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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
STAGES into DISCARD WEALTH is SCATTERED
Change Shown by Location of
Biggest National Banks.
Hundred Largest Institutions Now Are
Distributed Through % States,
Uncle Sam Reports.

That the wealth Of the country is
being distributed more widely and not
concentrated in a few of the larger
cities as it was few years ago is in
dicated by a statement of Uncle Sam
regarding the location of the hundred
largest national banks of the country.
officials of the treasury department
attribute this change largely to the
operation of the new federal reserve
system.
Formerly the one hundred largest
national banks in the United States
were congested principally in a COM
paratively few financial centers. To-
day the big banks are distributed
through % states and in 33 cities, en-
bracing every section of the country.
The 100 national banks with the
largest resources as shown by recent
call, all have resources in excess Of
$2O,0O0,000, with one exception the ex-
ception being one of the Chicago banks.
Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana, Vir-
ginia, Washington, New Jersey and
Oregon each contain one of the 100
largest banks.
Texas, Nebraska, Maryland, Michi-
gan, Indiana and Wisconsin each con-
tain two Of these banks.
Colorado has three.
Ohio, Minnesota and Massachusetts
each have five.
California and Illinois have seven
each.
Missouri has eight.
Pennsylvania has 16.
New York has 25.
In two months the resources of the
100 largest banks increased $55OOO0,-
600, or nearly 8 per cent.
Outside of the central reserve cities
the large banks which showed in
creases Of as much as $5,OO0,OOO each
| in deposits in this period were those
located in Dallas, New Orleans, Buff
falo, Kansas City, Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and
| Boston.
Among the 100 largest banks were
only five which did lot show an in
crease. Three Of these banks showing
reductions were located in New York
and two in California. The largest re-
duction shown by any one of these five
banks was less than $2,25O,OOO.
The largest percentage of increase
was shown by a bank in Texas, which
increased over 33 per cent, or over
$6,000,O00.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
c,,ba,s Bin s,,nar cron

The grinding of the greatest sugar
crop which Cuba has produced was be-
gun by the Launching" of the new ''su-
perdreadnaught' mill at the Cuban
American Sugar company's central
s"ringuaro," at Periso, province of Ma
tanzas. This is the largest milling
unit yet, installed, consisting Of five
mills and two crushers, driven by three
Corliss engines and having a grinding
capacity Of 125 tons of cane daily.
Since then half a dozen other mills
have begun to grind, and within ten
days'ever mill in Cuba, to the number
of upward of 200, will be turning. ST.
multaneously will go on the construc-
ton of numerous mills to handle the
growth of the enormous tracts now
being put into sugar to swell the crop
of the following year.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
LOVES CODE BY sEARcHLIGHT
Ferryboat Captain Nightly Signals
Little Deaf and Dumb
Daughter.

Searchlight flashes, mysterious and
battling, seen nightly for several weeks
off the Richmond and Berkeley water
fronts, which have puzzled East Bay
residents and even made them uneasy
are now explained. They indicate no
fell plot; they reveal no piratical &C
tivities. They are simply '1ove code"
between lonesome daddy and his
lonesome little girl, the San Francisco
Chronicle states.
The daddy is Capt. 81. E. Dunningan
Of the Santa Fe ferryboat San Pedro,
and the girl is his twelve-year-old
daughter Florence, a patient in the
State Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and
Blind at Berkeley. Happily she re.
tains the faculty Of sight, and nightly
she sits, her nose fiattened against the
pane of her window, waiting for the
messages that come to her across miles
of land and water.
There appears a finger Of light,
painting a half-circle against the
clouds; daddy is saying: "Heilo."
Three short flashes, "Love from dad
dy." Then, as the San Pedro swings
out Of range, the light sweeps the sky
that means Goodnight, with love and
Kisses"
But the most welcome of all the sig
nails is the stream of light held stead.
lily against the window, through which
peers the little face. That indicates
that daddy is coming on his weekly
visit, and then little Florence is IN the
height of bliss.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
Dog Too Intelligent.

