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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
TALLEsT FLAGpoLE ON EARTH
Stick of Timber at Panama Pacific
Exposition Worthy to Float the
Stars and Stripes.

A fitting symbol of the mighty for
ests of the West is Astoria's f1agpole,
the tallest in the world, which floats
the Stars and Stripes, PAL feet above
the exposition seawall at the corner
of the Oregon building at the Panama
Pacific exposition.
The stick for it is a single stick of
timber, is actually 251 feet long, but
ten feet of it's butt is embedded in a
200-ton block of solid concrete, which,
without other stays, holds the pole
upright against the wind.
The pole was shaped from the
trunk of a Douglas fir, which, as it
originally stood in the Oregon forest,
lowered BAT feet in the air, and might
have matched its height, though not
it's girth, against any but the Hottest
of the California sequoias.
Looking up at the great flagstaff it
is hard to realize that it weighs up
ward of forty-six tons, and that there
is lumber enough in it to build five
ordinary eight-room houses. Its
great height gives it ar appearance
of slenderness and lightness.
Just to transport this pole and set
it up, Russell Hawkins and the citi-
zens of Astoria spent nearly enough
thousands of dollars to build several
of the houses its lumber might con-
Struct.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
BLOT ON NAPoLEoN's FAME.
Slaughter of D~efenseless Prisoners
After Jafa Unrecognized as Act
OF Warfare.

No French victory was eve mark
ed by more u~nbridled license than that
which the victorious troops practiced
at Jaffa. But what followed was
worse. Although the prisoners of
war were too numerous for the ordi-
nary usage, yet they should have been
treated according to the terms of
quarter they had exacted.
On the 18th a council of war unani-
mously voted that the old rule under
which no quarter is given to defend
ers in an assault, should be applied
TO them. For two days Bonaparte
hesitated, but on the 9th his decision
was taken.
A few Egyptians were sent home
and the remainder of the prisoners,
together with the 800 militia from
Ell Arish, were marched to the beach
and shot. Two eyewitnesses esti-
mated it-one at 5000, the other at
1000.
81 have been severe with those of
your troops who violated the laws of
war;" wrote the author of the deed
to Djezzar.. All winter long he had
been dealing as an Oriental with ORR
entails and this was but a piece of the
same conduct.-The Life of Napoleon
Bonaparte. William Milligan Sloane.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
HOW BREAD GOT IT'S NAME
Famous "Pumpernickel" Derived
From Humorous Remark Made by
the First Napoleon.

"The fact that the German emper-
or has called upon his people to eat
a new compound bread in order to
husband the supply of wheat in Ger
many" said a local baker the other
day, sis reviving the old story as to
the derivation of 'Pumpernickep or
'bombernickel,' the German brown
bread which is more or less widely
known in America. This name, so
the story runs, dates back to the inva-
sion by Napoleon of Germany.
"After a hard days journey across
German territory, Napoleon rode to
an inn by the side of the road and
calling the proprietor, ordered some
thing to eat. His larder low through
the ravages of war, the innkeeper was
able to offer the great militarist only
some coarse brown bread.
Napoleon, struggling his should
ers, pointed to his horse, Nicol, and
said, Bon pour Nicol-the French e.
quivalent for that is good enough for
Nicol.' Whether the Frenchman f.
nally accepted the bread or went fur
Their to look for better, the story does
not relate. 1t does say, however, that
the Germans quickly accepted this as
a nickname for the bread so confusing
the French words, though, as to MAX
ing the form 'pumpernickel.' Wheth-
er or not the tale is a true n can
hardly be determined, but at least it
sounds probable"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10

Between the hen and consumer
there is a waste of 5000, 600, 900 worth
of eggs each year.
This was the testimony given at
the attorney generals "egg trust" in
curry by William Mann of the law de-
partment of the New York Central
railroad; who read a letter from the
department of agriculture to support
his claim.
According to these figures the
American egg crop is worth 100000
900 a year, and $30,000,000 is lost
through breakage in transit.
The egg as the hen lavs it is almost
invariably a good egg, ran the evil
dence, but one out of every ten the
hen lays for market is broken on the
way there. Three of the remaining
nine eggs are added before they
reach the consumer, and 40 per cent
of the eggs are good only for strong
palates or tanning leather.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
SHERIFFvS SALE.

