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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-22
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Conducted by Samuel Hopkins Adams.

Thi. department /. devoted separating the sheep OF
advertising from soats-and hanging bell the goats
Il deals with very topic that not too serious
Its honest endeavor with fairness either
n,,, mr. where that nexpedient by private letter. all fair
while reserving the right to plead
when that right asks nothing for its
services confidence of its correspondents in giving
confidence which will be
lated Please clearly whether prefer to have
withheld from answers printed here No unsigned caons
will be read Address. The Advisor, The Tribune New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-22

Can you give me any opinion and information
.ar-ne sis mentioned in the incosed pamphlet?
| eau. Var-ne-sis is fragrant fraud.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-18

enemy country. me Germans Were the
first to spring this device.
Another bark back to olden times is
the catapult used to launch bombs from
one trench into another. Even the crudest
forms of this obsolete weapon are en-
ployed. Its silence in operation and the
short range required for its purpose are
the arguments In its favor.
1t remained for the English to dig into
history for a weapon that could be en-
ployed under circumstances that barred
the use OF the modern tools of destruction
they possessed. 1t was in the house-.o-
house fighting around Arras that they hit
upon the Use Of the bow and arrow.
For two days they had been trying to
force their way through village streets. II
was impossible for the British to shell the
few houses that remained to be taken be-
cause of the peril to their own men. The
same obstacle prevented the Germans from
The Washington herald., 1915-07-18

One ancient weapon that has retained
its place in modem equipment. however.
has had its day, and that is the lance. The
Uhlans are practically the only cavalry
outside Of the Indians with the British and
the Cossacks that have found this instru-
ment of any value. One by one. the other
organizations have tossed it into the dis
card.
1t has been found unwieldy and on the
western front, notably where the cavalry
have little opportunity to charge 1t has
been rendered excess baggage.
Another slipping back to the dark ages
is the methods of concealment employed
in the Dardanelles. There the Turks sup
piled the real surprise Of this nature Of
the war. This, when they painted their
faces green so as to be invisible In the
foliage while shipping the enemy.
Australian officers were amazed when
several dead Turks were found bedecked
The Washington herald., 1915-07-18

clearing the town or the British. {
In Dunkirk there had once been an !.
archery club. For diversion British sub
lieutenant who had an opportunity. picked
up three or four bows and a few score
arrows. These the officers had amused
themselves with in the time they were re-
lieved.
1t was with some difficulty that the
bows and arrows were brought up, but
eventually they were gotten forward to
the front and with them a can of petrol.
Rags soaked in the infammable fluid were
tied to the arrow tips and that night the
bombardment of the houses occupied by the
Germans began. Despite the efforts of the
Germans the flames made such Roadway
that they were driven from cover.
Even the sling, David's lethal weapon,
Is in vogue in some of the French trenches.
1t has been found handy to hurl bombs
and hand grenades.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-18
ACk to the days of armor,

~ ACh to the days OF armor!
X Back to the days when every
- warrior was a walking battleship.
It's thestrangest revival of a lost art in
history. hu, it is here already, and from
the present indications there is no telling
how far It will CO.
First, You know-you have followed the
I mcan-thc battling nations found
that arrnored fortresses were just the sort
of fodder that an ambitious commander
would desire to feed his huge howitzcrs on
The howitzers kicked big holes in steel
and concrete and drove the warriors back
TO first principles. a wall of dirt and sod.
The ghosts OF Attila and of Ohio the Dane
chortled with Elee. The howitzers were
something bordering uron the wrath of
OdIn and instinetively they SHE'D at this
invasion Of divine rights. And Thor. in his
miGhtiest days. had never conceived nor
forged such impregna bilty as that steel and
concrete had seemed at Liege Maubeuge
and Namur.
But when they went to digging bitches
and erecting palisades with scythe points
as friendly door mat for the future guest
old Attila and Otho nudged each other and
grinned.
Then came the second step England
discovered that the mortality amongst her
men at the front was altogether too high
Forthwith she invented breastplates of
plates of steel They were bulletproof
wien several hundred of yards from the
front and where a rifle ball had lost some
OF its an-kiling energy and efficiency.
Germany. with her usual longsghted-
ness. had already developed a shield which
could be used TO protect her machine gun
men in action. II Is true, the shield was
cumbersome. but IL worked. and thus laid
the steps TO another dip into the remote
past, this time by France,
France went England Germany one bet
ter. She invented a shield that was prac-
teal, buletproof, mobile A man can hide
behind IL and move forward with ALMOST
impunity, She added the breastpiate Tor
the benefit of her commissary department,
% that it could move through the land of
spent balls with safety, Then for attack
The Washington herald., 1915-07-18

