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Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
HOW NOM LAWSON ROSE TO WEALTH
were distributed by Republican cam
paign committees.
First Financial Undertaking..

| His first financial undertaking was
the reorganization of the Lawson
story Service company. He lost a large
amount just after this successful coup
when he tried to rebuild the Rand
Avary Publishing company. But he
recouped quickly by operating in West
inghouse Electric.
lie lost another fortune in southern
land "bOOms," especially the Grand
RIVER Land company. Then came his
great Bay State Gas operations, which
made him thousands of enemies and
thousands of friends. Out Of the maze
OF conflicting stories it is impossible
TO determine just how much Lawson
mad to do with what happened. Suffice
IL TO say that under LawsOn's master
hand the stock of this company gy-
rated to giddy heights and then sank
into the abyss, having today nominal
value of II cents share.
Lawson's operations had now be-
come gigantic. He entered the 'sys-
tem," as he himself explained, with
the object of combining all the copper
interests of the country.
Here one again becomes involved in
a mass Of disputed details. Lawson
sold Butte and Boston Copper stock
short from SIG share to IS cents,
| cleaning up a fortune. Then he began
to buy, and urged his friends to buy,
saying he believed in the future Of the
company. He paid $40 share assess
ment, acquired a majority of the stock.
and soon was invited to join the group,
including II. H. Rogers, John d. Rookie
feller and others of the STANDARD Oil
crowd" in consolidating all the cop
per companies of the United States.
What happened Lawson describes at
length in "Frenzied Finance" but few
of his statements regarding the matter
stand unchallenged.
Made Great Fortune.
At any rate. Lawson pulled out with
great fortune, and changed from a
friendly to hostile attitude toward
the standard OIL crowd" whom he
now vigorously denounced.
He built up great financial "fOl-
lowing" of investors and smai specu-
lators, whom he Influenced by spread
eagle newspaper advertisements in
fiambOyant style.
OF late years his name is not heard
so often, and his financial influence has
declined
Besides finance, Lawson is intensely
interested in flowers. paintings, bronzes.
yachts and horses. And he has one
other great hObby-his six children.
For his wife. who was Miss Good
willie Of Cambridge, he paid $4,000
to get the famous flower now called
the Mrs. Thomas w. Lawson pink"
He bought the yacht Dreamer and
other craft and built a beautiful Mas
sachusetts country mansion, Dream
world. He bred famous thoroughbreds
on his Massachusetts farm. He took
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
Israeites We're Fed by Bugs

Until later trip, however, the man.
ner In which the mama was carried
to the neighbOrhoOd of the fleeing Is
raelites was unknown.
However. Miss OldrOyd observed pa
tiently. She eventually surprised the
insects in the act of flying away with
the little bars of sap, or mamma, and
following in the wake of their flight
she found that the first thing a swarm
of the insects would do, if they were
frightened or met something strange
In their path. would be to drop their
mama.
Plain to Scientists.
1t is perfectly plain, now, say tine
learned scientists, supporting Profes-
sOr Robertson. to whom Miss Oldroyd
reported and sent two dead bugs and
sample Of the mamma they had been
caught. carrying away. A swarm of
hOppers started from the forest with
q load of mamma, met the children of
Israel and dropped their load. Moses
was caught in the shower and called
upon his followers to eat thereof.
The specimen Of mamma sent by Miss
OldrOyd is four inches long and two
inches thick. 1t Is sweet to the taste
and has the same food properties as
maple tree sap.
Miss OldrOyd is member of the
faculty Of Henry Thoburn college. Cal
cutta, India.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02

Georgia Man Wants to Find Some
Way to Stop Counting Razor
Strokes.

Moultrie, Ga.-Edgar r. Bruton of
this city says that he is afraid he is
going crazy if he doesn't find some way
to stop counting strokes of his razor
when he shaveS.
II he cannot devise some way to
break the habit. he declares, actual
madness stares him in the face.
Several months ago he decided that
he would see how many strokes 1t took
to shave. He counted, shaving in his
usual way, and found that he used too
many. Then he set about systemati-
cally to reduce the number. Counting
each time he shaved and eliminating
the useless strokes he managed at the
end of few months to cut the daily
operation down. But now he has found
that he can't keep from counting. e.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
SEW NERVE INTO MANS ARM
Remarkable Surgical Operation on
Wounded Officer Is Successfully
Performed.

LOndon.-Sufficient time has now
elapsed to assure the complete success
of one of the most striking surgical ex-
periments resulting from the war. says
the Mail.
The patient, a young officer at the
Queen Alexandra Hospital for Officers
at Highgate, had been severely wound
ed in the forearm, four inches of the
ulnar nerve, one of the important
nerves supplying the hand, being total
ly destroyed, thus rendering the hand
practically useless.
"AbOut one case I'm ten of ordinary
nerve grating with laboratory treated
nerves succeeds" the surgeon who per-
formed the operation told me, $50 l de-
cided to replace the destroyed nerve
with another similar nerve as nearly
alive as possible"
Search was therefore made at a num-
ber of London hospitals until the sur
geOn found what he wanted-a case of
limb amputatiOn, from which was
obtained the required ongth of a prac-
tically living, healthy nerve of the same
quality and size as the destroyed ulnar.
This was sent to the officers hospital
by taxicab. On its arrival the officer
was at once anesthetized, the wound in
the forearm was opened, and the Sec
ton Of nerve was sewn to the two ends
of the injured ulnar, thus bridging the
gap. The wound was then closed.
After some weeks faint sensation,
and. later, power to move the muscles
Of the hand governed by the ulnar
nerve. gradually returned, until few
weeks ago the officer was able to leave
the hospital and take up light duties
at home station.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
PITTSBURGH LEADS WORLD
Greatest Originator Of Freight Of Any
City on Earth, According to
Statistics.

Pittsburgh. Pa.-Statistics compiled
here show that Pittsburgh leads the
world in origination of freight ton
mage. The products of the Pittsburgh
districts mines. mills and other indus
trial plants form a tonnage two and
one-half times greater than the ton
mage of the ports of London. New York
and Hamburg combined. The tonnage
is handled by - railroad lines that
converge here. and the Ohio. Allegheny
and Monongahela rivers. This tonnage
is also greater than that handled
through the Suez canal and the ports
of New York, London. Liverpool and
Hamburg in normal times, combined.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02

prominent member), the Standard Oil
Interests, and the money trust" are
matters of recent history.
His command of language - both
slang and the kings English-is re-
markable. He has spent millions in
promulgating his opinions through big
advertisements in the newspapers. He
can't remember, he says, how many
times he has been sued criminally and
civilly for libel-yet he has won every
case brought against him.
A Boston newspaper once printed a
six-page attack of lurid character on
Lawson. The financier got out an in
junction, but the newspaper proprietor
barred the door against the Injunction
server; the presses ground out the edi-
ton. and Boston read the story. The
effect was slight. Lawson continued
on his way serenely-although what
would be serene and ordinary for
Thomas w. would be a trip through
the Whirlpool rapids of Niagara for an
ordinary man.
Started Tempestuously.
His career started tempestuOusly, for
he ran away twice in a finally sue
cessful effort to substitute business
for school.
Lawson is New Englander by
birth and a Southerner by descent
Three of his uncles were Episcopal
clergymen. He was born in Cambridge.
Mass, in 1859, and brought up by his
mother after his father was killed on
a battlefield Of the Civil war.
When he was twelve years old he
skipped from school and got a place
as an errand boy In the banking house
Of Stevens. Amory & Co., in State
street. Boston. He was speedily ap-
pretended and returned to his books.
only soon to make another break for
the realms Of trade. This time his
guardians decided they had better let
him stay at work and get sick Of 1t.
But he didn't get sick.
Instead he had a meteoric rise-if
this simile was ever appropriate. At
twenty-one he was an operator on the
Boston street" At twenty-four he
was a man Of great wealth, and sat
around green tables with millionaires
as director in big corporations.
At thirty he had become a man to
be watched by the big financial inter-
ests, for he was "a speculative factor
of Importance"
Meantime he had turned out a large
number of successful mechanical in
ventlons. When hardly more than a
boy he put on the market a substitute
for playing cards, which had quite a
run of success. He also wrote, printed
and published q booklet on baseball
of which he Is an enthusiastic devotee
The book was called 'The Krank: His
Language and What 1t Meant" and for
the work he invented a special paper
blood parchment"
He took a prominent part In the
presidential campaign of 1888. In 81
days he compiled a campaign history
Of political parties, with facsimile re-
productions Of many letters from Re
publican party leaders expressing their
views. OF this about $4,000 copies
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
R0BBER BAND IN OKLAHOMA
Bankers and Business Organizations
Unite to Rid State of Gang
Of Outlaws.

