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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
SIR LAUNCELOT TO RESCUE
But Gallant Knight Left Fair Dannsel
10 Her Fate, According to Mod
ern Version of Story.

That's funny" mused Launeelot,
one of the knightTy boarders at King
Arthur's table. That's funny" he
added, 81 haven't rescued q damsel
In distress for almost two weeks"
At that moment a piercing. but
sweet, scream issued from behind a
clump of laryngitfs trees.
"Sic 'em, Semper Tyrannus,"
chuckled Launcelot, and spurred his
good steed Yea-Bo. Behind the
laryngitis tree he found q fair golden
haired dark-eyed female bound hand
and foot, while great hulking wretch
was tickling her lovely nose with a
feather.
"What hoI Ho what" cried Laun-
celot, and prepared to spit the fellow
on his lance.
"Nay, nay, good knight, good
knight 7" cried the dark, fair ones tor
mentor. do you give me leave to ex-
plain. This wench is my wife, and
many a time and oft have I warned
her 1t would go hard with her if
came home once more and found heI
at the 'runnies' instead of home pre-
pairing supper. And but just now
came home famished to find no sup
per and my wife at the 'runnies.'"
"Give it to her good. Go to it!
said Launcelot and hied him hence
Detroit Free Press.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
NesN Medical Marvel,

OF all the remarkable medical in
novations, probably the most marvel
GUS is a new antiseptic solution per-
fected after ten years work by DR..
WiHred Fralick of New York DR.. Os-
car Eckstein Of the University of Ber-
lin, and DR.. A. G. Allen of the Univer-
sfty Of Chicago.
1t is superior to the famous Carrel-
Dakin solution because, in addition to
everything that preparation can do, it
can, be used on the brain and in the
abdominal cavity and can be injected
directly into the blood without dan
ger.
The last named quality makes it of
startling significance in the treatment
of blood poisoning.
While to put the Carrel-Dakin solu.
ton into the veins of a patient would
mean certain death, the new prepara-
ton, a ehlOrinated solution Of per
manganate Of potash, can be run di
rectly into the blood stream without
disturbing anything there except the
evil elements meant to be attacked.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
IEASTER LILY. FROM BERMUDf
Most of Bulbs Have Come From Island
Gardens but They Are Now Be-.
ina Grown In United States.

The Easter lily, the accepted floral
emblem of that church festival, was.
introduced into this country about fifty
years ago from Bermuda. The little
group of islands have sent US millions
of bulbs and received millions Of
American dollars in return. The large
eastern cities buy hundreds of thou
sands of bulbs annually, costing in the
neighborhood of $100 per 1,00O!
OF late years some disease has, at
tackled the bulbs, and on this account,
and by way of developing our own
possibilities, experiments in the culture
of Lilium longiflOrium, the botanical
name of the Easter lily, have been
made, which prove that in sections of
Florida, Mississippi, Washington, Ore
gon and California it can be grown
with perfect success. Thus, it Is point
ed out, we are making ourselves indie
pendent in the way of beauty as we'll
as in matters of greater utility and
commercial Importance.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20

The colonel was loosely hospitable, as
he always was Mrs. Baldwin was gra-
ciOusly lenient-was good enough, in
deed, to thank the eleventh-hour guest
for reconsidering at the last moment; +;
and Corona
Notwithstanding all that had come
to pass; notwithstanding, also, that his
footing in the Baldwin household had
come to be that Of family friend,
Smith could never be quite sure Of the
bewitchingly winsOme young woman
who called her father 'colonel-daddy."
Her pose, if it were a pose, was the at
titude Of the entirely unspoiled child Of
nature and the wide horizons. When
he was with her she made him think
of all the words expressive of trans
parency and absolute and utter uncon-
cealment. Yet there were moments
when he fancied he could get passing
! glimpses of a subtler personality at the
back of the wide-open, frankly ques-
tiOning eyes; a wise little soul lying, in
wait behind it's defenses prudent, all
knowing, deceived neither by its own
prepossessions or prejudices, nor by
any of the masqueradings Of other
souls
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20


