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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17
Ice Plays Big Part In Life

What a wonderful part ice plays
in the economy OF life. It's manifold
uses on land and on sea and in all
chimes have made II necessity
without which organized society, In
Its multifarious affairs. would be
greatly affected. The thousand and
one purposes for which Ice In used
need no description. but the fact
that In trade and commerce, as well
as In the home, and in all depart.
ments OF life II is constantly used,
gives only a superficial idea OF Its
Incompatible value.
SO great has the demand become
In recent years for Ice that untold
tons OF II now are made artincially,
but the natural ice will always hold
Its own. Not more than rs years
ago II was found that nature, bench
cient az she is. practically was un.
able to supply the demand for ice.
Artificial process for making II fol-
lowed. There are many such manu-
factories in this city, and all are
kept very busy.
In summer. OF course, the price of
ice rises. and SO important IL IL that
there was countrywide outcry
some years ago when there was talk
OF a corner" in the commodity. On
the other hand, the increased price,
often quoted In the scorching days
OF summer. Is due not 40 much to
the high cost OF manufacture. stor.
ing and transporting the Ice from the
lakes and rivers of the north a. 10
the vast increase in the quantity
used.
The ice dealers OF today do all IN
their power to preserve the Ice un.
contaminated. II Ia cut on the fields.
noated to the ice house and hoisted
by endless chains to the rooms
where II is stored without beina
touched by the hands. In the sum
mer. when the ice In taken out, II II
loaded in cars and boats. II shipped
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17
How Do You Rest?

If you swing heavy sledge all day,
take your "exercise" yourself-by
doing something that will make you for
get the sledge.
If you grind at desk or counter all
day, take your exercise, your REST by
doing something that will make you for
get the desk or counter grind.
If you earn your bread and butter by
THINKING-mow the lawn.
If it's your work to push lawn
mower-do something that will make
you think.
If a man has a job at being happy, it
will rest him to be solemn If man
has solemn job, it will rest him to
laugh.
The little lady who makes high-priced
gowns for richer folk, can find rest
looking at flowers in the woods. The
man who works in the woods or fields
is rested by looking at the pretty
dresses in the city show windows.
If your work compels you to wear a
RED coat, sneak away once in while
and put on BLUE coat.
A change. that's the cure-that's the
exercise" we all need.
This is nothing new we are telling
you, but it's something we don't think
about enough, the same as we don't think
enough about lot of little things which
are really important.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17
EFFICIENCY.
~ Or. FRANK CRAM
Copyright, 1915, by Frank Crane)

Make good! Don't explain! DO the
thing you are expected to do! Don't
waste time in giving reasons why you
didn't, or couldn't, or wouldn't, or should
MT!
If hire you to cook tor me expect
my chops and baked potatoes on time,
done to a turn and appetizing ! am not
interested i'm the butchers mistake, nor
the stoves defect, nor in the misery in
YOUR left arm. | want food. not expla-
nations. You can't eat explanations.
If hire you to take care of my auto
mobile, or factory, or shirtwaist counter,
I do not want to hear why things are
half done; want results.
So also if you come TO me to do JOB
of writing correspondence solicited
lowest rates and quick service) by the
fifteenth of the month, you do not want
me to show up on that day with NOV
ing story describing how | couldn't do
what was paid for You want the writ
ing, and you want it first-class, all wool
and yard wide.
This is cold, cruel, heartless talk. 1t
is-to all second-raters and shirkers. But
to real men it is JOY and gladness. They
rejoice to make good themselves, they
expect others to make good. and they
like to hear preached the gospel of MAX
ing good.
Mr.. Yust, the Rochester librarian, n,
his report some time ago, spoke OF the
Parable of the Talents. in which We are
told of the ''three servants who had re-
ceived talents, five, two and one, respec-
lively. On the Masters return they all
rendered account of their stewardship.
The first two had doubled their capital.
Each of them said so in fourteen words
and their work was pronounced, Well
done, good and faithful servant Ser
want number three had accomplished alb
solutely nothing, but he made full re-
port in forty-two words. three times as
long as the other reports"
There you have it. The less you ds
the more you explain.
EFFICIENCY!
Learn that word by heart. Get tc
saying it in your sleep.
OF all the joys on this terrestrial
sphere there is none quite so soul-sat-
isfying and one hundred percentish az
MAKING GOOD.
Do your work a little better than any
one else could do it. This is the margin
Of success.
Make good needs no foot notes.
Failure requires forty-two words.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17
Using Up a Yard of Ticket
COUPON "

