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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-08
Norway.

Norway Is far and aEay ahead OF
any other nation in merchant marine
tonnage in proportion to population.
England has large merchant marine.
but does make half the showing that
Norway does. taking into. consideration
the population of the two countries.
Per each 1000 inhabitants the ton
mage of the principal commercial ma
lions ranks as follows: RI
INpTNdy -s.-.,a. o1'
Great Britain and Ireland ........242
Greece -. Ie5
denmark - 4oi
sweden 49, TIA
k1OIlduu OF
uermaHy ..s..s..#.. 49, - 49, t.
FlnlaHd .....' Or
r,.u... 90
spain ~
italy - ao
United States ............... II
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-08

merchant marine ranks fourth in the
world.
The Hamar Iron works has just de-
livered it's one hundredth locomotive.
being the only factory in Norway that
has turned out this number. The
company has orders for II more.
The food situation in Norway is
improving. Large shipments of food
stuffs are coming in almost daily and
1t was estimated that early In April
the supply would be sufficient to feed
the country until the next harvest is
gathered When the war broke out
there was considerable uneasiness
and the government, as we'll as whole
sale houses. put forth their best efforts
to secure from foreign countries what
the people would need.
II is reported that the Tivoli gar
dens, one of the best-known amuse-
ment places in Christiania, has passed
under the management of new d.
rector named Jacobson. who was
prominently connected with the expo
sition last summer. A new building.
to be known as the Crystal palace,
will be erected II will have q seat
ing capacity of 1000, and will be
used as moving picture showhouse.
1t is so designed, however. that 1t can
readily be converted into an ordinary
theater, and will then have a seating
capacity of 1,500.
Henrik Isben's study is now per-
manently installed in the Norwegian
FolF museum at Bygdo, Norway. The
room has been restored to its original
condition, with the furnishings as they
were when the poet occupied it.
A dispatch from London says that.
suspected of carrying food products
to Germany, the Norwegian steamer
Frogner, from New York to Gothen-
burg, Sweden, was detained March Is
| at Kirkwall, Scotland, where she win
be required to discharge her cargo
of lard and other products of Ameri-
can packers.
The Tancred. Norwegian ship
from Galveston to Gothenburg; the
John Blumer. Norwegian, from Sa-
vannah to Gothenburg, and the Sou
ira, Norwegian, from New Orleans
to Gothenburg. were detained at Kirk
wall on March IA for an investiga-
ton. The Norwegian ship Rialto was
| detained at Kirkwall on March 9, and
is held still.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-08

Can the soarder Cow.
Canning the boarder cow" is q
pastime growing in favor with farm
era.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-08

Representatives of the shipowners
OF Denmark. Sweden and Norway held
a conference at Copenhagen recently
in regard to the maintenance of com
merce in the North sea, but adj.
JourAed without taking formal action
They will confer with their resna,
tive governments and will proba hIv
hold another meeting in the near fu.
ture
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-08

Denmark has entered into a treaty.
with Russia for the protection OF tbs
rights of Danish and Russian artist,
and authors.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-08
Denmark.

1GHsndFk.
Reference has already been made
to the preparations being made by
Denmark to strengthen her defenses.
and now dispatches from Copenhagen
give more or less detailed account
OF some of the work. The fortifica-
ton of Copenhagen. says the dis
patches. is being extended to the
west. In addition to the northern de-
lenses. At point some nine or ten
kilometers tabout six miles, along the
railway to korsoer, extensive barbed
WIRE entanglements have been laid
alongside the tracks and field artil-
lery placed behind recently thrown.
up earthworks. Trenches and bomb
proof shelters, too, have been pre-.
pared. All the railway stations I'm
Zealand. Fuenen and Jutland are
plcketed by troops carrying fixed bay.
onets on their rifles day and night.
civilians are brusquely ordered away
from the vicinity of signal boxes and
wires. Though on the German side OF
the frontier an almost continuous line
OF intrenchments stretches across Jut.
land from the Baltic to the North sea.
the Danes have made no attempt to
fortity their side. An official at YAM.
drup, the little frontier town OF the
train traffic between Germany and
Denmark. declared that Danish troops
we're being kept away from the Dor
der line in view of the possibility that
the strained relations between the
frontier Danes and the. German sol
dlery having dominion over the
Danes OF Schleswig- Holstein might
lead to fray. Every yard of the
German side of the frontier is watched
and all carriers driving out of Ger
many wagons in which anyone might
End concealmene have to unload and
let the guards examine the freight.
Examination of the passes permitting
Danes on the Danish side to visit
Danes on the German side is very
searching
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-08

