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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-27
What the Papers Say
YoUNG's LAST WIDOW.
wheeling Register0


The announcement of the death of
the last surviving widow of Brigham
Young turns the attention of the
world TO the Mormon church, and the
changes it has undergone since the
death of its much-married leader.
There were some wives of Young who
were much more conspicuous in
Mormon history than Eliza Burgess,
whose chief claim to distinction is
the fact that she outlived all the
other wives of the former head of the
Latter Day Saints. An exchange re-
calls the fact that Ann Eliza, wife No.
10, took the lecture platform, had her
marriage annulled in the courts. and
got her husband into Jail on cues
tions Of alimony. Eliza Burgess ap-
pears To have been a wife of a diff
ferent type.
Brigham Young was a resOurceful
and determined leader. who exerted a
compelling influence in the church.
1t was he who in 1852 proclaimed
the revelation" for pOlygamy which
is said TO have come 10 Joseph Smith
nine years earlier. His last widow
lived TO witness wonderful changes in
the Mormon church of his day.
which was generally in conflict with
with national authority, and which
fled beyond what was then the wes-
tern frontier in order that il might
do as il pleased. Plural marriages is
no longer practiced in the church,
although official Investigations at diff
ferent times have disclosed the fact
that a considerable number OF liv-
ing Mormoms still have more than
one wife.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-27

It's" It appears that there are as many
kinds OF hay fever as there are kinds
Of irritating pollen. One victim owes
his trouble 10 ragweed. another TO
goldenrod. another TO the daisy. an
other 10 the thistle. another 10 the bur
dock, another 70 pigweed. etc. one pa
tent a Georgian. has been found to
be hay-feverishsy susceptible TO the
pollen Of the pecan tree. The disease
seems 10 exist wherever vegetation
grows, and each kind Of pollen picks
out its special victims
The remedy consists in treating
each Of the victims. then, with the
particular pollen that is virulent in his
case. If it is thought TO be golden
rod. for example. the patients arm is
scratched a little. and a little golden
rod pollen is rubbed in. If the scratch
becomes inhamed, as in a successful
vaccination, the doctor has guessed
right If not, he tries another kino
Of pollen. and another. until he finds
one that takes" Then ne injects a
strong solution of that pollen. or a
serum taken from a patient already
immunized with the same pollen. and
the patient IS rendered immune.
y. B.-This method is dangerous ex-
cept in the hands Of the skilled physi-
clan
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-27
USE OF GAS IN WAR.


Ever since the beginning Of the
war one has heard from time TO
time OF the famous plan OF the first
early of Dundonald for the destruc-
ton Of an army against which Eng
land might be fighting.
Lord DundOnald invented il when
he was Admiral Lord Cochrane and
he guaranteed with its aid 10 over
come any enemy against whom he
was sent IL is now a full hundred
years since this famous invention was
put in a pigeOnhOle. and during all
that time il has remained one OF the
secert documents of the state IL was
rejected in the first place as being
outside civilized warfare. Twice gov
eminent committees are said 10 have
examined the plan during the first
half of the 18th century. only 10 put
il back into its pigeOnhOle again as
being too cruel.
At the beginning of this war Lord
Dundonald's plan was .alked of
again. Nothing, however, heard as
10 what il was until the day before
yesterday when Prof. V. b. Lewes
in a lecture 20 the Society of Arts
gave a description OF it. which shows
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-27

tutionalism. If the consequence OF
these notes, or of others to follow
them. or Of actions by them. is war,
still the president will not have eX-
ceeded his lawful powers.
The president has power TO recall
ambassadors at will. and TO dismiss
the ambassadors of foreign powers.
Congress thus far has nothing 10 do
with our relations with Germany. II
the president sees TIT TO sever diplo-
matte relations. it is none of the Duss-
ness of congress.
Whether he shall call congress in
special session before its regular time
for assembling rests with the president
alone. If the nation were attacked.
he could use the army and navy with
out question. The only limitation of
his authority in this direction is that if
the United States is TO make an actual
declaration Of war, or if money is TO
be voted for a war, congress must be
summoned for that purpose.
And the very fact that the presI-
dent is in no haste to convene congress
is in itself pretty good evidence thai
ne has no intention Of provoking war
and no present fear that war will be
forced on us,-thOugh William Ran
dolph Hearst may rave his paretic
head off. and Congressman Buchanan
have Nightmares until he is black in
the face
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-27
WATT Is \ GENTLEMAN?


