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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-26
Chemists Duplicate in Short Time
Processes Built Up by For
eign Experts.
ENGLAND GIVES THE DATA
Americans Get Manufacturing Infor.
nation Great Britain Has Obtained
Since the War Started-Eu-
rope Takes Up American
Machines.

| WHSnlnBtOn.-muny OF the larger
manufacturing concerns In this coun-
try have recently obtained through
British connections lists of the Ger
man-Owned patents which have been
taken over by British firms since the
beginning of the war. These lists
have been sought by manufacturers
In this country In order to place them
In position to take advantage ut once
of the provisions In the Webb bill on
trading with the enemy, which enables
American firms under certain condi-
lions and for adequate compensation
to make use of German patents during,
and in some cases, after the war.
Through British representatives 10
American dyemakers have received
complete lists of the patents for max
from their German owners with the
authority Of the British parliament
shortly after England entered the war.
1t was recently announced by the de-
partment of commerce that the Du
Pont company intended entering upon
the manufacture of dyestuffs on large
scale. According to representatives of
the company, the Du Pont company
will manufacture dyes on consider
able scale without waiting until the
end of the war.
Without German Patents.
So far the dye industry in this cOun-
try has been built up without the aid
of German patented methods, because
the laws of the country did not per-
nit this. In spite of this handicap
American manufacturers, according to
the department of commerce. have so
far invested more than $200,000000 in
the manufacture of dyestuffs, and are
now producing dyes in greater guam
titles than they were consumed in
America in 1914. American chem
lists have succeeded In duplicat-
ing on short notice many of the
processes which were built up by
generations of German dyestuifs ex-
perts. A greater impetus will be given
to the industry, according to American
experts, when the amendment to the
patent laws places patented German
processes at the disposal of American
There are 46 firms in
this country in the new dyestuffs in
dustry now pending 100000 pounds
of dyes year.
While the war has created this great
industry for America and has multi !,
piled the output of many other indus
tries, 1t has also taught Europe the =
use Of American labOr-saving machin- '
cry and of American labOr-saving de-
vices, according to Albert L. Parker of
the firm of Marks & Clerk, English
patent lawyers. Mr.. Parker says that
American manufacturers in the past
frequently failed to take out patents
n England and in other countries be-
cause the patented article was pro-
luced in this country on such scale
hat there was not the slightest fear
If competition abroad.
american manufacturers should re-
member that the war has resulted in
American methods and
all over the world and is
Educating workmen so that it will not
,e safe to rely, after the war, on the
relief that American machinery can
continue to Offset the cheaper labor
osts in foreign countries" said Mr..
'arker. .
Take Up New Things. !
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-26
Take Up New Things.

Before the war, for instance, I
never saw in England the electric hand
trucks and motor trailers which are
used to expedite the handling Of goods
in this country at freight and express
terminals. Recently they have been
introduced all over England, the short
age of men making it imperative. Add
ing machines and calculating machines
were almost unknown in England be-
fore the war. Now they are being put
into use wherever they can to save
human labor. Labor-saving American
farm machinery has, Of course, been
introduced into farming In all parts
of England, and In almost an equal
degree the use of American labOr-sav-
ing devices has been introduced into
other Industries. This is more or less
true, likewise, of France, Italy, and
other countries. American tool manu-
facturers have been virtually re-
equipping the industries of these cOun-
tries. Before the war Germany was
a leader In Europe In labOr-saving ma
chinery and standardized methods, but
the other countries have been modern
lied by the war in this respect. In
dustrial methods have been changed
all over the world. The reports Of the
United States government abound in
instances of 1t. For example, II is
stated that motor lorries have been in
troduced In considerable numbers into
the Federated Malay states. Even
China has entered upon an era of man
ufacturing and is producing many
manufactured articles which were
previously imported. 1t is plainly In
dicated that after the war all coun-
tries will put forth their best efforts
to do their own manufacturing. and
the whole world is being educated.
largely by the United States. to-use
better Industrial methods"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-26

