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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-15
THE MELTING POT
COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH U.s.
THE UNKNOWN GREAT.

THE UNKNOWN GREAT
The which have lifted high eternal light
Endowng them with and
Are mostly those OF gentlemen who found their taest
In working the industry Wholesale
Devoing all nd OF mind
To killing fellow mortals of the socaled
But still there must have been every time
practical Flooding OF the
Who didn't think he could fulfill
BY jabbing other people with his spear.
quiet full ways
Which did not yield large public blame
Perhaps he the first who tried a
or tame the horse the the dog the donkey the
he Of the sky
And made the rules that ships
But though his tribe Is legion shall
The man who helped the world with
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-15

hood. The eight hour day has been
introduced in Sing Sing.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-15
FTfty-TTfty.

Mr.. Bryan has decided 10 Quit
Nebraska, Nebraska having decided
some time ago TO quit Mr.. Bryan.
Safe.
Most golfers can read about the
man who dropped dead after making
a 240-yard drive without the slight
est fear that anything Of the kind
will ever happen to them.
\ Political Move. OF Course.
There must be an election coming
among the Golden Rule Brother
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-15

\
are specially concerned.
They form an unbroken signalling
system. Not the smallest part of the
body is without its nerve-lines, or
fibres. which branch and branch and
branch again. There are two kinds
Of nerve-fibres, the ''afferent," or
those which convey information to
the brain, and the "efferent," or
those which carry responsive i'm
pulses, or orders if you wish to call
them so, from the brain TO different
parts of the body. When you fell
from the ladder the afferent nerves
transmitted 10 the brain information
of the damage done 70 the bones
and muscles that had been broken
and strained.
But partly because of the stunning
violence of the blow, partly because
of the great number of simultan-
eous messages flashed from the
many nerves shaken by the disaster.
and partly because of the confusion
produced in the brain itself by the
general consciousness that a terrible
accident had happened to you. the
messages were not Immediately
translated into the sensation of To-
Called pain. as happens instantan-
eously with a pin prick.
1t was some such situation as
would exist in telephone exchange
if a score of startling messages
came pouring in at once, and all this
at a moment when the operators
mind was already upset by a sudden.
underlined awareness that something
dreadful / Nd happened
The init ed bones and flesh could
not themselves feel pain, for pain
is a brain product, and cannot be
felt if the brain is paralyzed. Quick
as its action is. the brain requires
time TO comprehend II is probable
that those who fall suddenly from
great heights are not even terrified.
Wounded soldiers do not feel in
mediate pain. and often i'm the con-
fusing excitements OF battle do not
know that they have been hit. Per-
sOnal experience is the most con-
vincing. and l myself Though not
in battle) have known the painless
ness of "A bullets progress through
flesh and blood. a pistol bullet was
fired at me with careful aim at my
left eye. II struck. luckily. just be
meath the eye-orbit, was detected
by the cheekbone. passed through
the cheek, and under the ear. miss
ing the jugular vein. and lodged in
the back of the neck.
/ felt no pain whatever, and Yet
the brain was not altogether con
fused. for the efferent nerves so far
responded 10 the signal OF the af-
ferent ones that they caused me 10
clap my hand upon the spot where
the bullet had struck the bone. The
pain came after the aStonished
nerves had recovered from the par
alyZing shock.
Science has made no more useful
discoveries than those which enable
surgeons 10 eliminate pain by one
form or another Of artificial and
temporary paralysis OF the nerves
of sensation. Pain is simply a warn
ing signal. The response 10 il from
the center OF the nervous system
is a call TO action Of the forces OF
defense and reparation. IL is one of
the disharmOnies of nature that pain
often has. by itself. injurious effects.
and il is a corresponding triumph
OF human intelligence that il has
learned how 10 correct this over
sight. or Indifference. OF nature
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-15

A guinea-pig is usually fun grown
Wh eu six s.. veh> Old.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-15

A square foot Of honeycomo con
tains abou- 5000 cells
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-15

Swallows have been seen al sea
over .0OO miles from land.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Reads Ask HIGHER Rates.

