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The Pulaskian., 1916-08-18

Dr. Owen of Newport bought 2o- grain gem that was found near Syla- more The price paid was not di- vulged
The Pulaskian., 1916-08-18

Fire of unknown origin destroyed Table Rock schoolhouse, six miles west of Calico Rock.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-22
ALL BATTLE NOISES CAN
BE MADE IN YOUR HOME
Victor Murdoch In Wichita EAGLE.

In Wichita EaaIe.
Z, ton used to feel when Omrah Alley and
Jim Bridenstine and L used to load up
Colts revolvers with paper and dirt and
whang away at the enemy, who in those
days was led by George Israel. This
curved sound almost makes you see the
flight of the shell, but, of course, you do
nothing of the kind. They come one light
after the other-swish, swish, swish
counting about five seconds between the
swishes. Where do they light? Well,
over in the next township. If you had a
powerful field glass and were stationed
upon q lii somewhere, you could tell.
But you haven't Il field glass and you are
not hunting hills. l noticed that the last
Thing to he found in the first line is an
idle curiosity about the enemy. This OBJ
servation of shells in flight is confined to
those shot from behind you. The only
knowledge You have of the shells coming
from across the line is a smash that is
merely deafening, and a strange sort of
upheaval, such as you see when 2 dyna-
mite charge goes off. But you get an
idea Of the striking of the shells from the
country back of you. You find a power
full lot of them are misses. And when
one hits a house 1t knocks a corner off
or puts a hole in the roof or side wall.
1t does not demolish the building.
The sound of the machine guns is cas-
lily the most vicious thing j heard. just
at the start a machine gun gives out a
sound that ! was not long in locating.
In the old cowboy days in Wichita a man
who drove a four-mulc team had to be an
artist with a bullwhip. He would bring
the long lash whirling around his head
and then lay it out near the front mules
ears with a quick jerk which made it pop
with a suggestion of singing sharpness.
That is what a machine gun does as it
starts off. If it a pop-ka-swish-pop. and
then as it continues, the first pop is
dropped off and it becomes ka-swish-pop.
ka-swish-pop, ka-swish-pop. with just a
breath between each of the explosions.
There is a whipping, singing suggestion
in the sound, as the gun speeds up, that
fills you with terror. AS a rule soldiers
pay little attention to the big grumbles
of the artillery. They turn and look
when the machine guns begin. And then
as 1T gets to going full-tilt, the pops and
the ka-swishes all merge for all the world
like the escape of steam from around the
whistle of a big locomotive when it is
blowing off. Some of the sharpness of
the sound disappears, but nothing of the
suggestion of viciousness passes. I i'm
agine that the machine gun is the weapon
of the future. One will be invented that
the soldier will carry on his chest. I find
a few here who agree with me that the
small-arm rifle will disappear as COM
pletely as the sword has.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-22
rom the Wichita Eagle.

From the Wichita Eagle.
Every man who writes up the war tells
about the sounds of battle. | am now
ready to report. 1 had read so many de-
scriptions of the different sounds that ]
had a natural curiosity-to see just what
the racket is like. Usually the writer
speaks of the boom" of the big guns and
the "wfir'' of the little ones. You hear
a lot from the soldiers about the
's-S-c-S-Z-t" of bullets. AS you hear Il
lot more than you see on the lighting
front, a correct defining of these phon-
etics ought to he interesting. First of
all j made up my mind not to eXaggerate.
I know that there are "a lot of people who
want the thing colored up brightly, but
there are a whole lot more who would
like to have the thing presented just as
II Is.
Now on the front there are three dis
tinct classes of sounds and each soun,i
has variations. | took pains to classify
them. They are, first, the big gun sounds,
the machine gun sounds and the rifle
sounds. Away in the distance the big gun
sound is II good deal like the slamming
of "A door In a big empty house, muftled
and over as soon as ii begins. 1T is a
soft, vibrating sort of a thump, like the
distant thunder, only it doesn't roll. AS
You get nearer the big piece. say a couple
of miles, it is exactly like dropping a lot
of lumber. j will undertake to deceive the
best military ear or Garth by taking a
half dozen planks and going behind a
shed and dropping s.lem all at once. Now
when you get over In front of the gun
and armies are not only in front of the
enemy's artillery, but I'm front of their
own. there is a marked variation in the
racket. After you have located the gun
back of you. you watch and see the flash
"a splinter of flame, then you hear the
crash. much like falling glass, and sharp
er than falling cumberland then as the
she'll goes over you, you catch a most
distinctive sound. It's a swish" with a
little purr to 1t. Take the garden hose.
turn on the water full force and then pass
your fingers through the stream close up
to the maz/ and anybody, on a peace
full Sunday a.tcrnoon, in the quiet of the
front yard. can have all the sounds that
the midair flight of a shell.
1t Is flash-crash-swish. Now what YOU
can't get in the front yard is a curious
trick Of the imagination that / despair
OF describing.
The swish seems to be curved. 1t is
soft. loud. soft, which partially explains.
but 1t appears also to be back, above and
forward of you. successively-that is, in a
couple of seconds. There Is a lot of Fourth
of July love of explosives in all of US. and
i stood In the mud and listened to those
shells with exactly the same sort of Ella
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-22

