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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-10-15
DUCK HUNTING
SEASON OPEN:
DR0VES HERE
POPULAR SPORT or LOWER COAST
COUNTRY rs NOW OPEN TO THOSE
EQUIPPED WITH LICENSE
HUNTING LAWS ARE GIVEN

Do YOU like duck or goose hunting9 D"c-
il thrill YOU to hide behind "a clump W.T. mc--
quite. with your eyes ON a flock "a dr-
coys. in the hope that shortly YOU will have
an opportunity 10 pound away with Your
12-gauge and get a mess of ~ucculent void
duck for that dinner tonight
Wen. IL you're properly equipped with
the hunting license the opportunity w here
The duck and goose shooting season open
cd for you today and ~ long a- Won pro-
vide yourself with license. and dn not
Kill more than fifteen ducks or fifteen
geese IN one day. No one will ~ay Won nay:
that i. unless YOU happen e. trc-pa~~ Up
on posted grounds
For the information VT those wh" are not
familiar with the Texas hunting law-. the
following rules are given:
Hunting licenses: Nonresident. $40 fer
the season.
Hunting licenses: Resident. Sl.15 for the
season.
4 person who has not been Y bona fide
resident for liz months last past = CON
slider u nonresident.
A person holds the right M hunt in the
county Of hi- residence and the county ad-
joining thereto on hand owned or CONTROL
ed by him without a license.
4 person who holds license. either resi-
dent or non resident. and wi-hc- ~ ship
game 10 his home. either w wv out W.T. this
state, may "a ~ under tho following couii-
tionS: Provided that NJ shall accompany
said game on the same train ar common
carrier from the point of shipment to do--
tination. Provided. further. that hc make
affidavit before some officer, and upon
filing same with the railroad agent. such
person IL permitted w transport to hi~
home one days limit VI game birds IVY other
game; excepting wild duck. M which such
person H. permitted ~ transport forty five
or three days bag limit.
A taxidermist il allowed to receive and
ship game. heads, etc, for mounting pur-
poses.
II j. unlawful FOR any person ~ a-c "
deer call, hunting lamp, dccoy rattln@ VA
horns or any device whatsoever for ut.
tracing deer. either by day or night.
Open Season for Hunting
September ] to February 2S;
bag limit Il birds per day.
MEXICAN WHITE WING PIGEONS
No closed season; % birds per dav
December | io january 3l;
bag limit l5 birds per dav.
DUCK October - to February 1 BAG
limit ID birds per day
PLOVER AND SNIPE-Septemhe 10
December l6; bag limit, Is birds per day.
WILD TURkEY-Novcnhcr | w jan
uarv ~ :: bag limi.. 3 per 1,nl.
SQUIRRELS AND RABBITS - M,
closed season.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-10-15

PETROGRAD, Oct. 15.-The German
forces which landed on the Russian island
of Oesel, at the head of the Gulf of Riga
Friday, occupied Arensburg, the capital
of the island, on Saturday, the Russian
war office announces.
Arensburg i on the southern shore of
Ocsel Island. The northern group Of Ger
man warships dispatched a torpedo boat
squadron between the islands of Oesel and
Dago which forced back Russian patrols
The Russian naval forces faced the patrol
and accpeied battle whereupon the German
ships retired. Fighting for Oesel Island
continued all day yesterday. A third group
of German ships, consisting of cruiser-
and torpedo boats approached the south
west coast of Oesel Island, bombardna
unimportant parts Of the coast. German
submarines were observed in the Baltic.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-10-15
ARTILLERY IN
ACTION TODAY
IN FLANDERS.
BOMBARD|NG G
BY ENEMY, TOO
(By Associated Press. .

