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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19

Il can smash you" said the man in
the chair, quite without heat.
mo. you can't even do that" was
the equally cool retort. mo mans
fate is in another mans hands"
He was moving toward the door. but
Cortwright stopped him.
One more word before you go,
Brouillard. 1t is to be war between us
from this on?"
I don't say that It would be awk-
ward for US both now. Let is be
armed neutrality if you like. Don't in
terfere with me and l won't interfere
with you"
"Ah!" said the millionaire. Now
you have brought it around to the
point was trying to reach. You don't
want to have anything more to do
with me, but you are not quite ready
to cash in and pull out of the game
| How much money have you got?"
The cool impudence of the question
brought dull flush to the young man s
face, but he would give the enemy nc
advantage in the matter of superior
| selt-cOntrol.
That is scarcely a fair question
even between armed neutrals,' he OBJ
jected. why do you want to know"
"I'm asking because you have just
proposed the noninterference policy
and I'd like to know how fairly you
mean to live up to it. A little while
back you interfered in a small busl
ness matter of mine very pointedly
What became of the one hundred thou
sand dollars you gave old David Mas
singale?"
How do you know l gave him &
hundred thousand dollars?"
That's dead easy" laughed the mar
in the pivot chair, once more the genia
buccaneer. you drew a check for tha
amount and cashed it, and few min
utes later Massingale, whose accoun
had been drawn down to nothing, bob
up at Schermerhorn' window with ex
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
If They Told the Truth.

.'Mr. Chairman, I'm glad to say that
can't make an interesting speech, but
even if could / wouldn't waste it on
SO little intelligence as see before
me this evening-sitting, as you are,
half dazed with food, alcohol and to-
bacco."
well, good-by, Mrs Diamondback.
I've had a dull weekend. But l ex-
pected it, anyway. One of the things
we have to endure, isn't it? Hope
you'll get a better cook the naxt time
l come"
you'd never know this was sec
ondhand car, would you? The engine
hasn't been touched for five years. but
a new coat of paint has given it fine
appearance, hasn't it? Worth s75. Sell
1t to you for $500" Life.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19

ahead and spend another million or so
in wages that can be turned loose in
Mirapolis. Is that it ?"
You've surrounded 1t very neatly"
laughed the promoter Once, some
little time ago, might have felt the
necessity of convincing your scrupIes.
but you've cut away all that foolish
ness. It's little tough on our good
old Uncle Samuel, I'll admit, but it'll
be only pin-prick or so in comparison
to the money that is thrown away
every time congress passes an appro.
piration bill. And, putting it upon the
dead practical basis, Brouillard, it's
your own and only salvation-person-
ally, ! mean. You've got to unload or
go broke. and you can't unload on a
falling market. You think about it and
then get quick action with the wire.
There is no time to lose'
Brouillard was looking past Cort-
wright and out through the plate glass
window which commanded a view of
the great dam and it's network of forms
and stagings.
1T is a gamblers bet and rather
desperate one," he said slowly. "You
stand to win all or to lose all in max
ing it, Mr.. Cortwright. The town is
balancing on the knife-edge of panic
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19

Don't tell me such story, cannot
nav YOU such a price for your butter
said the soldier, true Nassau boy
but the pretty French farmers Wlre
stood her ground and meant to nave
a franc a pound for her butter Inc
farmers wife had the last WORD anu
the soldier had to pay the price II ne
wanted the butter. He put ten pack
ets in his basket and counted out to
the farmers wife ten francs, saying
smilingly: 1--WE have bled you, ana
Won are bleeding US in return, ano
passed on.
The town was full of German sol
diers and the market hall was full OF
them. each one trying to get few
Injuries, to which they have oeen
strangers for long time.
cerman military laws are strict and
the men had to be very careful, as the
ewes of the military police were sharp.
y7,.oro, treatment of the inhabitants by
+bo soldiers would be severely pun
ished.
watched the French women who
came to the market hall to buy. Ihey
bargain, go away and come back again,
and noticed that these farmer women
nrefer to sell to our men. AS rule
thew get better prices for their prod
ucts.
7 noticed a Saxon vice-sergeant ma
ior. accompanied by corporal and u
few men. He was buying largely. 1t
was a pleasure to listen to this young
sergeant major in his fluent French
NTH the Saxon dialect. He is amiable
and YOU see by the smiling faces OF
the young French women and girls
that he is a welcome customer. His
behavior was courteous. He did moi
bargain, but chose his goods and paid
promptly, and his men removed the
goods to a wagon standing outside the
market hall, and with pleasant "At
revoir, mesdames," he drives of will
his purchases.
While was making the round Of the
hall noticed my field-gray friend from
Nassau again, looking after the loaAA1
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
Wanted PenneII in the Trarcbes

