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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
Little Bobbie S Pa

/ was reeding a vary interesting
book about Buffalo Bill last mite, sed
Ma. He was truly a wunderful kar-
akter.
He truly was, sed Pa; he was a
grand old sport. He dident know
what danger was, he was a strik-
ing figger like me, he was a good
fellow wen he had it & he always
had it, sed Pa. l knew him well.
You did, sed Ma, 1 never knew
that
oh yes. sed Pa, him & me was
jest like that
You knew everybody in yure
time. dident you, sed Ma. That is,
everybody that was a Big Gun.
Pracktickally everybody, sed Pa, l
cuddent help 1t, thay was always
around looking for a chanst to meet
me.
Well. sed Ma, this Buffalo Bill
was a heroick figger. l sumtimes
wish Lttel Bobbie cud have grown
up an them dangerous times, what
man he wud git TO be.
Them was the times that made
me, sed Pa often wish myself
that our littel son cud have lived in
my yung days. He will newer
know what a terribul ruff skool his
dad went thru.
He mite imagine il Wen you git
in q hurry at the label, sed Ma But
tell me moar about yure days with
Buffalo Bill.
Them was hard days, sed Pa.
Days Of give & take. slash & thrust.
] have saw the time. sed Pa, wen /
dident value my life at a dollar
note.
Marvelus, sed Ma. I thOt you al
ways held yure life's value sum-
ware around few bilyun.
Not in them stirring days. sed Pa.
Danger was my middel naim then,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
ALREADY LETTING DOWN THE BARS TO
BESMIRCH OUR NEIGHBORS AND FEED
BLIND PIGS

To follow the trend of the senate committee
on manufacture which has recommended passage of
bill crawhshing the prohibition law, calculated TO
permit and whisky manufactured in Indiana
shipped outside the state rather difficult task
There is little danger Of the bill becoming law, but
nevertheless that gotten this significant.
witnesses continued determination the part Of
the distiIlers retain foothold in the
II also witnesses a higher regard for certain
property than they humanity. this
on the part of certain politicians Furthermore that
those politicians failed catch.
catch the central purpose of the prohibition
movement. which get those brewers and disters,
and their dirty money as well the saloons they
fostered. of Indiana politics To al
low them 20 continue in businessthe liquor business
-regardl.~s % where their sales are made will be to
continue them in politics just certainly though
every saloon existed be perpetuated
forever. Every Of common decency decries the
ethics the mayor the chief police the police
judge. who TO the vagrant the thug, other
undesirable Move the town. and will
let you on, this dumping upon municipal neigh
Dor the that ought take ourselves
We wonder how many Of those senators. who signed
the committee report, would have the gall dump
their ashes other rubbish in their neighbors back
yard-or maybe their front porch,-or would thank
their neighbors award them such treatment The
identical in moral and economic sense as we'll
with the bill reported in the which says
TO Indiana brewers and distllers: NO. you can't sell
your dirty soul warping manhood destroying. eff
cheney killing society poluting politics corrupting
stuff to the people OF state we will you
manufacture it here. take your dirty money the
privilege and permit you sell TO the people of
illinois, Kentucky Ohio and elsewhere thus transport
ing hell into their Mast a bill more inexcu-
sable than the repeal Of prohibition would
be
Oh but il is too bad about the poor and dis
ters, and their properties bad, indeed. pro-
hibition bill their real estate upon
which their breweres dstileries stand into hole
the ground and neither does II demolish the build
inss other permanent improvements. on the con-
trary gives those properties economic value
that they had before it reclains them
from the creation and distribution OF a curse Only
which those properties are engaged and
the fixtures. and other implements directly
that business down statistics prove that
every dollar invested those fixtures implements ETC.
including materials labor, put into the manu-
featured articles have always paid themselves
average OF about four times year.
Pity isn't 1t, indeed that having repaid themselves
no telling how many tmes-dependent upon the period
Of their exstence.-if they shouldn't be permitted to
with their un-ecOnOmic. unsocial. inefficiency
making graft; repaying themselves again ard again
they always have by running more homes blghting
more lives starving mothers and children ans
@onuDuinR their course OF political corruption Oh but
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
WHY NOT RAISE FOOD.

