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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-18
GOES To GOSHEN

Miss Addie r. Spangle. 626 \ Mich
igan st, formerly pianist at the Indi-
ana the<Ster. has accepted a position
as Organist AT the Jefferson theater at
Goshen. where she sSill operate the
new $4,000 pipe organ recently in
stalled by the Allardt management
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-18
Now'S The Time

20 buy a good used automo-
bile. Many car owners, rath.
er than have their money
tied up all winter. their car
stored away in the barn and
the tires drying up from
lack OF use.
going on just the same, throw
them on the market and get
whatever they can.
You may find just what
YOU want and at your own
price-in today's Want
Ads" II you don't. spend a
few cents and advertise TO
buy one.
Furthermore, no dealer
will carry a long list Of used
cars all winter II ne can dis
pose OF most OF them now,
at anywhere near what he
has allowed on them.
Read the advertisements
and advertise in The News
Times.
"A great paper for results"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-18

Suit to recover on a prOmissory note
alleged to be due the plaintiff was
started in superior court Wednesday
by Caroline Miller against II. Z Reid.
judgment of $50 is asked.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-18

Fannie King was granted divorce
from Rex King Wednesday in supe-
rior court She will be prevented from
remarrying for two years. according
to the decree.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-18

Suit TO fOreclose on mechanics
lien and collect Sll5 alleged 20 be
due the plaintiff was instituted in su-
perior court wednesday by Ferdinand
Fromuth against Isadore Kudelvitzskv
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-18

STAR Ioos oUOoTded the Grand Prize
at the San Francisco Exposition, dndis
the only che1Oing tobacco that has euer
received this highest possible arOard.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-18

a telegram has been sent by tn
Woman's Franchise league of tn
thirteenth district To Rep. Henry \
Barnhart. requesting his support q;
the Bristow- Moudeu amendment T.
grant equal suffrage
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-08
ropAY's BELLRINGER


the country in the interest of the
Bankers association. He was pro-
foundly impressed with the merits of
western Pennsylvania as a place of
residence.
Nothing like it for a man that's
inclined to be bit low-spirited, said
Mr.. Burns. 'They don't take any
chances with you there at all. Why,
if you go into store and ask for
bit of clothesline the storekeeper
will open a big book.
"'What do you want this rope
for?' he asks.
""The old woman needs it to hang
the wash on
"'And what's your name?' the
storekeeper asks.
Herman Wilhelm Pfeifer'
"'G'wan,' says the storekeeper,
closing the book. You can't get no
rope here without prescription
AN INDISCREET MEMORY
''You and that very charming Miss
Malcolm were boy-and-girl friends,
I'm COlQ.
yes"
81 saw you talking to her. You
must have had delightful time re-
calling early days"
well, no. tried to make it pleas
ant, but it didn't seem to work. re-
called to her how she climbed trees
and fences when she was ten years
old, and she gave me freezing look.
Then l asked her to remember how
she was thrown from an overturned
bobsled and went head foremost into
a snowdrift and stuck there. You
were seven years DID, l said, and !
recall that you wore What
you think she did,"
81 dunno"
:'Said Sir! and stalked away"
-0-O
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-08
A LESSON

Jim, having tunked Buck on the
head with an ak, with fatal conse-
quences, was hailed to court and SEN
fenced to pay the penalty at the end
of the states rope. The Judge ap-
prised Jim of the verdict and asked
whether he had anything to say be-
fore sentence was pronounced.
who, me?" asked Jim. =
Yes responded the court. -.
Jim spoke earnestly:
well, sah,'' he said, dds yere
hangin' sut'n'y gwine be a lesson
to mer'
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-08
READY EoR Her

Mother ION Sunday)-Bobby, are
you sure that's Sunday puzzle you
are doing?
Bobby-Well, you see can't ten,
mother, until rye figured it out
London Punch.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-08
FoREWARNED

Young man, don't ever let me
catch you kissing my daughter
again."
CGT IrOvSf
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

