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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18

it pleased, providing it Informed Nor
gan & Co. of the character and amount
Of its purchases, such information be-
ing, of course, very necessary, to pre-
vent any overlapping of orders. The
only other points of Importance In the
cOntract-tO which the French govern
ment became a party four or five
months later-were that 1t was term
Unable by either side at any time and
that Morgan & Co. engaged to disclose
the extent of their holdings In any
firm they might recommend to the
British government.
Since the war began the allied gov
ernments have spent In America on
munitions and raw material alone
about $500. OOO, 0OO-rather over half
being for munitions and rather under
half for raw material. Some IS per
cent of this sum, or nearly $2,OOO,OOO,-
600, has been disbursed on the advice
and under the guidance of Morgan &
Co. 1 suppose no firm in the whole
history Of commerce has ever been
placed in such a position or intrusted
with such a task.
The great boom, Of course, Is over.
No new orders for munitions are being
placed here now by the British and
French governments, and very few, If
any, repeat orders. In a few weeks
from now practically all the existing
foreign orders for American munitions
will have run out, though the pur-
chases Of raw material will continue.
We are nearing the end Of one of the
most wonderful chapters in American
industry, and its lessons and its ad-
vantages can be treated now almost
In a historical spirit.
It makes a really great record, and
one on which all Americans may look
with equal gratitude and pride; graft
tude because 1t has been the means of
equipping the nation with some Of the
most vital factors in industrial pre-
paredness, and pride because Ameri-
can manufacturers, when put to the
test of a new and highly technical
business, have justified all that has
ever been said In praise Of their YER
satility, their enterprise, their big and
efficient ways of doing things.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Some men have courage only when
they lose their tempers.
Deposits Of tungsten ore have been
discovered I'm COrea and mines are be-
ing opened.
The HauohtY Master Cecil.

The waywardness of Master Cecil,
a boy of six years, sometimes made 1t
necessary for his mother to use her
slipper. This usually resulted in a
haughtiness of manner and expression
for some hours after Master Cecil had
been ATTENDED to-" One evening his
father came home to discover palpable
proof of the fact that Cecil had been
having private interview with his
mother.
"Well, Cecil. what's the trouble
now?" asked his father.
"YOur wife has been licking me
again, sir" was the reply.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
A TO File Clerks.

John Raymond of Muncie was fie
clerk in the Indiana house of repre-
sentatives. He was approached by a
young woman of his acquaintance,
who askeG, And what does file clerk
do, Mr.. HaymOnd"
"Why. he does just what his title
indicates" responded the young man.
He files things"
"Ah, how plain you make it, she
said. II used to have an uncle in Win
chester who was blacksmith, and he
filed things. but they never called him
a clerk. "-Indianapolis News.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
WALKS rs MILES TO
"DEFEND new YORK"

Newark, N. J.-Hearing that
the Germans were bombarding
New York, Andrew Miller, a
farm hand, dropped his milking
pail and walked IS miles as fast
as he could hike to the marine
recruiting station here.
"Just give me a gum" he told
the recruiting officer. II don't
need a uniform-these overalls
are good enough. Let me draw
a bead on those Prussians and
it's good night to them!"
Miller was quite upset to learn
that the beautiful gilt angel was
still perched on New York's mu-
nicipal building and the Ger
mans hadn't even declared war.
swell, I amt going to hoof
those twenty-five miles bach
again. anyway" said Miller. So
he filled out a recruiting blank,
and soon was on his way to
Charleston, s. G.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Invited Them All.

A little boy asked his mother to let
him have a birthday party. She an
swered, "Yes, If you are good boy
until then" So when the time came
she sent out twenty invitations to his
little schOolmates. When the little
guests arrived. the mother thought she
would count them so as to arrange for
refreshments, and in the meantime
they kept coming one after another.
She said: "Why, BObbie, what have
you done"
''Oh, just invited every little kid
met. so l would get lots of presents"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
But Just as Good.

"Old Mrs. Hardy, who is always get
ting sayings twisted, made funny re-
mark when little Mabel came to the
table with mOlasses round her mouth"
"What did she say?"
"She said: AS the old prOverb has
1t, children should be clean, not
meared.'"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Ashes of Roses,

asked the friend. "She loves you and
would make you happy. WHAT'S the
trouble with herr"
"Her past"
"Her past? And what fault do you
find with her past!"
1.-The length of it."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
USE alfalfa LIKE SPINACH
Superior Court Clerk At Atlanta
Solves the High Cost Of
Living.

Athens, Ga.-E. ]. Crawford, clerk of
the superior court, is solving the high
cost of living and the scarcity Of
green truck" by having alfalfa served
at his table, declaring it a most succu-
lent and palatable substitute for turnip
green's or mustard green's and spinach.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
AIrhabetic ADVANTAGE.

"WhO was the first man?" asked the
teacher.
adam" answered the member Of
congress who had just answered the
roll call. "Or maybe he got the advan-
tage of being mentioned first simply
because his name began with the let
ter A"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18

The tender growth Is gathered and
the roots picked OF, the leaves and
young stems remaining. The alfalfa
is cooked as other green's with little
seasoning meat. A dozen neighbors
have followed Crawford's lead, and are
pleased with the new edible.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Easily Done.

ut is all very well to talk about
these plOdding fellows, but 1 want
some way of rising in the world quick"
That's easy, son. Just smoke over
the gasoline tank"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
"REAlIY, NOW

Il can't take that. l must have Red
Cross Ball Blue. l have used it for
more than ten years. My white
dresses. linens and lace curtains are
snowy white. l simply can't do with
out Red Cross Ball Blue. You will get
It? All right, Ill wait."-Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Its Sort.

Harry is very ardent in his profess
sions of deviation, but 1 am afraid to
trust a lovers devotion"
That's right. Most of it is only lip
service"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
ey SYDNEY BROOKS.
New York TimesO

New York.-America enters the
great war better equipped on the In
dustrial side than at any moment OF
her history. Yet when 1T broke out
she was virtually innocent OF the art
of making munitions. OF all that vast
industry, which today employs capiiai
by the hundred million and men Dy
the hundred thousand, there was, 81
months ago, practically no trace what
ever.
A few companies here and there
were engaged in the manufacture OF
war material as a side line to their
normal business; and that was about
all.
Thanks to the war orders OF the
British government, America the I'M
ready is America the unready no
longer. Indeed, when l think of Beth
lehem, with its output of SOO,OOo COM
plete three-inch shells a month; OF
the DUPONT company. with. an annual
production Of 375.000OOO pounds OF
military powder. Of the Baldwin Lo-
cOmOtlVe COlIpuliy, WHiSh 10 eui
out 500 Pinch shells day; of the
American Locomotive company, which
is making 100000 loaded time fuses
a month-an incredibly intricate COM
ponent of which when the war began
1t knew nothing whatever; of the Mid
vale Steel company, which Is equally
at home with hOwitzers and light and
heavy shells; of the great rifle factO-
ries at Bridgeport, lion, Eddystone,
and elsewhere. which have now ca
pacity of $4,000 rifles day-about III
or II times the output of the govern
ment arsenals; of the $4,000 90 shells
a month, representing from 10000 to
$4,000 tons of steel, and filling ten
freight cars day, that one firm is
manufacturing; of the 20 other firms
that are turning out each from 1900
to $4,000 shells a month in all the
heavy grades between 6-inch and r.
inch, and of the 1,25O,OOO loaded time
fuses month that are likewise being
produced here-when l think of these
and many similar achievements, / am
tempted to say that the war has been
not only the commercial but the mill
tary salvation Of America.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
A Universal Eavorite.

'WhO is your favOrite writer?" she
asked sweetly, in order to get CONVEX
satiOn moving right along.
"The guy who signs my pay checks. y
responded the mercenary brute.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18

WHY HAVE cHlLLS AND FEVER?
plantation" Chill Tonic Is guaran-
teed and will do the work in a week.
Your money cheerfully refunded by
dealers if it fails after giving 1t q
proper trial. Price 50c.-Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Princess Offers 70 Fly,

Los Angeles, Cal.-Princess Indita,
daughter Of a wealthy tribal chief and
an enthusiastic aviatrice. has offered
her services to the government In event
Of war. She owns q Martin biplane.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
COVETED Az ALL

but possessed by few-a beautiful
head Of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re-
store it to its former beauty and lus-
ter by using LA Creole" Hair Dress
ing. Price $1.OO.-Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
clinical COURAGE,

"Why is it that Indians are more
stOical i'm the face of death than white
men?"
Il suppose it is because Indians have
always liked to dye"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
cI.Ims Three Cane Of Jewels.

Marysville. Cal.!Three cans Of jew
elry found recently In the crevice Of q
rock in the hills near Wheatland BY a
trapper were claimed BY A. A. Renting
Of Southside, Omaha, In q letter to the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Different

Mrs. Skinn-Tell the gentleman I'm
not receiving today, Mary.
Mary-He amt deliverin', ma'am (;
he's cOllectin'.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Naturally.

Minnie-DO you think that the good
die young?
JOseph-If they don't, where are
they?
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Help!

"Can you send dog by parcel
pOst?" asked the Old FOgy. "Yes,"
replied the Crouch. "YOu can If 1t Is
male"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Clever GEORGE.

Mabel-Oh, George, they say the
moon is q dead body.
GeOrge-Awright, les sit up with
the corpse.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Walked of With II.

~"This dog took first prize at the cat
show" "HOw's that?" "Well, he took
the cat"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18

sheriff. Renting said he was making
a trip from Sacramento to his home in
1895 and that he had the jewels with
him. Fearing he would be robbed, he
said, he hid them In the hillside and
was never able to return to retrieve
them.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Aliens Foot. Ease for the Troops.

The antiseptic powder to be shaken into the
shoes or used in the footbath. Young men In
every community are using Aliens Foot-Ease
in their drills for Military Preparedness. Used
by the Allied, French and English troops be-
cause it rests the feet, takes the friction from
the shoe and makes walking easy.-Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18

Pimples, boils, carbuncles, dry up and
disappear with Doctor Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. In tablets or liquid.
Adv
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18

Il a x H o - d.
A digestive liquid laxative, cathartic ana lives
tonic. Combines strength with palatable, aromatic
taste. Does not grippe or disturb stomach. 10
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18

Many woman has lost an arden
admirer by marrying him.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18
Demand for Machines.

OCWdUO WaSUiuCos
The first effect Of the war was to
raise among the manufacturers in the
allied nations a hungry demand for
machines to make the munitions. The
found themselves on sudden swamp
ed with orders. 1t was the first trick
ling of the stream that was soon to
become an unprecedented, overwhelm-
ing flood. Very quickly the allies dis
covered that, even II they could get
the tools, their own manufacturing re-
sources would not for many crucial
months, possibly not for year or
more, enable them to Overtake Ger
many's enormous lead. The call for
American tools was followed there
fore with another and wider call for
the American finished product, for
American guns, American rifles, shells,
cartridges. and powder. There en-
sued a literally frantic scramble for
anything America could produce in
the way Of war material and equip
ment. not merely for munitions but
for foOdstuffs, wagons, tools, shirts,
blankets, barbed wire, horses, motor
cars, trucks and lorries, railway ties,
canteens, harness and saddles, cotton
and knit goods, OvercOats.
And this cataract of orders came
pouring over the American continent
just at a time when all the signs
pointed to period of severe CONNER
cial depression. Its effects were felt
not merely by the firms that actually
received the orders. but by an extra
ordinary variety of contributOry in
dustries. In the last year, while going
over some of the principal munitiOn
factories in the United States, 1 have
been struck by nothing more forcibly
than by the extent to which the man
ufacture Of military material is inter
twined with and dependent upon the
productive energy Of innumerable 9TH
| er industries and interests.
All Sections Drawn Upon.
Take, for instance. a concern like
the Midvale Steel company Of Penn
ton business on a large scale and Sc
cured contracts for guns, shells. and
rough fOrgings, it's first care was to
provide itself with new facilities. II
needed buildings; it needed machine
| tools, and it secured the country to
get them; 1t needed lathes and drill
presses, grinding and milling ma
chimes, forging presses and blooming
mills; II needed electric cranes, by.
draulic pumps, heating furnaces, draw
benches. electric motors, generators
and boilers; and it needed ores and
minerals in prodigious quantities. On
these and q thousand other neces
saries it authorized IN immediate ex
penditure of some S6,OOO,0OO. and t.
trace where the money went you
would have to travel from New Eng
land to Oregon and from Georgia tC
North Dakota.
Or to go to one of the colossal rifle
factories such as have been erected
at Eddystone, a few miles outside OF
Philadelphia; at Bridgeport, Conn.
and at IliOn, N. Y. Ask them where
they bought their raw material and
machinery, and you will receive In re
ply a comprehensive lesson In the geo
graphy of the United States.
When, therefore, war orders began
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-05-18

the corpse
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
WEATHER MODERATES
AFTER MIDNIGHT
Prospect Up to Then that Low Mark Of
Two Previous Nights Would Be
Exceeded Light Snowfall.

When that horrid weather man shut.
ilcd up his 80 varieties during the night
he dealt cut an eight spot to Brattle.
boro for il was just that below the
cipher scratch according to Ferris r.
Vaughan $ recording thermometer at
his house this morning. Other Their
mometcrs, however, including the one
~ Vaughan Burnett IS store, which
showed L. AZ midnight, registered a
much lower mark and about town gen.
orally IL was lu to ~ beneath the zero
point. Tie air was sharp aud took
hold Of one 3 fingers, toes and ears with
n vim. Before morning, however, there
was q little moderation and light fall
of snow. During the first half of the
night there was every prospect that the
low mark of The previous two nights,
which was l3 below, would bc exceeded,
hut the moderation came just in time
81 prevent that.
Perhaps the cold wave is breaking
M. but IL is very slow iu doing SO. It
IS Just the kind of weather that brings
out not only heavy wearing apparel but
weather strips, double doors and double
Windows for houses and business places.
There is no particular enjoyment III
feeling the cold chils race up and down
the spinal column while they are being
put ON. however. While il warmed mp
n bit towards noon there is "a lot of
chance for improvement.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
ROASTING DOESN'T PAY.
III the Long Run it Injuries Ones
Standing with His Fellows.

odd, lsn il. how the simplest things
III nature can preach lessons a dee;, as
life itself how birds. fowls, animals.
exhibit laeSt of the characteristics OF
man himself
In poultry yard within the limits
Of Milwaukee is a little old hen that
has not laid an egg for months. And as
II conscious OF her fpathered frailty,
She has attempted to conceal her weak
ness by pretending she is one of the
best layers in the barn yard Let any
hon lay an EGG and leave the nest and
this one cackles the loudest and the
longest of any in the neighborhood.
One who watches her can I help be
ing reminded Of many men and women,
who brag loud and long of the attain
ments OF others as if they themselves
were the ones to he praised and had
done the good deeds.
One Is inclined to doubt if Boosting
Is ever good thing, if it IS not always
foolish. even though one has something
OF which to be proud. If one boast ;
OF wealth, or what one possesses, the
mere fact of mentioning it results gen
| orally III lowered estimation of the one
| speaking. If one feels one should have
credit for ability to acquire wealth,
one will be far more likely to be given
! that credit If one keeps still and does
not shout aloud the claim. Ii il be
beauty, 4 modest, unpretentious bear
ing will bring more admiration. If it
| DC handsomeness of dress or appear
ance, mention Of the fact immediately
arouses resentment and comparisons
with others, possibly Of better appear
ance. If 1t be personal ability, it will
be quite as quickly discovered and ap-
preclated If one makes less pretension
After all, the individual good quail
ties each one of us has do not amount
4 to much when viewed impartially. They
amount to still less when one tells OF
them oneself. Ii Of value, one 5 gooc
qualities will be quickly discovered anC
appreciated. Deeds alone speak best
The boaster shows himself little by
: his mere act OF calling attention t
his supposed strong qualities.-Mll
iwauEee Journal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
Air Reyolves With Earth.

"a balloon is sent up at New York
city on an absolutely calm day, re-
mains in the air for one hour, drifting
in thc moderate currents of the upper
air, and descending a few miles from
the plac" from which it was sent up.
How is it that tae place of descent is
not some spot adjacent to Chicago, if
the theory of the earth s revolution is
correct - This problem was pro-
pounded in a letter TO the Scientific
American, and received this answer:
The simple answer to your inquiry is
that the air is part of the earth and
rotatcs with il just as the water does.
Ii it did not there would hc trcmond-
Gus wind from the east of nearly 900
miles IN hour ut the equator, and
about 800 miles in our latitude. This
is apparent if YOU recall the wind
which iS felt when going swiftly
through Still air on . car. The air is
held upon the earth by gravity and
constitutes a part Of the revolving
globe in a very real sense.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
WEST BRATTLEBOR0

Mrs. Olive Carpenter is seriously i'll
and Miss Grace NanGumstcr, graduate
nurse, is caring for her.
Mrs. John Wood has not been in her
usual health the past few days and has
been confined to the bed.
Mrs. Alonzo r. stowe, who has been
i'll several months and under the care
Of physician, has been little i'm
proved this week.
Evelyn, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Austin Nichols, is i'll with tonsilitis
and was obliged to return to her home
during school hours, Tuesday.
The women Of the Baptist society
are holding a rummagc sale, which will
continue tomorrow, i'll the vacant store
in the wilkins building on Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Perry, who
recently moved to this village from
Greenfield, are moving this week back
to Greenfield. Mr.. Perry has been en-
ploycd by Warren l.. Walker.
Baptist church, Rev /. VI. Compton
pastor Morning worship at 1890 with
sermon b. the pastor. Sunday school
Pat Has. Evening service at 40, Mrs.
a. +. Eddy, leader. Subject, Christ
Our Peace. Midwcek prayer meeting
Wednesday evening at 7.30.
FIRST Congregational church, Rev. \.
V. Woodworth minister. sunday, Dee.
rs: Morning worship at 1890. Miss
Il. Eliza Sessions, representative Of tac
Kmu iiattm Homes, will speak on the
work of the Homes. Sunday school at
ll.4j. Christian Endeayor at : 0 clock.
Subject, National Ideals. Peace or War
Which! Leader, T.. \. Knight
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-13
ERIEF AND BRIGHT.
Tersc and Fulgent Observations, Most
Iy Touching oil Current Events

Food conservation will reduce waste
also waist.
Women as beautiful as ANY i'm the
world, but most of them not wearing
clothes enough 10 flag train, - is what
Ten Mercer, nephew of the late Presi-
dent Arthur. observes in Philadelphia.
Speaking of the eternal fitness OF
things. the .Achisou Globe is glad To
note that two taxi passengers the other
night reversed the usual order and
robbed the driver.
4 delegate 10 the annual convention
ct the Brotherhood OF 81. Andrew calls
thi, the cocktail age. At - cents
per this age is passing rapidly away.
When three.cent postage comes, fu-
thcf will have another excuse for not
mailing the letter mother told him not
90 forget.
Germany scizcs steel, cables Cop.
cnhagcn. This in addition 10 all she s
getting from the mouths of French
and British cannon.
On the kgg which karicd the King
man kounty koutingcnt to kamp Fun.
ston, Missouri, was lnoted this ban.
ner: "kingman kounty Kaiser Katch'
ers Albany TimesUnion.