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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

X ME raft has been used for cen.
turtles for carrying various car
goes" writes Dav Allan Wiley
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04
ORDER FERTILIZER NOW

Every farmer who will need
fertilizer shout figure out his re-
quirements and place an immediate
order with his local dealer for his
entire supply This will enable the
dealer in turn to place his order
with the manufactures vino will
thus be able to ship every car load
ed to maximum capacity. This
action will result in the farmer being
surer of receiving the fertilizer
needed conserve the car supply and
release thousands of cars, which
otherwise would be required for this
traffic, to be loaded with food pro-
ducts. munitions of war and other
commodities vital in our fight for
freedom. The farmer can further
help by assisting the dealer to
promptly unload cars after arrival,
in order that they may be released
at once aud started after another
load of something else. Don't just
Intend" to do this-Act immediate
ly and the combined result will &C.
complish wonders in conserving
the car supply.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04
L M. WOOD

In brief made public asking the
Supreme Court to dismiss cases at
tackins the constitutionality of the
selective draft law, the government
asserts that power conferred upon
Congress TO declare war carries
with it authority to compel military
service either at home or abroad
the legality of which has been re-
peatedly upheld by the courts. The
cases now before the cohrt include
nine appeals from Minnesota,
Georgia and Ohio. 10 which persons
were convicted of either failing to
register on June S or of attempting
to block the operations of the act
by urging others of draft age not to
comply with it.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

And now a scientist says tina t
whiskers shorten life. sap strength
and rob man of Vitality. Upon the
professors attention being called to
a man with a full beard who died
at los years the other day, the
scientist replied. had he carefully
husbanded the strength that was
wasted in nurturing a luxuriant
crop of billy goat whiskers. the
man might have lived to a ripe
old age" There is no getting ahead
of a scientist.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

This country is in good shape.
The farmers are becoming more
scientific each year. are diversity
ing their crops and have discarded
obsolete methods of cultivation. The
happy-eo-lucky method is fast be-
coming a thing of the past and the
people are learning to make two
ears Of corn grow where one former
ly grew.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04
GET MACHINER EARLY

The farmer who does not resolve
to begin the new year with bis
thoughts bent upon his machinery
wants for the 1918 crop is sure to
be awakened with a saddening jolt
along about blowing time.
The tractor and implement man.
ufacturers are up against a short
age of raw material that can scarce.
ly be relieved in time to meet the
years war needs of agriculture. In
stead of spring surplus which was
the bane Of the implement industry
for so many years, there's every
likelihood of farm machinery fam.
inc next spring.
Manufacturers have been beg
giDg for government aid ever since
we entered the war, but hAve made
very little progress in obtaining the
supplies of raw material they were
in desperate need Of In some high
circles in Washington the belief
seemed to obtain that it was poss-
ible to increase food production
without the aid of labor or machin.
cry. Due allowance must be made
for an enormously greater demand
for raw metal products for arma-
ment and ship building, yet it would
be a fatal blunder not to recognize
the industry that. supplies agricul-
ture with its mechanical power as a
positively essential war-time in
dustry.
Perhaps the government will act
in time slightly to relieve the short
age, but no matter; what is done at
this late date tractor and imple-
ment manufacturers will scarcely
be able to fill the demands upon
them. Farmers who require trac-
tors. tillaee or harvesting machin-
cry, stationary engines. dairy barn
or hay barn equipment. tools, re.
pair parts, or any sort of machan.
ical appliance, will be wise to make
an early choice and get their or
ders in. For q large number OF
farmers to wait until the eleventh
hour to make up their minds will
likely prove disastrous to them
selves and to agriculture generally
1t will bring chaos and confusion
upon a great industry; it will fur
ther complicate already intricate
and battling labor and transporta
ton problems.
Those who make an early pur
of any sort of labor saving machin
cry will render a definite service tt
their country in trying period
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

Turkey at least has very little to
show for its participation in the Ho-
henzollern venture. 1t warded off
the Allies blow at Constantinople.
to be sure. but since then it has
lost Armenia, Arabia and the most
valuable part of Mesopotamia; and
now the British are taking the Holy
Land out of the trembling hands of
the Sultan. Two-thirds of the terri
tory over which that sovereign
claimed rule three years ago is now
in the hands of his enemies, and
not much of it is likely to find its
way back beneath his sway. Jeru-
salem is almost certainly lost to
the Moslem forever; aud if the Jews
foretold their return to Palesties
may now perhaps he fulfilled.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Smith have
returned to their home in Palmyra
after spending the Xmas holidays
at the homeof his parents, Mr., and
Mrs. Evan Smith.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

Mrs. Robin Keene left Saturday
night for Kansas City to join her
husband, Lieut. Keene, and from
there they departed for Camp
Funston.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

