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Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
WALL STREET AND STOCKS.
How "Short Sellers" May Win by Buy
ing on a Falling Market.

How "Short Sellers" May Win by Buy
ing on a Falling Market.
There are two kinds of stock specula-
tors. One buys in the hope that he
may later sell at a profit. If a man
buys share of Steel at 100 and later
sells it at 115 he has made SIS, less the
brokers' small commission. 1t is clear
how money is made in a rising market.
How money is made in falling mar
ket requires explanation. The process
of capitalizing disaster is known as
selling short"
A Speculation who is sure, either be-
cause of some inside knowledge OE be-
cause of his own reasoning, that stocks~
will tumble, gives an order to his
broker to sell block of stock for him.
Let us use Central Leather as an ex-
ample. He has none of the stock. The
broker sends word to his representa-
tive on the floor of the exchange, and
the sale is made. Central Leather is
sold at the market price, say, 90. In
the course of a few hours the stock
which the seller did not have is deliv-
cred to the purchaser. The broker has
borrowed it from some owner of the
stock A small fee is paid to the owner
of the loaned shares. The man who
has sold short then watches for the in
f1uences which he expects will drive
the stock down. One or two days later
he reads that some great international
figure has made move for peace.
The stock drops on the news. No one
is willing to pay 500 share for it. A
few are willing to pay 500. Our hero
who has sold short directs his broker
to buy enough shares to pay him in
kind for the shares borrowed. The,
broker buys at 500. After the broker
fee is paid and the charge for the bor%
rowed stock is settled the Spectator
receives little less than So share as
a result of his short selling. He mere
ly sold at 90 what he later bought for
90. He has no stock. He never had
any stock. He sold it before he
bought it.
The short seller is never an In
weston. He never buys to keep. He
never buys except to enable him to re-
turn what he has borrowed.-Uncle
Dudley, In the Boston Globe.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
CRUSHING A NATION.
The Cambray League and the Fall of
the Venetian Republic.

The League of Cambray was the pO-
litical combination of continental Eu-
rope in 1903 against the Venetian re-
public, which tore from the Queen of
the Adriatic" her resplendent crown
and forced to her lips the cup Of deep
est humiliation.
Back of the league and causing its
formation were jealousy, ambition and
the desire of Gripping the proud peo-
pie, whose history was the wonder and
envy of the world. Too powerful to be
overthrow by any single power, it
was resolved that Venice should be
crushed by the combined forces of all
Europe.
During the terrible days of Attila,
about A. D. 453, Venice was founded
out among the lagoons Of the Adriatic,
where, it was felt, safety would be
found from the ravages Of the Hun.
The history of the thousand years from
the foundation of the city to the year
1903 reads like magic. Rising from the
waves, Venice became the wonder Of
the world. Her navy cut the waters
of every known sea. Her merchants
were the greatest on earth. Her bank
| was the financial center Of the world.
And for more than ten centuries did
Venice remain the glory Of the world,
the center of wealth, Opulence and
power, the home of culture and intel
Iigence, the hearthstone about which
sat the finest of the intellectual graces
and Inequalities, and such she might
have remained but for the League of
Cambray, which, with its Overwhelm-
ing forces, gave her the blow lat Ag-
nadello in 1909 from which it was i'm
possible for her to recover.-Exchange
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
Sunday spurned the Offer.

George Sunday, eldest son Of Billy
Sunday, said in New York a short time
ago:
''My fathers finances are always
talked about when he comes to city.
1 handle his accounts. He gets only
what is offered him for his services on
the last day Of his campaign, and this
isn't as big as it looks, for much of 1t
goes to charity and to the maintenance
Of his organization.
'"This very day 1 declined on my
fathers behalf an offer Of 100000
from a moving picture concern; he -
fused $35O,OOO for five days work In
the movies; he has refused countless
offers from firms who make talking
records. My father has always and
sincerely refused to commerciahze
Christ"
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
PAPER Napkins For Dinner.

Custom has much to do with what is
called good FORM" dined recently
at the home of a very wealthy man.
worth many millions mot made in
war babies'D, where the best form al
ways rules. The napkins were of Jap
anese paper. They were very large
and fine, but the innovation surprised
me until on subsequent inquiry at one
Of the best Manhattan shops learned
that use of the paper napkin is quite
proper and likely to become universal
only for dinner.-Julius Chambers in
Brooklyn Eagle.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
Still Interfering.