LONDON. Oct. 15.-Ileavy artillery ac-
tions are again in progress on the Flanders
front. Londons official report today
speaks of strong bombardment of new
British positions on the main Pass Chen
dale Cheluvelt ridge south of BroodSeindc
In the light of previous experiences this
may be viewed as indicating German
counter battery work against intensive
British artillery fire in a process begun
preparatory 10 another push.
The British artillery now has superior
position from which to work. a there must
by this time have been ample opportunity
for the heavy guns to be put into position
on dominating high ground taken in the
recent advances. Ii thus seems probable
that Field Marshal IIaig will not delay his
next stroke beyond the time when these
guns have had an opportunity to break up
such concrete construction a. the Germans
have been able Ia construct in what they
desire to be "a their defensive zone
which week by week j. being forced further
eastward.
The weather. however. l. decidedly an
important element in this consideration. n
the continuation of hard rains not only
keeps the ground in a state of well nigh
prohibitive co-ordlnated infantry adj
vances, hut interiors seriously with vital
earial observation work
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-20
IMPORTANCE IS
ATTACHED when
TESTS ARE MADE
Dodge Brothers Laboratory Ex-
pertS Make Minute Exam
nations of Steel and Iron

The test for the determination OF
carbon in steel or iron. while com
mon TO all larea industries having 70
do with these products, always 70
mains a most interesting and import.
ant subject. In the Dodge Brothers
laboratories it is given particularly
close attention
There are two circular furnaces.
These are electrically heated to $50
or 1900 degrees Fahrenheit. the exact
temperature being recorded by a
platinum rhOdium tAermOcOuple The
steel or iron TO be tested is mixed
with alundum sand and placed in a
small alundum boat. The boat is in.
serted in the furnace and burned 20
or - minutes. stream OF oxygen
pouring over il constantly The ONy.
gen is purified by first RAISING
through a train Of tubes and contain
ers. In turn ii comes in contact with
potash, soda lime and calcium chlOr.
ide. Each OF these is chemically
pure, insuring dly, untainted gas
at the outlet, where the oxygen pass
es over the hot iron or steel chips
and burns them. The result is a de
post Of carbon diOY!de from the car
bon in the sample.
Other gases are given off during the
burning and are absorbed by pass
ing through graduated zinc calcium
chloride and PHOSPHORUS pentoXiGe
The carbon diO%ide gas is now alb
sOrbed in a tube OF chemically lure
soda lime The increase in weight
of this soda lime is determined by
balances which are sensitive TO one
four million-five-hundred and thirty
thousandths of one per cent. Since
the hardening process is dependent
largely on the amount of carbon pres
ent, this determination method en-
ables Dodge Brothers to classify all
parts according TO the strength re,
Quired.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-20
VALVE SYSTEM OF engine SECRET OF
POWER, SAYS FRANK COOMBS IN TALK

be il some one shut off a part OF his
air supply.
With an I-head engine. that is with
the valves all on one side. the man
ner OF making the adjustments is the
same for six or a four. Remove
the valve Coverplate from the side
and turn the valve adjusting nut when
the valve is closed, so that the clear
anCe between the end OF the stem
and the pushrod is about equal TO the
thickness OF a visiting card On a r.
head motor. with the valves on both
sides. the coyerplates on either side
may have TO be removed. In over
head valve engines the adjustment is
made either by taking up on a nut
on the long pushrods, or sometimes
there is an overhead nut by means
OF which the valves can be adjusted
when the engine is running
Grinding the valves has been harp
ed upon to such an extent by every
one who has ever seen a car that
there are few who do not know that
II has TO be done. The thing is to
know when the time has arrived. The
upIOLIS lOl q IdI lLdI ueCuS IJS
valves ground are the same as those
for a car which has a leaky intake
manifold Summed up in a nutshell.
it is simply missing at low speeds
The worse the valves are the higher
speed at which the engine will miss.
When an engine misses at low
speed and fires when the throttle is
opened, search for leaky gasket in
the intake and then. IL this cannot be
found. have the valves ground or grind
them yourself. The way this is done
has been explained in these columns
before, but in case you need 'instruc-
ton in this | will be glad to explain
1t to you by mail.
A leaky exhaust is unmistakable
also. because Of the intermittent hiss.
ing noise. Leaks can be located by
going over the suspected points,
squirting them with oil and then
Watching for the bubbles.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-20
FARMERS BLOCK ROADS
WITH SNOW TO TAX AUTOISTS

