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The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

And as I passed him he took my hand and drew me down to him and kissed me gently on the forehead. ."-Exchange.
 Blind ss bat!
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

Live merchants will be telling you about it in the paper from now on until Christmas. Use your eyes and save the pennies.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

Watch, wait, for the big sale, Saturday, November 13. Green Forest will hold the biggest pub lie sale in it's history. Being whatever you wish to sell. It's free.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05
CAN'T DO WITHOUT ,TI

Redtield, s. D., Oct. 25, | Editor Green Forest TribuI|
 Green Forest, l Do you know how hard | for a fellow to get along wit the Tribune after once livind Green Forest 8 few years ofl life? Well, sir, it is aImost| possible, so for fear you mi take 8 notion to saw my n off the mailing list, am sen( you the herewith to keep Tribune coming our way.
 Very respectfully your
 Mack Reyn(
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

There's a lot of glory in run ming 9 country newspaper, but the editor seldom connects up with it.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05
When a mans head begins to swell what few brains he has just slid down into his heels.

Chicago has produced another literary genias in the person of one Charles Werner, who thusly described his wife in his bill for divorce
 She is an uneultured woman of the shallow, hair brained, pin head, Calamity Jane type; large, muscular, bony and beefy, she is some athlete, having the actiyi- ties of a Corbett, the ferocious temper of Q tiger, the strength of an OK, and the reason of an ass. 1"
 At 'soor devil!
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

Even the most procrastinating man on earth can lower himself into q dining room chair right on the dot.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

The 'favorite son" idea with regard to the presidential nomi- nation is springing up all over the country. We decline in advance,
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

Chicago has 20, TOP Y. M. c. A. members and yet it took about forty years to screw down that Sunday lid.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

If you know of a good item of news be sure there are others who would like to know it. Tell
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05
Eoe conNTy TTEAsHnEa

The Tribune is authorized to an- nounce Chas. D: Wall as a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the action of the coming Democratic pri- mary.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05
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is advertised in the paper this week. Look for ii.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

To admit your faults is one of the greatest virtues of aIls
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05
FOR COUNTY CEEREs

The Tribune is authorized to an- nounce J. E. Gregson as Q candidate for County Clerk, subject to the ac- ton of the coming Democratic primary
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

When ignorance is bliss all fools are wise.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

Cheer up, old top. It keeps other people busy looking after the droop of their own spirits.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

Trade where you live, or live where you trade.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

Let's. make it America first, last, all the time, and then some.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05
EQR SHE RIFE

The Tribune is authorized to an- nounce A. Coffee candidate fer re- election to the otIieeof Sheriff, subject to the action of the coming Dem ocratic Primary.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

Get into the buy it at home" crowd. All mighty good people.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

We think town that is worth living in is worth trading in. What do you think?
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

Buy it at home this Christmas. Keep Prosperity in this town. It's good for all of us.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

Another week nearer Christ mas. Read the ads. Buy at home.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-05

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

in it under the circumstances; we'd orter for
give an forget says Bryan, beamin' with
benev'lence.
"'Suits me- says Zopatty, EFF you en- man.
age the forgivin' part III struggle along with
the forgettin' as we'll as cam says he, pen
sively shootin' two Americans an grabbin'
their cattle.
AN so we hear that the Incidents closed
cause Zopatty's going to pay for McManus,
like drum O. dried Goldfish. 'Taint cash
transaction at that. We got string o them
items charged up, but collectin' is slow-ac-
count of the war, l s'pose.
Some O them Americans down there is
actin mighty bad. Can't you do somethin'
for us| they wires Bryan. 'Whadd'ye mean|
asts Bryan. You amt in no trouble, be ye?
Lordy Massey, troubles our middle name,
says the victims of Mexican aspirations for
lib'ty. Better move out, then says Bryan.
I'm told the travellin's good says the Sex
ertary of STATE Must a ben lunatic told
We that, yells the victims divin' into drain.
Wal, it warnt,' says Bryan. Twas John
Lind, the naval expert Tell the American
people how things is pleads the victims.
That wouldn't do no ways, says Bryan. 1t
would interfere with this great struggle fr
self government And so the Semoleon of
Diplomacy starts on another lecture tower
"'Tis little he knows of tn land iv Monte
yuma" interjected Colgan, but in tn land Nv
Mezuma there's few bates him."
you put that pretty good, Mike, but
mans got to earn Twin somehow. Lecturin's
respectable. Ye wouldn't expect a Cabinet
officer to take in washin', would ye" asked
Uncle Ebebn stolidly.
Hes right to stay on his job like tn rest
iv u.s." grunted the Irishman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