New York Sun.
The electric chair is now proposed
for all fat people.
This at first sight seems to be in
violation Of the constitutional rights
OF American citiZeEs as a cruel and
unnatural punishment, but the electric
chair in question is not a punitive in
stitutiOn, rather q remedial one, and II
is located not at Sing Sing but at the
Electrical Exposition at the Grand
Central Palace.
Its function is to reduce adipose It's
sue by the SynchrCnO'lS contraction or
the musculature primarily and second
arily through the electrO-chemiCal ac-
ton Of the faradic current passing
through the tissues. At least that Is
how the professor in charge or the
chair explains it.
In appearance it is somewhat lke
! its remote cousin in the care of War
den Osborne. being fashioned after
the STYLE Of an armchair with cleo
trodes attached.
All one has to do is sit in 1t quietly
for an hour or SO in order to lose a
couple of pounds Of surplus weight.
| Those who have examined the new
Invention predict that it will become
ncpular as soon as the dread CT sit
ting in a contraption of such a char
lacter is overcome. 1t Will appeal
strongly TO f1cshy folks, it is thought
because it offers q method or FeIle'
louite different from the usual ones o1
Ihc nting. exercising and otherwise NOR
ltifying the flesh.
The chair is on exhibition al the
hospital, which is one OF the ItS eA
bibite al the exposition.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
IT'S A DEADLY EXPLOSIVE.
Tri-NitrO-ToluOl Is Used BY Germans
In Mines.

In Mines.
London Tit-Bits.
This is the name generally used for
i high explosive called "tri-nitro-
toluol," which the Germcns use in the
floating mines with which they have
sown the seas. TOluene is the basis
of this explosive. and is obtained from
henzole, II product Of the distillatiOn
IF ccal tar.
The Germans devoted great atten-
ZION in the years before the war to the
production of benzole for use as
motor spirit in the place OF petrol, and
produced cs much as $4,000, 900 gall
Ions of benzole year. The percent
age of tOluene in this benZOle varied
from to 20 per cent, and on the out
break Of war Germany seized the
whole Of the immense stock. which
they used for government motor trac-
tion, and from IL produced toluene.
They were lucky enough. too, to
seize Delgium's supply, with the re-
suit that Germany has huge supplies
of u. N. T. for use in mines, torpedoes
and shells.
T. N. r. consists of toluene which
has been trinitrated, and is now re-
Sar,leI as superior to either gun cot
ron or picric acid, which were the sta
ole Of British explosives when wal
0eSGn. But Britain is not far behind
Germany In its production Of this ex-
,plosive Mr.. II. w. Forster announced
III the House Of Commons some time
ago that our supply was ample FOL
our own use and also 10 enable us tS
assist our allies. OF late years the
'iistillation OF benZole from coal tai
has extended considerably in Grea
Britain, the output of benzcle for ex
port having risen from 100000 gal
sons seven years ago to 6.654,U IL
1913, much of which vas hitherto ex
sortca to Germany, and, though ben
zole is still being used by mOtorist
today, it contains no toluene. for
vas all extracted before II was put OF
the market
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
zoo, ,0OO DRUG VICTIMS.
That Is Revised Estimate of NUM-
Der In This Country

Washington Star.
How many drug addicts. popularity
known as dope fiends.' are there Ill
the United States? Some writer's have
gone so far as to assert that per
cent. OF the population Of the coun-
try or about o.0oO,O persons 1T.
victims Of habit-forming drugs but
experts OF the United States Public
Health Service who have just com
pleted an inquiry into the matter
reach the conclusion that the mum
Der is probably not far from 10000
Just one-tenth the lay estimate.
The Public Health Service found
the question dl1flcul- one 20
answer, for obvious reasons, and wai
obliged TO make checking estimates
| from various points Of departur". l.
was known, for instance, that the
| amount of opium and its derivatives
legitimately imported in a year If
sufficient for 2.50o,o ,ooo average doses.
and that the amount Of cocoa leaves
and cocaine similarly brought into
the country annually would make
325, ,0oO,00 average doses. Since the
amount OF hahlt-for'ning drugs
brought in iIegitimately i known 30
be very small, the service look The
import records as setting the extreme
limits of use by addicts.
In Tennessee, whore strict anti
narcotic law is in force, the service
found the most truStw wOrthy Cata AZ
Ito the number OF dddicts and tho
amounts Of drugs consumed Just
i2,37O users Of habit-forming drugs
ttwo-tenths Of / per cent. Of the Hop-
ulatiOn, were registered a year aftei
1.-THE law went into effect and the .I'eTs
OF opium and its derivatives each con-
sumed an average of 900 dosIt@ a
year. The same ratio appit-d 20 m"
whole country would give y $500 I'D
diets using 1,416,000 average doses.
Cocaine users. the Public l'ealth
Service estimates. increase the total
Of drug victims to 100000.
| Though the new Federal Anc-NsI-
cotic law has been III effect only (. "
months, the Investigators found th~t
such statistics As it has made av7il-
able so far bear out their staternert ~
that previous estimates Of tie num-
Der OF dope fiends" have been e1ceS-
oive. The Governments health OK
pertS state. however, that The reai
conditions are bad enough and hat
the amount Of opium and Coo e con
sumed in America Is ont Of all proper
ton to the needs for medlCal Dnr-
poses
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
A Wish.