We complain the o living. We lament the
scarcity of this that food staple We in a
general that food ought to raised and that
it ought be distributed efficiently. But that's
about far we go. Why doesn't some some
institution big the attention the
nation up this and something?
Everybody that grain. meat and vegetables are
dearer this minute than they have ever been. And
everybody who has looked into the knows that
the situation will be winter unless get
busy. The crop was failure last year and
elsewhere There is little surplus And the
rest the world S concerned seems doomed be
still of failure this year. Lloyd-George has
estimated the 1917 wheat crop England only
three-eighths e normal The French wheat crop is
expected be sbout forty million bushels instead of
the usual hundred and seventy million bushels.
Canada and Australia too busy fighting to raise
wheat. So Russia; and if she any wheat left
over, there is that will find outlet
to the world market Germany and Austria, of
cannot raise much; they can't till the soil
The whole world will be clamoring our grain
our meats our canned goods our transportable fruits
and vegetables and poultry dairy products There
will almost certainly be large shipments matter
what may be the volume of our production And there
that shall have enough for ourselves.
It's hard to increase production just now. Farm
labor dear. Farm machinery expensive.
Fertilizer is expensive Conditions against the
farmer when he cOnfronts his
ity But duty well sef-interest calls him to do
his And duty calls every householder who has
little plot ground cultivate aid raise what he
can
With all due respect to the munitions industry agri-
culture first. The farmer is important
than the gun maker. 1t is necessary than
to shoot And call should forth every farmer.
gardener stock raiser poulterer and daryman Amer
lea to busy speed up production his utmost.
for the welfare of his country the civilized world.
Why doesn't the department. of agriculture wake up
to this need? Why doesn't congress wake up? Why
don't the various state governments wake up?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

Danger & Desperashun. 1 wish l
had dollar for every noabel Red
man 1 sent to the Happy Hunting
Grounds.
Was Buffalo Bill jellus of you?
sed Ma. bet he was
No, sed Pa; we was both too big
d broad to be jellus of each other
He admired many things in me <
l admired many things in him.
That made it nice K cheerful. sed
Ma. Two CRATE men & two littel
buddies at the saim time. It's fun
ny you newer traveld with Buffalo
Bill in his crate show Think of
the mummy you cud have maid.
newer cared for theacktrickal
life, sed Pa, for applause & praise
/ am too shrinking, Pa sed.
Remember 1 have a weak hart,
sed Ma, & doant spring any moar
of them surprises on me- If yure
mater ever shrinks, sed Ma, it will
be beekaus the planet we live on
starts shrinking. I'll bet wen the
danger was gratest Buffalo Bill al
ways sent for you
He certaingly did, sed Pa. & I al
ways Responded wen his messen-
ger cud find me. have shot moar
Redn1en than you cud put into Madi-
son So. garding, sed Pa.
Then Ma began TO laf. You are
a grand old Anny-nias, sed Ma If
lies was pine trees you wud be the
Crate Northwest, sed Ma. Bobbie,
sed Ma, wen you grow up keep
yure imagi-nashun fresh q green,
like yure deer old dad. Newer tell
the truth wen a lie will sound
grand and big
After Pa went out Of the room
Ma sed, Bobbie. I dident mean thot,
want you 10 always tell the truth.
II will pleese me, sed Ma, e sur
prise yure father.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
Marguerite and Her Mother
Are Against Taking Medicine
North Vernon Lady Uses Eek
ternal Treatment for Colds
Bronchitis-Catarrh.

The photograph shown here is
pretty little Miss Marguerite More.
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. l. More.
Of North Vernon. Ind Miss Mar
garette doesn't like TO take nauseous
medicine for her colds. but the
soothing medicated vapors that are
combined in Nick's EapORub Salve
delight her and are an assurance OF
q pleasant nights sleep Her moth
or writes
My little daughter always calls
for NapORub when she has a Sc
we're cold BY using NapoRub
freely myself ! am entirely cured
Of chronic bronchitis and catarrh
after suffering from both until
had decided that there was no
cure for me. I have not had an
attack during the last year and
half"
Vicks NapORub Salve. the inven-
ton of a North COrolina druggist. is
universally used throughout the
South for all forms of cold troubles.
Applied over the throat and chest
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
ONCE LOVERS

GOING. BRIGHTER
hat is pressureZ
DO get o
Every s
your full head
of steam
your position much energy?
No man II from
standpoint
is poke to pay
watches he
always rewarded o.
Feedon o
out the cnk
in cannon
cautious when
Keep the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
THE MELTING POT
GOMEZ TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.
A MODEST ENTERPRISE.