Trunk limo railroads In Missouri
have presented to the state public
service commission an application for
an increase in rates in both bhanches
Of the service. The raise in rates for
freight will be equivalent to a boost
of nearly 40 per cent IL the commits
sion consents.
The application will ask that the
present rates be advanced to the
level of the interstate freight rates,
plus Is per cent, which would approx.
innate an increase of nearly 40 per
cent.
There is an application pending be-
fore the commission to increase pas
senger rates In this state on inter
state traffic to flat Scent per mile
basis without round trip or mileage
book concessions.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
GOLD HARD METAL TO CARRY
Average Man Cannot Transport More
Than $4,000 Worth for a Mile
Without Discomfort.

When gold shipment is to be made
by ship the necessary number of kegs
are taken in a truck to the assay office,
where they are received at a door in
the rear. The gold bars are then
placed on hand truck and rolled to
the kegs. In the presence of the agents
of the shippers and of the officials of
the assay Office the bars are packed in
the kegs, and sawdust Is placed around
them to prevent abrasion. When the
heads of the kegs have been placed
over the packed bars, piece of red
tape Is stretched across and fastened
between the chime and the edge of
the head. The seal of the shipping
house is then attached to the head and
the bottom of each keg.
After sealing, the kegs are rolled to
the wagon and lifted on. 1t takes two
men to handle each keg, as there are
ten bars to keg, with n total gold
weight of about 100 pounds. It may
be mentioned that 100000 weighs in
gold about $50 pounds, and $1,O00,OO0
weighs $500 pounds. Some time ago
one Of the officials of an assay office
compiled figures showing how much
gold a man could actually handle. 1t
Is n singular thing that great difficulty
Is experienced in carrying gold for any
distance. The weight seems to be
more dead" than that of other metals,
although that may be an illusion.
For instance, the average man could
carry 100 pounds of gold one mile
without much discomfort. Its value
would be about $4,000 A strong man
could carry, say, $50 pounds a mile,
reaching the end of his journey with
Just under $4,000 A very powerful
man might carry 200 pounds or nearly
$4,000, a mile without exhaustion.
Carrying gold is almost as difficult as
getting 1t.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Guarantees Hoo Shipments.

Gov. Gardner, by proclamation,
placed a quarantine on the shipment
of stock hogs from other states into
Missouri until they are inoculated
against hog cholera and held for
fourteen days.
This action was taken upon the
recommendation of the state board of
agriculture, which met here to con-
slider necessary measures for the pre-
vention Of hog cholera, which result
ed in losses in Missouri last year of
more than 100000
DR.. d. F. Luckey, state veterinarian
said that hog cholera now is prevalent
in SO counties of Missouri, but the
losses to date have not been heavy.
Luckey's report, filed with the board
of agriculture, indicates that between
April l and June 1, 1917, his depart
ment had placed 377 outbreaks of
cholera under control. These &C.
CURED in more than 80 counties.
Luckey estimates that if the hog
cholera in Missouri now was uncon-
trolled the losses to farmers this
year would exceed $4,000, 900.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Abode of the Mastodon.

Cyril Wood, one of the best-known
mining men of the TolstOi district, has
just shipped to San Francisco friend
a mastOdOn tusk which he found on his
Boob Creek claims. The tusk Is just
short Of nine feet long and is in a prac-
ucally perfect state of preservation.
Wood says that mastodon tusks and
teeth are so common as not to attract
particular attention throughout the
Boob Creek region, many being much
larger than the one he is shipping out,
but none he has seen so well preserved.
Scores Of tusks, teeth and bones of
these prehistoric animals have been
found in the Riley & Mounier work
ings on Boob Creek, and in their drifts
there Is a pungent odor which is at
tributed by the miners to the age-old
remains of the mammoths, found there.
While not offensive, like the odor of re-
Gently decayed animals, the smell is
strong enough, according to Wood, to
be readily distinguishable at consider
able distances.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
ROACH AND PLAYER so FAR DE.
TERMiNED UPON AS THE
BEST MEN.
THIRD MEMBER REPUBLICAN
Name is Withheld But He lie a Farm.
er-New Prison Board Gets
Commissions from Exeeu-
tiVe-Already Known.
jefferson City. Mo.