By virtue of a writ of ieri facias, to me di-
rected, issued out of the New Jersey Court of
Chancery, will be sold at public vendue. on
SATURDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF MAY,
NINETEEN HUNDRED N
FIFTEEN,
at two O'Clock in the afternoon of said day,
in the Court Room, No. POI, Second Floor,
Guarantee Trust Building, in the City of At
lantic City, County of Atlantic and State of
New Jersey.
All that certain tract or parcel of land and
premises, hereinafter particularly described,
situate in the Township of Egg Harbor, in
the County of Atlantic and State of New
Jersey, bounded as follows
Beginning at a point in the Northerly line
of Cedar Avenue at a distance of three hun
dred feet Westerly from the Westerly line of
Marlborough Avenue and extends thence ID
Westerly in and along the said Northerly line
of Cedar Avenue thirty feet and of that
width extending in length or depth between
lines at right angles to Cedar Avenue one
hundred and twenty-five feet known and des-
ignated as lot No. 2, in block No. 8, of sec
ton c, as shown on a map entitled .'Blen-
HEINZ the residential section of Pleasant
vile, Atlantic County, New Jersey, belonging
to Charles S. Adams, made by Clark and
Thompson, Civil Engineers, scale two hun
dred feet-one inch, a copy of which map is
duly filed in the office of the Clerk of Allan
tic County at Mays Landing, New Jersey.
Seized as the property of James Nixon ct
ux. and taken in execution at the suit of
Germania Building and Loan Association and
to be sold by
JOSEPH R. BARTLETT.
Sheriff.
Dated April 10. 1915.
HERMAN L. HAMILTON, Solicitor.
Prs fee. S1598
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
INDIAN GAVE TOWN NAME
Medicine Hat" in Canada, Derived
Peculiar Cognomen From Head
Dress of Chief.

Not many persons know what was
the origin of the strange name borne
by the Canadian city that Rudyard
Kipling once called "the city born
lucky"
The word medicine" means more
to an Indian than to US. We think of
it as meaning something nasty that
is good for US, but the Indian dis
~tinguishes as good medicine" and
"bad medicine" anything that he fam
cies will change his fortunes for bet
ter or for worse. Imagine that Lo is
hunting antelope and meeting with no
success. Presently he finds an empty
cartridge shell or the top of a tomato
tin, and shortly afterward he gets a
shot at his game. Can he doubt that
the piece of tin or the shell gave the
luck? Not he. He wears that frag-
ment of tomato tin or empty shell "a
bout his neck with his other jewelry,
and it is good medicine"
Several years ago there was a
Blackfoot. chief who lived in the vi
entity of Seven Persons river, where
now stands the city of Medicine Hat.
He and his tribe were fond of hunt
ing and of making war on their enc
mics, the Crees. This chief always
wore a headdress of feathers that he
called his medicine hat" for he
thought that it brought him good for
tune.
1t was a dark day for the chief
when he last met the Crees at the
place where now stands the growing
city. He and his men fell upon the
enemy with great bravery, and ever
put them to ignominious flight. But
just then a gust of wind whirled out
of the west caught the magic hat,
and tossed it into the s~wift-running
Saskatchewan river. Instantly the
poor chief lost all confidence in him.
self and his cause, and with victory
in his hand he forebore to grasp it,
but fled over the plains toward the
Rockies, followed by his tribe
Youths Companion.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
DENOUNCED ACT OF CHARITY
Butchers of French Town Saw Dam
age to Their Interests in Gift
of PhilanthrOpist.