From more or less successful eff
forts 10 define the snob and the bore
there is only a step 10 the more or
less unsuccessful efforts to define the
gentleman. The bore and the snob are
accusable creatures, plain 20 the view
of all men and reducible to formula.
But the gentleman is intangible and
ultimately indefnable. The bore and
the snOb are revealed by their words
and their deeds, whereas the gentle
man can prove himself only by his
spirit. II is no wonder that the null
titudinOus definitions shot at this
shining mark have failed to pierce
the center, even if one or another
may now and again have hit the mar
gin of the target
one of the more obvious reasons
for this diversity Of definition is that
the word has changed its meaning
and is likely TO be kept on changing
it as we advance in civilization. once
upon a time il had a clear and sharp
| " limited legal content recorded by
Blackstone in his commentaries; the
/ great lawyer defined a gentleman as
zone who bears coat-armOr, the grant
of which adds genulity 10 ones fam
/ lily" This is still a tit definition of
| the gentilhOmme in France; il is
| proba bly, not now a fully satisfactory
/ definition OF the gentleman in Great
/ Britain; and IL never kas been an ac-
ceptable definition OF the gentleman
/ in the United States. To an American
/ there is a pitiful snObbiShness in Rus
/ kin's remark that the principles OF
] education prOpOunded by Plato apply
only TO the persons we call gentle
men-that is 10 say. landholders liv-
/ ing on slave labor" Yet Ruskin Is
/ only putting forth a little more often
I sively than others an opinion often
I held In England This opinion is most
/ concretely expressed in the fable dia-
\ logue between the English lord and
the American girl, which begins with
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-27
COmmerciaIizing Uncle Toms
Cabin"

that it was nothing more or less than
the German plan of using asphyxiat-
ing gases. DundOnald's description
was: Fires fed with tar and pitch
TO give dense columns of smoke which
would act as a screen for the attack
sulphur burned on the fires to gen
crate sulphur dioxide gas, which
would produce asphyxiating fumes
and aid the attack"
The professor added that the idea
was revived I'm the early stages of the
present war, but the government re
fused 10 consider it.
Talking after the lecture, Prof.
Lewes said that the details of the
plan had never been made public
with the exception of a reference TO
them in the memoirs of a cabinet
minister published soon after the war
began.
The inhalation OF a very small
proportion of this gas" says the pro-
lessor, causes coughing and spit
ting of blood, and four volumes in
10000 OF air render it unbreathable.
If the sufferer escapes from the zone
within a reasonable period the eff
fects of this gas pass off, but the
German method is more inhuman,
as they employ chloride gas, which,
If il does not kill the men, leaves
them in most frightful agony and in
iures the lungs for life Dundonald
merely proposed TO use sulphur
fumes to make the enemy bolt; the
Germans use their gases to asphyx-
late"
The professor does not advocate
retaliation with gas as the whole es-
sence of the gas attack is surprise.
The chief gases the Germans are US
ing are chloride, bromine, nitrogen
, tetrOXide and sulphur diOXide. All
these can be naturaliZed quite simply
-respirators and a bucket of wash
ing soda solution in the trenches to
dip them in are a simple and effica-
cious remedy.
According to Prof. Lewes these gas
attacks do not worry the British
troops so much now, as they are pre-
pared for them. The respirators and
helmets have proved perfectly salts
! factory, and there are many problems
connected with the density of the
gases in relation with the air as well
as wind currents which make the sue
cessful use Of poisonous vapors by nc
means a simple problem.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-27
THE MELTING POT
GOMEZ TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