philadelphia Ledger.
Papa was sitting by the table read
ing his evening paper generally ana
u,San he came across an item Of in
terest he read it aloud TO mamma.
Little William. a typical little pitcher
with big ears as a rule was not in
the least concerned about the items
his father read aloud. But the other
evening he was nightly interested.
Il see, ma" said papa, that the
fishermen around Cape Cod nave gone
out Of the whaling business ana
Up spoke William promptly:
"Gee whiz, papa, but l wish YOU
was a Cape Cod fisherman:"
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
1t Paid To Sleep.

Manchester Guardian.
There was only a thin partition be
tween the bar parlor and the taproom
of the suburban hoStelry. 50 that /
could not help hearing what was per
hans Q confidence about q certain
Bits terrible condition the previous
afternoon.
well. to cut long story short.
said the voice, which was husky, prob
ablv with emotion, Il had TO set i'm
on a doorstep and leave i'm there.
e hust a fell asleep and is at drop
ro7 on to t footpath. an'-would yer
believe it?-when = woke up there
was II pence in it,
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
\ Drug That May Prove n Specific
For Trouble In Ones Midst.

New Yori> Sun.
Clinical tests OF the new drug tfi-
nethylmethoXyphen have advanced
tar enough to induce American Medi-
cine cditorially to praise ii. though
admitting that it must undergo mucn
more study before it can be hailed as
the best of intestinal germ slayers
The drug is to have simpler name,
when somebody gets time to read It's
oreScnt name and think up something
else.
In it's September issue American
Medicine SAYS of trimcthylmetho oNy-
phenol:
"This new drug. which J. I. Aim
siie Walker. the English chemist. has
discovered. has been under critical
clinical investigation by disinterested
observers for many months. THESE
Investigations seem TO justify the
early expectations that this drug Will
be Of remarkable value as an lnte5-
1inal bactericide. Introduced into the
intestinal canal it is 40 times more
potent as a destroyer of germs than q
D per cent solution OF pure carooNa
acid would be-"
The new drug apparently has nc
toxic or poisonous effects, and II Il
not absorbed or altered in any way II
the body. Just how it Kills germs
as SO far mystery. Many drugs tina
try out successfully in the chemlca
laboratory fail when tried on human
beings in the clinic, but so far trl
Observation-Disclosures seems TO have
met every test.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
AUTUMN PEAS TOO FAT
Cart BE Compared With the nd. =
JUNK. Variety.
EOlunnbus .Journa

Columbus Journal
Now comes the SaddeSt par u fh-
year. when nc telephone ana nthe:
fat peas push aside the sweet and
modest little peas OF other happy lays.
II is said that some people ars readJ
To welcome the telephone. the marrow
fat and other big and olcaGnous peas.
but they are the class who believe thai
the glory OF lie consists in quantity
instead Of quality. Really the tmes
are out Of joint when we are compeil-
ed TO give up the lovely primitive
peas, with their delicate taste " sum
beams and bird song, and the sEeet
breath Of the morning. for those fat
and stupid peas that taste II rnEd and
the sdue4ling Of pigs.
There ought 70 he sometAlrE zone
about IT, The big, tasteless peas man
should he arrested and plunged into
Jail to reflect upon the Tavages ne
has inflicted upon the JOY OF people.
But ct us go eek and make X y
! penal orIense 10 raIse D;s-s for hulh
| ard not for favor. The stra ssbcrfy
! ana the oid-timn pea are the ~ 0
| faire~t crea ture- of the beautiful
| june dsse
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
EAT LESS, LIVE LONGER.
Jersey Physician Gives Advice to Pres
byterian. Pastors.

