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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-10
Claims British Profit.

British merchants and shippers are
profiting greatly, he asserted, by ex-
porting the very character of goods
seized when shipped from the United
States to neutral European ports.
Great Britain said Senator Smith,
may desire TO crush an enemy
through the suppression of trade but
she has no right to do it at our loss or
to make us the instrument Of it"
Senator Smith denied that Great Bri-
slin be excused on the ground that
I he United States had acted illegally
and improperly in a similar way in
the Civil war.
I'm these cases the right of seizure
was based, not on the blockade of a
neutral port, but on the fact that ship
pers had arranged a continuous voyage
for the goods by sea into a blockaded
port"
Remarking that the relations be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain had been growing closer for
q hundred years. the senator added:
But we are not dependency Of Great
Britain"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
Big Zeppelins

From the LOnuOn 1lt-DilS.
 Built as are all Zeppelins, with rigid framework of reinforced aluminium, it has IS napkin ring sections, each containing a gas-tight bag-a total gas capacity of 6S1 600 cubic feet. Over the framework is stretched a heavy cloth covering that is impervious to rain or snow. Upper and lower decks furnish surfaces that serve the same purpose as do the wings of an aeroplane when it Is desired to drive to a higher or lower air level
 The individual gas bags are not fully in flated before the ship starts on voyage. Slack Is left to accommodate the expan- sion of the gas in the upper air. Safety valves with indicators on the pilots desk make it almost impossible for anyone of the gas bags to explode. but six of them might come to grief at one time without endangering the airship, so great is the sustaining power resulting from speed.
 The "Viktoria Luise" Is just short of 4s6 feet In length and has a breadth of AS feet It has three siX-cylinder Diesel motors with a combined horse power of 450 speed of 50 miles an hour has been made with atmospheric conditions normal. If, by some rare accident, two of it's motors should be rendered useless, the third would be sufficient to give headway against a 27-mile wind.
 Captain TIaecl<er, who commanded the "Viktoria Luise" in the trip from Dussel- dorf to Berlin, has little fear of storms while his ship is in the air though Ger many's excellent weather forecast service makes 1t possible for flights to be SO timed as to avoid the ordinary windstorm. Each Zeupelin carries a wireless outfit, and from land stations obtains reports of weather conditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
Miracles in Wheat Growing

From Pearson w eekly.
 Great Britain has to import about seven toa yes out of every 10 we eat.
 Ii we cultivated all our pasture land we could grow enough wheat, oats. barley, vegetables and fruit to support nine tenths of our population, but as that is, for the present at least completely out pf the question. the main thing is to get ss bis Weld as possible out of the acres that are pioughed.
 Seven years ago a Russian farmer in- vented d method of increasing the yield of wheat in so startling fashion that wien an article on the subject first ap- peared in an English paper. people simply laughed and said it a fairy tale.
 This Russian claimed that 1t was pos- sble to get 70 pounds weight of grain flom seed. and to make an acre carry 6 tons.
 ! ,s does sound like a miracle, but here Is the method, and If any farmer has the patience to try it he will most certainly be surprised at the result.
 Each grain is planted separately in a hole about 15 inches deep, and three and half feet in width. Feet, remember, not Inches
 AS soon as the grain sprouts the little blade is covered with a thin layer of earth about an inch and a half in depth. 1he result is that you get three stalks in- stead of one. At the end of three weeks the hoe comes into us again, and the thiee stalks being covered with earth, turn into nine stalks.
 This process, being repeated a third lime results in 27 stalks, and the Russian tn question repeated it 10 times in all. So that at last each grain produced 59,04s sta ks If the seed is first sown in the proinary fashion, and then transplanted 10 the pit before mentioned, you get an tven stronger growth, so that, after only fi2ht coverings, more than 105. 900 stalks baNe been produced from a single grain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
HOSPITAL SHIP
 PLAN ABANDONED Dutch Will Not Maintain Floating Ambulance on
 the North Sea