dav's performance that these com
pani,s also require a license before
turning them loose on an unslspect-
ing audience. II was q simple steal
OF about $3.50 from the people of the
town.
DEATH is a cold. unsympathetic,
discriminating proposition. Even the
inventor Of the gin rickey could not
escape.
An Overcrowded Industry.
Clint JOurnaD.
WANTED-Woman to work for hus-
bands board at S33 Hamilton ave.
THE coloneTs rage over the out
RACES perpetrated on American cltl-
zens by Germany is something appall-
ing. Only his deep sense of obliga-
ton 10 remain here and keep the
progressive party on the first page,
we infer, deters him from making an
Independent attack on the enemy.
When Wesley SwOre.
(Mercyville. Ia. Banner).
NOTICE.
I am good and damned through
with this town If anybodv wants to
buy my stuff see Ed Taylor.
WESLEY LAPHAM
BAY rum is the favorite beverage in
dry Battle Creek. Barberous,
PUCKERVILLE MARI<IT TrUMS.
Butter-strong at 80 cts-some can
eat it,
-sterile-not dependable at 2s
cts.
Capons-Craisin' price count of
sterile aigs) 81 cts ID. which is goin'
some fer country ROSTERS
POtatoes-sad eyed and soggy at
80 cts per Blu, (abbrevation means
bushal)
Apples-wormy-giv'n away if you
pick EN- often the ground. Anyone
KNOWN a good worm remedy fer APP
pies pleas report to Puckerville COR
spOndent
Beans-CNo reportN
COrn-sOre ears; some stalks haint
got none Not much knawin from the
cob here bouts.
Melons - mostly green, markit
cramped-sos them who eat EN-.
Country squash and punkins an
some other late products not IN town
yit-lOOkin' fer EN- Satdy.
Puckerville prides itself on its gar
den sass. an centrally can't be beat:
but the German war an other dis
tressin reasons have contributed to di-
linquincys i'm this d'rection-some
miner itums is consequently omitted
from the list F. l. T
YOU can always find compensation
if you look for il.
THE weather is just right for blan-
ket sales. c. n. F.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-27
VACCINATION FOR HAY FEVER.

No hay fever victim may be expect
ed 10 believe il. but we have it that
a scientific cure has been discovered
for this au-umnal afaiction. A New
York specialist who worked il out
thinks that when properly applied il
might stop the whole 100000 hay
feveIites in this country from sneez-
ing and weeping
The new method is simply vaccina-
ton. The doctors agree that the afflic-
ton is caused by pollen, and have ac-
cordingly named the disease "Pollin!-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-27
An Overcrowded Industry.
lFlint JOurnan.
When Wesley Swore.

(Mercyville, Ia, Banner).
NOTICE.
l am good and damned through
with this town. If anybodv wants TO
buy my stuff see Ed Taylor.
WESLEY LAPHAM
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-27
LIGHT-FINGERED.

At dinner given by the prime
minister of a little kingdom in Ruri-
tania, a diplomat complained to his
host that the minister of justice,
who had been sitting on his left had
stolen his watch
'Ah, he shouldn't have done that
said the prime minister in tones of
annoyance. Il will get it back for
you
Sure enough toward the end of
the evening the watch was returned
to its owner.
And what did he say" asked the
diplomat
'Sh-h." cautioned the host, glanc-
ing anxiOusly about him. "He doesn't
know that L have got il back"
AMPLE GROUNDS.
My wife made me what / am to-
day"
You could get a divorce for that "
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-27
PUCKERVTLLE NIARKIT TrUN

BAY rum is the favorite beverage IN
dry Battle Creek. Barberous,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-27

his tactful assertion that there are so
few gentlemen in America, to which
she responded with the question: But
who do you call gentlemen ." And
when he explains that gentlemen are
men who do not work." she retorts
swiftly, But we have lots Of those
in America-only we call them
trampSi'
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
ArchanaeI. City Of Ice.

Archangel, the Oldest port of the
Russian empire, will awaken in a few
weeks more to vital war Importance,
according to a statement OF the Ma
tional Geographic society. When the
arctic ice clears from the White sea
Russia will be able to communicate
with her allies through free western
port and to receive much needed war
supplies and other manufactures over
a route thousands of miles shorter
than that via Vladivostok. Archangel
is situated at the head OF the Dvina
delta, as far north as the northern
most shores Of Hudson Bay. II is the
largest and most important city that
is near the arctic circle.
The harbor Of Archangel is optimis
tcally said to be open from May to
october. However, 1t is entirely free
from Ice during the months Of July
and August, although in the average
year 1t is free for navigating purposes
for a period some weeks longer. The
city lies on the Dvina river, 26 miles
from the White sea. II is TAO miles
northeast OF st. Petersburg, and is
connected with the distributing cen.
tiers OF the interior by railway and
canal.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
FIND RUBBISH IN
PLACE OF AMMUNITION
British Newspaper Declares German
Agents Busy In Russian
Factories

London, Aug. 9.-"Thousands of
cases OF ammunition of every kind
when opened at the front were found
to contain rubbish" says the Daily
Mail in an account of. the conditions
under which the Russ'an army has
been fighting.
Petrograd is full of wounded, the
Daily Mail asserts and the Russian
casualties are unofilcially estimated
OF 100000 up to the middle of July
IN Lied, wounded and prisoners
The paper. says, however, that this
estimate seemed guess work as the
military authorities themselves do
not know the real totals.
Notwithstanding the tremendous
losses tae Russian people are cheer.
fd' and confident for they believe
,'ermany's financial collapse g near.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
CARS THAT CAN'T OVERTURN
Gyrostatie Devices Give to Vehicles a
Stability Which ls Claimed to
BE Perfect.

