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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-11-28
Another Operation Avoided

Richmond lnd"For two sick and weak from
female troubles
with hands the steps, then sit down at the to rest The
doctor said he thought should have operation and friends
thought would
asked Lydia Vegetable Compound
taken with did weakness disappeared
gained strength home, do all kinds garden
work. hundreds chickens
enough in praise of Lydia Pnham Vegetable Compound
NJ o. JOHNSTON, Route D, Box 100, Richmond, Ind.
Of course there are many serious cases that only
surgical operation will relieve. We freely acknowledge
this but the above letters and many others like Them
amply prove that many operations recommended when
medicine in many cases is all that is needed.
want special advice write to Lydia E. Pnkham edi
cOnfdentiaD letter
M a and held in
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-11-28
GooManu
Operations
The Right Medicine i'm Many Cases
Does Better than the Surgeons
Knife. Tribute to Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.


Des Moines, Iowa-"My husband says would
have been in my grave today had it not been for
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I suf-
fered from serious female trouble and the doctors
said could not live year without an operation.
My husband objected to the operation and had me
try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
soon commenced to get better and am now well
and able to do my own homework. can recon-
mend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to
any woman wonderful health restorer."-Mrs.
BLANCHE JEFFERSON, 703 Lyon St., Des Moines, Iowa.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-07-25
AlRMEN GIVEN SEVERE TESTS
Candidates for Service Must Prove
Their Competence Before Being
Allowed to Enroll in Corps.

The romance of war" has died a
natural death in the trenches of
Flanders. There is very little ro-
nance in standing immersed to your
middle in half-frozen mud and wa
ter. But in the flying corps it is
another matter There victory and
success depend upon a mans per-
sonal abilities and resources, and SO
the British Royal Flying corps has
. superabundance of candidates. Be-
cause of the heavy taxes this service
imposes upon a mans physical and
mental equipment, the tests are very
severe.
The aerial service cannot afford to
have nervous men, and so the tests
in this regard are very stringent;
'trembler," an instrument for deter
mining the steadiness of the hand, is
one test. Then the candidate is
seated, and an instrument to record
his breathing is fastened to his
breast. When he least expects it, a
photographers fashlight is ignited,
or pistol discharged behind him,
and the amount of shock, and its
effect upon his respiration. nerves
and heart, is duly recorded.
The sight and hearing also receive
careful attention, and also the can
didate's ability to resist fatigue. This
is determined by inserting the fore
finger into device, and by moving
it back and forward, raising and
lowering weight. The man con-
tinues this until fatigue prevents
further movement. Recording in
struments determine whether he has
sufficient endurance to manipulate
the levers in his aircraft for long
period.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-07-25
EDITORIAL NOTE. - william

EDITORIAL NOTE. - William Le-
Queux, who here chronicles for his
egrtsss.-S~ Count Ernst Won Heltzendorff,
the lafter's revelations of the inner
life of the imperial German court, has
long been recognized throughout Eu-
rope as the p0ssessOr of it's innermOst
secrets. =.
The English sswho's Who" says of
him; Gle has intimate knowledge of
the secret service of Continental cOun-
tries and is considered by the govern
ment (of Great Brittany an authority on
snch matters. Another authority says:
Stew people have been more closely as
ISOLATED with or know more of the
astounding inner machinery of Ger
many than he's
LeQueux probably has more sources
of secret information Mt his command
than any contemporary In civil life, and
Tor the last six years the British Gov
4ernment has made valuable use of his
vast store of secret information through
n specially organized department. with
which LeQueux works as a voluntary
assistant
Count Won Heltzendorff became an in
TO the outbreak of the war; he has been
living I'm retirement i'm France since
August, 1914, and it was there that Lee
aueux received from the crown princes
late personal adjutaat permission to
make public these revelations of the
inner life of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
the demOcracies of the world might
come to know the real, but heretofore
hidden, personalities OF the two dOmi-
nant members of the autocracy they are
now arrayed against.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-07-25
INNER TUBES OF RUBBER SPONGE

For some time, the brains and time
of many men have been occupied in
search for a substitute or modifi-
cation of the pneumatic tire for auto
mobiles. We have seen about every
thing from metal springs to tires
made with the regular tire casing
but containing solid block of gum
used as a bumper. The season of tire
filters occupies now only a page in
the history of this search. Springs
have been discarded because of their
slowness to respond, and it has been
decided by the great majority of auto
mobile owners that nothing rides as
easy as air, and rather than use tire
filters they would substitute solid
tires and have done with ii.
The latest and most promising
substitute for the air filler is rubber
sponge, which fulflls all the condi-
lions necessary for successful tire
filler.
Recently, tires filed with this ma
terial were driven 1880 miles with
an average speed of IS miles an hour
without any apparent deterioration
of the filing material.-Chemical
Engineer.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-07-25
MANUFACTURERS HEARD
ON CHILD LABOR LAW