Tommy Howard is no better and no
worse than the majority of men Of his
age, but his maiden aunt, who keeps
him in supplies at Oxford and to
whom he looks to leave him some
thin worth while, takes for granted
that|he is the embodiment of all the
virtues.
She went to see him recently and
the dutiful Tommy took her and his
dog for walk through the city. Tom
my hadn't given a thought to the in
telligence of the canine creature, but,
as the event proved, the dog nearly
upset the whole business. For he
trotted ahead, stopped at the door of
the Brown Cow and looked around as
if expecting his master to follow.
Thomas" said his aunt, what does
this meant"
"Mean," said Tommy, "why, aunty,
you see, my dog is wonderfully in
telligent beast. Saw the sign of that
horrid place, thinks it's a dairy, and,
liking milk, wants me to buy him
some."
Explanations accepted, but it was
close touch.-London Answers.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19

like great bell tolling over the mag
nificent solitude of the forsaken
island-"and now I have it to live
through once again; the wonder and
terror and beauty of love, the agony
and passion Of having you torn from
me! Hugh! 4 don't believe
can endure it again. I can't bear
this exquisite torture. I'm afraid l
shall go mad! Unless
unless"-her voice shuddered-'I have
the strength, the strength to"
"Stopp he cried in desperation.
''You must not go on like this Mary
Listen to me"
This time he succeeded in imprisOn-
ing her hand. MARY" he said gently,
drawing closer to her, ''listen to me;
understand what 1 say. love you;
am your husband; nothing can pos
sibly come between US. All these other
things can be explained. Don't let
yourself think for another instant"
Her eyes, fixed upon the two hands
in which he clasped her own, had
grown wide and staring with dread.
Momentarily she seemed stunned.
Then she wrenched it from him, at
the same time jumping up and away.
mol" she cried, Tending him from
her with shaking arms. "No! Don't
touch mel Don't come near me, Hugh
It's it's deathi My touch is
deathi 1 know it now-I had begun
to suspect, now 1 knowl l am ac-
cursed-doomed to go through life like
pestilence, leaving sorrow and death
in my wake. Hugh!" She con-
trolled herself a trifle: Hugh, 1
love you more than life; love you
more than love itself. But you must
not come near me. Love me if you
must, but o my dear one! keep away
from me; avoid me, forget me if you
can, but at all cost shun me as you
would the plague! 1 will not give
myself to you to be your death!"
Before he could utter a. syllable in
reply, she turned and fed from him,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
RECORD OF SEVENTY YEARS
tive in Good Work for the Past
Seven Decades.


Today, after 20 years, the operations
of the Smithsonian institution are in.
ternational in scope and governmental
in affiliations. The institution is now
administering several government-sup-
ported bureaus, some of which had
their origin in the institution's early
activities.
Among those governmental branches
are: The United States National mu-
scum, including the National Gallery
of Art, the official depository of all
national collections; the bureau of
American ethnology, which conducts
and records studies of American abo-
riginies the Astrophysical observatory,
which investigates the physical proper
ties of the sun; the National Zoolog-
ical park; the International Exchange.
service, the official medium for the ex-:
change of publications with foreign
governments, and the Regional Bureau
for the United States of the Interna-
tional Catalogue of Scientific itera-
ture, which prepares and publishes an
annual classified index of all the scien-
tific publications of the world.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19

me-not the wife for whose sake I
fought against what thought infatua-
ton for you. loved-I love you only,
you as you are-not the poor little
girl of the Commercial House."
II have loved you always" she said
softly between barely parted lips
always, Hugh. Even when 1 thought
you dead I did believe that
you were drowned out there. Hugh I
You know that, don't you"
81 have never for an instant ques-
toned it."
1T wouldn't be like you to, nv
dear; it wouldn't be you, my Hugh,
No other man ever knew-no, let me
say itl-ever measured up to the
standard you had set for me to wor-
ship. But Hugh-you'll understand,
won't you?-about the others-Y
"Please," he begged-"please don't
harrow yourself so, MaryT"
'eNo; must tell you. The
world seemed so empty and so lonely,
Hugh: / tried to lose myself in my
work, but it wasn't enough. And those
others came, beseeching me, and-and
I liked them. 1 was starving for af-
fection. Each time. Hugh. it was
the same. One by one they were
taken from me, strangely, terribly.
Poor Tom Custer, first; he was q dear
boy, but didn't love him and couldn't
marry him. had to tell him so. He
killed himself. Then Billy Ham.
ilton; 1 became engaged to him; but
he was taken mysteriously from O
crowded ship in mid-ocean. A
man named Mitchell ThurstCn loved
me. I liked him; perhaps 1 might
have consented to marry him. He was
assassinated-shot down like a mao
dog in broad daylight-no one evel
knew by whom, or why. He hadn'
an enemy in the world we knew
of. And now Drummond r
"Mary, MaryI" he pleaded. "Don'
--don't-those things were all acci
dents"
She paid him no heed. She didn'
seem to hear. He tried to take he
hand, with a mans dull, witless no
ton of the way to comfort a distraugh
woman; but she snatched 1t from hi
touch.
"And now"-her voice pealed ou
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
Ten billion Ions of Goal.

