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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-17
The villain outvIIIsined.

Il wouldn't trust him. she argued
Neither would IT, assented the
other girl; he's as treacherous as
fountain pen"
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08

The steadily increasing deficit is an
occasion OF serious anxiety to the
White house. Since July l Uncle Sans
expenses have exceeded his receipts by
S2S, 500, 900. During the same period Of
last year, the excess was only S15.G00,-
900. Competent experts are convinced
that without special taxation the ex-
penses for the year will exceed the re-
ceipts by SlOO,OOO,OOO. Secretary Nc
Adoo says he is not worrying. There
is no country on the globe more able
to pay more taxes than the United
States, if our expenses are to be in-
creased" he said yesterday, on his re-
turn from his vacation in Maine. But
the president and others of his adj .
visers are worrying because they real.
ize that the imposition of further tax
es will make the administration un-
popular. The experts believe the ad-
ministration will have to sell bonds to
make good this deficit, even without
any increased expenditures for ma
tional defense. While the failure Of
the Underwood bill as a revenue pro-
ducer is largely responsible for the
serious condition of the treasury, an
other potent cause is the reckless ex-
travagance with which the democrats
have been spending money for junk
cts, special commissions, etc. One of
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08
The Festive Farmer

Farm life is an ideal life," says
Zim, in Cartons magazine, especially
in the story books and upon the the
ater stage. The farmer is his own
boss and monarch of all the acres that
are not plastered with mortgages. He
arises with the little birds, hits up
the hard cider in the cellar, then hies
him thither to toy with the cattle.
for milking at four a m. is one Of
the joys of farm life. From the milk
ing stool he wends his way to the
woodpile and gleefully chops up a
cord or two before the breakfast call
When the morning meal is over his
real life begins. Blended with the
buzz of rusty machinery, song and pro-
family, the remaining eighteen hours
are whiled away. When the farm be-
comes SO impoverished that it will
raise nothing but chin whiskers, he
let's the mortgage holder do his worst.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08
Garrison and Roosevelt

There is much sympathy in Wash
ington for Secretary Garrison who, it
is appreciated, would never have laid
himself open to just criticism by his
reprimand of General Wood had not
the president insisted upon it. OF
course the president was not really
angry with General Wood, but he was
infuriated by Colonel Roosevelt's pit
iless exposure of the weakness of the
Wilson administration and as he was
not in a position to crack Mr.. Roose-
velts head he instructed Secretary
Garrison to crack General Woods.
Secretary Garrison has been consis-
tent advocate Of competent and well
trained army and has made able rec
concentrations in his annual reports,
so that there was nothing in Mr..
Roosevelt's original speech which
could have offended him. But Presi-
dent Wilson has neither supported nor
sylnpathized with his secretary of war
and, because Of that lack Of support,
congress has seen fit to turn down Mr.
Garrison's every recommendation.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08
Daniels Responsibility

Recent disclosures regarding the fate
and condition Of the submarine, the
F-4, which sank with all on board in
Honolulu harbor show that a terrible
responsibility rests on Secretary Dan
iels. He censured, last winter, the
naval officer who told a committee of
congress the truth regarding the in
efficiency of the submarines, and he
authorized the continued use of the +
type of submarines despite the fact
that they were known to officers and
men to be unfit for service and that
just such a catastrophe as has oc-
occurred in the case of the F-4 was
likely to happen at any time. The navy
is doing everything pos
sible to suppress the facts but respon-
sibility for the death Of the twenty
two officers and men lost on that ship
rests squarely at the door Of Mr..
Daniels. They died sacrifice to his
stupidity and pride of opinion.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08

Whatever may be the merits of the
case at bottom-and doubtless these
will receive attention in congress next
winter-the fact remains that thus far
the critics of the new seaman's bill
are supported by events. The Pacific
Mail Steamship company has sold its
vessels; the Osaka Steamship COM
pany, a Japanese concern, is adding
six great new steamships to its fleet
On the Pacific, the American flag is
coming down; the Japanese flag is go
ing up. Instead of forward there
has been a backward movement in the
American merchant marine this year
With the withdrawal of the Pacific
Mail steamships from the trade the
Japanese lines must handle the bulk
Of the transpacific passenger and
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08
The Pleasant Smile

He was not rich in worldly goods;
No offices he held;
In no one field it might be said
of him that he excelled;
He managed but to get along,
To march with rank and file,
And yet he was unique in this
He had a pleasant smile.
While others careworn faces wore,
He smiled his way through life;
He'd had his share of trouble, too,
Of worldly care and strife;
But somehow burrows never came
That mark the weary mile;
His face a benediction was
He had a pleasant smile.
He made our burdens lighter seem;
Our worries chased away;
His CHEEKY greeting always made
A brighter, lighter day;
What though he never rode to fame
Or never made his pile?
A monarch might have envied him
He had a pleasant smile.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08
Merchants Display Booths To Be a
Special Feature of the Fair.
THREE BIG DAYS OF ENJOYMENT
Tuesday, The Children's Day