How am 1 to give a really vivid
picture of trench life as l saw it for
the first time? How make it live for
others, when l remember that the
many descriptive accounts have read
in England, many of them the letters
of soldiers, did not in the least visual
ize it for me? l watched the flares
rising from the German lines. watched
them burst into points of light over
the desolate country called No-Man's-
Land and drift slowly down. And |
watched the shadows rush back again
| like the very wind of darkness. l
wished that Joseph Pennell might see
something Of this fascinating night
life. 1t seemed to me that he would
be able to catch the beauty of it with
his blacks and whites, make IT real
for the world, which will nayer see
it as I did against the dark background.
which was my own first glimmering
realization of the tremendous sadness,
the awful futility of war.-James Nor
man Hall in the Atlantic Monthly.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19

at this moment. Would it go up. or
down, with sudden resumption of
work on the damn"
The careless thinker would say
that it would yell 'Fire!' and go up in
to the air so far that it could never
climb down." was the prompt reply.
But we'll have the medicine dropper
handy In the first place, everybody
can afford to stay and boost while
Uncle Sam is spending his million or
so right here in the middle of things.
Nobody will want to pull out and leave
that COW unmilked. In the second
place, we've got mighty good anti.
dote to use in any sure-enough case
of hydrophobia your quick dam build.
ing may start"
you could let it leak out that, In
spite of all the hurrah and rush on
the dam, congress is really going to in.
terfere before we are ready to turn
the water on" said Brouillard musing
ly and as if it were only his thought
slipping into unconscious speech.
Precisely. We could make that prop
hold If you we're actually putting the
top course on your wall and making
preparations to drop the stop-gate In
your spillway."
81 see," was the rejoinder, and il
was made in the same half-absent
monotone. But while we are still OF
the blade edge a little
push Mr.. Cortwright, if there
we're one solitary righteous man lef
in Mirapolis-"
There isn't" chuckled the promoter
turning back to his desk while the en-
gineer was cropping for the door knoll
-"at least, nobody with that particu
lar brand of righteousness backed b!
the needful inside information. Yo1
go ahead and do your part and wei
do the rest"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19

actly the same amount in loose cash.
What did he do with it-gamble it?"
'That is, his own affair."" Brouillard
countered briefly.
well, the future-next months fu-
ture-is my affair. If you've got money
enough to interfere again-don't.
You'll lose It, the same as you did be-
fore. And perhaps l sha'n't take the
second interference as good-naturedly
as did the first"
rs that all you have to say?" Brou-
illard asked impatiently.
mot quite. don't believe you were
altogether in earnest a minute ago
when you expressed your desire to call
it all off You don't want the Mirapo-
lis well to go dry right now. not one bit
more than do"
II have been trying pretty hard to
make you understand that it is a mat
ter of utter indifference to me-"
But you haven't succeeded very
we'll; it isn't at all matter of indiffer-
ence to you," the magnate insisted per-
suasively. "As things are shaping
themselves up at the present speaking,
you stand to lose, not only the hun
dred thousand you squandered on old
David, but all you've made besides. |
keep in touch-it's my business to
keep in touch. You've been buying
bargains and you are holding them
for the simple reason that with the
present slowing-down tendency in the
saddle you can't sell and make any
money"
'Well?"
'Tve got proposition to make that
ought to look good to you. What we
need just now in this town is a little
more activity-something doing. You
can relieve the situation if you feel
like it,
Howl"
IF tell you, you mustn't go and use
1t against me. That would be a low
down welcher's trick. But you won't
See here, your bureau at Washington
is pretty well scared up over the pros
pect here. 1t is known in the capita
that when congress convenes there il
|
to kill this Buckskin reclamation pro
1ect. Very well; the way for you fel
lows to win out is to hurry-fnisl
your dam and finish it quick, befort
congress or anybody else can get ac
ton"
For a single instant Brouillard wa
puzzled. Then he began to under
stand.
60 on" he said.
What 1 was going to suggest 1
this: You prod your people at Wast
ington with a hot wire; tell 'em now
the time to strike and strike hare
, They'll see the point, and if you as
! for an increase of a thousand me
you'll get 1t. Make it two Thousand
, just for the dramatic effect. We
work right along with you and max
! things hum again. Well start up th
cement plant, and l don't know bl
r what we might give the Buckskin M.
I M. folks a small hypodermic that woul
I keep em alive while we are taking
/ few snapshot pictures of MirapoI
3 on the jump again"
o Let me get it straight" said Broui
8 lard, putting his back against the doc
o "You fully believe you've got us dowr
/ that eventually, and before the watt
u is turned on, congress will pass bi
= killing the Niquoia project. But in Il
t meantime, to make things lively, you
like to have the reclamation servi"a 4
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
GLASS OF WATER
Upset Her.