The Hague. July 15.-(Correspondence of the beginning of the war, when the ar rival of the few surviving sailors from the three torpedoed British cruisers, the Hogue. Aboukir and Cressy showed what a terrible thing modern naval warfare was to be, number of Dutch philanthro- pists discussed the desrab ability of euuip- ping a neutral Dutch hospital ship which should patrol the North sea The idea was to have such a ship continuously present on the high seas hastening at the first sound of battle to save those otherwise condemned to drown after five or six hours of desperate clnging to a piece of wreckage Naval officers prom ised their assistance. The large steam ship companies were willing to subscribe money and the president of the Dutch Trading company Ghe leader in that field of enterprise) took personal direction of the affair. A vice admiral volunteered his services as commander of the ship and the necessary sum of money, $120, 900, was brought together.
 At that point the commission which intended to charter the Austrian liner Thalia interned in Amsterdam addressed itself to the governments of the different warning nations and asked their permis- sion 10 equip ana maintain such ship under the neutral Dutch flag and under q Dutch commander. Article three of the convention of Geneva declares, however, that all hospital ships even if they are owned and equipped by neutrals must fly the flag of one of the belligerents" The lyutch commission requested that under the special circumstances of this war the 1 o''~ w~'''d "~~ee t.' suspend this ar ticle for the Dutch floating ambulance. line minister of foreign affairs, who got interested in the plan. supported this re- quest personally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
WOMENCONDUCT0RS TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS Berlin Finds Them Capable and Efficient on the
 Street Cars

Berlin. July 16.-(Special 1.-The art of conducting a street car through the crowded thoroughfares of Berlin Is being taught to women in five schools for con ductoresses," which graduate" each week total of between 300 and 400 female conductors to take the places of men gone to the war
 Not since the earliest days of the cleo tric car in Berlin have pupils who were candidates for positions on the back plat form proved as apt as are the women who once were considered as absolutely unfitted for this supposedy masculine work. Between 2500 and 5000 women are now employed and incidentally every one who has applied passed the preliminary examination. A large percentage, how ever. cannot stand the strain and have to seek other work. M
 The women are given a theoretical course of three days. eight hours day, in one of the five schools that are located in Charlottenburg. Treptow, Lichterfielde, Lichterberg and Weissensee, suburbs of Berlin. This is followed by longer period of practical training, during which they are accompanied on genuine trips by ex- perienced conductors learn the names of the streets. and have a chance to put their theoretical training into use.
 The Berlin public has co-operated heart fly with the street car authorities in it's introduction of women on the cars. There has as yet been no single case recorded of an insult to one of the female con ductors, and 1t Is rare that passengers have not cheerfully been willing to put up with "greenness" and inexperience.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
SPANISH FINANCES
 IN VERY BAD WAY Recent Loan Total Failure. $10,000,000 Deficit Faces
 Government

Madrid, July 15.-(Correspondence of the Associated Press. )-Spanish treas ury statements for the first six months of 1915 show very clearly some of the financial difficulties of the country at the time of the failure of the $l5O,- 0C0 000 loan and the consequent cab met crisis of June 22. While the book S of the treasury show an increase of receipts over any previous year they also show an increase of expenditure which, when taken together with the interest that must be paid on Spain s s1,s14,270.0o0 debt, regularly produce deficit To meet this was one of the principal reasons for trying to float the recent unfortunate loan
 The total receipts for the first half year of 1915 were $134.S16,602 as against a total for the same period of last year of s117,856.464, exhibiting a nominal gain of $26, 6,960,1SS in the ma honal revenues over last year. But in this same period this year there have been s36,524.950 of treasury obliga- tons to meet, in addition to ordinary, normal expenses. with the result that, on the whole. the Spanish treasury is actually being s9564,S12 in comparison with the first half year of 1914.
 Had 1t been possible for the Dato Ministry to float its $50, 1000, 900 loan il could at least have deferred the day of reckoning until less parlous times Public opinion in Spain seems to agree that the abstention of wealthier in vestors from subscription to the loan was partially caution, due to war con- dtions, and partially politics. due to the fear that the Dato ministry was dangerously close to the quadruple en- fente powers and might at any time try, to drag Spain into the war. The uneouivocal renewal of the Kings con- fdence in the ability of Eduardo Dato
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
What Modern Artillery Costs

From London Tit-Bits.
 This is war of artillery. Shells and shrapr4 sl are being used on a scale far in excess of the calculations of the most far seeing 1ilitary experts of Europe. That is why Xii chener and French are asking for more sA els, and still more shells; for a great proportion of the G24 a minute which th s war is costing is being blown away by our big guns.
 To fire "a single shot from our biggest guns costs f1000, and some idea of the expenditura of naval firing can be gath cred from | he fact that one famous bat tleship could use up roughly 920,000 worth of ammunitis ,n per minute if she worked all her guns. at full blast, as she would do if necessar y And to this huge outlay must be adda the cost of the gun, re- membering tn. t the largest weapon has very short Il fe, and is soon worn out. The most expa nsive gun we use Is the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
FEEL bK KIOUS! CALOMEL .S|CKENS!
 CLEAN LIVER AND BOWELS MY WAY
Don't lose day's work If Constpated Sluggish Headachy
 take spoonful of ''Dodsons Liver Tone" Y

night, and if 1t doesn't straighten you right up and make you feel fine and vigorous by morning l want you to go pack to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying inc sale of calomel because it is real liver medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore 1t can not salivate or make you sick.
 l guarantee that one spoonful of Dod- sons Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your howeis of that sour bile and constipated waste which Is clogging your system and making you feel miserable. I guarantee that bottle of Dodsons Liver Tone VIII Keep your entire family feeling me Tor months. Give it to your chill dren. It is harmless: doesn't gripe and they like its pleasant taste.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01

Listen to me! Takel no more sicken- ing, salivating calomeIs when bilious or constipated. Don't lose days work!
 Calomel is mercury .'r quicksllver' which causes necrosis of the bones. Cal omel, when it comes into contact with sour bile crashes into 1t. b reaking 1t up This is when you feel that\ awfui nausea "all knocked out" if your liver Is tor pid and bowels constipated or you have headache, dizziness. coated tongue, 1T breath Is bad or stomach sotA-, Just take a spoonful of harmless DodS on's Liver Tone.
 Here's my guarantee-Go to. any drug store and get 50-cent bottle of Dod- sons Livor Tone Take q spoS )nful to-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
Tauiours In Politesse

From the New York Evening Post
 Not long ago there set in restaurant in Breslau a wounded Austrian-an of ficer of heavy artillery stout lady, coming in, asked permission to sit at the same table. The permission cour- teously granted, down she pumped.
 "I just missed making wreck of your beautiful shako," she exclaimed in con- siderable embarrassment as the seating was safely accomplished.
 No harm done, I assure you, my dear madam murmured the Austrian politely. q am only happy to think that we don't wear spiked helmets like our good friends and allies. the Prussians"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01

lo-inch, though other big guns run up heavy ammunition bills. For instane, E75 vanishes in flame and smoke every time 13.5 weapon is fired
 The guns which expend 91Ooo worth of ammunition every time they are fired are really wonderful pieces of artillery. They can heave ton weight of explosive shell over distance of 30 miles with the cer- tainty of hitting any spot they aim at. The power and velocity of the shot is such that on leaving the gun 1t has force enough to go straight through 57Ih inches of wrought iron.
 The 12-inch gun can eat up well over SlOO worth of ammunition per minute. For 9.2-inch it is approximately under G3O; for a 7-5-inch under f20 and for a 6. inch about G12.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
Insure Lives for College

VfOn the ST, L0uls GIObe-DemOCrat.
 Philadelphia, Pa.-A magnificent new formitory is assured the University of Pennsylvania, by the action of 100 mem bers of the Penn 1910 class, who insured their lives on 2o-yesr endowment policies totaling more than s3O0Oo at the fifth an nuai reunion held in the Adelpha hotel The university Is named as beneficiary pf all the poicles With the stipulation that the yield be used for the erection of sleeping quarters surpassing the only other dormitory donated to the university by class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01

Il le offer was made have not been willing td agree to the suspension of article in th case of the Thalia, and have refused toA have anything to do with the proposal Th ! commission therefore. has returned the money to the donors and the hospital shin lies at it's dock in Amsterdam.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01

to extricate the country somehow from its financial embarrassment is expect cd to silence those critics of the gov ernment and to insure the success of the loan when again offered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
British Tactics

From London Sketch.
 Officer-How did he get into that condi- tion? Private-He captured a bottle of whisky, sir. Officer-Yes, yes; but how did he man. age to do that?
 Private-I think he must have sur rounded it, sir.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-11-11
At KecIVille

Tuesday evening about dusk
some fellows broke into the store
of McCammon & Evans at Keel
vile, ten miles west of this city,
and stole a lot of stuff. The rob
berry was discovered in a short
time, and the community was in-
formed of it by use of the rural
telephone lines. The Ants of
the neighborhood got busy and
headed off the robbers, who we're
in an automobile. They left the
car, and took to the fields, and as
it was dark it was impossible to
follow them.
Just as we 60 to press we learn
they stole an automobile out in
the country, and it now looks as
If they made clean getaway.
The Ants could have made a
good catch If they could have
gotten close enough to the fel-
lows, but the thieves sighted the
the Ants afar off, and deserted
the car, not, however, until the
car was broken down.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-11-11

Walter Grantham has been buy
ing land down near Peoria for a
long time, and he has accumulated
about five hundred acres. In addi-
ton to this he has $500 acres un-
der lease. Some fine silicate dig
giugs are being opened up on his
land, and he is going to get rich
out of them. A drill rig was pull
ed onto his lands this week, and
a thorough drilling campaign will
be prosecuted. He is leasing a lot
of his lands.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-11-11
Columbus Wants
.,
the Road

The following from the Colum-
bus Advocate should be pondered
we'll. Baxter Springs must have
the road for the reasons the Ad-
vocate gives:
1.-THE Advocate is rejoiced over
the election in Columbus, on the
bond issue. We think Columbus
did the proper thing. The pas
sage of the bond pledge, by four
fifths of all who voted, reflects
the right kind of public spirit.
IF the interurban line is not built,
it will not be the fault of Colum'
bns.
Practically the only opposi-
ton here was on the part of some
who were afraid that taxes
would be raised" But Columbus
will not pay out one red cent of
this money, until after the line is
built and operating. If we get
the line, we surely haye received
our moneys worth. The town
bet on a sure thing. 1t cannot
lose, no matter what happens.
$50 far as future taxation is
concerned, no one need feel alarm.
We are just emerging from that
forty.year burden of bond taxa.
ton without representation.
After this, when We pay taVes
(and the Advocate is one of the
heavy tax-payiug institutions Of
Columbus), we can feel and know
that there will be value received.
but experience has proven
that the construction of enter
prises like this iuterurbau brings
more money, and more assessed
values, than the aid given BY the
city will amount to. The Iuter-
urban company will be one of our
big tax payers. and in the long
run II will turn back into the
county and city more than it takes
away. The Iuterurbau, to which.
We now lend a helping hand,
vim eventually Be our greatest
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-11-11
single asset. Wait and see.

single asset. Wait and see.
1T now remains to be seen
what Baxter Springs and Galena
will d. In reality, there is more
opposition among the mis-inform-
ed in those towns than there was
here. Before the PittsburG inter-
urban came into Columbus the
croakers declared that it would
kill Columbus. that all the
business would Cd. to Pittsbu-g.
But it didn't pan out that way,
as we all know. The Interurban
brought more people here to live,
just as this projected south line
will make more people move into
the big.townsiit touches. Baxter
will get its share of the boom, so
will Galena, aud so will Colum-
bus. Whatever town the Interur-
bah MISSES will be the unlucky
one. It will be rendered too dead
to skin. Probably Baxter needs
the line worst of all, as it has no
means of transportation. But
Galena needs the road badly, also,
so that people from this side of
that town can get to it.
THE freight shipping facili-
ties, all along the line, will be
vastly improved by the advent of
the new interurban.
ut would be amazing if either
Baxter or Galena voted against
the bonds.
I'm short it is as simple as
Abe. Wherever interurbans
abound, there the tendency al
ways is for country people, and
laboring people to seize the op-
portunity to move into the prin-
cipal towns, because they can
live in greater comfort there, and
at the same time travel back and
forth to their work or to their
farms"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-11-11
The Last Word

This is the last issue of the
News before the electric road
election, and we want to say a
a few things:
If you have the best interest Of
the town at heart vote for the
road. Baxter Springs slust have
the road if is built. 1t will be
suicide to turn down the opportu-
nifty offered to get 1t.
The building of an electric road
into this town and through it to
the surrounding town means a big
increase in real estate values. 1t
means a bigger and better town.
1t means work for everybody for
years to some, and lots of it.
1t will not cost Baxter Springs
anything to get the road. The
road will pay more taxes in the
town every year than the cost OF
int crest will amount to.
When you hear a man arguing
against the road, you can bet he
has a selfish interest at stake. No
man or merchant is going to be
hurt single penny. The increas-
ed population resulting from the
building of the road will make
the merchant dollars where he
will lose pennies, and the broad
minded merchant knows this.
Baxter Springs will increase in
population one thousand people
within twelve months after the
road is built here. Look at the
condition of things now. With
mining camps opening up all
around us, people are living in
Baxter Springs and working in
the camps. You all know this to
be true. With rapid trausporta-
ton to the camps this number
will increase a hundred fold. De-
prive people of the means OF 60
ing to and from their work in an
easy manner, and they will live
somewhere else.
If Baxter Springs fails to gel
this road towns are going to
grow out in the mining district
to a point where they will injure
the trade of Baxter Springs. Yor
know this is true. Make no mis-
take. Vote for the road. And ii
you are a real estate owner, you
will be very foolish indeed not to
vote for it. The road will en-
nance the value of your property,
and your neighbors.
Make no mistake. Go to the
polls and vote for the road. See
that your neighbor does likewise
We have great faith in the
good judgment of the people o.
Baxter. We feel that they are
going to vote for the road. But
good people, do not 60 to sleep
Work until the polls close.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-11-11
Distress In the Stomach

Distress In the Stomach.
There are many people who
have a distress in the stomach
after. meals. 1t is due to iudi-
gestion and easily remedied by
taking one of Chamberlain's
Tablets after meals. Mrs. Henry
Padghan, Victor, N. Y, writes:
For some time / was troubled
With headache and distress in my
stomach after eating, also with
constipation. About six months
ago 1 began taking Chamber
lain's Tablets. They regulated
the action of my bowels and the
headache and other aunoyances
ceased in a short time" Obtain
able everywhere. Adv.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-11-11
Every Meal You Eat !!

Might be made little better and little cheaper OBJ
the three leading elements of shOPPng-quali-
y, quantity and price. No article is necessarily eco
nomical because it is cheap. They often sell for little
and are worth less.
We have striven for long time, and today are max
ing more determined efforts than ever to make our
grocery department of high service and economy
to the people of this community.
We know that any purchase you make here is one of
economy, and reduces the present unreasonable cost
of living
Bring us your butter and eggs We pay more.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-11-11
Cooper Store Sells

Jasper Bros. of Ottawa, Kan
sas, have bought the Cooper Dry
Goods store, and will continue
the business.
They have been in the mercan-
tile business for years, and con-
sequently are not new to the
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-11-11

1t may be a surprise to you to
learn that in many cases Group
can be prevented. Mrs. II. M.
Johns, Elida, Ohio, relates her
experience as follows: MY lit
tie boy is subject to- Group. Dur
ing the past winter / kept 4 bot
tie of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy in the house, and when he
began having that cfoupy cough
[ would give him one or two
doses Of il and it would break
the attack. l like it better for
children than any other cough
medicine because children take IL
willingly, and it is safe and re-
IiabtE" Obtainable every where.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-11-11
GREYHOUND Race

The we'll known greyhounds,
Log Cabin and Eddie Collins, will
run a race at Neutral, Kansas, on
Sunday, Nov. IA. The dogs are
owned by lib Windle of Galeua,
and they are related to the find
dogs belonging to Walt Sullivan
of this city. The race will be
about 9 or 10 o'clock in the fore
NOON.