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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-04-22
Tho Lishtninq.

tohn Burroughs. in Harper's Magazine.
During thunder storm we get an ink
ing of how fearfully and wonderfully
he universe in which we live Is made and
What energy, and activity Its apparent
lightning out of storm cloud seems IN
itantly to transform the whole passive
universe into terrible living power.
lbout US and above us. going its silent
" noisy round of mechanical and chem
cal change. ponderable. insensate. OBJ
!truct.ye slumbering IN the rocks au'e n
The trees. sweetly purlng In the brooks.
ilowly. invisibly building and shaping our
,odies-how. could we eyer dream that 1t
ield in leash such a sudden. terrible, spec
acular thing as this of the forked light
ling?
II we were to see and hear 1t for the
irst time would we not think that the
Judgment day had really come? That the
great seals Of the book of fate were be-
ng broken?
Wha. an awakening 1t is! What n rev.
;latior! What fearfully dramatic actor
iuddenly leaps upon the stage! Had VIC
been permitted to look behind the scenes,
we could not have found him: he was not
her. except po'ensiialX ne vas :, born Tna
and one word which shakes the house
ana he is gone: gone as quickly as he
aamc. Look behind the curtain and he
Is not there.
He has vanished more completely than
any stage ghost ever vanished-he has
Withdrawn into the innermost recesses of
the atomic structure OF matter, and is
diffused through the clouds. 10 be called
back again. as the elemental drama pro-
ceeds, as suddenly as before.
An matter is charged with electricity,
either actual or potential: the sun is hot
with it, and doubtless our own heart
beats, our own thinking brains, are inti-
visible only in this sudden and eNtraor-
binary way. 1t defies our analysis, it de-
fies our definitions: it is inscrutable and
light our houses, cook our dinners and
pull our loads.
How humdrum and constant and pro-
sale the other forces-gravity, cohesion,
chemical affinity and capillary attraction
seem whe.. compared with this force of
forces. electricity! How deeply and quiet
~ it slumbers at one time. how terribly
active it becomes at another. believing
through the heavens like an Infatuated
ard destroying god!
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-04-22
SATISFY THE CANDY CRAVING.

strained honey until it Is very thick.
Then stir in freshly popped corn, and
when the mixture is cool enough mold
it into little cakes or balls.
Chocolate Caramels - Two table
spoonfuls of butter. one-half cup of
milk. one-half cup of sugar, one cup of
molasses, four squares of chocolate,
one cup of walnut meats broken in fine
pieces.
Put butter in porcelain saucepan
and when melted add milk, sugar and
molasses. When these are at the boil
ing point add chocolate, finely grated,
and cook until brittle when tried in cold
water. Stir often to prevent mixture
from sticking to pan. Remove from
the fire. beat four times, and then put
in the nuts and two teaspoonfuls of
vanilla and turn into a buttered pan.
When cold cut in squares and wrap
each in paraffin paper.
Peanut Nougat-One pound of sugar
and one quart of shelled peanuts.
Chop the nuts fine and sprinkle them
with a little table salt. Put the sugar
in smooth granite saucepan. and
when it is on the fire stir constantly
until melted to a syrup, taking care to
keep the sugar from hardening on the
sides of the pan. Add the nuts, stir
ring them we'll through the sugar, and
pour at once into a warm, buttered tin
and mark the squares. The sugar must
be taken from the fire for the moment
it is melted or this candy will not be a
success
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-04-22
study. General Frenchs allusion to
Grants methods shows it has not been
neglected
GETTING eeoaraphy MIXED.

BY Roger W. BabSon.
Most people make the mistake of think
of North America and that Panama is
south OF our central west.
The truth is that South America is east
of North America and Panama City Is di-
rectly south of Buffalo
In fact, Valparaiso, Chile, on the west
coast of South America, is directly south
Of Boston, both being approximately on
Many people also think that the canal
runs east and west. This also is an err
rOr.
When we entered the canal at Colon we
went through the canal southeast to the
Pacific ocean.
This morning saw the sun rise from
the Pacific ocean and this evening it set
ma being in the shape of a letter So
Owing to the strategic location of Pan
anna and it's relation to the United States
government, it should continually grow in
Importance. Its location is especially well
adapted for trading purposes, and these
opportunities are today being rapidly
Many people in the United States are apt
to think of Cinnamon as fit only to
''washee -washee" clothes. but let me tell
you that they make fine merchants
by the English for 200 years, over 80 per
cent OF the stores are operated by China
men.
The location of Panama makes 1t a yery
the Avenida Central today / counted men
of at least IL nationalities.
French: there We're Cinnamon with pig
tails Hindus wearing combs and real In
dians from the interior: then there were
Spaniards. Germans and Dutch, together
with various grades and varieties Of me-
groes.
There are even three great cemeteries in
Panama-the Christian, the Hebrew and
the Chinese-in which graves are rented
rather than sold.
Let us hope that the people of all ma
tons will always be welcome at Panama
May 1t not become mere naval station
such as Gibraltar has become.
Had the English made the best of their
opportunity Gibraltar would today be q
hundred thousand people, instead of con-
sisting of only one street as at present, a
harbor of refuge for soldiers and forsakep
women.
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Things He Hasn't Done.

I may come home for my 16S hours
leave, and the very thought of civil
lied life again amuses me. There are
SO many necessary" things l have
not done for a long time. I fervently
hope there will be no sheets on my
bed and the bath-water won't be hot
1t would take very low temperature
to burn me now. think shall live
away in some little corner where
cannot see any khaki.
l haven't been up flight of stairs,
seen a carpet or armchair or tasted
fresh fish for three months. haven't
looked in real" shop, or seen
smart woman, or heard, music, or
walked in anything harder than mud
for three months.
l haven't tasted fresh water or even
fzz" since I have been away. I
haven't seen any evening papers, I
haven't drunk out of china cup, I
haven't eaten off china plate. But
the experience l have been through
has been worth the sacrifice of all
these things, and / wouldn't sell
moment of it-From a British Of
f1cer to His Family
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-04-22
Tho coffee" vesuviu. Ground.

In an article on Frank A. Perret,
volcanologist," French Strother, in the
April Worlds Work. tells how Profess
sor Perret foretold the eruption of
Mt. Vesuvius, in Italy, in 1906:
One night, after Professor Ferret had
lain down to sleep in the Royal OBJ
seryatory on Mt. Vesuvius, far up on
the mountain side, he heard a buzzing
sound in the ear which rested upon
his pillow. He lifted his head and
heard nothing. When he dropped it
again, he heard again this vibrant
sound. He rose up in bed and took the
Now he could hear the sound louder,
more distinct He went to Professor
Matteucci, director of the observatory,
and told him he thought the volcano
was preparing for trouble. The profess
sor laughed and said, you must have
heard them grinding coffee for break
fast" But Mr.. Perret was not shaken
in his belief.
And 10 days later the director was
convinced. Vesuvius was in gigantic
eruption. Only the sturdy architecture
of the observatory saved their lives, for
tons of volcanic ash We're falling on the
roof; the air, despite the closed win
dows, was so full of ashes that they
We're surrounded with that darkness
which Pliny said was mot the darkness
of the darkest night, but the darkness
of sealed dungeon" darkness which
can be breathed; and the house was
rocking so violently that they could not
cross the room but could go about it
only by steadying themselves with their
hands against the walls. For eight
hours they endured this bombardment
from above and below. And it was
eight days before the summit cleared
of smoke and they could look on a
nh n ~ IL AvNS,k
had sheltered them, sappers dug six
tons of ash off surface Is feet square.
Mr.. Perret pointed to 1t as it was
being dug away. and reminded Profess
sor Matteucci that that was 1.-The coffee
they We're grinding for breakfast
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-04-22
Grant, tho Eorerunner.
From the chicago Herald.


1T was never so confident of victory as
1 am today" said General French in an
interyieW With FREDERICK Palmer on
Grant was when he took command of the
Army of the Potomac. He kept at it. and
so shall we"
nent. Grant was plain forerunner Of the
type of general required by the European
situation today. One can think of no 9TH
er great American soldier, who would
dogged warfare of the trenches
The business like aspect of the struggle
in EYrope has h struck and
events-the romance of war. They seem
to think that this is something novel in
the history OF warfare--that the exigencies
invention have somehow brought about a
distinct type of struggle.
1t was just this business like view of
war that Grant took. And that is why he
was SO successful at It, He saw the OBJ
ject to be attained clearly-just as a bust
ness man of great capacity sees and
knows exactly what he wants to do. And
like that sort of a man, he was willing to
pay any price, the object was worth.
So it was that he set himself TO the
bloody enterprise in the sWilderness"@
driving Lees army back step by STEP
Criticism did not deter him, losses did not
tended to keep at it If it took all sum-
mer. And he kept at it, as General French
pertinently observes.
In every great general there must, of
course, be something of this quality Lees
retreat before the advancing forces was
in itself very businesslike proceeding.
But 1T was not the style OF warfare he
chose when he had the Initiative A good
ly pitched battle, brilliant strategic
move like the rolling up of the union wing
the issue promptly decided-that was
rather the Nirginian's way.
The American civil war may have been
in the beginning. as Europeans OCCASION
ally. depreciatingly remark, mere strug-
gle between volunteer armies. But 1t last
ed long enough to make trained veteran
armies and to supply material worth
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-04-22

them, the warning nations Of Europe
have succeeded in protecting their
armies from disablement by typhoid.
Many Of the guesses as to wounds
changed SO. methods OF fighting have
changed SO, that preconceived opinions
as to wounds have not worked out The
notion was that the high speed jack
eted bullet would bore a small. clean
hole which would heal readily without
infection.
Where this calculation has fallen
down is that 1t did not take account
of certain facts. There are at least
two types of bullets in use by the ar
mics. The one with the blunter nose
has a greater tendency to keep nose
first and make q clean hole. The one
with pointed nose has greater tend
ency to whirl over and enter the soldier
with its base first, or sideways or
slanting.
So. much depends on the speed Of
the bullet. Even though bullet leaves
the muzzle at high velocity, in time it
slows up. Battle lines have been moved
farther apart. and close fighting not
being in vogue. the wounds are being
made by bullets travelling at low ve-
lccity. A steel cased bullet (so-calledD
retains it's boring shape until it meets
hard substance. If steel case bull
let strikes a stone or any hard SUBJ
stance it is deformed
Little fighting is being done in the
open. As soon as line is occupied the
men dig into the ground. Men are
shooting from behind distractions and
from within trenches. Only a small
proportion of the wounded are struck
by bullets that have not previously
struck some deforming body.
From every side there come charges
that the opposition is using dumdum
bullets A dumdum bullet is one with
soft nose. The theory was that cloth
ing, skin, any obstruction, would flat
ten the soft nose and thus cause a
tearing wound. An embankment or
stone wall will do for a steel jacketei
bullet what a coat did for the dunn
dun.
The wounds are being found to be
ragged and the bullets removed are as
much flattened as We're dumdums. FL
nally, a large proportion of the wounds
are being made by pieces of shrapnel.
Shrapnel wounds are always Jagged
and irregular.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-04-22
An Appeal For Poland.
BY Henryk Sienlliewicz.


In the midst of n terrible war attended
by atroctous misery, the demons OF deatn
and destruction now dispute the empire OF
the world
Thousands upon thousands of soldiers
are dying on the field of battle, and mil
lions of peaceful human beings are perish
ing of cold and hunger
Two countries have been more specially
the victims of these sanguinary contlcts
Two countries. but yesterday prosperous,
are now wastes of desolation. These are
The assistance given to Belgium has
honored humanity. Poland. my country,
now appeals for aid.
of the realm of King Albert has In Po-
land been crushed and devastated by the
iron heel of war. The blood of our UNI
happy country cries out for divine JUS
tice. Her sons. compelled to fight In hos,
tile armies. slay one another In fratricidal
combat. From the banks of the Niemen
to the SUBMITS of the Carpathans fire has
destroyed the towns and Villages and Ger
the whole of this huge, desolated country
the specter of famine has spread out its
wings
All labor and industry have been swept
away. The powshare is rusted; the peas
ant has neither grain nor cattle. The
artisan is idle: all works and factories
not sell his ware: there Is no one to buy
The hearth is extinguished, and diseases
and misery prevail The aged and infirm
have no shelter from the cold and hard
ships of the winter weather Little chill
dren, stretching out their arms to their
mothers for bread, receive in answer-but
tears.
OF such starving people, crying out for
aid. listen to me, Christian nations. there
are millions.
Has Poland no right to your assist
nnce?
Each unfortunate nation has such right
In the name of humanity. but the Polish
nation has other claims to plead her cause
before the universe. Conquered and torn
asunder. she ever struggled against brutal
force, remembering always her glorious
past and ever affirming the sacred rights
Of liberty. For centuries she was the ram
part OF civilization, the barrier of Chris
tendon In it's struggle with the Crescent
She ever fought side by side with all de-
tenders of freedom. The names of Sobies-
your memory. Where was any generous
cause in which Poland did not freely shed
her blood? Where was human suffering
which by her means she did not attempt to
alleviate? Our genius, our labor and our
creative powers have left their imprint
Dur voice ever rose in unison with the
great call of civilized humanity.
Therefore, in the name Of universal fra
ernity. in the name of country ever
faithful to that sacred principle, in the
nanie of the teachings Of Christ, and Of
our past and present sufferings. to you,
:ivilized nations 1 appeal!
Help us to save our country from her
errible distress. Let us give the abOrer
he bread to restore his strength and seed
Hherewith to reap his future harvest.
Nay Polish mothers be enabled to give
heir famished children something more
han tears. May the Polish nation survive
his hour of supreme trial and with re-
aewed hope and strength await the dawn
sf her near resurrection.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-04-22
,s the railroads of some facts concerning

ing the railroads of some facts concerning
express contracts.
When Mark Anthony, favorite post
pna a, aa and post-mortem orator OF his
eearan exc, t4 the veraeious Mr.
The evil that men do lives after them :"
he might have saved himself the trouble
of adding
so let 1t be with Caesar"
for 1t was bound to be 80 with Caesar any
The railway officials now in power are
not chiefly combating popular Ignorance
ing the natural and inevitable conse-
quences of the things done by former rail-
road men now-like MIR. Caesar again
dead and turned to clay"
The open game now being played by
the new type of railroad official is new in
the field of railway relations to the pub
railroads did not need just cause at
Washington. All they needed was Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew. And they had him. The
express companies n, did not need Just
ed was Thomas C. Platt. And they had
him. The Missouri railroads did not need
a Just cause at jefferson CITY,. All they
needed was u pass-dispensing Legislative
agent" And they had him, If we remem-
Der correctly.
Let the discouraged railway official, who
age to put before. the public the true and
exact condition of the property under his
charge only to see bare justice denied to
his road and its owners. bethink him Of
some rather recent history. There, for ex-
ample, is the mail pay question. Surely
the roads have not forgotten the famous
"si&-day divisor" The roads until Vic
Murdoch. after fight of years. got the
practice stopped-in determining how
much the government owed them
for carving mails. weighed the mails
for seven days and then divided the
total by six to determine what they should
receive per day for the service. Just
where the government came in in this lit
tie arrangement is apparent even to the
casual observer. And the man who knows
what the express companies. according to
their own sworn returns to the Interstate
Commerce commission, had invested in
their business and what they got out of it.
and knows besides. where their securities
We're held. will understand good many
things about the express contracts of 20
years ago that would not otherwise be APP
parent
The railroads present inability, when
they are really In straits. to get relief
through the force of public opinion exerted
upon popular legislative assemblies arises
out of the tenacious hold of the popular
memory upon these matters of actual rail-
road history. The evil that the railroad
men of the Depew-Platt regime did lives
after them.
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war TEACHES ARMY SANITARIANS
WHEREIN THEY MAKE MISTAKES
Cholera and Plague Found to Be Less Menacng- Has
Claimed Few Victims In Present World War-AI Bullets
Act Like Dumdums In Trench FiuI1tinu

When the Japanese went to war with
Russia they guessed that the best way
to keep their army effective was to go
to much trouble to protect them against
typhoid. That guess was good one.
They guessed that their men could keep
healthy on slim diet composed large
ly of rice. That guess was q poor one,
as from it there followed an epidemic
of beriberi.
The Russians guessed that q war
waged in Manchuria would be attend
ed by cholera and plague. They based
their preparations on that basis. They
guessed poorly. Cholera and plague did
not seriously disturb the plans of their
army.
ians of Europe have watched war ex-
periences all over the world. On
these observations they based a series
of guesses for the present war. The
war has been in progress almost six
months. 1t has run through part of a
summer all of u fall, and it is now in
the midst of winter. The only
markedly different type of weather re-
naming to be experienced is the spring
thaw and flood.
In the history of wars spring has not
been an unhealthy season. They have
gone far enough to make it possible
to judge roughly as to some of the
and plague are concerned, the guess
was correct. In spite of the fact that
Russia, Turkey, and the Balkan states
are engaged, there has been no great
disablement from cholera.
Cholera is ever present in the far
east. Whenever an army is called into
it there will go a large number of
cholera enthusiastically men infected
with the cholera bacilli. Yet measures
for the control of cholera are SO we'll
understood and so easily applied that
no army within the last quarter of a
century has been greatly incapacitated
by cholera. Plague is even less of a
menace.
The little information available is to
the effect that typhoid is not proving
troublesome The world is in debt to
the United States for it's knowledge of
how to prevent typhoid in its armies.
In 1898 we taught them how not to do
it. Since 1911 we have taught them
how to do it. Combining what we
taught them with what the Japs taught
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-04-22
1915, by the Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate0

copyright, 1915. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The craving for sweet is normal
craving, and the wise parent is the one
who guides this craving and satisfies it
BEAUTIFULLY rather than the one who
tries to put it down.
Children should be allowed to eat a
sufficient amount of sugar to give them
a we'll balanced diet. 1t is generally
agreed that sugar with acid fruits is
unwholesome, as 1t is with cereals, be-
cause it sets up fermentation. But
candy, eaten with or directly after
meals, is wholesome. And as the pur-
est candy can be made at home-that
is to say, as ono may be sure that
candy is nearly pure IL it is made at
home-it is good thing for the careful
mother to prepare candy frequently
herself for their happiness.
Here are some recipes not difficult
to carry out.
Butter Scotch-Boil one cupful of
sugar one cupful Of butter and one
cupful of molasses until the mixture
hardens when dropped into cold water.
Spread thinly in shallow, we'll but
tered pan, and mark into small squares
when half hardened.
Stuffed Dates-Shell and skin roast
ed peanuts and remove the pits from
some meaty dates. Into each date in
sert two whole peanuts, press the
halves together and roll in granulated
sugar.
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er who, though unexpectedly attacked,
could meet. check and hurl back from
before the gates of Paris the picked
armies of Frances historic enemy,
whose preparations were completed
and who had chosen the hour of the at
tack. we should hardly have believed it,
Yet this is just what General Joffre
and his army have done, and the
months of steady pressure upon the
foe which the armies of the allies have
exercised since the battle of the Marine,
sufficiently show that that great VIC
tory was no result of chance, but was
one of the logical fruits of the excel
lence Of the armies Of France, of the
moral health and strength Of the
French nation
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-04-22
TOUCHES OF ECZEMA
At Once Relieved by cuticura Quite
Easily. Trial Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal. Nothing
better than these fragrant super
creamy emollients for all troubles af-
fecting the skin, scalp, hair and hands.
They mean clear skin. clean scalp,
good hair and soft, white hands
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept KY,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-04-22
Her Fatal Oversight.

When the telephone bell rang Van.
dalia Trippitts was looking in the mir.
ror, and out of it, as it were.
"Thirty-nine years old today" she
unused.
And then the bell rang.
What? What say?" she called into
the mouthpiece. 20! Yes, yes, GER
tainly I'll marry you!"
Two minutes later she was in her
boudoir again. sobbing as if her heart
would break.
Was the rapture too much for her?
Was it case of too much sudden
joy?
Two nays!
Woe is me. Alas and alack, and
again alas!" wept Vandalia. Il neg.
lected to ask who he was! "-Detroit
Free Press.
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The Terrible Alternative

The young fe-they are all young
in fiction-was in tears, sobbing as
though her heart was about to break.
Great guns" exclaimed her hus-
band, whats up?"
"l-I-l've got to-to-di-divorc
you" she sobbed.
What in thunder"
"The-new-co-cook won't stay if
you do"
Thus did idyllic happiness have to
take a back seat for brutal material
ism.-Philadelphi Public Ledger.