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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
TribuIations of a Volunteer,

Richard de Gunpowder was an en-
thusiast He was so enthusiastic that
he enlisted in the Harvard Hundreds.
Moreover, he was SO very enthusiastic
that he enlisted twice. Then matters
became confused, for he was assigned
to two different regiments. In some
way, however, he managed to per-
suade his superior officers that he
would rather be wholly and entirely in
one company than partly in two. So
one of his enlisted selves Joined the
other in the same squad. But now he
was absolutely beside himself; every
time he turned around he hit himself
in the back; whenever he was out of
step he trod on his own heels; every
time he-what should-what could he
do? What would you have done?
But the captain was cleverer than
vou. He selected one of Richards en-.
listed selves and made tim an officer
So now Sergeant de Gunpowder once
more has complete command Of him.
self.-Harvard Lampoon.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
Russia's Stock of Vodka.

The Russian government has before
it a problem whose solution is full
of potential interest for other coun-
tries, says the New York Times. Ow-
ing to the prohibition of the sale of
vodka, it now holds in stock 260,000,-
900 gallons of that liquor, and is won
1ering what can best be done with, it..
A question OF more compleXity but
similar in spirit is coming over the
horizon of other nations, including our
own, by reason of the rapid spread
during recent years of the principles
Of temperance, total abstinence, and
prohibition For Russia the matter
is simplified by the fact that the gov
ernment owns the liquor that it's own
laws have made valueless. 1t can do
what it likes with this ocean of vodka.
Russia is just now finding her stores
of vodka an embarrassment of riches.
But if she can put it to Industrial
uses that equal it's former market
value, her solution of the problem will
have much significance for other ma
tions confronted by the same cues
tiOn.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
NATURE KEEPS HER SECRETS
Interesting How the Progress of Evo-
luton Went On Through the
Centuries.

No generation can discern its evolu-
tionary trend and bearing upon it's
own or any other race.
Evolution is always an unconscious
process to the participants therein.
The remnant of despised Israelites
fleeing to the desert from the tyranny
of Egypt looked hopefully toward a
promised land which would be walled
in from the outside heathen by separ
ating rites and strictest regulations.
The wandering Jew did not suspect
that his grandest prerogative was to
be, not the exclusive ownership of an
earthly paradise, but the transmission
of his monotheistic conception of the
deity to alien races until finally it
should encompass the globe.
When the African savage crossed an
unknown sea, mourning his dusky
brood. his sun-baked hut, the idea
could never have entered his thick
skull that cruel wrong to himself
and his countrymen would be over.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
leaving the message of inquiry he had
intended to send unwritten.
CHAPTER vi
Synptonatic

For some few minutes the two on
the cabin porch made no attempt to
talk, but when the rumbling thunder
of the ore-car which the elder Mas
singale was pushing ahead of him into
the mine had died away in the sub
terranean distances Brouillard began
again.
Il do get your point of view-some-
times" he said. Civilization, or what
stands for 1t, does have a way of
shrinking into littleness, not to say
cheapness, when one can get the
proper perspective. And your life up
here on Chigringo has given you the
needful detached point of view."
The trouble shadows in the eyes of
the young woman who was sitting in
the fishnet hammock gave place to a
smile Of gentle derision.
DO you call that civilization ?" she
demanded. Indicating the struggling
new town spreading itself, maplike. iii
the valley below.
Il suppose 1t is-one form of it. At
least It is civilization In the making.
Everything has to have some sort of a
beginning"
Miss Massingale acquiesced in a
little uptilt of her perfectly rounded
chin.
"Just the same, You don't pretend to
say you are enjoying it." she said in
manifest depreciation.
"Oh. don't know. My work Is down
there. A few weeks ago I was right
eously hot. II seemed SO crudely un
necessary tc start a pigeon-pluckine
match at this distance from Wal
street."
But now" she queried-"now, sup
pose. you have become reconciled? 2
Il am growing more philosophical
let US say. There are Just about &C
many pigeons to be plucked. anyway;
they'd molt II they weren't plucked
And It may as well be done here as
on the stock exchange. when you come
to think of It."
Il like you least when you talk that
way" said the young woman in the
hammock. with open-eyed frankness
DO you do It as other men do?-just
to hear how it sounds?"
Brouillard, sitting on the top steI
of the porch, leaned his head agains
the porch post and laughed.
You know toe much-a lot tot
much for a person of your tender
years." he asserted. (which names
one more of the charming collection
of contradictions which your father o.
mother or somebody had the temerit!
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
WORK IN FLOWER GARDEN

Seed OF cannaS, nasturtiums, cypress
vine, and other hard wooded" seeds
are benefited by soaking in hot water
for twelve hours before planting.
When spraying the orchard this
spring do not neglect to spray roses.
shrubs and small fruits. 1t will do
them a world of good.
Experiment with flower novelties,
but do not "bank" on them.
Don't trust seeds to cold, wet soil
wait until the earth is dry and warmed
by the sun.
annual in the house. For instance.
the cosmos.
Try few Of the summer blooming
bulbs and tubers this year-tuberous
rooted begonias, caladiums, dahlias,
cannas, tube roses etc. They are sat
isfactory summer bloomers.
The following plants will flourish or
the shady side of the house: Ferns,
pansies, sweet-alyssum, wandering jew
mignonette, torenias, forget-me-nots,
primroses, minulas, begonias, fuchsias.
heliotropes and godetias.
These thrive in the sun: Verbenas.
nasturtiums, phlox, petunias, nigellas,
geraniums, candytuft, cypress vines,
| hyacinth beans, morning glories, and
| in fact almost all our bedding ANIMALS.
Have the sweet pea bed two feet
wide, and as long as wanted. Manure
it heavily and spade deeply. Run two
| burrows down the center six inches
apart, and ten inches deep, and fill
with leaf mold or well rotted manure
| Mix this with the surrounding soil
and then plant the peas one inch apart
and five inches deep. Cover with soil
and firm it we'll
When spring comes work the soil
about the shrubs and perennials, and
fork in the winters mulch. If the
plants are getting too large divide
them, and they will bloom more pro
fusely.
Before the rose starts growing il
spring cut back at least two-thirds o
last years growth-more if you wan1
large flowers. If only one-half of the
growth is removed, there will be more
flowers, but they will be small. Re
move all old and weak growth.
If stocky cosmos are wanted begi1
to pinch out the end of the stem whel
the Seeding is five or six inches high
and treat every shoot until the end o
July
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24

He nodded gravely ''It is all true
enough. You haven't added anything
more than graceful little touch here
and there. Who has been telling you
all these things about me? Not
Grizzy?"
NO, not Murray Grislow; it was the
man you think you know best in all
the worldwide is also probably the
one you know the least-yourself."
Good heavens! Am I'really such a
transparent egoist as all that?"
"All men are egoists." she answered
calmly. IN some the ego is sound
and clear-eyed and strong; in others
it is weak-in the same way that pas
sion is weak; it will sacrifice all it has
or hopes to have in some sudden fury
of self-assertion."
She sat up and put her hands to her
hair, and he was free to look away,
down upon the great ditch where the
endless chain of concrete buckets
added to the deep and widespread
foundations of the dam. Across the
river group of hidden sawmills sang
InelF TduCOuS song. LII Cn6 ulQQl6 QlS-
tance the camp-town city spread
its roughly indicated streets over the
valley level, the tall chimney stacks
of the new cement plant were rising
and from the quarries beyond the
plant the dull thunder of the blasts
drifted up
This was not Brouillard's first visit
to the cabin on the Massingale claim
by many. In the earliest stages of the
valley activities Smith, the Buckskir
cattleman, had been Amy MassingaIe's
escort to the reclamation camp-"jus
a couple o. lockers" in Smiths phrase
and the unconventional altitude.
had done the rest From that day for
ward the young woman had Hospitality
opened her door to Brouillard and hi!
assistants, and any member of tn,
corps, from Leshington the morose
who commonly came to sit in solemn
silence on the porch step. to Griffith
who had lost his youthful heart t,
Miss Massingale on his first visit. wa
welcome.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24

to label Amy, sweetest and most
seraphic of diminutives."
IF you don't like my name" she
began, and then she went off at an
other tangent. please tell me why
am collection of contradictions
Brouillard's gaze went last the
shapely little figure in the string ham
mock to lose itself in the far Timan-
yoni distances.
You are a bundle of surprises" he
said, letting the musing thought slip
into speech. What can you possibly
know about my thoughts?"
She made a funny little grimace at
him. 1T was contradictions a mo-
ment ago and now it is surprises.
Which reminds me. you haven't told
me why ! am collection"
"Oh, can catalogue them il you
push me to 1t. One minute you are
the Madonna lady that can't recall,
calm, reposeful, truthful, and all that
you know-so truthful that those child
like eyes of yours would make a stut-
tering imbecile of the man who should
come to you with lie in his mouth" :"
And the next minute?"
THE next minute you are a witch,
laughing at the mans little weak
nesses, putting your finger on them as
accurately as If you could read mis-
soul, holding them up to your ridicule
and-what's much worse-tn his own.
At such times your insight, Ut what
ever you choose to call it, is enough
to give man fit of seeing things. "
Her laugh was like a schoolgirls.
light-hearted, ringing. deliciously unre-
strained
What a picture!" she commented
And then: Il can draw a better one
Of you, Monsieur Victor de Brouil
lard"
DO it," he dared
Very we'll, then: Once upon a time
it was good while ago. I'm afraid
you we're a very upright young man
You would cheerfully have died for 9
principle in those days. and you would
have allowed the enemy to cut you W
into cunning little inch cubes before
you would have admitted that any pig
con was ever made tn be plucked"
He was smiling mirthlessly, with the
! black mustaches taking the sardonit
! upcurve.
"Then what happened?"
! "One of two things. or maybe botl
} Of them. You were pushed out init
J the life race with some sort of
/ handicap. | don't know what 1t was
, or is Is that true2"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24

tell me. what would you do with your
pot of rainbow gold-if you should
find it?"
Brouillard rose and Strengthened
himself with his arms over his head
like an athlete testing his muscles for
the record-breaking event
What would do? A number of
things. But first of all, think, I'd
buy the privilege of telling some wom-
an that I love her"
She was silent for so long a time
that he looked at his watch and
thought of going Bnt at the deciding
instant she held him with a low-spo-
ken question.
Does it date back to the handicap?
You needn't tell me if you don't want
to-"
1T does. And there is no reason
why I shouldn't tell you the simple
fact. When my father died he left me
debt-a debt of honor; and it must
be paid. Until it is paid-but | am
sure you understand"
quite fully" she responded quickly
and now there was no trace of levity
in the sweetly serious tone. as il
much?-so much that you can't"
He nodded and sat down again or
the porch step. Yes. it is big enough
to go in a class by itself-in round
numbers. a hundred thousand dollars
'Horrors!" she gasped AND ycl
are carrying that milestone? Must yol
carry it?"
''If you knew the circumstances yol
would be the first to say that mus
carry it, and go on carrying it to tn,
end of the chapter"
"But-but you'll never be freel"
mot on a government salary" b
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
Everyone Should
Drink Hot Water
in the Morning
Wash away all the stomach, Iiv-
er, and bowel poisons be-
fore breakfast.

To feel your best day in and day
out, to feel clean inside; no sour bile
to coat your tongue and sicken your
breath or dull your head; no constipa-
ton, bilious attacks, sick headache,
colds, rheumatism or gassy, acid stom-
ach, you must bathe on the inside like
you bathe outside. This is vastly
more important, because the skin
pores do not absorb impurities into
the blood, while the bowel pores do,
says well-known physician.
To keep these poisons and toxins
well flushed from the stomach, liver,
kidneys and bowels, drink before
breakfast each day. a glass Of hot wa
ter with teaspoonful Of limestone
phosphate in it. This will cleanse,
purify and freshen the entire aIimen-
tary tract, before putting more food
into the stomach.
Get quarter pound of limestone
phosphate from your druggist or at
the store. It is inexpensive and al
most tasteless, except a sourish
tinge which is not unpleasant Drink
phosphated hot water every morning
to rid your system of these vile poi
sons and toxins; also to prevent their
formation.
To feel like young folks feel; like
you felt before your blood, nerves and
muscles became saturated with an &C.
emulation Of body poisons, begin this
treatment and above all, keep it up!
As soap and hot water act on the skin,
cleansing. sweetening and purifying
SO limestone phosphate and hot water
before breakfast, act on the stomach
liver, kidneys and bowels.-Adv.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
"GIBRALTAR OF THE BALTIC"
Powerful Fortress of sveaborg, Guard
ing the Gulf of Finland. Has Been
Frequently So Called.

After more than 1S months of naval
war upon the Baltic sea between the
fleets of Germany and Russia, the first
successful shot has yet to be fired
against the mighty fortress of Svea-
borg, which guards the neck of the
Gulf of Finland. ard the water ap-
proaches to the Russian capital, says
graphic society at Washington. Svea-
borg, best known as the Gibraltar OF
the Baltic" powerfully secures it's
holders control to all the wide basin
of the Gulf of Finland. thus giving
them a most important base for dis
inland sea. 1t was the acquisition OF
this stronghold that constituted the
strongest impelling force in Musco-
vfte politics toward the conquest OF
Finland from the Swedes.
Across the neck of the gulf from
Sveaborg lies Reval. the seat of other
powerful shore defenses and of i'm
portant Russian navy yards. These
two points block the way from the
Baltic against any naval power al
most as securely as the forts Kilid
Bahr and Chanak Kalessi blocked the
English ships at the Dardanelles.
Reval is situated on sharp bay at
the northeastern gulf shore of Els
tonia. Sveaborg fortress stands just
before Helsingfors. the capital of Fin,
land
There are hundreds of small, thick
ly wooded islands strewn over the
coastal waters around Helsingfors. II
is upon group of seven of such is
lands, which are larger than their
neighbors, that the almost impregna
Bile Sveaborg fortress is built. More
over, small redoubts and batteries are
well concealed in several of the out
| lying islands which surround. like
thinly-fung skirmish line. the fortress
near the coast
Many vain seaward attack has
shattered against Sveaborg's defense:
in bygone days, and in recent years
Russia has brought the strength O
the place up to Twentieth Century re
| quirements. It is said that more thar
1000 guns are mounted here and sev
eral thousand soldiers are Quarteret
in the fortress even in times of peace
During the Crimean war the allies at
tackled this point violently and with
out success. The story goes that Eng
lish guns alone hurled more than
thousand tons of shot and shell int,
the fortress, almost without apparen
effect. 1t has fallen only once, an
then bribery is credited with victor
and not the force of arms. 1t SUI
rendered to the Russians without al
effort at defense, surrendering at tn
same time that its garrison of 500
men laid down their arms and turne
over their formidable defenses, tn
whole country of Finland.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
ruled in the end by the benefits of
civilization attainable in no other way.
Old Cities of Western Asia

The maps of the Roman empire
and ByZantium was, of course, stand.
ing where Constantinople stands to-
day, at the tip of Europe on the west
ern side of the Bosporus, in Thrace.
On the eastern side of Bosporus was
Chalcedon. South of the Dardanelles,
the city of Ilium, or Troy, marked on
the maps of the time of the Persian
empire, had disappeared and was not
ON maps of the times of tie Caesars
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
'CASCARETS' Fol.
SLUGGISH BOWELS
No sick headache, sour stomach,
biIiousness or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box now.


Turn the rascals out-the headache.
biliousness, indigestion, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases-turn them
out tonight and keep them out with
Cascarets. =
Millions of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by lazy
liver. clogged bowels or an upset stom-
ach.
Don't put in another day of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour, fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and poison in the
bowels. Then you will feel great.
"a Cascaret tonight straightens you
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10-cent box from
any drug store means clear head.
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
and bowel action for months. Chill
dren love Cascarets because they
never gripe or sicken. Adv.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
BY FRANCIS LYNDE

admitted "As a matter of fact it
takes more than half of the salary to
pay the premiums on-pshawl Let's
drop it."
She was looking beyond him and her
voice was quick with womanly sympa
thy when she said: IF you could drop
it-but you can't And it changes ev
erything for you, distorts everything
colors your entire life. It's heart
breaking!"
This was dangerous ground for him
and he knew it. In the ardor of young
manhood he had taken up the vicari
1, Gus burden dutifully, and at that time
his remuneration Of the things that
other men strove for seemed the light
est of the many fetterings. But now
| love for a woman was threatening to
make the remuneration too grievous to
be borne.
'How did you know?" he queried Gu
riously. 1T does change things. I'd
sell anything I've got, save one, for a
chance at the freedom that other men
have-and don't value"
What is the one thing you wouldn't
SELF" she questioned, and Brouillard
chose to discover a gently quickened
| interest in the clear-seeing eyes.
MY love for the-for some woman
I'm saving that, you know. 1t is the
only capital I'll have when the big
debt is paid
DO you want me to be frivolous
or serious?' she asked. looking down
at him with the grimacing little smile
that always reminded him of caress
81 have been wondering whether she
is or isn't worth the effort-and the
reservation you make. Because it is
all in that, you know. You can do and
be what you want to do and be Il
you only want to hard enough"
He was looking down, chiefly be
cause he dared not look up, when he
answered soberly: ''She is worth
it many times over; her price is above
rubies. Money. much or little. wouldn,
be in It."
THAT is better-much better. Nov
we may go on to the ways and means
they are all in the man, not in the
things, not none whatsoever as Til
would say. Let me show you what
mean. Three times within my recol
lection my father has been worth con
siderably more than you owe. ant
three times ne has-well. it's gone
And now he is going to make goot
again when the railroad comes"
Brouillard got up.
81 must be going back down tn,
hill," he said. And then, without warn
ing: What if should tell you tha
the railroad is not coming to the Nj
quota, Amy?"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
The optimist.

Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany
leader, praising optimism, said:
when l am looking for CHEEKY.
bracing optimism, often think of the
street musician playing Christmas
Awake on cornet in the midst of a
driving snowstorm on Christmas day.
"The snow fell, the wind blew. and
the musician, standing in deep drift.
footed away when a lady passed.
1.-The man looked down at his shah
by attire and said to himself proudly
and optimistically:
"'How lucky it's only my shoes
that's full of holes. They don't show
at all in this deep snow. Washing
ton Star
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24

dragging sensation across my loins,
difficulty in collecting my thoughts
and was troubled with short
ness Of breath. Dodds Kidney Pills
have cured me of these complaints.
You are at liberty to publish this let.
ter for the benefit of any sufferer who
doubts the merit of Dodds Kidney
Pills."
Dodds Kidney Pills, SOC. per box at
your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Dodds Dyspepsia Tab
let's for Indigestion have been proved.
SOC. per box.-AdY.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24

Lee Yik, a Chinese, says that N
China pearls have been developed by
artificial methods for centuries. Yik
will experiment with d Large bed of
clans on the California coast. Part
of the method is to wound the clam,
insert a small birdshot and at the
same time a little coloring matter of
any chosen hue.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
Mo Dude

II s'pose I'm a reg'lar old fogy,"
said Uncle Ezra, but I'm blamed If
| can see any sense in that there bath
robe my nephew sent me from the
city. / tried to take bath in the
burned thing last Saturday night, and
if it wasn't for the style of it l could
have done doggone sight better with
out !"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
Ministers Live LONGEST.

Statistics show that a religious life
tends to prolong existence in this
country, and that ministers are among
the iongest-lived individuals. Brain
workers live longer than those who
labor with their muscles, women long
er than uHn and the married longer
than the single.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
Explaining Himself.

ENPEdIniH9 FIfftISSff.
Don't you think that woman's skirt
is-er-a trifle too high?"
THAT depends on the point of
fiew."
"Oh, the point of view is eminently
satisfactory, so far as 1 am concerned.
was just speaking on general prin-
ciples.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24


refreshing. 1 felt
heavy and sleepy
after meals, was
always nervous
and tired, had a
bitter taste in my
mouth. was dizzy.
b a d foa tin 6
specks before my
eyes, was always
<hsrc&- h-S .
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24

" you were In love with
girl and . beast Of man. who
had the power to get you fired
from your job, made smirking
remark about her TO you. would
you smash him In the Jaw and
kick him out Of your office
even " the act caused an In
definite postponement OF your
wcddlnq7
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
1ahIa Wit.

Il can't reach the sausage"
Whistle to It." suggested the hu-
morous boarder.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24

Kings in the earliest days were
merely the fathers Of families" and
the word Is derived from the same
source as kin"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
A GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

Mr.. F. G. Case of Welcome Lake,
Pa, writes: ST suffered with Back
ache and Kidney Trouble. My head
ached, my sleep was broken and un.