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The bee., 1916-05-23
LIQUID FIRE
PAST AND PRESENT

The use by the Germans of. fire.
throwing machines IN the assault on
Verdun has been hailed as something
new in military operation. AS a
matter of fact. liquid fire is product
of the warfare of the Middle Ages.
In the strenuous days when our
doughty ancestors were besieged in
castles, they used to amuSe them
selves by standing on the rampartS
and pouring boiling oil and burning
pitch below. This usually proved
dlsconcerting for the attacking. party.
The Germans have gone several
steps farther. All the accessories that
the knights of old brought into play
in the gentle art of fire-hurling were
a bucket, its contents, and good
strong pair of arms. The modern
Teutonic frey fluid can be distributed
much more deftly and with greater
force by reason of simple little de-
vice, known as a ''fire protector. ."
Petrol is poured into a tank under.
pressure of severa! hundred pounds
per square inch. The tank is equip
ped with long nozzle, and the pet-'
rol is enhamed as it leaves the nozzle
by an electric spark. Thus the Ger
man soldier is able to sit safely be-
hind his own lines and spray the en-
emy with fire over a distance Of more
than a hundred feet much in the
manner of a suburbanite watering
his lown with an diversified garden.4
hose.
The bee., 1916-05-23

to be paid not later than June 18th,
as the party leave early Monday
morning and there will be no time
TO make arrangements. If you care
to send a check for the full amount
a receipt and ticket good for the
round trip will be sent you by return
mail. To parties who can get rail.
road pass to Evansville and return,
the cost of trip will be $3.50. We
must have a deposit Of $500 by
June 10th in order to make suitable
arrangements for tran sportation.
Please let us hear from you if inter-
ested and oblise.
Yours truly: Z
j. E. Faweett
Business Mgr.
(The Bee)
The bee., 1916-05-23
NINE MINE COMPANIES
RESUME OPERATIONS

Central City, KY, May 19.--The
Advance Coal Co., located at Hill
side, Muhlenberg county, resumed
operations today, agreeing to pay the
demands of the striking miners. This
makes seven nonaSSociation mines
and two belonging to the Western
Kentucky Operators Association
which have resumed.
John L. Lewis, of Indiana, and
Adam Wilkinson, of Montana, rep.
resenting the United Mine Workers
national organization, are here to look
into conditions in the strike zone
There has been no disorder here.
The bee., 1916-05-23
TWO TEACHERS
EXPELLED FROM
EXAMINATIONS
One Carried Ready-made En@t /
cyclopedia Ready For
Any Emergency and
Indexed, Is
Charged

Hopkinsville, KY, May 22.-H
OF thirty-nlne applicants for
teachers certificates, taking tha
examination here, two were ex-<
PEELED for alleged unfair methods.
Both were from an adjoining
county. One of these, it is said,
had all sorts Of information on
history, geography, physiology
and other studies arranged in
tablets ready for reference. To
make sure he wouldn't make any
mistake he had prepared an in-s
dex showing what "pony" he bad
in each pocket.
The bee., 1916-05-23
MRS. KINCHELOE IN
WASHINGTON SOCIETY
A Washington paper says:

Mrs. D. H. Ksncheloe, the
handsome young wife of the new
congressman. was the star at .
very smart tea at the Congress-
ional Club, at which she gave a
musical and elocutionary recital
entirely unassisted. The versa
tility Of Mrs. Kincheloe's talents
was brilliantly evidenced in .
program Of remarkable variety
including piano, vocal and whis,r
ting solos and dialect and dra-
matte readings. Her whistling
improvisations to her own varied
and original accomplishments
have given the capable young
Kentuckian especial prestige on
Ohautauqua circuits.
The bee., 1916-05-23
]. A. MILLS TO LOCATE
IN EVANSVILLE

]. A. Mills, the popular man.
ager of the ladies' ready to wear
department. of the Mcleod Store
has rendered his resignation to
take effect Saturday, May 9th
and leaves for Evansville, Ind,
where he goes to ACCEPT a place
with the William Hughes De-
partment Store of that city as
manager of the ladies' ready to
wear department.
Mr.. Mills has been with the
Mcleod Store for about five
years, going to Madisonville
from Owensboro, where he had
charge of the same department
for the S. W. Anderson chain of
stores for twelve years. Since
Going to Madisonville Mr.. Mills
and family have made many
warm friends who regret to see
them leave. His successor has
not been appointed by the Nc
Leod Store.
We wish to commend MIR.
Mills and family to the good
people of Evansville for in them
they will get the best type If
citizenship and Christian char
acter.
The bee., 1916-05-23
Mrs. Elizabeth Rock