In total tonnage the Norwegian
merchant marine ranks fourth in the
world
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-08

Henrik Isben's study is now per
manently installed in the Norwegian
FolF museum at Bygdo, Norway. The
room has been restored to its original
condition, with the furnishings as they
were when the poet occupied it.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04
NEGREss BURNS TO DEATH.

Special to The Nea1S.
Jackson. Miss, Jan. ALLEN John
son, a negress, aged seventy years,
was burned to death in her cabin on
Broome street yesterday afternoon.
She attempted to build a fire with
coal oil, the fluid mas spilled on her
clothing, and in few moments the
old woman was enveloped in flames.
She was employed as cook at the
home of Mr.. Alex. Virden on North
State street, and was a fine type OF
the ante bellum NANNY"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04
BUSINESS NEEDS EXERCISE,
NOT MEDICINE

Confidence is contagious. If the
business men of American want a re
turn of prosperity, they must wish it,
think it, will it, talk it and act as if
1t were here One of the curses of
the country during the past few
months has been that the stock op-
orators have been allowed to obsess
the minds Of the real business inter
ests with their murky pessimism. 1t
does not follow that there cannot be
prosperity unless there are big flota-
lions of new securities. There is al
ready enough capital invested in com
mercial and manufacturing enterprises
to provide work for every idle man
and woman in America If the owners
and directors Of those enterprises will
concentrate their attention for awhile
solely upon their own affairs.
Practically the whole world needs
what America can produce, and in
many instances America is the only
nation that can produce what all the
world needs. The European war has
built wall of protection around Amer
lean industries higher than anything
the most extreme tariff advocate
would dare to erect We need now
self-conf1dence, an unlimited, under
scored, big black-typed self-confidence.
Today Is our chance. and if through
nervousness or dilatoriness or hyper
conservatism we let it slip by we shall
be branded as a nation of commercial
towards. Let us take our finger off
our pulse, stop sticking ,ut our tongue
to every self-appointed stock market
health officer that comes around an :
then just saw wood. American bust
ness does not need prescriptions an
diet table, but spell of good harj
work. in which every muscle of the
mind and body is given healthy ex-
ercise.-Philadelph Public Ledger.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04

When the late Mr.. Cleveland was
President the last time two vacancies
occurred on the Supreme Bench. The
President supposed he had the right
to propose jurists to the Senate to
supply, those vacancies; but the Sen
ate said him nay, that David B. Hill,
Senator, under the courtesy and by
the dignity of the Senate. was entitled
to name the Justices. Mr.. Cleveland
appointed two jurists, citizens of New
York, to the first vacancy. Both were
rejected by the Senate, not that they
were not capable, credit to the bar
and an ornament to the bench-not at
all, but that they were not political
henchmen of David B. Hill. And so
Mr.. Cleveland, in despair of appointing
q New Yorker, went to Louisiana for
selection, and that is how that EN-
inent jurist, Edward d. White, be-
came a member of that illustrious
tribunal, now it's Chief Justice AS to
the other vacancy, Mr.. Cleveland was
fortunate enough to name man
whom Mr. Hill would put up with.
President Ben Harrison had some
what slwi,esS experierca HE was a
very great lawyer, none better, and
he took pride In the bench. He named
one or two Republicans to vacancy
on the Supreme Bench to whom the
Republican bosses objected. Whatev.
er else Ben Harrison was, however
much of a Christian, he was not meek
enough to turn one cheek when the
other was smitten, so he took the bit
in his teeth and appointed Democrat
to the bench, Howell E. Jackson OF
Tennessee.
Pecksniff sometimes gets into the
Senate and walls up his eyes and
prates of the Senate's Responsibility.
He was there last summer when the
President sent in the name of Mr.
Jones for the Reserve Bank Board
Now don't you be hypocrite Peck
sniff" admonished old Antony Chuzzle
wit, but Pecksniff will be hypocrite
He can't help it, and the Senate is
always Pecksniff AID hypocrite
when 1t hides behind its RESPONSE
bility" and makes it 81 excuse for a
rejection of nomination for office
by President in party political &C
cord with a majority of the body.
Suppose our Minister to foreign
country appointed by the President
and confirmed by the Senate should
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04