DR.. Dinshab T Ghadiali, late of In
dia, compromised on a green skull cap
after he had fought valiant but los
ing fight to, retain his turban in the
county court at Hackensack, N. J.
The mineral resources of the far
East are to be made the subject of
thorough study this year by the United
States bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce.
Norway is to have a plant that will
use Belgian engineers process for
the electrical extraction of zinc from
ores heretofore regarded as worthless.
Nearly $4,000 trucks are scattered
over the state of New York, with 95
per cent of the number in cities either
located on or connected by improved
highways to the main artery that runs
from Buffalo to New York.
Brazil is said to be capable of fur
nishing a profusiOn of materials for
dyeing purposes seldom found in one
| country. OF the old-time vegetable
dyes Brazil possesses almost an end
less variety.
A clay pipe may De used as a cru
chile for melting small quantities of
metal. The stem is broken off and a
plug fitted into it.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20

Toe to the flagstones for the swinging
push. From Smiths point of view she
had for a background the gorgeous
sunset, but he could not see the more
distant glories.
eve owe you much, and we are go
ing to owe you MORE" she said. "You
mustn't think that we don't appreciate
you ut your full value. Colonel-daddy
thinks you are the most wonderful
somebody that ever lived, and so do a
lot OF the others"
"And your" he couldn't resist saying.
"rm Just plain Hshamed-for the
way / treated you when you were here
before. I've been eating humble-pie
ever since"
Smith breathed freer. Nobody but a
most consummate actress could have
simulated her frank sincerity. He had
Jumped too quickly to the small sum
in-addition conclusion. She did not
know the story of the absconding bank
cashier.
"I don't know why you should fee
that way" he said, eager, now, to run
where he had before been afraid tC
walk.
'T do. And believe you wanted L
shame me. believe you gave up you
place ut the dam and took bold will
daddy more to show me what an incon
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
EXTEND Phone lines TAKE MILLION HORSES
Warning Nations Get Vast Num-
ber From United States.
Shipments in "a Months Aggregate
100000, Valued at 1894 4,ooo, 900
Many Mules Also Exported.

Nearly a million horses and more
the export record of the United States
in the first "a months of the war, ac-
cording to Uncle Sans figures. A
compilation made on receipt of the re-
ports of the great mortality among
American horses in the war zone shows
that the number Of horses exported
from the beginning of August, 1914, to
the list of June, 1917, was, in round
numbers, 100000, and of mules 100000.
The stated value of the horses export
ed was S194,O00O00, and of the mules
$66,000.OOO.
The fact that this is ''not cavalry
war" and that automobiles, motorcy-
cIes, flying machines and observation
balloons are performing much of the
service formerly required of the horse
in war time, does not seem to have
checked the demand for American
saddle and draft animals. In the first
year of the war the number of horses
and mules sent out of the country was
in round numbers 375,000, in the sec
otfd year 10000, and in the third year
which ends next month, will approx
mate 100000. For the fiscal year end
ing with the month of June, 1915
which is nearly identical with the first
war year.. the number Of horses export
ed was 2S9, $40, in the next year 357,
553, and in the mine months of the pres
ent fiscal year, for which official fig
ures are available, 226,839. This sug
gests slight decline in the number OF
horses now being exported, and the
suggestion is supported by the fact
that the official figures Of the --latest
month available are about 80 per cent
below those of the same month las
year.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
Red Cross Doqs.

The Boxer" breed of dogs is the re-
suit of a cross between the German
mastiff and the English bulldog. 1t is
this breed of dog, according to mill
tary observers, that has proved to be
the king of the Red Cross dogs in the
European war. These Red Cross dogs,
in whom character and training are
said to outweigh pedigree almost with
out exception. are first taught to dis
tinguish between the uniform of the
soldiers of their country and that Of
the enemy. Then they must learn that
their principal business in life is find
ing and aiding wounded soldiers. BY
a very special kind of training Red
Cross dogs are taught to seek rather
than to trail wounded soldiers and to
bring back news of finding injured
men. This the dogs must learn to do
without barking, for the enemy is al
ways on the alert and ready to shoot.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
LONG WEDDINGS IN PERSIA
Ceremonies, Continuing Several Days,
Among Most Curious and EIabo-
rate In the World.