Mrs. Elizabeth Rock, age 70,
died Saturday morning, death
being due to heart trouble. Mrs.
Rock he'd been in the best of
health and her death was a great
surprise to all her friends. She
was a member of the Catholic
church. She leaves four chill
dren, Mrs. Ernest Arnold, John,
Henry aud Charles Rock. The
funeral took place Monday morn.
ing at the Catholic church here.
Interment followed in the Gath.
olic cemetery here. We offer
our sympathy TO the bereaved
family and friends.
The bee., 1916-05-23
$4,000 FOR
10 CENT BOOK

Frederick Graves, of Waterville,
Me-, has just been able to put the
price of $4,000 on shabby old
book which he bought for 10 cents
at rummage sale. The book is a
copy of pamphlet by Noah Web
ster, said to have been written and
printed by Webster while he was still
at school. 1t is understood to be
quite unique. and the Waterville pa
pers represent Harvard University as
crying its eyes out because it cannot
get hold of it
The bee., 1916-05-23
DAY
Notice to Contestants

Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, May asth. 26th, and
a7th, will be Bargain Day for
The Bees Great Cincinnati
louisville River Trip. On
these dates We will raise the
rate of votes to 5000 on every
dollar turned in on subscrip-
ton new or renewed and will
furnish the Daily Evansville
Courier until October Ist,
The Bee and Mccalls Maga
zine one year all for the price
of $2.oo. E.
The bee., 1916-05-23
DRAGGED TO
DEATH NEAR
HANSON FRIDAY
Young Son of Roy Griffin
Meets With Serious Ac-
cident on Farm
There

The eleven-year old son Of Roy
Griffin, living near Hanson, was
dragged to death BY a plow horse on
his fathers farm last Friday morning,
as he was attempting to ride the ami
NAL to the barn yard with the har.
ness on. The lad slipped from the
horses back and in falling his foot
caught in the traces. The horse ran
for some distance, dragging the boy,
inhicting injuries from which he died
within a few minutes.
The bee., 1916-05-23
CONFEDERATE REUN-
ION COMES TO CLOSE

Birmingham, Ala. The Unit
ed Confederate Veterans brought
their annual reunion here to a
close today with grand parade.
The encampment, which meets
in Washington next year, the
first time out of the South, has
been marked by few cases of ac-
cldent or illness among the old
soldiers.
The bee., 1916-05-23
High School Notes
By Our High School Correspondents

Schedule Closing Exercises, John
B. Atkinson Memorial School, 1915;
Friday night, May 96.-Junior Med
al Contest, School Auditorium.
Sunday night. May 28.-Baccalau-
rsate Sermon at NJ. e. Church,
South, by DR.. II. M. DuBose, OF
Nashville, Tenn.
Tuesday night, May 30.-Annual
Commencement Exercises at Tenn
pie Theatre, Glass Address deliv-
cred by DR.. Q. NJ. Thompson, Of
Hopkinsville.
Q. E. Dudley, Supt.
The bee., 1916-05-23
COCA COLA CASE
IS SENT BACK
Jury Must Determine Wheth-
er Caffeine is Injurious
to Health

Washington, May 22.-The Su-
preme Court today reversed the Ten
nessee Federal Courts which refused
to confscate, on petition of the gov
tlpment, forty barrels of coca cola as
violating the Federal pure food law
and sent the case back for presenta-
ton to jury to determine whether
caffeine contained in coca cola is in
furious to health.
The bee., 1916-05-23
FISCAL COURT

Fiscal court was in session last
Saturday and considerable business
was transacted. The magistrates and
county engineer will soon begin max
ing a tour of inspection of the roads
of the county.
1t was ordered by the court that in
the future permanent improvement
Of roads in the county would not be
made until assurance of necessary
land for the widening of these roads
shall be donated free Of cost to the
county.
The bee., 1916-05-23

No matter vino they marry,
some men always Der the
first girl they ever loved, Others
b'gosh, forget which one it was. !
The bee., 1916-05-23

When a mans real mau you
never hear him reminding you of
the fact.
The bee., 1916-05-23

Got an affinity Tell your
wife all about it aud then she
won't believe it.
The bee., 1916-05-23
COST OF TRIP