The conduct OF fellow nan is wicked and unwfse
constantly awakens Indignation and
What honest should wh man
Reveals itself Is a plain a b c
We wonder why the ogues and
To trample nc disreg The Booker Rules
It's plain that / out q plan
To recify the dOings friend mar
Wen disinfect his purify his
Wen elevate his cvize lis wife
Unless our offerings Of aid he muishy rejects
Our efforts surely will produce glorious effects.
But now that I've examined with microscopic
1 find a he track a rae of a hair.
And so must proceed the enterprise alone
RELYING the only perfect that's
The task is highly suited modest and choice,
And when they how the angels will
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
TO 4 DOLLAR

You bought pound of butter, juicy srlon steak.
a
vanilla,
A chunky beam.
y lard, and. maybe, dozen of :
When grandma market in days OF long ago.
When grandpa business with som0re face and grim
II took lot of trouble loose from him.
Deep down in his
And he'd have lost you parted with his
though good slack
Except when certain bring another back.
here's the old dolar-the which
A skinny meal OF vies emitting cheese and pie
Enough a bareback providing :
bites of candy-and that's exactly all.
We still glad wholly junk
A still a dolar-but goodness,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

A novel invention is that OF a
Pennsylvania man who has devised
a system OF springs under a rock
ing chair which will operate a wash
ing machine while che occupant OF
the chair rocks
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

Among the alleged cruel acts up
on which Mrs Anna Polowetsk OF
New York. bases her suit for divorce
from Charles is the one that ne re-
ferred 10 her disparagingly as
'Prussian."
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

And common ordinary city Judge at san
Diego has fined old Uncle Lyman J. Gage S25 for
owning speedy auto Give st. Peter himself a tin
Lizzie and wouldn't be forty-eight hours before
be burn the road the gates tending.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

Don Polo Bernabe, the Spanish ambassador at Ber-
lin, has his hands full He represents Spain the
States. France. Belgium. Russia Serbia, Roumania.
Portugal and Japan.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

Persons frequenting roadhouses
have the right 10 bring their own
liquor with them and drink il. too.
according 20 a ruling made in the
district court in Brighton by Judge
-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

The "savean- hour Of daylight" movement has a new
sogan-''More daylight more baseball" When it's
like that locks may be something in il
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
Good as Far rs IL Goes.

We applaud Mr.. Wilcox's assur-
ance to Mr.. Wilson that the repub-
licans are behind him, and trust
that Mr.. Wilcox can deliver more
republicans TO Mr.. Wilson than he
did to Mr. Hughes
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

having the grip. given two hundred grains of
Quinine and quarts of whisky. rather old fash
toned and immoral treatment. yet. probably just-
fed Who wants rhinoceros sneezing all over the
premises?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
WHY This determinations

IL cost a man a Jail sentence to
accuse George Washington OF be-
ing a hard drinker The Michigan
editor who made the same charge
against another widely known ex-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

That y. Y police diet squad gained weight on CSC per
day grub. Cut down their pay What New York needs
is fat police The lean don't seem able to catch
anybody
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

Petrograd newspapers pointedly Prest Wilson to
present guarantee that Germany would keep
peace without victory" Maybe BeIgians have
got jobs on Petrograd editorial STATS
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