"His lob is Watchful Waitin'. an nobody
can't say he amt stickin' to it like burr to
cows tail. What he's watchin for an how
long he'd orter wait fer it-wal, mebbe no
dunno that no more'n the burr does"
I've a notion that after Very Cruz an
Niagary, they amt no stomach fer startin'
anythin' they can't see the end OF. An that's
sense too said Ezra.
wal" remarked Scrag Esty, rather ag-
gressvely, you fellers en- knock all you're
mind TO- but nobody can't deny they've KEEP
US out of fight"
There was small war fer the Service o
Mankind" observed Uncle Eben. Course no.
body amt claimin' we're in fight now"
Nobody that kin tell fight from a foot
race" supplemented Ezra.
"Thrue fer ye," said Colgan But there's
times whin it's safer to fight"
I'm 'frad we're li'ble to run short on ideals
eff we keep wastin' them down there" said
Ezra.
BLESS your heart Exry, there amt no dan
ger O. that. Single track minds, eff trained
proper, kin make everything they run acrost
into ideels as slick as hen feed makes eggs.
Hist'ry don't tell of no such output of happy
thoughts an smooth prophecies as we got in
the past three years. They hain't all come out
'cording' to sample an prediction, but there
they be-sgnboards on the road to p'fection."
wal now they mean ter do right" said
Scrag why don't we give EN- credit fer it,"
Good intentions, Scrag," said Eben, lis
somethin' like pinch o salt in the burnt
soup-spiles the salt an don't help the soup.
Bless We, I'm willin' to admit that they don't
mean no harm, but if the policies they insists
on does harm, we amt so we'll off as if they'd
meant harm an done good. Good intentions
is a fine hreproof pawn materl. They say
the morl quality of an action lays in the in
tention, but the p'litcal effect lays in the re-
suit. An eff you seen lot of lemons CROWN
in peach orchard we wouldn't need no Moses
or Elias to tell we somebodyd made a bull"
They kape sayin' thin's is cheerin' up" said
Colgan, "but av this is their cheerin' I'd hate
to see thin in grief It's like fire in bug
house l dinnaw fwhat they'll do at all at all"
Il don't reckon they'll train the dagos to be
sef-gov'nin'," drawled Ezra. It'll take more
time than they've got. Mebbe the Lord kin
do it, but He's got eternity. One good thing
is when ye come to the end of single track
ye can't do nothin' but back"
Eyes, ye cam" said Uncle Eben. "You kin
stand still an whistle"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