she combined the two for the direct charge
of the trenches
The Germans drove the Allies into the
third stage. They flooded the trenches of
cape the gases the English and French
were forced to invent a nose and mouth
guard. The Germans who operated the gas
machines supplied their men with helmets
not unlike those used by American miners
in rescue work.
The English seized upon this suggestion
in the course of events and brought over
from Wales thousands of similar helmets
taken from the mines.
Here we have breastplate shield and
helmet
Shades Of King Arthur. Sir Lancelot and
Sir Galahad.
The French. however added the piece
de resistance. 1t was the metal shrapnel
and bulletproof cap. This. made of dull
steel and topping off the helmet. gave it
all the picturesqueness of the days of Char
lemagne. This mind you within two hours
aeroplane ride Of where old Charemaene's
wrath is supposed to hover. AK la Cha
pele.
So there they go. Over the plains where
Attila and Ohio played their merry game
OF devastation. where Hugh Capet did his
bloody deeds, where Bayard. Oliver and the
other Paladins wrote their names in the
book of chivalry and where the Great
Charles made and unmade the map of Eu-
rope.
Again We may see a revival of the old
Roman attack in phalanx formation I'M
der cover Of q wall Of shields. Again we
may behold horsemen, clad in steel, charg-
Ing upon each other as they did several
hundred years ago on the very spots where
the conflict now Is raging fercest
It's strange. too. the other long for
gotten relies of wars In the dim days Of
history are coming into play The ancients
In the times when the Captains rode to
battle in chariots attached sharp blades
10 the axies. These blades spinning with
the wheels were q dangerous weapon to
those who got in their path.
Now the armored cars are being equip.
ped with blades that operate upon similar
lines. Additional blades serve another pur-
pose, and . very important ono under tho
present conditions of warfare These blades
in a continuous band start below the front
axle and In an arc ascend over the ton.
neau Of the car. The rasof sdgS serves
to cut wire stretched across the road In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
HIGH PRICE GASOLINE
Federal Investigation Shows Years
Increase Two Million Barrels.

Washington. Dec. 30.-Preliminary
estimates of the governmental survey
on the production of crude petroleum
in 1915, which are to be used in con-
nection with the federal inquiry into
the cause of advancing gasoline prices
were made public today by Secretary
Lane. These indicate an increase of
about two million barrels over last
years output which. with a total pro-
duction of about 29O,000,000 barrels
was a record
THE present year began with a sur
plus of petroleum in field storage -
said the report. $50 that production of
crude oil was not pushed. Under
these conditions the small increase in
marketed production was significant.
OF the total yield of the wells the
past year about per cent remains in
field storage. and added to this are the
stocks held in storage by the pipe line
com panies, a reserve estimated by the
survey as fifty million barrels greater
than year ago.
The supply in the United States is
not unlimited, but the decline in the
country's output of crude oil has not
yet set in. The increase in stocks IS
in itself a fairly conclusive rebuttal of
any price boosting plan of present
shortage. Furthermore, the better
market for crude oil which chacterized
the closing months of the year has al
ready somewhat stimulated drilling
activity, which may contribute to next
years production
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
TANDY IN FIGHT
Ramsey Sewer Remarks Arouse
City Commissioner.
Considers Statement q Slap at
His Department.