A big feature of the Prowers coun-
ty Fair, which opens Tuesday, Septem-
ber 2S, will be the merchants booths.
The big enclosed building arranged for
that purpose last year will be used
again for the displays. Amy mer-
chant, who desires to advertise some
SPECIALITY can obtain space for the pur-
pose, and all are invited to take part
in making this feature the big sue
cess it promises to be. A number of
our enterprising merchants are al
ready availing themselves of this op-
portunity. The exhibits are in an en-
closed building and are safe and Sc
cure from damage.
Tuesday, September %, will be
Children's Day, as the little folks un-
der 10 years of age are admitted free
and Mr.. Maxwell cordially invites ev-
cry one of the children in this and
neighboring counties to see his big
fair free on that day. The program
will be fully equal to that Of any Of
the other two days, and the big folks
who want to accompany the little
ones can see just as good races and
other attractions as on other days.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
will all be big days with the best rae
ing program offered in the state out
side of Denver this year. There will
be not one dull minute. Mr.. Maxwell
is negotiating for other attractions be-
sides those already given out, and
everyone who attends will be assured
a grand good time.
The fair is only three weeks off
now and every farmer and gardener
should be saving the best Of their
product for display. The county is
full of fine produce and there should
be a display that will be a big ad-
vertisement. Also the stock raisers
should bring in some of their best
animals and let us have a real stock
show in connection.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08
If Cotton, Why Not Leather?

From an intelligent Yankee more OF
less directly interested in the prosper
ity of the shoe manufacturing trade
the Sun has received the following
communication:
"To the Editor of The Sun-Sir:
notice that the United States treasury
mas decided to help southern cotton
planters.
Il am connected with the shoe trade
and since the Wilson tariff went into
effect the shoe business has been in
the worst state ever known, from
Eastport to Los Angeles. One thous-
and of the l 300 shoe manufacturers
in the United States would appreciate
financial aid, and l wondered if you
would use your kind offices with the
treasury department in the endeavor
TO see that the shoe trade gets the
same favor as the cotton planters.
Somebody has once remarked that
we were born free and equal, and on
this account feel that the demo-
cratic party, founded on the principle
to serve all alike, will come to the
rescue of the shoe manufacturers of
this country.
They certainly need the money
and when they can secure it from the
United States treasury without being
charged interest, it certainly speaks
well for the generosity and kindly
spirit of the democratic party.
EDWIN W. INGALLS,.
Lynn, Mass, August 25."
To the great majority of fair-mind-
ed persons we think that this applica-
tion in behalf of the shoe and leather
industry will seem reasonable and in
accord with the American principles
of equal rights and equal opportuni-
ties.
Possibly Secretary McAdoo and his
more or less populous surrounding Of
southern gentlemen in office have a
satisfactory answer to Mr.. Ingalls,
question: If money from the United
States treasury is to be lent without
interest for the support of the suffer
ing cotton industry, why not likewise
to sustain the languishing boot and
shoe industry?
But if Secretary McAdoo and his
southern friends have a satisfactory
answer to this question we should
like to hear it, for we cannot imagine
what it is.
1t cannot be that the far-reaching
plans of Mr.. McAdoo and his asso-
ciates for the extension of federal
functions by the purchase of ships
and the operation of a government
owned merchant marine contemplate
also the purchase of cotton planta-
tions with money from the treasury
and federal operation Of these plan
tations in order that the government
owned merchant marine may have
government raised cotton to carry
New York Sun.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08
Odd Bits of News

Cleveland, O.-"What's your name"
asked the street repair department
timekeeper of a worker. 81. Wonder"
the man replied. Don't kid me, what
is your name ?" 81 Wonder, | Won
der" The mans name way Hy Won
der.
Richmond, Mo.-Mrs. Catherine
Roberts, rs years old, was troubled
with swollen gums. A few days later
the edges of new set of teeth. her
third, appeared. Shortly she will
have a complete set.
Martins Ferry, O.-Near the River
side Bridge company's factory a
houseboat, loaded with pretty young
vacationists, was moored. But when
the girls began to disport in the wat
er every day, in garbs described as
close to nature" the workmen in
the factory threw down their tooIs
and spent their time in the windows
and on the roofs of the BUILDING
watching the antics of the fair bath.
ers' Now the bridge company is suing
TO compel the girls to move their boat
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08

these commissions is described as hay-
ing been so reckless in placing con-
tracts that one man, an expert ac-
countant and a worthy democrat. is
making 500 a day net profit on his
contract.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08