George Bailey Of the Houston Post
notes that "a New York redhead is
suing a druggist for $1,000 damages be-
cause of peroxide he sold her ruined
cher crown Of glory" and makes this
comment:
"It is bad enough when tawny named
girls use peroxide. For a redhead to
vandalize her topknOt in any such way
as that ought to be against the law
and no well regulated widow would
think Of doing so.''
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
PUBLIC HEALTH WORK.
Too Many People Die From Causes
That Are PreventabIe.


That Are PreventabIe.
Probably 100000 people. die yearly in
the United States from preventable
causes; also something like 2 per cent
of the population is disabled from sick
ness at any given time, and a large
part of this is preventable.
The standing problem before public
health boards is: How, with the means
at their disposal, to make the greatest
possible reduction in this social waste?
Perhaps there has been more coop
Grafton in this governmental field than
in any Other-a freer circulation of
ideas and experience, so that one COM
munity has profited by the discoveries
of another. Yet the work is far from
systematiZed.
A pamphlet by the Russell Sage
foundation suggests that, with ade-
quate reports on mortality and sick
ness, communities which have the
same general health conditions may
by careful study and comparison work
out formula for applying their health
appropriations with reasonable certain
ty of getting the best possible results
for the money.
The first factor in the formula would
be the amount of damage produced by
any given cause of sickness and death.
The second factor would be the readi-
ness with which this cause yielded to
preventive measures. For example
cancer causes much damage, but in the
present stage of medical science is not
classed as a preventabe disease. On
the other hand, smallpox causes little
damage, but it's potentialities of dam
age are high, and it readily yields to
! the simple preventive of vaccination
By sufficiently careful study of ade-
quate data a health board can reduce
this to mathematical terms and say,
with assurance, "Twenty-fOur per cent
of our appropriation should go to pre-
venting infants diseases; II per cent
to tuberculosis" And so on-the fig
ures varying, of course, under differ
ent conditions Of climate. housing, and
| the like.
| The plan is a suggestion as to what
may be accomplished by cooperation
among towns.-Saturday Evening Post
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
Why Stones Cannot Burn Like Coal.

Why Stones Cannot Burn Like Coal
Stones cannot burn for the simple
reason that they are dead matter wn1cn
has burned out. When anything burns
it takes into its system all the oxygen
of the air that it can combine with.
When it has done this 1t cannot be
burned any more. In burning any
substance changes its character.
The original element of most or the
rocks and stones we see was silicon,
and when that combines with oxygen
the result is q form Of rock, q concrete
substance, but unburnable.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
MainaIa kniohfs.

Maine is the only state in the Union
which can boast of having three native
born sons knighted by English kings.
They are Sir William Phipps Of Wool
wich, once royal governor Of Massa-
chusetts, who was knighted in 1894;
Sir William Pepperell Of Kittery, who
captured Louisburg for the British.
and Sir Hiram Maxim.-Exchange.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
No LONGER Skinny.

The word skinny" has gone out Of
fashion. In the old days when q girl
was so thin and hungry looking she
Vhamed her mothers pantry that was
what they called her, but a more mod
ern description is that she has a sensi-
tive, spirituelle face.-New York Sun.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16

The Seven Dials in London is q place
where seven streets branch of-viz;.
i, Great Earl street: 2, Little Easg
street; 8, Great st. Andrews street;
4, Little st. Andrews street; 3, Great
White Lion street; 6, Little White Lion
street; z, Queen street. The long cross
stone which stood In the middle CEN
ter was seven square at the top, with
a dial on each square.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
Not the Same.

when I started out in life young
men were glad to get q chance to start
at the foot of the ladder"
1.-THE young men Ct today have the
same idea, only they express it differ
emily. They want to get In on the
ground foor."-New York World.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
BATTING on q Sure rhinn.

Mrs. Dorcas-The women are deter
mined on dress reform and sooner or
later will devise a costume that is Just
right. Dorcas-I'll bet you it won't stay
in style more than a couple of months.
Life.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
WaRtad Land.

The department Of agriculture finds
that only 200 rods Of untrimmed hedge
waste an acre Of land, whereas for the
same expenditure of land one can run
473 rods of barbed wire fence.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
ASKING Too Much.

Here, cabby, you haven't given me
enough change"
"WeI, mister, you can't expect to
hire horse, a carriage and an expert
accountant for so cents q mile."-Path-
finder.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
Motorear Tire Castings.