SsO ~
Alexel Nicholaevitch K%uropatkin. the
idol Of the Russian soldiers and the em-
pire's commander-in-chief in the war with
Japan, il again in the field, welding the
power Of a leader in the great war. Ac-
cording to a recent report from P~etrograd,
General Kuropatkin, with General Poll
vanoff, minister of war, actually hold the
position with the Russian arms which In
name is held by Car Nicholas.
Despite the disgrace which was written
large over the name of General Kuropat-
kin in 1905, after the crushing defeat Of
the Russian army in M%anchuria, Russia's
war lord Of the earlier campaigning has
continued to hold his place as one of the
most famous generals of the modern
world. In a way his disgrace only full
filled the prophecy of the general himself.
When setting forth across Siberia, he is
reported to nave said that first he would
be called inactive, then incapable, and
finally he would be denounced as a traitor.
He expected to be beaten and repulsed for
a time, but he had faith in final victory.
A Long Military Career.
Kuropatkin was Sc years old when he
gave up the office of minister of war to
become commander of the Russian land
forces in the Far East. Those years had
seen him engaged in little besides mill
tary affairs. Thirty-eight years before he
had come out of the Imperial Military col
lege at st. Petersburg with great credit
as a student Of war. His father was a
wealthy nobleman and his ancestors for
generations back had been men of inf1u-
ence In high places.
The boys father and his friends ex-
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-22

to the rights Of the middleman. He con-
coded the power of the press to do what
dunning letters had not done. In short,
ne learned. a lesson, as did his n%eighbors.
And so. while the 81. 653 debt account d.
minished, the community good will ac-
count grew. Town life was toned up by
cream cut handling Of one phase Of trade
ethics. 1t became an Issue OF when as
paid. @N
AS to which set of residents in this New
Jersey town was more Interested in the in
cldent, those who owed for their coal and
speculate. lacking knowledge. But this
can be said without much likelihood Of
contradiction, that the group tina habitu-
ally pays its bills promptly was not sorry
TO nave the issue arise In just the form
1T has come up. The honest, thrifty, con-
slderate, cash-paying, debt disliking con-
sulner too often pays his own bills and,
indirectly, those of his negligent neighbor
as Well. He pays for what he gets and
also for what the man gets whose ac-
counts finally have to be charged off,"
The extent to which this unfair condi-
ton OF affairs exists in rural and suburb
an communities of the country is not all
ways realized by the urban dweller and
.chandlsing on a cash basis. The city
rigorous In collections because no so re-
stricted In n of prospective customers
as the village and town merchant. 1t is
for the smaller communities, then, that
this Metuchen. N. j., experiment will
prove most instructive. 1t shows that the
suasion of candor. Enthusiastically medi-
ated, is a first rate debt collecting method.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-22
YUAN BUILDING GREAT
ARMY CAMP AT CAPITAL

