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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26
NOW AERIAL TORPEDO
DEADLY WEAPON OFFERED NAVY
DEPARTMENT.
For Many Reasons Far More Effective
Than Attack by Submarine
May Be Used in the Eu-
ropean War.

The navy department Is considering
the feasibility of using aeroplanes to
deliver flying fish torpedoes as pro.
posed by Rear Admiral Fiske. To
drop bombs is far more difficult than
1t would be to start a flying torpedo,
for a bomb must be let loose exactly
over the ship at the same speed at
which the ship is moving and that ia
difficult because of the air currents
and because the ship does not hold a
steady course and will, moreover, de-
fend itself with guns. Submarines
are handicapped by these and other
things, one being their slower speed.
But with the Gerial torpedo, the same
weapon as now is to be held rigidly
below the aeroplane, with its head
pointed forward and the projectile is
to be released by a lever When it
drops into the water it sinks to the
depth for which it has been set and
shoots forward to the ship.
A night attack is presumed, though
a day attack can also be made. The
aeroplane rises to about 1000 feet, and
is practically invisible, though it can
see the ships by their lights and their
hulls, which show black against the
water. The aviator descends in spirals
until he gets within 10 or Is feet of the
water at the side Of the ship he means
to attack and at distance of about
$500 yards from it. With pull of his
lever the torpedo is then released,
dropping horizontally. Up to 1000
yards good torpedo expert can hit
6O0-foot ship every time.
The ship, it is argued, cannot see the
aeroplane to anticipate it's attack, or
il, by good fortune, it does, the chances
of hitting the airship in it's spiral
course are almost negligible. 1t de-
livers its torpedo SO quickly that the
work is done before defense is pos.
sible. If it is hit, the exchange is of
one life and an aeroplane for thou.
sand lives plus ship. The reduction
in the distance for delivering the tor
pedo which the aeroplane will allow
may result in the reduction of the
weight of the torpedo. Already the
Germans have been experimenting on
Lake Constance, successfully, it is
said, with dropping torpedoes from
Zeppelins. This suggestion of Admiral
Fiske approaches the subject from a
new angle, and if experiment should
bear out the theory it is not impossible
that German and English naval arms
may use it.
This account is summarized from
the statement by Park Benjamin, who
writes as a naval expert for the indie
pendent. The tone of his article is
that the suggestion is regarded as en-
tirely good and that our navy depart
ment is considering it with a view Of
trying its practicability.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26
China Needs Weather Bureau.

The need of a weather bureau in
China is emphasized by c. D. Jameson
in his report to the American Red
Cross on the measures which his per-
sonal observations in China indicate
should be adopted to ameliorate the
flood and famine conditions of that
country. There are at present practi-
cally no rainfall statistics for the river
basins most subject to floods, much
less any organization for flood predic-
ton. Torrential rains sometimes &C.
cur in this region. In June, 1910, a
local downpour in the vicinity of
Szechow, lasting some AZ hours, is es-
timated to have amounted to "a inches.
The unofficial meteorological service
Of Zikawei observatory, extending
along the coast and up the Yangtse
valley is the nearest approach to a
national weather bureau yet existing
in China.-Scientific American.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26
Wireless on a Motor Van.

A motor delivery van travelling the
London area is fitted with wireless
Geographic apparatus and customers
orders for fresh supplies of goods are
transmitted to the head offices by this
means.
This ingenious method of speeding
up delivery has proved very effective
and the company by which it has
been adopted is enabled in many
cases to meet urgent demands with
unexampled expedition. Two aerials
are fixed to the top of the van inside
which the operator works, and orders
have been received at the Worship
street offices from a distance of ten
miles away.
"The messages are very clear, on
the whole" said an official, "but diff
ficulty is generally experienced when
the operator is working in streets
where the buildings are tall. High
structures impede the wireless
waves"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26

Vegetable parchment butter wrap
pers at the Republican office. adv
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26
THE SAMPLES BACK

The Oregon Short Line pulled OF
a new deal at Pocatello last Monday
that is worthy of special attention.
They had for long time been try
ing to have their inspectors see that
when potatoes were loaded for ship
ment to distant points that nothing
but saleable stuff was put in. They
sometimes had lawsuits to prove that
worthless stuff came out of a car at
destination, and they had inspectors
working on another plan the past
winter, assembling and saving
samples as they came out of cars at
destination. This stun was shipped
back to Pocatello, and meeting of
buyers and shippers was called.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26
Nations Shaking EVANGELISM.