DR.. J. II. Gray recently exhibited be-
fore the Royal society at London
gyrostats with accessories and a
series of what may be called ami
mated" gyrostats. These latter consist
of gyrostatic motor cars, both two
wheeled and fourwheeled. The models
exhibit Doctor Gray's methods of en-
downing gyrostatic devices, mounted on
moving bodies, with complete stabil-
ity.
The devices so mounted are avail
able for directing and forcibly ma
neuvering the bodies. One OF the two
wheeled cars is provided with a gyro-
static Chauffeur" which stabilizes
the car and presides at the steer.
wheel This car illustrates the action
Of directing and stabilizing apparatus
for use on torpedoes, airships and
aeroplanes.
A further form of two-wheeled car
demonstrates methods of stabilizing
and maneuvering an airship by means
of forces derived from the propellers,
which apply a direct push to the
moving body. Doctor Gray's bicycles
and motor cars are SO equipped that
they can be steered by the wireless
transmission Of electrical action.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
Oddly Oamaued.

In the opinion OF NJ. C. Mason Grit.
fin he was greatly Inundated In Wash.
ington recently by members OF a the,
atrical troupe forcing kisses on him
as he sat with his wife watching the
performance. The kissing was appar-
emily part OF plan to create laughter
by revealing blushing, bashful man
to the audience. Griffin brought suit
for 81 900 against the theater man,
agement in consequence.
A suit was brought against an old
New York stage company by pas
senger who complained that he had
been insulted by the driver calling
down from his seat outside that he
ought to get up and give woman q
seat. The driver protested his limo
cence and II was only after well
known ventriloquist OF the period
came forward at the trial and de
clared he had thrown his voice so al
to make II appear that the driver ad
dressed the aggrieved passenger tina,
the suit was dropped. Then the pas
senger declared he would sue the yen
triloquist, but was dissuaded from do
ing so.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
They Knew All About Auto.

Two Bronx men who had Just
bought an automobile decided to take
their first ride. and had IL rolled out
OF garage at One Hundred and Six.
ty-seventh street and Southern boule.
ward. They both knew all about cars.
they said, and wanted no assistance
from the garage employees In getting
IL started
One man took the wheel and the
other began cranking. He cranked
until he was breathless and red in the
face. Then his companion alighted and
began to crank. For half an hour the
men took turns at the crank, but to
no purpose.
They have sold us a dead one,"
ventured one of the owners.
ITS worse than dead" retorted his
companion.
III you look youll find your car is
without gasoline, water or OIL" ven
tured chauffeur, who with several
other automobile drivers had been
watching the cranking performance.
When the car was provided with
running necessities 1t cranked easily
and the owners drove away delighted
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
TOWNS GLORY HAS DEPARTED
Beautiful Mentone One of the Worst
Sufferers From the Great
European Conflict

For those who love the sun in win
ter, who love the Riviera in the less
garish colors that Mentone provides
there must be real feeling OF griet
to learn that the little border town
Is empty OF its old colony-that the
great hotels that look down on the
suggest and the warmest corner OF
the whole Cote d'Azur are empty Of
guests, their genial Teutonic proprie-
tors are In prison, and in place OF all
that made life quietly pleasant there
are only the sad evidences OF war,
the wounded and waiting.
Gone is the Hungarian news vender,
with his wonderful sheaf of Magyar
papers. Gone are Russian. Polish,
Prussian, Belgian, British. Servian,
Turkish colonists. The little donkeys
that bore happy children along the
beach are perhaps hauling ammuni-
ton In the far-off Argonne, The Chas-
seurs Alpins, once met on all the
mountains, stepping of proudly to the
bugles, are now on the battle front,
the vanguard Of the army of redemp-
ton in far Alsace.
Vanquished are the races which
lived in polyglot peace and took their
losses philosophically in the nearby
Casino at Monte Carlo. There is now
the grief Of war. Gouty Prussian gen
erals no longer stalk majestically
through heliotrope-hedged walks; they
are now in Champagne or Flanders
enemies, in fact. From Mont Agel
the bugles still call across at dawn
and sunset to the distant call OF
Ciracocca, but the garrisons are gone.
New York Tribune.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
LAWS OF INHERITANCE
ARE PURELY ARTIFICIAL
SAYS GOVERNOR JOHNSON

