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The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
RACES ARE MIXED In MALTA
One Month on the British Island Gives
Glimpse Into Social Life Of All
Nations Of Europe.

There are many places on the east
ern sea routes where you will find a
varied and colorful society Of all ma
tons, but the British island of Malta
Is probably the most interesting on the
list. A month at Malta is a glimpse
into the social life of all the nations Of
Europe, and local product that is
unique blend and composite Of the diff
ferent elements. Two centuries ago q
travelling Englishman noted how the
various nationalities had rubbed in
contact until you find no provincial
popularity of any sort whatever in
noticeable degree" and the condition
today Is rather more so than less.
The island has long been a refuge
for people from all over Europe, fee
ing from disturbances at home, and it
IL generally the idle and cultured
classes who have both the means and
the reasons to fee from such disturb
ances. Thus many of the Maltese who
are now classed as natives have such
diverse strains as Irish, French, Rus
sian and Turkish in their blood. Under
the Knights of Malta the island offered
haven to political refugees from
Spain and Italy and under later rule it
was sought by many aristocrats fleeing
from the consequences OF the Ma
poleonic campaigns.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
AMONG THE SCOUTS.

Every member Of Troop 8, San MI
guel, CAL, Jack Lash, scoutmaster, has
a garden and is growing enough to feed
a soldier, with something left over.
These Scouts began planting in Febru-
ary and had begun to count their har-
vest when heavy frost about the first
Of May unset their calculations. New
ertheless they are making good. Each
Scout has from one-eighth to q full
acre of ground under cultivation.
1t required self-sacrifice for Troop
4 Of Far Rockaway, N. Y, to give $50,
which it had raised for the purchase
Of a wireless outfit, for the use Of
families made needy by the war. New
ertheless, the motion received the
unanimous support of the troop.
The Boy Scout is no idler, he Is no
shirker, no drone. In camp life, afield
and in the deep woods and on the roll
Ing plains the Boy Scout is able to
take care Of himself. He is a student
Of nature, philosopher who reads the
destinies of men IN the monarchs Of
the forest and the smooth-runaing
brook
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29

were hit. Bullets sang all about. Some
one hanging on the running board was
hit, and cried as he dropped off. AS
the slope became less steep, overlook
and passed an ammunition timber, with
the team-minus driver-in full flight
toward the rear.
A mile or so farther on we found
hastily improvised hospital, where I
delivered my load.
"Wounded2" asked an orderly as I
drove up.
Eyes" I answered. Gall but one,"
and turned to look back at him.
81 stopped one, coming up the hill,"
he said, with grin. II stopped one
proper, I did," And he opened his
tunic and showed me q blood-soaked
side. "Might have got you if I hadn't
been there" he added, $50 perhaps it
was just as well. I couldn't have
brought the others back in this thing"
And he grinned again.
"Good luck, son." I said, with lump
in my throat.
His teeth were set as he was borne
away. by two orderlies, but the corners
of his mouth twitched in another half
smile, and he said:
'Thanks. Don't you worry about me.
I'm all right. It's nothing"
I have often thought Of him since,
and hoped that he came through in
good shape. His spirit was so very,
very fine youths Companion.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29

was Heiping myself to some lobster
salad a spiny-tailed gazeka bit me on
the right knee, while q double-horned
flying gOoZog stung me on the left leg.
AS l sprang into the air with a wild
yell heard fearful scream and saw
the rector's wife go over into the
ditch. Really l don't know what hap
pened afterward, except that the rec
tor called me villain and everyone
said that had done it as q practical
joke. 1 managed to reach London
somehow and got out of the dreadful
kits, and did not go back to my home
again before sailing for America.
I'm addition to the kilt revival
crowd, another lot of dodos have
formed a society to have men and
women dress like the ancient Romans.
You know the kind Of thing I mean
toga for the men and a jacket with
sarOng like the Dutch women wear in
Java, no hats and sandals for all, with
out socks"
Mr.. Ginkle looked sad when he re-
lated the details of the proposed dress
reforms, and asked plaintively how he
could ever keep a toga in its place.
Il couldn't really, you know" he add
ed, "and one never can tell what will
happen in England these days." In
view Of these dress reforms Mr. Ginkle
threatens to come and live the rest of
his days ir. America.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
SALT MADE HERE LONG AGO
First Works Were In Operation In Vlr-
0inia Before 1920 and In New
England Few Years Later.