hadn't no time to study the higher branches
just then, so he chased Lind away to Vera
Cruz where the navy was Lind looked il
over and reported to Joe Daniels that twas
fner'n anything he ever see on the upper
Mississippi. Joe was most tickled to death.
wal, there come the takin' of Veera Cruz
an the war for the service of Mankind an
Niagara Park, an the saloot that wasn't never
fired, an so on. Then the promised peace
started to descend; 1 reckon Mexican peace
an Mexican pesos is constable alike-good
what there is of EN- an plenty of EN- such
as they be-and with considerable lessn their
face at that. But it's peace that passeth the
understandin' O. the helt O. people. Down
there the victor's crown is to him who can
collar all what's loose an git crowbar under
what amt, an any patrit that has killed ten
Americans gets a statue"
Whats been done bout that there Nc
Manus?" interrupted Ezra. THAT was bad
business"
"Oh, McManus didn't ppreciate the inner
meanin' Of all hat fuss down there an so when
Zopattys soldiers started arobbn of his house
he kinder objected. So they filled him full O
iedu iloIn d jersey Tellcr III uccr Week, dn
done somethin' to the American flag that the
papers only hints at. The State Department
said the usual 'searchin' investigation would
be made, an I s'pose it was Last I heerd
there warnt no apology comm, but somethin'
was said about payin' fer McManus. There's
been a pile Of them searchin' Investigations.
They're awful polite things.
Ibid we happen to notice that you've killed
another American asks Bryan.
oval says Zopatty, 'mebbe you're right.
but hadn't no notion you'd object. I didn't
give no orders bout that p'ticler man, SO O
course you won't need no apology, but I'm
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often the pilot looking like a great human
scrambled egg-kind o stunned but not much
hurt--an' the fust thing he said when he come
to was, is -four rizf"
What we gunnin' at Eben1" asked Ezra;
"dummed If see what that's got to do with
Hoorty.
Il was kinder illustratin' the effect of
master idee on single track mind" replied
Eben.
Now eff Hoorty goes back to Mexico he's
goin' to into master idee in Washin'ton
that he's a Pers'nal Affair. Cy Clahin says
that the motter Of this administration had orter
be Public Matters is Pers'nal Affairs Ye
see Hoorty don't jest reek with the odor O.
sanctty which is the favorite perfume at
Washnton an they're some sore yet over that
flag saloot-that was another Pers'na Affair.
So his goin' back to Mexico won't simplicity
matters none"
"'Twud make wan more rev'lushn," re-
marked Colgan.
Eyes. Mike, but ye'd hardly notice it. The
struggle of the IS per cent for self-govern-
ment has got so mixed that 1t minds me Of
the wheels in Zekiel-a wheel as it were
within wheel an wheels on all four sides an
all around an nobody knows whence they
come an whittier they go-an' so on. An, of
course, all them wheels revolutin' at once
would crowd four track mind some-an'
there ye be-"
"Hoorty was tn best iv tn bunch" said
Colgan. WED right to lave him alone, I'm
thinkn,."
"It's hard pickin' from rotten apples, but
lot O. folks who'd orter a knowed thought so,
too" replied Uncle Eben. "But the President
sent him squarehead with lecture on Con-
st'tutional gov'ment that proved positive as
Hoorty had to resign. Hoorty bein' busy
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eral blockade David Bushnell died in 1924 at the
age ct eighty-two.
The encyclopedias scarcely mention him now.
The best tribute to his genius and his achieve
ment is contained in technical works on the sub
marine, mostly written by foreigners, and in the
letter which George Washington sent to Thomas
jefferson two years after the signing of the treaty
of peace with England Bushnell was "a man of
great mechanical powers" wrote the commander
in chief, fertile in inventions and master of
execution. | thought, and still think that
it (the American Turtle) was an effort of genius,
but that too many things necessary to be
combined to expect much from enemy who are
always on guard"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
UBMARINE DASH OF THE TURTLE 1855 YEARS AGO

gaining rapidly As last resort he threw of
the torpedo, which had hampered him not little,
and while his pursuers paused to wonder he
made good his escape. An hour later Ezra Lee
had the melancholy satisfaction of hearing the
terrific explosion of the torpedo.
This is the story of the first submarine attack
in the annals of naval war. 1t took place on
August night, one hundred and thirty nine years
before the Kasers craft began to direct torpedoes
against British shipping 1t occupies only small
paragraph in the naval history of the Revolution,
but it was the inspiration Of numberless para
graphs in the history of the present struggle in
Europe. The Turtle was the first practical sub
marine 1t was an American boat, operated by
an American. David Bushnell was its inventor.
MANY EXPERIMENTS CANNOT CONVINCE THE
SKEPTICS.
Bushnell was a Connecticut Yankee, q poor
farmers son and student at Yale These, briefly,
are the facts of his heredity and environment.
He was nearly thirty when he entered college, and
he brought his idea for building submarine with
him. Throughout his student life he drew plans
and made experiments. In 1776 year after his
graduation, he able to offer his boat to the
American navy. Bushnell had hard time at first
convincing skeptics that it was possible to eX-
plode powder under water. "The first experiment
/ made" he says, in his memoirs, twas with about
two ounces of gunpowder, which exploded under
four feet of water to prove to some of the first
personages in Connecticut that powder could take
fire under water"
The experiment was not considered convincing
enough. Bushnell next took two pounds of pow
der and blew up a huge hogshead filled with
stones Still the skeptics doubted 81 afterward
made many experiments of similar nature says
the inventor "some of them with large quantities
of powder; they produced violent explosions
much more than sufficient for any purpose had
in view"
As the war continued and the nearness OF the
British ships became more threatening. BushneIS
critics became more hopeful and sympathetic
"The famous Water Machine from Connecticut IS
every day expected in camp" wrote Samuel os-
good to John Adams. at must unavoidaby be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
Country Store Debaters
Tackle Mexican Problem