A little drama portraying the con-
fiict of patriotism with private inter
estS is now in action, says lie Cri de
Paris, on a little island in the Seine,
opposite Maisons-Laffitte Monsieur
Leigh, a well-known turfman who un-
til recently has been an American, but
is now a n~aturalized Frenchman,
rounding the cape of sixty years"
has been raising some fine pigs on
his little island-handsome, high-bred,
black porkers, which came to him by
express from the Ivory coast. Filled
with the eclat of patriotism and bene-
violence, Monsieur Leigh said to the
mayor of Maisons: Monsieur, you
have public souphouses for the unfor-
tunate. | will give you for soup a
pig each week until the end or hostili-
ties"
A fine pig is worth from one hun
bred to one hundred and fifty francs.
and his was a handsome present, and
the donor was warmly thanked for his
generosity.
Then it was that the pork butchers
of the VILLAGE INTERVIEWED: "This ami
NAL" thew said. "that Leigh gives for
nothing, the mayor had bought, per-
haps from us. Well cease to fur
nish meats to that man Leigh. Well
boycott the Leigh pigs"
M. Leigh came back at them. He
said to the drummer of the village:
Announce everywhere that l will set
up a pork butcher myself in the mar
ket place, and will sell my pigs to the
public at 33 per cent less than these
envious fellows"
NJ. Leigh did as he said. Each mar
ket day there was a rush of the popu-
lation to the stand of his pork butch
er, which has become TIE object of
general favor. Following this the
philanthropist has been receiving
many letters, some of them threaten
ing to burn his stables. "And," says
LIE Cri. "this is how human nature
recompenses one who proposed to do
good with his own money"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
He Reached the Limit.

The Green Bag tells of a police
magistrate in a western city who is a
native of Binghamton, N. Y. Once
a c%ulprit, hailed into court for drunk
enness, told his honor that he had
played in a brass band in Bingham
ton. The judge discharged the pris-
oner.
Now this incident was published in
the newspapers, and during the next
six months at least five other prison
ers brought before the judge explain
ed that they had played in the afore-
said band. The judge telegraphed to
an old friend back in Binghamton
asking how many pieces were in the
band. The reply came hack: "Nine."
Accordingly his honor announced
himself as follows:
thereafter no prisoners will be dis
charged on account of former mem
bership in the Binghamton band.
The limit has been reached"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10

said city, such sum as may be neces-
sary for that purpose and in addition
thereto an annual levy sufficient for
the redemption of said bonds, the same
to be placed in a sinking fund created
for that purpose and the credit and
faith of the City of Pleasantville and
the inhabitants thereof are hereby
pledged for the faithful payment of
said bonds and the interest thereon as
the same shall become due and paya-
BILE.
Section 2. Be it further Ordained,
that this Ordinance shall take effect
Immediately.
Passed at a regular meeting of Com
mon Council held this sixth day of
April, A. d. 1915.
CLARK ADAMS,
Acting President of Common Council.
Attest:
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS,
City Clerk. :.
Approved this sixth day of April,
A. D. 1915.
CHARLES j. ADAMS,
Mayor of Pleasantville.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
Rebels Use Portable Ice Plant.

Gen. Francisco Villa, commanding
the constitutional forces in the north
of Mexico, had a portable ice-making
apparatus constructed for the use OF
his army and hospital corps during
his later operations. The machinery,
which is capable of producing 800
pounds of ice at one time, is divided
into two sections and mounted on
substantial trucks which are attach
ed to motor vehicles and transported
when the army is on the march. The
engine, cooling tower and other OF
the equipment are arranged on one
truck, while the freezing tanks, 20 in
number, and each with a capacity of
rs pounds, are carried in q refriger-
alton box on another.-Popular Mech
anics Magazine.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
ORDINANCE NO. 40.