The marriage ceremonies which SOL
emnize wedding among the Moham-
medans of Persia are among the most
curious and elaborate in the world.
Any American bridegroom who dis
likes what men are wont to describe
as the fuss and bother" of a formal
wedding should regard the case of his
Persian brother and take heart.
The Persian ceremony may take
from one to two weeks for its compile
ton. Often the betrothal is a matter
of many years standing, having been
arranged by the parents when the prin-
cipals were still young children. When
the time for the marriage arrives the
guests are summoned by heralds, who
go about the neighboring villages,
bearing gifts Of apples, cloves and
roses to accompany the invitations.
When some powerful parsonage is to
be invited, the father of the bride
groom does not send herald, but goes
himself, bearing as rich a present as
he can afford to give.
Before the wedding there is also q
curious little business arrangement en-
tered into. This is the matter of
"kaben," or the price of divorce. A
sum is agreed upon in advance by the
payment of which the future husband
can put aside his wife at any time.
When it is desired to make the divorce
difficult, the kaben is set at some i'm
possible sum or commodity. The hus-
band may be required to give the
bride a hundredweight of mosquito
wings, or one of his arms or legs, be-
fore he can divorce her, q condition
which generally makes the marriage a
permanent affair.
The actual wedding festivities ex-
tend over days. The guests are given
rooms in the house and served with
rich foods and sweetmeats. Musicians
and dancing girls are hired to enter
tain them, and if the families of the
bride and groom are rich the favorite
sport of the Persians may be staged
by pair of professional wrestlers.
After the celebration has lasted
three or four days the bride rides
heavily veiled to her new home on
horseback. She is followed by porters
bearing her dowry on their backs. The
wedding celebration then continues for
! several days longer
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
The Grouches.

Two men sat glaring and glowering
at each other in a provincial Z. M.
G. A.
"WhO are the two grouches2" a.
salesman asked.
zone is our hotel proprietor" a. ma
tive answered, "and the other is, the
editor of the local paper"
whats got their goat?"
"Well," said the native, sit seems
that at our school treat last evening
the magician asked for the loan of
handkerchief, and somebody handed
him up big square of muslin.
I 'The magician unfolded the square
and said:
"'Thank goodness there's at least
one clean sheet in this town."
And ever since then the editor has
insisted that the magician was allud-
ing to the hotel bedclotheS, and the
lotel man has insisted that it was the
EDITORS paper was being Knocked
Washington Star.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
CONVERSATIONS

Like a fountain pen, new floor
brush holds water in its handle, a
valve permitting any desired amount
to reach the brfstles.
The Venezuelan government has es-
tablished an experiment station Of ag-
riculture and forestry with a garden
of acclimatization.
An Illinois telephone lineman has
figured that in ascending poles he has
climbed more than 800 miles in the
last - years.
The power contained in the water
falls of Norway has been estimated at
from 100000 to 100000 horse pow
er. Until recently the development of
these falls had been largely brought
about with the aid of foreign capital.
Rev. S. H. McCollester of Marlboro,
N. H., who will be ninety years old
his next birthday, has worked at hay
ing every year since he was fifteen,
and last year helped to get in IS tons
on his home farm.
An alloy of 2 per cent palladium
with silver Is said to form good sub
sti;ute for platinum in contact and
spark devices.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
SAVING NICKELs AND DIMES
Shortage in Small Coins Declared
Due to Widely Adopted Prac-
tice of Thrift

Shortage of small coins, complained
of by banks, may be due partly to the
practice of saving buffalo nickels and
the new dimes, bankers say. according
to the Minneapolis Journal.
Many persons have formed the habit
of putting away the buffalo coins or
the new ten-cent pieces on the we'll
established theory that the saver can
accumulate considerable sums in this
way and yet do it so gradually that
''he never misses it."
'The shortage of nickels and dimes
probably is due in part to this prac-
tice. There is, however an even more
stringent shortage of pennies, which
has been felt for the last six months"
Bankers say the penny famine prob
ably was due to recently instilled thrift
among children. Pennies given them
by parents, coins that formerly went
back into circulation as quickly as
little feet could flutter to the corner
candy store, now find their way into
the toy bank.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
Companies Enlarge Systems to
Aid Uncle Sans War Work.
Government Can Now Command In
stantIy About 100000 Miles of
Wire Covering Country.