The United States has many sources
OF salt and does not need to look
abroad for It's supply. The industry
had Its beginning very soon after the
early settlement of the country. In
Virginia there were crude salt works
In operation before 1920, and four
years later the first attempt to manu-
facture salt In New England was made
at Cape Ann.
Much salt was made from boiling
sea water during the Revolutionary
war period, and afterward an extensive
system Of solar evaporation sprang up
around Cape Cod. The sea water was
pumped by windmills into long lines
of vats which were provided with mov-
able roofs and uncovered in dry
weather. In 1880 the production by
this method was 100000 bushels Of
salt, about half Of which was made in
Barnstable county, Massachusetts,.
BY 1884 reduction in the tariff and
the cheap supplies Of foreign salt, In
Guiding that from the rich brines Of
Onondaga county, New York, rendered
manufacture in Massachusetts, unprof-
liable. In Cape May county, New Jer-
sey, brine was formed by allowing the
sea water to flow into large holes in
the sand Of flats; when it had become
concentrated by natural evaporation a
barrel of 1t boiled in kettles yielded
bushel of salt. The salt industry
proper was started in Florida in 1910,
and in California, along San Francisco
bay, about 1843.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
Greed Of Gain.

Visitors to the ancient abbey at Dun
fermline. Scotland, will recall a curl.
Gus optical delusion. Standing at
certain point, several of the carved pill
lars In the nave appear to slant. while
In truth, they are perfectly perpen-
dicular.
There are many things which prevent
people from seeing straight in matters
Of right and duty. OF these none is
more common than the love of money.
The silversmiths Of Ephesus, who
stirred up riot against Paul because
his preaching interfered with their
profits, have always had meny follow
ers in every land. Let the greed Of
gain root itself In the heart, and it
gives such twist to the whole nature
that nothing can be seen at It's right
angle.-Exchange.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
KISSING THE BLACK STONE
No Obligation Of Islam Is More Pious-
ly Discharged Than That Of Making
Pilgrimage to Mecca.

As well die a Jew or a Christian as
not make the pilgrimage to Mecca, said
Mahomet; and no obligation Of Islam
Is more piously discharged. It is be-
lieved that the ritual connected with
the visit to the Ka'aba-the square
building the kissing of the Black
Stone go back to days of idolatry, the
time Of ignorance" before the new
faith bloomed, says the London Chron-
icle
The Black Stone, which measures
about by 8 inches, is believed to have
fallen from Paradise, to have been
guarded during the Deluge and handed
to Abraham by Gabriel when the
Ka'aba was built. Certain parts of the
ceremonial-the throwing of stones at
the devil, and the imitation of Hagar's
distracted wanderings in the desert,
are supposed to have had significance
Tor the pre-Mohammedan times as well
as for Islam.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
HORRORS OF k|LTS
Proposed Dress Reform Doesn't
Appeal to This Britisher.
One Could Never Keep His Toga
In Place, He Fears.

Godolphin G. Ginkle, who arrived re-
Gently from British port to buy soft
socks for soldiers, said that conditions
In the country were fairly tollollish
when he left there two weeks ago, says
the New York Times.
apart from the war and the soul
destroying Irish conundrum," Mr.. Gin
kle continued, "the chief excitement in
London is the fight over the proposed
"a refrain from using a stronger
term-insist that men and women
should wear kits and short jackets
with the Old-fashioned Glengarry cap
and feather and leather brogans. OF
course the kits are quite all right for
fellows built on the plan for an Apollo,
but what about the people who are
bow-legged and knock-kneed?
IT was never intended to wear kits,
and I swear that / never will again
after an experience / had, even if I
should be compelled to adopt the cos
tune and customs Of a Hottentot on
Africa's burning sand.
OuoItiy UtlOIc lelI LOuuOu WAS
invited to 60 to an al fresco luncheon
given at house in the country, and all
the guests, men and women, were
to wear kits. The house was close to
my own villa, not far from town, and
the luncheon in highland costume was
the idea Of our rector, one of those
kindly, portly, white-haired, dear old
things with a red nose, who always
look as if they were giving away things
to all mankind and keeping their
hands In their pockets.
II did not like the look of the
grounds where the luncheon was laid
out, because there was gurgIing
brook on one side, and that meant in
sects Of savage type. With my usual
luck / had to sit on the side next the
water, on one of those silly cane set
tees that are constructed to turn over
when they are sat upon suddenly.
II was at one end and the rector's
wife, who weighed at least $50 pounds,
sat at the other and looked as graceful
in her kits as did In mine. l fancy
that was why they placed US away
from the giddy tarong, so as not to
cast gloom over the affair. Just as
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
PAID FOR HIS RIDE
Soldier Had No Complaint to
Make About Price.
Was Glad He Stopped Bullet Which
Might Have Hit Driver Of Car
Loaded With Wounded.