Peking.-President Yuan Shi-Kai,
eInperor-elect, is building a great mil
ttary lamp near Honan-fu, the capital
OF his native province Honan. which is
sion.
Charges are made that he is devel-
oping this great fortified camp as a
means Of strengthening mis- mold upon
the monarchy and desires to have it
as a place of refuge, after the fashion
Of medieval Chinese emperors.
The great camp is three miles west of
n city of Honan-fu, and located near
the river. 1t covers two square miles
of land. Two thousand men are at
work erecting walls and buildings in
preparation for the accommodation OF
soldiers. The work has continued for
five months, but is only about one-fifth
completed.
Army officials have stated that the
new camp will shelter 10, 900 troops. but
newspapers. out of sympathy for the
administration, say the lamp is to ac-
commodate 10000 men.
The barracks are arranged with
streets 80 feet wide between them and
at intervals there are kitchens and
store houses. Open spaces are left in
various parts of the camp, in which
groups OF 500 men may drill. In add
ton, there is a great drill ground pro-
vided for larger units.
Honan-fu Is a strategic position of
great Importance. It is located on the
Lo river. In the most important pass,
affordtng easy communications between
the east and west. 1t is connected by
rail with the line between Hankow and
Peking and projected railways win give
1t connections far to the east and west.
consequently, Honan-fu will be the
natural place from which to distribute
troops into any rart Of northern China.
II Is about hall way between the capt.
tai and Hankow, the commercial me
tropolis of Central China, located on
the Yangtsze river.
Unfriendly papers are all speculate
ing as to whether Yuan Shi-Kai in
tends to make Honan-fu the actual
capital Of China. For over 1900 years
the ancient city vas the site of the
dragon throne. and 1t is rich in tradi-
ton. Formerly Honan-fu was called
Lohyang. n 1t was the capital of
China under the Chow dynasty from
10 B. G. 1t was from that city that
Emperor Ping I'll sent a deputation to
the west to discover the great sage who
had arisen, and the d%eputation re-
turned. bringing Buddhist books and
Buddhist priests from India.
Soothsayers regard Honan-fu as q
location upon which heaven smiles.
When h capital was first located
there by the Chow dynasty, the oracles
were consulted and pronounced the ait
0ation ideal. They said the inheritance
wouaa last Tor 30 generations. or a total
o. 7oo years. The dynasty really lasted
1or 500 years.. or 80 generations.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-22
Worse Thar Slavery.

From the World Outlook.
notwithstanding the fact that the
ventures Of native students into the
labyrinths of English are sometimes
adventures indeed, nevertheless it is
the mistakes of the Americans who at
tempt to express themselves prema-
turely In other languages which most
appeal to our risibles. The Spanish
word for sons is "hijos." for figs 'hi-
gos." One can, therefore, easily UNDER
stand how the following conversation
might easily have taken place. A lady
went to a grocery store to buy figs. The
conversation was as follows:
Have you any sons?"
Yes" replied the storekeeper pleas
antly.
white ones?"
To this the man replied in the affir-
native.
Very well. 1 will take one pound, If
you please" said the lady.
The ~storekeeper is said to have re-
piled that they were not for sale and
certainly not by the pound.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-22
RICHES DESTROY THE SELF .
Scott Nearing, in the New York
American

SCOIS Nearing, IN CnO NEW 4OTk
American.
Let us consider the effect of riches up-
on the rich. First. 1t destroys initiative.
All people a W a natural creative inn
pulse. a demand for self-expression. and
the stimulus of that. with the resulting
activity, develops the individual.
You grow by activity, your will and
your faculties, and activity depends on
incentive. The first thing that riches do
is to take ava the incentive to work. es-
pecially In the second generation: It leads
gence, defective moral fiber, lack Of ini-
tiative and ambition.
,nan hno sgn how y it ed is; We 3 get tb lots Of e rich dea
handicap in college It is wealth. I'd rath-
err have a boy come to college under any
other handicap.
feeling of satisfaction a man has when
he realizes that he has done something
that 10 worthy Of the respect Of the COM
tive to do things: therefore, they don't
do things; therefore. their self-respect is
destroyed.
fish. egotistic,. helpless paupers. It makes
them incapable OF taking care Of them
selves. To. pauperize means to lea one
or on the community-to make dependent.
Riches do just that to the second genera
zion.
fOutSH, WeAtn prevents the rich man
from giving. himself. from getting into
touch with his fellows. Wealth ~isolates
the rich man from all but the crawling.
whining crowd. People keep off. The
rich say. the poor show ingratitude Tor
their gifts. Ingratitude is not the word:
hate 70 the word to use in speaking Of
handouts from the rich. You cannot get
close to people with riches. That IL why
organised charity often fails. It Is pro-
2 portion of thyself." and, again,
without the rich heart wealth 10 an ugly
beggar:" And Lowell y 'Who gives
his hungry neishbor and Ma"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-22
..hullo.n

