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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
HUMAN BODY AS AN ENGINE
Maintains an Even Temperature
Throughout Four Seasons.

To burn the fuel in a gasoline en-
gine it must be carburetted or mixed
with air and an electric spark must be
applied to ignite the mixture. In the
human engine the process is much
more elaborate, since a very wide va
riety of crude foods is taken, refined,
reduced to fuel and burned slowly. A
gasoline engine may be termed
quick-combustion, high-temperature en-
gine, while the human machine is a
lOw-temperature and slow-combuStiOn
engine, which not only produces ener-
gy from its food, but lubricates itself,
keeps itself in repair and constantly
maintains an even temperature
throughout the four seasons.
A man could not digest gasoline, nor
could a gasoline engine run on butter,
Nevertheless, the two classes and
functions merge into each other.
Science shows how alcohol is a curl
Gus illustration of this fact. An in
ternal combustion engine could be run
on alcohol and it is known that this
fluid can be burned in the human body
also, producing vast amount of vio-
lent energy which is equivalent to that
obtained in a gasoline engine when
| the throttle is pulled wide open and
| there is no load to carry. Physicians
say that drunkenness is, in effect, rae
ing the human engine beyond speed
limits.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
Misflts in COLLEGE Glasses.

In every large college there are stu
dents who ought not to be there.
Usually they are sent by parents who
think the social status of the family
demands college graduates. Most par
cnts who can afford it send their chill
dren to college. Many of them do not
go through to the end, because they
ERE incapable of completing the work,
and it could have been foreseen that
they would fail.
Many persons overestimate the So
cial and intellectual value of college
education. This notion leads parents
70 insist upon putting through liter
ary college boys and girls who ought
70 be training for usefulness in farm,
store or shop.
When one whom nature intended to
be out in the open using his muscles
mainly, or at least doing practical
work, is put through a literary course,
he is quite likely to be misf1t not
only in college, but also out in the
world thereafter.
A college course is not an unmixed
blessing for every one who is pushed
through it-Mother's Magazine.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
CORN LOSES QUALITY QUICK
Sweet Variety Should Be in Hands of
Consumer in Very Few Hours
After Harvesting.

In order to obtain the very highest
quality of sweet corn it is necessary
that the corn be delivered into the
hands of the consumer in a very few
hours after harvesting. Sweet corn
will lose so per cent of it's sweetness
in - hours. Corn pulled in the eve
ming, as is the case with most of the
marketed products, and placed on sale
the next day cannot compare in quail
ity with similar corn harvested in the
morning and sold to the consumer be-
fore noon. Corn which must, by forced
circumstances, be harvested in the eve
ming should be handled in such a way
as to avoid large piles.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
CHARGED TRACE UP TO PAT
Finnegan Probably Right When He
Put Forward Thompson as Mean
est of All Mean Men.

This one was told to Sam Bowers,
the art salesman, by John Finnegan,
train caller at the Union station at
Sioux City, Ia:
"Talkin' about mean men," said Fin
negan, lone time / knew a man by the
name of Pat O'Toole, who worked for
farmer, a few miles out from here,
by the name Of Thompson.
"Well, one night O'Toole wint out
to the barn an he found the farmer
hangin' by the neck from a beam by
buggy trace an he cut him down an
run four miles for a doctor, an the
doctor come an the farmer got well,
an he said he'd never do it again.
swell, at the end of the month, af-
ter the farmer had paid O'Toole his
wages, Pat discovered that he was So
short, an he wint back to the farmer,
an ses, ses he, 'How's this? Me money
is short to the extent of So? An the
farmer ses, ses he, why, that's the
price of that fine new buggy trace of
mine that you spoiled by euttin' a
couple of weeks back"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
CHAPTER XIV.
A Strong Man Armed.


Smith put his elbows on the desk
and propped his head in his hands.
1t was not the attitude of detection;
it was rather a trancelike rigor of
concentration, with each and all of the
newly emergent powers once more
springing alive to answer the battle
call. AT the desk-end Starbuck sat
with his hands locked over one knee,
too disheartened to roll a cigarette,
normal solace for all woundings less
than mortal. After a minute or two
Smith jerked himself around to face
the news-bringer.
'DOes Colonel Baldwin know?" he
asked
"Sure That's the worst of it. Didn't
l tell you? He drove out to the dam,
reaching the works just ahead of the
trouble. When MGraw and the posse
outfit showed up. the colonel got 1t
into his head that the whole thing was
merely another trick of Stantons--a
fake. Ginty, the quarry boss, brought
the news to town. He says there was
q bloody mix-up, and at the end of it
the colonel and Williams were both
under arrest for resisting the officers"
Smith nodded thoughtfully. "Of
course; that was just what was needed.
With the president and the chief of
construction locked up, and the wheels
blocked for the next twenty-fOur hours,
our charter will be gone
"This world and another, and then
the fireworks" Starbuck threw in.
with the property all roped up in Il
law tangle, and those stock options of
yours due to fall in, it looks as if a
few prominent citizens of the Timan-
yoni would have to take to the high
grass and the tall timber. 1t sure
does, John"
"Do you know, Billy, 1 have been
expecting something of this kind-and
expecting it to be fake. That's why
l sent Stillings to Red Butte; to keep
watch of Judge Lorching's court. Still
ings was to phone me if LOrching is
sued an order"
"And he hasn't 'phoned your
"No; but that doesn't prove any
thing. The order may have been is
sued, and Stillings may have tried to
let us know. There are good many
ways in which a mans mouth may be
stopped-when there are no scruples
on the other side"
"Then you think there is no doubt
that the court order is straight, and
that this man MGraw is really a
/ 4 cINoI ho
what he is dOing?"
''In the absence of any proof to the
contrary, we are obliged to believe it
or at least to accept it. But we're
not dead yet. Billy, it's run
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
EARTH ROADS WORK
Necessary Tools and Machinery
Needed for Building.
Use OF ELEVATING GRADERS
Machine M Be Operated Success
fully With 25-Horsepower Tractor
or Twelve WeII-Trained Horses
-Scrapers and Wagons.

prepared Specially by the United States
Department of Agricultural
The use of elevating graders is
sometimes desirable in the construc-
ton of earth roads. The essential fea-
lures Of this machine are a plow with
a heavy mOldboard, an elevating belt,
a suitable frame for supporting the
plow and belt, and driving and adjust
ing mechanisms for operating the belt
and controlling the work. The plow
loosens the material and throws it
onto the belt, which conveys and de-
posits it either in the roadbed or
wagons.
Elevating graders are adapted es-
pecially to building up embankments
with material excavated from shallow
borrow bitches along each side of the
road. They also may be used to ad-
vantage in excavating long, shallow,
through cuts and loading the material
thus excavated into wagons for use
in building up embankments at other
points. The latter use, however, is
restricted to situations where there is
sufficient space to operate the grader
and at the same time afford passage
way for the teams and wagons to fol
low under the end of the belt to re
ceive the successive loads as the
grader is drawn forward.
Operating EIevating Grader.
1t is customary to employ a trac
ton engine for operating the elevating
grader, though teams are used some
times. Ordinarily, the machine may
be operated successfully either with
a 25-horse power tractor or with 1.
well-trained horses.
The rate at which earth can be ex
| cavated with an elevating grader is
relatively very high when conditions
are favorable and the grader can bt
kept moving. But there are number
of rather complicated parts about sucf
a machine which sometimes get ou
of order, and the work also is usually
hampered by many unforeseen contin
gencies, such as ''bogging" of thu
wheels, choking of the plow or th'
elevator belt, occurrence of burieC
| stumpS or stones in the excavation
| etc. For these reasons the actual ca
| pacity of elevating graders, considered
| over a long period, seldom is NOR
| than about one-third or one-half tn,
/ rated capacity, and where the materia
is loaded into wagons as it is excavat
ed the actual capacity of the machin
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
C,ndIes VS. Electricity.