Before putting on tire casing WiI'e
it out carefully with moist rag. to
insure that the inner tube will not I've
damaged by dirt or sand lodged In the
casing. '+
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16

81 don't think the truth Of that Gin
derella story ever came out"
"NoY'
"I think she took of her slipper be-
cause it hurt her. I've seen ladies DO
that In restaurants many q time
Kansas City Journal.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
somstimes They Are.

"Are women funnyT" asks an ex-
change. Well, we kncv one about fifty
years Of age who tries to look as
though she were about eighteenth Ma
con Telegraph.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
THREE WORDS.

There are three words, the sweetest
words 81.
In all of human speech,
More sweet than are all songs OF
birds
Or pages poets preach.
This life may be a vale of tears,
A sad and dreary thing;
Three words and trouble disappears
And birds begin to sing
Three words and all the roses bloom
The sun begins to shine;
Three words will dissipate the gloom
And water turn to wine.
Three words will cheer the saddest
days,
"I love your" Wrong, by heck!
1t is another sweeter phrase, ....
Enclosed find check"
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16
Ready to Help.

Pedestrian-Do you go to school, my
little man? Urchin-Sure! What Is it
yer want to know?-Boston Transcript
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16

Happiness does not consist In things
30 much az in thoughts.
Morris tribune., 1917-02-16

Hope against hope and ask TIN
receive.-Montgomery.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-15
WORTH WEIGHT
IN G0LD," SAYS
ROBERT YOUNG
'ook SO Much Medicine His
House Looked Like Drug
Store; Gains Rapidly on
Tanlac.

"l' forty men had sworn 70 me- until
.,. were black in the face that amy mcdi.
.rc uu earth would have helped me- "s
ucb a. lanlsc hS, In only ten day im"
would have laughed at them, SAID Robert
ouue. who lives a, 5l2 Baxter Avenue,
.Iiis medicine -, worth Its weight in
and II tho price was $50 bottle iu'
lend of 81, | would buy 10 just tho same
{ had the money TO pay for II,
N the next bottle helps me nS much as
Ic last ! am going TO throw these crutrh',
way / feel like q different man, and 90
were not for my back and legs, which
ere operated on, / would be able TO walk
gain.
II have been suffering for years with
lh'rcnlosis OF the bone, and II n had nor
cru for prominent surgeon here IN Nn"N
,u,-- Whose name I will be glad n give To
nycuo on request guess | would have
iud long before tins
''lt was wonderful operation, and there
as whole lot OF talk about my case hrr"
Knoxville | don't believe there hd
X teen another case as oal "i m'h.
Waved nine inches out of the bono ~
1,g and grated Ii TO my spinal column.
far as the operation Was concerned 10
a complete success. and saved my ll".
my constitution was so weakened st tn"
had never fully recovered from 'he
cts If II. and have been very weak ana
iualy losing strength ever since. !
Nv got 50 could hardly eat or sleep.
was gradually going down nil.
III YOU remainder the day | came dliti
first bottle OF ranlac. ! was 80 weak ]
Id hardly get about. now feel like q
man / can eat better and sleep better.
have gained several pounds 800 Mcish'.
''Of course. ! do rot mean 10 say ihls
dicinc will cure tuberculosis in any 'orm,
. know YOU do not recommend econ IT oG ior
p hut II seems to have pullt me up "hh
,,ttb.u,J mo u pN,rN
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-15

TTTITT TTT " Nv WWTTW
FAIRFAX, Okla, Feb. l4.-Tho
surveyors Of the new proposed branch
of the santa F'c from cauey. Kan. 20
this place expect to complete new
survey this week by which the road
VIII Join the present branch within
the city limits. According TO this latest
survey the road will enter at the
south edge of town. This will neccssi-
tate the moving Of the depot from the
present location.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-15

"Tlz" makes sore. burning, ired
feet fairly dance with delight Away
go the aches and r.ins, the corus. call
louscs, nlisters. buulous and chill
bloins.
"rl" draws out tho acids and pois-
ous that puff up your feet. No mat
tor how hard you work, how long you
dance, how far you walk, or how
long you remain on your feet. 'Ti4'
brings rcstful foot comfort. "1iz' is
magical. grand. wonderful for tired,
aching. swollen, smarting feet All
how comfortable, how happy you feel
Your feet Just tinglc for Joy; shoes
never hurt or seem tight.
Got 25-ceut box TO "Tiz' now
from any druggist on department
store. End foot torture forever
wear smaller shoes, keep your feet
fresh sweet and happy, Just think.
a whole years foot comfort for only
20 ccuts.-Adv,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-15
EXlLED FROM ADOPTED LAND
c,rman- Born Australian citizen 4
Real "Nnn without Country.