Samaritans, was completed in SIS.
Ezra, with another band of captives
returned there In 45S and established
the law. while Nehemiah rebuilt the
wall, and again Jerusalem became the
shrine of Israel.
Lapse In History.
We know practically nothing Of its
history for more than century, until
In $50, Alexander the Great conquered
Syria. The gates of Jerusalem were
opened to him, and he left the Jews in
peaceful occupation.
The revolt Of the Maccabees
brought, however, fresh succession
Of troubles upon 1t. 1t was besieged
by the Greeks In 139, 1874, IS and 63
B. c., and the temple was pillaged in
50 B. G. The Roman domination I'M
der Herod brought an interval Of
peace, Herod built palace, restored
the citadel Antonio, and in 10 B. G.
began the erection of the third temple.
Jerusalem is very closely identified
with the earthly life Of Jesus Christ.
1t was to the great Jewish festival
there he was taken by his parents.
Here they lost him and on returning
found him conversing with the wise
men.
1t was to the city he looked when
he uttered his plaintive cry, 20 Jeru-
salem, thou that killest the prophets
and stonest them sent unto thee fin
fcbinn hx, ite, xx-hio
occurred just over seventy years later.
1t was to Jerusalem he went for the
last week of his life, "the Passion
week." as we term it, and ON entering
the city on an ass the thrOnging
crowds cast down branches Of palm
trees, hailing him as king.
Walk to ooIgotha.
His mock trial In Pilates hall and
walk to GolgOtha outside the city,
where on the cross the worlds Re
deemer was crucified, add most pro-
found interest to Jerusalem. It was
within sight of the city, with the dis
ciples around him, that Christ as
cended to heaven, leaving for his fol-
lowers the command to 60 out into all
the world and preach the gospel to
every creature, and to begin the story
Of the evangel In Jerusalem.
Here 40 days later Peter preached
to the thrOnging crowds assembled ut
Jerusalem for the Passover. This mar
velOus sermon created such powerful
impression that 5000 responded to his
summons.
In the early days Of the Christian
era the Jews were In constant revolt
against the Roman power. At length
Titus, son of Vespasian, was sent to
take and destroy the city. In spite
Of a heroic Jewish defense and after
a siege Of 143 days 1t fell to Titus In
20 A. ID.
The greater part Of the populace
was put to the sword and the city
entirely RACED by the pillow. So that,
according to Christ's prophecy, not one
stone remained upon another. The
who persisted In this siege.
according to JOsephus. amounted to
above million souls, and the captives
to almost hundred thousand.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-26

It the capital of the Jewish race, Jeru
salem has been the prey Of half the
races Of the world. 1t has passed sue.
cessively into the hands of the Assy.
rians, BabylOnians, Greeks, Romans
Persians, Arabs, Turks, the Crusaders
finally to fall before the descendants
of that Richard the Lion Hearted who
Hroye in vain for its possession more
than seven hundred years ago.
The historic city has been destroyed
and rebuilt times without number,
only to finally fall for the second time
into the hands of Christian British.
Great Moral Victory.
The gigantic British encircling STRAIT
egg took In, on the south, the little
town of Bethlehem, where Christ was
born, 2,017 years ago. There seems
to be no doubt that the capture Of
Jerusalem Is one of the most stupen-
dous moral victories of the war.
1t is a unique fact that British lead
ers and British armies now, as in the
centuries past, are still the tenacious,
successful foes Of Mohammed's people.
In the twelfth century Richard Occur
de Lion, in penitence for fancied sins,
decided to absOlve himself of mundane
taints by engaging in an altruistic cam
paign for the deliverance of Jerusa-
lem to Christian control. In series
of campaigns he fought the mighty
Saladin through many sanguinary
battles to a truce. He found 1t impOs-
sible to maintain maximum fighting
strength through the extreme line of
communications. Disease and misfOr-
tune reduced his armies to nomadic
bands, which were, some of them,
taken as slaves by the Mussulmans.
Others roamed the continent for years
or engaged in mercenary wars wher-
ever they found chieftains willing to
,.mploy them.
Richard himself became a fugitive,
was arrested by enemies while strug-
Cling his way through Austria, and
only released when friends in Britain
raised enormous ransOms.
Interesting Campaign.
1t Is an interesting campaign that
has just been successful in restoring
Jerusalem. A glance at the geOgraph-
ical nature Of the land over which the
British advanced from GAIA to Jaffa
to Jerusalem is intensely interesting
Palestine, an almost regular rec.
tangle, may be divided into four equal
parts lengthwise for this purpose. The
strip along the Mediterranean sea is
fiat country, a continuous plain. The
next strip to the east is mountainous.
It resembles In general character the
Catskill country Of New York state,
except that the hills and mountains
are not SO heavily wooded.
The third strip from the coast is a
great depression through which the
River Jordan flows.
The fourth Is the plateau land which !
Uses beyond the Jordan.
BY taking the coastal route the
English were able to advance with
little trouble from natural obstacles.
Some distance above Askelon the In
yading army apparently forked. one
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-26
Had Tooth When Born.

Oneida. N. VA daughter has been
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Louis r. North
Of No. 118 Madison street. The baby
had one tooth at the hour of its birth,
this being the first instance, It is be-
lieved, where child has been born
In this city with portion Of Its teeth
equipment. DR.. N. o. Brooks removed
the tooth.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-26


rusalem.
port, Jaffa, by a carriage road Al
miles and by a meter-gauge railway "a
miles, which was completed In 1892
and worked by French company.
Prior to 1858, when the modern
building period commenced, Jerusalem
lay wholly within Its sixteenth.century
walls, and even as late as 1876 there
were few private residences beyond
their limits. At present Jerusalem
without the walls covers a larger area
than that within.
The last census gave the population
as 60OO0-MOslems 1000. Christians
$1,000, Jews 10000. During the pill
grimage season II Is Increased by
about 15.000 travellers.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
Iha Gordian Knot.

As the old legend goes, the father of
the Greek King Midas, once king of
Phrygia. was originally poor peasant
The people of Phrygia being much dis.
turbed, an oracle had informed them
that wagon would bring them king
who would put an end to all theil
troubles. Not long after this saying
Gordius midas father, suddenly ar.
rived in the midst of an assembly of
the people, riding in his wagon. AT
once, to the great surprise Of Gordius,
they made him king. In his gratitude
Gordius dedicates the wagon to the god
Zeus, and it was placed in the acropo-
lis at Gordium. The pole Of the wagon
was tied to the yoke by knot Of bark,
and second oracle declared that who.
ever united that knot should reign over
all Asia. 1t was Alexander who united
the knot by cutting it with his sword,
thus assuming himself to be the man
referred to by the oracle
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
Taking the Poison Out of Salt.

AS far as the supply Of salt goes
there is enough available to last us
forever. Michigan alone, according to
the Popular Science Monthly, claims
to be able to supply the whole world
for 1000 years with "a the salt it
needs. But no matter how plentiful
salt may be 1t has the disadvantage of
being a poison, for no salt is wholly
pure. Thus if the poison in salt can be
eliminated vast additional sources viii
be available.
Scientists have come to the front and
have tackled the problem successfully.
By adding solution of just the right
amount of sulphate of soda the barium
or poison In the salt is changed to sui
phate, and with it is removed the pink
or brownish color due to iron salts.
Thus is made available an unlimited
supply Of salt, which means more raw
material for our chemical industries,
because the barium bearing salt is used
for sailing hides, for glazing pottery
and for making ice.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
TORPEDO BOAT DESTR0YERS.
They Are unarmorsd and Are Helpless
Aaainst Gunfire.

Every one is familiar. of course
with the ordinary torpedo boat. swlf'
Vessel of from 400 to GOO tons In us
placement, carrying no defensive ar
NOR, but armed with tubes for dls-
charging the deadly torpedoes.
To counteract these wasps OF the
sea, according to the Popular Science
Monthly, type of vessel was design
ed of about double the size of torpedo
boats, little greater speed and III au'
dition to torpedo tubes, armed with
rapid fire six to twelve FOUNDER guns
for the avowed purpose of destroying
torpedo boats. Lately all the great
nations have stopped building torpedo
boats as originally designated and are
building torpedo boat destroyers.
Recent engagements have developed
the fact that torpedo boat destroyers
are used almost wholly as torpedo
boats. So they are really battleship
destroyers. To defend the capital
ships from torpedo attack the dread
naughts and battle cruisers are armed
with secondary batteries of rapid tire
guns from four to six inches in diane
ter. One well placed shell from a gun
of that size will ordinarily put a de-
stroyer out of business. as the destroy
ers have no defensive armor whatever.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
London Through the Ages.