The Society for Electrical Develop
ment, anxious to encourage a wider
use of electricity for lighting, has pre-
pared figures showing it is much cheap
er than candles or kerosene.
A recent test of six candles showed
that for l cent only 2.6S candle-power
hours were obtained. If electricity for
lighting costs 8 cents for a kilowatt
hour a 2O-watt lamp can be lighted for
so hours for cents. The efficiency of
a 2O-watt incandescent is a candle
power for LIT watts. Thus a 20-watt
lamp will provide about II candle
power. 1t will burn so hours for 8
cents, or $50 candle-power hours will
cost 8 cents. One cent will buy 944
candle-power hours, or 30 times as
much light as can be obtained from 9
candle for ! cent.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
Old "Suqar MAXIM"

1t must have been a busy, hard time
for our elders, those old sugar maxim
days, but we never heard them COM
plain. Maybe they liked it, hard work
and all, as a break in the monotony of
a long, dull winter on the farm that
was away back from the main Travelled
road. The old sugar house disap-
peared long ago, and the grand old
trees are gone, too. The big level corn
field of today gives no hint of past
joys, but some of us can close our eyes
and reconstruct grandfather's farm,
and when we have put the old grove
back in its proper place, with the road
winding up through it, past the old
sugar house, to the quaint old steep
rooted house with its ever waiting look
of welcome, and when the picture is
complete, along with all the other joys
of going to grandfather's, we can even
taste the taste of real molasses that
came from trees-Indianapoli News
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14

ming in my mind that we've got to go
out there and clean up Mr.. M'Graw
and his crowd"
Starbuck threw up his hands and
made a noise like a dry wagon wheel.
Holy smoke i go up against the
whole United States?" he gasped.
Smiths grin showed his strong, even
teeth.
"Starbuck, you remember what
told you one night?-the night
dragged you up to my rooms in the
hotel and gave you a hint of the rea-
son why 1 had no business to make
love to Corona Baldwin,"
"yep"
'Well, the time has come when
may as well fill out the blanks in the
story for you" And with Billy look
ing straight into his eyes, he did so.
At the end Starbuck was nodding So
berly. "You sure have been carrying
back-load all these weeks. John.
never knowing what minute was going
to be the next Now l know about
this Miss Rich-pastures. She knows
you and she could give you away if
she wanted to. Has she done it, John p
| mo; but her father has. Stanton has
got hold of the end of the thread, and,
while don't know it definitely, 1t is
practically certain he sent a wire. If
the Brewster police are not looking for
me at this moment, they will be short
ly. That brings us back to this High
Line knockout. AS the matter stands
absolutely nothing to lose. 1 am an
officer of the company, and no legal
notice has been served upon me. Can
you fill out the remainder of the or
derT
mo, I'll be switched if l can!"
"Then I'll fill it for you. So far n:
I know-legally, you understandable;
raid has never been authorized by th'
courts; at least, that is what I'm go
ing to assume until the proper papers
have been served on me. Therefore
am free to strike one final blow fO
the colonel and his friends, and Tn
going to do it, if can dodge the polio,
long enough to get action"
Starbuck's fitting chair righted itsel
with a crash.
you've thought 1t all out?-jus
how to go at it?"
> Every move; and everyone of ther
: straight bid for second penitentiar
. sentence"
r "All right" said the mine owne
p briefly. Count me in
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
Eat Would Be in Fire.

Sir George Reid is a big man, and
possesses what used to be called "a
corporation"
1t is necessary to bear this fact in
mind in order to appreciate the fol
lowing story, which he tells in his
newly polished volume of rem
iniscences.
1t concerns q speech he made at
a certain political meeting, and in the
course of which he expressed a belief
that his public career was nearing its
close.
'Tn fact" he added, Il feel that
am approaching that bourne from
which no traveller returns
"Whereupon a man at the back Of
the hall at once Clipped in, and ad
dressing me without a trace of person
al hostility, exclaimed, BY Jove
George, won't the fat be in the fire
then"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
Listening.

The sergeant-major was addressing
g squad of new arrivals, and noticed
one who had his eyes on the ground
and his head held downwards in lis
tcning attitude.
"NVhat were you IN civil life?" he
raped out.
~ gardener, SIR" replied the re-
cruit.
"Oh, l see," said the sergeant ma
jor, you're listening for worms, eh?''
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
LAWYERS Uninue Error.

The lovely lady consulted the popu-
lar attorney in regard to getting a di-
vorce. She was particularly interest
ed in knowing how much it would cost.
After looking over the case, the law
yer said: 'This is comparatively easy.
I can get you a divorce without any
publicity whatever for $500" She
looked at him haughtily. 81 have
plenty of money" she said. "How
much will it cost with plenty of pub
licity and everything?" He saw that
she was a person who wanted things
done right, so he hastily revised his
fgures.-The Argonaut.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
Prodioal Providence.