The Nenana coal field, Alaska, will
be tributary to the government rail-
road now under construction from Sew
ard to Fairbanks. Though the coal of
this field is Ignite and hence of low
grade, yet it has great value as a
source of fuel and power for Fairbanks
and other Yukon placer camps. The
field is about sixty miles south of Fair
banks. It is estimated by the United
States geological survey, department
Of the interior, that the Nenana field
contains some ten billion tons of Hg-
mite. The Nenana coal field lies in
what is known as the Bonnifeld re-
gion, which also contains some gold
Dlacers that have been mined in a small
way for the last ten years.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19

suicide upon learning that the family
had made arrangements to have him
turned over to the New York authori-
ties. He was fully clothed when found
DR.. John Wanamaker, police sur
geon, said cursory examination of
Thaw's wounds Indicated he had fair
chance to recover. His wrists were
two gashes in his throat.
There are two versions of the affair
One is that Thaw was located in the
house and that when he learned it was
surrounded he attempted suicide.
The other version is that Thaw at
tempted suicide in the morning; that
persons in the house communicated
with the Thaw family in Pittsburgh;
that the family telephoned back to,
Doctor Kirby, who has attended men,
bers Of the Thaw family, and that Doc
tor Kirby, in turn, notified the police.
Crowd Sees Thaw Removed.
Thaw was removed from the house
shortly before three o'clock. A small
crowd that had learned of the affair
gathered, and were rewarded by see
ing Thaw carried out on q stretcher.
He was completely covered with a
blanket and was placed in an ambu-
lance for the fve-rnile journey to the
institution. The house where Thaw
was found is a twO-stOry dwelling,
and according to the police is occupied
by Mrs. Elizabeth Tacot. It was said
by the police that her husband is in
the French army.
It was reported but not confirmed
that Thaw had been in the house three
hours before he was removed.
Doctor Kirby confirmed Doctor Wan
amaker's statement that Thaw had a
fair chance of recovery. He said Thaw
was In a semi-consciouS condition and
highly nervous. The doctor said he
had not yet determined what instru-
ment Thaw used on himself, but pre-
suned ii was a razor.
The physician said the police were
nj the house when he arrived. He had
been summoned by telephone by a
member of the Thaw family, he said,
but he could not say which member.
Captain of Detectives Tate was In
the district attorneys office in connec-
ton with the murder of Maize Colbert,
the model, about p. m., when the re-
port reached him that Thaw had at
tempted suicide.
Newspaper men We're with MIN at
the time, and he Immediately an
uounced his information to them.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
HARRY K. THAW
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
ACCUSED MAN CUTS THROAT IN
PHILADELPHIA
DOCTORS SAY He MAY LIVE
Flight From Police Ends in Roomins
House-Taken to Hospital Five
Miles Away in Automobile.

philadelphia, Jan. 12.-Harry Thaw,
aanted in New York to answer to an
Adictment that he kidnapped and
shipped Frederick Gump, Jr,, of Kan
, as City, cut his throat in West Phila-
Gelphia.
According to Captain of Detectives
Tate, Thaw's whereabouts were
learned during the day and the house
was surrounded. When detectives en-
tered the place, according to Tate, they
found that Thaw had cut his wrists
and throat. Thaw, Tate says, asked
that DR.. Elwood Kirby, a well-known
physician Of this city, be sent for.
When the physician arrived he ordered
Thaw removed to st. Mary's hospital,
where Doctor Kirby is head physician
In the room Thaw occupied were
found a bottle of poison stablets and a
razor.
It is said that Thaw had two tele-
phone talks with his mother at Pitts.
burgh and that he decided to attempt
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
The DESTROYING ANGEL
S@4--s~4~% By Louis Joseph Vance ssaaaAgasa
BY Louis Joseph Vance VI

