYNE to stop using his name. Said
DR.. Stone:
~ never prescribed Pulmonol for
this teacher. DR.. Payne was a pupil
Of mine years ago. when he attended
Cornell Medical College. | saw him
few wears ago. when he gave me,
tbink half a dozen bottles of Pulmo-
mol tried them 20 please him on
some patients. but gave up using them
becausc was convinced Pulmonol was
fraud. If il had any effect on the
patients il was harmful
evil Pulmonol cure consumption ?"
DR.. Stone was asked.
from my experience with it / do not
tnow il will cure anything it claims to
cure: There is no known drug that
will cure consumption
Use of Testimonials.
Concerning the school teachers testi-
monial. DR.. Stone said; 49,
zone day, a few years ago, this
school teacher, whose name | can't re-
call came into my Office. She saw lying
on the table some Pulmonol that Or
PAYNE had asked me to try. She told
mo she had been using 1t for some
time. and that it had done her good.
rertioned this to Dr. Payne later. and
he asked me if the woman would write
n testimonial. She did, and DR.. Payne
now has il. or course, | want to say
that I don't know that Pulmonol did
tho woman any good. From what
know of il it would not do her or any
one else any good"
Again reverting TO the use of his
name in the Pulmonol literature and
DR.. Stone said:
81 did not know he was using my
name until a few months ago, when he
began advertising in The New YORK
Fvaning World or The Nc" fotH
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-10

medicines or paying exorbitsnt fees 20
medical institutes who offer 10 cure
consumption with medicine. on the
right track, the following from "The
Journal Of the American Medical As
ISOLATION" Is quoted:
Those who are selling fraudulent
consumption cures'-and there are no
consumption cures Of the drug type
that are not fraudulent--undo, BY
their lying claims, in a few minutes
the good that il has taken weeks, and
possibly months, TO attain"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-10
Englewood Police Head Dying

Fnglewood, n j., Dec. Q. Chief Of
Police Frank Titus. of Englewood, who
was stricken wfth paralysis n few weeks
ago. is dying. The doctors say he can
not last more than a day or so. The
chief has asserted that he will welcome
the end. and many times has refused
nourishment. A week ago the Engle-
wood City Council voted to retire him
on half salary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-10

THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS FROM THE NEW YORK EVEN
ING JOURNAL ONE OF THE NEW YORK NEWS
PAPERS LARGELY PATRONIZED BY THE PATENT
MEDICINE MEN.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
ROAD TAX PLAN IN FRANCE
Larger Part of Fund Levied on Rub- ber-Tired Traffic Goes for Ex-
 pense of Administration. S5

Road taxes, as assessed in France, go to the road building and repair fund, but not all wheel taxes are eX- pended on roads; the larger part Of the fund of 15,O0O,000 francs year levied on rubber-tired traffic, goes for the expenses of administration.
 There are four direct taxes which every Frenchman pays (besides un' numbered indirect taxes, as on salt matches, advertisement posters, the ater tickets, railway tickets, checks and what not); the tax on landed property, the tax on personal house property, the tax on doors and win dows and the tax on industrial an6 commercial enterprises. In addition there are five centimes added for the benefit of the road fund and an ad ditional three centimes levied by tht municipalities for the upkeep of cit! | streets. These diminutives, five cen times being but one cent and thre' centimes being but little more thai | half a cent, are added to every fran | (2O cents) of tax. In the aggregat they furnish the millions which ar spent on roads of France annually More than $20,0O0,00O are spent eacl year to maintain approximately 400 900 miles of national, departments and communal highways throughou the country.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
ECZEMA SPREAD OVER BODY

1177 Market St., Chehalis, Wash "My little nephew was cross and cried and complained of itching. The ec- zema broke out with a rash, reddish looking. It spread until it was all over his body, and it came on his face and caused disagreement. His hands had to be tied to keep him from scratching. His clothing aggravated the trouble and made the breaking out worse. He was so covered with erup- tions he. didn't look natural. There was such an itching and burning sen sation he could not sleep and kept someone with him continually. Weeks and months passed by and we had al- most given up in despair.
 "One day read about Cuticura Soap and Ointment being good for eczema and all skin troubles. sent for a free sample and immediately we discov- cred a change for the better. Before the sample was used up there was such a remarkable change that bought a box of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura.- Ointment. The erup tions healed, the burning and itching ceased and by the time the Cuticurs Soap and Ointment were used up he
 was we'll boy" (Signed) Mrs. J. L Steelman, Apr. 8, 1914.
 Cuticura Soap and Ointment solt
 throughout the world Sample of eaci free, with 32-p. Skin Book Address post
 card "Cuticura, Dept. l., Boston" Adv
Williams news., 1914-12-03
A Pious Hypoerite.

Senator Cummins was talking about a notorious interlocking director, re lates the Kansas City Star.
 'This interlocking director, ne said, declares that if we curb his ac. tivities the poor will suffer terribly. I ask myself, though. is he really speaking on behalf of the poor or on his own behalf.
 "He reminds me of a man who stopped in terrific indignation at sight of group of boys stoning bird that was tied to tree by the leg. !
 "'You scoundrels! You pitiless scoundrels!' cried the man.
 And he took the bird up in his hand and placed it in his bosom ten derly.
 "The next day at the office he wa: heard to remark with a chuckle:
 "'By gosh, you know, broiled robir on toast isn't half bad!'"
Williams news., 1914-12-03
1blG1NWf IMPROVEMENT
REAL VALUE OF HARD ROADS
Illinois Man Gives Interesting Facts and Figures Comparing Worth
 of. Brick and Earth.

W. T. Blackburn of Paris, Edgar county, Illinois, has studied the ques- ton of hard roads as to their VaIue in dollars and cents to the farmer' and here is what he says about 1t:
 q recently observed the revenue from two separate farms of 32O acres each located in the corn belt Of llil- nois, one at the end of a four-mlle brick paved road; the other at the eno of four-mile mud road. These farms should produce under the ordinary TO- tation of crops annually 26S tons or corn, 80 tons of oats and 12O tons or hay, or 480 tons in the aggregate 10 be delivered over four miles or roao- way. On the brick road there has been delivered Il tons of grain in one trip by one team, using five wagons, while on the earth road two tons were all that could be delivered by siml- | lar team.
 'The haul being four miles in both cases, and as they could make three trips day, "A miles team travel, the team on the earth road could deliver six tons per day at cost for team ana | wagon of $4.50, thus making cost ol 75 cents per ton for the four-mlle haul. On the brick road the delivery was 33 tons per day at cost or l9.i cents per ton on a four-mlle haul. difference of 55 cents per ton in the cost of delivery in favor of the DITCH road. or a difference of $264 on the 4Sl tons delivered.
 This is only a small percentage o
 the actual loss to the farmer living or
 the earth road, as he has had to sel
 his grain at time when the road' were in condition that it could be de
 livered without regard to the price O
 his product.
 From actual experience it has beel
 demonstrated that this would repre-
 sent a loss of $1.50 per ton on corr | $2.50 per ton on oats, and $5 per to- on his hay, making loss. in the aggre
 gate of $92O on account of not bein ? able to deliver at the best marke . price. :, :. "This, with the loss in cost of dei' ? cry, makes $1 ,1S4, or 10 per cent on 9 investment of $11,S40, an increase l
 value of $36 per acre on his 32O-acI 0 farm.
 t This represents the investment 1n t nine-foot brick highway that has co' the taxpayers of the township $10,O( s per mile, or if all of the pr1nclp
 highways of the township could be II s proved, would only represent tax l. all of the property, or 10 per acre.
 "These brick roads are not habl $ ty, they are an asset. They don't co
 you mopey-they make you money. n isn't la question of whether you ci
 afford brick roads-the question
 how you. can get money enough ' gether to do without them. Bad roa
 cost like the mischief. The most = pensive road is the one you cam d use.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
Philadelphia Has Rat Patrol.

Hundreds of 1ongshoremen in Phil adelphia who have for weeks been out of employment because of the war In Europe and the consequent falling off ID shipping, are making a fair wage chasing rats along the river front and taking them to the receiving station recently opened by the city. Five cents is paid for each live rat and two cents apiece for dead ones The receiving station was inaugu rated as 9 feature of the campaign being waged for the extermination oi rodents and to prevent the entrance into Philadelphia by way of shipping of the bubonic plague which has caused such consternation in New Or leans.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
OvERHEATED DOG
 A MARTYR 10 DUTY
ForIorn Pup Chased Tail Until Smoke and 0dor Arose in
 Polling Place.
A JUDGE IS AROUSED
Sad Fate of a Rrindle-coIored Mon qreI Canine Which Disturbed the Peace and Order of a Voting Pre- cinct in Chicago.