The brewers say that beer takes
the place of bread. We've known
booze to take the place of a mans
farm, friends and most every other
good thing he owned
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

II the alien enemy restrictions
seem harsh. he knows how to make
them rest lightly. All he has to do
is to respect the laws and attend
strictly to his own business.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

Next to the Beleians the war
hasn't hit no one as hard as it has
theI tiehtwads.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04
Share Holders Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the Share
holders of the Citizens Bank, Mon
roe City, Missouri, will be held at
it's banking rooms, 100 South Main
Street in said City. on Monday Jan.
IA, 1918, between the hours of 8
a. m. and 4 p. m. for the election Of
nine directors. and for the trans
action of such other business as
may properly come before said
meeting.
Daniel Boone. President.
J. P. Patton, Secretary.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04
VINOL MAKES
WEAK WOMEN
STRONG
Positive-Convincing Proof

TOSltlVe-NOnV IEoOt
We publish the formula of Vinol
to prove convincingly that it has the
power to create strength.
r Cod Liver and Beef Peptones, iron
and Manganese Peptonates, Iron and
Giyeerophosphates, casearin.
ANY woman who buys a bottle of
Vinol for a weak, rundown, nervous
condition and finds after giving it a
fair trial it did not help her, will
have her money returned.
You see, there is no guess work
about Vinol. It's formula proves
there is nothing like it for all weak.
rundown, overworked, nervous men
and women and for feeble old people
and delicate children. Try It once
and be convinced.
M WON.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

The worst thing about short
shirts and pink hose. is the tenden-
CT among our young men to marry
nd haste.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

While the wages of most workers
ate being regulated to conform to
the high cost of living, the wages
OF sin remain the same.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

The agriculture bulletins have
begun to kill next years wheat crop
already. 1t will die forty-seven
deaths before we reap a big yield
next July.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

Every once in a while we meet a
fellow that's too honest to steal, too
ptOud to beg, and too tired to
Wbrk.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

Where did the notion originate
that town people knew more than
country people?
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

We all pretend to be patriotic
bit how many of US know the
words of the Star Spangled Ban
n{r?"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

AS homely as some women are,
WHY do they waste good money on
fine clothes?
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

The road to Ruin is always as
smooth as a floor; no drags are
needed.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

Roy Yates. of Kendall, Kansas ar
rived in this city last week to visit
his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John Yates
west of this city.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

1fGermany should win this war
it Wouldn't he necessary to die to
fO-to Hell.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

Talking of receptions for the new
pastors, who ever heard of a recep-
ton for an editor?
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

A ten ID. son arrived at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. H. Meyers
northeast of this city Tuesday morn
Ing, December rs
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

When poor pa buys new suit,
the children think that the fortune
has been made at last.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

Dr. Rush Turner. of St. Louis is
visiting his father, DR.. Geo. L. Tur-
ner and family.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

If any further proof was needed
to convince one that the pen is
mightier than the sword" one has
only to recall the price of pork.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

Nothing succeeds like success,
but likewise nothing falls like fail
ure.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

For real pleasure on a winter
evening there is nothing that beats
sitting by a stove In a grocery store
dteading the trip home.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

The man who does only what he
has,to do to hold his job is never
worth what he is paid.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04
THE DEMOCRAT
SUBSCRIPTIONS, 81 10 PER YEAR

Erteret AZ the Postoffice at Monroe
Gftyt'Nrn AS Second-Class Matter
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-04

FRIDAY JANUARY 4, 1918
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-05
NEITHER PENCIL NOR PEN
Writing implement, Made of Mixture
of Wax and Ground Pumice
Stone, Recent Invention.

A writing implement composed of a
mixture of wax and finely ground pu-
mice stone containing particles of ink
has been invented by William G. Geer
of Akron, o.. to take the place Of ordi-
nary and fountain pens, pencils, cray
ons and all other writing implements,
say the Popular Science Monthly. AS
the body of the new writing device is
composed of a mixture of wax and
pumice stone, which is easily worn
away when rubbed against a paper
surface, the inventor claims that the
cells of ink intermixed with the wax
and pumice stone will also be liber-
ated, giving a uniform supply Of ink.
The device is made by mixing the
wax, pumice stone and ink together.
When it is heated to the proper tenn
perature it is suddenly immersed in
cold water. This chills and solidif1es
the wax mixture, producing body
having a cellular structure, each cell
being filled with ink.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-05
Government 20 Use Buildings.