DENVER, Colo.-The boy who made
mud puddles in the road in order to
stall automobiles so he could get the
job of hauling the cars out has moth
ing on certain farmers along the road
between Denver and Colorado
Springs, II the statements OF Nelson
Franklin, a widely known Cripple
Creek mining man are true. Mr..
Franklin declares farmers along this
highway are shoveling snow from the
sides of the road and piling it high
in the center, for the deliberate pur-
pose of stalling motor cars. These
farmers, he says, stand ready with
teams Of horses which they hire to
motorists to pull their cars out. Mr..
Franklin came over the Denver-Colo-
RADIO Springs road from Cripple Creek
recently and says he encountered the
freshly piled up snow near the town
Of Greenland in Douglas county. He.
labored a long while and got his car
though to prevent the waiting farmers
from having the satisfaction of goug-
ing him,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-20
ALWAYS BEST FOR
M0T0RIST TO LOOK
AT VALVES IN CAR

An unusual case of backfiring and
misfiring was recently reported. The
owner Of the car found that the motor
would sometimes fire on four cylin.
ders and at other times only two would
be in operation. After checking up
on the carburetor adjustments and
examining the spark plugs and the re-
mainder OF the ignition system, the
trouble apparently disappeared. 1t
returned again, however, and the igni-
ton system and carbureter again we're
given as probable causes 1t was not
until the hood was lifted while the
motor was misfiring that the real
cause was determined. The exhaust
valves of cyclinders No. and No.
were sticking at short intervals. When
they were not sticking the motor nat.
urally operated well, but every few
minutes one or the ! other or both
would remain open. The valves we're
removed and 1t was found the stems
were badly bent. New valves were
installed and the trouble vanished. -,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-20

The steady advance in prices Of
leather has caused a decided increase
In the output of Neolin. a product Of
the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.,
which is rapidly replacing leather as
soles for footwear. The company is
making preparations for an output of
rs. DOC. 900 Neolin soles In 1917.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-20
MAN WHO NAMED ELKS
8. p. o. e. INSTEAD OF
BUFFAUOES Is DEAD

PLAINFIELD. y. J. - Franci $
Charles LanghOrne, a member Of a
committe that selected the name for
the Benevolent and Protective Order
OF Elks, died at his home here recent
ly. He was 3 years old and was born
in New York. His vote is said to have
decided the choice of the Elks instead
of Buffaloes.
Tennis courts made Of rubber have
been invented by an Englishman.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-20
KING oARIo /

, DariO Res:a is the American I
champion driver OF 1916 through 4
scoring the greatest number OF
, points in the championship Sc 4
ries inaugurated for the first I
time by the contest board OF the 4
American Automobile AssOcia- 4
, ton, an idea originated by its 4
, chairman. Richard Kennerdell In 4
may he we'll said that this cham =
pionship battle saved the racing
, game. creating a nationwide in 4
, terest The prize money. $4,000 4
given by the B. F. Goodrich Co. 7
and $3500 donated by the Bosch =
Magnetic Co.. will be split three =
, ways-$7000 for first. $4,000 for =
, second. and s25On for third In =
addition Champion Resta will be =
awarded the Bosch trophy. The =
, complete standing OF all the point =
, winning drivers is as follows: =
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-01

I speed as 1t flew, and it was hurled U i Galveston while travelling at the rate l 120 miles an hour. As it neared the isll | it plunged into the sea and rolled 1 the waters of the gulf, making a gil tidal wave that flooded the city, drove one-fourth of its inhabitants and gs 7 some of its homes to pebbles and n wood. It absolutely destroyed mora re, 1000 buildings and from 5000 to 1000. F pie. Twenty million dollars worth property was wiped out by the wind the flood and the people were so frie ened that about 1oo00 of those remaif left the island for good Then came one of the wonders of ( spirit and municipal creation which h been associated with Galveston from t1 time to this. The small population came together and decided not onlys rebuild the drowned city, but to raiss up so high that it would be out of daln' from similar attacks in the future. Ik hired the best civil engineers of country to advise them and give t- the plans. They bonded themselvesI
 more than $2,00o,0o0 and later got E
 gress to help them. They put g
 canal through the island and brough
 sand from the sea. They raised
 houses upon stilts and put new fou1
 tions beneath them. The whole town
 raised. It lifted itself up by it's ! straps, as it were, to from six to 1Sl
 above the old level, and filled in
 space below, so that today you could
 tell that it is not built upon virgin
 At the same time the great wall
 constructed to keep out the ocean. 1
 wharves and docks were erected and
 day Galveston is larger stronger, \
 ter and more beautiful than ever bef
 It is city of wide streets. with
 lines of palms running through tkem
 cement driveways on each side. It 2
 magnificent homes, an up-to-date bI
 ness section, and public buildings a schoolhouses which would be a credit
 any northern city of three times size.
 (Copyright, 1e17 by Frank c. Carpente
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-01