What Gen. Pershing to marry New York widow
Gee; hasn't the man had enough punitive expedi-
tons?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

and covered with a warm flame
cloth, the preparation Is absorbed
through the skin. In addition the
body heat releases the ingredients in
the form OF vapors that are inhaled
with each breath. Three sizes. CSC
soc or 500. Adv
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

so. If in any way ne can cause an
object on which your eye has been
resting to dart away with a speed
too great TO allow a distinct series
of impressions of its successive posi-
lions TO be made on the eye, II will
seem 10 YOU to have vanished into
thin air without stirring from its
place. The ability of fly, when you
are on the warpath against IT, 10
remain derisively invisible is due TO
the same principle. Perhaps the
Helmet of invisibility' that Perseus
borrowed from Hermes. when he
went hunting for the gorgon Medusa,
was nothing more than eye-escaping
speed
7 have no doubt that many inter-
esting and important inventions
perhaps as revolutionary in their
effect upon society as the motion
picture. and perhaps far more i'm
portant. will eventually be made
through the development of not only
the means of Outstripping the con-
veyance of sense impressions through
human nerves but through a broader
application of the principle of rela-
tive velocities There is a magic vir-
tue in swiftness. To a certain, very
useful degree. il can defy the re-
morseless grip Of gravitation itself.
The bicycle cheats the force OF
gravity somewhat as the cinemato-
graph cheats the eye. The areoplane
counteracts gravity by changing its
place so rapidly that the invisible
atmosph which cannot, unaided,
keep a thistledown afioat-is turned
into a virtual roadbed for the swift
IN gliding airship There are a hun
dred mechanical applications Of this
principle awaiting development. And
think OF what may some time be
accomplished through the speeding
up Of surgical operations. Things
that the eye cannot see are as If
they were not for the sense OF vi
sion: suppose other senses could be
similarly deceived. Swiftness. in
some form. may become the prince
Of anaesthetics.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
SWjtneSS, Greatest
of Magicians, May
be Aid to Inventors
BY Garrett Serviss.

rs the hands quicker than the
eye? I have been under the impress
sion that in magical manipulations
the hand deceives the eye.-M. y,
Philadelphia"
OF course, the hand deceives the
eye in such cases, and may therefore
be said 10 be quicker" than the
eve in that particular sense. This
is a matter worth some thought be-
cause il involves a remarkable in
stance of one simple principle I'M
DERIVING a great variety OF phe
nOmena. many Of which have upon
the mind the effect of a stunning
surprise. II also contains a valuable
hint 10 inventors since II shows the
infinite possibilities hidden in sin
gle fact OF nature.
All the wonders of the movies"
which are becoming so common that
we forget their marveiCGsness, have
TIE same basis as the tricks OF the
prestidigitator. They take advantage
of the simple fact that the eye re-
quires time 10 receive and transmit
10 the brain an impression made
upon its retina. The retina itself,
which is a kind of nervous sheet.
with a special and complicated
structure. requires time 10 take
visual impression, and the nerves
behind the retina require time 10
convey the impression 10 the CO.
ordinating cells of the brain.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
RutIeriZed News.

DUIIOTILNU -NUWo.
The Suns dispatch from Ger
many to the effect that submarines
are sent from port with bands play
ing on their decks indicates that the
sun has secured the president of
Columbia as it's Kiel correspondent
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

Potatoes the price good eating apples at
climb
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

Fortunately the Hawaiian islands
were not discovered till Capt. Cook
came along, so Nero was not able
to play a ukelele while Rome was
burning.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
Never Again.

The Father of His Country. as is
we'll known, once threw "A dollar
across the Delaware river, but we
are positive that he could not make
a dollar go that far today.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
Prepared

Well. anyway, we've learned how
to pacify Cuba.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

Before Getting Too Drastic.
IT would be advisable for con-
gress TO see America first
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
r.lfair.

An Alabama statesman objects TO
the demand for a mobile army. He
says there are a lot of cities bigger
than Mobile which are never men
toned in the call for troops.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

I president got off with a fine of six
cents.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22