CHICAGO. Fob. lS.--EXiled from the
land of his adoption, forbidden T. on
ter the land Of his birth, Emil Grcder.
"a man without q country, today is an
obscure chorus man. while two years
ago he was a wcll-to-do operate di-
rector IN Europe.
Grcder was born I'm Berlin, but be-
came citizen OF Australia Al tho
outbreak Of the war his goods Were
confiscated, he said. and he was or
dcrcd from the country His Aus.
ualian citizenship barred him from
Germany. SO he came TO the United
States 70 add TO his mlsfortuncs he
was robbed ana beaten hy footpads on
his arrival here. Thclr blows made
him leaf and now he carries a spear
md stands muto In "a chorus such rs
he formerly directed.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-15

INN-FOS Il an Impr0vCl Vasc0rN "a
tonic laNativo), pleasant to take. In
LAX-FOS the Cascara ls improved by
the addition Of certain harmless chem
icals which increase the efficiency Of
the Cascara. making it better than
ordinary Cascara. LAN-FOS is pleas
ant to take and does not gripe nor
disturb the stomach Adapted to
children as well as adults Just try
one bottle for constipation. Price so
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-15

examination for advance
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-15
First. Second and Third-ClaSS
Offices Not to Go to Civil
Service.
YEA AND NAY VOTE ESCAPED
Members Desirous of Keeping
Patronage Leave Execution
TO Conference.

" ~ III I'T|TT 'HTVTV'TITT
WASUINGTO\. Feb. n The sor
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-15

brary building has been graded nnd
will be sown in gras3 In the early
spring SO that by the time the build
Ing is completed It Will be surrounded
by u green lawn.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-15


\GTD\. Feb. A. The son.
o.,I.nI. ,i.,.i,,.,. ,,.., .,.,,,.t and r.f,l
''''''
p"s''"'S''IH HHdef Ih' 'I"'7III I-
ca> of ciNll service, failed tl pass
the house thru parliamentary mauip-
ulutiou of several Democratic mom-
hor. ,,,, did .unt want IA IA. do
,.
WIN'u vt t"IS P'"'i''I p'''"i''-' '''
WI" l''Nuu W. ''"' ~ !" 90 '' w.
ora on yeas ana nays N",'. N'N
,u' hi'i GOES 10 '""IUIentc' ana ~ '"''
V SaIl WIN ""'u"i''N '"'' '' VIII "'
"n.v,u '"''''
mere were al S,I'H 1i 1Hlo""Hl'"' 3
olIorod 10 me ssh''. nilI' bul nom "l
.'',,' ~ W! - W. 80 ="
E"u'9l."'' "lI'I'I 10 'I''' Vie f"''
Hi'"''I7 'N P"'"'"' No'''
= whip senators Into Line.
IN is understood that owing to
Iessurc of consr,ssmen on the SEN
ate couforc,s that they now look with
favor ON killiul the hill. Some con
gressmcn from the southern states
went so far ass to advise their senators
that thcv would go into their states
and make particular fight on them
on this ground alone.
While il is true that many 81 tho
older representatives old in point or
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-15
Present system Inefficient.

.,on,uo,it,,, cv,r,ir,,o, %. ,l,,,.,-
mrni
,...., ..... .,
'''N'h' system I"'Hh''hi'
II rs q woll-known fact that never
IN the past have members ~ either
political party looked upon efficiency
Hs the principal reason fut appointing
certain men to fat Jobs of post master.
and II Is equally well known that a
large per cent OF the present post
masters would fli nglorously IN
competitions
Usually il has been the custom for
representatives. and scnaturs 90 choose
Tor these federal positions men 10
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-15
Bcautiy Library Grounds.