Washington, July 25.-After an all
day hearing of textile manufactur-
ers from the south, and north, and of
other interests affected by the child
labor law, the advisory committe to
the cabinet board for making and
publishing uniform rules and regula-
tons for enforcing the law, announced
that it will report its conclusions to-
morrow.
Speakers from the south urged a
liberal construction Of the laws re-
fquirements sto proof of age Of chill
dren employed and as to the compu-
tation Of hours.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-07-25
Election Friday, July y
WAR HAS COST BRITAIN
FIVE BILLION POUNDS

London, July 25.-Moving in the
house of commons a credit of $780,
100000 pounds, Andrew Bonar Law,
chancellor of the exchequer, gave
startling figures of the growth of
Great Britain's financial burden in the
war; The credit asked brings the to-
tai to more than 5000, 100000 pounds.
The house was astonished to learn
that Great Britain's advances to her
allies and dominions reached a total
of more than 100000 pounds.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-07-25
RAILROADS AID IN
WAR MEASURES
Respond to Call In Movement
of Men and Freight.
TRAFFIC INCREASES RAPIDLY

In Spite of Additional Burdens lmpos-
ed, the 693 Railroads of United States
Have Met Trying Situation Without
DisruPtion--More Cars Are Available
to Meet Needs.
1.-THE essence of the railroad situa-
tion," said President Daniel Willard.
chairman of the committee on trans
portation of the Council of National
Defense, in recent interview, sis that
the railroads of the whole United
States are nationalized The '693 rail-
road companies operating in forty
eight states and controlling 100000
miles of road are responding admira-
bly, to central direction from the so
called railroad war board of railway
presidents. They have responded to
every suggestion made by the Council
of National Defense through the war
board. They have made all transfers
OF troops on schedule In a manner. so
far as l am advised, entirely satisfac-
tory to the war department without
serious disruption OF regular traffic.
They have Tremendously increased the
supply of coal cars, facilitated the
transit of grain and met the needs of
the government at least as promptly
and effectually as if they were under
direction of government authority"
President Willard explained that last
summer the railroads worked out with
Colonel Baker of the quartermaster's
corps of the army complete scheme
for wartime railroad operations and
that this scheme, since elaborated and
perfected, has worked SO well that
during the past two months the rail-
roads of the country, though handling
vastly more ton miles than ever be.
fore, have been constantly transport
ing troops in considerable numbers
without In the least interrupting regu-
lar traffic
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-07-25

The peace aim of the warning ma
tions are now of much more import
ance than the reasons they went to
war. The latter started the daughter.
the former can end it. A lack of mod
Grafton means hundreds of thousands
of lives!
Secretary Baker has abandoned
his censorship of all cable messages
and the dispatches are now unmolcstea
in this country.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-07-25

It is claimed that Spain has been
sending gold to Germany from this
country. in fifteen months, ending
March 81, $31, 271, 876 were shipped to
Spain, but that country's records show
that only $9,8s3 of imported gold ar
rived there.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-07-25
NO CHANCE.

Sparrow-You don't seem to talk
much.
Parrot don't have to; there ara
three women in this house..
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-07-25

"Our consumption," says Herbert
Hoover, must be reduced" He wasn't
talking about t. b., but the food you
eat.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-07-25

Feminine tempers, you may note,
Are like cigars, my child
Some are medium, some are strong,
And some are very mild.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-07-25
The Plot Against
Princess Louisa

This intensely interesting story will
be published in two installments next
Friday and Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29

good sense to take his money back
home.
Captain Lucas tells me that one set
of men bought an acre for $40, O00 and
bored well in the center. They then
divided the acre into four quarters,
each represented by a million-dollar
company, and these companies sold
that S4,OO0,U0U worth of stock far and
wide over the union. Captain Lucas
was offered 100000 of the stock of
a million-dollar company If he would
allow them to use his name as les
president. They said that their prop
erty was as good as that surrounding
the gusher but when Captain Lucas
looked at it he found it to be utterly
worthless and refused.
Today a chain of oil tanks hangs about
Spindle Top hill like necklace of
mighty rubies. Each tank is of steel.
1t is painted red and it represents more
value than any collection of pigeon blood
gems ever gotten together. The tanks
Deong to the great oil companies and
their contents are valued at millions.
The oil in them does not come from
Spindle Top. 1t has been piped here
from the other great fields of petroleum
which have been discovered since that Of
Beaumont was exhausted. Some of it
lE from northern Louisiana and some
from northern and eastern Texas. A
great deal comes from Kansas and Ok
lahoma, representing a part of the vast
output of what is known as the midcon-
tinent oil field, which is now producing
several hundred thousand barrels every
week. The state of Oklahoma produced
l05 100000 barrels last year. 1t led the
United States in it's output of oil.
In addition to the tanks here there are
tank al Port A ri m he wi
can gulf, and there are great refineries
at both places where the crude oil is
turned into the many forms in which it
goes to the market
1t seems strange to speak of tank
farms, but that is what these great coll
lections of oil storage reservoirs are
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
Belgian Cavalry Captures
Stranded German U-Boat;
Exploit of 1894 Recalled