People who don't know about food
sons with weak stomachs.
Sometime ago a young woman who
lives in Me. had an attack of scarlet
fever, and when convalescing was per-
mitted to eat anything she wanted.
Indiscriminate feeding soon put her
back in bed with severe stomach and
kidney trouble.
/ There 1 stayed" she says, ''three
months, with my stomach in such con-
dition that could take only few tea
spoonfuls of milk or beef juice at a
time. Finally Grape-Nuts was brought
/ to my attention and I asked my doc
/ tor if I might eat it. He said, yes,
and 1 commenced at once.
"The food did me good from the
start and was soon out of bed and re-
covered from the stomach trouble. l
have gained ten pounds and am able
to do all household duties, some days
sitting down only long enough to eat
my meals. I can eat anything that
one ought to eat, but l still continue
to eat Grape-Nuts at breakfast and
supper and like it better every day.
considering that could stand only
a short time, and that glass of water
seemed so heavy am fully satisfied
that Grape-Nuts has been everything
to me and that my return to health
is due to it.
81 have told several friends having
nervous or stomach trouble what
Grape-Nuts did for me and In every
case they speak highly of the food"
there's q Reason" Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Ever read the above letterf A new
/ one appears from time to time. They
| are genuine, true, and full OF hu~an
interest.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
FAVORED BY TAX ASSOCIATION
National Organization Commends Par
rett-Whittemore Tax Law.


rett-Whittemore Tax Law.
Of great interest to the people of
Ohio is the opinion of the National
Tax Association complimenting the
Parrett-W -Whittemore tax law, passed
by the Willis administration, and its
corresponding disapproval of the
Warnes law procedure in Ohio under
the preceding administration. The
National Tax Association is recognized
as the authoritative body in the Uni-
ted States on tax matters, and is COM
posed of the leading tax officials and
students throughout the country In
the April issue of its Bulletin. it has
the following to say Of the Parrett
Whittemore law:
''On the whole, the new system pre-
serves an admirable balance between
local independence and state control.
1t should work well. State machinery
for state tasks; local machinery for
local tasks; cooperation between
state and local machinery at all tirues;
adjustment of local differences by
an impartial state tribunal; this, we
believe, is the true philosophy Of the
subject"
In separate, and as it happens the
opening, article of the same issue of
the Bulletin appears an article under
the heading, HAS Ohio Gone Back?"
and devoted to a discussion Of the
states rejection of the Warneg law
Stating emphatically that its informa
ton is not derived from any officer
or ,employe of the State Tax Commits.
sion, but from its own cores spondents.
the Bulletin declares that "the Ohio
| experiment (under the Warnes law
furnished no real test of selection or
fitness"
Concluding its comment upon this
| ill-fated law are these significant sen
| tences:
"The big lesson from the Ohio ex-
perience is the -incompatibility of pol
itics and 'centralization.' we can
stand, or at least survive, politics il
assessment work, if the poison be di
luted and centralized. But we can
not stand politics i'll centralized sys
TEN of assessment. Not only must q
centralized system be divorced from
politics; it must be clearly and obvi
ously divorced frou politics; it must
be above Suspicion
And in none of these respects did
the Warnes law measure. UP to the
test
Such a striking opinion coming from
such an authoritiwe national body
wholly divorced from any Ohio polit
ical influences whatever, needs no com
tment whatever. The final funeral or
alton upon the leading Cox measure
has thus been passed.
[D<
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
SYNOPSIS.


Brouillard. chief engineer OF the Niquoia
Irrigation dam, meets j. Wesley Cort-
kright and explains the reclamation work
hnd obtains government contracts to fur
gale threatens to start a gold rush II
broutllard does not use his influence to
bring a railroad branch to the place, thus
opening an easy market for the Little
susan mine ore. Broullard tells Amy
Massingale OF his need for money to pay
on his dead fathers debts. She tells him
70 De true TO himself He decides for the
extension. Mirapolis, the city OF num-
nereu days, booms Cartwright persuadeS
broulllard to become consulting engineer
oI the power company in return for 500, :
wv stock. Stoppage of work on the rail-
ROAD threatens panic. Broulllard spreads
the 'Massingale story of placer gold In
the river bed and starts a gold rush,
Whlch promises TO stop the reclamation
project Amy tells Brouillard that her
rather Is In Cortwright's financial
Slutches. He tells her he has made $780,
Wv and declares his love. She loves him,
put shows him that he has become demor-
nlzed A real gold fiLd " ma0e. Rrouil-
lard sells his stock but does not pa his
iatler's debts Cortwright's son shoots
steve Massingale. Brouillard threatens
Sortwright with exposure If he pushes
Masslngale to the wall. The magnate
promises to give the old man a free field.
stories OF the dams abandonment revive.
foreclosure on the Little Susan" is I'M
pending and Brouillard loans Dave Mas
singale his 100000 to clear him Massin-
gaze gambles away the entire amount
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19