In the course Of the battle Of the
Marne, the Germans fought stiff,
rear-guard action at Priez. At it's
height, Mr.. Frederic Coleman, who mar
rates his experiences in his book,
"From Mons to Ypres," found himself
and his automobile involved in the pro-
ceedings.
one OF the Sussex men, says Mr..
Coleman, came running back with the
news Of general retirement. Rifle
fire in front, rifle fire from our left,
and shrapnel everywhere, made US
wonder whether retirement was not
less wise than staying where we were.
But orders are orders; so we headed
down the slope for the village, where I
had left the automobile.
Presently we reached q 5O-foot gap
In the bank at the roadside; that part
Of our journey must be taken in full
sight Of the enemy. Two soldiers
rushed at 1t, only to fall before they
had got across. While we paused, a
herd Of some twenty cows galloped,
believing, down the hedge side in the
field beside us. Blessed with an in
spiration, we sprinted down the road in
the lee Of the barrier thus provident-
tally provided.
"We're all right SO long as the beef
holds out! J" painted a Tommy
In a few seconds I had reached the
car. A major asked me If would take
back load Of wounded. I believed
that any occupant Of car that tried
to pass through the village and up the
slope in plain sight of the enemy would
stand little chance of escape; but the
wounded were tossed into the tonneau,
into the front seats, on the folded top
at the rear, wherever space could be
found. jumped into the driving seat.
The running board Of the car was lined
with soldiers, and one, the only one
unhit, was mounted on a mud guard.
Up the hill we crawled. My load was
eleven, some badly hit. Two cyclists
In front gave promise Of blocking the
way as we gathered speed, but a shell
that burst over us knocked one of the
pair off his wheel. He careened into
his fellow, and the pair rolled into the
ditch together. Bang! went another
shell, seemingly a few feet over us.
Four men from q group ahead Of us
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
FUN GALORE At WATERFOWL
|NTER.COUNTY FAIR THIS YEAR

Hey kids, better get up early and
meet the big show train of twenty-five
cars. Gosh, that many? Say so, the
Clifton-Kelley circus is awful big, no
1 mean the Clifton-Kelley show, and
you know they have a great big wild
animal show combined with them.
sure have.
They got clowns and horses and
lions and pumas and bears, and oh
everything, and say kids they got a
man who puts his head right in the
big lions mouth. Gee! 1t makes your
blood run cold to see him, and then
he cracks his whip and all the differ
ent animals all sit up and do tricks OF
all kinds, and say Gully, them two
lady trainers are swell, too. Believe
me, some show. Well 1 counted four
teen altogether-two black face come
dians, two men made up as Irishmen
and one dutchman and nine pretty
girls and they told lots of jokes and
everybody danced and the girls sang
songs. Then there was a lot of pretty
posing when the man turned on lights
of different color.
Gee, kid, them Yankee Doodle girls
are great. They are right next to the
animal circus in great big tent just
like an opera. Did you see the geak
without arms? Sure can shave himself
and comb his hair and wash his face
and everything you or l can do with
both our hands. They call him Tripp,
the eighth wonder Of the world. The
Rocky Mountain cabaret sure is
dandy and the niger minstrel show
was swell. Gee, them boys sure sing
and dance, believe me. Must have been
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29

The origin Of water is assigned by
DR.. F. Garrigou Of the University Of
Toulouse to the stage of world forma-
ton represented by the red stars. The
spectroscope shows hydrogen in all
nebulae, of whatever degree Of incan-
descence, but oxygen, ON the other
hand, Is absent from all. This and
other evidence suggests that oxygen is
not a simple element. It cannot COM
bine with hydrogen above LOO degrees
c., the two gases separating at that
temperature and the conclusion is that
1t Is itself formed near the point of
cooling at which the union takes place.
The red stars, already cooled nearly to
extinction, may owe something of thsir
redness to the gradually thickening
layer of water yapor.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
Find Charcoal OutIasts Iron.