PROF. G. G. Eutting, who will lead a
party of Iowa scientists in an expedi-
ton to the West Indies next summer,
has received word, says the Iowa Uni
versity News Letter, that the English
government building on the Pelican
islands, which will be the base of the
expedition, will not be turned over to
the explorers without cost. Some of
the men who intended to go with this
expedition at first have since entered
war service, but plans are going for
ward. rapidly and the outlook is most
promising, Professor Nutting declares.
He made a preliminary visit to the
goal Of the expedition last summer, and
says that he has never seen a place
where the opportunity for scientific re.
search was any greater.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-05

tlers?" she began hesitatingly; and
hesitation was not by any means a
mental habit with Billy Louise.
81 mean just what l said" Char
lies manner was becoming more nat
ural, more confident. "Pve been rid
ing through the hills a good deal, and
I've seen a few things. And I've an
idea the fellow got a little uneasy"
He saw her vince little at the word
fellow" and he went on, with an
impulsive burst of confidence: Miss
Louise, have you ever, in your riding
around up above Jones canyon, in all
those deep little gulches, have you ever
seen anything of a-corral, up there?"
Billy Louise held herself rigidly
from starting at this. She bit her lips
so that it hurt whereabouts is it?'
she asked, without looking at him.
And then: Il thought you would go to
any length before you would accuse
anybody"
Il would. But when they deliberate
ly try to hand me the blame-and I'm
not accusing nybody-anybOdy In
particular, am I? The corral is at the
head of steep little canyon or gulch
back in the hills where all these bigger
canyons head. Some time when you're
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-05

riding up that way, you keep an eye
out for it. That" he added grimly,
sis where Peter and I ran across
these cattle; right near that corral"
The heart of Billy Louise went heavy
in'her chest. Was it possible? Doubts
are harder to kill than cats or snakes.
You think they're done for, and here
they come again, crowding close so
that one can see nothing else.
"Have you any idea at all, who
it is?" She forced the words out Of
her dry throat. She lifted her head de-
family and looked at him full, trying
TO read the truth from his eyes and
his mouth.
Charlie Fox met her look, and in his
eyes she read pity-yes, pity for her.
"If I have" he said, with an air of
gently deliberate evasion, 1Tll wait till
am dead before 1 name the man. I'm
not at all sure I'd do it even then, Miss
Louise; not unless / was forced to do
it in self-defense. That's one reason
why 1 brought the cattle down here.
/ didn't want to be placed in a posi-
ton where I should be compelled to
| fight back"
Baffied and angry and hurt to the
very soul of her, Billy Louise opened
the gate and went out. ''If you know
anything to tell, for heavens sake don't
hold back on my accounts It's nothing
to me, one way or the other. I'm nc
rustler, and no friend of rustlers, ii
that's what you're limiting at" She
left them with proud lift to her chin
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-05
Utilized Artificial Flood.

By means of an artificial rise, start
ed on October 19, 1917, at Dam No. z,
Ohio river, and augmented by water
from the Muskingum, Kanawha and
Big Sandy rivers, more than $4,000 tons
of coal from the Kanawha river were
delivered to Cincinnati and other river
cities, says a bulletin Of the depart
ment of commerce. Every available
tugbOat and barge was used in this
movement, even the small harbor boat
of one of the coal companies being
utilized to bring down four coal boats,
and. snowboat pusher was chartered
to bring down ten barges. Fourteen
tows of more than 200 craft were in
the movement. Last August, during a
period Of extremely low water, fleet
of barges, which carried 1900 tons
of coal, was successfully moved by
means of artificial floods. About q
year ago two similar experiments were
carried out successfully at time when
there was a shortage Of coal in Gin.
| cinnati
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-05
ljoht and Thouuht.

Not all thought is travelling. The
supposition that when one thinks Of
the moon ones thought travels to the
moon is a mistake, for the thought is
formed in the mind and remains there.
The time taken to "think Of anything"
declares a writer, occupies some
small fraction of a second. Light
travels" at the rate of about 10000
miles second, and If it is thought
which travels in what is called tele-
pathy 1t would have to travel at the
same speed because ether, the medium
which transmits light, would also
transmit the brain vibrations that ac-
company thought. The telepathic the
ory of thought which travels" has
been objected to on the ground that
after travelling considerable distances,
such as are sometimes claimed for
telepathic communication. the brain
| vibrations would be SO diffused and
weakened as to make no impression.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-05
SPRAYING POTATOES
TO CONTROL BLIGHT
Experiments Prove That Bor-
deaux Mixture Is Effective.
Results Given of Tests Conducted
Last Year in Aroostook County,
Maine, by the Department
of Agriculture.
prepared by the United States Depart
Inapt of