|, lantic to Europe. Of the shipments last year more than half went to England and about one sixth to Italy and France Dur ing the coming season such exports will be rushed and large part of our for
 eign food supply will be sent out from
 here. Last year Galveston had a sea-
 going trade worth more than a billion
 dollars and the bulk went to our allies.
 In addition to wheat and cotton the Bay of Galveston is fast becoming an export point for lumber and iron. On other sides of the bay are the two ports of Texas City and Bolivar. Texas City is six miles from Galveston, on the main land of Texas, and Bolivar, on the op- posite side of the bay, Is about four miles from Galveston. Bolivar is now shipping quantities of lumber, and many of the wooden ships that will be built to carry the overseas trade will get their lumber from here. It is also the port for the shipment of the iron ore of this region, and it has the latest arrangement for handling such cargo.
 All of these three ports, as well as Houston, are in a certain sense tribu- tary to Galveston bay. Houston, all though 1t Is 50 miles inland, has a ship canal which it proposes to widen and deepen so that the largest of the ocean steamers can eventually make their way to it's wharves. It will thus be seen that we have four important shipping centers which meet at the channel which forms the entrance to Galveston bay They lie at the mouth of the great agricultural funnel of the southwestern states, form ing the key to the exports of this part of our country.
 From this it will be seen how impor- tant 1t is that this waterway be kept open and its facilities increased in this time of war The government has al- ready spent something like s90,000,000 on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-01

union. The cotton has been gathered on
 the farms run through the gins and packed up in great bales which are pressed
 on the plantations. After it reaches Gal
 weston the bales are again pressed in the warehouses. They go through high-densi-
 ty machines which squeeze the white lint together into slabs as hard as iron two feet square and five feet in length. They are now about half as large when they
 came in, and will take that much less room in the steamers. They are taken down to the wharves by rail, or on motor trucks and mule drays, and in some cases upon long pulley conveyors by means of which one mule can haul a large number of bales.
 The loading of the steamers is done by skilled men, negroes who receive as much as $50 a week during the season. They use great screws to squeeze the bales into place and the packing is so carefully done that a single large vessel may carry as much as 10000 bales. That means 100000 pounds of cotton, or enough to make a cotton shirt for every soldier now fight ing our battles in Europe and leave some to spare. I know this is not an over estimate, for I have just weighed one of my own cotton shirts to find out The scales kicked the beam at eight ounces.
 Galveston is not only the chief cotton port of the world, but 1t is also the grain chute of the southwest. We do not look upon this part of the United States as a grain-raising center, but 1t Is fast be- coming so and with diversified farming it Is bound to be more and more one of the biggest bread baskets of the North American continent Texas alone is now raising 20,o0o,0 ,000 bushels of wheat every year, and last year something like 50,- O00, 900 bushels were shipped out of Gal weston. The grain comes in also from Nebraska Oklahoma and states farther west and it goes out across the Gulf of Mexico and up through the At
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-01
MEATLESS LUNCH IS STRONGLY |ND0RSED
Manufacturers Record Com mends Plan of Birming-
 ham Realtors