Philadelphia Ledger.
If Americans ate less, and chewed
heir food properly, they would live
angcr.
That was the message brought nv
Dr. William H. Vail. of Newark. n
J., yesterday to the Presbyterian Min
isterial Association. He told the min
sters the average American spends
nine-tenths OF his life trying to make
trying to get WELL" "It Is our own
ault," he said, eff we have indiees-
,on. We eat too many delicacies and
100 much soft food" More hard food
was recommended by the physician.
Nature. ne said. never intended man
10 suffer from indigestion.
DR. Vail put the ban OH grapefruit
,ie said there was no excuse for it; it
causes a peck of trouble and should
~ stricken from the menu. In proof
of his argument, he said the first order
physician gives TO q sufferer from
dyspepsia is to quit eating grapefruit.
There are more deaths brought on
by indigestion nowadays than ever be-
sore" he said. ITS because we
haven't natural appetites."
OF course, the Doctor put a ban on
meat. Vegetables. he said. should con-
stitute our principal diet. If people
mus, eat meat. it should be consumed
in small quantities. Desserts should
&c banished altogether. There is toe
much hurried eating" DR.. Vail said
Too many OF us live to eat Others
only eat 10 live. Neither are right
What We want to do is to live in spit.
VI eating
DR.. Vail said chewing gum was goot
9or the teeth and for digestion. Blu
ne admitted many boys and girl
"overdo it, And "overdoing it.
seemed to be one Of the principa
taults Of the American people. ac
cord;ng to the physician.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
TURKS RUE THEIR COMPACT
The Outlook Correspondent Says Ihes
Realize 1t Means VaSSalaSe.
tF. l.. Waldo, in the OutlOOl

Of l.. Waldo, in the OUtIOOk.I
The Turks rue their compact. yet
pride keeps them from the exphci'
confession They realize that VIC
tory for Germany means VaSSaiage
for them They know that victory Tor
the Allies means "liquidation. More
over. a tobacco merchant VINO knows
the Arabia ms and their country well
told me that there are tremendous
rumblings of dissensions from that
quarter Millions of Arabs are not
at all satisfied to have their poiltcai
destinies determined for them ~ per
hans one-sixth or one seventh Of their
number. especially when this minority
has shown itself absolutely incapable
of ruling.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
bERLNERs CONFIDENT
mink Britain .Has c
DOgsn