Six weeks later, the weight limit per
parcel post package was raised by the
Postaster General from II to 20
pounds, and on January /, 1914, to 80
pounds. The postage rates were low
cred. For the additional traffic Great
ed, the Middle States railroads have
not been paid and are carrying for
nothing all packages above II pounds
weight.
Last spring the mails were weighed
in the far West and the increased pay
found to be due was awarded to the
railroads of that section, beginning
July /, 1914 These are the only rail
roads in the country now being fairly
paid for carrying the parcel post.
In densely populated New England
and the Middle West, and in all The
South and Southeast, theSqaaii. /. roads are
sim carrying tie parcel post without
pay, save for certain arbitrary allow.
ances, in no case exceeding a per
cent increase in mail pay and ranging
down to fraction of per cent, which
Congress permitted the Postmaster
General to make at his discretion.
Actual weighing of the mails else.
where showed that proper increases
would have been 20 to 25 per cent.
The railroads, of course, are entitled
to exact justice in this and all other
matters and public interest cannot be
served by forcing them to sustain loss.
The railroads are a very important
system of the country and the general
prosperity is in great degree affected
by their financial condition.
Government supervision of railroads
is altogether proper. Being public
utilities they should be conducted in
the public interest. They should not
be allowed to practice extortion or to
unjustly discriminate. Such rascality
in the direction of railroad finances as
was developed In the case Of the New
Haven and the Rock Island systems
should be prevented If government SUI
pervision can do 1t. All that is clear
enough, but to do injury and injustice
to the railroads is, of course, ethically
as wrong as it would be in any other
case, and more far-reaching in effect
because of the intimate relation of
these great transportatic facilities to
the business and industry of the coun
try. To injure the railroads cripples
commerce and has baneful effect on
all kinds of industry.
The railroads are entitled to fair
play. 1t is strongly to the public In
terest that they suffer no injury The
county needs to have all railroads
now in existence prosper and to get
more railroads built. To reach this
happy condition railroads should be
allowed a reasonable margin of profit.
The parcel post grows continually in
public favor and the expense attached
to conveying it grows In proportion
The government is able to pay just
rates for transporting the mails and
the railroads are entitled to fair com
pensation for the service they perform
in carrying them.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04

ournal expresses the oil inion that the "war will
We do not believe it. We do not believe the
ought of the world will submit to it. If tbis
use 10 Iurnlsn munitions of war; for lack of ma
TO rest on their arms; and certainly civilized
TO contrib tie to traffic in blood. nation or a
and cartr dyes and guns Ito other nations tn he
es thereby party to THAT war, and is as NOR
ell or 10 N TO another y pistol or gun with
the PRESIDENT VIII not, Congress should put
ION OF powder and other munitions of war. 1t
administration that he has not done this
SLOW even the best of men are to antagon-
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04
Smile Rioht.

When in doubt-smile. 1t is safe
play at almost any stage of life's game.
But be sure it's ting right kind of a
smile-not the fawning smile, not the
smile of fear which is better described
as a grin, but the smile which says
that the world is a pretty good sort Of
a place If you don't take it too seri
ously-the smile that saws. ""~rno IN
IN, R
Re
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04
FOR SALE--Mi
FOR SALE-Pool tabJ
shape. Apply E. S. XII
Barber Shop.
BUY OIL STOCK-In SCI,