Bartlesville, Okla.-NOrthern Okla
hOma bankers associations, chambers
of commerce and business men have
banded together to rid this section of
the state of an organized gang of out
laws. whose lawless acts eliminated
in the death of two men and the
wOunding Of three others at Delaware,
Okla. Big rewards are to be paid for
the capture of the bandits, dead or
alive. The Oklahoma legislature prob
ably will pass a law fixing the death
penalty for bank robbers.
The Ocean Casualty company has
withdrawn from the state and the
American Bankers association has in
creased the rate Of burglary insurance
$3.50 $1,000. This association has
sent six detectives to northern Okla
hOma to get evidence against the So
called bandit organization. They will
also investigate the charge that bank
robbers have a ''fixer," who is paid a
salary of $1,000 year to get them out
of trouble when they are arrested.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
Kansas Woman, a Foreign Mis-.
sionary, Makes an Important
Discovery.
CARRIED MAMA TO PEOPLE
How Moses and the Children OF Israel
Were Fed During Flight From
Egypt Is Explained by
Miss Oldroyd.

And when the dew that lay was gone
up. behold upon the face of the wild
erness there lay a small. round thing,
as small as the hoar frost on the
ground. And the children of Israel
saw it, and they said one to another,
1t is mama; for they wist not what
II was. And Moses said unto them,
this bread which the Lord hath given
you to eat. But some OF them leIt
1t until morning. and 1t bred worms.
:. and when the sun waxed hot. 1t
melted.-Exodus 10.
Kansas City, Mo.-It took a Uni
versity of Kansas woman graduate,
Miss Roxana OldrOyd, Of Arkansas
City, to prove that the Israelites were
fed mamma in the desert on their flight
from Egypt-by bugs!
Miss OldrOyd is now a missionary.
Her interesting discovery was pub
lished to the world by Prof. w. X.
Robertson of the geological depart
ment of the university.
First, trees made the manna-that
was already we'll known In scientific
circles.
Then, second, the bugs that were
thereabouts waxed Industrious and
served 1t.
Cousins Of Green Hopper.
The bugs in the case are Indian
cousins of the American green hop
per. Their average length is three
quarters of an inch, the female being
larger than the male. The bugs are
pale green. These insects, Miss
Oldroyd reports. have been observed
to attack tree in great numbers
when hungry. The trees in question
excrete through the holes In their
bark made by the insects, small par
ticles of sap, which, after a short
time, CONCEAL in oblOng formations on
the outside of the bark.
When Miss OldrOyd, on a vacation
tramp through the northern hills in
India, saw these small, round particles
attached to the sap-bearing trees, she
tasted Of them and found them
palatable. A little probing soon con-
vinced her that here was mama and
the manner Of its provision. In this
she was supported by scientists.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
his stables to Europe. and raced Ia
many countries.

his stables to Europe. and raced Ia
many countries.
No sketch of Lawson would be COM
plete without the story of how he built
city, was elected its first mayor. and
sold it-charter. highways, city hall.
police department, fire apparatus.
wharves, public franchises and all-fOr
goOdly sum.
In 1890 he became interested in the
rich coal and iron bearing region in
the state of Kentucky along the banks
of the Tennessee and Cumberland riv-
ers. He conceived the idea of a city
in that portion of Kentucky lying be-
tween the two rivers. BY coincidence
this bit of land was then also the
center Of population of the nation. He
named his city Grand Rivers, and
hustled 1t into being with no delay. He
was great sight rushing about his
municipality In slouch hat. flannel shirt
and top boots.
But life in Grand Rivers soon irked
him. He sold out and came to New
York for real action-which took the
form of a spectacular bear campaign
in General Electric.
Million In Sugar.
In March, 1899. Lawson made
million dollars, he admitted, by specu-
latiOn in sugar stock; but he said this
was no more than he had lost In this
same stock on previous occasions.
How Lawson does things was shown
in his purchase of the bay gelding
BOralma. In October, 1899, the hnan-
cier paid a visit to Lexington, KY, Tor
the purpose of attending the running
of the Kentucky Futurity. Boralma'
who had stepped the mile in 2:O9. was
pointed out to him as the probable win
ner.
So he bought the horse for $4,000,
on condition that BOralma won the Fu-
turity. Then he entered the betting
ring and put up $4,000 on his pur-
chase. Boralma won, and Lawson not
only got fine horse but much more
than enough to pay for it.
In the midst of the Amalgamated
Copper consolidation Lawson flashed
into the public eye by riding from Bos-
ton to New York in a special train at
the rate of 80 miles an hour for the
entire distance. He did 1t in four hours
and fifteen minutes. while the fastest
regular train takes five hours. He said
Rogers and Rockefeller had tele-
phOned him they needed him immedi-
ately for important business.
Lawson's office in Boston looks more
like an art museum than a brokers'
sanctum. Fine flowers, bron1es anc
rare books surround him and compete
for room with the stock ticker. One
of the great sorrows of LawsOn's life
was when he failed to secure the four
famous bronzes by Julian exhibited In
q French salon.
Three or these, 80 inches In height,
look down on him in his private office.
They are Caesar Crossing the Rubi-
con" and two equestrian studies of
Frederick the Great and George Wash
ington. The fourth piece, Napoleon,
was purchased by the municipality of
Paris before Lawson could arrange to
buy the quartet. He had to be salts
fled with a replica of the Napoleon.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02