An Ordinance to amend an Ordinance
entitled "An Ordinance authorizing
the issuing of bonds of the City of
Pleasantville in the amount of
Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars for
the purpose of providing funds
wherewith to pay the cost and ex-
pense of charging and repairing
the school building situate on West
Park Avenue, East of the West Jer-
sey & Seashore Railroad, by remov-
ing the old frame structure there
from and erecting and furnishing an
eight room addition thereto" pass
ed at a regular meeting of Common
Council, March l, 1915, approved
March 2, 1915.
Section l. Be it Ordained BY the
Common Council of Pleasantville, that
section one of the Ordinance referred
to in the title of this Ordinance be and
the same is hereby amended to read:
Section l.. That there shall be is
sued by the City of Pleasantville un-
der its corporate seal, signed by the
Mayor, attested by the City Clerk and
co~untersigned by the City Treasurer.
bonds of the said City in the amount
of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars, for
the purpose of providing a fund from
which shall be paid the cost and ex-
pense of charging and repairing the
school buildings situate on West Park
Avenue, East of the West JERSEY &
Seashore Railroad, bv removing the
old frame structure therefrom and
erecting and furnishing an eight room
brick addition thereto.
Said bonds shall be of the denomi-
nation of One Thousand Dollars each.
numbered from 81 to rs both inclus-
i've; said bonds shall be called "School
Bonds" and bear date of January LIST.
1915, and Nos. 81 to 55 inclusive shall
be payable January LIST, 1880; Nos. Sc
to 60 inclusive shall be payable Janu-
airy LIST, 1895; Nos. 81 to 65 inclusive
shall be payable January LIST, 1910;
Nos. 66 to 70 inclusive shall be paya-
BILE January LIST. 1915, and Nos. ri to
rs inclusive shall be payable January
LIST, 1850; they shall be registered or
coupon bonds and shall bear interest
at the rate of five per cent per annum,
payable semi-annually on the first dav
of January and july; said COUPONS
shall have thereon the signature in
writing or autographed of the CITY
Treasurer.
The principal and interest of said
bonds shall be made payable at the
Pleasantville Trust Company. Pleas
antyille, New Jersey, and as a provis-
ion for the payment of the interest. as
the same shall become due and paya-
Bile, the Common Council shall provide
by taxation In the annual tax levy of
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
Man is Best After go

Investigation by keen men has
shown that mans best work has been
done between the ages of sixty and
seventy years." said President E. R.
Bryan, of Colgate university, Eugene,
Ore, in an address before the West
ern division of the Oregon Teachers
association. "Six hundred of the
most important scientists, states
men and Old World famous men were
selected" he said, "and it was found
that only S per cent of them accom-
plished their worlds work before the
age of forty. 10 per cent between
forty and fifty, 20 per cent between
fifty and sixty, 35 per cent between
sixty and seventy, Fl per cent after
they had reached the age of eighty
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10

OF Dogs In fleaSanCVllle.
Be it Ordained by the Common
Council of Pleasantville, New Jersey,
that on and after the first day of May,
nineteen hundred and fifteen, that it
shall be unlawful for any person or
persons to keep within the corporate
limits of Pleasantille, any dog without
having obtained for the same a license
in accordance with the provisions of
this ordinance.
Sec. 1. Be it further Ordained that
any person or persons wishing to keep
a dog within the corporate limits of
Pleasantville, shall make application
for a license for the same to the City
Clerk at his office at the City Hall,
the said application to be accompanied
by a fee of One ($1.00) Dollar, and the
City Clerk shall issue the said license
and give it to the person making the
application together with a tag to be
worn by the dog for which the license
was issued.
Sec. 2. And be it further Ordained
that all fees received for such licenses
shall be turned over to the City Urea
surer for the use of the city.
Sec. 3. And be it further Ordained
that within Twenty Days after this
Ordinance shall become effective that
any dog found without having a Ii
cense issued for such dog shall be i'm
pounded and killed; provided however
that no such dog shall be killed within
five days after the capture thereof,
and during said five days may be re-
deemed upon payment of the sum of
Two $4,000 Dollars.
Sec. A.. And be it further Resolved
that all ordinances or parts of ordi-
nances inconsistent herewith are here
by repealed.
Passed at a regular meeting of Com
mon Council of Pleasantville, held this
sixth. day of April, A. D. 1915.
CLARK ADAMS,
Acting President of Common Council.
Attest:
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS,
City Clerk.
Approved this sixth day of April,
A. D. 1915.
CHARLES j. ADAMS,
Mayor of Pleasantville.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
Thinking of His Wife.