The occupation of the site of London
dates back much farther than most
readers are aware The city that
julius Caesar found occupied site
which had been inhabited for unnum-
bered thousands of years. 1t is now
known that during paleolithlc and
neolithic times-the two great divi-
sions Of the stone age-man dwelt on
the site Of London, but it first became
the settlement Of community at the
opening of the historic age, when it
was a stronghold Of the Celts. The
remains Of it's Roman period are the
finest Of the kind in Great Britain.
The Anglo-SaXon and Danish periods
are finely represented, and even later
periods, such as the Tudor, furniah rel
les that have been buried by that
strange process Of superintendent
growth which makes the soil under a
great city resemble the fossiliferous
strata of geology.-Y uths Companion.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
HAITI CLEANS HOUSE.
Changes That Were Brought About by
tho American Occupation.

the American Occupation.
Five years ago in Haiti there was ON
the whole island not more than one
mile of macadamized roadway, and the
new streets. taking the place of combi-
nation trails and sewers, are the most
noticeable changes brought about by
the American occupation.
But more remarkable than the streets
is the astonishing sight of squads Of
Haitians actually cleaning the streets.
Under the old regime the chief occupa-
tions of the male citizens of Haiti were
cockfghting and politics.
The refuse and smells have departed,
and, better still, most of the children
have disappeared from the streets.
They are actually at school, where by
Haitian law they are supposed to be,
but where by Haitian lawlessness only
about 10 per cent Of them ever used to
be.
About 4 o'clock every week day you
will see this newly modified infantry
coming home in squads clean and, un-
fortunately for the picturesque value
of Haitian highways and byways, now
thoroughly provided with Clothes
Worlds Work
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
Alaska,a "Pupmohile.n

The 'pupmobile" is passenger train
drawn over regular railroad track by
dog power. 1t carries passengers from
Nome, Alaska, across the level land
near that town into the mountains.
The track is narrow gauge railroad
built in 1900. A high tax was placed
on railroads in Alaska soon after that,
and as there was not enough traffic
over the road to justify the expense Of
operating locomotives, the regular
train service was discontinued. Then
the ''pupmobile" was instituted. The
accommodation for passengers con-
sists of platform on which are two
seats. To this from seven to fifteen
dogs are harnessed, and the rate at
which they travel compares favorably
with much Of our rapid transit
Popular Science Monthly.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
CZAR AND KAISER.
Both Titles Mean the Same and Are
Derived From Caesar.

It seems strange that two words so
different In sound and spelling as czar
and kaiser are the same. Both are
but changes made in the course OF
nearly 1000 years in the word caesar.
All the Roman emperors took their
title from the first emperor-our old
friend of schoolboy days---Julius Cae-
sar. When Charlemagne founded the
holy Roman empire and was crowned
emperor, he took the name caesar or.
in the frankish form, kaiser. When
the modern German empire was estab-
lished in 1871 the German emperor
William l., grandfather Of the present
kaiser, took the same title-kaiser.
Similarly the rulers Of the eastern
empire at Constantinople, successors to
the old Roman empire, called them
selves caesar. Every petty chieftain or
prince in the territory surrounding the
eastern empire copied the custom and
called himself caesar or cZar. In the
course Of time, however, the greatest
of these, the czar of Muskovy, conquer
ed the other cZars until he was the sole
or practically the sole ruler called czar.
However, the king of Bulgaria, when
few years ago he had himself crowned
as king, took the title Of czar.-Pitts
burgh Dispatch.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
EIau Sizes,

The United States army regulations.
1914. declare the garrison, post and
storm flags to be national flags. They
are to be made of bunting, and the
union of each shall be one-third the
area of the dag. THE garrison flag
will have thirty-six feet fly and twenty
feet hoist;' thus the length Is proper
toned to the breadth as nine is to five.
This flag is furnished only to posts des-
ignated in orders from time to time
and is to be hoisted ON holidays and
important occasions.
"The post flag will have twenty feet
fly and ten feet hoist" 1t is furnished
to all garrison posts for hosting In
pleasant weather.
1.-The storm flag will have eight feet
fly and four feet two inches hoist" All
occupied posts fly it in stormy weather
and it is also furnished to national
cemeteries and recruiting stations.
The blue field holding the stars
should extend to the bottom Of the
fourth red stripe from the top.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
AIMING A BIG GUN.
A Task In Which Figure Chemistry,
Mathematics and Physics.