TO the brain an impression made
upon its retina. The retina itself,
which is a kind Of nervous sheet,
with special and complicated
structure, requires time 10 take a
visual impression, and the nerves
behind the retina require time 10
convey the impression 10 the CO.
ordinating cells of the brain.
The time involved is extremely
brief. but still il has a certain dur
alton. The intensity of the impress
sion also Affects the length Of time
required 10 render il perceptible,
because there is a limit 10 the SEN
sitiveness. or capability of being i'm
pressed, Of any nervous organ. II
has been calculated that the mini
mum. or least possible, intensity OF
light that the eve can perceive Is
about 800 times fainter than that OF
tie full moon.
As 10 the time required 10 make
a visual impression on the eye, IL
is evidently a small fraction OF
second. when the light is sufficiently
strong TO have an immediate effect.
For many reasons, il must be var
liable. but some idea Of its length
may be obtained by considering the
time during which a single impress
sion lasts. This has been put at
from one-fiftieth TO one-thirtieth OF
a second. but the cinematograph fur
nishes experimental proof that in
ordinary cases, the duration is con-
siderably longer, varying from
tenth to a twentieth of second is
fair average estimate. series or
pictures Of a moving object taken
with about that interval between
them. seems to the eye. when pre-
scented with similar rapidity of sue
cession. TO blend into an unbroken
impression.
The rate of conductiOn of an inn
pulse along the nerves Is estimated
to average about los feet per sec
ond. on that basis the brain could
transmit mobilization order TO the
muscles of the hand in less than
thirtieth of a second. IL the speed
of muscular movement equals that
of nervous conductiOn, the hand
ought TO be able 10 move one foot
in a hundredth of a second, which
is double the highest estimate of the
duration of an impression on the
eve. and six or seven times the in
terval between the successive i'm
ages in a cinematograph picture.
Suppose, then, that you see the
prestidigitator' hand in a particu-
lar position and that he suddenly
moves il a foot away, and instantly
brings il back again TO its original
position. If he can execute the
double movement in less than a
fifteenth of a second your eye will
be unaware of 1t. because the i'm
preston of the hand in its original
position, which it had before the
movement took place, will remain
+broughout the whole interval.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22
Lucky Romans.

The lmpudence.
EFT tn, Cuba2
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-22

What's the Difference Who Loses?
It's easy enough TO be neutral in
wrestling match.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-12-05
SINKiNGS AGAIN ARE HEAVY.
-Four Large Vessels More Than Re-
ported Last Week,

London, Nov. 28.---FOurteen- Brit
ish merchantmen OF 900 tons and
over, and seven Of less than 1900
tons, were sunk by mines or subma-
rines last week, according to the
weekly admiralty statement issued
this evening. This Is an increase Of
four vessels in the larger category
over the number reported sunk in
the last weeks report. The admiral
~ statement follows:
Arrivals, 2,05S; sailings, 2.122.
British merchantmen over 1000
tons sunk by mine or submarine, in
Guiding one previously, fourteen; un-
der l.GG0 tons, seven.
Fishing vessels sunk, none.
British merchantmen unsuccess-
fully attacked, including one previ-
ously, eight.
Last weeks admiralty report an
nounced the sinking Of seventeen
British merchant vessels--ten Of
more than 1900 tons and seven Of
less tonnage.
Tho week previously only one craft
OF 1900 tons and over and five of
less tonnage were sent down.
Italians Lost Two.
Rome, Nov. 28.--Italian shipping
losses due to submarine attacks dur
ing the week ended November 25
were one steamer Of more than H.
600 tons, one under that tonnage
and one small sailing vessel, it was
officially announced to-day.
French Lose Four.
Paris, Nov. 29.--Three French
steamships of over 1900 tons. and
one of less were sunk by submarines
Or mines during the week ended No
vember >25. One fishing vessel was
lost. Three steamers were attacked
unsuccessfully.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-12-05
Our German Prisoners

Two classes of German prisoners
are now detained in this country.
One Is comprised of sailors taKcu into
custody when the United States en-
tered the war; the other consists or
"alien enemies" civilians who have
heen arrested and are now being huld
under governmental regulations for
various reasons.
The principal detention camp IS at
Fort Mcpherson, Ga, where approx
imatcly $50 war prisoners are held ,
at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, there are
165 alien enemies; at Fort Dou Gias.
Utah, there are SIT prisoners OF var
and so interned Germans. Small
attachments are now temporarily
quartered at army posts throueho
the country, but their number is rel.
atively small.
Altogether there are 1855 actual
prisoners of war in the custody Of
the War Department and about 100
interned aliens held at the request Of
the Department OF Justice.
1t Is estimated that Germany is
now holding 150 sailors tax en- from
American ships by commerce raiders
and other German vessels.