Paris, July 2s-The German submarine
that ran ashore on the French coast
west of Calais, on Thursday, was not de
stroyed when its crew set fire to thu
gasoline tank, but was captured by 6
troop of Belgian cavalry, recalling the ex'
plot of the Frencth Hussars, who, in 1874
captured an ice-bound Dutch fleet, &C
cording to a dispatch from Calais to-
day.
The stranded submarine was first sight.
ed by customs officer. He called upor
some Belgian horsemen, who were exercis-
ing nearby, to come to his help. They
rode down the beach. the message re-
ports, surrounded the U-boat- and made
prisoners of the crew, while the as
tonished countryside watched accomplish
ment of the feat.
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deserted. Its only inhabitants are the
men who are managing the small
pumping stations and the "squatters"
who have taken possession of the rat
tletrap buildings which sprang UP in
the days OF the great oil excitement.
There are less than 100 derricks now
standing and the total output Of tie
field is not more than 500 barrels eV-
cry "a hours.
l went out to Spindle Top with Mr..
Courtney Marshall, the secretary and
treasurer of the Magnolia Refinery
company, which is now producing Pc
troleun and its by-products under the
direction of the United States govern
ment. The plant, to which l shall refer
later on, Is one of the largest in the
United States, and Mr.. Marshall has
been connected with 1t since its be-
ginning.
Mr. Marshall came to Beaumont in
1902, when the oil excitement was at
It's height. He tells me that the only
roads they had at that time were Of
mud and the cost of freight from Beau
mont to Spindle Top was almost as
great as the value of the machinery
carried Hack rates were $40 a pas
senger; hall bedrooms rented for 500
month, and the country about was
covered with tents. The hill itself was
great gambling table figurativeIy
speaking, upon which fortune hunters
from the four quarters of the earth
threw down their money. The place had
all the surroundings of a new mining
camp. 1t had its saloons and dance
halls. Betting was done on the quiet,
and fortunes were made and lost in d
night. For miles around the land was
bought and divided up into oil claims.
1t Jumped from IS to tens of thousands
of dollars an acre and some of the land
on the hill was sold for as much as
100000 an acre. 1t is said that New
York broker stood up one night in the
Crosby House at Beaumont and Of
fered 100000 cash for any acre in
the proven ground of Sindle Top hill
He was laughed at and he had the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29

estimated that enough has come out to
cover the whole 200 acres with crude
oil to depth OF rs feet.
The field has long since been prac-
tically exhausted, but some people here
believe that there is another great
reservoir of oil lying a thousand feet
or more below the first, and capitalists
have bought up the property with the
idea of getting that oil. understand
that much of the mound now belongs to
Gulf Refining company, and that they
will test the lower strata within the
near future.
The belief as to there being more oil
lower down is based on the fact that
other fields in this region which have
produced vast quantities of petroleum
are now being worked at lower depths,
with results better than those from
the first strata discovered. This is 30
of the Humble field, IS miles north
east Of Houston, and also OF those Of
Sour Lake and Goose Creek. Sour Lake
lis rs miles northwest of here. A big
gusher was struck there in 1903, and by
the end Of that year geo wells had been
sunk and 100000 barrels of oil pro-
duced. The whole field had produced
abont 35,000,G00 barrels when it was
thought to be exhausted, but they have
since gone down 1000 feet or more
deeper and struck a second supply. At
Goose Creek they have found great
beds Of oil-bearing rock at 1000 feet,
and they are sinking wells there 1900
feet deeper
l am told that one company has
leased 10 acres not far from Spin
die Top hill on a contract which pro-
vides that the ground is to be test
ed to a depth Of $500 feet. The tract
lies in the direction that the oil strata
is~supposed to run. Another we'll sunk
within plain view of the hill has
proven a "duster" That is, 1t has no
oil at all. although the drills were put
down underground to a depth of more
than hree-fourths of a mile.
The Spfnd1e Ton of TODAY is almost
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Beaumont. Tex.