The cost of this trip including rail-
road and steamboat transportation
from Darlington TO Cincinnati and
return, meals and berth, transferring
of baggage at Evansville, Louisville
and Cincinnati and all expenses ex-
.cept the lay-over in Cincinnati will
be $4,000. This is the longest and
best trip we have ever undertaken
for the money and covers more in
teresting territory. The Steamers
Tariscon and City of Cincinnati are
both large and roomy with excep.
tionally good fare and nice, clean
berthS. There is an excellent string
band on both steamers and plenty
room for dancing, bridge parties and
other amusements.
The steamers carry a nice line of
soft drinks, fruits and confectioneries
for the accommodation of passengers.
There are about 90 who have signed
up for the trip and we are advised by
the steamboat people there will be
state rooms sufficient for 200, we
would like very much to have you
make one of this party and guaran-
tee you a splendid good time. The
young girls will be looked after by
Mrs. Fawcett, who is an excellent
dhaperone and has had quite a good
deal of experience along this line. II
you wish to make this trip with us
send a check for $500 on or before
June 10th and a place will be reserv-
ed for you. The remaining $500
The bee., 1916-05-23
Where They Play

Dawson at Madisonville.
Hoptown at ClarkvilIe.
Henderson at Owensboro.
The bee., 1916-05-23
A DELIGHTFUL
TRIP that RESTS
Both Mind and Body--Cheap-
er Than Staying at Home
You are Invited
To Go
SEVEN DAYS TRAVEL AND
PLEASURE FOR $4,000

For real rest and recreation there
is nothing that quite equals a boat
trip on the broad Ohio river from
Evansville, Ind to Cincinnati. o.,
on one Of the L. & O. Company's
paIatial steamers.
The cool pure air, the invigorating
river breeze, the inviting parlors and
state rooms, the unexcelled edibles,
all combine 10 make life aboard these
floating palaces a source of continual
enjoyment and unalIoyd pleasure. If
you wish to know the joy and com.
fort Of one of these trips we invite
you to go with the Bees party on
June io. Read carefully the follow
ing description Of the trip:
The Darlington Bee will on Mon
day, June 10, take the six winning
contestants and party Of their
friends, about so in number, to Ev.
anSville, Louisville and Cincinnati for
a seven days outing. The trip will
be as follows: Leave Darlington in
a special coach on train 81 at 6:20
Monday morning June 10Th, leave
Evansville on Steamer Tariscon at
1000 Am. for Louisville, reach Lou
isyille Wednesday Am, lay over in
Louisville until S Pm. and leave for
Cincinnati on Steamer City of Gin
.cinnati, arrive Cincinnati about 7:3o
Thursday Am. lay over IN Cincin-
nati Thursday, Thursday night and
Friday until 5 Pm, leave for Louis
vile on Steamer City of Louisville,
arrive in Louisville Saturday Am. and
lay over in Louisville until 5 Pm :,
leave Louisville on Steamer. Tariscon
and arrive in Evansville Sunday night
in time to have special coach put on
train 90 for Darlington.
This arrangement gives the party
two days and night in Cincinnati
and one day in Louisville going and
returning. The party will be met in
Cincinnati by representative of the
American Press Association and will
visit the Geological Gardens, Art
Gallery and other places of interest,
and those who wish may have an op-
pOrtunity to witness Big League
game.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-07-14
TREATING SCOURS IN HORSES
Give Mixture Of Whole Oats and Ono
Ninth Part Wheat eran-Have
Teeth Attended To.

For scours in horses, feed a mixture
OF whole oats and one-ninth part of
wheat bran by weight, allowing one and
a fifth pounds OF this for each hundred
pounds of body weight as a days ra.
ton. In the same way feed one pound
Of hay per hundred pounds Of body
weight. Increase hay and decrease
the grain mixture when the horse ia
idle. Let him run out in the yard
daily, when not at work and when
the weather Is fine. Muzzie him be.
tween meals IL he eats his bedding.
Allow free access to rock salt. Give
the drinking water before meals un.
less he has access to pure water at
all times. Have his teeth attended
to by veterinarian. and If he bolts
his feed mix some hard peas with 1t
or put it In very large box. or have
some cobblestones in the feed box.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-07-14
MAINTAIN HEALTH OF COLTS
Easy to Prevent Navel Disease by
Providing Clean and Sanitary
Stalls for Animals.