Birmingham's place in the world of events has been enlarged by the efforts of two of the prominent real estate men of the Magic City, they having given to other cities ideas that have been ed States, and especially by their brother Realtors.
 Recently I. Groom Beatty was success full in putting oin "meatless- -wheatless'' luncheon in Birmingham at the regular weekly luncheon of the Real Estate ex- change, and in view of the now preva. lent idea of every man and every woman becoming food conservator, it took rap idly following the publicity given MT. Beatty's successful venture.
 Hill Ferguson was the father of tho Buy a-Home idea, which became so popular that he was called to New York to put on the project there, which he did successfully, former plans having been abandoned after hearing Mr. Fergu- sons address, and seeing his plans out lined
 So, in Birmingham Real Estate circles, this pair, T. Groom Beatty and Hill Ferguson" have become regular diagnosticians of public sentiment. They can dream few dreams and then give to the public just like them want it what they want and 1t always takes They have never yet had the experience of the young debutante who had face like cream puff, and could not sing-and con- sequently had to give a debut party every season until it took-they have been for a fn at wit public spirited idea theat they have had so far.
 The current issue of the Manufacturers Record has some nice things to say about 'MEATLESS AND WHEATLESS''
 MEALS.
 Some time ago the Birmingham Real Estate exchange inaugurated the policy Cf having "Meatiess and Wheatless'' din- ners at its weekly gatherings, which should be adopted by boards of trade, rotary cubs and other civic organiza- tions, so as to set an example that wolud aid materially in conserving the
 meat and wheat ?rooucts of the country. The question cf excessive eating a i'd wasting of f. Gdat,stf3 unless systemati- c;liiy curtailed by the Mhole country will surely ytally affect humanity in general
 Tt IS the duty of every business or sanization, private club, hotel or wher- ever meals are served to lessen the va rety and quantity of foods served to Individual c,iers, and especili;y of the meat and wheat a' sGucts, so as to elim- inate as far as possible all waste. Every one who is failii.r with the character of meals served at the larger hotels and restaurants and clubs knows what a great amount of food IS absolutely wasted. In many cases the portions served are twice the amount that can be eaten by anyone with a normal appetite. How many hundreds of thousands of starving women and children could be fed from the food thus lost by our waste ful dining methods? It is up to hotels and restaurants and clubs to stop this waste at once.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-01
Ugh! Ca|ome| Sickens; Sa|ivates!
 Please Try Dodson's Liver Tone
I sincere! My medicine does not upset liver
 and bowels so you lose days work.

You're bilious Your liver is sluggish! You feel lazy, dizzy and all knocked out. Your head is dull, your tongue is coated; breath bad; stomach sour and bowels constipated. But don't take salivating calomel. It makes you sick; you may lose a days work.
 Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Cal omel crashes into sour bile like dyna- mite, breaking it up. That's when you feel that awful nausea and cramping.
 If you want to enjoy the incest, gem t1est liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced just take spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone to- night. Your druggist or dealer sells you a 50 cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-01
NATIONS CALL TO DOCTORS
 SHOULD NOT BE IN VAIN

fession has been called on in such mum bers. Why, then, should the doc- tor make the supreme sacrifice? The only answer is that the medical pro- fession is the only one that is abso" lutely necessary to the winning of the war. It is just another instance of the penalty man must pay Tor being a doctor.
 Our troops have already landed in France. In short while millions of citizen soldiers will be in training. Some day they, too, will go away to the war. Thousands will be wounded, thousands will be taken sick, thou sands will suffer. If the doctors fail to come forward, who will there be to take care of these boys?
 MORTIMER H. JORDAN, Captain Fourth Alabama Infantry.
 Birmingham June 30, 1917.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-01

break the waves as they come in, rob
 ping the ordinary high tide of it's force. | The wall is II feet wide at the base and
 it contains so much material that If it could be loaded into box cars the train l required to haul 1t would be as long as 1 the distance between Philadelphia and Baltimore. The workmanship is such that the whole wall looks like a mass of solid white stone, firm enough to outlast the ages.
 This sea wall was but little injured by the storm of 1915, which tore out the ends of the causeway connecting Galveston is-
 land with the mainland. The causeway Itself cost more than s2,000000 and it will take another million and half to make it so 1t is absolutely safe against the storms of the future Today the breaks
 have been repaired by piles, forming a trestle which connects the mainland and the remaining sections of concrete: and the trains cross to the island upon this track which is half wood and half stone The hurricane of two years ago left a track like that of an earthquake. Great sections of stone balustrades lie half drowned in the sea and some of the re- mains remind me of the ruins of Baal-
 bek.
 The building of the great wall and the causeway was accompanied by the rais-
 ing of the city of Galveston. You re- member the story of the storm of Septem- Der, 1900 Before that Galveston was the richest city of the southwest, and it was common saying that you could not start a peanut stand anywhere in Texas without consulting the capitalists of Gal weston. The town had 5000 or 10000 peo- pie and millionaires were thicker than the bales of cotton now on the wharves. The place was noted for it's beautiful homes and fine business section
 Then out of the Caribbean sea, some- where Tn the vicinity of Martinique Is- land, sprang up a cloud no bigger than the hand of a man, and with it hurri- cane which crossed over the American Mediterranean, as that sea is called and entered the Gulf of Mexico. It gathered