The remarks of j. A. Ramsey, city
sanitary sergeant, urging East SIDE
people to see to it that close 1olhts
were made in the East side sewer,
reused the ire of W; 6. Ianoy, con-
missioner, under whose department
the sewer work comes. Mr. Ramsey
asked the people of the East side TO
inspect the work as it is done as
matter of sanitary precauton.
Mr.. Tandy has Inspection FORCES at
work under two men and they see ev-
cry joint of sewer laid. He looks upon
the Ramsey remarks as reflection
upon his department
Mr. Ramsey probably has good
deal more time to inspect the sewer
joints over there than the East stders
he is talking to- said Mr.. Tandy.
Mr. Ramsey expressed the fear that
unless the joints were carefully cement
ed the sewage would leak and pol1ute
the water in wells if that district.
The pressure is much greater from
the outside in than from the inside
OUT said Commissioner Tandy. IF
there is any filtration it will be into
the sewer. The real object of cement
ing the joints is to keep the roots OF
trees from growing in and choking the
sewer.
Il have two as good inspectors on
the two machines as we know how to
GET. S. Gibson with one and Stew
art McGaw with the other. These
men are both engineers, each has
surveying machine on the job to check
up and see that the sewer is laid on
the proper grade. When each joint is
laid there are men there to measure
down from the grade line to see that
the joint is in proper position, also to
see that each joint is in proper posi-
ton.
Has Faith in PringIe.
Mr.. Pringle is competent con-
tractor. He has probbaly laid twenty
miles of sewer pipe in Topeka and we
have never caught him yet trying to
put anything over on the city or trying
to slight his work. We keep men on
the job all the time to see that the
work is properly done so that we will
know for ourselves that it is done
right
After all this inspection and before
the sewer is accepted an engineer goes
over it, goig into the manholes with
a flashlight and looking through the
sewer to see that it on line and at
opening in the sewer pipe at a certain
hole above. the water being measured
and allowed to stand a certain length
of time. He then takes the plug out
below and measures the water. BY
this test he can tell whether there is
any leakage in the sewer.
IF Mr.. Ramsey knows anything it
would look better if he would make it
kown to this department we would
be glad to know it and would do any
thing we could to correct it. I think
this would be a bette policy than to
dispense his flapdoodle to the ews-
papers"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
GIVES BABY TALK.
Dr. De ViIbiss Addresses Women at
Farm and Home Week.

Manhattan, Kan, Dec. 3O.-"The
ideal baby is one born of healthy pa
rents and properly fed and cared for"
says DIR. Lydia De Vilbiss of Topeka
before the women attending the farm
and home week at Kansas State Agri-
cultural college at Manhattan. DR..
De Nilbiss used several babies to il
lustrate her points.
The baby should be breast fed be
cause this is the cleanest and the SAT-
est way of feeding it. Patent foods
ana matted milks should not be fed
the baby as q sole food, because they
fatten too much, and a fat baby is
not always healthy baby. Fat babies
catch diseases easily, and will take
colds upon slightest provocation-
1T is very easy to overfeed the baby,
or to give 1t the wrong kind of food.
Do not feed q child of eleven months
potatoes as we found the mothers of
some babies brought to us for exami-
nation had been doing The baby
should have a regular diet and should
be fed at regular hours. Babies do
not cry because they are hungry but
because they are over fed
Watch Eyes, Teeth and Ears.
1T is very important to keep the
teeth, fingernails and toenails of the
baby clean. The kind of second teeth
a child has will depend on the way the
first have been kept.
Take care of their ears, and never
allow them TO De DoXeu Tor TINS causes
deafness The eyes are important
and the child should be watched care
fully for squirting and near sighted
ness.
1T may seem queer to you that we
so called old maids should come here
and try to teach mothers how to take
care of your babies. But we are not
the mothers of one. two. or probably
six children. but of hundreds of chill
dren.
Experience comes dear when you
have to practice on your own first
child and then probably lose him be-
cause YOU did not know how to take
ca re of him -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
URGES EVERYONE
TO QUICKLY GET
ON WATER WAGON
Drink glass of hot water before break
fast to wash out poisons