Jefferson City, Mo.
Gov. Gardner announced last Mon
day the names of three men who
are to compose the new tax commits
sion. 1t is generally conceded here
that former Secretary of State Cor
nelius Roach will be appointed for
the sixyear term and James Y.
Player, former comptroller Of st.
Louis, will get the four-year term.
The third member of the board is
j. II. Galeener of Sikeston, and he
will hold office for a term of four
years.
Gov. Gardner said he had made
up his mind as to the appointments,
but will withhold them until the law
creating the commission goes into eff
feet. This and several other import
ant measures became operative Sun
day midnight. The salary of the chair
man is $4,000 a year; the other two
members receive $500 each.
The new prison board of control
was also commissioned last Monday.
The members of this board, as an
nounced several weeks ago, are w.
II. Painter, warden of the peniten-
tiary; Henry Andrae, former warden,
and ]. Kelly Pool, secretary of the
capital commission board.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Closed Bank Reopens.

The secretary of state has issued a
charter to the State Savings Bank Of
Lebanon, under which name the re-
organized Bank of Lebanon has re-
sumed business with capital of
$4,000.
The Bank of Lebanon, the oldest
banking institution in Laclede county,
with a capital Of $4,000 and deposits
of 100000, closed its doors on May
20 and has since been in the hands
Of the state banking department. The
temporary suspension was due to a
gradual decrease of deposits, owing
to the local shortage of money, the
banks inability to realize quickly on
large loans and a quiet run on the
institution, following the circulation
of unfavorable rumors. The difficult
ties which caused the banks embar-
rassment have been removed, and its
affairs have been settled without the
loss of a single dollar by the depos-
itors.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Inland Waterways Committee.

The council of national defense an
nounces the creation of an inland
water transportation committee, with
Gen. W. M. Black, chief of engineers,
U. 8. A., as chairman; Daniel Will
lard, who is chairman of the advisory
committee of the council, is a mem
Der, ex-officio.
The other members of the commit
tee are as follows:
Walter S. Dickey, vice chairman,
Kansas City, Mo, president Kansas
City.Missouri River Navigation Co.
George z. Bartell of Philadelphia.
Capt. J. f. Ellison, Cincinnati.
Joy Morcon, Chicago.
James E. Smith, st. Louis, presi-
dent Mississippi Valley Waterways
Association.
NJ. j. Sanders, New Orleans.
Lieut. Col. c. Keller of the corps OF
engineers, will act as secretary of thd
committee.
It will be the function of the new
committee to bring together the COM
panies engaged in inland water trans
portation, including those on the Great
Lakes, in order better to meet the war
situation and increase and make more
efficient the freight-carrying facilities
of the country's waterways. 1t Is
hoped through the agency Of this COM
mittee to aid in some degree in meet
ing the existing shortage Of freight
cars in the sections where water
transportation is possible.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Cat That Went Back.

"They say the streets in Boston are
frightfully crooked"
"They are. Why, do you know when
1 first went there 1 could hardly find
my way around"
"That must be embarrassing"
at is. The first week l was there
I wanted to get rid of an old cat we
had, and my wife got me to take it to
the river a mile away"
"And you lost the cat all right?"
Lost nothingl 1 never would have
found my way home if hadn't fol
lowed the cat! !"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Not to Use Tax Petitions.

Gov. Gardner, after a telephone con-
versation with Edward w. Foristel Of
St Louis, announced that Foristel told
him that, while he had sufficient petit
lions in his possession to suspend the
general inheritance and state tax COM
mission laws, he would not file them.
The governor was much elated, and
declared this would enable the state
TO get its loan of $2,3OO,OOO from the
banks June Is to pay its debts.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Helping Red Cross.

