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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-13
THE COMPLETE LETTER WRITER

To the Editor Of ;he Polcmens Monthly;
few words 10 MI II. K. Albany Of NY for crtcsne you
for your editorial condenning bad habit OF tobacco chewing
think is wise for policemen officer or pattTonan 10 aooi
sing the habit II II is true stronger look what KIND OF
o,,,olr,n ire Citv have he new Place
what kind Of inpressen would he from man what wue
directing the rc he spit right and LETT at the same TINE
b, turns the stop and 20 drinking have not pomott any
man on the force either have chewing smoking nave
abolished all and have compared with what nave
gained Be without
(sgned) w CARLSON, Minneapolis Police
The Fifth Avenue peasantor to ride IN than the
subway cars m the new plan Of the bus chaufcurs to keep Their
buses far FROM the curb about to become danger Ho"eoo|
houd tell the traffic legislators about It,
THE 1NFALLIBLE HUMAN MEMORY
Sir strcbtcn out that OF The Easiest Way I'm
gong Rcctor- time and then I'm gong TO nell
Sr:As recall The Easiest Way" film it read Doll me up
Annie. I'm going to Montmarre and He'll 0"l'N
Sir hasten to correct you well f. and S B. B. The
line Of The Easiest Way" s I'm going to Rector tonight
snake hit and then to he'll afterwards ~ l. lie
Sir: Ny records show last line of 1.-The Easiest way 10
lie this Bella! Bella! Doll me up! Doll me up 10 Kcc'oI
nt to hell with the rest"
who were by the Efficiency Chart recently pun
a@d column viii be delighted to learn '@' SCH ~
la Chart will be printed tomorrow-Advt.
But now" said Mr. Lloyd George yesterday I'VE nave e0
nbck stroke and we right out onto the course
la cartoonos Uncle Sam shouting Fore! 10 inc N''''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-13
The Gimlet Double Octette

Even our athalctic young man says he is lerl.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-13

Since We picked Yanks win the pennan they have lost
v two games And the Harvard Princeton Michigan ana
r-neu football teams will tell you do worse
# We really DO Our Bit for the l. : A-and we
ally do we shall bet that Germany wins the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-13

The final impression left one says the Philadelphia Even
mo Ledger critic Of musical matters. speaking of The Cat and
The Cbub' els of ehetic satisfaction in swift and not
little WORK Let u.s. therefore. give Leon the composer mt
rather than the critic Lcons work was as you might
saw too swift and hot TO handle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-13

There was nothing do last night but read exchanges Inc
rt papcr to he read the Manchester w. Journal ana
inst as we were about up the nney-Second palladium we
d ~ and Mrs Sleep have been spending Sunday the vii
age And then: Monday morning daughter to Mr.
and Mrs Wideawake
~. ~ .ho o-e could zee toward PaLk Street" the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-13

AS far a. the eve could toward Palk SUeeI saws e
Bop Traveller men and the former uncovered were
singing Dear, dear these conventional Boston women!
1T was sea eyes adds the Traveller "a meadow OF hun""
hair Raising flags and metaphors, observes Nr' "''n
lacaye.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-02-23

GIRL OF SIX MAKES TRIP IN
 GERMAN SUB

COPENHAGEN, Thursday, Feb. 22.-Solveig Jacobson, a little six year old Norwegian girl is the first to take q long trip on war sub marine. She has just landed here from Holland after a six day voyage on one Of Germany's underSea fighters with her father, who was captain of a Norwegian ship sunk by the sub.
 Capt. Isaiah Jacobson had his daughter with him aboard the freight CT of which he was skipper and when he was warned to cult his ship by the submarine commander he megaphOned that he had child aboard who would not be able to survive the trip in life boats in the winter weather. The captain of the sub ordered him to come alongside and took Jacobson and his daughter aboard, where they lived during the remaining six days before the submarine returned to port.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-02-23
WOLF HUNTER IS
 VICTIM OF PACK
 WHEN DOGS FLED