Everybody comfortable here?' in
quires the Michigan Central con-
ductor as he lifts the last coupon
and the accompanying contract.
Which reminds us that in 1000
miles OF travel we haven't encoun-
tered an instance Of incivility on
the part OF a trainman.
They are slow TO anger and
plenteous in patience. even when
travellers are not using the soft an.
swer that turneth away wrath.
A dining car is class in geogra-
ply. You can always run the state
song. for instance. on the fish scales
Barracuda and sand dabs-"Califor-
MIA the Golden" White fish and
trout-Mich. Again. My Mich.
Again
Eyerytime We see an orange we
think of the girl with flying fingers
twisting tissue paper on them at 10
cents a box in the San Gabriel pack
ms house and not carrying a wrap
for anything else.
The lake shore sand dunes Is the
best Indiana can do as an imitation
of Mt Tamalpais OF Rabidoux;
and the bumpy and DOGGY high
ways Is as near as western Michi-
gan can come to the concrete boule-
wards OF southern California.
But the use OF an old car for a
telegraph office at Michigan City
pending the rebuilding Of the sta.
ton, takes you back to the track
side scenes of New Mexico and Ari
zona-one car holding the whole dot
and dash family.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17
A Poem a Day

EvENsONG.
Lay aatde your tools OF labor, for the
day 10 At It's ending.
Mind and soul and the body all are
clamortng to be free
Put away today's misfortune and to-
morrow's fresh intending.
Turn your footsteps through the
city homo TO me.
Far beyond the noisome pavemsnts
where the lights CLEAN GOLD
and ray.
Like swollen bubbles boobinx down
the canyons OF the street,
I await your weary spirit IN IL wings
tts eager wcy
On the pinions, Of your longin &
strong and feet.
There m. arms that ache with ten
eerness shall hold you to nay
breast
old loves have been. new loves ma y
be. hut never love like this
There the heart OF me shall keep you
FOR tts deepest and It's hest.
Ana your grtefs shall be forgotten
In my kiss,
Shall II matter II the trysts we hold
are ever In our dreaming?
Shall We yearn In vain for things
We know can never. never he
Sweeter far than worlds that are. the
secret world OF only seeming.
When az dusk feel you coming
home to me.
-Winifred Wells. In the Independent
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17
The Keep Well Column

the least angerous-mushrooms and
toadstools,
Many cases OF mushroom and
toadstool poisoning occur because
people are not careful TO distin-
,ulsh between the non-poisonous
md poisonous varieties.
The dangerous mushrooms are
those which have a cuplike forma-
tion at the base 81 he stem. Shiny
cap and clay-colorcd spores and
loose warts on the cap.
Eating OF these soon produces a
nausea and vomiting with severe
pain in the abdomen. IL the case
seems to be a severe one II Is best
TO call in a doctor.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17

A happy home Is an earthly heav.

A happy home IL an earthly heav-
en-.
Never strike boy because he is
small. He may grow.
No man ID free who hasn't got
himself well In hand.
Many a mans charity reaches the
limit when he dispenses free advice.
A woman invariably begins her
life work when she marries q man
to reform him.
A man is more apt to love a wo-
man In spite OF her faults than be-
cause Of her virtues.
II Is easy to convince yourself
that your troubles are greater than
those Of other people.
When an old man courts q young
woman he soon realizes that all the
world loves to laugh at q lover.
But the romance of an elopement
soon evaporsies II the wife has to
take in washing TO support the hus
band.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17
Changing The Geography Lesson

what is called the Land of Flowers?
Flowery Kingdom
II
agriculture.
a
Alaska agriculture
Private
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17

At all, which have been washed out
and keep on dirt and prevent melt
age.
The ice cut on the Hudson river
and on the mountain lakes OF New
Jersey and Pennsylvania goes onto
the homes Of the consumers in al
most a sterile state. In fact. II is
90 pure that when melted 1t makes
. delightful drinking water. II IL
comparable only to spring water as
It In at the spring before bottling.
transportation and handling. Brook.
lyn Citisen.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17
Good Should Come From This
Meeting Of Extremes in East

For the first time the workers, the
}tmderfed. underlined sewing girls EN-.
\ p30yed by New York dress makers fol-
I ne most fashionable trade, are to be
Onght lace to face with the wearers
,sek the gowns upon which they toll
obrpugh nine or ten long, weary hours
n6h day. receiving for their labor an
spEpee Of IS per week.
Through the Offices of the Congress
n5opal Union Suffrage organization, un-
40 the leadership of Miss Alice Paul
sof Washington, large delegation of
these workers, representing 10000
S6kheF5, win 60 to Newport, r. l., and be
x6eeiyed at the home of Mrs. John j.
sl1110n by the New York society women
gxAo spend the summers there.
The sewing girls will tell their story
I1nd lay before these women the problem
~ living IN New York on Sc week.
U More Of the gowns upon which they
~ are sold for less than $500 piece
MA yet the maker does not receive
living wage.
ostsrs are being put up in Newport
u one reads:
YOU allow the dressmaker to starve
Sirls who make your gowns"
Ana smother:
4 Gould You lead pure life on Sc
y Weski ThousandS Of girls who make
iTlovIf dresses get that wage"
xhe meeting win take place next week.
~ hope Of the delegation is that the
20 Once aroused to actnd conditions,
~ ~ something to improve them, es-
INV IL New York state wins equal
~ Exaee "a the fan election.
IN bfinsing these two classes together,
<ko eufIra9ists have performed humane
ma democratic act, which cannot fail to
fKing about . better understanding be-
So6en the two.
@ HE whole thing contains hurran,
1sslnatic element which appeals.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17

pie should beware
of when on sum
mer outing. Indis-
criminate chew
ing OF leaves o
berries while OF
in the country or
woods often re-
suits in severe
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17

II Kansas isn't yelling Rush" for
that trainload OF red threshers at
the Nichols & Shepard siding at
Battle Creek. II must be some other
harvest-swamped state OF the pro
ductive middle west.
The yard OF ticket ends at the NJ.
c. yard in the city where life is
worth resuming
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17
his Work of Christianity
Emphasizes Our Democracy

B Any one who attended the graduating
o1srcises az the Summer Bible School at
W. Fortst Presbyterian chapel, and saw
nv fiiousand children who were gathered
Ifore from Ill parts Of the city, must
6ays been impressed by many things.
lIfst, the eager. interested looks on the
3ltt1o faces which showed a desire and
jirst for knowledge, and the keen pleas
~ taken in each part Of the program.
9 l1ext, the need of some of the pinched
pes and thin bodies for better food and
Qtter afr.
h must also have had his heart
uched by the pitifuI attempts of moth
4<fo 70 dress their babes in semblance
N holiday array with the poor materials
their disposal, and also by the little
kins who came ragged and unwashed
Z: osd ~ the street.
- must have had brought home to
y Nh q never before, the democracy of
- land, where white-slippered little
~ and be ribboned heads sat sandwich
f0 hetween bare-footed children who live
\ - ke slnnis, and the utter absence of a
poht of class or caste in the beautiful
- 81 The child.
- must also have realized that here
- the REAL melting pot of America,
~ Italians, Hungarians, Servians,
NERVES and every country of
oe jeined together in perfect accord
49, not only hym.ls. but patriotic
ydxsd With the enthusiasm of
aetiOaal emblem. the stars and
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17

sickness and in some cases OF
death.
Some of the more common poi
sonous plants are hemlock. James
town weed. wild parsley and let
tuce. mountain shade. deadly night
shade. bitter sweet and last but not
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17
WAR REVENUE ACT EXTENSION

According 10 treasury officials, the admins
tration will be forced 10 recommend the reen
actment OF the emergency war revenue act which
will expire by limitation In January, 1916 Fol
the Ave months ended March, war revenue re-
turns were approximately s33 900 900, or a lit,la
over 81, 900 900 a month The administration
may recommend the repeal Of the Democratic
tariff law placing sugar on the free list on Nay
1. 1s1S.-Wall Street Journal
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17
From Another Point of Vie,U
c. 7. s.

The compositor rises to remark that ne
was already having his troubles when
they made Dartiguenave president OF
Haiti.
Correspondent who signs himself
"BilP sends us the following query:
C. T. S.-Yesterday was in the
elevator of q department store when
a guy stepped in with one OF those
wide-collared shirts on. In a case
of that kind, should gentleman re-
move his hat?
Villa may be sincere in his protesta-
tons that he is for peace, but it will take
a barber with a whole lot of patience to
make him look the part.
1t takes Milo Campbell of Coldwater to
keep the jobholders in hot water.
mot so loud with them dice, please"
A fiddler wooed with his violin
The maiden fair, her heart to win;
And he drew his beau,
And she drew hers, too,
And he grabbed his hat and away he flew.
"Oh fiddle dee, oh fiddle dunn
The fiddler played and he took to rum
And the maiden laughed
And she said, said she:
Another one has strings on me.
Well, another summer seems to be
over.
However, we may get another one in
September.
Phyllis says that the span of life would
seem to be represented by one Belle Isle
bridge.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17
PLANT PolsoNs.

There are many common plants
which are poisonous and which peo-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-17

The compositor rises to remark that he
was already having his troubles when
they made Dartiguenave president of
Haiti.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-25
DROP MILK Bottle plan
Authorities Decide Also Not to Amend
Food Laws to Require Oysters
to Be Washed

Those sections of the proposed
amendments to the city's food regula-
tions which relate to the washing of
oysters before they are opened and also
to the sale of milk and cream in bot
ties only, were ripped out at meeting
of the Health Board last evening. The
remaining amendments, which deal
principally with milk standards, will
be sent to the City Commissioners for
approval at their meeting next Tues.
day.
These >ehanges were decided upon
after conference between the Health
Bureau, representative body of city
dairymen and City Commissioner Bow.
man. 1t was conceded that the pro.
visions objected to would tend to in
crease the cost of milk and cream and
also the cost of oysters.
The Health Board last night again
went on record as favoring municipal
hospital and will be represented next
Tuesday when the City Commissioners
and delegation of the members of the
Dauphin County Medical Society dis
cuss the question.
City Commissioner Bowman to-day
denied a rumor that the office of City
Boiler Inspector soon will be created
here and man named for the place
No money is available for such an of
fetal, he said, and there is no disposi
tion to create that Office this year.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-25
MRS. Dull Gives A TRACT
She and Herman P. Miller Present City
With Land for Connecting Links
in Cameron Parkway

The continuation of the Cameron
parkway from the present terminus at
the Almshouse to Reservoir Park. now
is assured, it having been announced
to-day that Mrs. Helen Boyd Dull,
widow of Andrew P. 1. Dull, of 211
North Front street, and Herman P.
Miller, of 2117 North Third street,
have agreed to give free to the city
about twenty acres of ground,-the
tracts that are considered necessary
for the connecting links. Deeds to con-
vey this. ground to the City have been
prepared and will be signed within a
day or two.
Ordinances now are pending before
the City Commissioners providing for
the purchase of additional ground for
the continuation of the parkway, one
tract from Amos Enders, for $3.50,
and the other from the Paxtang Gene
tery Association, for s2,25O. Negoti-
ations also are about to be closed for
the purchase by the City of a plot of
ground belonging to the Rutherford es.
tate, this also to be used in connecting
of the parkway.
The Cameron parkway is to extend
east for distance from the Aims
house and then take a winding course
in northwesterly direction.
The Dull ground constitutes about
twelve acres and the Miller property is
not quite so large. Park Commissi 5ner
Taylor, who announced the gifts to
the city this afternoon, said that as
soon as all of the deeds have been trans
ferred he will advertise for bids for
building the new parkway ections.
This is to be dirt road and later is to
be covered with einder. He expects to
have it completed during uhe coming
summer.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-25
ACTIVITY IN DARDANELLES
kept UP BY mine SWEEPERS

London, March 25, 12.06 P. M
Mime sweepers alone maintain naval
activity in the Dardanelles but as the
equinoctial storms in those waters sell
dom last longer than seven days, re.
sumption of the bombardment is ex-
pected at any time and may possibly
take place to-day. 1t has been just one
week since the last engagement.
Petrograd reports the first strategic
fruits of the capture of the Galician
fortress of Przemysl in increased vio-
lence of Russian offensive movement
against the CarRathians, where large
captures of prisoners are claimed. The
only other item of interest this morn
ing from the eastern front is the Rus
sian claim to have pushed back the
Germans on the Piliea river at point
where Field Marshal Won Hindenburg,
the German commander, is expected to
make his new thrust against Warsaw.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-25
COURT TO QUIZ DISBUOW.
RICHWINE AND DEETER
Sheriff Reports They Have No Prop
erty to Levy Upon for $1s.s5O
Judgment Note, and Judge Kunkel
Sets April D as Date for an Inquiry

Sheriff Wells report that he found
no property on which to make levy
uRder an execution issued on an $1S,-
$50 Judgment note entered by former
Judge E. W. Biddle, of Carlisle, against
A. Grant Richwine, Charles A. Dsbrow
and j. n. Deeter, of this city, was Civ
en- this morning as cause for Judge
kunkel making an order directing the
defendants, Richwine, Deter and Dis
brow, to appear in court on April 3
ana submit to examination under oath
on the question of their reality hold
ings.
When the Sheriff made levy on
Disbrow household effects, he said
this morning, he was informed that Mrs.
Disbrow had share in all of it.
The Sheriff also said that C. Howard
Lloyd, a son-in-law of Disbrow, filed a
property claim. The Sheriff made this
return:
81 am unable to find sufficient prop
erty to satisfy the writ of execution
and Judgment upon which the same
was issued. 3"
A plot of ground at Front and Della,
ware streets. which the Sheriff said
formerly belonged to Richwine, recently
was sold by the Sheriff to Henry
Schuddemsge. The land, however, was
sold as the property of Howard NJ.
Bird.
The beautiful Disbrow home, at
1915 North Front street, appears in
the name of Disbrow on the books of
the City Assessors but Assistant City
Clerk Seamon this morning said that
Instructions had been received at his
office to change the name of the own
er to Stephen d. Affleek.
In the office of the Recorder of Deeds
the records show that Disbrow and his
wife made seven real estate transfers
during 1914.
Five parcels, all large tract, were
transferred to Stephen Atfieck on July
20, last. These include properties on
Bomoaugh avenue, Pennsylvania ave-
nue., Cameron street and Derry street,
this city, and in Swatara township.
On the same date Stephen Affieek
took over the Disbrow properties at
State and Eighteenth streets and on
North Second street.
William Pavord got North Cameron
street property on July 10, and on
April IL, last, E. R. Kelsey took over
the five Disbrow houses at 1858
North Seventh street.
John NJ. Ensminger and Meyer Gross
also bought Disbrow properties last
year, the records show. In all cases
the consideration was "nominal 81.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-25
Survivor of Carib Says
erma an Cruis er
Struck on Reef and
Was Sent to Bottem
BOMB FROM CREW
FINISHES VESSEL
Second Officer of U. s. Steamer, Sunk
in North Sea by Mine, Arrives In
-Tew York With News of German
Cruisers Fate

New York, March 25.-German naval
officers at Bremerhaven are quoted as
authorities for the statement that the
cruiser Karlsruhe lies at the bottom of
the sea in the West Indies, by Jesse
Boyd, second officer of the American
steamer Carib that was sunk by mine
in the North Sea, who reached here to-
day from Rotterdam aboard the steam,
ship Rotterdam.
Mr.. Boyd said he spent five days at
Bremerhaven and through an old-time
friend, now an officer in the German
navy, obtained positive confrmatio of
the rumor that the Karlsruhe was no
longer afoat.
Went Down AS Band Played
She went down with the German flag
flying from every mast, at her stern and
bow, and as she sank the ships band
played martial music, Mr.. Boyd quotes
his friend as saying. A German bomb
sent her to the bottom after she had
struck on reef. AS the last flag dipped
beneath the water German rifles fired a
full salute in her honor-a salute that
is fred in the burial at sea of naval
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