Charcoal crumbling and breaking be-
tween the fingers does not appear to be
the most durable and indestructible
thing in creation, yet next to the dia-
mond 1t is. The precious stone, as Is
well known, depreciates in size so
slowly that hundreds of years produce
no noticeable change In it. Charcoal
never decays; it can sleep In the
ground or in the air and be as large
at the end Of century as before. It
can lie in the bed of a stream and per-
NIT the water to flow over it every day,
every hour, every minute for years and
years and be the same. And outside
Of the diamond it Is the only substance
that will do so.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
MADE SCOUTS At MIDNIGHT.

Scoutmaster Beresford at Water.
ford, Pa, says that parents in this VI
cfnity seem to be getting anxious to
have their boys enlist in the Boy
Scouts. Zone Sunday night the door
bell rang at II O'clock" he says. my
wife and I were fast asleep, and we
woke up wondering what was wanted
at that time Of the night. There at
the door stood a man and woman with
two boys. They had brought their
boys four miles from out in the coun-
try to enroll them as Boy Scouts.
They wanted their boys to do their bit
for their country. OF course. you can
imagine my surprise, but enrolled
those boys right there clothed in my
nightgown."
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29

twenty-five of them. saw the big long
and l saw where they ride the motor
cycles. Gee, they sure made time, and
believe me, it made my hair curl when
that fellow came pretty near the top.
Did you see the big Ferris wheel?
It's sure high. You can look all over
Watertown from the top, and believe
me, l sure rode the hobby horses and
had deuce of good time. That sure
is good show and I'm going out every
day next week, and see it all over
again. And say did you see the half
girl. She looks like a spider. She talks
and was telling us about the sights at
the Frisco exposition, and we saw the
free acts. He sure can dive, and say
old Prof. Swan sure can toot a horn,
and them fellows he's got with him
can too He said they play on the
streets every day, starting Monday
about IL o'clock and at night about z
o'clock
l am going out to the fair grounds
Monday night because everything
opens and Mr.. Harte, the manager of
the fair says it will give the people a
chance to see all the show, because
everything is going to be crowded this
year, as It's the best fair we ever had.
and it's going to be a dinger He said
the horse races will be extra good and
there will be lot of free acts, and
fireworks at night and everybody's 60
ing home well pleased and will come
back next day. And say, the exhibits
are great, and there's lot of sheep.
horses, cattle, hogs and everything.
I'm going, are you?
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
DeIineating the Giraffe.

Gibbons note on the giraffe shows
what q mystery the beast was to our
eighteenth-century ancestors, says the
London Chronicle. Describing the in
glorious achievements of Emperor
ComIuodus in the amphitheater, he
mentions that "Commodus killed q
camelo-pardalis, or giraffe, the tallest,
the most gentle and the most useless
of the large quadrupeds," and adds:
This singular animal, native only Of
been seen in Europe since the revival
OF letters, and though III. de Bouffon
has endeavored to describe, he has not
ventured to delineate the giraffe"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
AIN olLskINs AND soU'WEsTER."
This Natural Scout ls Making Fast the
Ship In Heavy Weather.

really water scouting; "watercraft" as
contrasted with woodcraft; boat lore
instead Of field lore. In other words,
this increasingly popular branch Of
scouting can be, and should be, taken
up wherever there Is enough water to
float boat and enough boys to man it.
In carrying out the program the Nau-
tical Scouts visit other ships in the vi
ctnity and there become familiar with
the nomenclature, as we'll as the whole
run Of the vessel. Naval history is In
cluded in the program Of work, and as
opportunity affords, Scouth leaders
take the boys on cruises, stopping ut
other ports and visiting such institu-
ton as marine museums, navy yards
and famous ships.
Daniel Beard, national Scout COM
missioner, has pointed out that the
Nautical Scouts can perform very use.
full service in looking for wrecks or
vessels in distress, noting what vessels
pass and what descriptions Of vessels
they are. whether the vessels in the
ofing are freighters or passenger boats,
steamers, gasoline launches, cat boats,
sloops. schooners, brigs. brigantines,
barks, barkentines or full-rigged ships.
The day will come when Nautical
Scouts will be In demand to manage,
command or own vessels Of the mer.
chant marine.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
Out of His Line.

