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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-12-01

King witnesses wild doings IN
the cavern and sees narrowing
sights. YasEiCf appears, a owe
" vision, and the army Of SIGHT
ers 90 villa WITH enthusiasm.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-12-01

20 81 cOAIlNULL.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11

New York Police Captain Is Enthu-
siastic Over the Havana
Force.

A New York police captain, after a
recent visit to Cuba, describes the
Havana police force as one of the fin
est in the world, second, in his esti-
nation, only to that of New York.
The Havana policemen wear a light
blue uniform and a helmet similar to
that of the French army officer. The
mounted and traffic policemen wear
spiked helmets. A cape is thrown over
the shoulder and revolvers are carried
in a holster attached to the outside of
the jacket. In size the men do not
compare favorably with the police of
New York or other great American
cities. They are large for natives,
but, in comparison with the American
standard, of medium, Or below me-
dium, height. What they lack in size,
according to the New York police
man, they make up in politeness. If
Havana cop does not understand
your question he will find an inter-
prefer. He will even go so far as to
walk several blocks with a stranger to
street car in order to get him started
Alright to his destination. There is a
policeman on every corner and his job,
due to the narrowness of the streets
and the volume of automobile traffic,
is heavier than that of the average
American metropolitan trafficman. Po-
lice captains live with their families
in the police station. Little drunken
ness is evident in the city.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
1t Requires 81, 900 Year to Keep Him,
and Much More to Kill
Him.

Measured by their debts, it has cost
England, France and Germany about
$1,000 a year for every soldier and sal
or on duty during the war, "Girard"
writes in the Philadelphia Ledger.
French writer's say that Russia has
still 100000 good soldiers to equip.
The United States could equip and
maintain in the field half that force,
or 100000 Russian troops, for a year
at an expense of $3,000O00,0O0.
And that $3,OOO,O00,000 would not
more than equal the sum which the
United States has already made out Of
this war.
Lincoln called for 10000 troops to
suppress what was then thought to
be modest Civil war, and 100000 vol
unteered in a day.
That rate of volunteering now would
bring a million and half men under
the flag Immediately.
A few years ago a French military
critic said it cost $4,000 to kill one
soldier in war.
It has cost the allies about $4,000
| to kill one of their foes in the pres
ent war.
| These estimates take no account of
the wounded and prisoners who go into
the bloody scales for excess measure
1t cost England nearly $4,000 to
kill an American soldier during the
Revolution.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
WEB OF STEEL
BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY FATHER AND SON
nbynmnsHR

quite unsuspecting what was in the
woman's heart.
Even as he spoke, Helen IlingwOrth
turned away. She ran heavily in her
sodden garments along The broken
mesa top past the house to the upper
edge. There below her were the three
men just emerging from the fringe of
trees. Rounding the end of the mesa,
they had at last struck flrmer ground
Helen Tllngworth could see them
through the pines on the old trail. The
going was bad enough, but it was moth
ing compared to what they had passed
over and presently they burst out of
the woods and ran along the greasy,
well-rounded hogback that divided the
valley from the ravine
The woman had no idea what was
toward, what was their purpose. She
could only stare and stare at the rap
idly moving far-off figure indomitably
in the lead, and the others following
after. There Winters joined her.
Rodney sent me to look after you
he feels that he must stay back and
watch the dam for his paper"
Look" said Helen, pointing far
down. The men halted at the very
narrowest part of the hogback. They
were clustered together. The bag lay
on the ground behind them. One man
bent over it, evidently opening it.
Another man swung the shovel vicious
ly, the third grabbed the pick. Win
ters had been too far removed from en-
gineering even yet to figure out what
was toward. They could only watch
and wonder.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11

yelled back through the rain as he
scrambled off, the dam up the rocks to
the spillway. 1t was not his fault that
they could not hear and could not I'M
derstand.
The water was rushing through the
spillway about knee deep, and the
three men plunging forward through
1t had difficulty in keeping their foot
ing on the broken, rocky bottom.
When they reached the other side,
Meade shouted above the storm:
Murphy, bring your pick and shov-
ell; take that iron range-pole, too.
Here, Funaro, you take your shovel
and these"
AS he spoke he ran into the office
shack and wrecked transit tripod,
ruthlessly separating the legs from one
another by main force and pitching
two of them into the little Italians
outstretched arms.
Without a question, both men com
piled with his directions. In huge
crevice, almost a small cave, in the
! spur of the mesa which overhung the
east end of the dam the explosives
were stored. The dynamite was KEPT
in ollslzin bags, the decorating caps il
waterproof boxes. There were six
teen sticks or cartridges in each bag
Each stick was an inch and a half il
diameter and eight inches long. On'
bagful should be ample. Indeed, i
that did not do the work, the attemp
would fail.
The men waited while Meade select
cd bag of dynamite, n box of detona
tors, and package of fuses. 1t was
cardinal rule that dynamite cartridge
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
Some Scheme.

"You knew Booster? He's in khaki
at present, but wait till the wars over.
and you'll see him grow rich," said
Smithers. Hes going to make the
matrimonial agency popular"
"Ah" said the others.
Eyes. He says hundreds of thou
sands of bright boys will be coming
back to their former haunts to find
their promised brides married to NUM-
ton millionaires. They'll look around
them and see the advertisements !:
Boosters Bonny Brides. Write for
Booklet They they'll get booklet
full of testimonials"
81 know" said Brown. Like this:
Dear Booster: was a bachelor with
nobody to love me. Now, thanks to
you, l have wife and wamily and all
the usual trimmings
'Or this, ventured Tompkins: When
the war was over and had no nice,
comfortable trench of my own to shell
ter in, 1 began to think peace wasn't
a blessing after all. However, mar
ried one of your Bonny Brides, and
now 1 wonder whether we shall ever
get another war.
'Ha. ha! cried Brooks. 'aThis is
one testimonial that's sure to turn up
Two years ago 1 married one of your
brides, since when I have kept her
mother London Tit-Bits.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11

was doomed. The water still trickled
through the palisades in many small
streams. That had been a gallant eff
fort they had made, even if a vain one.
For ten minutes he stood silent, ex-
hausted. Then he saw. The water
was not rising. No, it was falling;
only a trife, but enough. Presently it
had stopped filtering through the re-
yetment. He looked back. Not drop
ran on the other side of the palisade.
Vandeventer knew that the water must
be discharging somewhere. The lake
must have broken through somewhere.
He only needed that hint to recall the
fhogback, and then Meade. He saw it
all now.
"We've won, the dams saved" he
cried greatly to the men who stood
back of the palisade staring at him.
Roberts has blown up the hogback.
The waters falling. See for your
selves"
Every man sprang up the palisade.
Someone laughed and then someone
raised a cheer, and those mud-covered,
sodden, worn-out men, who had been
about to die, saluted in heroic acclaim
him who had led them to victory. and
| by implication him who had made that
triumph possible.
ITO BE CONTINUED
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
Cost of a Couch.

A patient German statistician has
calculated that q patient who coughs
once every quarter of an hour for ten
hours expends energy equivalent to
two hundred and fifty units of heat,
which may be translated as equiva-
lent to the nourishment contained in
three eggs or two glasses of milk. In
normal respiration the air is expelled
from the chest at the rate of four feet
per second, whereas in violent cough
ing it may attain a velocity of three
hundred feet. This waste of energy
is especially important, because it oc-
ours, for the most part, in persons
whose assimilative functions are al
ready working under difficulties; con-
sequently the ingestion of the CORE
spending quantity of nouriShment by
no means compensates for the exer-
ton. 1t follows that persistent cough
is per Sc q cause of emaciation, though
there are many other factors which
tend in the same direction; hence the
desirability of restraining cough with
in safe limits, especially when it is due
to irritative refeXes such as are ex-
cited by laryngitis and pharyngitis.-
From the Medical Critic and Globe.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
CHAPTER Xxx.
The Vjctors,

The Victors.
Meade knew that they were fighting
a losing battle. Every one of the
higher grade men knew it also. The
spillway was entirely inadequate, but
it suddenly flashed into his mind, with
that consciousness of the hopeIessness
of the struggle, that perhaps there was
another way to discharge the flood.
The same idea might have come to
any other Of the more intelligent of the
men from Vandeventer down if they
had taken a moment for reflection. If
they had not been so frantically, so
frightfully engrossed In their present
puny but gallant efforts to save the
dam, they certainly would have remem-
bered. That the possibility came to
Meade rather than to any of the others
was perhaps due to the fact that he
had noted the situation later and had
studied the conditions more recently.
Those solitary rambles Of his, those
careful inspections of the terrain Of
the valley, had been made long after
the original surveys and the results of
his observations were still fresh in his
mind.
The water was rising so rapidly
since the cloudburst and he saw the
inevitableness of the failure so clearly
that he did not dare to waste time to
look up Yandeventer. tell him his plan,
and get his permission. Every second
was of the utmost value. When the
thought came, he acted instantly. He
was in the position of the commander
of small force to whom is suddenly
presented the bare possibility of wrest-
ing victory from defeat by some splen-
didly daring and unforeseen undertake
ing. And he was the man to seize such
possibility and make the most of 1t.
He had endeared himself to some OF
the men and the respect in which he
was held by Vandeventer was shared
by the others. When he called two
of the most capable of the workmen
big, bury Irishman and a stout little
Italian. TO follow him, they did il
without q moments hesitation.
1.-THE rest of you keep on here" he
shouted as he left the gang. Murphy
and Funaro, come with me. Keep II
up; think know way to help" he
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11

that experience could feel the prelude
TO failure, began to die away. to stop,
What did it mean? The thunder grew
still, the rain diminished, it ceased, the
clouds broke. Some great hand, as of
God, swiftly tore the black vault of
the heavens apart. Faint light began
to glow over the sodden land. Through
the rift they saw dimly one great peak
of mighty range. What had happened?
Here" said Vandeventer.
How white he looked, how haggard,
streakS of gray in his black hair that
had not been there before, but his eyes
were blazing. He was still the indom-
liable chief Of the Spartan band. The
nearest men gave him a hand. He
clambered up to his former vantage
point on top of the highest log of the
stockade and stared down. The rise
OF the water had stopped! He could
not believe it, vet it was trae. The
rain had ceased again. but by every
natural law the drainage from the hills
would continue for some time in full
volume. Yes, by all rights the dam
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
ORANGE Blossom Farms.

A minor trade which has been badly
hit is the orange blossom industry.
Weddings are simple affairs nowadays
and there is not much demand for the
fragrant white flowers. Practically all
the orange blossom that reaches Lon
don is grown in the south of France,
a few miles back from the coast line,
in the sheltered valleys of the Alpes
Maritimes.
There is, in ordinary times. always
a demand for the blooms, for the per-
fume manufacturers are ready buyers
if the. other market should fail. These
plantations are handed on from one
generation to another in the same fam
lily, and there would be small encour-
agement for rival planters as the trees
do not yield much in the way of a
floral crop until they are a fair age
London Chronicle.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
Movies in +ke Home.

Have you little moving picture the
ater in your home? That question
is likely to become common, simpi-
flying the moving picture machine for
home use. In this new machine the
kissing carbon pencils, with their fire.
quent need Of adjustment, which are a
part of the type of machine used by
lecturers, are done away with. Their
place is taken by an ordinary electric
bulb, of a size varying from 100 to
800 watts. The machine is built in one
piece, SO that it can be easily carried
about, and has a patent shutter which
the manufacturers claim will do away
with all Pickering.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
MARRIAGE.

George AIDE said OF it, you'll re-
gret it if you do and you'll regret it
if you don't" Previously Socrates had
said, somewhat to wit, young man,
whether you do or not, you'll be sorry
for it." The conservative nature is
shy of it, unwilling to take a chance.
The element of chance in it is what
beguiles others. 1t has, however,
wholly admirable aspects. The very
useful and excellent sentiment of
home is perhaps it's best product.
Summing up briefly the whole history
of human experience, we feel moved
TO say of marriage, "It is well. Let it
continue" Ut continues.)
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
The Cost of Hiuh Livinu.

About nine-tenths of the cause for
the h. c. of l. is accounted for by the
editor Of the Nevada (Ark.) Picayune.
Listen to this obscure paper tell the
story in a single paragraph:
1--WE throw away ashes and buy
soap. We raise dogs and buy hogs.
We grow weeds and buy vegetables.
We catch fish with a 81 rod. We
build schoolhouses and send our chill
dren away from home to be educated.
And we send our boys out with a
$40 gun and a $40 dog to hunt 10-cent
game"
Is there any exagSeration in this
country editors snappy sentences
We have failed to discover it.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11

He stepped quickly toward it. and as
he did so he threw his eyes up toward
the gray, rain-filled heaven in one last
appeal.
Did he hear the blind roar, did he
see the upbursting masses of sodden
earth, was he conscious of the fact
that the whole side Of the hillock had
been blown away, that the last explo-
sion had completed the shatterfng work
of the frst-that they had succeeded?
Did he mark the whirling water, driy-
en- backward at first by the violence of
the explosion, returning and rolling in
vast mass through the great opening,
did he see it plunging down the slope
through the trees and bushes. and
pour thunderously into the bed of the
rayine? Did he see the tremendous
rush OF the water from the great lake
that man had created tear earth from
earth, and ever widen and deepen the
opening as it crashed in q foamiag, ter
rible, red cataract through the outlet,
striking down great trees, roaring,
boiling wildly to the bottom of the
gorge far below?
No, he saw nothing Broken, beaten
down by huge bowlder that had been
thrown upward by the explosion and
had struck him on the breast, and
lying battered under a rain of smaller
stones and earth, he was as one dead
'By heavens!" cried Winters in great
excitement on the crest of the hill,
hes done it. He's saved the dam :;
that's q mani"
"Don't you know him?" screamed
Helen ulingworth in his ear.
"No."
"Meade!"
Winters caught her by the arm.
"He's dead" she cried high and
shrill 'but he saved the dam and the
| bridge and the town. He's made atone
men,"
"Yes, yes; don't faint" cried Win
! ters.
'Faint I'm going to him."
| "How?"
''The nearest way" screamed the
woman, letting herself down over the
cliff wall to the broken rocks, by which
only the hardy could reach the lower
| level.
What of the dam below in the val.
ley?
Hold it, men, hold it; for Gods
sake, hold it," shouted Vandeventer
rising from his crouching position
against the palisade to resume il
instantly he had spoken. keep il
up. If it goes down, let's go down will
it. Hang on--hang on! Well hold it
We aren't beat yet"
Broken words, oaths, protestations
curses, cheers, expletives in strange
languages from the polyglot mob O
men burst forth. Even towards haC
been turned into heroes because they
had fought by the side of men. Her,
and there man not weaker phys
ically, perhaps, but less resolute, les
spiritually consecrated, less divinel
obsessed, dropped out of the rank tha
pitted itself in furious, futile, but sub
lime fury against the wavering wal
Some of them fell backward and la
still. Some had tainted and some o
them were half dead. A few here an
there sank down on the trampled. mud
dy embankment and buried their head
in their hands, sobbing hystericall!
But most still blind, mad, sublime
held on. And the palisade did not fal
1t did not bend back any further.
The throb that told of the tremer
dous pressure of the waves, the quive
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11

change. I later took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and soon
felt change for the better. 1 took it
until was in good healthy condition.
recommend the Pinkham remedies to
all women as have used them with such
good results Mrs. MILFORD T. CUM
MNGs, 322 Harmony ST., Penn's Grove,
n. J.
Such testimony should be accepted by
all women as convincing evidence of
the excellence of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound as a'remedy for
the distressing ills of women such as
displacements, Inflammation, liberation,
backache, painful periods, nervousness
and kindred ailments.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
For POSTAGE Stamp. se7o.