Two hundred years ago there was
born man who, driven out of the
churches, brought people from the
world into the church as few men who
have ever lived. December 16, TIA,
was the birthday of George White.
field. Gifted naturally to a rare de-
gree, including such a voice as is sell
dom heard, he developed his gifts by
persistent industry, and became a
preacher who shook England and
America. We are accustomed to
things on big scale today; but
Whitefield's record would make an i'm
preston even on the twentieth CEN
fury. For 30 years he averaged one
and half sermons a day. His audi
ences averaged 1000, and at times
swelled to incredible size; some days,
at Kingswood and Cornwall, to 10000,
at Philadelphia to 10000, at Boston
Common to 10000, and at Moorfields
to 10000.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26

Hidden among the pages of statis-
tics and maps in the. 1911 general re-
port on the census of India are some
quaint stories of Indian beliefs and
superstitions. Mr. O'Malley, who SUI
perintended the census taking in Benz
gal, Bihar and Orissa, tells us that the
lower classes think that insanity Ia
due to excess of bile in the system or
to worms in the head.
Neglect of the worship of the gods,
or the curse Of Yogi Sadhu or other
holy man may produce it. Madness
being due to possession by an evil
spirit, every attempt is made to ap-
! pease or exercise it. The exorcists
hold smoking chilies to the nostrils
of the patient and chant mantras, ad
dressing the spirit in obscene Ian
guage, all with the idea of driving it
away. When these means prove futile
they prescribe a diet calculated to
force the spirit to leave his victim in
fear of losing his caste. The unfortu-
nate patient has therefore to consume
soup made of toads, etc. When these
abominable nostrums fail the use of
indicated oils and of indigenous
herbs and drugs is resorted to-
The medical treatment of the insane
sometimes takes the following forms:
"The mud taken from putrid tanks
is plastered on the patients head, or
aloe pulp is mixed with water and ap-
piled in the form of an emulsion. A
favorite remedy is soup made from
particular kind of frog"
Again, the caste question Is one
which is of particular Importance in
many Of the Eastern provinces, and it
is told how one chief accommodated
the recalcitrants in one highly organ
lied caste which had been split into
two hostile camps, and so effectual
and binding was this order that not
only did the BARRIERS, washermen and
priests of the state, who had hitherto
served them. refuse to work for them,
but the services could not be OBJ
tanned even of BARRIERS washermen
and priests residing outside the state.
This order was strictly enforced for
some time. The men of this caste
are clean-shaven and very well
groomed and dressed, but when the
dispute was eventually settled the per-
sons affected nv the order had long,
dirt-matted boards, the hair of their
heads was in long strands and filthy
in the extreme, and their clothes were
beyond description. for uncleanliness.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26
Typhoid Vaccine In Powder.

August Lumiere, inventor of color
photography, is said to have invented
way Of putting up antityphoid vac
cine in dry powder in capsules, Each
capsule contains 10000, 100000 germs
and four capsules are swallowed every
day for week.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26
Temperature and conductability.

1t has been known that some mate
rails are better conductors of cleo
tricity than others, and now Professor
Kamerlingh-Onnes of Leyden has dis
covered that at certain very low tenn
peratures many metals which are con-
ductors of electricity lose every trace
Of resistance to the current and be-
come what he calls "superconductors !"
The finest wires of tin and lead do not
become heated under the highest cur
rents. 1t is strange that when the
critical temperature is lowered even
slightly the superconductivity ceases
and the metal behaves as at other low
temperatures.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26
Excellent Advancement.