To see the tinge of healthy bloom in
your face, to see your skin get clearer
and clearer, to wake up without a
headache. backache, coated tongue or
a nasty breath. in fact to feel your
best day in and day out, just try in
side-bathing every morning for one
week.
Before breakfast each day, drink a
glass of real hot water with a tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in it
az a harmless means of washing from
the stomach. liver, kidneys and bowels
the previous days indigestible waste,
sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing,
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentary canal before putting more
food into the stomach. The action of
hot water and limestone phosphate on
an empty stomach is wonderfully in
MIGRATING. 1t cleans out all the sour
lamentations, gases and acidity and
gives one a splendid appetite for
breakfast.
a quarter pound of limestone phos-
phate will cost very little at the drug
store but is sufficient to demonstrate
that just as soap and hot water
cleanses. sweetens and freshens the
skin. so hot water and limestone phos-
phate act on the blood and internal
organs. Those who are subject to
constipation. bilious attacks, acid
stomach. rheumatic twinges. also those
whose skin is sallow and complexion
pallid. are assured that one week of in
side-bath'ng will have them looking
and feeliI better in every way.-Ad-
Vertisemelt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
IT IS MISLEADING
Federal Order Regarding Use
of Funds for Demonstration.
This Glass of Work Never Cost
Uncle Sam a Cent.

The announcement from Washing
ton that the secretary of agriculture
has prohibited the expenditure of fed
eral funds by state agricultural col
leges for agricultural demonstration
trains is misleading, according to a
statement made today by ]. F. Jar
reI, publicity agent of the Santa Fe
Railway company.
Those who are unfamiliar with the
operation of these demonstration
trains will gather from the Washing
ton announcement, that the agricul-
tural college authorities have been
spending the government appropria-
ton for railroad junkets. when as
matter of fact the railway COM
pany furnishes the train and the
entire expense of such trips, ex
cept the salaries of the college
men, is paid by the company"
Mr.. FARRELL said. ''All that the
college furnishes for a campaign of a
week is a corps of half a dozen pro-
fessorS who lecture on various sub
jects in which the farmers are inter-
ested. The public utilities commission
issues an order authorizing the railway
company to transport the speakers
free of charge; the company attaches
a combination sleeping and dining car
to its train for the accommodation of
the speakers. also free. and the few
days time spent by the professors in
the work is paid for by the state. 1t
is not clear just how the funds of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
UNIONISTS ARE PEEvED
Probably VIII Resign From English
Cabinet Over Conscription Plan.

London, Dec. 30.-The Daily EX-
press today asserts that there is a
group of at least three unionists in
the cabinet. led by the Earl of Sell
borne, president of the board of agri-
culture, who are likely to resign be-
cause Premier Asouith's plan for a
modified form of CONSUMPTION does
not go far enough.
These men contend that it is wrong
10 force all the single men to serve
in the army when there is a large pro-
portion of married men who could be
spared more easily and that altogether
the premierS plan is a useless COM
promise. says the paper. The Express
therefore anticipates a fair crop of
designations among the supporters of
voluntary enlistment and the deter
mined conscriptionists but says that
the designations will not be serious
enough to imperil the existence of the
government The paper also expressed
the opinion that the Earl of Derby,
director of recruiting, will find place
in the reconstructed ministry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
HOGU To Get Rid of q
Bad Cough
i HOu1c-1sade Kennedy that VIII
Do 1t Quickly. Cheap and
Easily Made