Today there is about as much differ
ence between aiming a big gun and
aiming a rifle as there Is between sail
ing a superdreadnaught and sailing a
steam yacht. 1t was not very long ago,
however, that a gun was aimed simi-
larly to rifle in that the direction in
which it was pointed was obtained by
sighting along it's barrel.
But now things are not done that
way. The gunners are often far out Of
sight of what they are shooting at, and
the remarkable hits that they make
are only explained by the use they
make of careful scientific calculations.
To direct the fire of one of the bigger
guns, for example, requires that no
less than fifteen complicated correc-
tions be made, says Popular Science
Monthly. Each correction requires an
average of five adjustments, all Of
which must first be exactly figured out
by those in command. The most i'm
portant corrections which are made
are for the influence Of the resistance
of the air, the influence Of the earth's
curvature and the attraction Of grav-
ity on the distance the bullet may be
carried.
In place Of the guesswork of previ-
GUS times is the use Of the most ad-
vanced developments in the fields of
mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
Pleasures of lrritability.

Learn how to be irritable. When
any one says anything to you always
imagine he is trying to insult you.
Few appreciate the innocent enjoy
ment to be had in swapping and snarl-
ing at those we meet through the day
Have things get on your nerves. If
things get on your nerves you will find
it an easy matter to be sour and surly.
After awhile you will find that most
anything gets on your nerves. especial
ly people who are happy and cheerful.
The idiots! Some people are born irri-
table, others acquire it. and they all
should have curses cussed upon them.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
MiIiukoff of Russia.

Professor Paul Miliukoff was widely
known in Russia as a historian before
the uprising in 1905. During that rev.
olution he sprang into prominence as
the founder of the Constitutional Dem
Ocratic party, which numbered in its
ranks some of the noblest and finest
men in Russia. Before that time Pro-
fcssor Miliukoff had lived in America,
where he lectured at Harvard and at
the University Of Chicago. He studied
American life and familiarized himself
with American institutions and the
American form Of government. Dur
ing the revolution of 1906 Count Witre,
then premier Of Russia, offered him a
portfolio in the cabinet Professor
Miliukoff declined it because Count
Witte would not outline to him the
new program of the government. Pro-
fessor Miliukoff insisted upon a def
mite policy Of reconstruction and re-
form before he would accept the post.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
AeropIane Special Delivery.

I do not think the aeroplane will
supplant the steamship and railroad as
a mail carrier because it will be too
expensive 1t would take very large
number of flying machines, perhaps
hundred, to carry as much mail as We
now get into a mail car. You can cas-
ily figure how this would increase the
expense. 1t will have the same advan-
tage in carrying mails as In carrying
passengers, and that is speed. This
statement also needs some qualif1ca-
ton, for when it comes to quick CON-.
munication the aeroplane can never
supplant the telegraph and the tele-
phone. But we shall probably have O
special rapid mail service by aeroplane,
for which we shall pay a higher price
and buy a special stamp. The flying
machine will give a ten hour service
between New York and Chicago and O.
two day service from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.-Orville Wright in Har-
per's Magazine.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-28
Humor Found Everywhere.

Among those pre- eminently gifted
with humor were Abraham Lincoln,
Disraeli, Goethe and Heine, the late
Lord Salisbury, Arthur Bakour, Dick
ems, Thackeray, Fielding, Shakespeare,
Queen Elizabeth, Henry VIII, Charles
H., Dr. johnson, Charles Lamb, Emer-
son and Byron. The only persons who
lack it altogether are madmen. Crimi-
nails as whole are never without it.
There is the case of one murderer at
the bar in London who on being asked
If there were any reason why sentence
Of death should not be passed upon
him replied, mo; 1 am disgusted with
the whole proceedings" Another in a
similar situation on being asked wheth-
er he had a last request to make said,
"Well, l should like to learn to play
the piano."-Sir Herbert BeerbOhm
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