COLLlNSV1LLE, okla. Feb IA
The ground about tho Carnegie IL
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-09-25
Ripping Rhyme,
BY WALT MASON.
WAR TALK

1 leave my work to roast the kaiser
throughout the neighborhood: my wife
remarks that I'd be wiser II would saw
some wood. She says I ought to feed
the cattle and dis spuds with q spade,
while 1 am planning siege and battle.
retreat and ambuscade. Ills ever thus
with wives, my masters great things
they do not heed; they care no boot for
wars disasters. IL there are cows to
feed. To plan great wars I'm amply
able and wish to. but wife begs that I
will crawl beneath the stable and gather
all the eggs Oh. there are times when
L IN Disguised because I have no chance
to point out all the punk, dingbusted
boneheads they've pulled in France.
know just why the war goes slowly, and
1 could tell them how to put an end to
strife unholy and break the Germans
now. But when I start my explanation
my wife gets on my trail. and drags me
from my congregation. to pack water
pail. She doesn't care TO hear OF
trenches, or Of the German slump; she
says ought to take some wrcnehes
and FIX the Kitchen pump. She doesn't
care about the navy that sails the dark
blue sea: she says I'll have to stir the
gravy while she Is brewing tea. And
thus the patriots rewarded. who loves
the rag TO chew: there's always some-
thing punk and sordid that he Is billed
to do.
Copyright. 1911. by George Matthew
Adams)
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-09-25
A SIMPLE REMEDY

There is a great deal of intelligent
suggestion in Senator Warren G.
Harding's observation that II We
could return to the simple living OF
our forefathers for sixty days we
would solve the problem that is
sought to be solved by the adoption
Of many Of the Quack panaceas that
are offered these days. Simple living
taken in connection with the en-
barge on exports, which has already
been passed, would naturally and
effectively take care Of the food Ques-
ton.
THE nation which comes. to the
FORE" predicts Senator Harding, "in
the great reorganization and recon
struction Of the social fabric and the
industrial world after peace comes
again. will be the nation which has
taught itself self-deuial, some econ
omy and thrift In IFS everyday
affairs" Instead of boasting of our
extravagant style Of living, as Mr..
Harding thinks we have been doing,
we should at once do something to
modify our present day standards.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-09-25

statement, in the last two years are
remarkable when the fact Is taken
into consideration that tin plate has
become factor in our export trade
only during the last decade. The first
record of exports Of tin plate was in
the year 1898. when 20,S27 pounds
were exported. Exactly! 1t was 4
Republican protective tariff that put
the tin plate industry Of this country
on it's feet, and fostered it through
the decade spoken Of. 1t was the
Underwood bill that threatened to
paralyzc this Republican nourished
industry, and which would have hap
pened but for the protective wall
raised by the war and eliminated
destructive foreign competition. What
will become Of this trade when peace
comes and the Democratic tariff re-
sumes unrestricted operation?
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-09-25

burgs OF Austria, IS just as important
as that Of the Hohenzollerns Of
Prussia The Hapsburgs are really
the aristocracy Of absolutism. The
Hohenzollern Is Of meaner mold
1t was Austria that precipitated
this world conflagration with tho
connivance OF Germany. 1t Is i'm.
portant then that the brave Italians
should be supported in the success
they have obtained. The cause Of
the Allies will be immensely i'm
proved with the certain success OF
Italy. The United States has the
same vital interest in the triumph OF
General Cordona as 1t has In the
achievements Of General Haig or
General Petaip. AS the Patriotic
Education Society we'll says:
"A much surer road to a separate
peace with Austria lies through Goriza
with the victorious Italians. Forty
miles lie between the italian army and
Lubiana. From Luhiana the road is
open to Vienna and peace. not separate
peace. but a victorious peace with Ger
many as we'll as Austria. Military men
have been impressed by the recent drive
on the 1sonzo. Italy has demonstrated
her ability to strike. and strike hard
when not handicapped by lack Of NUM-
lions. Unfortunately. she has not had
the necessary raw material. and today
she is almost entirely dependent upon
the United States. Cotton, metals and
coal. or their equivalent in manufac-
tured munitions are the crying needs
of Italy today. Much Of the success Of
the present offensive is due to the help
that We have already given. We have
not given more because Of the short
age Of ships tonnage. With Austria
numbered among our open enemies in
stead Of occupying her present curious
position. and OF an enemy and yet no
enemy. America will have sentimental
reason for increasing her help. And
war. OF all terrible things. IL made on
sentimental rather than practical lines. -
The road to Vienna ut present
seems to be the shortest route 10
peace. With Austria conquered, it
would be but a short while until the
collapse Of Germany. Italy not only
needs help but she deserves 1t.