"Who was the man that just stopped
you on the street and waved his hands
around SO distractedly2"
'Oh, that was Stardust, the cele.
brated astronomer, who discovered and
named 186 minor planets"
What was his trouble2"
"He couldn't make up his mind
whether to name his new baby Charles
or William"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
Keeping Thin.

Women who wish to reduce may feel
safe in doing it, through the diet and
escape all bad after effects. Here Is
list you may safely follow: Eat
oysters, Holsters, crabs, thin soups, fish
without salt or butter, lean meats, (but
no ham, liver or pork) poultry, toma-
toes, turnips, squash, carrots, string
beans, onions, cabbage, peas, cauliflow-
er, asparagus, salads, celery, pickles,
gluten bread only, coffee, tea, plenty of
water, but not with meals, very lit
tie milk.
Avoid sugar and all substances con-
tanning sugar, all fatty foods, oils,
sardines, butter, creams, gravies,
white bread, oatmeal, rice, potatoes,
and all foods containing starch, sweet
wines, ales and beer.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
A Lesson Tor Him.

First Burglar-I cracked lawyers
house the other night and he was there
with gun ter meet me. He advised
me ter get out.
Second Burglar-Yer got off easy.
First-NOt much / didn't. He charg-
ed me $25 fer de advice.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-29
A SimiIarit'

A Similarity.
"a practical politician is like q
street monkey in one respect"
"What is that?"
'Both have to have an organ to sup
port them"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-16
Tests to
Determine New Cord fire

A dozen test cars travelling three
hundred miles day for three years
was the crucible from which came
the Firestone Super-Size Cord Tire,
new product recently announced
by the Firestone Tire and Rubber
Company.
With infinite patience the Firestone
Company continued Its tests of va
rious sizes and types of cord tires
in an effort to develop a distinctive
equipment. The test cars were rout-
ed over all sorts of roads, the drivers
working in two eight-hour shifts.
covering $50 miles each shift. The
drivers were required to keep an
accurate log of their trips. show
ing what distance of the road was
smooth, muddy or rocky and the
grade of the hills.
By an analysis of the wear on the
tires and the drivers logs. the test
ing department at the factory was
able to determine just what improve
ments were necessary. 1t was found
that the best cord material nodded
into an oversize tire gave the Most
miles per dollar"
Tests of this type-known as the
Firestone Super-Size Cord-showed
mileage of from 5000 to 16,500
miles, varying according to the road
conditions. The tests also showed
that the super-size cord would in
crease the mileage from two to five
miles per gallon of gasoline because
of its greater residence and fleXi-
bility.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-16
OIDFTEID HAS HUNCH

Barney Oldfeld, the veteran
speed king. who has bagged the big
prize in many a racing contest, now
comes to the fore again, this time
i'll the role of creator of speed
chariot which he confidently expects
to smash all records.
He has dubbed this new car of his
the Flame of Fury" and he eX-
poets to toddle along at a mere
three-hundred-m -miles-per- hour clip.
Barney is going to spring some in
novations in construction as well as
speed. He expects to view the fleet
ing landscape through a periscope.
A huge twin-siX motor is being built
by Harry Miller, celebrated in his
line. Furthermore, he plans to give
his lightning racer its first
official tryout over the new Philadel-
phia Motor Speedway, now nearing
completion.
But in one particular Barney will
make no change. He will keep his
meteoric "Flame of Fury" free from
friction by lubricating with Dixon's
Graphite Automobile Lubricants. He
has used DiXon's for several years
in every race, and Dixon's have help
ed him home a winner so frequently
that he is convinced of Dixon de
pendabilit Barney knows that
Dixon's meet the eXacting require
ments of racing contests where a
second means more than a minute
means to the day-in-and-day-ou
driver. Barney is one of the multi
tude of drivers who use DiXon's
Knowing that no matter what speed
they devolp, DiXon's will make fric-
tion conspicuous by its absence.