Chicago.-The sad fate of the brindle-colored mongrel pup which disturbed the peace and order of the fortieth precinct of the Seventh ward at the primaries by getting over heated'' in the polling place at 1l27 East Sixty-third street has been learned.
 The pup is dead. of injuries received from-but that's the last chapter of the, story.
 Chronologically speaking, the trag edy begins with the early arrival al the polls of Democratic politician He explained to Dr. Rose M. Reading senior judge, that he was preclnc' captain for Edward Brennan, cand1 date for election as Democratic ware committeeman.
 During the morning the Brennan watcher left the polls, but returned about Il o'clock, leading the principa character in the tragedy, the dog.
 Look what I've got" said the poll tician to Doctor Reading.
 What's the matter with him?" in quired the doctor.
 Nothing. He's my mascot. He fol lowed me here. That. means Eo Brennan is going to be elected"
 At this point the hero of the piec first took part in the. conversation The dog cut loose with series o sharp howls, accompanying his re marks by a frenzied pursuit of hi tail, which kept him travelling rapidl in circles. ~-'' -e"''ss = A policeman rushed to the scene.
 'Wi1i you get that dog out of here? demanded Doctor Reading. He did, I A few seconds later she saw a-clou .Eof smoke arising from the dog. Sh
Williams news., 1914-12-03

Threw a Pail of water on 1im. did not understand the situation, nor did she like it.
 .'I believe he's mad. You'd better shoot him. she suggested to the po- liceman.
 In the meantime the watcher also had observed. the smoke. He was sure it was smoke because it was primary day and the saloons were closed. He got a pail of water and threw it on the dog.
 Then he returned to the polling place.
 That was the most overloaded dog I ever saw," he said.
 Some minutes later Doctor Reading saw the dog on a roof across the street, where a boy was busy bathing 1t.
 Say, son, what happened to you dog?" queried the policeman.
 "He sat down in a puddle of carbide over there in front of the garage, said the boy, as he went on soapini and toweling his pet. The policeman went back to the polls and reported.
 When the election officials hear the word carbide" they understoo' why the water treatment had been s painful. They also realized that tn | peculiar odor had come from carbid and not from "overheated dog.
 The dog now is dead from hi burns, but he died martyr mascot Brennan was elected.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
In the Hospital.

Men and women, bearing, some of them, the prominent American names, are working in the Neuilly hospital of the most menial tasks with admirable self-abnegation. It is the duty of an American multimillionaire to see to 1t that wounded Turcos, some of whom have been without a change of clothes for a fortnight, are thoroughly and conscientiously scrubbed. Dollar prin- cesses are busy rolling bandages and preparing dressings. = Philadelphia Ledger.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
Thouaht Away a Year.

London-Although the age limit of the White City Colonial cavalry is forty-two, when a recruit measuring 6 feet 2 appeared and gave his age as forty-three, the colonel said: I'll give you a half hour to think over your age" Upon returning the recruit said he had discovered he was only forty. one. He was accepted.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
Peruna Did

cine on earth. Let me tell you why Y think so.
 "My son has been afflicted with ca- tarrh since he was baby five months old, so that for years had to watch him all night long. and keep his mouth open so. he could breathe. cs he could not breathe through his nose.
 "He has always been very delicate.
 "Since he commenced taking the Peruna can go to bed and sleep a1l night"
Williams news., 1914-12-03
Advises Golf for Women.

John D. Rockefeller advises women who are beginning to get old to take up golf. He thinks that it will do old women as much good as it does old men. And for young women he thinks it en excellent game as it will prevent their ever getting old.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
How the Minister Is Treated.

Once upon time manager asked George Ade if he had ever been taken for minister.
 ''No," replied Ade. "but have been treated like one.'
 How was that?"
 "I have been kept waiting for my salary six or seven months. s."-Ladies' Home Journal.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
Green Feed for Fowls.

Spade up part of the poultry yard and SOW it to some quick-growing legume, confining the fowls in the other part. When the crop is well started, change the fowls over to it and blow up the other side. Do it now.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
Furnish Fresh Air.

Don't shut the coops up when the cold nights come, but leave them open in front so that they will not be drafty, but will be cool and airy and prevent sweating when the growing chicks crowd in at night.
Williams news., 1914-12-03

It's easy to gauge mans intelli, gence: Draw him into discussion, and if he agrees with you he's sensi- ble.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
nGrand Match"

London-The following notice was posted outside the recruiting office in Stirling: gro Footballers: Grand in ternationaI match; 100000 players wanted. You can sign here."
Williams news., 1914-12-03
Weed Out the prones.

AS the young bullets grow up, weed out every single one that seems to be weak or in any way defective. Save only the brightest, the most lively and the best-shaped birds.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
Money for Christmas.

Selling guaranteed wear-proof hosi- cry to friends & neighbors. Big Xmas business. Wear-Proof Mills, 3200 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.-Adv.
Williams news., 1914-12-03
The man who has once been sol dier takes but little pleasure in read ing of the horrors of the battlefield.

Some persons are so lazy that it is difficult to stimulate them to activity with a wad of chewing gum.
Williams news., 1914-12-03

Red Cross Bag Blue, much better, goes farther than liquid blue. Get from any grocer. Adv.
Williams news., 1914-12-03

Tell a weeping woman that tears are pearls and she will think you are stringing her.