WIS interducin' self-gov'ment into Mex
leo" remarked Uncle Eben Penney,
/ as he Joined the stove group at Pen
y new and Hubbard's one evening, lis
- deal like teaehin' Yew-ginicks to a
|,.,ssr,en-it's premaehure. Nobody but
s,,l;st would have the nerve to tackle it,"
Tain, no place for sugar cured ideels down
=. drawled Ezra knight. They'd keep
.~ IN brine till next Congress"
-. Eben seated himself and reflectively
Ia three dried beans at the stove.
sr,l Ezry. we do appear to "a dug up more
- th'n we kin kill--so far-but the race
L. ,vsys 10 the swift nor the battle TO the
- We must watchfully wait, as the set
4 rsll., remarked TO the hard-biled eggs"
|.r,y do be sayin' that Hoorty's coined
| :, 20 start somethin' fresh" ventured Mike
-, Sure. tn sunny skies iv Mexico sees
4 suu times these days. I'm thinkin' tn
- Is heavy for a single thrack mind-an'
(s,n,w fwhat that same is anyway" and
y. puHed vigorously at his black clay.
Lar Bill Castle" Uncle Eben remarked as
allied slowly at his left whisker; "Or Bill
III, come down TO the store three, four
L. ago with a big bunch that -four was
s. way up. He got givin' his reasons and
/. sosho. Of it was he ordered two bsrls, an
e, eggs an corned pork an so on, an told
( 4, load EN- on the spring wagon while he
L. aerost the street Wal, Bill got TO
=, the internal rev'noo that afternoon. so
T. b. started he didn't only have the -four
i, back an the eggs under his feet, but
3-kon there was fog under his hat. Any
T. \. didn't see the evenin' freight comm
l. At the crossin' an when she'd hit him
4 ,,ly part O that wagon you couldn't "a put
n, stove was the shafts. They picked Bill
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

hEHGEANT EZRA LEE struggled in through
\ II, narrow coming tower of the Turtle and
M p.rched upon a tall, single-legged stool fas-
y tened 10 the floor of his boat. He toyed for
,,-,nt with the tiller, beat the submersion
ID lightly with his foot and turned the screw
zee or twice. Then, in half-frightened, half
SsSert whisper. he gave the word TO his friends
n, two rowboats that were to tow him toward
}nHM. S. Eagle lay at anchor, half a mile or
2 Governors Island. The Eagle was a good,
3..rtisl 64-gun frigate; it was commanded by
5a.n Duncan and few the flag of Lord Howe.
j. zen in the boats pulled nightly at their
!. I'D oars and drew Lees uncanny craft swiftly
J he waters Of the harbor.
n isy rowed the frigate doomed larger, its
seemed more terrible, the contrast between
81 Esgls and the Turtle became more awesomely
a lee knew il was time to cut the painters
AZ finish the dangerous business alone. The
g. Of an oar might betray them now, or an
#rgstehful sailor in the service of the King
~ SOY them, if the moon came out from behind
$zlvark Of black cloud The rowers whispered
Y rss "Goodby and God bless you'll" as they
4 lin. And Ezra Lee, late sergeant in the
/
D., the sea and the sky and the Eagle.
1EwELL TO FRESH AIR AND so UNDER
Il THE WATER.
let the strong tide sweep him toward the
s but the tide served him unfaithfully and
4 Il hin far outside. With hand and foot alter
be worked the screw oar, struggling to ap-
" the vessel After two hours he succeeded.
fr,g hard, he arose for a moment to take his
81 XIV breaths Of pure air; then he pulled down
Z syer Of the coming tower and fastened 1t
lilly
II, Turtle was ready to descend, and Lee
fssd the submersion pedals to let in the water
Ess TO sink his boat. There was no light IN
81 sls craft save the glow from the chemically
r.. dial Of the compass and cork that foated
4 = glass water gauge. As the tanks filled he
II as piece Of phosphorescent cork rise slowly
Preached a mark that told him he was on
nth the keel Of the Eagle. Lees task now
pierce the bottom of the frigate and to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