Gov. Gardner received a telegram
from Samuel A. Reid of Washington,
d. c., secretary of the war council of
the Red Cross Society, urging the
governor to issue a proclamation call
ing upon the people of Missouri to
aid in raising funds for the work to
be done by the organization.
The governor will issue the procla-
nation in a day or two. Reid sug-
gests that the work commence in this
state June IS. 1t is the purpose OF
the council to raise $1OO, 100000
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Missouri Registration.

The complete military registration
Of Missouri stands at 299,940. OF this
number, 174445 claim exemption.
These figures are 26,055 short of the
government estimates.
Missouri has about 10000 men in
the national guard or other service.
The total white registration is 269,.
o46 and of these 17O,753 claim exemp-
ton. The negro registration is 49,
915. of whom 3,742 claim exemption.
The registration of aliens is 1875
and OF enemy aliens, 1,010.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Plan Food Price Inquiry.

The federal trade commission au-
thorizes the following:
The federal trade commission is
formulating plans for the food price
investigation which will begin July
/, when the funds for the work will
become available. While plans have
not been thoroughly worked out, it
is expected that the first investigation
undertaken will be that Of the meat
industry, and a staff of accountants
and investigators is now being gath
cred for the work. The investigation
will be made in cooperation with the
other departments having facilities
for gathering food data information.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.

st. neutrality-suspicious.,
$21@22; No. l. 5000; No. 2, $3.50
10. Clover-Mixed, choice. $2O@21.
Prairie hay-Choice, $24; No. 1, $22@
2S. Alfalfa hay-Choice, $26; No. 1,
$25; No. 2. $22.5O@24. Wheat straw,
80.
Potatoes = Northern, $310@3.15;
new southern, $2.75Q3 per bushel
homegrown, $2@270.
Eggs-New cases included, 2S1ac;
good secondhand case, Csc; cases re
turned, 27kc.
Butter--Creamery extra, 37c; firsts
33@34c; seconds, 32c; ladies, Gle;
packing stock, 28c.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Wants to Drop Trains.

Application of the Frisco railroad
for authority to take "a passenger
trains out of service was heard by the
Missouri public service commission.
All the trains are local with the ex-
ception of one between st. Louis and
Monet.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05

Science has taught us a great many
interesting things about race progress
and eugenics, but the fundamental
principles of eugenics seems to have
discovered itself very early in the his
tory of the race. Healthy children are
usually those who are born of happy
marriages. '-Woman's Home Compan-
ion.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
To Enforce Laws.

George M. Brown. president of the
ST. Louis branch of the National Sc
curity League. and Edward X Love.
chairman of the executive committee,
informed Governor Gardner in writ
ten communication that the liquor
traffic is running wild around Jeffer-
son barracks.
They say there sSe probably forty
places where liquor is being sold to
soldiers and that Colonel irwin, in
charge Of the barracks, is Of the opin.
ion that bootleggers are doing a thriy-
ing business selling liquor to soldiers.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05

The flag never looks redder or whit
er or bluer than when it is unfurled
In worthy cause.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05

1t is just as well to remember that
you can't conquer the foe by merely
waving the flag at him.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05

Boys can do their bit by dropping tire
baseball bat for the garden rake. And
think of the joys of pulling weeds!
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05

With the me? going away to the
war the fishing will have to be left
to the unskilled hands Of the women.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Man, 70, BEGINS 4o-Year Term.

William F. Moorehead, rs, of Missis-
Bippi County, said to be the Oldest
man ever sentenced to the peniten-
tiary, reached that institution in Gus
tody of Hina Shuttle, officer of the SUI
preme Court. While Marshal Of Annis-
ton, Mississippi County, he shot and
killed Roy Jenkins. He was convicted
of murder in the second degree and
sentenced for 40 years.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05

Wearing the flag is a pleasing bit
of sentiment; but what are you will
Ing to do for It?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Graft Inquiry Mass Meeting.