Police and health departments of
Salt Lake City are to be housed in
the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton building reesptly purchased by
the city. The%deal benefits both
sides-the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION gets needed cash for larger
quarters, and police and health de-
partment officials ruminate in a re-
ligious atmosphere.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26
Wasted Weather,

Remarkable weather we're having"
said the man who tries to be CONVEX
sational.
Eyes," replied the man who is ever
gloomy; but with no baseball nor
circus nor election in town | don't
see what's the use of it."
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26

Speakers went over the situation to
show how to grade, pack and snip
potatoes. and they kept producing
the awful examples" that had been
brought back, to show what the con-
sumers were being offered as Idaho
potatoes. It was said to be the most
convincing lesson ever presented, and
the buyers and shippers had only one
wish-that the potato growers VINO
sacked that kind of stun were there
to share their observations. 1t was
enough to kill the potato industry
If presented to the consumers with
out any of the redeeming features
of good potatoes that went with 1t.
a
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-03-26
HOLD QUEER BELIEFS
suPERsTlTIoNs OF THE NATIVES
OF INDIA.

Toad Soup a. Cure for Insanity 10
One of Them-caste Question Al.
ways Of Profound Impor-
lance.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
The Torch Of Civilization.

In the history Of civilization first one
nation arises and becomes the torch
bearer and then another takes the
torch as 1t becomes stronger, the
stronger always pushing the weaker
aside and becoming in its turn the
leader. Each nation that has borne the
torch of civilization has followed some
path peculiarly its own. Egyptian,
Syrian, Persian. Greek, Roman, Frank,
all had their ideal of power-order and
progress directed under supreme au.
thority, maintained by armed Organl-
zatlon. We Anglo-Saxons bear the
torch Of civilization because we pos.
sess the principles Of civil liberty, and
we have the character, or should have
the character, which our fathers have
transmitted to us, with which to up.
hold it. If we have not, then be sure
that with the certainty of law of
nature some nation-it may be one or
1t may be another-aready knocking ut
our doors, will push us from the way
and take the torch and bear it onward.
and we shall go down. Thomas Mel.
son Page.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
Classification Of Stars.

In classifying stars astronomers rec
ognize six degrees of magnitude, but
the term relates TO radiance or bril-
llancy rather than to size. Although
the classification is somewhat arbi.
trary, yet each degree of magnitude IL
approximately two and a half times as
brilliant as a star of the next magni.
tude below. Then, toO each magnitude
Is about three times more numerous
than the one which precedes it. Be-
ginning with the brightest, there are
visible without a glass about twenty
stars Of the first magnitude, about six
ty-live Of the second magnitude, nearly
200 Of the third magnitude, over 400 Of
the fourth magnitude, about LOO Of
the fifth and over 5000 of the sixth.
The total number of stars that can be
seen by the unaided eye is about 5000,
but not all at one time. This takes no
account Of the millions, perhaps hun.
dreds Of millions, in regions of space
that cannot be reached by the unaided
eye.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23

neyed everywhere in the United States,
has endured hardships to reach remote
districts, has helped to bear the bur-
den In every campaign which has car
ried or lost state.
The struggle this year in New York,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, when more than million votes
were cast for woman suffrage, has
been the most Illuminating In her ex-
perience. DR.. Shaw says, and the les
sons of this campaign, in which 1893
speeches stand to her credit, decided
her that field work rather than execu-
tive labor offers her the widest posi-
bilities for the help Of the cause.
The National Woman Suffrage as
sociation will hold its convention in
Washington from Dec. IA to 10. 1t
has appealed to the Democratic and
Republican national chairmen for a
hearing to present arguments for a
suffrage plank in the national plat
forms Several noted suffragettes have
been mentioned as u successor to DR..
Shaw, among them Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait. Mrs. Winston Churchill and
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
EAT A SQUARE MEAL AND
NOT FEAR INDIGESTION
Page Three

There are hundreds of people in
Ashland who were not the least bit
surprised when they read in the It'd
ings that McNair Bros. are selling
Mi-o-na on a guarantee to refund the
money in case it did not relieve. This
remarkable dyspepsia remedy will re-
lieve the worst case of indigestion,
headache, dizziness, or the general
played-out condition that afflicts
every one suffering with stomach
trouble. Mi-o-na does not simply re-
lieve, it aims to cure.
McNair Bros can tell you of many
we'll known people in this city who
this remedy has restored to health,
often after they have tried many
other methods of treatment with lit
tie or no benefit. No other dyspep-
sia remedy has made so large a per-
centage of cures as Mi-o-na. 1t is
so large that McNair Bros. stand
ready to refund the price to any Gus
toner whom 1t does not help.
The best kind of advertising is the
praise of a pleased customer, and
there are hundreds in Ashland today
praising Mi-o-na because ii does what
1t is advertised to do. A few months
ago they could eat nothing without
wondering what the result would be.
Since using Mi-o-na they eat what
they want and when they want with
no fear of suffering.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
Hot Winds.

The sirocco blows hot from the high
lands of north Africa and falls on the
Mediterranean as far as Malta. The
salano jumps like windy freball
from the heat of the Sahara desert and
lands flatfooted In Spain. The harmat-
tan blows hot Sahara dust far into the
Atlantic and gives nosebleed and
makes skin and lips parch and crack,
while furniture and ship timbers groan
and crack and scream in an agony Of
droughty despair. The khasmin blows
Saharas ancient dust into Egyptian
eyes every fifty days, The pamperos
periodically blow down into Buenos
Aires out Of the unexplored desert
highlands of Brazil, and the blowing
causes suicides and murders to be more
common and wounds to break out
afresh, with a heavy death rate. Pam
peros pass away in second, leaving
the air fine.-Exchange.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
A Japanese Breakfast.

The usual japanese breakfast con
slsts of rice, misc, soup, pickles and oc-
casionally fish. Tea is always served
with meals and is drunk clear, without
sugar or cream. Misc soup consists of
strips of radishes, seaweed, eggplant or
other vegetables cooked with bean
curd and water. The cooking is not
continued for a long period, and so few
vegetables are used that the soup par
takes only slightly of the flavor of the
ingredients.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
SURFACES CHIEF
WILL RESIGN POST.
Dr.. Shaw to Retire as Head OF
Suffrage Association.

DR.. Anna Howard Shaw will not be
a candidate for reelection to the presi-
dency of the National American Wo-
man Suffrage association. After eleven
years of continuous service as chier
executive she has announced her re-
tirement from future Office in order to
devote her entire time to campaign
work in the states where suffrage Is
on the eve of submission to the polls.
For thirty years DR.. Shaw has been
one of the most conspicuous figures In
the 6ght for suffrage. She has jour-
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23

Mr.. Frank Brangwyn. A. r. A.,
knows his Paris as well as most, and
also a good many more out Of the way
parts of the world besides-Russia,
Spain, Alglers, Turkey and the rest
which he has visited in the pursuit of
his art, more especially during his ear.
lier days, when he was less aflluent
than today. in which latter connection
he once had an amusing experience.
During q financial crisis he sought to
effect loan of $50 on the security Of
one of his own pictures. The pawn
broker offered $3.50, to the artists in
dignation. why, the frame alone Is
worth more than that" he protested, to
be met with the crushing reply, 81
know it is, and it is on the frame that
| am lending the mOney."-Westmin'
ster Gazette.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
Christmas at the Presbyterian
Church,

Opening song, "Joy to the World"
school.
Welcome address, George John
son.
Song, primary department.
Recitation by Leo Cooper.
Violin duet by Chester and Harvey
Woods.
Song, Ramona Wise.
Star drill, sixteen girls.
Duet, Bethlehem Babe" Priscilla
Carnahan and Florence Allen.
Address, Rev. H. A. Carnahan.
Song by Santa Claus.
Distribution of Christmas treat to
the school.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
Trinity Eniscopal Church.

Vicar, the Rev. p. X. Hammond.
Sunday school Christmas entertain
ment Thursday evening at Z o'clock.
Church services on Christmas day at
1880 a, m. and II a. m. Sunday
services: Holy communion at 1880
a. m. Sunday school at 9.45. Morn
ing prayer and sermon at II. Even
ing prayer and sermon at 1880.
Strangers and visitors cordially wei
coined.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
Conversational Church.