A colored man engaged in a short
job in am Irvington house the other
day expressed himself quite forcefully
to the man of the house, the subject
being the outlook for an increase in
emigration from Europe to this coun-
try, perhaps next year, as a conse-
quence of the great war. "I'm OPP
posed" said the colored man, Ito all
this mess of people coming to this
country."N
why so? This country ought tc
be open to all the world, TO everybody
who wants to improve his condition.
81 don't think so, no sir. l don't
like TO see these foreigners coming
in here taking work away from oul
ves."-Indianapolis News.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
Wound Makes Man See Green.

A very interesting case is reported
of a soldier, in a recent engagement,
being shot in the forehead, the bullet
passing out of the back of his head
without killing or even stunning him.
He remarked, Everything seems
green all round me-" and when in the
hospital bent he still persisted that he
saw everything green. This case APP
pears to favor the cerebral theory of
color vision of DR.. Eldridge-Green
the shock to the brain having altered
the discriminatory apparatus SO that
impulses caused by green rays had a
preponderating inf1uence.-Scientific
American.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
Rides Piano in Storm.

A piano is a handy thing aboard
ship, even if the weather is too rough
for one to play upon it, believes Cap
tain Peterson of the steamship Karen,
which arrived at New York from Ma
tanzas with sugar.
On the way up from Cuba about
seventy miles off Cape Hatteras a
terrific gale kicked up a set that buff
feted the vessel until her steering
gear became deranged. Repairs re-
quired seven hours. Meanwhile the
Karen dropped into the trough of the
sea, and a great flood poured into her
hold.
Mrs. Peterson's room was fire.
quently awash, but the shippers wife
sat on top of the piano and fooled the
flood that swirled about her.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
Cremation in England.

At the annual meeting of the Man
chester Crematorium (Ltd), held ear
ly in December, 1914, it was stated
that cremations We're still on the in
GREASE From a list of 10 centers it
was shown that last year 1929 ere
nations had taken place in England
and Scotland. Golders Green led the
way with 656. Manchester being sec
ond, with 1876, and Woking third,
with 49, A handbook of the Brad
ford municipal crematorium may be
inspected at the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce or it's branch
Offices.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
Self Lighting Cigars.

The German military authorities
and the German postal authorities
have authorized the transmission by
parcel post to soldiers in the field OF
cigars equipped with a special chem
ical preparation that enables the
smoker to light them without the aid
of matches.
Z The chemical preparation is appli-
ed to the end of cigars, and is ignitec
by rubbing it against a hard sub
stance, like the ordinary match, but
it cannot ignite automatically. The
chemicals used, it is said, do not af-
feet the flavor of the cigar.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
All Alike Interested.

The mar working on a salary is as
much interested in the permanent
prosperity Of the town as is the mar
who owns his own business, says the
Herald of Palestine, Tex. And it is
only through cooperation that we
can get prosperity. The things that
tend to make a mans business more
prosperous at the same time tend to
give more stable value to a mans
home and guarantee him more steady
employment. You can't get away
from it; we are all in the same boat
and must sink or swim together.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
French Trees Vanishing.

There is n feature Incidental to
the winter warfare which will grieve
all those who love to tour the old
French country roads. The long
lines of beautiful trees which convert
these into shady are being
sadly damaged. The need of fire.
wood is very pressing, and as there
is no coal available, the trees are be-
ing ruthlessly sacrificed.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-10
Wood Personalities.

A surprisingly large number of sub
stances, ranging all the way from the
condensed fumes of smelters to the
SKINNED milk of creameries, have
been tried or suggested as means of
preserving wood from decay. Most
of them, however, have been found to
have little or no value for the purpose.
Certain forms of coal-tar ~creosote and
zinc chloride are the most widely used
wood preservatives.