GOLD HILL, Ore.-(Spec,aI--A mans scattered bones, his empty rifle and the remains of three tims e" wolves, found on Evans creek, Jack son county, told grim story, it is believed, of a fatal struggle in which John HammerSley missing govern ment hunter, was torn to shreds by a pack of hungry wolves, but only af- ter he had killed three of the animals. News of the discovery, which was made about mile from Hammers ley's camp by timbermen, was brought here.
 In the clearing in the willows, where the bones were found, the ground was torn up giving evidence of terrific struggle. The hunters clothes were ripped to ShredS and hiS bones were licked clean. Indications were that the fight occurred not long ago.
 A posse, which has been searching for HammerSley, believes the bones are HammerSley'S, as no other trace of him or his pack of hounds has been found.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-02-23

should appeal to the postal authorities without their attention being called to it. But it appears that no i'm provements in mail service can be se- cured in Alaska without strenuous eff forts on the part of the citizens in- terested. This is we'll illustrated in the case of Fairbanks. where continu- al agitation has resulted in awarding emergency contracts which insure the delivery of "all the mail all the time" to that city. Some concerted effort should be made by the citizens here to call the attention of the de- partment to the ridiculously made ouate service furniShed.-(PiOneer.)
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-02-23
IDITAROD AFTER INCREASE IN
 WINTER MAIL
Present Allotment is Not Commensurate With
 Districts Needs

IDITAROD.-ConSiderable diSsatiS- faction has been expressed since the inception of the winter mail service with the niggardly allotment which is consigned to this city and district The delivery of the mail has been rather irregular, but no complaint has been made on this score, because the weather conditions have not been such as to warrant the expectation of fast time being made Indeed, so Seve7~ has been the wintc- so far that the residents hcroabouyS may consider themselves fortunate that ;he deliver ics have been ever so ;t1mpt as has been the case,
 But in the nate" ot ;he amolht of mail consigned to tEis district there Is just complaint. Prior to the going into effect of the Seward-Iditaroc snail contract the mail for this diS- trict was carried over the route from Fairbanks to Ruby and thence down the Yukon to Kaltag, thence to Dis kaket and thence to Dikeman and Iditarod. The route followed was much farther than the present one from tidewater and consequently consumed more time. But it was seldom that the conSignmentS for the Iditarod consisted of less than the 400 pounds provided for in the contract.
 The present contract calls for 275 pounds of mail to leave Anchorage, which allotment serves Knik, Susitna, Tokotna. Ophir, Iditarod and Flat. But this is not all The adjoining Tolstoi district, which has no poSv- office as yet, k also supplied from this point. By the time the mail reaches Iditarod it has dwindled to inSigniti- cant proportions, the last three mails consisting of but PTS, &75 and 255 pounds respectively, which includes both Iditarod and Flat allOtments.
 AS a consequence second-class mat ter addressed to residents of this dis trict must be accumulated at Seward in great quantities, as few periodicals for October, and scarcely any outside newspaper for that month, have ye' reached here.
 The amount of mail received here this winter so far even less than that received last year, because of the fact that Ophir, which last least year was served entirely by the Ruby Tokotna contract, is this year served by the Seward -Iditarod route, and as there was no increase in the weight limit, the result has been to decrease the amount of mail received by Idita- rod and Flat.
 It should not be necessary to appeal to those in authority for relief from this intolerable condition. The fact that this community receives sucn an insignificant amount of mail weekly
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-02-23
WEIRD BALL
 TOSSER STUNG
 YANKS' OWNERS
Other Side of Contracts on Players Told by an
 Eastern Writer
(By Bulger)

