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The Elbert County tribune., 1914-07-24

a future supply. In planting, many
plant the catalpa. Others are plant
ing Usage orange. but it is slow
growing crooked with short trunks
and over much top.
The tree that gives the best results
with little care after planting is the
black locust 1t does well on any
soil, wet or dry. 1t is a quick grower
and when planted thick, say six feet
each way. the trees will grow .all
with but little top, and will, at the
end of five years. be ready for the
first thinning out.
At this time all stunted trees should
be worked up, and from this time on,
ground thus planted will furnish ma
terial for posts as each year more
thinning must be done
In is years the trees will be large
enough to make four posts to the, cut
and many of them will make three
to Ave post cuts. with some round
posts in the top. M
The black locust is also a fine tree
for planting about the house and barn.
When planted In the open it forms a
beautiful tree, having, thick, heavy
foliage. retaining its leaves through.
out the summer. and In the early
spring. has an abundance of sweet
smelling white flowers
When young. 1t is well protected by
thorns, making 1t tree that can be
grown in pasture or stock lot with
cut being damaged by stock.
Next to the black locust for quick
returns. is the white mulberry. With
this tree on rich soil, only four to five
years are required to grow them large
enough for. use. but they seldom make
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-07-24
LAWYER IN PLACE OF POWER.
For the First Time In History Mex
lean Republic Has Civilian In
Presidential Chair.

Mexico City.-Francisco Carba1al'
is forty-four years old, native of
the state of Campeche, and a lawyer
Almost ever since the start Of his.
career he has occupied posts in the
Judiciary. In the Madero administra-
tion he was a senator, but relin-
quished his post to re-enter the su-
preme court, of which he was chief
justice at the time General Huerta ap-
pointed him minister of foreign rela-
tions.
When General Porfirio Diaz deter
mined In 1911 to treat with the Made
70 revolutionists, Senor Carbajal pro-
ceeded to Juarez as his commissioner.
Senior CarbaJal has reputation for
possessing considerable intellectual
force and independence of character.
His demeanor is quiet. He shuns the
exuberance In verbiage and gesticu-
lation to which Latin-Americans are
prone He is courteous, but a man
Of few words and little given to elabo-
rate compliments.
Besides, he IL neat and well
groomed In appearance His features
indicate pure European descent, with
out any admixture Of Indian blood.
Altogether he 10 man who con-
veye an impression Of reserve power.
He is q good man Of business.
His .probity has never been Ques-
toned. He has been sagacious and
successful in Investments and. while
not rich, is a man of Independent
means. He is = mAn of family.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-07-24
IRON, SHIP HAS LONG LIFE
Remarkable Career of Ship So Con-
structed Has Convinced Builders
of Its Merits.

The first iron ship in the world is
still doing service. having been built
in 1912 by the famous old firm Of Laird
Bros, who built the Confederate
cruiser Alabama. 1t was used as a
lightship for 81 years. and then. in
1899. converted into a wreck-watch
vessel. So successful was the wrought
iron hull in resisting the corrosive ac-
ton of sea water. that the new battle
ship built for the Mersey Bar. at the
entrance to Liverpool harbor. has its
hull built of wrought iron instead of
steel. The interior framing of the
new vessel is OF steel, but the hull
plates are of iron.-Popalar Mechan-
les.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-07-24
LIZ ar EdE MYZZE4W Z72x4YDS -ZtE
NRZ4XSIY1HE NJ ZHE AyZzYIE~

could be had and good at that for four or five
francs day, rapidly disappearing. One pays
seven or eight francs now in such places Those
cozy chalet-like hotels. with sand upon the floor,
and dressing for dinner unheard Of not SO
easily found. Funiculaires and mountain railways
have destroyed them; there fewer diligences:
all the mountain paths striped with blue and
red and green by the Vershonerung committees.
Adventures. due to losing the way and being OBJ
liged to pass the night in some peasants hayoft.
are rarely possible. The expoitatonf proceeds
apace There giant lifts up many a cliff now.
and rings of smoke from railway engines float
insolently across the glaciers of the Jungfrau
Soon. no doubt. we shall fit from the Matterhorn
to the Blumlisalp by aeroplane. In place of the
little inns. enormous hotels stand with rows of
grinningN windows There is tennis club and
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-07-24

over one post length to the tree. and
should all be cut at the end of the
seventh year. as they will soon re-
place themselves. frosn two to FIVE
shoots sprouting from the stump.
If left to grow longer than seven
years. they will commence putting out
limbs near the ground, spelling the
growth already made.
All land owners should plant some
kinds of trees. There is always some
waste land about the farm. some hill
side or swamp that is not cultivated.
which If planted to some kind of tim
ber, would soon return profit and
would also improve the looks of the
farm.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-07-24

dancing every night Many hotel retains the
services of kind of majordomo. often apparently
a guest, who organizes amusements for
every night gymkhanas fancy-dress balls. theatri-
Gals and bridge drives Instead of climbing boots
and windproof clothing, people take out fancy
dress costumes. Motors, though still forbidden
in certain cantons in the Valais. for instance,
have added not little to the revolution The
spirit of the age creeps even into the distant up
per valleys. Telephone bells ring side by side
with the thunder of the avalanche The vulgar
ization of Switzerland is thing of course.
but the deterioration proceeds faster and faster
with every year.
In eastern Switzerland, and out toward the from
tier between the Austrian Tyrol and Italys there
still lie wonderful, unspoed corners known to
some OF us, and jealously guarded / know inns
somewhere between Bozen and Trient-be it whis-
pered-where the old conditions hold bravely, and
may hold still for another generation. They lie
two days good walking from any railway station.
and another good days going even from places
that daily diligence taps They stand high above
the world luggage must go up on mules. and not
overheavy luggage at that Rooms cannot be or
dered by telephone. and letters come at the most
but once a day. There is neither tennis club nor
dancing no noisy gymkhanas evening dress.
They are haunted, wild and lovely still and the
people who go there go because they love the
mountains. The mountains have not taken second
place as yet. You need not take white gloves nor
fancy-dress costumes pumps But you
may want good old pair of "cor2fy' slippers to
put on in the evening when your feet ache after
ten hours roaming among the grandest noun
tans known to central Europe Long may they
fourish--these simple mountain inns!
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-07-24

Farmers of the central and eastern
states are now seeing the need Of re-
placing the timber lands that were so
needlessly destroyed in order to se-
cure more land for cultivation and as
a method of securing money by cut
ting into lumber and other materials
Now this same timber is wanted to
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-07-24

replace farm buildings and then in
the building of fences.
Throughout the central west. good
fence posts can only be had from lum-
ber dealers, who sell cypress and ce-
dar posts at prices almost beyond the
reach of the small farm owner.
Many are now planting timber for
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-07-24

HE coming OF spring In the High Alps
is not often witnessed by the tourist:
summer is In full swing before he ar
rives upon the scene. The climbers
appear later still, and at least one
crop Of hay has been taken from the
upper slopes and pastures before the
season OF the guides comes on and
the snow is in good condition on the
heights.
Though summer is already basking
In the lower valleys, spring holds the
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at our hotel, with the walters moving
about like specters. Then we go out
into the streets again. 1t is O'clock
The city has drawn down all its blinds.
all its shutters. No lights burn In the
streets. No lights show in the houses
All the cafes and restaurants are IN
darkness. Through the darkness, NIL
ed always with shivering dread, peo-
pie move about, too restless to remain
within doors in this sitting August
heat And over all is silence.
IN silence the guards stand before
the big white royal palace, where FAINT
lights are dim behind the heavily cur
tanned windows on the ground floor.
Soon the silence and the darkness, so
poignant and significant, grow TOO
much for ones nerves, and the streets
empty and we will go home to our
haunted homes, too exhausted by our
emotion to care much If the Zeppelin
does come tonight.
Early next morning, while the dew
was fresh, l went to the outskirts Of
the city to look at the mined waters
and armed trenches, but / was prompt
ly held up. They leaned from each
side into my carriage and demanded
what 1 was doing there. The younger
one-he was only a boy. looked very
fierce, and tried a ruse. He spoke 70
me in German. l was Just In time TO
save myself from replying in that fatal
language Then he pointed to the top
of his bayonet. The older soldier
frowned at him and said:
NO. no. Ellie est Anglaise.
But the boy looked very fierce. He
was very young-I hope the Germans
will never get him..
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Influences of Explosives.

From the Ohio State Journal.
1t was thought by Alfred Nobel. the
originator of the Nobel peace prize.
that II war was made shockingly de-
structive it might arouse the world
against it, And SO 1t is said he dis
covered dynamite and sought by that
to make war deploringly cruel and
therefore unpopular. This is what the
papers say. and they say further that
Mr.. Nobel Is interested in several fac
tories that produce terrible explosives.
and that the money paid for peace
triumphs comes from the manufacturer
of explosives. And 1t is further said
that the dynamite venture inspired
Baroness Won Suttner to write her book,
Lay Down Your Arms" which inspired
the Gear of Russia to call the first
Hague conference.
How all these strange events hang
together One can hardly believe the
report. And yet II one could trace all
the good that evil encourages he would
be astonished. Religion. charity, art,
public advancement receive much Of
their support from vice, intemperance
and crime. 1t would be a Hne
sociological problem to find out
how much Of the good of this
world Is done by the evil. Let
some one solve that problem and
see how much the right depends upon
the wrong-hoW much war is discour.
aged by making explosives profitable.
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FRANCE GIVES AN ORDER
FOR 100,0OOPA|R SHOES
Army Footwear Quickly Went to
Pieces-War Causes Manufactur-
ing Boom in Britain.
oor.spondepce of the Associated Press.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
LONDON. September -22-The large
orders on short-time contracts that
France has placed in England for boots
for the soldiers bears out the report
that the footwear of the French went
to. pieces early in the campaign.
France had long been ridiculing the
German army boot. and rejoiced at the
news that the coazsely shod Germans
suffered badly from blistered feet. But
it is now seen that tho more comfortable
French boot could not survive the test
Of hard usage.
One order has been placed at North
ampton for the delivery Of 100000 pairs
to France before October Is. and the
first shipment already has been made.
The short time limit of these contracts
shows how imperative Is the need
Altogether the war has caused an arti-
hcial manufacturing boom in Birming-
ham. SheMeld. Leeds and throughout
the midlands. as well as throughout the
kingdom. Where there were formerly
hordes Of unemployed, factories are run
ming night and day on military supplies.
The needs have a wide range. and in
clude cannon. shoestrings, razors, trac-
ton engines, cartridges. socks. saddles,
rations. cloth. uniforms, underclothes,
oilskins. bayonets. kitchen equipment.
tents. motor trucks. explosives and
boots,
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boarding Money Undesirable,

rioh the New York Journal of Comme,c.
'nouio boarding movement under
the example of some of the banks h.
come well started. it might lead to al
most unlimited possibilities of diH-
culty. Coupled with the already man.
nest FACTORS which tend to drive gold
be hui Vi ,he country, it could hardly
premium. and if it went far enough
Wouid aNect the power to maintain the
redemption of credit currency. When
the 1ederal reserve system Is fairly
banks will. automatically. be lowered
ana there will be a tendency to re
lease" the legal-tender money which
Is thus rendered unnecessary to the
several institutions. SO far as required
reserves are concerned. Whether these
banks will then show far-sighted
disposition with regard to the use of
the money, or whether they will be in
chned to set the example OF boarding,
Is an important point which will short
~ be decided, and will profoundly at
rect the monetary position of the Unit
ed states during the remainder of the
war. 1t will also have a great in
huence upon the success to be had in
acter OF the funds In which the re-
serve contributions are paid to the
| new institutions will determine the
amount of their issues and loans in no
| small degree.
Irrespective of this special consider
alton with regard to the reserve banks,
| the fundamental factor in the situa-
| ton is the need of a good example to
the country in keeping money in cir
culation, preventing 1t from clogging
here and there a result of undue
timidity. and maintaining the activity
| of the credit mechanism. Hoarding is
| always sign of weakness that may
be fatal, since it means that indispen-
| sable confidence which furnishes the
motive power to business and COM
| merce has declined in vigor.
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Brewery Horses.

U1 tle OF. Louu Times.
The English breweries have been
practically put out Of business as a
result of inroads made upon both their
employees and their horses by the gov
eminent authorities having the man
agement Of the war in hand. Particu-
larly has the demand upon the horses
been heavy. and the brewers are said
to have submitted to a process of
Communicating OF an essential factor
in their industry without demurring.
At a time when credit Is being given
and taken in a general way, 1t should
do no harm to record the fact that
certain men in England who are rated
not only as publicans, but also as sin
ners, are doing their duty in the proper
spirit. incidentally. has anybody, ever
called attention to the fact that brew
ery horses are always the best bred
and best kept to be found, in most big
cities. excepting only the occasional
animals that are kept chiefly for dis
play?
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God Save the King.
from the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
Whoever may have composed the air
on which God Save the King" Ii based,
there is very little doubt that Henry
Carey. composer Of ''SaIly in Our Alley"
was the first to bring words and music
together. He claimed both the compost
ton and words as his own and after he
died his son, George Savile Carey, a mis-
ce;laneous writer. petitioned for a PEN
sion. and supported hts contention by q
Christopher Smith. to whom Carey had
brought the composition for correction.
The origin OF the phrase, God save
the king" is also shrouded in mystery.
1t occurs in Coverdale's translation Of the
Bible, 1885, Froude has also quoted It as
a watchword Of the navy as early as 1545
with the countersign. Long to reign
over u.s." Another. but little known YER
sion was published at the time Of the
Restoration. It begins:
God save Charles the King.
Grant him long yean to reign, -
In peace and joy. l.
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place were heaps Of ruins. from which
smoke was still coming. The destruc-
tive effect of grenades could be noted
on many houses. The city was without
bread. German patrols were guarding
the bakeries, which were being stormed
by the people. By 4 o'clock in the aft
ernoon even the largest hotels had no
provisions Of any kind left. Our
troops were fed from the vast quanti-
ties Of food stored in the forts. In the
city there was a shortage of every
thing. especially potatoes and salt.
I'm the afternoon we went on to
Gembloux. The famine was still worse
there. The soldiers declared that they
had been unable to get bread or beer
from the people for fourteen days"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-04
[|ECE FORTS STORMED
BY GERMAN INFANTRY
Nine Captured by Foot Soldiers and
Remainder Reduced by Fire
Of Big Guns.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
BERLIN, September 1.-THE follow
ing description of the devastation at
Liege and Namur are translated from
accounts in the Tageblatt:
I'VE reached Liege on the evening Of
a stormy day. We travelled through
streets where the smoke Of burned
houses was still curling upward. streets
that showed no signs of life. Patrols
marched through the city. The beautt-
full shops across from the university,
were a field of ruins. I was told that
two nights before. August 81. shots
came from these shops. as II by prear-
rangement. The inhabitants Of the
houses were dragged out. the women
were torn from the men, and whoever
had a weapon in his hands was shot.
In a few minutes the street was sown
with corpses. The houses were set on
fire.
"Eyewitnesses described for me the
details of the conquest of Liege. Lou
Gin, the strongest fort, was bomharded
by the newest Krupp guns, which were
stationed in the market place. In the
middle of the city. Every window pane
in the vicinity was broken by the con-
sose sso OF Ia Cd 'hsnses. The Sors,soon sur
rendered A division Of 3aegers were
the first men to enter the fort. The de-
struction was terrible.
about 400 corpses lay piled inside
the stone walls. The stencil was I'M
bearable. About 200 wounded were
counted. The only man uninjured was
the commandant A wounded man, who
evidently was about to be operated on.
lay in the lazaret. He had been killed
by a shell.
Taking Of Forts.
"Liege had altogether thirteen forts.
Nine were taken by infantry storm, the
others were reduced by artillery. The
forts are being repaired for German
use by the Inhabitants of the city. who
get francs a day for their work.
"a German who had lain ip a Belgian
fort as a prisoner and witnessed the
whole bombardment. described the
course of the battle. The bombardment.
he said, began at midnight August 9;
One shell after another exploded. and
Liege was soon afre in many places.
From every roof and window in the
houses came a rain of bullets Under
this fire the Germans stormed through
the village Of Roncourt and deployed
1.-TWO hundred Germans opened
rapid fire on 1000 Belgtans. of whom
500 fell. Nineteen German prisoners
were confined in a cellar when the Ger
They could hear the shells coming
through the air. and every time they
exploded gas. powder. earth and ce-
ment dust flew into the cellar until the
men were nearly suffocated. Finally
an explosion blew in the iron door OF
Belgians surrendered. freeing the pris-
OnerS.
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> Krupps' Weak Spot.

The weak spot in Germany's arrange
ments for warship construction is in
disputably the Krupp monopoly. When,
some years ago, Count Won Reventlow
made inquiry into the resources of the
country for rapid construction. several
of the yards made their estimates of
output conditional on the prompt de-
livery by Krupp Of the armor and
armament. In spite of the enormous
additions made in recent years to the
works of the great firm at Essen. 1t Is
certain that if a serious proposal has
been made to increase the annual ship
building its capacity will be strained
TO the utmost.
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Giving First Aid.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Won't you please help a poor crippled
man?''
You look healthy enough: how the
deuce are you crippled?'
Financially, kind sir"
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Projectiles Considered.

The official North German Gazette
also discusses these new mortars with
special reference to their projectiles
1t says:
If, a weapon of the German army has
a claim to popularity it is the 42-centi-
meter mortars, which, in spite Of their
huge dimensions. have managed to re-
main concealed. In fact, the nickname
Drummer which has been given to
these mortars shows how far this pop
ulartty has progressed. One cannot be
aston1shed that shot which hurls with
accuracy weight of eight hundred
weights over a space of a German mile
to its goal causes an atmospheric pres
sure which for miles around hurls
everything into the air. Reports have
left the mortar, causes a great noise
only by. cutting through the air."
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Whole Blocks Destroyed.

THE following morning I went to
Namur. In Liege certain streets had
ueen burned out, but in Namur whole
blocks were destroyed. The Grand Pal
ace, with its beautiful rathaus. had
been blotted out Of existence. In its
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GERMANY'S SIEGE GUNS
SURPRISE THE WORLD
Massive Artillery Used at Liege Had
Been Manufactured in
Secret.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

BERLIN, September ia member OF
the German parliament, who for nearly
ten years has been connected with the
army budget committee of the reich
stag. tells some interesting things OF
the history of the now famous 42-centi-
meter siege guns which served the Ger
mans SO effectively at Lieee and Ma.
muir.
THE surprise that Germany possessed
such mortars." he says, in an article
published by the Neue zuercher Zef-
tung, was as great in Germany az 1t
was in other countries. After comn,e-
ton OF secret tests with these guns
some time ago. and the decision of the
government to order number of them
It was q problem as to how to keep the
matter secret.
Discussion Of Budget.
Over forty officers took part in the
discussions at which the military bud.
get was prepared for submittal to the
budget committee of the 'reichstaE
When new clause was reached with
only the heading Arms the chief OF
the department of arms requested tina,
for the time being this subject could
not be discussed. At the conclusion OF
the conference he told me in strict con-
ddence that the title Arms involved
new, Siege mortars.
The general STAFF requested urgently
that not a word be said of the matter
In the committee; not even the officers
present had any knowledge of it.
six weeks ago I visited an ammuni-
ton factory as a member of the ar
mament commission and ascertained
that any number Of projectiles and
cases for these mortars could be pro-
duced within very short time. In
reply to my question whether these
mortars did not wear out rapidly, a di-
rector Of the company said: There are
not enough fortresses in existence in
the whole world to wear out a single
mortar AS matter of fact, our army
possesses 5000 mortars of an earlier
date. which are still usah len
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-04

American pianos especially adapted
for tropical climates have been intro
duced into Ceylon. Ordinary pianos cam
not Withstand the damp and heat.
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Would Erase the Black.

'T confess don't quite like it, and if
I were a Belgian l would raise heaven
ard earth to have the black taken out
OF my national flag.
Might falls. a soft. warm. summer
night, and in semi-darkness we dine