bSduHOnbS lex.
IN ROM the crest of Spindle Top hill
the site of the dicovery of the
first great oil fields of the south
west, I write of an industry which is
of vital Importance in our great war
with Germany Petroleum forms the
very heart of our national struggle. III
fuel oil it runs our great battleships
in lubricants 1t keeps our mighty in
dustrial plants moving, and in gasoline
it sends the motor cars to the line OF
march with munitions and all sorts OF
supplies Gasoline engines carry the air
planes over the camps and the trenches
and show the gunners just where to
shoot. All of our munitions, guns and
armor plate, as we'll as our submarines
and every machine that has to do with
the war are dependent in one way or
another on the supply of oil that we get
from the earth.
Spindle Top is an excellent place to
study the oil situation. From right I'M
der our feet have been taken $4,000, 900
barrels of petroleum, and this site was
the beginning of the great gulf coast
oil region and that of Oklahoma and
Kansas, which have for long time sup
piled a great share OF the oil of the
world.
Spindle Top is a low mound a great
inverted saucer, which covers an area
of perhaps 200 acres The mound is
lonly about 10 feet in height and all
around it the land is low, flat, marshy
prairie. AS we stand upon the hill we
can see the buildings of Beaumont, five
miles away. That was once a small
lumber town, but petroleum has made
it city of $4,000. Those great streams
of black smoke in the distance come
from tank steamers filled with gaso-
line and fuel oil from its refneries.
They are on their way to the battle
fields of Europe. AS we look about us
we can see the tank farms of oil COM
panies, with their mighty reservoirs
standing out against the blue sky like
the domes of some half buried oriental
city. If we had X-ray eyes which could
pierce the earth, to the north, south
and west we should see mighty pipe
, lines which are carrying rivers of Pc
troleum from the many oil fields of the
southwest to the great refineries To-
Gated here and at Port Arthur, which
, is only a few miles away on the gulf
The ladderlike towers, so feet high,
which surround us stand over oil wells.
This field is almost exhausted, but they
are still pumping out the dregs Of the
fluid which once burst forth in such
gigantic fountains that it astounded
the world.
The story of every great oil camp is
of live human interest, and there is
none more so than Spindle Top, on
which we are standing. The field is so
small that soldier could stand in the
center, and with his rifle, shoot far
beyond any of the wells that have pro-
duced oil in large quantities. The oil
came from a reservoir capped with
strata 1000 feet thick The first well
that penetrated the reservoir was
drilled to depth less than twice the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
AMERICAN TROOPS IN
FRANCE WANT TO BE
KNOWN AS "AMEXES"
Paris Matin Says Men Select Their
Own Sobriquet by Joining Parts
of Two Words

Paris, July 2S-The American troops in
France have chosen their own sobriquet,
according to the Matin today adopting
the name "Amexes." This was formed by
piecing together the first two letters of
the words American expedition, in man
ner similar to that adopted in forming
the word "Anzac," by which the Aus
tralian and New Zealand troops in the
British forces are known
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
G0ethals Plans to Return to
Road and Tunnel Building

6easirt, N. j., July 2s.--Naj. Gen. George
W. Cocktails, who recently resigned as
general manager Of the governments
emergency fleet corporation, is planning
to resume work constructing New Jersey
state roads, and to labor at building tun-
nels and bridges and in the development
Of tho port OF New York, 1t was an
nounced today by Gov. Walter Edge.
1t had been reported that General Geo.
thals might be sent to France to dc
army engineering work.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
Potatoes Nav Fall Short

Washington, July 2S.-Warning that
this years potato crop might not reach
the 452,O00,000 bushel record production
forecast for it because of poor seed,
scanty fertilizing because of high prices
and possibility of diseased plants, was
issued today by Lou D. Sweet, the Col
orado potato expert, Communicated by
the food administration.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
Paper Barred From Mails

Tampa. Fla, July 2s.--The entire edi-
ton OF tho Kissmee Valley Gazette, one
of the Oldest newspapers in south Flor
Ida, was barred from the mails today
because OF an advertisement giving no
tice of a mass meeting Wednesday night
at which the legality Of the draft law Is
to be considered and preparations made
to fight 1t. The Kissirnes postmaster
construed the advertisement ~ treason
able. says . dispatch.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-07-29
Liberty Bread" Is Name

Washington, July 2S.--"Liberty bread"
is the term to be encouraged by the food
administration as applied to substitutes
for wheat flour rather than the phrase
war Bread useu in other warning
countries.