sown, it is no telling to what lengths
the fad may go for there is no short
age of rickrack in the market, since
it never wears out.
The rickrack hat has a crown of
fine Tuscan braid, the brim alone be-
ing made of the rickrack, which was
dyed pleasing shade of pastel blue
The brin, the width of the rickrack
was made double and wired between
the layers. The only trimming used
was band of ribbon of the same
shade Of blue tied around the crown
and finished with loose bow of sew.
eral loops extending out to the edge
of the brim.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
IN THE ENEMY'S COUNRTY

wagon of the vice-sergeant major. He
goes from stand to stand selecting
things, but he frequently had to refer
to his pocket dictionary to help him
along.
He wanted eggs. He had to consult
his dictionary, scrutinized every page
at last got what he wanted. His French
sounded we'll in his own ears, and with
pride he looked at the woman, as much
as to say:
'"Don't I speak French welI?"
He had ordered two hundred eggs!
But he paid for them and departed
well satisfied with what he had done
I-Friedel Merzeniah, in Die Woche
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
WiIIIe,s Misfortune.

Willie has difficulty in his speech.
and little girl who came to see him
was very much interested in it
What makes him talk that way?"
she asked another girl. who told her
that he was ''tonguetied." When she
got home she told her mother about it.
Mother" she said, that little boy
bad his tongue tied with hard knot.
and could hardly talk at all"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
sible ALWAYS Fountain Of Tr,,tb !

eff men are to unlock the treasures
of the heavenly world, there must be a
few going back into the fountains of
unsullied truth in the Bible. Jesus
Christ never becomes or remains real
to men who cease the study of the
word of God. One of the tragic facts
about the life Of our day is that many
men have lost the Bible out of their
lives"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
Home-Made Spreads.
By Claude c. Waltermire.
of the Ohio Republic;

Every woman likes to own hand
made bedspread, but the majority of
spreads call for such expensive ma
terials that few can afford to indulge
in such a luxury. Within any wom-
ans reach, however, is the spread
made of unbleached muslin. All over
its surface conventional scrolls are
outlined by means of huge French
knots done in heavy white cotton. The
edge of the spread is finished with
cotton fringe
The sham that matches the spread
is one long piece of the muslin little
wider than the pillows it is designed
to cover. This is treated in the same
manner as the spread and can be fin
ished with the cotton fringe at each
end or can be used all the way around.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
Who Remembers RIekrack7

It is good many years ago since
rickrack was the fashionable trim
ming for petticoats and other intimate
garments and now we are to use it on
hats, a use to which it has never been
put before. No less an artist than
Odette has made excellent use of it
90 far this season. and the seed being
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
Signs.

Hokus-So you believe in signs.
Ell? Well, when man is always
making new friends what is that
sign of?
Pokus-It's likely to be sign that
his old friends have found him out
Life.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19

audience suddenly
begins to ask
question and the
minister answers
in words from the
Scripture. T b e
first question is:
Whom Am ! tc
Believe?
IF we receive
the witness OF
man the witness
of God is greater:
for this is the
witness of God
which he hath tes-
titled of his son,
1 John So. 1t is
not the church
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
Like Ali of IEnn

Clara-I thought you said MIRA
Snorah wrote fiction.
Jack-So she does.
Clara-Why, she's the author of o
cook book.
Jack-Well, that's full of fiction.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
SIX Bans.

Some of the new silk bags have tor.
toise she'll tops, and these tops can
be bought separately, so that the silk
foundations of any sort can be at
tached.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
Violet Bodice,

| Some of the new lace blouses show
underbodices of pale velvet crepe or
silk. These are especially attractive
for wear with suit in some shade
| of purple or plum.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19

Once more 6rouillard Is
tempted by cortwrloht. " he
accepts cortwrisht's offer he
can make money and stand a
chance Of defeating the crooked
capitalists purposes In the long
run. II he refuses, he loses not
only his Job but his savings.
What would you do-consider-
Ing that acceptance Is wrong7
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19

The man who is sincere may err,
but he has the testimony of his own
conscience to support him.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19
Sgn
A Slayer.

"Vanderbore tells me he is invited
out great deal"
That's very true. Once he gets into
a place that's the only way you can
get him out He won't take hint"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-19

nor the minister. nor any company
of men the sinner is to believe. but
it is God himself as he speaks con
corning his son. There might possibly
be some hesitation in believing what
man would say, but there can be no
hesitancy in accepting the testimony
of such a credible witness as God
The sinner is asked to believe none
except the God OF the Scriptures. Then
another question is Immediately
asked, viz: