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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17

London IL one OF the greatest fur
markets OF the world. and II Is
claimed that a years auction sales
in that capital often amount TO more
than s20.ooo,ooo. Many curious in
cidents and caprices of the London
market are recorded. For instance.
ever since the middle ages erm,ne
has been the fur OF royalty. and IL
is still used in the trimming OF state
garments OF kings ana queens. In
time, however. II fell into disfayor
with women OF fashion. White err
mine skins became 20 cheap that
the Canadian. Siberian and Chinese
hunters no longer sent them 20 mar.
ket. About 20 years ago. however
the word went around from some
mysterious fashionable source that
ermine should once more be the
mode. whereupon all the buyers
began to demand ermine skins. and
the price went up 10 a high figure
As might be expected. the market
was soon giutted. Chinese hunters
sent TO London no fewer than 10000
ermine skins In the spring OF one
year. And then they promptly went
out OF fashion again. The ermine
f. white. with the exception OF the
tail, which IL black. These tips.
dressed with the white fur at regu.
lar intervals. make the spotting Of
black which Is seen on state gar.
ments OF ermine. Among the cost
Hest OF furs In the Siberian zibeline
OF sable, an animal which IL said
20 be rapidly nearing the point OF
determination. This little creature.
known 10 science az mustels zibe-
line. IL about ls inches long. with a
bushy tail and a sharp. whiskered
nose. n has a remarkably rich fur.
dark brown or black. and very ius-
trous. The imperial court at Petro-
grad has always demanded that the
finest OF the zibelInes be reserved
for It's use. They are known az
"crown zibelines.- = Washington
Star.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17
A Poem a Day.
rnH EXODUS

THE EXODUS.
Use gwine from ae cotton neid.
fse gwine from dc cane.
l'se swine from De old log hut
Dat stands down In de lane.
DE boat am on de ribber
Dat am come 60 take me on;
Use gwine 10 Jine do exodus
OATS maxim 20 de norf,
Dey say out dere In kansas
Where so many mile. away
Case dey're gettin' better pay.
I don't know how III ind IL dere.
Hut den Ise gwiue TO try.
And when de sun goes down tonight
Use swine 10 say good-by.
Chorus.
Use gwine from de cotton neid
An OH IL makes me sigh
An whom de sun goes down tonight
Use gwine to say good-by.
ole Dinah she don't want to go.
She says shes gettin' old.
she'm 'frald that she might freeze 10
death.
Case de country am so cold.
An all about de work an pay
she don't believe am true.
An bess me not TO do de thing
Dat l arm bound To do.
But then Use sold my cabin.
An my little patch OF groun',
Dat good old maSra gave me
When de Yankee troops come
down.
Ny heart am berry hebby.
An de tears come In my eye.
An when de sun goes down tonight
Use gwine To say good-oy.
II grlevss me now TO leave de spot
Where I Was born an bred.
DE friends dat now am living.
An de graves OF dem dat's dead
De flowers about on massas grave
VIII miss my tender care.
No hand like mine viii ever 80
To keep dem bloomin' derel
But den de times am got so hard
An am old an poor.
De hungry wplf comes creepin' In
An snAriin' at my door.
An ] must help de chiilun some
Before l come 20 die.
An when de sun goes down tonight.
Use gwine TO say good-by.
Author unknown.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17
A Policeman's Lot