willin to pay a fair price eff ye give me time
huff time
Sounds good to me- says Bryan, that
orter please everybody but the McManuses,
an eff they'd stayed at home where they
blong there wouldn't been no trouble Don't
say nothin' bout the flag unless ye want to
offer us a saloot-I shouldn't think of demand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

clumsy business as its weight is about Tun. |
wish it might succeed, and the ships be blown up
beyond the Earth, for it is the only way chance
they have Of reaching St. Peters Gate
Although Ezra Lee did not succeed in making
the Eagle soar skyward, Bushnell was not discour-
aged. Let him tell the story Of subsequent
exploit. in his own rather naive language: "ln
the year 1777 made an attempt from whale-boat
against the Cerberus frigate, then lying at an
Choir between the Connecticut River and New Lon
don, by drawing a machine against her side by
means of line. The machine was loaded with
powder, to be exploded by gunlock, which was
20 be unpinioned by apparatus to be turned by
being brought alongside of the frgate. This ma
chine fell in with schooner at anchor astern OF
the frgate, and concealed from my sight BY
some means other it was fired, and demolished
the schooner and three men, and blew the only
one left alive overheard, who was taken up very
much hurt"
Almost exactly year after Washington crossed
the Delaware Bushnell set adrift some torpedoes
in the shape of kegs of powder, on that same
river. His object was to blow up the British ship
ping above Philadelphia. One boat only was de-
stroved but the whole fotla effectively in
undated. The alarm of the British is commem-
grated in Francis Hopkns's song 1.-THE Battle of
the Kegs"
In 1879 Bushnell was captured by the British,
but soon escaped Abandoning further submarine
adventures, he entered the army and became cap
tair in a regiment of sappers and miners organ
lied short time before. In this capacity he
served until the end of the
MEN WOULD NOT LEARN OF HIM, AND so
HE TAUGHT CHILDREN.
The government never paid Bushnell generous
w. and he had to 90 abroad to make a living
France, however, proved more appreciative
than America, Bushnell returned to become
school teacher in Georgia. Little is known of his
later life save that he became somewhat less poor
and that he impressed favorably the people among
whom he lived. 1t may be that in his obscure
Southern school he inspired the construction of
the Confederate submarines "Davids" they were
called made history in the years of the Fed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

attach his torpedo, with its charge Of 100 pounds
of powder. He grasped the propeller and, turn
ing it with all his strength, drove the piercing
screw against the ship.
Instead of boring through soft wood the screw
grated upon metal Lee surprised, but not
discouraged. Again and again he charged the
ships bottom with his little boat. But the screw
could not pierce iron.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25
A BRAVE MAN, SERGEANT LEE, BUT NO
ENAMORED OF PERISHING.

Sergeant Lee not submarine operator by
training. He was not even a sailor. lie had been
relieved of his command in the army quite unex-
pectedy to take the place of the Turtles regular
operator, who had become i'll suddenly. Lee had
courage and a measure of adaptability to the
water but he had very little skill in naval tactics
some fathoms below the surface. And so, when
he found that the obdurate iron band which
passed from the rudder hinge and was spiked to
the ships quarter was impenetrable he did not
move off few inches and feel for unprotected
wood but attempted, instead to change his posi-
ton entirely When he charged the Eagle again
Lee discovered that he had wholly lost his bear
ings. He rowed about blindy, but he could no
longer touch the frigate. The air in the boat was
unbreathable His head began to throb. A fear
of the choking darkness must have seized him, and
a vast. sickening terror of the deep. With quick,
nervous Jerk he pulled the cord that controlled
the ballast. Two hundred pounds of lead dropped
from the keel of his boat and the Turtle shot
up to the surface. With impatient, trembling
hands Lee loosened the cover and pushed it up.
Then he stood up and drank in the cool salt air
DAYLIGHT PURSUES HIM; LIKEWISE THE
BRITISH SOLDIERS.
1t had been quite dark when Lee descended but
when he looked out of the coming tower he saw
that daybreak was too near for him to attempt
another attack He realized at once that his
only hope of safety lay in covering the distance
10 shore as quickly as possible. Again he took
hold of the screw oar, and began TO turn 1t des-
perately. Some soldiers Governors Island saw
him and nut off in boat. The pursuit had lasted
only q few moments when he saw that they were