"Hullo."
Wen you see q man in woe
a right up an say: "Hullo.''
a '"hullO" an how dye do,
How's the world a-usin' your"
Slap the follow on the back.
Bring your hand down with q whack,
Waits right up an don't go slow,
Grin an shake an say: "Hullo!'
Rags are but a cotton roll.
Jest for wrappin' up q soul
An q soul is worth q true
Hale n hearty How dye do"
Don't walt for the crowd to go
Walk right up an say: "Hullo!'
Wen big vessels meet, they say.
they saloot an sail away;
Jest the same az you an me,
Lonesome ships upon the sea,
Each n sailln' his own log,
For q port beyond the fog.
Let your speak1n' trumpet blow.
Lift your horn an cry ''hullo:"
Say "hull0" an chow dye do.'
Other folks = good az you
Wen you leave your house OF clay.
An arc Wanderin' In the far away:
Wen you travel through the strange
Country. tother side b range,
Then h souls you've cheered win know
Who you Be an n.y.: "Hullo!"
Sam Waltor IooA
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-22
Debts and Who Pay Thorn.
From the Christian Science Monitor

a New Jersey dealer In coal and lumber
recently startled his village and country
~nneighbors and customers by bold use Of
12s1nter's ink. In the local weekly. on
I frst page. In large type. he mad
1snewn the amount Of indebtedness which
nls Nrm was carrying In al effort to meet
tthA trading demands of customers and at
tin name time not ruffie their feelings or
scnaas.nge their ethics Of trade. Accom-.
iPanying the quite explicit statistics Of
Z was q statement tntimating that the
dsal9r th9lght he was not getting quite
the Square DEAF from people who were
presumAnkgpns his tendency and who were
Assuming That he had unlimited credit and
~ soon 40 the issue of honor and fair
May became . community n the bills
to be paid. When a realised that
81. and e and n a indeed .. not to
mention I. had All agreed. With him in
Souid CARRY the account : while longer
without ~nconvsniensss ss ~ = "a WnHs
sssn doing; G he did not pay im "Ssa :.
syy.snH ~. Hs admitted hl0 carelessnssa
- T1hooehtiessuese and his indtfferencs
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-22
SUBSTITUTES FOR MEDICINE .
DURING CIVIL WAR I
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
From the Brooklvn Eaple

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
In these days when color dyes and
cause Of the war blockade, there is a pc
culiar interest in the tales Of earlier times
when the women in the confederacy were
compelled asd to find substitutes for the medi-
sorely deprived during the civil war.
From the homeliest plants. herbs and
leaves the most soothing medicines for
illness and fever were concocted. Togeth-
er. the si~lver-haired danes and their
daughters would gather in the social par
ier for their bees" For the most part.
cleaned from the habits of the Creoies,
whose numerous haunts were in the re-
gion. The Cheoles of the gulf coast used
these many medicinal plants, having early
learned from the Indians the use of shrubs
Indigenous to the soil. They had the Sc
t tIet OF wn mahy t powerful Hor piasters and po-
very successful If the patient could bear
the severity of its work.
An infusion of the milkweed vine would
break a fever: a tea made of bark of the
neither of these having any bad effects
On the system. P~odophyllin, which grows
Wild In an the gulf states. took the place
ignorant man in Alabama who. during
war time, plowed up two acres of this
plant forth for the m purpose Of planting n n potatoes:
nearby counties when they learned of this
indiscrction. 's
The bark or the wax myrtle ~(bayberryl
dried and pulverized was another remeiy
used as a tonic: its tiny berries, boiled in
water until melted. then gathered into a
cake. The old fashioned life everiastinr"
took the place OF hops in making Yeast.
n was said to prove a better fermentcr'
having no rank taste.
The southern women were particulars v
fortunate in this work because, it has been
said. nearly every plant in materia med.
sandy soil Of the gulf states. Many varie-
ties grew wild among the pines, or in the
various ravines where the small trees and
shrubs bordering the frequent little
streams shaded such plants as required
damp growing places such as the plants
ihyiltn, boneset. life everlasting, witch
hazel. spearmint.. horsemint, and many
Others. grew In these hummocks.
The common blackberry. which grows
all over the United States. was the most
valuable plant OF all. It's roots made a
ltghtful cordial. The roots made, too, a
good black dye. That and the red oak
bark gave the southern ladies their dyes
all through the war,
The southern women benefited by the
native. custom OF Creoles to transplant
from the woods most OF their small plants.
Each family had an herb bed handy, and
dried the plants for winter use.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-22

Madrid is said to be the highest city
In Europe. 1t is built on a mountain
plateau 1900 feet above the level Of
the sea.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-03-22

Champ Clark, speaker of the House
~ Representatives. was Q school
teacher at the age OF IL.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-11-04
SUFFERED SEVERELY
every MONTH
Lady Tells What CaCdui Did
For Her and What It
viii Do For Suffer
inc Women.

] Dcepwa;nr Tcxas.-"l think Cardni
! is indeed wonderful medicine" says
! Mrs. Minnie Starnes. OF this town. IN
! 1905. | broke down in health suddenly
! suffered agony. Had bcarlnS
+ down pains also my back and
limbs and hips Sometimes ! was
in bed all the time and again was
Just able 20 DO up. suffered most
severely at times and would be con-
fined to my bed four or five days.
Nothing did ever did me any good
I until l took Cardui, but suffered two
years this way before I took Cardul.
One day my husband saw the Cardu!
advertisement. He got me bottle, |
began taking Il and next month nev-
- felt an pain at all. did Al! NY work
without any trouble. . ~
Mrs. StarNcS SAYS she did not take
any more Cardui then uut,l 1905. when
she took four bottles. with oXcciIcnl
results. She concludes her statement
with the following: Il would advise
all expectunt mothers 10 give Cardui Il
trial. Il will relieve all anxiety and
: Tear as is natural for them 10 have.
know. to- | had the experience my
! self"
Judging from tie experiences Of so
many thousands OF other women, YOU
can dnprnd ~! CarGui 10 surely help
you, if you suffer from any OF the COM
plants so common 10 women.
Get a bottle from your druggist TO-
day. aud give it L fair trial
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ginning tomorrow. on which passen

ginning tomorrow. on which passen
gers CARRYING legally labeled liouoi
viii he permitted ~ travel. The
trains will operate between Ashland
Ky. and Charleston each Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday, and each OF
the passengers vii! be permitted &c
carry one case OF liquor lis dimen.
stems must not exceed q by Is by S
inches. Passengers will not be per.
mittrd 10 tram: 'nrL liquor on regular
trains, q regulation that has been IL
force for some time.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-11-04
OFT rEE PIKE CHURCHES.

The Christien chrrch E!m GrOvc.
Harry Robertson. pastor. Bell phone
III 20 n. M, Sunday school. Geo. Nc
T;owar. superintendent. L n. n. Com
reunion Service anA sermon. Subject.
~" Garrrn f'lc Tr""." $40 y. m.
christian r,nh"a""r. Z" =. N. song
s"rvic> ans! s..r,,n"n. subject. "0Ur duty
II: rha RalInt 2ox ~ Safeguarding tho
Fundamentals 81 "';r CONSTITUTION" Tho
choir will @:n.: 1atr,nric S"lcntions. us
sisted by Miss Eva Storms as soiotst.
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CHRISTIAN

First Christian ri.urcr, y. Ii. tfcldS.
pastor. Services Tor i.ord's bay. No
vnrlber ;. ~ follows: B:;rle school. 9:3";
preaching and communion. lU:l5. sub
jet for morning S"rlaoE. spiritual
Wrestling" Y. p. :. e. f.. $50: Junior
=. H.. $50: cvcnint: service. so. SG'-
irrr iur evening sermon. "MOSeS--The
Law Givcr." illustrated hv thirty beat
ti;ut pictures. M!"w""& PRAYER. moot
ing Wednesday evenings. "a. Ladies
Md Sorinl y--A!i day Session on Thurs
LrE
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

Firs: Church Of Christ. Scientist. y. o.
L. ". Auditorium, liI9 Chaplinc street.
Services, Sunday. i n. IN. Subject:
"A1am and Fallen Man. Wednesday.
testimonial meeting. y. NJ. Sunday
school. 9:45 a. n. Reading room. Ills
hapIine street. orcn daily, except sun
days and legal hol:darS. from l. o'clock
~. until y. M. and on Saturday even
ing from o'clock 10 o'clock. The
pubic is invited 20 attend the SERVICES
and "a make use OF Tho privileges Of the
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UNITARIAN

First Unitarian church. Rev. !. \. t.
tagSluEGr -iucr. minister Sunday
school AT j a. m: Service 1T / u m.
topic, Justice \ meeting a. The
counsel OF the Mems liberal club viii
be held after tn" service. The lirst
meeting Of the study class will b" held
in the church Wednesday November
Sth ct s y. IN. The first of three Ice
lures will be- delivered dealing with Tin"
influence NJ Greek thought on Christ
ianity. All arc cordially welcome.
whether members OF Tho Unitarian
churci or NOT. During The month OF
November tho minister will be In his
office every Friday from $50 till 1850
Z n.
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MARTINS FERR,Y CHURCHES

Divine services will he held - me
Iirua Evangelical Lutheran church on
North E'irth street on SUNDAY Al 1850
n. M and TAO y. n. The text Coy the
morning srrviccs t. Matt. %. IL. ana
Tho subject ~ Tho Grace OF God. ! no
sunday school viii hn held M ":lR n III.
T. f. SrhilltnRer