In 1880 Gilbert and Sullivan pro
duced light opera to which they
gave the name OF Pirates OF Pen
rance" In this play. as droll and
melotlons feature. some twelve or
fftecn English policemen, headed
by q sergeant, are made 20 appear.
The sergeant sings:
when n feion's not engaged In his
employment
or maturing hts feionlous little
His capacity for innocent enjoyment
l. just as great as any honest
mans.
our feelings we with difficulty
when eonstabulsry du,y's to be
done:
An. take one consideration with an
other
A poiieeman.s lot IL no, a happy
enc.
when the enterprisins burglars not
a-burgiing-
When the cut throat isn't occupied
In crime.
He loves 20 hear the little brook a
And listen to the merry village
when the eos,sr's finished Jumping
ON his mother.
He Loves to lie a-oasking In the
All. take one consideration with an.
The polieeman's lot IL not a happy
one.
The policeman. as a type. Is SINH
lar the world over. His lot 10, In
deed. a hard one. or. rs the cockney
sergeant would put II, not happy
one. There Is a saying round about
police headquarters In every city
that a policeman must always have
his business eye with him. which
means that he must look sternly for
the criminal In every one he meets
Common sense VIII tell any one that
this Is a delicate assignment. one
that II likely TO sink the policeman
into sourness OF disposition whlcN
would regard all people rs jali-birds
In disguise: On holidays, and or
such other days when policemen
are OF duty officially, II IL by no
means happy task to keep cast
ing about for those persons who
have a natural capacity for innocent
enjoyment II tore the sergeant'
heart strings to lead his mer
against the pirates OF Penzance. his
fine fellows. who would scuttle ships
but never rob an orphan.
So II Is with the profession today
we imagine. Trials have. II any
thing. multiplied In these "a or 3:
years. There are more policemen
and more burgiars-both In England
and elsewhere; and the humanity
OF the policeman Is tenderer. IL pos
slble. All this is somewhat aside
the local subject OF police activity
but Il indi ates that the public en-
tertains a deeper sense OF sympathy
for the policeman than possibly the
policeman imagines. One week We
have hilari and liquor on Sunday
and the next we have vacant bar
rooms and Sunday quiet In between
occasions, both OF which, by thu
way, are OF the unusual" type. We
have had the constables. What bus
mess have they interfering with 20
lice duty, 1ne sergeant OF 1880
unhappy az his lot may have been
could never have sung of the tribu
lations which harass the police Of
1s15.--Tndianapolis News.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17
CHANGING THEIR DIET

Americans who nave been influenced By the
orient 10 the extent OF taking their tea clear.
without MIX or sugar. will be astonished 10
learn that the Occident V nov bent ~ teaching
he Chinese TO use milk With their decoction Of
tea leaVes-and condensed milk at that.
An enterprising condensed milk company Il
pushing the campaign and expects 20 be sue
cessful This concern has already introduc ed
condensed milk ice cream 10 the Chinese. and
hey Ike y SO well that many OF theirestaurants
keep IL always on hand
Practically no fresh milk In 10 be had IN China
although the natives seem familiar enough with
the virtues OF both the fresh and the condensed
article.
Perhaps after all the orientals have taken
their tea clear because there was no milk 10 pu,
in II and not because they thought the addition
OF milk ruined the beverage.-New York Tele
gram.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17
Outdoor Exercise EUen on Cold
Damp Days VIII Bring Health

run low or go out entirely and then
the chill that creeps into the house
keeps us from opening windows and
doors as much "a we should. Thus
the air In a great many homes be-
comes foul. That IL one reason for
urging outdoor exercise AZ This sea
son.
Another reason II that after .
siege Of winter our physical STAN.
ina Is al low ebb. II is badly In
need OF recuperation and this recu.
peratIon can best be obtained by get
ting out I'm the open. IL doesnr neeo
TO be sunshiny OF warm, for even the
cold. damp day outside affords bet
ter physical return than a warm dry
house, the afr in which Is dead.
Many people ignorant OF the fact
that the skin contains grease as
well as sweat glands foolishly use
preparations to keep the skin dry.
secretions from the grease glands
are OF great benefit to the skin and
should be promoted, not hiDdered.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17
~ HERBERT QUICK.

There Is one hotel manager to
whom should like to commend the
reading OF Harry Leon Wilson's hu-
morous story. "Ruggles OF Red Gap.
Ruggles was an Englishman's son.
but found his vocation In the owner
ship OF the United States Grill In
Red Cap.
To his customers. he says, Il ex-
planned that should give them but
fov things. but that these should be
food In the hnest sense Of the word.
adding that the fault OF the Ameri-
can school OF the caterers lay IN
attempting a toogreat profusion OF
dishes, none OF which in consequence
could be raised to its highest
power
Its highest power should
rather think not.
I have In mind certain hotel
in which fer my sins II am coca
sionally obliged TO become guest.
It is the best imitation OF a hotel
Of which I know. II has some sort
Of similitude OF every modern con-
yenience. and every one bogus.
But the most bogus thing about
Il Il the bin of fare. There Is mo
cafe in New York which has .
longer one Everything is on tab
soiutely everything II takes half
an hour merely 10 read the thing
1t hasn't q very large business
and OF course II can't afford the
corps OF chiefs and assistants neces-
sary to the preparation OF all these
things. The result Is that the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17
In Spring An Editorial
Writer'S Fancy Gently Turns
Already

AIeauyl
Now the baseball teams are playing
In Gulfport and other sweet southern
towns, and the smack of the ball against
bat and glove is heard.
Now the time of the singing birds is
come, and the voice of the turtle is
heard in our land.
Now rasn stroll to the river, and sit,
or lie, in a patch of sunshine, against
Il post, and think, and think, and think,
Nov the hounds of spring are on win
ter's traces.
Now our wonien-folk suggest how nice
it would We 10 have vegetable garden
IN the backyard, and now we would be
almost persuaded, we're il not for GER
thin nnacco0ntable cautious streak in the
blood.
Nov is the time which led the ancient
poet 10 cxclaim Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-
Nee. in-witta-woor'
Now We spend Sunday morning see.
ms wkai the moths have done. and max.
inf setilnetcs of the probable excess OF
expenditum uver Income.
\ Nor \ along Gun northern tier Of
<ta, f'wfn TIE Olympics 10 the st
fftif fAcl hat fhere is something
.( ia lipost wish il wcrerf
aatalhsees railroad time tables
<t <nrnpfrs snapshots, the smell Of 9
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17

balsam pillow-these are the times that
try mems souls.
II is a moral certainty that on days
like these, cartridges are drumming.
The ducks, the ducks, the ducks!
On the Fox river, about 20 miles above
the railroad, where there was once a
dam, and where even now the remains
of massive timbers block the rush Of the
waters
Say, Red Gods! Cut it out!
Can't you see we're suffering?
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17

The end Of exercise In the fresh
air Is best indicated by contagious
disease records which Invariably
show an increase during the winter
months.
Even a walk In a cold rain viii
do enc less harm than stay -cooped
up indoors and breathing stale air.
The air in most homes Is constantly
contaminated. This contamination
may be slight but combined with low
vitality IL very likely TO bring on
serious sickness.
When the winter turns tow ~
spring We do not need az much heat
IN our homes. We let the furnace
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17
From Another
Point of VieU

A minister in Kansas town has the
job OF gravedlgger for side line. That
is to say, We suppose, just to MI IN
Vice President Marshall says that those
who think the United States should get
into the war should be made to enlist
before being allowed to express their
opinion. Speaking of silencers. the Max
i'm idea has nothing on the vice presi-
dents.
Two telephone operators are accused
by the company of having knocked down
the nickels from 200 calls. Just possibly
it is from these two we have been get
ting the busy signal
The policeman who drank in a saloon
open long after legal hours got shot and
killed. A policeman who was with him
In the saloon has lost his job on the
force. The policeman who did the killing
got drink in the saloon and faces a
charge of homicide. The saloonkeeper
who supplied the drinks in Illegal hours
Is all right. He has been o. X by the
police commissioner.
New York society women are taking
boxing lessons In their circle the men
viii more than ever fear women's rights.
The number of assertions reported in
the war suggest q like number of
mothers who didn't raise their boys to
be soldiers.
For good St Patrick tbs tn day
The green We are a wearin',
To prove despite where we were born
We're loyal sons of Erin.
'Tis strange how but bit of green
Can find US all comparin':
With Herman Krause and Kelly, too,
Today both sons Of Erin.
Indiana's legislature has passed a law
requiring hotels to furnish sheets eight
feet. three inches long. Which way Of
the bed do they sleep in Indiana?
w. w. Armstrong, dead in Washing
ton, willed his mother-in-law a tomb
stone. He waited, seemingly, until it
was comparatively safe to take the shot.
Why not hand the Nobel prize to the
peace agent who seems to have arranged
a truce between st. Patrick's day and
the weather At that, there's chance
for blizzard before night.
They arrested man in Kentucky who
carried three revolvers. Injustice, may
be. The fellow, like as not, is an expo
nent Of peace
Says science note:
Sand forms the best surface on which to en-
pose garments or bedding infested with 1eas
II the sunlight u strong enough 10 raise the tenn
perature OF the sand 20 100 degrees the fleas
will be destroyed within an hour. provided there
Is no vegetation or other shade where they can
take refuge,
However, the best way, perhaps, is. to
keep dog and then you always know
where they ere.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17

eep with ! n
doors. Since out.
door IL most es
sentIal to health
we should Ignore
the weather and
get out OF doors
al least a part
Of each day.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17
All Want Photos

II was inevitable that the war
would produce some Industrial sur
prises and oddities: yet u viii seem
strange to the man in the street that
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17

During the cold. damp days Of the
late winter people are too apt to
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17
Are You Laying Up a Little
Strength for a Later Day!

George Burns, who plays first base for
the Tigers, is in hospital down south,
having undergone an operation for APP
pendicitis.
This means that the Tigers win start
the season of 1915 handicapped by the
absence of an important cog in the ma
chine.
The doctors say that Burns will not be
able to play ball until June, but the sit
nation COULD BE much worse.
BURNS HIMSELF is RESPONSIBLE
4 FOR THE FACT THAT 1T ISN'T
WORSE.
In which connection one of the sport
ing writer's In Gulfport says:
Il II not believed that the operation
VIII prove q particularly serious one. as
burns 10 In splendid condition and al
Ways has been q lad Of perfect habits
Young man. take note of that para
graph.
Read It again.
You may not enter professional base
ban when you grow up, but you WILL
engage in SOME vocation and become
= player in SOME game; q cog in SOME
!. machine that win depend as much upon
YOU and your presence at your post as
the Tigers are depending this year upon
Burns.
Upon the success of this machine, in
the mercantile or manufacturing world
u n the professional field, your own sue
\ Co.'S win depend, for you win be quickly
rDotted az one who contributed toward
+ IL success or failure.
TO team work the merchant must look,
the manufacturer must look, government
must look for results.
with one player out Of the game the
side Is weakened both In its ofense and
}ofense
Unless your habits are what they
ought to be, and unless your body is kept
- sound and clean as II ought to be, and
your mind as clear and level as il ought
70 be. you win not be meeting your OBJ
Hfation to your employer, or, later on, let
n hope. TO your own organization, and
they will have counted you out before
YOU have recovered from blow that
ought not to have faxed you
n First Baseman Burns lived between
SEASONS in manner that would permit
\ him to report in spring with his body
not perfect, as the necessity for an OPP
Grafton indicates, but with his general
constitution in such good shape that a
serious operation viii keep him out Of
the strenuous game of baseball only
few weeks.
How are you, young man, spending the
season that will bring Up at reporting
time7
How are you, older man, providing
against the demands of nature that are
bound to come with years.
Keep yourselves in shape.
Lay up store of health and strength
Ai M 10 r,v,onovad
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17

A minister in Kansas town has the
Job of gravedigger for side line. That
is to say, we suppose, just to fill in.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-17

Two telephone operators are accused
by the company of having knocked down
the nickels from 200 calls. Just possibly
it is from these two We have been get
ting the busy signal
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-21
ACCiES WILL .'1.
MEET PRESTON
AGGREGATION
Game With o. s.. A. Scheduled for
Next Saturday
Night

The Aggies will lock horns with the
team of the Oneida Stake Academy
on Saturday night January % at tho
Smart Gym. This will be the second
game for the Aggies this year on
their own floor.
The Preston boys we're severely
drubbed by the b. Y. G.. team here
last Saturday night, and 1t Is very
likely that they will not stand for
another defeat OF that nature again.
The Aggles are also in excellent trim
and there is little doubt but what
they will walk off with the big cad
of the score
Captain Hugh Peterson who made
twenty field baskets against this team
last year, will be in the lineup e.,
forward and center Erickson will
also play in the pivot position Kap
pei and Packard will hold down the
guard end, and Maughn and Dortcn,
will play forward. tl
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-21
THE SERVICE OF SCIENCE

1t may seem strange that the sci
entists attending the sixty sixth an.
nual convention of the. American. as
ISOLATION for the Advancement of Sci
ence should deem It necessary to la,
special stress upon the practical
value to the public of the researches
Of the scientist. their worth in dol
lars and cents and in human safety
and happiness to the man In the
street, as one OF them phrased it.
Yet 1t must be acknowledged that,
with few famous exceptions the
workers In the field Of science whose
discoveries have revolutionized and
are revolutionizing conditions for
mankind. work and live and die in
comparative obscurity; almost, so far
as the general public is concerned,
"unwept, unhonored and unsung."
These patient and enthusiastic delv
ers in research work, are too apt to
be dismissed from popular thought
with the belittling designation OF
"highbrows. The man in the street
does not understand or care to under
stand the processes by which the
| scientists wrest secret from nature
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-21
HELPS WORKING GIRLS
FIND EMPLOYMENT

In the About People" department
of the February Woman's Home Com,
panion appears a sketch OF Miss Ger.
trude Robinson Smith who has done
great work along the line OF helping
women to secure employment,
Following is an extract from the ar.
ticle:
Last fall Miss Smith returned from
war stricken Europe after driving a
motor car clear across France in spite
of fifty seven military interruptions,
aud with characteristic energy threw
herself into the work Of aiding girls
who had been thrown out of employ
ment. She Immediately established
an employment bureau at the Vaca-
ton Savings Fund headquarters at ~
East Thirty-Eighth Street, New York
and kept the telephone wires busy
informing employers all over the city
that the bureau was open, and that
IL was incumbent on them to send
there for recommended girls for va
rious positions So persuasive and in
| sistent was she that the first week
the bureau placed fifty girls and re
ceived applications steadily thereaf
ter. For temporary relief, Miss
Smith opened a workroom for making
Red Cross garments and supplies
| where any otherwise unemployed
girls might work, receiving fifty cents
a day. These new Developments also
! illustrate the sdaptability OF the Va
cation Savings Fund. This organic
alton was started by Miss Smith ioul
years ago and has been developed pI
her in cooperation with MRS. Charles
| II. Israels, Miss Anne Morgan, Mrs
Roger Bacon and others, under IN
Eauspices of the American Civic req
Grafton. Branches OF the Fund hay
been ,established-alw viii With the al
provaf and cooperation Of empioyer
in one hundred and seventy-hYe 2
! the largest stores, factories, and OF
fees in New York, and others are DC
ing organized in Philadelphia, WasI
ington, Worcester, and Chicago. Las
summer there We're on the rolls s
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-21
GARiBALDi SOLDIER 80
OF FORTUNE

Ricciotti Gariba,di, the grandson Of
the liberator, who has been killed at
the front In France while leading .
charge against the Germans In the
Argonne district, will be mourned In
Mexico by the Maderistas If gratitude
Is one OF their virtues for he served
valiantly under Francisco Madero in
the rebellion against the Dias reg
ime. When Ricciotti the younger
was in this city in the end of Feb
ruary. 1913, and on his way to Mexico
to look after property interests there
he had something to say about Am
erican Intervention in Mexico that Is
of interest now:
II 1t we're known that the, United
States did not desire Mexico or the
capital of Mexico permanently there
would still be a hard, though per
haps swift campaign from Vera
Cruz to the capital. The United
States in possession or the capItai
might order free election. This
would appeal to the poems, Yho are
the fighters of Mexico. va
General Ricciotti Garibaldi fore
saw the great European conflict in
which he met his death. Il am
against the Pan German movement,
he said early in 1913, "and therefore
| am glad to see France taking steps
to arm herself adequately" Most oil
the men of the legion which he rails
ed in October last for service with
the French army enlisted to fight the
Austrians, and they refused to follow
him. By an arrangement between
the Italian Republican party and th'
French government the seceder'
were sent home. 1t was with the 10y
al souls devoted to the Garibaldi fam
lily that Ricciotti, true soldier o.
fortune, took his place In the Frenci
ranks at the front.-New York sun
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-21
SPIRIT or bEDITE
AT B. Y. COLLEGE
Various Class j Have -iL.ors Who
Are MaNin3 Good Showing
In Competition

Resolved, That the United States
should greatly increase its Army an1
ton discussed In the first series Of
debates at the brigham Young Col
loge, Monday evening. In the first
Shiess, first yea" students, represent
ed the Affirmative; Orlo Hyde and
Mamie Carlson, the negative. In the
second debate Morris Christensen
and Leroy Hanson were the second
year team, hand ing the affirmative
question: Price and Mabel Hendricks
were the debaters for the fourth year.
class. Professors Sorenson, Kemp,
and Peterson we're the judges OF
each debate and In each case the de.
cision was given to the negative.
The same proposition will be dis
cussed on Friday night beginning at
z o'clock in Ntbley Hall. This time
the college team will meet the Sec
ond years: and the fourth years, the
first. Each class has two debating
teams. The classes represented In
the last debates will have new debat-
ers and the opposite side they had
in the last debate. Pearl johnson
and David Hyde are the college team,
John Adams and Alice Merrill. the
fourth year; John Bistline and Ven
ice Nc Alister the second year; John
Marshall and Harold Clawson, the
first year.