The morning newspaper here pub
lished a call for a mass meeting to
be held at the court house to force
the calling Of a Cole county grand
jury to investigate legislative graft
and charges of mismanagement at
the penitentiary.
The call is signed by Frederick A.
Mayhall, lawyer. Mayhall says the
meeting is called "at the earnest So
licitation OF some Of the most repre-
sentative citizens in Jefferson City
and Cole county"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05

The ablebodied man who does moth
Ing is more lazy than loyal, and more
of pudd'nhead than a patriot.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Former coneressman Dies.

James r. Waddill, former Missouri
representative in congress, and a no
table figure in public life of the state,
is dead at his home in Deming.
Waddill was born in Springfield in
1910. He was the Democratic nomi-
nee for congress in 1878 and was
elected. He was appointed head of
the state insurance department by
Gov. w. ]. Stone.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Parole Protested.

Charles Tattleman Of st. Louis will
ibe released from the penitentiary
June 20 under parole in spite of a
protest filed by Mrs. E. B. ingalls,,
Helen Fox and Ella p. Cook OF the
'woman's protective league Of st.
Louis. Tattleman was convicted of
attacking a 13-year-old girl and SEN
fenced for eight years. This was in
February, 1918. He is paroled to A.
iGralnlck Of St Louis Tattleman has
IA wife and one child.
Several other minor offenders were
also paroled.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-05
Some Difference,

''And don't forget to bring home q
few rolls" "For the pianola, dearie,
or for the culiDary department."
The broad ax., 1917-01-06
Might Scenes In Yokohama.

In most oriental countries sunset
brings quiet to the streets and there is
little night life. But on Theater street,
Yokohama, IL o'clock at night sees the
great crowds leaving the movies, which
are close together, and the resulting
scene is one never to be forgotten.
Humanity packed too close for COM
fort surges in an unbroken tide from
one end Of the street to the other. Add
to this mass Of many hued forms the
taking down Of the highly colored BAN
ners and you have a scene that makes
the dropping of the big top at home
look like side show.
Sometimes the lights on the water
produce an effect almost Venetian In
charm, but the bulky canal boat lacks
the artistic lines of the gondola, and
the water sends forth scent which
might be called by a palmer name.
The newspaper boy rushes through the
narrow streets hurting the sheets to
right and left as he runs and ringing
the bells at his waist to announce his
arrival.-Christian Herald.
The broad ax., 1917-01-06

the number if we could. We can deal
with HUNDREDS more at once.
Each pupil receives not only free
tuition for a period of two or three
weeks, but is paid 80 cents Il day for
her time. After they have qualified
the average earnings run to about SO
a week.
There Is no abnormal sickness
among the girls. They like the Work
and benefit in physique and complexion
by the open air life. They are all IN.
der the care of a lady doctor.
"Since March we have interviewed
10000 applicants and are very careful
In our selection. Among our ranks al
most every class is represented. Quite
10 per cent of the girls have never
worked before and take up the work
from purely patriotic motives. There
Is not the slightest reason To suppose
that they will be unable to stand the
work during the winter. and stair
work is not so trying as the public
imagines."
The broad ax., 1917-01-06
PLAN TO STRENGTHEN
ARMY FLYING SERVICE
COURSE of Instruction For Field Officers
at San Diego.

New York.-Plans have been practi-
cally completed for the establishment
of additional army aviation stations
and schools. Stations and schools have
already been instituted at Mineola.
N. Y; Chicago, San Diego, Cal; New
port News, San Antonio, Miami, Fla,
and Columbus, N NJ. 1t is expected
that stations will soon be established
at Philadelphia and Memphis.
A corps of instructors will be main
tanned at each station, and classes for
national guard officers and reserve avi-
ators will be held. 1t is planned to
cover the entire country with stations
and schools, and it is believed that they
will serve to develop an efficient corps
Of active and reserve aviators.
One of the latest features inaugu-
rated by the aviation section of the sig
nal corps is a course Of instruction for
field officers. 1t will be conducted at
San Diego. Several officers have al
ready been detailed to take the course
offered there.
The signal corps has now purchased
or let the contracts for $50 machines.
ninety of which are water machines
About 100000 will he required to
purchase all the material which has
been contracted for by the corps.