San Francisco, Aug. 9.-Governor
Hiram w. Johnson of California de.
MED today that the law of inheritance
Is based on any inalienable right and
predicted that great fortunes in the
future would pay greater toll to the
government, in an address here be-
fore the state Inheritance tax ap.
praisers.
THE time may come when the ag.
gregation of wealth in the hands OF
a few will seriously threaten the
rights of the many and it may be ne
cessary to give more serious attention
TO the work of equalization" said
the governor.
"The laws of succession are pure.
ly artificial. There is no inalienable
right by which one may leave prop.
erty to heirs. 1t is only by right Of
law that property acquired in life is
transmitted to heirs after death"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
Record Wheat
Yield Predicted
Government Estimates Indicate That
All Crops viii BE Greater Than
Last Year

Washington, Aug. 9.-Three bill
lion bushels OF corn, one and a half
billion bushels of oats and billion
bushels of wheat are in prospect for
this years American harvest. Record
crops of rye, white and sweet pota-
toes, tobacco, rice and hay also are
predicted for the prosperous farmers
who have planted 310,546,000 acres or
100000 acres more than last year
to their principal products.
The wheat crop, the greatest ever
grown in any country win be worth
more than $1,O0O,OOO,OO0 while the
corn crops value may reach s2,500,-
100000.
Estimates of the principal crops,
announced today by the department
of agriculture, based on conditions of
August 1. show that all crops will be
greater than last year. Interest cen
tered on wheat and corn. Both show
ed Improvement over July conditions
though excessive rains and cold wea-
ther in the central states interfered
with thrashing. Oats also su Tered in
those states, but in other sections
the Improvement more than offset
this.
Corn prospects increased almost
100,000,000 bushels the principal
gains having been: Illinois, 10000 900
bushels; Kansas, 24,O0O,O00; Okaho-
ma. 26,0O0,0OO; Nebraska, 100000;
Iowa 100000 and Texas 10000, 900.
Kansas showed loss of 100000
bushels in winter wheat; Oklahoma,
100000; Nebraska, 100000 and Mis-
souri,, 100000 while Ohio ana Indi.
ana showed an increase of 5000, 900
bushels each.
White potatoes promise to exceed
their former records production by
| 100000 bushels and sweet pota.
toes by 100000 bushels. Other in
creases over record crops indicated
include tobacco, 2S,000,000 pounds I;
fax, 100000 bushels; hay, 2,400. 900
tons and rye, 100000 bushels. Corn
prospects fell 2O6,OOO,OOO bushels and
oats 100000 bushels below the re.
cords.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12

map of France is the price that has
been paid because the French nation
was not ready.
Germany has so far Won because
she knew her own mind from the out
set, was moved by a national spirit
quite as splendid in its vigor as that
OF the French in 1892 and had over
long years subjected herself to a dis
cipline which the years of Ger weak.
mes and suffering had taught her was
essential to her safety and then to
her larger success.
In a year of war Germany has
taught the world the meaning of ma.
tional organization. II may prove to
be as enduring lesson, when the
merely military details are eliminated
as the other lessons of the French
Revolution. In this thing the Ger.
mans call Kultur the army is but a
detail, a major detail, today, bul one
that may vanish tomorrow and leave
the real lesson useful To mankind -
From, One Year of War. by Frank II.
Simonds, in the American Review OF
Reviews for August.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
Day cf the BOTTLE.

The prevalence OF excessive drink
ing both in Scotland and England is
indicated by Sir Walter Scott IN sew.
eral OF his works, In Rob 10y" for
example. old Sir Hildebrand Osbaldi.
stone, administering practical moral
lesson" to his nephew Francis and bis
son Rashleieh, advises them TO grad.
ually inure their brains to bear gen.
tlemanlike quantity Of liquor recon.
mending them how to set about II
and assuring them that they would be
able in time Ito carry off their six
bottles under their belt quietly and
comfortably"