"I don't like to see warning armies
ca'' 700 persistently on Providence. 1t
s. of arrogance and self-right-
eousness. Providence may take re-
vange."
The speaker was a certain bishop,
who went on:
"There was once q young couple that
had no children. The husband was
anxious that heaven should bless them
with girl, the wife was anxious for
boy. Being very religious, both be.
sought Providence morning, noon, and
night to grant his or her desire.
"And Providence heard. Providence
granted both prayers. London Tit
Bits.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14

may be reduced still further. Elevat-
ing graders of the size used ordinarily
in road work have a rated capacity of
about 100 cubic yards per hour.
Use of Scrapers, Wagons, Etc.
To grade a road of any considerable
length, no matter where it is located,
usually will require a considerable
amount of work with devices other
than the grading machine and elevat-
ing grader. The latter machine, as
previously explained, may be very eco
nomical for special conditions to
which they are adapted. But these
special conditions seldom prevail for
more than comparatively short
stretches Of road without sections in
tervening which require that a rela-
lively large volume of material be
moved from excavation to embank-
ment within q distance of only few
hundred feet. Figure 1 shows a typi-
cal cross section for an earth road,
where the grading machine hardly
could be used advantageously except
| for finishing the road surface. To ac-
| complish work of this kind econom-
| ically, the devices for loosening, load
ing and hauling the material must all
be adapted to turning around quickly
in small space and, not infrequently,
must be such as to be handled readily
over very rough ground. Such imple-
ments as wagons, wheeled scrapers,
drag scrapers and plows therefore
/ oh Of ~
on practically all road-grading prof
ects.
The choice of proper implements to
employ in moving material from ex-
cavation to embankment depends, first
on the nature and quantity of the
material to be moved, and, second, on
| the length of haul. In general, where
the material consists of earth it is
loosened with plows and the econom
ical method of hauling is fixed by the
haul length about as follows:
For lengths of haul not exceeding
$50 feet, drag scrapers; for lengths OF
haul between $50 feet and 600 feet
wheeled scrapers; for lengths of hau
above 600 feet, wagons. Where The
material consists of solid rock it mus
be loosened by drilling and blasting
and practically always is hauled il
wagons or carts, regardless of the hau
length.
Types of PIows Used.
Two types of plows commonly ar
used in road grading. One is the typ
generally used for loosening ordinar.
soils, while the other is used for break
ing up hardpan, lode road surfaces ant
other earth unusually difficult t.
loosen. Either type is drawn by fou
horses, or in some cases by Traction
engine, and is operated by three men
including the driver. Such plows aver
age about $50 pounds in weight ant
sell at an average price of from 81
to $1S, but heavier plows of this typ
range in cost up to about $50. Wit
average soil conditions they may b
made to turn a furrow about Z or
inches deep and from to 10 inche
wide. The hardpan plows vary cor
siderably in weight and selling pric
but cost more than the turn plows
One reason for the higher cost is tina
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
What He Feared.

During some building operations it
was necessary for the workmen to
walk across a single plank some dis
tance from the ground.
When it came Pats turn the fore
man noticed that he went across on
all fours. So he went up to Pat and
asked contemptuously:
whats the trouble, man? Are you
afraid of walking on the plank?"
mo, SIR" replied Pat. Its afraid
OF am av walking off it,"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
Character Building.

"Young man." said the solicitous
parent, my daughter has always had
everything she could wish for"
''That's just the reason why she
ought to marry me-" replied the pros
pective Son-in-law.
''What do you mean, sir"
what your daughter needs more
than anything else is few lessons in
self-denial.'- .'-Birmingham Age-HeFald.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
MEAT FOR FOREIGN PEOPLES
Every Farmer Must Put Forth Efforts
to Produce More Hogs-No
Chance of Excess.

If we expect to continue to provide
meat to foreign peoples as well as our
own people, every farmer must put
forth the best effort to produce more
hogs. Hogs can be kept profitably upon
many farms where they are not found
today. Farmers who already raise
hogs can produce many more, as
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
OLD SORES, ULCERS
AND ECZEMA VANISH
Good, Old, Reliable Peterson's oint-
ment q Faverlte Remedy.

HAD 81 ulcers on my legs Doctors
wanted to cut off leg. Peterson's Oint-
ment cured me."-Wm. J. Nichols, 40
Wilder ST., Rochester, N. Y.
Get large box for Is cents at any drug
gist, says Peterson, and money back If it
isn't the best you ever used. Always keep
Peterson's Ointment in the house. Fine
for burns, scalds, bruises, sunburn, and
the surest remedy for itching eczema and
piles the world has ever known.
"Peterson's Ointment Is the best for
bleeding and itching piles I have ever
found. Major Charles E. Whitney, Vine
yard Haven, Mass.
"Peterson's Ointment has given great
satisfaction for Salt Rheum."-Mrs. J. L.
Weiss, Cuylerville, N. Y.
All druggists sell it, recommend it. Adv.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14

UUUOlo UIUUSII great
relief and six bottles have entirely
cured me. All women who have female
trouble of any kind should try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. =
Mrs. Eta DoRIoN, Ogdensburg, Wis.
Physicians undoubtedly did their best,
battled with this case steadily and could
do no more, but often the most scientific
treatment is surpassed by the medicinal
properties of the good old fashioned
roota and herbs contained in Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
If any complication exists it pays to
write the Lydia E. Pinkha.n Medicine
Co, Lynn, Mass. for special free advice.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
Lessons in Manners

Little Girl (who has just lost a
tooth, pointing to dentists showcase)
oh, mummie, would like that one !
Mother-Hush, dear! How often
have l told you it IS very bad man
ners 20 pick your teeth in publicT-
London Tit-Bits.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14

there is not much chance of producing
meat this year in excess of the require
ments.
More dairy farmers should raise hogs
for they fit in especially well upon
dairy farms where skim milk, butter
milk, or whey is fed upon the farm. A
man who has skim milk is in better
position to raise pigs than man who
has none.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14

the points must be made Of a very high
grade of steel in order to be durable.
Drag scrapers are made in 1-horse,
11a-horse and 2-horse sizes, which
have respective rated capacities of 3,
5 and cubic feet. Drag scrapers
have an average weight, when empty,
of from IS to 100 pounds, and an ac-
tual capacity of about three-fourths
the rated capacity. The price, f. o. b.
factory, averages from 81 to Sc per
scrhper.
In operating drag scrapers the driv-
ers also may load and empty the
scraper, but frequently it is ecOnom-
ical to provide additional labOrers for
this purpose. With a haul length OF
100 feet and the teams moving stead
lily, one laborer should be able to load
or empty and spread the material for
about three scrapers. For scraper
work to be effective the material to
be excavated must be thoroughly loos-
ened by the plows and should be free
from large roots or stones. Where
such Instructions occur time is saved
by having them removed by hand dur
ing the process of plowing.
The average small organization for
carrying on road-grading work with
drag scrapers is made up about as fol-
lows:
Force:
to scraper drivers.
laborers for loading scrapers
laborers for dumping and spreading.
l driver for plow.
l laborer to hold plow.
l laborer for trimming shoulders, etc.
4 to tWo-horse teams for scrapers.
or 2 two-horse teams for plow.
Total, 1 foreman, IA laborers, and
teams.
Tools:
6 drag scrapers capacity cubic feeD.
road plow.
2 picks.
2 axes.
mattocks.
3 shoVelS.
The force employed should vary
somewhat with the haul length, which
is usually between 25 feet and $50 feet.
Under average conditions an organiza-
ton such as that described above
should move from 300 to $50 cubic
yards of earth per 10-hour day.
Objectionable Feature.
An Objectionable feature of drag
scraper work is that the embellishments
| tend to settle very irregularly. The
reason is that the successive loads are
not spread out uniformly as they are
| dumped, but are deposited as a success
sion of rather compact cores with the
Intervening spaces consisting of COM
paratively loose material. The loose
material settles more than the COM
pacted spots, and this unequal settle
ment produces pockets in the surface
which hold water and gradually be
come deepened under the action OF
i traffic.
Use Wheeled Scrapers.
Wheeled scrapers are used to o
greater extent in road grading thar
either drag scrapers or wagons. The
reason for this is that in road work the
haul length falls, more frequently thar
otherwise, within the limits for which
wheeled scrapers are economical. Sew
eral different sizes of such scrapers are
in ordinary use, but the size employed
most commonly has an actual loaG
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-14
No Objection.

-JIbbs says he is ready to shed the
last drop Of blood to defend his coun-
try"
$50 he Is, If 1t only happens to be
somebody else's Blood