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The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Tree on Tree,

A singular tree In Cuba is called the
yaguey tree. 1t begins to grow at the
top of another tree. The seed Is car
ried by bird, or waited by the wind,
and, falling into some moist, branch
ing parts, takes root and speedily be-
gins to grow. 1t sends kind of thin,
string-like root down the body of the
tree, which Is soon followed by others.
In course of time these rootings strike
the ground, and growth Immediately
commences upwards. New rcotlngs
continue to be formed and get strength
until the one tree grows as net round
the other. The outside one surrounds
and presses the inner, strangling it's
life and augmenting its own power
At length the tree within is killed,
and the parasite that has taken pos
session becomes itself the tree.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Before New Orleans Battle.

One hundred years ago the British
naval forces were beginning to rem
devious In the Gulf Of Mexico, prepar-
atory to the campaign before New Or
leans. Soon the calm waters of the
gulf were to be the scene of a great
gathering of men-of-war flying the
British flag All the vessels Of Ad-
miral Cockburn's fleet, recently en-
gagged in the Chesapeake bay opera
tons, were on their way to the gulf,
together with other warships, trans.
ports and schooners, to the number
of 80 vessels. At the head of the
fleet was the big warship Tonnant,
carrying the flag Of Admiral Cock
burn. On board the transports were
1000 soldiers, who were to take part
in the expedition against the southern
city, and who were now in high good
humor at the prospect Of escaping the
hardships Of a winter campaign in
the North
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
shIftinn Scenes In Public life


By the time that Congress has
been some months in session, the mem.
bers form fast friendships, and the
impulse to have little fun now
and then will assert itself. The other
lay one of the large paintings on the
stairway was being taken down, rope
and tackle were required to handle
the gigantic gilt frame, and the sena-
tors stopped while going to lunch to
discuss it.
One of the Democrats remarked
that eff we are going to make real
changes in this administration, let us
make some that the people will rec
,gnize as they come and go. You'll
notice that Colonel Roosevelt's and
President Taft's portraits no longer
,dorn the executive Office he finished
axultantly. We must let the shift
ng pictures into the story in these
movie times affairs at Washing
on by Joe Mitchell Chapple, in Ma
ional Magazine.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Mary Pickford Honored.

Mary Pickford's fame has travelled
Gated in the remotest corners of the
globe. Recently she had the unique
distinction Of being presented with a
silver loving cup and an album con-
tanning the names of thousands Of her
admirers in Australia. The album is
reported to contain the official sigma
lures of the lord mayor and the town
clerk of Sydney The presentation
was made at the Famous Players COM
pany studio by Willard Johnson Of the
Australian Film company of Sydney,
who now Is visiting this country.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
GETTING ONES SECOND WIND
Explanation Of Action Familiar to
Every Athlete Is a Most
Simple One.

The probable explanation of the
second wind" is as follows: In the
deep breathing Of an athletic person
taking moderate exercise at sea level,
lack of oxygen plays no part. The eff
feet is wholly due to an increased pro-
duction of carbonic acid stimulating
the respiratory center, which responds
proportionally On very violent ex-
ertion at sea level, however, and on
even moderate exertion at great al
titude, the oxygen supply to the It's
sues of the body is temporarily insult
ficient.
Substances other than carbonic acid,
such as Tactic acid. are produced, and,
when these substances reach the re-
spiratory centers by the way of the
blood they excite it to such activity
that one overbreathes. That is, the
violent painting ventilates the carbon
ic acid out of the blood more rapidly
than the body is producing 1t. The
substances which thus overestimate
the respiratory center are not VIOLA
tile and cannot be given off by way
of the lungs, but they appear to be
rather rapidly oxydized in the blood.
When the carbonic acid has been
considerably diminished part of the
stimulus to the respiratory center is
removed so that one can breathe more
moderately-that is, one gets his sec
ond wind" When the exertion stops,
the production of the stimulating sub
stances ceases, and the quantity OF
carbonic acid in the blood having been
reduced below the amount necessary
to stimulate the respiratory center,
one falls into period of apnoea fol-
lowed by Cheyne-Stokes breathing,
like an engine with a sensitive gov
ernor and no fiywheel. Breathing
oxygen under these conditions hastens
the combustion of the acid substances
which have accumulated in the blood.
Yale Review.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
HATRED THAT WAR BREEDS
Remarkable Changes In Pleasant Re-
lations Caused by HostilitIes Be-
tween Nations.

Hate and war must go hand in hand
You couldn't go out and shoot your
neighbor to death unless you first
hated him. If circumstances should
force you to such thing you would
speedily, by a sort of self-hypnosis,
work yourself into a state of mind
where you honestly believed that kill.
Ing was entirely too good for him.
This is just what the nations in Eu-
rope have done, writes Martin Mar
shall in Leslie's. We read now how
the Germans have despised the Eng
fish in the past and how the French
have for A years longed for revenge
on the Germans; of how Belgium
hated the kaiser with the hatred of
fear, and of mutual antagonisms be-
tween Teuton and Serb These senti-
ments were partly official and conven-
tional, but mostly imaginary The
people got along pretty we'll together.
Frenchmen did business in Berlin and
Germans went holidaying to Paris;
London's restaurants were largely
manned by German stats and Russian
peasants helped to reap the harvests
In Prussia. Educated men in each of
these nations prided themselves on
their familiarity with the languages Of
the others, and enjoyed their litera-
ture, art and music.
Then came war, and all was
changed. Some millions of men were
going to slaughter each other, and
first they had to convince themselves
that they ought to do 1t. The prelim-
mary era was of window smashing,
street demonstrations, trade boycotts
and Imprisonment Of inoffensive ma
tionalg of hostile nations. Then Wag-
ner's music was tabooed in Russia and
France; st. Petersburg must have its
name changed to cleanse it from the
loathsome Teutonic termination Eng
fish table sauce disappeared from Ber-
lin restaurants; Paris styles were an
athena in Vienna; London poured
Munich beer into the cutters; a Paris
magazine started popular prize con-
Lest loI lne USst substitute AaHho iol
Eau de Cologne-in short, Europe ran
the whole gamut of silly, sentimental
hysteria preliminary to shooting Of
suspected spies, the bombardment of
peaceful villages, the killing Of women
and children, the strict military
reprisals" that always occur in war
md always shock the victims and the
neutrals.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
FOR THE HEAD or THE HOUSE
Some Thoughts Concerning That Time
Of Trihuiation Known as SNOW
ing Day."

On moving day take a little tip
from mother and:
Don't expect to find everything in
its usual place until the van arrives.
Some teamsters are superstitious
about moving a gas range with meal
cooking on top Of it,
Don't kick If you can't find the low
er half Of your favorite suit. Prob
ably mother Is wearing 1t.
Don't object If mother rolls you out
of bed in the morning by pulling the
sheet from under you. She has doubt
less packed all the tablecloths.
Don't raise row if your watch is
missing. The baby has to have some
thing to keep him quiet
Don't complain If you find your box
of choice cigars nearly empty. The
iceman had to be tipped yesterday for
helping to move the furniture so
mother could take up the rugs. It's
a safe gamble that the grocery boy
will get the rest OF them today.
Don't be too fussy about what you
have for breakfast, Tomorrow you
may have to eat what you leave to-
day.
Don't be surprised If you find the
house locked when you bring an un-
expected friend home to dinner after
telling mother you will eat down
town yourself. You will find the
family at the restaurant around the
corner.
Don't wonder why mother is trif1e
irritable when you return at midnight
from pleasant evening at the club,
and find her still on the job, doing
things she had asked you to do. Some
things get on a woman's nerves.
Don't be annoyed If there is no
answer to your telephone call in the
middle of the afternoon. The phone
isn't out Of order. The children are in
school and mother is out doing the
errands you promised to attend to and
forgot.
Don't grumble If the dinner looks
rather picked-uppish after you have
said you didn't know whether you
would come home to 1t or not. hide
cision has wrecked greater things
than dinners.-Detroit Free Press.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Mayor Was Takino No Chances,

Carl Louis Gregory, who is the un-
der-water photographer Of Thirty
Leagues Under the Sea-" is whipping
the 10000 feet of film he took at yell
lowstone park for the Thanhouser-
Mutual company into shape for early
release. Mr.. Gregory is the first mo-
ton picture photographer to receive a
permit from the government to take
the views. A Denver newspaper re-
Gently printed an article about Carl
getting the mayor to perform a
movies marriage" Gregory asked
asked him to kiss the bride, but the
mayor refused, saying that his wife
went to the movies"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Too Slow With Lawn Mower.

Stella Razeto, leading woman OF
Director e. J. LIE Saints company, is
the champion lawn moweress OF the
Pacific film colony. AT least the Selig
star claims the title. She managed to
DO her own extensive lawn In less
than week, but hubby found her In
tears at the close of the last day.
She found the grass, where she began.
had all grown up again.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Eqaless Chocolate Cake.

Cream one cupful sugar, half cupful
butter, one large teaspoonful salt, one
cupful milk or little more If needed;
one and half cupfuls pastry -four.
two teaspoonfuls baking powder, three
tablespoonfuls of powdered chocolate
or cocoa, one teaspoonful vanilla.
Cream sugar, butter, salt, chocolate
and little milk to make it creamy,
add -four, baking powder and vanilla.
Butter the pan well and try cake with
straw
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
A Slow Pupil.

There's many slip betwixt the
cup and the lip, you know"
Eyes. I've heard that quotation be
fore, but lately I've been impressed by
the fact that there is many a slip be-
tween the initial tango lesson and the
attainment of certain degree of pro-
ficiency as a tango dancer"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19

Never"
''Was there any call for her to go
on the river?"
mot a CALL
Which of the women suggested
that they take the boat?"
my wife,"
Deacon Strothers If that don't
come under the head Of conspiracy,
then my old white cow is red one!
If any one conspires to force prom
Use out of another then that promise
won't hold"
Il believe you are right, Mr. Roe
buck" replied the deacon with relief
in his voice.
"Of course / am. An agreement
that benefits only one side does not
hold. Did your wife speak up and
say that she would not marry again
if you died first?"
"She did not!"
well, there you are, as free as a
bird, though you'd better go to the
parson and see what he thinks about
it. He may hold sentimental views. 7"
The deacon walked over to the par
sonage, and not wishing to be too
brusque about it be began:
"Parson, do you hold that an angel
in heaven can see what is going on
here below?"
"If they could they wouldn't be
angels very long," was the grim
reply.
But did you ever preach that they
could?"
mot that remember of. Heaven
is a long way off, deacon"
my wife kinder believed that after
she got to heaven she could see what
was takin' place down here"
The parson was silent.
"She wanted me to promise not to
marry again in case she died, because
II she looked down and saw me with
second wife 1t would make her
feel bad
eff anything could make the angels
feel bad in heaven, 1t would not be
heaven, would it?'
by George, parson, 1t wouldn't!
Martha was mistaken about 1t. IL
I was to marry half a dozen times
over she couldn't know anything
about It."
But did she ask you to promise"
queried the parson.
Eyes, she kinder asked"
And you promised?"
Yes, kinder promised, but it was
because l did not want her to feel
bad as an angel. Now that you say
she couldn't feel bad II she tried her
hardest, l guess that promise needn't
bother me much
"But look out next time, deacon"
"Yes-ahem-yes!"
tits the widow Stevens, / sup
poser"
Eyes, kinder"
Thrown out any hints YETI"
"a dozen, guess"
you may find that she made a
promise to her dying husband"
"Jewhittaker! I'll see about that
the first thing"
1t was a new scare for the deacon,
and he made the two blocks to the
Widows house on the trot. He found
her In the garden coaxing the pea
vines to climb their best, and he
didn't wait minute before asking;
Wilder Stevens, did your husband
expect to go to heaven when he
died?"
Il don't see how he could. He was
a man that cussed and gambled and
drank"
did he ask you to promise not to
marry agin?"
mo, he didn't, and if he had l
should have told him that was my
own business. Why are you asking
these questions?"
Wilder, hain't I good man at the
woodpile?"
Fine"
"And a good one in the garden?"
Sure"
And hain't I lonely and you
lonely?"
I'VE are"
"Then-then let's get married."
LA me! Bring on the parson and
have it over with and off our hands,
for them string beans have got to be
poled afore sundown!"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Streets Can Be Paved With Glass.

A new use for the glass dust that
collects In glass works has recently
been discovered In Berlin. The dust
Is gathered up and placed in a fur
mace, where 1t is reduced to molten
lava The lava is then nodded into
glass bricks which are as hard as
granite and eminently adapted for
having
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19

Frances Nelson will play opposite
Ben Wilson, a recent addition to the
Victor company Of players. The first
screen productions in which these film
stars will be seen under the new ban
ner Is now In course OF completion.
1t Is called Ambition"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Accounting for IL.

His Chum-How well bred your sis
ter Isl
Her Brother-Yes; you see, she
spends most of her time away from
the rest Of the family.-Judge.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Military Scenes PonuIar

George Kleine's six-part subject,
For Napoleon and France" was re-
Gently produced at the Boston opera
house. The military aspects OF the
picture are heavy drawing cards
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
1ON,T GET BIN DOWN

Weak and miserable. If you have Kid
ney or Bladder trouble, Headache, Back
ache. Dizziness, Nervousness, and feel
tired all over, get a package of MOTHER
GRAY'S AROMATIC LEAF. 1t never
mail for Soc Sample sent FREE. Adj
dress, The Mother Gray Co.. LIE Roy, N. Y.-Adv.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
DEALING WITH THE OCCULT
Picture Fantasy, "lf | Were Young
Again." Expected to Prove One
Of the Seasons Successes.

Released November 16, the Selig
company has a powerful reel In 'If
were Young Again" The story Is
much that OF Faust" In that 1t deals
with the wish, common among the old
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Some ProQress,

Farmer Clapole-Has tibet city Teller
who bought Stones farm learnt any
thin yit?
Farmer Sands-Wall, he's learnt it
don't Go no good ter try ter make
10 butter in q chu--1 -Tr7~a
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Scares One So.

What kind of doctor would you
prefer. cheerful one or a solemn
one?"
"A cheerful one, guess At least,
l hate for doctor to get solemn after
he looks at me-"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
In the FISHING Zone.

Who is the fellow fishing over
there?"
He's a Frenchman."
What's he pleased about?
He just caught a German CARP"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Ita Nature.

James seems to be swearing over
the lesson he Is studying. What is
IT."
Il should Judge from his remarks
that 1t was profane history"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Old Eayorlts still Pon,,Ia.

George AIDES old play, "The County
Chairman" is proving the endurance
of its reputation In the crowds it at.
TactS.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19

and the middle-aged, for a return Of
the days of their youth. The illustra-
Hon shows the scene where Professor
Wise, the hero of the play, discovers
the vial containing the magic fluid
which renews his youth. Pathos and
comedy intermingle In the various
other scenes of the production.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19
Helping Kidneys
By Clearing Blood
A Function Greatly Assisted
By a Well-Known
Remedy.

Most readers will be interested to more
clearly understand why analysis Of urine Is
SO important In the use of S. S. s. to
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to the myriad of fine blood vessels that
make up the constructive tissues OF the
kidneys. All the blood from all over the
body must pass through the kidneys. They
act as testers and assayers- And according
TO what they allow to pass out in the urine
both as to quantity and materials, the
health of tie kidneys and the quality of the
blood Is determined The catalytic energy
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1t is also demonstrated in the skin. And
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the kidneys the dominating nature Of
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avenues Of elimination, shows a marked
decrease of disease manifestations as dem
onstrated by urine analysis. This assist.
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body wastes are more evenly distributed te
the emuHctories their elimination Is stim.
ulated By the tonic action afforded tho
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tions of weak kidney action, first purify
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The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1914-12-19

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-06

finally $4,000 troops are sent forward
a mile or two in one place or with
drawn in another. It is all playing
for position and trying to think a lit
tie deeper and a little further than
the general staff on the other side OF
the Aisne. 1t is fascinating for the
intellect-the greatest game in the
world-but the officers and men In
the trenches get none of that. What
ever satisfaction is still to be had
from the war rests with the staff.
The fighting in France is likely to
become more cOngested from week TO
week, rather than less SO, provided
the fanking movements of the allies
are successful.
The German army may be driven
from line to line, from the Brussels
road to Mons and from the Mons road
to Namur until at last this army Is
withdrawn into Germany, but Ger
many is herself one enormous fortress
protected by the most complete sys-
tenn of defenses which forty years of
thought could devise.
Extending from sea to sea, Germany
took no chances on any ones neutral
ity. She is as much protected against
Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Swltzer-
land and Austria as against Russia
and France.
Once within it's own borders the
German army can no longer be out
thanked and in that case we shall see
close formations, indeed parallels and
apart where one can hear the enemy's
soldiers talking as at Port Arthur
Here we shall see siege operations on
a scale not hitherto even imagined.
That in my opinion will be the last ana
most desperate stage of the great war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-06
IS DEVOTED TO SCIENCE
Chicago Man Willed His Dead Body
for VivisectiOn.

Los Angeles, Cal. Oct. 6.-Mingling
the uncanny with the naive, Martin
McGerkin of Chicago has willed his
dead" body to the Los Angeles Meol-
cal college for "vivisection."
McGerkin's relatives in Los An
geles. as well as DIR. George F. Bovard,
president of the University of South
ern California, of which the college OF
medicine to which McGerkin evidently
referred in the letter telling OF his
weird but impossible bequest, Is a part,
expressed considerable surprise when
they learned Of his plan.
They were informed of the mans
intentions after a local newspaper re-
ceived from him the following letter,
which was dated at Chicago, Septem-
Der 20:
Gents:
81 have willed my dead body to Los
Angeles Medical college for vivisec-
ton, providing they want it and de-
sire to pay the freight. My body will
be ready for them (cOllege) in about
one week from date.
(Signed) IN. M'GERKIN."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-06
BIG WHEAT CROP
Kansas Yield Almost
Staggers the Imagination.
Loaded on One Train, 1t Would
Extend 1880 Miles.

The Kansas wheat crop, If loaded
on train at one time would extend
1,4SO miles and would require six
thousand locomotives to pull it. This
is the way the Missouri Pacific rail-
road figures the Kansas wheat crop.
A. De Bernardo, general superintend-
ent of the Kansas line, computed the
requirements for hauling the crop. He
figured that It would take 1869 cars
of an average size. one thousand
bushels each. to carry the crop. This
makes the estimate Of the yield around
1876 million bushels.
This train, II 1t were possible to pull
it all at once and II it ran at a speed
of ten miles an hour would take six
days to pass q given station. 1t would
extend four times across the state, east
and west, and reach from Kansas City
to Washington, D. G.
But not all of this wheat will get
into the railroad cars. Between eight
and nine million bushels will be saved
for seeding the ground this fall for
next years crop. Fifteen to twenty
million bushels will be hauled by
wagon from the farms to the mills
and never get near a railroad car.
It is estimated that around fifty mill
lion bushels of the Kansas wheat will
be milled within the state and still
Kansas will have for sale outside of
her own borders, in raw wheat, not
flour, more than she has ever raised in
a single year in. her history. The big
gest wheat crop ever before grown
was a little less than 100 million bush
els. while this year alone the crop was
nearly double all previous records and
the state has about 115 million BUSH
els to be sold to markets outside the
state and to be made into flour away
from the state where it was grown.