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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
RACC0ONS WASH THEIR FOOD
Curious Habits of TypicaIIy Known
American Animal Are Most
interesting Study.

e Few American wild animals are
more widely known or excite more
popular interest than the raccoon,
which occupies most Of the wooded
parts of North America from the
southern border of Canada to Panama,
with the exception of the higher noun
tain ranges.
Their diet is extraordinarily varied,
and includes fresh-water clans, craw-
fish, frogs, turtles, birds and their
eggs, poultry, nuts, fruits and green
corn. When near water they have a
curious and unique habit of washing
their food before eating it. Their fond
ness for green corn leads them into
frequent danger, for when bottom-land
corn tempts them away from their US
ual haunts raccoon hunting with dogs
at night becomes an especially favored
sport. Raccoons are extraordinarily
| intelligent animals and make interest.
ing and amusing pets.
Raccoons began to figure in oul
| frontier literature at an early date
'Coonskin" caps, with the ringed tails
hanging like plumes, made the favorite
headgear of many pioneer hunters
and "coonskins" were a recognized
article of barter at country stores
Now that the increasing occupation Of
the country is crowding out more anC
more of our wild life, it is pleasure
to note the persistence with which
these characteristic and interesting
animals continue to hold their own ii
so much of their original range.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
REGULARITY OF WATER LILY
Moisture Remaining on Its
Leaves and Blossoms.

Slow-moving rivers, ponds and lakes
are the habitat of flower which, as
most everybody knows, is the water
lily.
Did you ever know what gave the
leaves and blossoms of the water
nymph" their shining appearance? It
is due to an oil which prevents water
remaining on them and clogging the
little mouths, or stomachs, through
which the plant breathes.
The leaves are large, fiat and nearly
round. The blossoms are very snowy,
measuring, in our common American
species, nearly six inches across. In
color they are white, pink and yellow.
Water lilies are particular about the
weather in which they bloom. On fine,
warm days the flowers open in the
morning and close at night, but on
dull, chilly days the flower does not
venture forth.
One member Of the family, Victoria
regia, which grows in South America,
has a leaf six to twelve feet broad
with curious rim that gives it tray.
like appearance. The leaves are strong
enough to hold two men.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
Lebas' Confidence.

Many years ago the granite obelisk
that stood sentinel before the palace
Of Rameses III, ut Luxor, for more
than thirty centuries, was taken to
Paris. Its erection in the Place de la
Concorde was marked by fine ex-
ample of civic courage. 1t had been
brought from Egypt by the engineer
LebaS in river boat specially con-
structed at Toulon, to navigate the
Nile and the Seine. This boat was
towed through the sea by warship.
When the cables used in raising the
obelisk were strained almost to break
ing Lebas placed himself under the
enormous stone as it began to move.
If a single cable had broken all would
have been over with the engineer. Ex-
planning his hardihood Lebas said it
was to show the crowd of Onlookers
that he was sure of his calculations.
A single error and he would have been
crushed, and he preferred tragic end
to dishonor. "This," said LIE Cri de
Paris, twas in 1885, before our day OF
interviews and Lebas occupied only O
| few lines in the Constitutional, nc
more, no less, than the periodical ad
ventures of the sea serpent"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
Office Man Is Safest Risk.

Do you know how much risk of in
jury or death there is in your daily
occupation? The actuary of the state
worllmen's compensation department
has it all figured out in dollars and
cents.
The man who takes the least risk
is the man employed in office work,
such as q bank clerk.
Office employees are rated at a
premium of II cents ON each $1OO for
the aggregate pay roll Of the institu.
ton by which they are employed.
Newspaper men are rated at Is cents
on the $100. This includes all branches
of the newspaper business, represent.
ing a chance of 18 in 1000 that q
newspaper man will be killed or in
jured in the line of duty.
The figures indicate that window
cleaner takes his life in his hands
every time he craWls around on the
outside of building letting the day
light in. He is rated at $4.65 per 500
| The highest premium rate is $S.35
on the professional wrecker, who run!
the risk of having a brick building
fall on him.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
The CotsMoIds.

The COtswo!ds are another example
of the variety of natural scenery that
England succeeds in packing away
within her narrow seabarred bOun-
daries. Here, within three hours of
the largest city in the world, you can
walk in complete loneliness, over a
grassy road that follows the route laid
out by Roman engineers, with tum-
bled skyline of real mountains on your
right, and a sweep of empty fields
falling away to the left. You can take
tea in an old Roman villa, where the
filed courtyard is still smooth and
fight; YOU can sleep in an inn that has
apparently not changed its habits or
IFS bill of fare since the days of Rich
ard the Lion Hearted.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23

cantilever, toward its fellow rising on
the other side. He fingered about it
when the rest of the workaday world
which was concerned with it had with
drawn to rest. Frequently late in the
night he had arisen and had left the
sheet-iron shack he occupied near the
work (for the topography of the land
and the course of the river had deter
mined the loc alton of the bridge far
from any town., and in the moonlight
he had gazed bewitched by the great
web of steel, all its mighty tracery deli
cately silvered, family outlined, lace
like, lofty, lifted high into the heavens.
He fell into a little reverie for a
brief moment from which she recalled
him.
"Well?' she asked.
eyes, naturally" he found himself
saying in a conventional tone of voice,
at means q great deal to me. My
father"
"Oh, your father" she began indif-
ferently, although she knew and liked
the great engineer.
at is his crowning work and"
"Your beginning"
at Is not in me, or in any engineer,
to begin where my father left off," he
said. "But this will count a great
deal, because through fathers kindness
1 had some hand"
II believe you did it ALL" interrupt
ed the girl.
He broke into sudden laughter, and
his merriment had that boyish ring
she liked. He seemed to think that
was a sufficient answer to that state
ment, for he went on quickly.
'How long shall you stayT"
And in spite Of himself he could moi
Keep his anxiety out of his voice.
81 think fathers going on to the city
sometime tomorrow-probably in the
morning"
Meade's face fell.
$50 soon as thatT'
II will try to persuade shin to stay
longer. I've seen lots of bridges bull
| but never one like the International
and should enjoy standing by ant
watching you work"
''I don't do the work. Abbott doe:
that, and the men, of course"
"YOur work is the work tn at make:
possible and profitable the labor of the
Others" she answered. "You plan, yol
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
Phonouraph Station Announeers.

The invention by which names Of
stations are to be announced auto
matically by photograph on the Liver
pool tramways will, no doubt have q
future if the name can be uttered il
such way as to be tntelligible. The
defect of the phonograph has always
been the metallic twang which OBJ
scured the most familiar words and
voices. Was it not phonograph oper,
ator in one of o. Henry's stories who
promised to give his celebrated imt.
tation of a Sousa march being exca.
waited from a tin minef"-London Oh
server.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
SYRUP Of FIGS FOR
4 CH|LD'S BOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the "dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's s revolt is well-found-
ed. Their tender little "insides' are
injured by them. -
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet.
en- the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today saves sick child tomor>
row.
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle
of California Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
Of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23

breast; already in touch save for the
mighty river that flowed between them.
By no means would Meade, the
younger, have been charged with the
great responsibilities of the bridge had
it not been for his exhaustive prepara-
tion and wide experience. To thor
ough technical training at Harvard, in
the Lawrence Scientific school, had
been added a substantial record of
achievement. fine bridge which he
had erected in faraway Burma, trium-
phantly achieving the design despite
all sorts of difficulties, had attracted
the attention of old Colonel Hing
worth, the president of the Martlet
Bridge company.
He had kept the young man under
his eye for long time. When he COM
missiOned his father, Bertram Meade,
Sr., to prepare the plans for the great
international, the moSt-sought-fOr and
famous of bridges, he had noted with
satisfaction that the older man, who
stood first among bridge engineers on
the continent, had associated with him
self his son. Meade, Jr., had recently
returned from South America, where
he had again shown his mettle. The
two worked together in the preparation
of the designs for what was to be the
crown and triumph of the older mans
life, the most stupendous of all the
cantilever bridges in the world.
The great engineer had a high idea
of his only sons ability. He was will
ing to proclaim it, to maintain it, and
defend it against all comers except
himself. When the two wills clashed,
he recognized but one way, his own.
The relations between the two were
lovely but not ideal. There was lead
ership not partnership, direction rather
than cooperation. The knowledge and
experience of the bOy-for so he loved
to call him-where of course nothing
compared to those of his father. When,
in discussing moot points, the younger
man had been unconvinced by the cal
culations of the elder, he had been
laughed to scorn in q gOod-natured
way. His carefully set forth objec-
tiOns, even in serious matters, had been
overborne generally, and by trium-
phant calculations of his own the IA
ther had REINFORCED himself in his con-
clusions; and the more strongly be-
cause of the opposition.
Young Meade's position was rather
anomalous. He had no direct super
vision of the construction. He was
there as resident engineer representing
his father. He had welcomed the posi-
ton because it gave him an opportu-
nifty to see from the very beginning the
erection of VIII at was to be the great
est cantilever bridge the feet of the
world had ever trod upon. the wheels
of the world had ever rolled across
He had followed with the utmost
care, constantly reporting the prog
ress to his father, every step taker
under the superintendent of Abbott
man of great practical ability as al
erector, but of much less capacity a.
a scientific designer or Office engineer
Meade had watched it's daily growtl
with the closest attention. Like ever,
other man in similar case, the worl
had got into his blood. 1t had becom,
a part of his life. He loved the bridge
yet more he loved Helen Illingworth
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23

with your permission, sir" he said,
81 am going to take Miss IIlingworth
out on the bridge. The moon is rising
and"
II have heard so much about it,"
said the girl, standing by the door.
81 want to see it when the workmen
are all off and it is all quiet, in the
moonlight"
Every well. You had better change
your dress, Helen, before you co. said
the colonel, turning to Abbott and en-
gaging him in conversation on techni-
cal matters.
"Pll wait for you at the front door
of the car said the engineer, his heart
beating like a. pneumatic riveter and
sounding almost as loud in his ears.
81 won't be long," she whispered as
she left him.
Helen did not want to waste time
any more than Meade did So, instead
of taking her fathers advice, all she
did was to cover her beautiful shoul-
ders with a light wrap and hasten to
| the car door in the shortest possible
time. Every moment they We're apart,
since the sum-total in which they could
be together was SO small, was a mo-
ment lost.
Snow" she said, coming out of the
door of the car and descending the
steps toward him, eagerly expectant,
81 want prize for my swiftness."
"a prize!" returned the man, "why,
you've been gone years, and you
haven't even changed your gown. You
can't go out on a bridge in that gown
and those slippers, tramping over dirty
tracks, piles of steel, rough wooden
planks, paint and" ....
Cant II" she said; "you just see'
ST hate to see you spoil your Dress
he said uncertainty as she stopped
Really what gown on earth was
worth half an hour of her society? Al
least that is the way he felt about it
and evidently she felt the same way
"It is settled, then" she said, slip
ping her arm through his as they
walked down the long wooden plat
form near the siding. At the end o.
the platform, as they turned about the
temporary station and storehouse, be
fore them rose the bridge. The moor
was rising over the high hills tina
spreng up from the steep clifflike banl
of the other side of the vast river
They saw her round, red, full fac
through an interlacing tracery of stee
The lower part Of the bridge was still
in deep shadow. Indeed, the moon hat
just cleared the hills of the opposit
bank of the great gorge cut by th
broad river flowing swiftly in it's dark
ness far below. At the farther end o
the suspended arm extending far owe
the water the top of the traveller glis
tened. The cantilever on the opposit
shore, incomplete and sunk under
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
CHAPTER u.
The Witness for the Defense

The Witness for the Defense.
One of the pleasant evidences of the
possession Of riches is in the luxury
of a private car. Although Colonel
IllingwOrth was personally a man Of
simple tastes as became an old cam
paigner, there was no appointment
| that wit could devise or that money
could buy which was lacking to make
his private car either more comfortable
or more luxurious in it's napery, glass,
china and silver, the dining table need
ed not to apologize to any other any
where. The colonel was most pune
tilious in dressing his part and Meade
and Abbott were both scrubbed to
within an inch of their lives, but,
climbing about the bridge. their hands
were scratched, roughened, stained and
torn. Aside from that, Meade was GER
tainly most presentable, and old ABB
bott, in spite of his Indifference to
such matters, looked the able and pow
erful man lie was.
The conversation at dinner was at
first light and frivolous.
'Pm lost" began Abbott, "overpOw-
cred with all this silver and glass and
china."
"Yes," laughed Meade, 1--WE should
have brought along our granite ware
and tincupS, then we would be free
from the dreadful fear that we are 60
ing to drop something or break some
thing"
'You can break anything you like" !"
said the colonel with heavy pleasan-
try, $50 long as the bridge stands"
"And that is going to be forever, isn't
it, Mr.. Meade?" asked Helen quickly.
II don't think anything built by man
will survive quite that long," he an
swered as much to her father and the
! others as to her, ''but this gives every
promise of lasting its time"
'You know" observed Curtiss, "there
: was some question in my mind about
these big compression members. Whe1
l first studied your fathers drawings
1 wondered if he had made the lacine
!, strong enough to hold the webs"
= "That matter was very thoroughly
: gone into" said Meade quickly. ST
= was the very point which myself az
. questioned, but father is absOlutel.
confident that we provided latticin!
= enough to take up all the stresses.
a looked into that matter myself" h.
: went on with much emphasis.
= 81 guess it's all right" said Curtis
y lightly. 81 examined the webs and lac
T ings carefully this afternoon. The
n seem to be as right as possible
"Thcse trusses," said Abbott empna!
ID ically, twill stand forever. You nee
not worry aDvut that"
is "Are you going to finish this job o
timer" asked Severance, the vice pres
n dent "You know the financial end G
n. it is mine, and much depends upon tn
date of completion"
ly "That depends upon you people 6
hit the shop, doctor. If you get the stu
v. here to me I'll get it in place in shol
id order" answered Abbott.
nd 1--WE aren't worrying about auythin
st with you and Meade on the job, Al
of bott," said the colonel genially.
lc- "Yes, you are, father" said the gir
ng Ever since the International has bee
its started you have scarcely been able [
at give a thought even to me. I'm tire
lie of 1t. l hope the old thing will SOC
vO be finished so that we can all go baC
to to normal life again."
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23

lead, the rest only follow. By the
way, father told me to ask you and
Mr.. Abbott to dine with us tonight in
the car"
Meade's mood changed into positive
gloom.
II can't" he said dejectedly. 81
haven't any clothes, neither as Abb
bott. We left our dress suits behind
US when we came into the wilderness
to work"
"Oh," she laughed. "What difference
does that make? Come just as you are.
1t will be a relief. like you that way.
l get so tired of black and white,p she
went on quickly to prevent him from
taking adv antage of her incautious ad-
mission.
"Hang the Clothes" said the man,
radiant once more in that admission,
''since you will allow it, will come
with what / can rake up. But you'll
have to tell me which fork to use. /
have almost forgotten out here in the
wilderness"
ut isn't six months since you were
at our house."
"Six months It's thousand years, "
he went on, "and I'm going to take you
out on the bridge after dinner. It's
great at any time. It's the most mag.
nificent sight on earth even now, but
in the moonlight-there it is now," he
pointed as the little group walked past
= | kha akO sof Eo. 1T
and the great structure suddenly was
, revealed to them.
, The four men ahead had stoppeC
and stood silent. There was somethin,
. nwe-lnspiring and tremendous abou
the great, black. outreaching, far
extending arms of steel. The first sigh
: of it always gave the behOlder littI,
shock. 1t was so huge, so massive, s,
] grnndly majestic, and withal so airy
e seen against the impressive background
Q Of deep gorge and palisaded wall an,
s far-off mountains. SO ether-bOrne wa
= it in its perfect proportion that eve
+ dull and stupid people-and none o
q these were that-felt it's overpowerin
+ presence. Meade and the girl stoppe
too. After one glance at the bridge
:" she looked at him. And that was tyI
8 ical. For the first time he was not 9
S the moment aware Of or immediatel
l. responsive to, her glance. And tha
e too, was typical. She noted this wit
h a pang of jealousy.
e "You love the bridge" she sal
1t softly.
IS He Strengthened up and threw h
head back and looked at her.
J. 81 thought So" he said simply-"u
If til today, but now"-he stopped agai
d "But now?" she asked.
IN II have just learned what love real
t, ia and the lesson has not been taugl
is me by bridge" he answered directl
at Yet Bertram Meade, the younger, d
truly love the bridge which he h,
seen grow from the placing of the fir
h, shoe-the great steel base on top
It. the pier which carries the whole stru
by ture-to the completion Of the soaril
is cantilever reaching out to meet
lie companion on the other side-the gre
to International, which was to be the
he that bound, with web of steel, tN
ed great countries which lay breast
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23

high rise of sand, was still in shadow
and not yet discernible.
Unwittingly the woman drew little
near the man. He became more con-
sclous than before of the light touch
OF her hand upon his arm. 1t was very
stlll where they stood. The shacks
OF the workmen had been erected be-
low the bridge about a quarter of a
mile to the right along the banks of
the little aff1uent of the main stream.
They could hear faint but indistin-
guishable noises that yet indicated hu-
manity coming from that direction.
The fires in the machine house and in
the engines We're banked. Lazy curls
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23

And he would inherit much more. Old
Meade had not been the greatest engf-
neer of his generation for nothing. In
dependent and self-respecting, young
Meade could not be considered a for
tune hunter by anybody. He was the
kind of man TO whom a decent father
likes to intrust his daughter Old
Colonel nlingwOrth found himself gaz-
ing wOnderingly at the two.
After dinner the men sat out on the
observation platform with their cigars
and coffee. For those that liked If
there was something in tall glasses in
which ice tinkled when the glasses
were agitated, but Meade declined all
! three.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
look the Opposite Course.

'sHave you tried to uplift the
drama?'
"Yes," replied the manager. But
while l was experimenting in the high
er realms of thought the public rushed
away to the nearest underworld
drama"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
Troops Sent to Raided District

Hachita, N. M, Feb. 1e.-Acting
under instructions from Colonel F. C..
Sickle, commanding the Columbus
camp, Lieutenant Colonel J. c. Water
man, in charge at Hachita, has ordered
all available troops from here into the
corner ranch section.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
To nenrive Women of Hairnins

According to the parliamentary cor
respondent of the London Daily News,
among a number of measures decided
upon to limit the use of metal Is one
prohibiting the manufacture CT hair
pins.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
Threat Moi Taken SERIOUSLY

Ell Paso, Texas, Feb. 16.-Official'
and civilians here declare they did no
take seriously Salazar's reported
threat to raid an American border
town as he has made boasts in tht
past which he failed to carry out.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23
MIIk+iamen and Bandits Enoaoe

Laredo, Texas, Feb, 16.-Twenty
Florida infantry engaged in a skirm
ish last night near Hapiata. One
bandit and several horses were cap
tured.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-02-23

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