The highest price lately paid for
postage stamp was $670, sum given
at a New York auction the other day
for a five-cent Hawaiian missionary
stamp of the issue of 1851. When the
early missionaries went from New Eng
land to Hawaii they looked ahead to
many things, but hardly to the sale of
their postage stamps at prices higher
than their salaries for year.-Youth's
Companion.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
THE BEST BEAUTY DOCTOR
is cuticura for Purifying and Beauti-
flying the Skin-TriaI Free.

For cleansing, purifying and beauti-
Cuticura Soap with touches of Cuti-
cura Ointment now and then afford the
most effective preparations at the mini
mum of cost. No massaging, steaming
creaming, or waste of time.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. l.,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-AdV.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
HNot Our Can"

A little lad at Carmel, Ind, whose
mother was sick, was asked by a
neighbor woman to bring the coal oil,
as she wished to kindle the fire. The
little fellow brought it, and then the
woman asked for an open vessel to
pour the oil in, as she was afraid live
Goals We're in the stove and an e1plo-
sion might occur. The little fellow
looked at her unconcernedly and said !:
"Oh, gee, go ahead, it amt our can."
Indianapolis News.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
Breaking a Horse.

A North Vernon citizen living at the
outskirts of the city makes special
ty of raising fine horses, especially of
the race horse breed. The mans son,
a youngster of nine years, was greatly
delighted when his father brought
home a wooden riding horse. Some
time afterward the boy got an ak and
broke the newly acquired toy. He was
reprdoved by his mother who was 81
fenced by the boys remark: Papa
told me the other day that horse was
no good unless it was broke. In
dianapolis Star.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
Woman on the War Path.

"Tell your wife the TRUTH" says an
eastern minister, "and trust to her
divine nature to forgive" The trouble
is he has never seen our wife when
her divine nature was on the warpath.
Detroit Free Press.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11

Dle compound TOE
Inflammation and
other weaknesses. I
was very irregular
and would have ter
rible pains SO that /
could hardly take q
step. Sometimes !
would be so misera-
BILE that I could not
sweep a room. /
doctored part of the
time hl1t fo1f M
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
ExceIIent Definition of Luck,

Luck" said Uncle Eben, sis what
you talks about when somebody else
works hard an gifts what you was try
In to grab offhand,"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11

When a woman says that her hus-
band is perfection it is a safe bet that
she hasn't been married three weeks.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11

Some peoples troubles are enough
TO make anyone laugh.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11
NOTICE TO
SICK WOMEN
Positive Proof That Lydia
E. Pinkharn's Vegetable
Compound Relieves
Suffering.
SIITIIIITIpBgISGIIIIIIII

Bridgeton, NIL cannot speak too
highly of Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegeta-
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-11

Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the orig
inal little liver pills put up 40 years ago.
They regulate liver and bowels.-AdV.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-25
He Knew

ANY rags? Any old iron?" chanted
the dealer as he knocked at the sub
urban villa. The man of the house
himself open'S the door.
NO; go away" he snapped, irri'
tably. There's nothing for you. My
wife is away"
The itinerant merchant hesitated q
moment, and then inquired, ANY old
bottles es?'-Tit-Bits
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-25
Aristocracy

First Boob Introducing himselo-
My names warren-one OF the vir>
ginia Warrens.
Second Boob - How-de-do; mines
Nichols, y'know.
First Boob-Nichols?
Second Boob-Yaas-ono of the,Au.
Observation-Disclosures.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-25
In Scotch

In Scotch
As a Scottish soldier said tho other
day, the French are getting a bit of
their Aisne back Passing Show.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-25
Not the Same

II suppose" said the facetious
stranger watching a workman spread
a carpet from the church door to the
curb, that's the road to heaven you
are fixing there?"
NO" replied the man. this is
merely q bridal path" - Boston
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