Ii you have a bad cough or chest cold
which refuses to Weld to ordinary RENE
DIES; get from any druggist = y ounces
OF Pinex too cents WORTH, pour into a
pint bottle and ill the bottle with plain
graduated sugar syrup. Start taking
q teaspoonful every hour or two. In "a
nous Your cough will be conquered or
VERY nearly so. Even whooping cough is
greatly relieved in this wav
lie above mixture makes a full pint
"a family supply-of the finest cough
syrup that money could buy-at a cost
OF only 81 cents Easily prepared in )
minutes Full directions with Pinex.
1Lls PineX and Sugar Syrup prepa-
ration takes right hold of a cough and
gives almost immediate relief IL loos-
ems the dry, hoarse or tight cough in a
way that Is really remarkable. Also
quleAlv heals the inhamed membranes
Niilch accompany a painful cough. and
stops the formation of phlegm in the
tntost and bronchial tubes, thus ending
me PERSISTENT loose cough. Excellent for
prom hItIs. spasmOdic Group and winter
WI $ heens perfectly and tastes good
SGnAdren like il.
mex IS a special and highly concen-
.Iatec compound of genuine Norway pine
$50 rich In guaiacol. which is so
Aeallnz to the membranes
10 avoid appointment, ask Your
u u--lst Tor PIG ounces OF Piney. do
NOT accept ANYTHING else. A guarantee
o. o. aosolute satisfaction, or money prompt
~ REFUNDED goes with this preparation.
Ane Flnex Co., TT. Wayne, Ind.
advertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
"SILLY LOVE AFFAIRS"
New York School Teachers Warned
Against Thinking Mostly of Beaux.

Syracuse, n. Y, Dec. 30.-A warn
ing to school teachers against silly
love affairs which materially inter-
fere with their work." was given by
Prof Harry DeGroat, principal of
Cortland Normal school, before the
Associated Academy principals of the
state, in session here.
There is nothing so damaging to
the value CT a young woman as silly
love affairs" he said. 1T is a de-
moralizing influence. Young women
think mostly of their beaux when they
should DO giving their attention to
their classroom work. Principals
should have no objection to dignified
and discreet love affairs among their
teachers, but, unfortunately, there are
too many of the opposite character.
Many young women lose their con-
tracts because of carelessness in their
teaching and in love affairs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
PORTER HAS A PLAN
Proposes Relief for Both DIR. .LuII
and DR.. Wood.

Commissioner W. l. Porter Is work
ing on plan that may provide phys1-
clans for the extremely poor ard Tor
emergency cases at the city jail
There is considerable criticism be-
cause Dr. II. 3. wood. city physician,
devotes his time exclusively to con-
tasious and infectious disease and does
not answer charity calls. There is also
complaint because the city does not
allow c. c. Lull. county physician.
anvt hing for handling city cases.
The Porter plan may remove the
grounds for criticism His idea is to
ms Ike arrangements with the Shawnee
County Medical society to handle all
such cases. Any physician would be
subject to a call. the money would be
paid to the society by the city and
would be distributed among the physi-
clans giving their service. by the So
ciety-
7 didn't bring DR.. Wood here for
that kind of work. said Porter His
business is TO see that the death rate
from infectious and conta gious disease
is cut down. And he has to make
that kind of a showing. under fair
conditions. to stick. If he answered
every call that came in here asking
for free treatment he wouldn't have
time for anything else You'd be sur
priScd at the ills people develop when
they think the services of a physician
are not going to cost them anything"
DR.. Luu has been putting in his bill
regularly for services to city patients
but the commission has allowed him
nothing
As a matter OF fact" said Porter.
the county physician is required to
care for patients in Topeka. The
county officers know It. If they don't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

department of agriculture are in dan
ger.
operated with the Agricultural colleges
of several states in taking direct to the
farmers by means of demonstration
trains, first hand information about
the results of experiments carried on
at the colleges. The theory is that the
information disseminated enables the
farmers to do better farming, and
tends to aid in the development of the
natural resources of the country 1
am not advised regarding the possible
effect the order from Washington will
have on the future cooperative work
between the Santa E'e and the Kansas
Agricultural college Charles L. Sea-
graves of Chicago. general COLOMBIA
ton agent, looks after the demonstra-
ton train feature of the Santa FEES
business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30

chamber of commerce to a conven-
ton of merchants
we have succeeded in winning
from the Unreasonable supply of Ger
man forests a cellular material which
is cheaper and better suited for pow
der making than cotton" he said.
Even after the war German ammuni-
ton factories will not buy another bale
of cotton from America.
The second important ingredient,
Saltpetre, is now manufactured exclu-
siyely in Germany from the air"
The speaker asserted that camphor,
for seven years produced synthetically
from American turpentine, is now OBJ
tanned by chemical means from syn
thetic turpentine- After the war there
VIII be no more Importation of cam
phor from Japan or turpentine from
America