The right arm of successful military
operations is ability to communicate
rapidly and maintain that communica-
ton. That is vitality necessary in
preparation, no less than during ac-
tual operations. To that end Uncle
Sans council of national defense has
been cooperating with the various tel
ephone and telegraph companies. 1t
has received very hearty assistance,
and statement just made by the COM
mittee on communications of the ad-
visory commission of the council Of
national defense gives an idea Of the
extent of this help.
At the inception of the war in Eu-
rope there were some outlying places
not connected by long lines capable Of
commercial transmission Of telephone
messages. Since then the telephone
across the continent and so improved
transmission that it is now possible
to communicate by long-distance tele-
phone with any section Of the United
States. AS an instance may be cited
the new line down thee East coast to
Key West, Fla, which will probably
mot be commercially self-sustaining for
many years, if then, but it was done
In anticipation of the needs Of the
government, and the strategic impor-
tanee of having not only the whole At
lantic coast, but the entire country in
speaking distance of Washington.
ALL government messages and busi-
ness are being handled on preferen-
tial basis, with right of way over COM
mercial messages. This enables the
government to instantly command ap.
proximately 100000 miles of ex-
change and toll lines which connect
over 100000 telephone stations
These include the private branch ex
changes of all great utility, industrial
and transportation companies; all the
great commercial and financial estab
lishmentS of the United States. Thus
the government officials have almost
instantaneous access to every center Of
activity. These toll and long-distanct
wires reach every town, hamlet ant
crossroads Of any Importance.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
WILL EQUIP ARMY DOCTORS
Uncle San's Medical Authorities Solve
Problems Presented by Great In
crease i'm Fighting Force.

One of the large problems before
the army medical authorities has been
the furnishing of the surgical instru-
ments and other medical supplies
needed for Uncle Sans augmented
military establishment. There has
been a hearty cooperation between
Mai. Gen. William G. Gorgas, the sur
geon general, and his assistants, and
the manufacturers, it is announced.
Satisfactory arrangements have re-
suited by which the necessary surgi-
cal instruments may be obtained in
a way as good as if derived from Ger
many. Leading surgeons of the coun-
try assembled in Washington, after
consultation, agreed. on instruments
necessary for surgical operations. By
this means, it was possible to compile
revised catalogue, which has been
communicated to the makers of in
struments, who have signified their
willingness to furnish this simplif1ed
list to the limit of their facilities.
In the matter Of drugs, the war de-
partment is assured of deliveries in
the quantities required and Of the
varieties needed under a system that
promises to overcome difficulties that
may be encountered in obtaining qui-
nine and opium derivatives. A surgical
dressing house has erected a new
plant to be devoted to, the manufac'
ture of surgical dressings. There also
is a gratifying promise of ambulances
in the number necessary at home and
abroad. The makers Of motor vehf
cles are in position to fill orders as
they are placed, one. concern having
promised to produce from 300 to 6O(
vehicles a month, while another ha:
reported that he can make an unlfm
tied quantity of ambulanees in shor
time.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
Nothinn to Run Into.

when 1 was in the railroad busi-
ness," said Chauncey NJ. Depew once,
''the president of a small line waited
on me to request an exchange of. cour-
tesies. I interrogated him, and he
said proudly:
"'On our line, sir, not only has a
collision never occurred. but on our
line a collision would be impossible
Impossible? said I. 'Oh, come !;
I know that the latest automatic safe
ty devices are excellent things. But
impossible is large word
"It's literally true with US, SIR he
replied.
GLOW can it beT said I.
"'Why,' said he, we own only one
train Railway Employees Maya
zine.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
CHAPTER xI-contlnued.