The Kaiser's submarines will prey
about as cautiously as cats, and all
our people will display their cocky-
doodles on their hats. There won't
be any more of that free shooting at
whatever floats. Our Uncle Sam has
come to bat and worn the cable out
with notes. The man who guards the
periscope will watch for Yankees when
in doubt, and seeing none will have to
hope there are none anywhere about.
A big gold chain or diamond pin is all
he needs to make it plain. The ad-
miral will simply grin and drop be-
meath the raging main. Our Uncle
Sam is very firm concerning whittier
We may fare. 1t may make other peo-
pie squirm, but we are going any
where. Across the sea, or by the shore
of whatever leaguered land, we go
where we have gone before, nor are
our persons contraband. The subma-
rine will have to bide by law and Gus
tom for the sword, or some nabob will
lose his hide to Edison or Henry Ford
At any rate, the eager moth
Will fall upon the Palm Beach suit,
And citizens in khaki cloth
Will do their best to learn to shoot.
The bracing fragrance of the air
Will give us all little pep,
And men with feathers in their hair
Will try the military step.
The flowers blooming for a day
Will droop eternally and die,
And the wild goose, who has been
away,
Will sound his saxon in the sky.
September is sometimes called the
loveliest of all months. II usually
opens with light fire in the fireplace,
and works up gradually to a furnace
fire about the 22nd, when the sun
crosses the equator and officially opens
the football season. The September
equinox as this is known, closes the
suns northern season, and institutes
that perfection of all perfections
known as Indian summer. The entire
month is carefully covered by the 20
diac. The first twenty days are in
huenced by Leo, the fifth sign, and the
last ten days by Virgo, the sixth sign.
People born in the first sign are great
lighters, and devote a great deal of
their time to drilling and other pre-
parations for war. They usually spend
the month of August in camp, and if
there is a war they ordinarily qualify
as officers and thus escape any great
danger of getting shot. Virgo people,
upon the other hand, are for peace,
and keep the Goals of that good cause
alive during wet times They are
about the last people to go to war, but
they are usually the first the enemy
sees.
The moon will be full on the 23d
Mr.. Rockefeller will not have any
birthday this month, and the price of
gasoline will not go up. We will have
good weather. 1t will be more like the
weather we had all the time Mr.. Taft
was President than any we have had
since. Jupiter has done very well as
evening star, and will be retained in
that position for awhile.
And then October will recur,
As lovely as a Persian rug,
And cider will begin to stir
In many a little hidden ing
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08

freight business. So it is written, at
all events, Of the present.-Christian
Science Monitor.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-09-08

And then October will recur,
As lovely as a Persian rug,
And cider will begin to stir
In many a little hidden jug.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-07
lRaEnola.s WeekIE. Londonl.

tAeFuold weekly L0D00nls
It is Krupp'se that the British war
workers have TO fight and beat, and
that is just as big q task as the sol
diers have to fight and beat the Ger
man army.
KruDp's is more than the greatest
war factory in the world; it is the
mightiest single industrial organiza-
ton that has ever existed. Never in
any industrial center has there been
anything like the stUpendous concen-
tratcd activity that now reigns in Is
sen. the WestphaIian city that has
grown up round the great works. Essen
is Newcastle and Sheffield and Barrow
.iu-Furness rolled into one, and more.
Before the war the company en-
ployed more than 10000 men. About
10000 were engaged in the gigantic
steel works at Essen, where the AZ
cenGmeter monsters come from, and
where daily there streams forth a ire
mendous volume Of guns and munj-
tions for Germany's armies. Ten
thousand men were digging for coal
in their mines in Germany. Fifteen
thousand JoiIed at their rolling mills
at Amen and Grusen and the blast
furnaces Of Rheiuhausen, Dulsburg,
NeuUiad and Engers. An army Of
1000 was engaged in their ship-build-
ing yard at KieI, and 5000 miners dug
for ore in Spain.
How many are employed now? Very,
very few in Germany know, and per
haps nobody outside kaiserdom does.
No government knows better than
Krupp's how to guard secrets, perhaps
few know so we'll
Day and night in Essen work goes on
without ceasing. In the great works,
spread over 1900 acres, 235 of them
under root, at least 1000 men toll in
shifts of eight hours each. Some sixty
factories make up the organization; 30
miles of standard railway link them
together and carry their products out;
80 miles of narrow lines are required
as auxiliary for the shops
More than $50 miles of cable and
wire and over 500 telephone stations
and 20 telegraph stations are needed
to facilitate communication through
out the works There are more than
800 steam boilers 10 generate the steam
for the 1900 different machines and
1924 electric motors at work.
Everything is on a giant scale. The
42-ceutmeter gun we know now too
we'll Visit0rs--they were a privileged
few carefully gutded-couId not see
it, But when they looked into nine
great cannon shops they could see
plenty Of grim 40-feet-long
guns among them-dwarfng the men
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-07
INDIA

The latest estimates gives India 9
population of 315.000,o00 and an area
Of 1.802.132 square miles. Its imports
in 1854 amounted 10 the enormous
total Of S594,5170oo, of which the
United States furnished only s15542,-
000. The value of American products
consumed annually in India is less
than s004 per capita Persons quail
fed to form an authoritative opinion
believe that this should be very mate
rally increased.
india has been characterized by a
recent writer as the treasure sink"
ami to an American commercial travel
er it seems like d bottomless pit, into
which supplies may be sent In an end
less stream" Certain it is that the
Indian field is aminently worth culJi-
waiting. and that to work it effectively
muca information Is needed of a spe-
cidc and not always readily available
kind. Those engaged ia the further
auce Of American foreign trade have
been devoting to it the most thorough
and painstakiDg attention, and to
these Investigations a special timeIi-
ness has been impaired by the Euro
pean war India, in I9l3-14, imported
from Germany and Ausuia-Hungary.
respectively. s4I092. 600 and $I3920,-
600 worth OF goods,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-07
POWER OF KRUPPS'

working beside them. In machine shop
/ No. 9 the soaring towers Of Cologne
/ Cathedral could be comfortably
housed
And the whole gigantic concern has
sprung from an humble cottage factory
with six w0rkmen. Essen was e filthy,
poverty-stricken little hole Of town
a century ago when the Krupp firm
was in its beginnings Today it has
more than 100000 inhabitants and is
/ one Of the finest towns in Germany.
But Frederick Krupp, the founder,
made no commercial success. He be-
queathed at his death in 1926 70 his
son Alfred, then aged Il. nothing but
a small forge and his secret Of making
crucible steel It was this secret of
crucible steel that made the krupp
works, however It's Incompatible
qualities and purity, enabling perfect
ly homogeneous. uniform and dense
blocks to be cast, caused the Prussian
government 10 give the works their
first order for 300 cannon.
It was the boy Alfred who won fame
for the firm, but he had to stick to it
for 25 years before getting success.
When he died in 1887 he was employ
ing 10000 men.
Friedrich Albert Krupp. his son and
the friend OF the kaiser, succeeded him,
and when he died in 1902 he left his
daughter, FraUlein Bertha Krupp. be-
fore she was 20 years OF age the rich
est woman in Europe. The great bust
ness was bequeathed TO her with every
imaginable safeguard, not the least of
which was the guardianship of the
kaiser.
Today the head Of the company is
the husband she married in 1906. Baron
Won KohIen ind HaIbach, a young Ger
man dipiomatist, who added the name
of Krupp to his own Krupp's was
turned into a company in 1908, and is
managed by directorate of ten mem
bers who are answerable to a board of
five
When the company was formed the
value of the undertaking was esUmat-
ed at G13.500.000, from which liabili-
ties to the amount of $500 600 had to
be deducted, leaving a dividend bear
ing capital of G8,000.000 OF this,
F'raulein Krupp took all but goo,
which it was necessary to aIIot among
the other founders" The capital was
increased by E1,000.000 in 1906.
Fraulein Bertha Krupp-after whom
today the German soldiers call the AZ
eentimeter gun "dicke BeFtha"-was
Meme Hebe Bertha" to the kaiser.
who presided at her wedding feast and
proposed her health in terms of pa
ternaI affection.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-07

A fracture is something more than
q broken bone; IL IS usually accom-
panied with more or less damage to
other structures. The break in the
bone may be the least serious part Of
the injury
Setting" the fracture or reducing
it Is unnecessary IN some cases, mad
vi5adia in others. and harmful in still
others. Furthermore, in many IN
stances it IS impracticable to reduce
or set a broken bone for week or
more following the injury, though
people ordinarily believe fracture
must be reduced at the Doctors first
visit For instance. in fracture Of the
fernur lthigh bone) it is generally i'm
possible 10 reduce the fracture-to
bring the broken ends In line and In
coutact-inside Of several days OF
treatment OF course, the physician
directs his efforts from the first to the
business Of overcoming the displace-
mene OF the fragments, but under the
most sHllfuI management it requires
several days TO accomplish this.
Properly treated fractures begin 10
knit" OF grow together a few hours
after the injury First there is bleed
/. ing between the broken ends Of the
bone and from the torn tissues about
the bone: then clot-formation; then
slow. contraction of the cIoti then the
rapid formation Of new blood vessels
tn the cI0ti then the deposit Of car
tlIage. and finally the cartilage chang
as into bone. But there is no particu-
lar day or days when cartilage or cal
l0us suddenly changes to bone-knits
That is just an absurd notion Nor is
there any particular day when the pa
tient is likely 10 suffer the most pain.