Nine. Simone Puget. the widow of
well-knOwn French publicist, photo
graphed on her arrival In New York.
Monsieur Puget, French officer with
the English eXpeditionary forces in
France. was mortally wounded during
May, 1916. In the battle of Arras and
lay, dying, In a Belgian military hos
pital near the firing line. Madame
Puget endeavored to procure permis-
sion to visit and care for him. but was
refused because of the great danger.
She thereupon cut off her hair and dis
guising herself as a French soldier
managed TO work her way through the
worlds most strictly guarded military
line to her husbands bedside. where
she nursed him until his death. Nine.
Puget will tour America lecturing on
her husbands work and her own ex-
periences i'm the war zone.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
Big Hotels Are Unable to Cope
With Unusual Rush of
Visitors.
MANY WAIT LONG FOR ROOMS
Hotel Managers Hold Different Views
as to Reason for the Jam, but War
Has Something to Do
With It

New York.-Thomas d. Green, presi-
dent of the Hotel Mems association,
says New York city has more first-class
hotels than London, Paris and Berlin
combined. Despite the fact that the
hotel capacity of the city, built at q
cost of $5O0,OOOO 900, is more than 1OO..
900, 1t was difficult for visitors arriv.
ing late last night to find rooms, says
the New York Sun. In fact, up to ten
o'clock the demand for rooms just
about equaled the supply.
Investigation by reporters for the
Sun revealed that the Overcrowding OF
hotels did not end with the football
season, but that the automobile show
found the hotels still more congested
The present week Is regarded by the
hotel men as sort of lull prior to the
influx Of buyers In greater numbers
than ever from all parts of the country
That gives an index of conditions
Every room taken used to be called q
rush" Now, it is ''lull" A "rush'
is the condition which has existed near
y "ihtCi, WhCh SutotS SlCtP III
bathrooms or are sent to Newark and
Brooklyn.
"New York, the city Of big things.
said President Green, has not enough
hotels to supply the demand, and al
though there are several hotels with
total capacity Of more than 5000
rooms In course of construction they
Will not be sufficient to provide for
the ever increasing number of visitors
to the city"
Wait Long for Rooms.
Calls at number Of leading hotels
last night furnished proof of this fact.
J. w. Rogers, assistant manager at the
WaldOrf-AstOria, said people had been
waiting since ten o'clock In the morn
ing for rooms; that for weeks every
private dining room and every small
meeting room had been utilized as bed
rooms. At the Belmont the same con-
ditiOn was reported and bookings have
been made for weeks ahead. Assist
ant Manager Woods at the BiltmOre re-
ported that hotel booked full from Sep
sCihDci uhtii Apih l., uuu Suiu uOLcuS
had been turned away In the course of
the day.
The AstOr, Vanderbilt, st. Regis.
Manhattan and other big hotels an
nOunced they had all the guests they
could comfortably provide for. The
McAlpin managers said they had a few
rooms left, but that was the first time
in days. At many Of the hotels 1t was
said persons inquiring for rooms had
been referred to the headquarters Of
the Hotel Mems association, which has
a sort Of clearing house for steering
strangers to hotels that are not over
= crowded
At the Hotel Mems association 1t
was said the week had been exceeding
ly busy. Every night until twelve
o'clock scores Of persons were calling
up and asking where they could get
rooms. "On Tuesday night" said one
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02

ton. This includes roast mutton, roast
beef, oxtails, pork. stewed kidneys, OK
tongue. lamb tongue, ham loaf, veal
loaf. OK marrow and summer sausage.
In all $4,000 cans Of food will be car
ried on the voyage. During the trip
each of the ten explorers will consume
400 pounds Of coffee. II he drinks his
share. The ship will carry two tons of
it and two tons Of sugar.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
WARD OFF FLIRTS IN SHOP
New York Storekeeper Requires All
Girls, Married or Unmarried, to
Wear Wedding Rings.