Christmas services will be held on
Sabbath, December 26 Sunday
school at 9:45. Morning worship at
II: theme, THE Incarnate Word.
Y. p. S. C. L. at 1880. Sermon for
the old year, Life; It's Hopes and
Disappointments, and Their Gracious
Design" The following musical
numbers will be rendered.
Morning service: "There Were
Shepherds" S. w. Beazley; Joy to
the World" E. K. Heyser
Evening service: while Shep-
herds Watched Their Flocks,' j. j,
Thomas.
You are cordially invited to attend.
Rev. r. w. Farquhar, minister.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
Interurban Autocar Company.

Between Ashland, Talent, Phoenix
and Medford car leaves Ashland
northbound daily except Sunday at
800 a. m, 1850 p. M, 2:So p;
m, $3.50 p. m, 4:45 p. m. and
6:15 D. m. Sundays leaves Ash
land at 900 a. m, 100 p. M,
500 p. m. and 1890 p. m.
Leave Medford for Ashland daily ex-
cept Sunday at 500 a. M, ld:S0
a. M, 1:15 p. m, 2:3O p. M, .: 40
D. m. and 5:15 p. m. Also on sat
urdays at 11:15 p. m. On Sundays
leave Medford at 1000 a. M, 4:oo
D. m. and $3.50 p. m. -,
Our cars are kept warm in cold
weather.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23

AT THE CHURCHES
First Church Of Christ, Scientist.

Pioneer avenue south. Sunday
service at IL o'clock; subject of les
son sermon, christian Science" "
Sunday school at 10 o'clock. We'd
nesday evening meeting at s o'clock.
Reading room open from to daily
except Sundays.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
A Whistlinu Moth,

A whlstllng moth is an Australian
rarity There is a CLASSY space on the
wings crossed with ribs. When the
moth wants to whistle it strikes these
ribs with its antennae, which have a
knob at the end. The sound is love
call from the male to the female.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
Photo by American Press Association.
MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM H. CARTER

MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM H. CARTER.
in thousand" saved the lives Of sew
eral wounded men and won for him
self the medal which it is the desire
Of every soldier to merit.
He was born in Davidson county,
Tenn, in 1851, and Joined the Army
of the Cumberland while a schoolboy.
Before he was thirteen years old he
won recognition for gallantry by carry
ing a message across the front Of a
line Of fire. After the civil war he
entered West Point and after gradua-
ton was assigned to the west, where
he won fame as an Indian fighter.
During the Spanish war he was held
on duty at the war department, and he
is accredited with having a large part
In the formation Of the general staff
system. Later he served In the Philip
pines and was in command Of the
troops that suppressed the Pulajan In
surrection. Returning to the United
States. he served again in the west and
was sent to Honolulu in January, 1914.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
INDIAN FIGHTER RETIRED.
Major General William H. Carter En-
listed Whan a Mere Lad.

Major General William II. Carter, U.
S. A.. who has been in command of
the Hawaiian military department, has
been retired on account Of age.
lie is one of the medal of honor men
in the army. There was fight with
the Apaches on Cibicu creek, Ariz.,
Aug. 80, 1881, and during it Carter,
who was then first lieutenant of the
Sixth cavalry, by taking zone chance
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
Psychology.

Psychology is the science of explain
ing why the time between weekly pay
days seems longer than the period
from one monthly gas bill to the next
Toledo Blade.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
Unexpected.

Bill-Did you ever try to stand on
an egg?
Jill-0h, yes.
"And what did you learnT
"That the inside of the egg was
stronger than the outside. ."-Philadel-
phia Record.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
A Last Resort.

Cant you do anything at all for my
hair?"
"Nope," said the barber. "Hair all
gone"
"But my dome shines like a newly
starched collar. Can't you give 1t a
sort of dull finish "-Exchange.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
Worse Still.

81 have a wife who is like bird that
can sing and won't"
you're lucky. Mine can't sing and
WilL"-BaltimOrA American
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23
Resu|t-Getting Classified Columns
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who for example, publishes
the result desired decides that advertising pay should study
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of TRY again potent in want advertising any
enterprise.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23

FOR SALE-Horse, four years old
coming five, weight 1900 pounds;
two-seated rig buggy, harness;
three cows, all milking; 100 White
Leghorn hens. Inquire 36S Otis
street, near Helman's bath. 5S-4t%
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-12-23

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