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Probably the toughest contract that a ball club ever had to swallow was cancelled when the Tanks gave Ed Sweeney his un- conditional release. They also gave Ray Heating a free ticket, but the fig ures in his paper were not nearly so much of a mouthful.
 Sweeney got the toe hold on the Tanks the first year of trouble with the then rising Federal League. Gill more and his fellow revolutionists had been flirting with Sweeney about leaving organized baseball, and Frank Farrell, then owner of the Tanks, grew frightened. He wired to Ban Johnson, in Chicago, to get on the job. Sweeney, despite the fact that he was slipping as player, nicked them for a three-year contract call ing for $S,0OO year.
 Acquired the Contract
 When Col. Ruppert and Capt. Illus ton bought the Tanks they also ac- ouired Sweeney'S contract, with two years to run. They did not want Sweeney at all, but there was the pa per! Big Ed had gone back consider ably and they farmed him out to minor league club and paid the diff ference in salary between $2,5OO and SS.OOO without any comeback at all. Again and again they offered to buy out Sweeney, but he would listen to no propositions. He would play ball or do whatever they wanted, but he insisted on his $S,OOO a year.
 In their two years of ownership this single contract, of no use to them whatever, cost the colonel and the captain $1l,OOO in cold cash. They did not even see the player, but sent him bi-monthly checks for playing in a minor league.
 The contract is now up, and Capt. Huston came all the way from Dover Hall. Ga, to celebrate it's passing out of existence.
 In the mean time Sweeney has used the extra money to purchase a garage business in Chicago, and that, in ad- dition to his political activities, is making him quite comfortable.
 The moral of this is that the ball players are not always the slaves with their noses to the grindstone. For an indiscretion of their predecessors the present owners of the Tanks have coughd up exactly $11,OOO in cash with no comeback.
 The Heating contract was not so deadly. It did not have long to run, but it called for $5,OOO. He has been given his unconditional release, and though he cost $S,OOO the club is left with an empty bag to hold.
 When Keating first came in from the New England League, heraided as the worlds greatest spitball pitch CT, Frank Farrell thought he had a uennant sure. He outbid all other competitors to get Heating and paid ssOOO for his release. The big fel- low has never been able to do any thing of real value to the club.
 Next to Heating the most foolish outlay of money known to New York baseball was the payment of $75OO for an outfelder by the name of Me loney. This young fellow got his chance the first day, and the old-time fans still remember how he was urged to wear a mask for fear of fly bali knocking his brains out by hitting him in the head.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-02-23

Fresh Butterkist popcorn at the KEY. tf
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-02-23

City Express. Phone Main 122.
Arizona republican., 1917-08-20
FIRST U-BOAT TO SINK WARSHIP

The Confederate submarine, the Huxley, the first submarine to the time of the Japanese war that ever destroyed battle ship It structed of boiler iron and had a of eight Her baastng system the used by Bush nell in his Turtle at the time of the Revolution. crank shaft ran the length of the boat and the turned it and thus propelled the boat. There officer stationed in each coming tower-fore aft
 Upon the first attempt to dive this boat lost with her whole The boat in awash position and had left the dock when excursion boat passed setting up wash which passed through open hatch and flooded the boat The boat later raised and equipped with torpedo-a broom carried forward, the end of which small tact mine. The mine was to be exploded against the side of the ship attacked.
 Unfortunately of their trials they became entangled with some growth the bottom, and the man power of the propeller not sufficient back the boat out. When they found the boat at the end of the week, of course, the all dead Later another test made, but the lieutenant in the for ward coming tower stumbled and knocked the diving rudder control causing the boat suddenly dive while the coming tower open and all hands again perished.
 Finally, on February IT. 1863, Lieutenant Dickson of the Confederate navy decided attack with his boat the Housatonic Union sloop war then block ading Charleston harbor. He started out with eight men, and they got within couple of hundred feet before they were discovered when the sentry gave the alarm and fired at the boat It close then to sheer her off, and couple of seconds later the torpedo exploded against the Housatonc she went down. The Huxley went down also, because her hatchway was open.-Johp P. Holland Jr, in the Scientific American Supplement
Arizona republican., 1917-08-20
The Science of Espionaqe