II had been a day of nagging distrac-
uons. A rumor had been sent afoot-
by Stanton, ps Smith made no doubt
limiting that the new dam would be I'M
safe when II should be completed; that
Its breaking, with the reservoir behind
II, would carry death and destruction
TO the lowlands and even to the city.
Timld stockholders, seeing colossal
damage suits in the bare possibility,
had taken the alarm, and Smith had
spent the greater part of the day In
trying to calm their fears. For this
cause, and some others, he was on the
ragged edge when Baldwin dropped In
on his way home. from the dam and
protested.
Look here, John; you're OVERRIDING
this thing world without end You
break 1t off short, right now, and go
home with me and get your dinner and
good nights rest. Get your coat and
hat and come along, or I'll rope you
down and hog-tle you"
For once in a way, Smith found that
there was no fight left in him, and he
yielded, telling himself that another
acceptance Of the Baldwin hospitality,
more or less, could make no difference.
But no sooner was the coloners gray
roadster headed for the bridge across
the TimanyOni than the exhilarating
reaction set In. In a twinkling the
business cares, and the deeper worries
as well, fled away, and in their place
heart-hunger was loosed.
After dinner, meal at which he ate
little and was well content to satisfy
the hunger of his soul by the road of
the eye, Smith went out to the portico
to smoke. The most gorgeous of noun
tain sunsets was painting itself upon
the sky over the western Timanyonis,
but he had no eyes for natural
grandeurs, and no ears for any sound
save one-the footstep he was listen
ing for. 1t came ut length, and he
tried to look as tired as he had been
when the colonel made him close
his desk and leave the office; tried and
apparently succeeded.
"You poor, broken-down Samson
carrying all the brazen gates Of the
-Philistines on your shoulders
You had to come to us at last, didn't
your Let me be your Delilah and fix
that chair so that 1t will be really com
Portable" She said 1t only half mock
ingly, and he forgave the sarcasm
when she arranged some Of the ham
mock pillows in the easiest Of the
porch chairs and made him bury him.
eelf luxuriously in them.
! Still holding the idea, brought over
from that afternoon of the name ques
tlonlng, that she had In some way dis
covered his true identity, Smith was
Watching narrowly for danger-signal'
when he thanked her and said:
"You say 1t just as 1t is. had Il
come. But you could never be any
body's Delllah. could your She was I
betrayer, II you recollect."
He made the suggestion purposely
but It was wholly ignored, and Their
was no guile in the slate-gray eyes.
"You mean that you didn't want I,
Gomez"
"No; not that. have wanted 4
come every time your father has aske,
me. But there are reasons-good rea
sons-why I shouldn't be here"
If she knew any of the reasons sh
made no sign. She was sitting in tn
hammock and touching one slippere
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
HIM UNCOMFORTABLE IS WARNED TO PRO-
TECT HIMSELF FROM VIOLENCE

Smith, and
bachelor Rcander
when Durham dshon
the blame embezzement actually
appears a
and aboring job
uon ditch construction His intelligence draws the attention of
Williams superintendent thinks tramp
Smith. The ditch
able property Smith finally
Baldwns He has pleasant
Baldwin the
the materlaze good
job, his past history bohs him.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
Further Uses for Aluminium.

Aluminium, is now being substituted
in place of wood in the manufacture
Of automobile bodies. Large sections
Of aluminium castings are now used
in making touring cars and the in
closed bodies OF certain other motor
cars, a use which was not practicable
ten years ago. Cast aluminium is also
used for making automobile dashes,
Bodies made Of it are lighter than
those made of other sheet metal, and
have a rigid surface that will not dent
easily in case Of accident. The alum
mum surface retains paint well, and
the increased rfgfdfty makes the car
more durable.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
lmportar. TO Mothers
Couldn't st.v Behind.

AArtding master was taking his usual
stroll around the exercise ground
when he came across q recruit trying
his best to get his horse to jump a
fence. After watching him for some
time, he went up to the man and ex-
claimed:
''Aiy good fellow, how do you expect
to get that horse to go when you've
only got one spur onY'
'1The recruit, after looking at his
boots, replied:
'tWell, sir, if I can only get that side
of the horse to go, the other one is
bound to keep up with him."
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20

A patriotic young woman who has
been taking the war situation serious
" since the advent of the United
States into the fray, remarked the 9TH
er evening after a careful perusal of
the paper that she could not under
stand how the German junk dealers
had so much influence in determining
the course OF the war on the part Of
Prussia.
Investigation disclosed the fact that
she had been studying an article deal
ing with the attitude of the "junkers, y
or the party Of the landed aristocracy
| in Prussia indianapolis News.