Navel disease which infects colts
soon after foaling can easily be pre-
vented by providing clean and SAM.
tary stalls for the mares and colts and
keeping the stable well disinfected, ac-
cording to ]. S. Coffey of the animal
husbandry department, Ohio state uni
versity.
The disease is easily transmitted
from old bedding. sawdust or barn
yard scrapings. Only clean and new
straw should be put in the stall and
a strong solution of iodine kept handy
for bathing the navel cord of the colt.
The first milk Of the mare contains
colostrum, a natural laxative, and is
essential in keeping the young colt
in good condition; therefore, mares
should not be MIXED before or soon
after foaling. In a few days both
mare and colt can exercise in the pas
ture lot.
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oenyoe TO 50 gallons "a water. I'M
solution can be used repeatedly. The
gas treatment IL no longer recon.
mendcd.
Corrosive sublimate Is used at the
rate OF IL. 900 for one and one-half to
two hours. Dissolve two ounces of the
salt In hot water and dilute to Is cal
ions. This is a deadly poison. Use
with great care. 1t must also be kept
in wood, porcelain. or glass vessels.
as 1t attacks metal. 1t is more effec-
tive than formaldehyde. particularly
against rhizoctonia and powdery scab.
DO not use the same solution more
than three times, as the strength
diminishes with each lot of potatoes
soaked
To treat large quantities, set sew
eral barrels on slightly elevated plat
form. Fit plug in a hole in the bot
tom OF each barrel, fill with potatoes,
cover with solution, let stand two
hours, draw OF solution, and pour into
another barrel. Increase the number
OF barrels in proportion to the guam
tity to be treated. Another method
Is to use large wooden vat or trough,
into which the potatoes in sacks are
lowered by rope and pulley and later
hauled out, drained, and dried on slat
ted racks.
Seed potatoes may be treated sew
eral weeks before planting. provided
they are not reinfected by storing in
old containers or storage bins.
Sprouted potatoes are injured by
treatment, but will throw out new
sprouts. In general. however, potar
toes will not be injured by following
the above directions. Many growers
believe termination is improved by
treatment
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-07-14
SELECT CLEAN SEED
Most important Precaution in
Control Of Potato Scab.
Dtsinfecticr Treatment Ia m Add.d
Forssi0ht--Neither VIII Be e.
fective II Soil 10 Already
Full Of Disease.

From the United States Department O,
Agriculture)
me treatment of seed potatoes with
formaldehyde or with corrosive sub.
innate has been recommended for
many years as a preventive of scab
and other diseases carried on the tn
bers.
Such treatment is, on the whole.
profitable, but has several limitations
which should be clearly recognized
to prevent disappointment, according
to the specialists Of the department.
The object Of disinfecting seed pota-
toes is to destroy the germs OF scab
and other surface parasites which
might otherwise be planted with the
seed and infect the new crop. Only
surface infections are reached by this
method. 1t Is only partially effective
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-07-14
ASSOCIATIONS ARE A HABIT
We Even Form Clubs Over Question
Of Teethin0 Rings We.
Thumb.

Dur passion for getting up associa-
MS is a bad symptom of intellectual
bleness. Every trade and profess
p among us, every interest and
JUDGE, every aspiration, hypothe-
or question about question has
tang of club members at it's back.
fhe fashionable mothers get up So
lies to determine what plays their
ldren shall see during the holt
rs. know of one woman who was
able to decide whether she should
70 rubber ring or a coral to her
thing child or should leave him to
(ure and the thumb. She according
formed society. 1t is called tho
hg and Coral association and meets
ice month. 1t has recently split
b two organizations through the Sc
|sion OF the antiring and coralites.
means OF these two societies any
|ther may today escape the mental
Euish OF making a decision for her
K upon this teething matter.-John
Chapman, In Atlantic Monthly.
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teen or fifteen years, in separate
places, but | found out that they
were male and female of the species,
and put them together, and they pol
linated, with the result that they fruit
ed for the first time
Too Crowded to Be Seen.
Here is a garden, an exhibition of
great scientific, educational and ro-
mantle interest-to say nothing of the
bits Of history entwined about many
of its trees and plants-which is SO
filled with rare specimens that the
average visitor cannot see them be-
cause of the way one is hidden by the
other. Among the most beautiful Gre
atoms OF nature, the poor stunted
trees and plants reach out toward the
skies for their place in the sun,
their share of the air. that they may
thrive and silently teach the lesson
OF the beautiful
Here Is to be found, really living
and growing, a cedar of Lebanon, such
as is spoken of in the Bible, growing
and thriving only on one side because
it is crowded too much on the other.
Here also is to be found the euphorbia
splendens, the crown OF thorns," also
mentioned in the Bible. From the
"sawdust' OF the former Is made the
incense used in Greek and Roman
Catholic churches, highly pleasing to
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-07-14

against deep pits of common scab.
Formaldehyde is less effective than
corrosive sublimate against the black
sclerotia or resting bodies OF rhizoc-
tonia, or russell scab, and against pow
derry scab. Neither chemical, as or
dinarily used, will destroy silver scurf.
Either one will kill surface infections
OF blackleg, but neither fusarium wilt
nor late blight infection in potato tu-
bers can be reached by any seed treat
ment, nor can any Of the nonparasitic
diseases OF potatoes, such as mosaic
leaf roll, and curly dwarf, be prevent
ed. See Farmers Bulletin 544 for
description of these troubles.
Clearly, therefore, the most impor-
tant precaution against these diseases
Is to select clean, disease-free seed
potatoes from healthy, vigorous plants,
as determined by field inspection dur
ing the growing season and at harvest.
Seed treatment should then be applied
as an additional precaution.
Soil Conditions and Potato Diseases.
Soil conditions have an important re-
lation to potato tuber diseases, and
many OF these are widely spread
throughout the country, perhaps ma
tive to some soils. Common scab is
favored by neutral or slightly al
kaline SOIL and seldom gives trouble in
acid soils. 1t is therefore increased
by lining and by fresh stable manure,
wood ashes, and alkaline fertilizers,
such as nitrate OF soda and ground
bone, while acid phosphate and sui
plate of ammonia tend to diminish
scab.
Rhizoctonia occurs to some extent
in nearly all soils, but appears to at
tack potatoes most when the condi-
tons are unfavorable to the best de-
velopment of the potato plant Bring
the land to an ideal state Of filth to
minimize loss from rhizoctonia.
Powdery scab is worst on cold, wet,
or poorly drained soils. Blackleg,
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-07-14

:" Oh several years congress mas
II been urged to give a new leaSe
OF life to one Of the most In
teresting institutions in Wash
ington-the National Botanic Garden
by removing 1t to q 400-acre tract
in Rock Creek park. One need only
walk through the garden to appreci-
ate the need for such change.
The giant palms In the conserva-
tories are crowding the panes Of glass
out Of the roofs of the buildings in
which they are housed. Rare trees and
plants encroach upon one another,
pushing and struggling in their fights
for life and beauty. Exotics that have
been coaxed to fruit and flower in
their perfection in past years are
being persuaded to do SO now, under
present conditions Of congestion, only
by the hardest kind of labor on the
part of the gardeners.
In this beautiful garden, started by
George Washington. one meets people
from all over the United States, says
the Washington Star. A mecca for
school children, teachers. bridal cou-
pies and other tourists, as we'll as men
and women Of purely scientific turn
Of mind, each season that passes gives
it some new attraction, each year adds
to its collections.
Recently the garden has been par
ticularly enriched by the successful
growth and fruiting of the Garcia pa
paya. under the loving care OF the
superintendent, George w. Hess. This
papaya is something like the papaw
OF the middle West, and is also known
as the melon papaw. 1t is, however, a
tropical fruit, known in tropical coun-
tries as the melon zapote. 1t comes
from Mexico and Central America,
and the two young trees In the bo-
tanic garden bear witness to the fact
that the present occasion is the first
time the fruit has been produced in
Washington.
Superintendent Hess explained how
he happened to be able to produce the
fruit here.
These zapote trees" he said, were
mated by me. They have been in the
botanic garden, I suppose, about four
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-07-14
MINERAL FEEDS NO BENEFIT
Negative Results Obtained In Tests
Conducted at the Iowa Expert
ment Station.

Pigs fed at the Iowa station were
given free-will choice of IA different
minerals while being fed on corn and
its products, but results were mega
tive, as the minerals did not appar
emily help the stock in any way.
Among minerals available were rock
salt. charcoal, limestone, bone ash,
cinders, slack coal, wood ashes. glau.
ber's salts, epson salts, calcium cit
rate and baking soda.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-07-14
PLAN FOR CUTTING SPINACH
Convenient Way Is to Use Sharp
Hoe to Slice OFF Large Plants
OF Edible Size.

AS convenient a way as any for
cutting spinach is to use & sharp hoe
to slice off the large plants a. soon
as they reach the edible size, shns
leaving the smaller ones for week
or two to grow larger. By SO doing
the season can be somewhat extend
ed without risk of having the plants
develop seed stalks, which they will
start to do at the first hint of warm
weather.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-07-14
He Had the Price.

Bil McCabe's Poughkeepsie team
was playing the Kingston team one
day years ago, in the Atlantic league,
and guy named Fogarty was umpire.
In the ninth inning, with the score
tied, two OF McCabe's men played out,
and A. Riu had only one man extra,
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-07-14
She Couldn't Understand.

She Couldn't Understand.
Mamie-Why did you leave your
1t place?
katie-The master and missus was
Fever quarreAng behind locked
'ors.
But wasn't there 4 keyhole?"
|'Yes, but they always Quarreled In
|ench."