The best of governments sometimes require the services of the worst of men, on the principle prob ably it takes crook to catch crook. In one of the most remarkable chapters in the whole history Of espionage just ended in Rome this theory has been successfully demonstrated the incident incidentally furnishing sidelight of Itays peculiar diff faculties in conducting against her former part ners in the Triple Alliance It appears that the Roman agent of the Austro- German spy system in Italy was highly placed ecclesiastic the Vatican whose connections with Vienna in peace time had naturally been numerous and intimate. From that vantage point he spun his webs all Italy being connected frontier with office in Vienna door the German embassy. The Italian intel lgence service contrived months ago to obtain the papers from the Vennese office by the remark able expedent of releasing the two ceverest burglars in the Italian prisons and inducing them by pardon and the promise of large monetary reward to turn trick in the office in question. Their success placed in the hands of the Italian government full information; and it only remained catch the dis closed traitors in Italy, and bring them to trial The chief consprator warned teegraphicaly from Vienna also the guiltiest of his associates But others captured received heavy sentences, of them selling military the enemy others for receiving large bribes to ant-war newspapers The developments of the trial made plain a ter heretofore obscure namely the of Berlns and Venna's marvellous information concerning Italian secrets of the utmost military and diplomatic importance, for web of espionage absolutely unique in ingenuity and thoroughness diclosed and has doubtless been broken up beyond repair.
Arizona republican., 1917-08-20

Europe. In trousers she is making shells and run ming street and cleaning streets. In pants she is making a lot of look if they ought to be in skirts. She has legs and is using them for the advancement of her sex, in the fight to make the world safe for democracy; make the world better and to salvage the wrecks of
 Even before the women had given us reason to suspect that their underpnning bore least some resemblance that of their brothers. As much might have been inferred from what saw along the seashore in the bathing well as rom the constant shrnkage of the bottom of the skirt above the encroachmen of the rising, ambitious and ornate shoe- top and wing of both ends of the dress, top ard the bottom to efface themselves into nothingness The Portales editor can see lot of things to him if he will only keep his eyes open and look around
Arizona republican., 1917-08-20
Do We Want the kaiser

Is it possible that this country is really bluffing ard does not want the kaiser after all? Anyway that is what Pennsylvania thinks. He tried to enlist and rejected because he forty The government believes it has not yet reached stage at which it needs such soldiers though prob ably little later will be glad to get them and will be reaching after them.
 Then this Pennsylvanian offered his services as spy. He would impose upon himself the task of going to Berlin Potsdam wherever the kaiser may be hiding out and would bring him into camp
 Still this proposition has not been accepted It begins to look if conspiring for the safety or the kaiser when we stubbornly decline such schemes to get him into possession.
Arizona republican., 1917-08-20
FIVE WAYS TO SAVE
 FOOD SUCGESTEDBY
 HERBERT $. HOOVER

Five vital things for food consumers to remember, accordingto Herbert Hoover, federal food administrators, are:
 Eat one Wheatless meal a day
 Eat beef, pork or mutton not more than once a day
 Economize in the use of butter.
 Cut down the daily use of sugar in coffee. tea and other things consumed
 Eat more fruit, vegetables and fish.
 The Phoenix chamber of commerce has received the above information from Washington. A chamber of com merce in Oklahoma has incorporated these suggestions in a printed circular which is to receive general circulation.
 The suggestions are based upon conditions that are scheduled to prevail in the United States next winter, when the drain on foodstuffs, due to the war is felt by the American people. It is already predicted by the government that the supply of wheat will be very limited by Christmas It is predicted also that wheat may be entirely off the market, or so high that the ordinary consumer cannot buy 1t. These sug- gestions are given as a sort of hint that the people had better economize now and thus, perhaps, avoid a short age later in the year, or early next year. when it is too cold to raise any, thing.
Arizona republican., 1917-08-20
A Shocked Editor