New York.-All girls, married or un-
married. must wear wedding rings In
certain high-class women's clothing
shop here. Woman customers have
complained that their husbands spend
the time while waiting for them to try
on dresses by flirting with the pretty
sales girls.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
Gave Life to Avert Wreck.

lola, Kan.-Richard Moore, a sec.
ton hand, recently sacrificed his life
here to prevent the wrecking Of Mis-.
souri,. Kansas & Texas passenger train
Hearing the train. he remembered that
he had left some timbers stacked on
the track and ran to remove them. As
he cleared the rails he was struck by
the engine.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02

troubled with cramps and feel like .
different woman. cannot praise
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound too highly and I am recommend
ing it to my friends who suffer as did.
Mrs. GEORGE R. NAYLoR, Box 72,
Marysville, Pa
Young women who are troubled with
painful or irregular periods, backache,
headache, dragging-down sensations,
fainting spells or indigestion should
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Thousands have been re-
stored to health by this root and herb
remedy.
Write for free and helpful advice to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. ICON
fidentiaD, Lynn, Mass. Only women
open and read such letters.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02

in restaurants. Two young men In Jail
here confess they stole As overcoats of
diners in downtown restaurants. With
their apprehension the police hoped
the thefts would stop, but they keep up
at about the usual rate. A special
squad of detectives has been assigned
to combat this particular form Of de-
pravity. The watch Your Hat and
Coat" sign crop Is blooming.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
ARCTIC SUPPLIES BY THE TON
Amundsen, the Explorer, Adds 600
Pounds ~ Candy and Many
Delieacies.

Chicago.-Roald Amundsen, the ex-
plorer. ordered for his six-year trip in
the Arctic 600 pounds Of candy and
quantities of ripe olives, sweet pickles.
picked pigs feet. dried fruits. nuts and
apple butter.
A ton of meat has been purchased
for each of the ten men In the expedi-
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02

Above is shown the oldest known
Christian bell in the world. 1t was
cast at Santiago, Spain, in 1247, and
bears Latin inscription which trans
lated reads: james. Jesus Christ,
Mary. Quintana and Salvador made
me in the year of our Lord 1247."
The bell is owned by an innkeeper
of Riverside. Cal. who has one of the
greatest collections of bells in the
world. 1t was discovered in London
foundry. and after a great deal of
trouble was brought to this country.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
TRIES TO LIVE ON
CENTS A DAY

Dover, O.-Davis Gartman.
age sixty-three, worth $4,000,
died as result of being under
nourished, according to physi-
clans who have been attending
him. Gartman was a noted ex-
pOnent Of cheap living. On
one occasion he won a valuable
prize for the best article on
"HOw to Live Cheaply." For a
long time he is said to have sub
sisted on an allowance of 3
cents day, but since the cost
of living had increased this sum
was increased to 10 cents day.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
TripIets Follow Twine

Terre Haute. Ind.-Mrs. Joseph Mar
cinki, wife of a miner east of the city,
gave birth to triplets and all are doing
well. The mother is thirty-six years
old and the husband forty-seven. A
year ago the mother gave birth 70
twins, who still live. The triplets make
ten living children.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
Won't Let Friends Give Him Star,

Milwaukee. - Sheriff-elect Patrick
McManus has refused to accept dia-
mOnd-studded gold star. Friends of the
sheriff started collection to purchase
the badge. but pat" promptly stopped
1t, saying. THE high cost Of living is
such that the boys need the money"
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
Homes to Newcomers.

Port Washington, Wis.-Port WASH
ington is advertising for help. Warm,
well lighted, fireprOOf and modernly
equipped homes will be provided fam
lilies who will move into the village.
The demand for labor here is unprece-
dented.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
Must Be Profane.

Yeast-I see n Massachusetts man
has a parrot which has a vocabulary
Of seventy-five words.
CrimsOnbeak-I didn't know there
were that many swear words in exist
ence.-Yonkers Statesman.
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02
AWFUL
CRAMPS
Suggestions that may save
Much Suffering
Marysville, Pa.-''For twelve years
suffered with terrible cramps. /

WOulO nave W 64y
in bed several days
every month. I
tried all kinds Of
remedies and was
treated by doctors.
but my trouble con-
tinued until one day
I read about Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and
what it had done for
others. ! tried e
and now I am never
Tensas gazette., 1917-03-02

In Ceylon the largest pearls are
worth 500 to $3.50; in Europe AMI
America they sell at more than thre.
times this price.