you ought to know. His body
=. buried 1t. :"
She gave a little smothered cry,
and seemed to shrink in upon herself,
burying her face in her hands-an in
congruous, huddled shape of grief,
there upon the gray stone wall, set
against all the radiant beauty of the
exquisite, sun-gladdened world.
He was patient with her, though the
slow-dragging minutes during which
she neither moved nor made any sound
brought him inexpressible distress, and
he seemed to age visibly, his face,
settling in iron lines, gray with suf-
fering.
At length a moan-rather, a vail
came from the stricken figure beside
him:
"Ah, the pity of it! the pity of
it. What have done that this
should come to me-"
He ventured to touch her hand in
gentle sympathy.
MARY he said, and hesitated with
a little wonder, remembering that this
was the first time he had ever called
her by that name-"Mary, did you
care for him so much"
She sat, trembling, her face averted
! and hidden.
"Don't blame him." she said softly.
"He wasn't responsible"
81 know"
"How long have you know?" She
swung suddenly to face him.
"For some time-definitely for two
or three days. Ember took him away.
meaning to put him In a sanitarium.
don't understand how he got away
from Ember. 1t worries neon
Ember's account. 1 hope nothing has
happened to him."
"Oh, hope notP'
"You know--I mean about the cause
the morphine"
II never guessed until that night,
after he had come down into the
cabin TOTO drug himself. 1t
was very terrible-that tiny, pitching
cabin, with the swinging, smoking
lamp, and the madman sitting there,
muttering to himself over the glass in
which the morphine was dissolvfng.
j. 1t happened three times before
the wreck; thought should go out
of my own mind"
She shuddered, her face tragic and
pitlful. For little she sat, head
bowed, brooding.
'Hugh" she cried, looking up to
search his face narrowly-"Hugh,
you've not been pretending-T
'PretendingP he repeated. thick
witted.
"Hugh, 1 could never forgive you
if you'd been pretending. 1t would
be too cruel All, but you haven't
been! Tell me you haven'tv"
II don't understand Pretend
ing what?"
Pretending you didn't know who 1
was-pretending to fall in love with
me just because you were sorry for
me, to make me think it was me you
loved and not the woman you felt
bouM to take care of, because you'd
you had"
"Mary, listen to me-" he interrupted.
II swear didn't know you. Only,
that night on the stage, as Joan
Thursday, you were that girl again
] never dreamed of associating you
with my wife. Dear, 1 didn't know
believe me. 1t was you who bewitched
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
Australians Like Cities,

Uncle Sans consul general at Sgd
ney is struck by the unusually large
urban population in Australia. Sgd
hey, with population of 100000, rep
resents over 40 per cent of the people
of New South Wales; Perth, with a
population of $4,000, represents 38
per cent of the inhabitants Of western
Australia, Brisbane, with 10000, rep
resents nearly "a per cent of the people
of Queensland; Hobart, with 10000,
has under 20 per cent Of the people Of
Tasmania; Melbourne, with popula-
ton of $4,000, contains 49 per cent of
the total population of Victoria; and
Adelaide, with 205,O00, has over 46 per
cent Of the people Of South Australia.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
Discoveries and Dollars.

If we count the wealth of North
America and South America as it
seems today we find that the discov-
cry of America by Christopher Colum-
bus has been worth to the world $3,-
OOO,OOO,O0O a day from the time he
sailed from Paris in August, 1892
down to the present time. Likewise
the man who discovered the way of
drawing tungsten wire gave $300,O00,-
600 worth of light yearly.-Popular
Science Monthly.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
Shortest Prison Sentence.

The shortest recorded sentence is
that to which woman was sentenced
at the Cookstown (Ulster) sessions.
The woman pleaded guilty to stealing
a quantity of horse hair from her en-
ployer, who said she was good work
er but addicted to the drinking of
ether, which was the cause Of her
lapse. He did not wish her to be pros
ecuted. A previous record Of six
weeks imprisonment for false pre-
tences in 1918 barred her from being
dealt with as first offender. She was
ordered imprisoned until the rising of
the court, and as hers was the last
case on the list, the length of her SEN
tence was exactly two minutes and
half.-London Mail.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
shotnuns and Rifles.

When a shotgun or rifle is cleaned,
a cork of proper size should be inserted
In the end of the barrel. By prevent
ing the entrance of damp this will pre-
serve its value as well as its useful
ness. This practice is not followed to
the same extent as it should be even
among those who take special pride in
firearms. 1t is said that a bit of cam
phor inserted in the barrel will also
aid in preventing the accumulation of
rust,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
CHAPTER XVI.
CapituIation.