man who sequestrates himself nearly all of his waking hours in a closed sanctum, whose recreation is attending weekly services at church or prayer meetings of the midweek whose associations are only with the gody and who is seldom brought into con tact with the frvoty of the world is not unnaturaly shocked at things which suddenly burst upon his vision.
 The editor of the Portales (N M) Journal is or has been behind the times. He has just seen and cannot yet abide the spectacle of tourist ladies in pants-to be explicit in overalls shocks his mod esty it suffuses his cheeks with burning bushes it calls forth stern rebuke Alas that he should have lived to the day that ladies bipeds become bfurcated and brazeny let be to an appalled, citizenry that they have legs. It was not so in the olden days when the Portaes editor into hiding No one then ungentlemanly and unchivalrous as to suspect that woman kind constructed on the perambuatory principles as man. It would have been horrible suspect that she could wear pants if she wished to.
 We might well break it finally to the cloistered editor of the old school that womens pants have come to stay That woman is biped has been pretty well blazoned over the globe The old superstition has been busted wide open In overalls is over all
Arizona republican., 1917-08-20
Married Men and the Draft

The statement in dispatch yesterday that let ter from the president to Senator Weeks was n- terpreted as an indication that he approved the emption of any of family who had married merely escape military duty" probably mslead- ing It is certainly contrary to the reiterated orders of the provost marshal general exemption boards and contrary the expressed spirit conscrip- ton act An amendment exemptng married men had been defeated Unless this interpreted view of the president should be incorporated in a later order from the provost marshal general of it will be ignored by the exemption boards
 All will agree that the responsibilities of married men class greater than those of single men, that their home ties are closer; that their going would keener and widespread sorrow That has all been threshed and admitted the congress in enacting the conscription law and the provost marshal general in interpreting it have be- heved that it would be impossible to raise army 2,OO00OO men from the registration list without taking married men who leave dependents This belief has been further emphasized by orders rgidy defin- ing dependency a in Which the dependents would become public charges
 If married excluded in many of the registration districts would impossible to raise the first quota total registration to say nothing of the second and third quotas contemplated in the conscrption In this district for instance
 
 our quota. not deducting exemptions for reason or another is not complete. Many the claims for exemption the ground of dependency must be allowed. There will be exemptions for indus trial agricultural and other Some of the men who have been accepted may not be able to pass the army test for physical fitness. Altogether we may expect to find the list of accepted as it now stands considerably reduced
 In Pima county the exemption board had adopted a plan of its which has been shown to the board to be plainly illegal in that it accepted men out of the order in which they had been drawn was pro- posed there to for the quota, first single men, and after that many married men as might be necessary
 If the president has been correctly interpreted it is plain that he is familiar as Provost Marshal General Crowder with the difficulty of securing first G87,OO0 men and after that total of 1000 000
 Again, it would be difficult in most cases impos- sble, to determine who had married to escape the draft. There has been and could be no law prohibit ing marriage because draft was going to be made There would have been a certain number of mar riages if there had been war The number within the last four months has been surprisingly large No doubt many married to escape the draft but we imagine there are very few in which that could be proved the satisfaction of an exemp- ton board.
Arizona republican., 1917-08-20
YEARBOOK VALUABLE
 ID ARIZONA FARMERS

The yearbook of the department of agriculture for 1916, just issued, con- talns much information that is valu able not only to experienced farmers and stockraisers but to those who are new in the back to the soil" move ment, which is gaining great headway owing to the high prices for food stutfs caused by the European war.
 Among the numerous special articles in the yearbook the water users in the Salt River and Yuma valleys will find discussion of Agriculture on Gov ernment Reclamation Projects to be of great interest. The ockmasters of northern Arizona may likewise read with profit an instructive article en- titled. Progress in Handling the Western Wool Clip"
 Opening up the National Forests by Road Building" is subject directly
 ffecting not only those who reside within the reserves but every one else n Arizona who owns a touring car.
 The dry farmers who are attempting to supplement the rainfall by install ing pumps, will find many practical suggestions in a well written artic e entitled, Pumping for Irrigation on the Farm" by Paul E. Fuller, an irrigation engineer of the department of agri- culture, whose home is at Mesa.
 Copies of the 1916 yearbook may be obtained, upon request, from Carl Hayden, congressman from Arizona, Washington, D. c.