BUY OIL STOCK-In SCI,
pany, just organized; grou
proposition; 100 per cent d
80 days possible; 20 wells {
quick action on your money;
number Of shares at &c shs.
buys $500 par value stock;
vance in stock soon; sellin
remit now; write for free
ton; dividends declared
Amalgamated OIL Co., 1911
Bldg, Oklahoma, Okla.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04

t-is3 a.+-i~H. MY UlUeTS were
wounded, according toI the report.
If this report is true, it at least
proves that the airship can do damage.
1t is true that the damhge here report
ed was done mainly to innocent by.
ISLANDERS, non-combatarlts; but it prov
ed the effectiveness of bombs dropped
from the sky. Heretofore the most
damage the aeroplane and Zeppelin
have done was against the nervous
systems of people; they have taken
few lives; they have burned a few
buildings.
The principal value of aircraft lies
in the fact that this unit is "the eyes
of the army" The flyers go high into
the air see all th1hNs to be seen for
miles away Thsy gtN bach and \port
to Headquarters; they tell the gunners
where to shoot.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04
Judging Religious Sincerity.

Brother Philander,' said l to our
head deacon the other day, how do
you judge mans religious sincerity?"
WELL" replied the old fellow with a
smile, 'if they belong to our church I
consult my ledger. If they belong to
some other church ] go to the treas
urer Of that church" Philander is our
church Observation-Disclosures City Star.
The best plans man can have for
the future are house plans.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04
KNOWING HOW
THAT'S THE TRICK

(Girard, i1 Public Ledger
A woman who had sent her farm
hand to STATE uege got the expense
money b She tells
me to
wor
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04

una NUMBERS. was spent by candidates of
cedlng the first popular election of United
Swo n statements OF expenditures filed
show total of $460.777.25 spent by sena
es. OF this grand total $1SS,S47.9S was
to the candidates, who themselves con-
SIS. The greatest total in any one state
Senators were elected. The amount sworn
idates totaled -$4f ,4s2st. North Carolina,
decsed. reported the smallest expenditure
I'D more is the Senate of the United States
bad fires the land. to hastning ills prey,
men decay"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04
HELP WI

WANTED-Sale3mal
ing oils. House al,
specialties. Big pr
Refining Co., Clev'
T.
4
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04

,olitics from
but good
every stand.
he Democratic
fused to uphold
nd Tom Plat in
20 the appointment
field Of a Mr.. Robert
or of the Port of New
,mocrats could have de-
esident on that occasion,
re too patriotic to do so
not certain that they would
e acted as they did even II
.rfield and Blaine had not served to
them the political head of William Ma
hone on a charger.
Now, if Roscoe Conkling could not
humiliate as weak a man as James A.
Garfield in a controversy over patron
age, how can James A. O'Gorman eX'
pect to prevail over as strong a man
as Woodrow Wilson? o, he may tri
umph in the Senate, but there is q
cross-road of public opinion in this
country that has power to review anc
pass upon such victory.
If were Senator, opposing Pres
ident of my party, | would go reaC
what Ben Hill said Of William Malone
the extra session of the Senate in 1881
and then | would resign.
Conkling and Tom Plat had thu
grace to do that. But O'Gorman is {
Tammany man.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04

,OtO R0Ol
TO POINTS YVES
AND THE PAClF
QUEEN & cREs
Through New orlei
Ia. Take UP with !
~ the vnders'sn
TOURIST and ALI
ratss iimits etc.
JNo, w. Wat
Merida
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04

.4ClIuS
-,Ity they have always
not find it necessary to
a candidate for nomination
trips in to the South since
2eech that at Mobile, which
When he went to Pass
peeches whatever going or
Of the Southern States
ey so much desre-the
who is the first Of them
ears This is pleasure
whenever practicable
h will respond heartily
that it can be carried
nifests proper activity
nmerce and Southern
g the@ if they prop
tn the cooperation of Southern Sena-
lives, their cumulative force viii have a. 7,
the Prsaiess Ihfs cnoica. T6e undertaking
iaking 81 81
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04

Wv voices the desire" of this entire section to
outh Mississippi in his dash across the coun-
double sure that the invitation will reach him
pass it on to Benja min Patrick Harrison. M
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04

lg to give an exhaustive Ueatis> on the sub
odge this thought in the public mind of Hat
p Haiti esburg is to build up Forrest county"
it needs; because it has all the people, and
nent to. But Forrest county is sparsely set
usand o acres. of idle swaste land The way
,Ian and to scheme. somehow to induce people
ese acre and to cultivate the land People
cd farmers, and Hattissburg will take care of
b world accept thisssuggestion, and center its
. build up Forrest county. that club would
this city this year than it has ever been in
".
sorri st showing of any Of the warning
q to cir population they have sent fewer
I'VE &C ieved less renown than the soldiers
the proudest, biggest navy on earth, but
iievement the Germans make them look
nations involved and no other interests
light glad to step aside and see Germany
tain. But, for the peace and prosperity
7irit in Germany, must be defeated
~acre OF q million men to do it,
q -'~-@h@-4- of the coAc~a
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04

STRAYED OR s
Katie Ave, / bl
pids, s years oil
whole left, spill
1 heifer not mar
spotted; she is 81
ton rewarded. "
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04
w A
LOST AN

LOST-In business
burg, Jan, 2 ,191t
pink cameo in ce
to News office,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04

PiGEONS-For sale, Plymouth
Romers and Carneux.-Mrs.
Caldwell, 1918. Jeanette
New Orleans La
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-01-04
c BETTER.

lVertlSer.)
asst ready to do
war? We read
l unconfirmed
Z was lombard.
Zeppelin. 1t is
nbs were drop
louses and kill
fifty others were
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-04-01
Saving From Old Feathers.

One of the most astonishing things
accomplished by the new conservation
is the gathering UP Of the fragments
Of feathers, writes Lewis Edwin
Thesis in the Outlook. Our grand.
mothers used to pluck the hens and
geese. sur the feathers and use them
for beds. But science has shown that
these sun-cured feathers were really
very unclean. Today the pillow manu-
%facturer takes out tons and tons OF
dirt from similar feathers. This is
partly dust, but mostly it consists Of
small pieces OF flesh and skin that
adhere to the feathers. For years pill
low makers paid teamsters so much
q load to haul away this waste. Now
It is known that this waste is rich in
nitrogen, and SO is a good fertilizer.
Now it sells for $40 a ton. What
would u grandmothers think II
they knew the inside story Of their
feather beds?
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-04-01

Go to Treiber's for Easter post
als.-Adv.
Mrs. VIM. Holman is on the sick
list this week.
Geo. Kraft and Floyd Wheeler
each purchased a motorcycle this
week of E. V. Wilcox.
Milk and Cream for sale-even-
ing delivery. Get in line for the
season.-Adv. L.. HAYNES.
DR.. Leighton went to Yankton
today, accompanying Mrs. Chas.
Danes to the hospital.
Judge R. B, Trip was in town
Tuesday, coming from Tyndall on
the special train, and went to his
[ home in Yankton.
i Little James Dickson underwent
an operation yesterday for hernia.
The operation was successfully per-
formed by DIR. Koobs and DIR. Hohf
of Yankton, and the patient Is get
ting along nicely.
A study of the calendar shows
that this is the first day of April,
but there is little indication of it
in the appearance of the country.
While the weather is bright and
clear the temperature is so cold
that the snow. is disappearing very
slowly and there Is still much of
it left to go. It looks now as
though it will be two weeks be-
fore farmers can get into the fields
which will be the latest season for
many years.
The school board has employed
nearly all of the teachers for the
coming year. The teachers were
all offered unemployment but all
have not accepted. Miss Squirrel
has decided to take a position as
critic teacher in the Normal school
at Springfield Miss Wallin did
not wish to return and Miss Kib-
Bile, now teaching west Of Tyndall,
has been hired for that grade, and
Miss Crafty has not fully decided
whether she will return or not.
The present corps seems to have
been doing excellent work and it is
hoped that as many as possible
of them can be retained.
A large assortment of attractive
Easter postals at TIeiber's.-Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-04-01
California Redwood.
California redwood is a rem

California redwood Is a remarkRhle
material. It is wood that is obtain.
able in large boards, is straight
grained. free from knots. is easily
worked. being soft, and yet it Ia tough
and durable. For the manufacture Of
tanks, rectangular and round, It Is
the ideal wood, and it has been ex-
tensively used for them in the cyanide
process and in accommodating mills.
Lately 1t has been finding wide en-
ployment also in copper extraction
plants.-Engineering and Mining Jour-
nal.