Grimly Whitaker sat himself down
in the kitchen and prepared to wait
the temperance of his wife-pre-
pared to wait as long as life was in
him, so that he were there to welcome
her when. her paroxysm over, she
would come to him to be comforted,
soothed and reasoned out of her dis
torted conception of her destiny.
He pondered the situation for hours
then he rose, ascended the stairs,
tapped gently on the locked door.
MARY" he called, with his heart
in his mouth-"Mary !"
Her answer was instant, in accents
sweet, calm and clear.
The breathless seconds spun their
golden web of minutes. They did not
move. Round them the silehce sang
like the choiring seraphim.
CTO BE CONTINUED)
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
Niles Floods Above Normal.

The River Nile reached an abnor-
mally high level this year, though the
annual floods form part and parcel Of
the national life of Egyptians, who are
never taken by surprise when such
events occur. The condition of affairs,
however. proved sufficiently alarming
to warrant the government in putting
into effect the decree of 1887, which
obliges all abIe-bodied men to assist
in the protection of threatened regions
under pain of imprisonment or fine
whenever the. stream of the ancient
Pharaohs gets beyond control. =
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
The "Out at LunchU Habit

"Out to lunch" we can hear every
where, every day, when visiting busi-
ness place during the noon hour, which
generally extends from eleven to two
o'clock, and sometimes longer when
one occupies the better-paid plane Of
work. 1t makes one feel that eating
is the main purpose in life and that
business must give way to it. Now it
is not such u loss Of time that is the
Ger:Ous comment as that the caller
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
Home SURROUNDINGS.

The love and reverence of children
for their parents, the perfect love that
casts out fear, and which can never be
enjoyed by fathers and mothers who
have been harsh and hasty or selfish,
the friendship between brothers and
sisters which makes each happy in the
others company, the pleasant free-and-
easy intercourse in which everyone can
speak his or her own mind without
giving offense-these are the things
which go to make all feel that, ''Be it
ever so humble, there's no place like
home"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
10 CENT "CASCARETS"
FOR LIVER AND BOWELS
Cure Sick Headache, Constipation
Riliousness; Sour Stomach, Bad
Breath-candy cathartie.

No odds how bad your liver, stom-
ach or bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable you are from,
constipation, indigestion, biliousness
and sluggish bowels-you always get
relief with Cascarets. They imme-
diately cleanse and regulate the stom-
ach, remove the sour, fermenting food
and foul gases; take the excess bile
from the liver and carry off the con-
stipated waste matter and poison
from the intestines and bowels. A
10-cent box from your druggist viii
keep your liver and bowels clean !:
stomach sweet and head clear for
months. They work while you sleep
Adv.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19

at the office or store must often wait
a long time for the luncher to return.
We do net criticize it, but merely call
attention to the fact that it is a mod
ern invention. Not long ago we never
heard the plea. In the old days people
went home to dinner" or took a lunch
with them. Ohio State Journal.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
The Homeric Controversy.

It was about the year 1895 that the
"Homeric controversy began. About
that date f. A. Wolf, in his prolegom-
ena, argued that the Homeric poems
were composed of independent epic
songs. collected and arranged by Pei
sistratus, about $50 B. c. VOLTS theory
created a great stir among scholars
and poets and inaugurated the fight
which enlisted most of the learned
men of the day. Andrew Lang, in
Homer and the Epic" 1893, vigorously
defended the lone author" theory, as
opposed to the idea of Wolf that the
famous poems were composed through
ages by many different persons.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
EIioibIe,

"Say, old man, don't you want to
join the Wayback County association? Z?
The dues are only ten dollars year,
and that goes to pay for a banquet ct
the Swelldorf."
But I've never been in Wayback
county in my life"
"That's all right. You've got ten
dollars, haven't you?"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19

President of Steel Company Dead.
Pittsburgh, January 12.-Charles Cy-
rus Ramsey, president Of the Crucible
Steel Company Of America, died Of
pneumonia in a hospital here yester-
day after an illness OF six weeks,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-01-19
The Goal

''The idea in golf is to make the
eighteen holes in as few strokes as
possible, is it not?" asked the novice.
"That's it" replied the veteran. "You
see, the quicker you go around the
course the sooner you get to the nine
teenth hole"