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
That thorough spraying will control
ton has been proven many times in
the past and most recently in tests
conducted last year in Aroostook
county, Maine, by the United States
department of agriculture in cooper
alton with the Maine agricultural ex-
pertinent station. Some potato grow
ers have expressed their opinion that
it does not pay to spray potatoes for
this disease. Growers of this opinion
claim that when the weather cOndi-
we're, spraying does not control it suffi-
ciently to give an appreciable increase
in the yield, and that in seasons when
the attack is light the increase in the
yield from spraying is not sufficient
to cover the added cost. In one block
where small test plots sprayed with
standard bordeaux mixture were in
terspersed with untreated check
plots, the average yield on IL of the
former was at the rate of 1872 bush
els per acre, while that on an equal
number of untreated plots was at the
rate of 1885 bushels per acre. This
was an increase of 37.7 bushels per
acre, or more than 26 per cent in
favor of bordeaux mixture.
In another similar block the aver
age yield of five plots sprayed with
bordeaux mixture was at the rate OF
nearly 237 bushels per acre, while that
of the four untreated check plots in
the same block was 174.3 bushels
The gain here was 62.5 bushels pei
acre or about 36 per cent due te
spraying. Six applications were made
on all the aforementioned sprayed
plots.
On these experimental plots, spray
ing ought to have been started ten day:
or two weeks sooner, or by the en(
of the first week in July. In spite o.
this fact, the yields given above indi
! cate quite plainly that spraying paid
Moreover, many persons who saw tn
plots during the latter part of the sea
son have testified to the striking diff
ferences on sprayed and unspraye'
portions On all the treated plots, tn
spraying was done with a TRACTION
sprayer which maintained a goo
working pressure Of at least $50 pound
per square inch.
Adjoining one of the experiment.
blocks was a field where spraying wa
begun earlier and eight or nine appl
cations were made. 1t was plante
with the same lot of the same variet
of seed, fertilized the same, and, e1
cept for spraying, received simila
treatment in every respect. The yiel
ON the portion of this field immediate
ly adjoining one of the unspraye
check plots was 267.3 bushels per acr'
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-05
First settlement on Manhattan.

The first habitations of white men
on the island of Manhattan were erect
ed in 1913. The first structures in
the American metropolis were four
small houses, or. rather. huts, and they
were on the site now occupied by the
skyscraper at Al Broadway. 4 bronze
tablet on the building at that address
commentaries the beginning OF New
York city.
The collection of novels gradually
grew into a town, which was almost
wiped out by fire in 1926 The first
fort was commenced in 1852, on site
now occupied by the customhouse,
the main gate of Fort Amsterdam, as
it was called, opening on Bowling
Green, where the first settlers played
their games. In 1858 a wooden wall
was constructed as a defense against
a threatened invasion of New England
ers, and the site of this wall afterward
became Wall street
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-05
NOT COOLEST AT soLsTICE
Crest of Winter Weather Comes Much
Later Than the Accredited Be-
ginning Of That Season.

Though the day as whole begins to
lengthen December %, we have the
puzzling fact that the sun continues
to rise later for some days, a scientist
states. The earth is actually nearer
to the sun at this season than it is in
summer but the suns low angle pre-
vents it from warming things up as it
otherwise would.
Though nominally winter begins"
December %, this is an arbitrary date,
and everybody knows from experience
that this is not the cOldest part of the
year. The crest of the cold comes in
January and February. The reason for
this lag of the cold season is that in
December the earth is still enjoying
the heat it stored up from the sun in
| the summer and it does not cool off
to its maximum point till a month or
| two later.
In the same way the hottest part
of summer is not at the summer sol
stice, June 81 and %, but from 8
month to two months later, for it takes
the earth that long to get warmed up
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-05
Shin of the Desert.

Because of it's peculiar swaying mo-
ton in walking, the camel has been
called the "ship of the desert" This
title may also have some reference to
the extreme stupidity and passivity of
the animal, says Popular Science
Monthly, which submits to great
loads, which it will often carry for
days at a time without stopping for
food or drink, with no more urging
than ship would require from the
hands of it's pilot.
The manner in which the drivers
hobble the camels when they stop for
rest Is interesting. They dc not de-
pend upon stakes driven in the deep,
yielding sand, but simply double back
and tie one end Of the forelegs of the
animal, so that it can lie down or rise
up, but cannot move from the spot.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-05
KEEPING THE TRACTOR BUSY
Owners of Power Outfits Urged to
Make Good Use of Them in In
creasing Food Supply.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Owners of tractors which are not
Kept busy through the plowing and
seeding season will perform a patri-
ic neighborly duty by granting use
OF these outfits to neighbors, who may
be short Of labor or hands to prepare
seedbeds. A reasonable rate of hire
for the tractor would enable the trac-
tors to make a return during other
wise idle periods, but, most important,
will make it possible for others at rea
sonable expenditure to have full acre
age and add to the nations important
food supplies. The same might be fol-
lowed with regard to horses and va
riouS farm machines, which should not
be allowed to remain idle when q food
producing neighbor can keep them busy
on victory crops.