Dogs"
A1UTuon :r,l Gable to New York Sun
.io Inc Times publishes TO-DAY an
,iGie by its neutral correSnona.
o arrived in England from c.
i;Ta iast week. describing the nieh+
80 =. III 6erlln as abnormally CAV "a :
10 we're meant as display Of non
uaar confidence" The corresnondep,
No matter with whom Won ,a,p
nigh or low. civilian or so,1;er a,n,.
cailhot nelp seeing their supreme con-
nuehce. talked with several GOV
erhinent officials and all tried to i'm
| upon me the Iact that GERMANY
mas no fears with regard to the fu.
% eure. An under secretary Of the for
ISL ISL once; whose knowledge of Eng
laho ana the English people was gain
ed In the course of long residenoe -,
London, said to me:
me majority Of Germans think
Indt britain has gone to the dogs
lney know the English people as a
comfort loving race. They read James
henry Ihomas speech in Parliament
ano tney heard about the Welsh coal
miners strikes; they read Lloyd
Georges preface to his book, Through
Terror to Triumph Naturally they
tnlnk the country is on the brink of
|. revolution. Our people realize that
thlngS are hardly as desperate as they
appear. but we also know that a coun-
, try which depends on a voluntary sys-
tenn is bound to have every kind OF
!. trouble.
III l know England rightly she is
: not satisfied with the men AT the hes d
or her government. We appreciate the
I value or freedom as do the English
|. out there are times when our form OF
8 government has advantages over
), every other, and this is one Of them.
! 1--WE think we have the war won
but We are not deluding ourselves
A tremendous task is yet to be &C
complished. Fortunately we are vel
prepared and the future may hav
some surprise in store for those VIII
% still think that Germany will b
- crushed.
do the English people use tina
expression now? 1t hurts them NOR
y than it does u.s." q
y The correspondent asserts that Ger
e many needs rubber badly, but that tn
q supply OF cotton is by no means e1
is hausted and will last many MONTH
~ Old tin cans are collected for militar
N purposes, but it is foolish, he says,
suppose that brass and copper utensi
i are being stripped. No metal is waste
10 or allowed to remain without servin
a a useful purpose, but Germany
I'd far from being in dire need of me
J. ais" The correspondent continues
t. Food in Germany is much dear
I'd than it was q year ago, but there a.
t. no signs Of extreme poverty. TT
10 charges in the restaurants are II
IN higher than in London You can &
c. in the best ones practically anythin
,e. Germany will not freeze nor star
to in the winter. Coal stored along Il
e. railroads between Berlin and Hollal
es shows that the mines have been bu
es during the summer. There is
abundance OF potatoes; the prese
ch crop is said to have broken all re
e. ords. 1t looked as the governme
,t- had ordered every farmer to plant p
a. tatoess and no body disobeyed."
Evening star., 1915-03-29

burdens gives results that are confess
edly erroneous.
The only reliable standards of meas
uring the tax burdens of the various
cities are the tax levies. the dollars ac-
tually raised by taxation, and the per
capita tax levy which distributes the
total tax burden among the persons
constituting the taxed community.
The demOnstratiO-' of the figures is not
that WashinEtOn's assessment Is more
than twO-thirds of the true value Of IT'S
realty, but that the assessments of
most other American cities are less
the nominal full valuation prevails. and
that the reports from the cities of the
relation of assessed to true value are
inaccurate aud tainted with error
that fantasticnlly misleading results
follow any attempt to apply these false
reports to modify the actual taN-ratc
as a measure of comparative tax
burdens.
The tables of figures. echoed in the
senate. upon which Mr. PrOuty and
other speakers relied In the House de-
bate to demonstrate the comparative
liRhtDess Of the WnshinEtOninn's tax-
burden are rendered valueless by the
use of and reliance upon this dfscredit-
ed and misleading factor In their cnl-
cu1ations.
American cities in comparison with the
assessment OF Washington furnish the
foundation upon which is built the
claim that Washington is per capita
the wealthiest city In the nited States.
Every one who has studied conditions
knows thnt in mOney-enrntng OppOr-
tun1tfes and nv vallnble taxable resources
it il among the poorest. The figures
estabIiah not that 1t liz Over-rich. but
that compared with other cities 1t Is
oyerassessed. It's realty. already COM
parntively Overassessed. IN threatened
with such excessive absolute over
assessment for taxation as to result in
Its confiscatiOn.
Evening star., 1915-03-29
Fantastic DISCREPANCIES,

Assuming that the reported bases Of
assessment are accurate, the assessor
reports in the taxed fraction of nom
industrial Washington realty values
amounting to $4s5.4ss.730 On the same
assumption the Cincinnati assessor re-
ports in the whole Of that populous.
wealthy and money-making city realty
values Of s375.0s5.6so. one hundred and
twenty millions less than in the taxed
fraction OF Washington. The Newark
assessor reports one hundred and
ninety-four millions less Of realty
values in that city than in Washington
The New Orleans assessor reports two
hundred and seventy-two millions less
OF realty values in that city than in
Washington.
OF course. the reports Of relation OF
assessed to true value which develop
these preposterous results are false
and worthless. Instead OF Washington
realty being assessed at a two-thirds
valuation in New Orleans and full val
uation in Cincinnati and Newark, the
true relation will place Washington at
comparative 100 per cent and the
other cities at small fractions Of full
valuation.
The truth which I am urging is
taught not merely by few selected
cities, but by the entire list. Compare
WashinRton's realty with those Of the
other cities Gall except Baltimore ap-
proximating Washington In size) in the
following table: