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The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-07
NerX Personal.

Jackson-rve been insulted by the
insolent old barber who shaved me.
WilSon-Indeed
Jackson-Ges lie said shaving me
reminded him of game lie used to
pay. called hunt the hair
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-07

London. Sept. 6.-Four hundred
and sixty-five enemy machines have
been destroyed and 200 disabled since
the commencement of the offensive
on Aug. s, according to an official
statement on aerial operations. Sixty
one hostile balloons were destroyed
and 9l1 tons of bombs dropped on
various targets. Two hundred and
sixteen British machines are missing.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-18
Be Cured First Pay Wbon Cured

A safe and painless cure for Alsohol and Drug Addictions. Strictly private and personal attention assured by a phy- sic.an with years of experience. Address Drawer No. 437
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-18

If it's good coffee with pure cream and the best creamery butter you arc looking for. you will find 1t at Trisby's. 3-8 fl
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
Early Use of Coal in Britain.

Some say that coal was used by the
ancient Britons; at all events, it was
an article of household consumption to
some extent during the Anglo-Saxon
period as early at S52 A. D. 1t GER
tainly was known there in the thir-
teenth century, as is evidenced by a
charter given in 1889 by King Henry
III to the inhabitants of Newcastle-on-
Tyne for the winning of the numerous
coal mines in that region. 1t was,
however, not until 1869 hat the Paris
ians got English coal from Newcastle.
Subsequent coal mines were discov-
cred in various parts of France, nota-
bly, in the departments of Pas-le-Calais
and the Loire. In America the depos-
it's neal Richmond, Va, were discov-
cred in 1701, and mining was begun in
1901, while anthracite was first pro-
duced in 1893.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

The Spanish government has estab-
lished a course of free lectures on
Spanish art and history at Madrid for
the benefit Of tourists.
There will soon be a corps of fer
rets' on the battle front in France for
the purpose of helping to clear out the
rats now infesting the galleries in the
chalk hills left by the Germans in
their retreat. The ferrets are now be-
ing modified and several hundred
have been shipped.
Secretary McAdoo announces that
war insurance has been subscribed for
to the extent of more than 1852, 900, 900
since October s. This amount repre-
sents 64,159 applicants. Applications
come in at the rate of 1000 to 5000 q
day, sometimes more, it is said, with
an average of $5,603 for each man.
Only at one place in the u ted
States is there real tropical vegeta ion.
In the midst of a desert in the ex-
IRENE southern part of California IS a
true oasis. The oasis, Palm Spr.2gs,
lies $50 feet below the sea level. SO
hot is it there that there is a III of
vegetation all the year round.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
sLAVS ARE NOT "MYsTERI0Usr
Their Civilization Is Simply Four Cen
turtles Behind Ours, Says Writer
in Magazine.

I used to see a good deal of a Swede
in P~etrograd who lived with his Rus
sian wife in a little inside tenement
over in the Viborg quarter and wrote
long and very erudite articles in mi
c~roscOpic lOng-hand for q Stockholm so.
cialist newspaper, Arthur Ruhl writes
in Golfers Weekly. A social demo
crat himself, in the b~ewildering shift
ing of political values, he had become
almost conservative. Realism was his
strong point, and he never tired of smil
ing Satirically at western attempts tC
explain the mysterious Russian-espe
cially attempts after the OF
Stephen Graham, always so much more
Russian than the Russians themselves
Mysterious, mysticism, a separate
destiny for the Slavs,'" he would quote
~satirically. "All foolishness. There's
nothing mysterious about Russia-it's
merely four centuries difference in civ
iliZation-that's ALL"
There was something, at. least, il
what he said. Tolstoy's nonresistance
and his final r~enunciation of everything
to go out into the winter night to meet
his God; there was something of race
in this and not mere personal idiosyn-
crasy-something more in the air of
this half-oriental land than it is in
ours. Yet westerners often do forget,
when considering Russia, that its vast
uneducated majority are closer perhaps
to the material life, the superstitions
and ~prejudices of the sixteenth cen
tury, than to Dur own. When Shakes
peare, borrowing for his Roman mobs
the crowds he saw about him in Eliza
bethan London, described their lice
and loutishness, and how they threw
their greasy caps in air." was he not
looking at a person in very much the
same stage of historical development
as the Russian peasant of 1917?
All these things must be remember.
ed in p%icturing day-to-day conditions in
Moscow or Petrograd. An officer at
the front or an unpopular land oWner
in some remote country house literally
doesn't know what may happen to him
before morning. But for most people
life goes on amazingly the same. Chill
dren go to school, postmen deliver let
tiers, the theater and opera run on as
usual and people sit about their samo-
vars talking until all hours in the ge-
NAL Russian fashion.
You must not imagine Petrograd In
terms of stage pictures of Paris during
the terror or imagine that the tova-
rishi carry On a revolution as it might
be carried On in Liverpool or Manches'
ter or Pittsburgh or Chicago.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
City Boy Hears Better.

Our recruiting officers have made an
interesting discovery in gaging the
relative fitness of city and country
boys for service in the army and navy,
according to the Popular Science
Monthly for February. City boys have
better ears.
From the Washington records of the
Marine corps come the assertion that
only one boy in five among those re-
cruited in quiet neighborhoods has the
a%cuteness Of hearing possessed by the
average dweller in a noisy town. The
reflections on the ground of defective
hearing were in the ratio Of five to one
in favor Of "city ears"
The surgeons and scientists assume
that the quiet Of country districts
tends to weaken, through disuse, the
nerves in the ear, while the constant
clamor of the city, really keeps the
aural nerves responsive.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
Removing Blight of islam.

The blight Of Islam which has sealed
Jerusalem for centuries, which has re-
duced Mesopotamia to a desert, Syria
to d~esolation, promises to be lifted at
last over all that region that was the
cradle of civilization and the first gar
den of the world. "The crescent of
fertility stretches from old Judea and
Philistine along the Mediterranean lit
toral curving eastward to the upper
Euphrates and Tigris and then contin-
ling southwark to the Persian gulf,
The zone between the sea and the des-
ert, and again between the mountain
and the desert, will be redeemed as
Egypt has in our own day been re-
deemed, provided the Turk be forced
back northward and westward behind
the Taurus and the Anti-Taurus bar
rier.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15

To help a locomotive fireman with
his work a New York inventor has pat
ented a vibrating pusher that moves
coal from the back of a tender toward
the front.
Many thousands of humpback sal
mon, native of the Puget sound, where
they were collected by the government
two years ago, entered Pembroke,
Dennys, Penobscot, st. Croix and
other rivers in eastern Maine this
autumn as part of the fisheries bureau
plan of stocking the East with the
pride Of the Pacific coast catch.
Hawaii is the only place under Unit
ed States control where the humble
cent is not used. However, now that
the war tax is effective, it is expected
that the much-despised coin will be-
come popular in Honolulu.
The remarkable engineering feat Of
removing the steel railroad and wagon
bridge across the Missouri river at
st. Joseph, NO., to new piers wac &C
complished recently without 3 hitch
at eight o'clock in the morning and
was reopened at six O'Clock tina same
evening. The three spans. 300 feet
long and weighing $500 tons, III told,
were moved 1876 feet in Is Minutes
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
Sorrow.

It would be a poor result of all u
anguish and our wrestling if we won
nothing but our old selves at the end
Of it, if we could return to the same
blind loves, the same self-confdent
blame, the same light thoughts of
human suffering. the same frivolous
gossip over blighted human lives, the
same feeble sense of the unknown
world towards which we have sent
forth irrepressible cries in u loneli-
ness. Let US rather be thankful that
our sorrow lives in us as an indestruc-
tible force, only changing its form as
forces do, and passing from pain into
sympathy-the one poor word which
includes all our best insight and our
best love.-George Eliot.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15

After "a hours of self-imprisonment
in the statehouse, the assembly at Mad
ison. deadlocked over the anti-Follette
resolution, reached a compromise
which broke the deadlock. The reso-
luton c%ondemning Senator La Toilette
was passed by a vote of 81 to 30.
Facing probably the direst calamity
which ever befell the "corn belt"-in
Illinois alone one-third Of the normal
corn acreage may have to be aban-
doned or planted in other crops-the
state council of defense is standing
sponsor for a revolving fund of $1,000
600 to be used in the purchase, If pos
sible, of 400, 900 bushels of seed for the
farmers Of the state.
Control of the house of representa-
tlves was regained by the Democrats
when they elected their candidates
from four districts in Greater New
York at special elections called to
choose successors to four members of
that party who had resigned their
seats. New York women cast 31,S5S
votes out Of a total of 1892 in the
four districts. The men elected are
John J. Delaney, William E. Cleary,
Jerome f. Donovan and Anthony J..
Griffin.
A large part of the business section
Of Canton, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire.
The loss may reach 100000.
The assembly at Albany, N. Y, by a
vote of 90 to 90, adopted the judiciary
committees report favoring New
York states ratification of the federal
prohibition amendment.
Temporary suspension of the meat
less meal and of the special restriction
against the use of pork on Saturday
was announced by the food admins
tratlon as a reimbursement Of it's food
conservation program. Increased meat
production and the necessity for still
greater saving in wheat, it was de-
clared, make the change advisable.
The greatest wooden ship since
Noah's Ark was launched at Orange
Tex, according to word reaching the
offices of the Southern Pine associa.
ton at Washington. 1t is $50 feet
long. 4S beam, and has a capacity Of
100 tons.
The usual spring reduction of 81
cents a ton for anthracite coal, begin
ming April l, will again be put in fore,
this year, according to a statement is
sued Mt Philadelphia by William Pot
ter. federal fuel administrator TO
Pennsylvania.
Railway Director McAdoo approve,
/, recommendations Of Regional Directo
!, II. II. Ashton for Encouragement o
b the passenger train service betwee-
: Chicago and Philadelphia. There ar
now 10 trains a day between the tw
! cities, and the number will be cut .
nine. Tickets will be made inter
changeable.
Flying an aggregate distance of s
. 600 miles in ~ hours, aviation cadet
at San Diego, CAL, have broken a
records for American aviation trair
ing mileage, it was announced.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
When Surgeon Washes His Hands.

DR.. R. r. Won Baracz, the eminent
Austrian surgeon, recommends in the
Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift
the following method Of washing the
hands for surgeons before performing
operations or handling wounds. He
says he learned it from Doctor Weir
of New York:
A handful of chloride of lime is
placed on one plate and some crystals
Of ordinary soda on another. After
carefully cleaning the hands with soap
and brush, a soupspoonful of chloride
of lime and a crystal of soda are taken
In the hands and crushed together with
a little water. This forms a paste on
the hands and requires three or four
minutes. The hands are then rinsed
In sterile water. The odor of the chlor-
inc that Is released can be removed
by ammonia water, L to 5 per cent.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
Science ForetelIs Cyclones.

Cyclones may be anywhere from so
to 500 miles in diameter, and may trav-I
ell over a path 5000 miles in extent.
Within a few years modern science
has done much to increase our knowl-
edge of cyclones and the sailor of to-
day knows not only in what region to
expect them, but he has also learned.
the path in which they move and d.
rection of the wind.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15

Billets for soldiers who fight on the
western front can be anywhere. But
the strangest place that any fighter
had to put up for the night on the
fighting lines is shown in this British
official photograph. A great concrete
tank which turned over in a bonn
bardment is being utilized by the Tom
mics and they have made a real cozy
home Of the huge cylinder. They are
shown here going in for a rest. The
picture is an excellent reminder of
the old lady who lived in a shoe with
her immense family. This home is
just as different from the average hab-
itation as the shoe, and the family of
Tommies who lodge here is equally
immense.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
They Put Him In the Copper,

In the Tudor days the poisoner
was liable to be condemned to DEATH
by boiling; while under another stat
ute, the man convicted of theft shall
have his head shaved, melted pitch.
poured upon it, and the feathers from
q pillow shaken over it, that he may
be known After all there are ad-
vantages in living in the twentieth
century!
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15

A Swiss commercial paper states
that there is a great shortage in coal
of all kinds, an insufficient supply 0!
wood for fuel, and small reserves il
oils and grease throughout Switzer
land. Fresh eggs have disappeared
from the market. Dry vegetables ara
becoming more scarce. A project to
manufacture flour from potatoes had
to be abandoned because sufficient sup
plies of potatoes could not be secured
In Holland coal and coke prices
have been advanced. In American
terms, the maximum price for anthra-
cite is about $50 a ton coke. $40 a ton +;
coal briquets, $50 a ton. Distribution
is carefully regulated by cards, in
specified quantities. The amount al
lowed, especially to residences, is
much smaller than in peace times.
New French food regulations forbid
eating houses to serve of consume
in the preparation of food. Curdled
or sour milk is prohibited as we'll as
cream and specified kinds of cheese.
The making of pastries, biscuits, and
confectionery is prohibited. Only in
dining cars, canteens and railroad re-
freshment stations may fresh or con
densed milk or cream be served after
9 In the morning, by itself or mixed
with coffee, tea, or other preparation
No solid foods may be served between
9 and IL in the morning and between
4:3O and $50 in the evening. When
the price of a meal exceeds S1.20 the
customer may be served with not more
than two dishes with or without vege
tables, or more than one small loaf Of
ordinary bread. The bread is limited
to about 49, ounces. All grain which
may be used for making bread is re-
served for human food.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
Had RIqht to Be Peeved.

"Blings missed an important engage
ment the other day because of the
transportation situation and now he
thinks he's got a good case against the
railroad" did they annul his train ?"
Motley ran it on time."-Buffalo
Express.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15

Rife and cartridge production in the
United States has developed in volume
and in quality on. a scale assuring the
satisfactory equipment of the army,
according to a statement authorized by
the secretary of war.
To achieve the rife and ammunition
production program the government
has expended or has obligated itself to
expend, during 10 months of war,
s40O, 900, 900, and 200 officers, $4,000
men, and 10000 women have been en-
gagged exclusively in the manufacture
Of rifles and cartridges. Two govern
ment plants and three privately owned
plants are engaged in making rifles
md one government plant and nine
privately owned plants are engaged in
cartridge manufacture. Ordnance ex-
perts in this country and in Europe
are in agreement that the United
States army is being equipped with
two of the best three rifles in the
world.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15

For some MONTHS Sir Eric Geddes.
first lord of the admiralty, said in adj
dresses in the house of commons in
London, I'VE believe that we and the
Americans have been sinking subma-
rines as fast as they are built" The
trend of the figures of loss of shipping
by enemy action was steadily improv-
ing, Sir Eric stated. The loss to the
worlds tonnage during February was
little more than half the loss during
February of last year. he said.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
PROPERLY Sized Up.

EYES," remarked a conceited young
bachelor, 81 have the greatest admira-
ton for the fair sex, but I never ex-
pect to marry-oh, dear, mol" "In-
deed" a lady remarked. Then 1 am
to understand that you not only ad.
mire women, but you have a sincere re-
gard for them as we'll"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15

Important
News Events
of the World
Summarized
U. S.-Teutonic War News

American troops are now holding
something over eight miles of trenches
ON the battle front in France, 1t was
learned at Washington, although in an
airline their frontage is only about
four and a half miles. This frontage
Is liable to extension at any time to
the regular trench allotment for an
army corps.
The American steamship Armenia,
formerly a German merchantmen, lies
beached and badly damaged on the
British coast after being torpedoed by
n German submarine, 1t was learned
with the arrival Of the Armenla's crew
at nm Atlantic port.
=
Conscription of income is inevitable
IL the next Liberty loan is not a sue
cess, Representative Rainey of Illinois,
ranking Democratic member of the
house ways and means committee, de-
clared.
Forty-three American soldiers had
been killed In action in France at the
end OF March 2, while 252 had been
wounded and 35 captured or missing,
according to war department informa-
ton.
A German attack at night on the
trenches held by American forces In
Lorraine was repulsed, the French Of
fetal statement issued at Paris an
nounccd. American patrols operating
in the anne region, the statement adds,
took n number of German prisoners.
Building a $25,0 1000 ordnance base
IN France. which will include about
twenty large storehorses, II shop
buildings. 100 smaller shops and maya
zines and machine tool equipment, was
announced by the war department ct
Washington.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
Renisterinn a Mkick.U

"Do you remember thin moth balls
yez sold me to kill moths wid?" said
Casey to the druggist. "Well, I'm tellin'
yez they're no good. OF broke tin
shillin's' worth of chiny and winders
THROWN thin little balls at the plaguey
things, and niver killed wan !"-Lon-
don Tit-BitS,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15

At a meeting of a special diplomatic
commission In Tokyo, the leader of the
selyukal presented the decision of the
party against the moving of troops by
Japan except in the event OF more Sc
rious developments, which may prove
to be a menace to the situation in the
far East. >
Rodriguez Alvez was elected presi-
dent of Brazil without opposition. Al
vez ran on a platform favoring strong
prosecution of the war against Ger
many.
Authentic information received at
The Hague from Asia Minor direct, is
that the entire Armenian male popula-
ton Of Samsun, thousands of whom
were driven there by the Turks, n
including children, have been mas
sacred.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
naIIv ThoIInhf

To be able to obey ideas. to be free
from self-consciousness, to be simple
these are the secrets of courage.-Phil-
Inns Brooks.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15

In an announcement by the food ad-
min~istration the cause for advance in
ricn prices is attributed to the fact
that most rice mills have been running
to full capacity in order to supply the
demand for 100000 bags for Ameri-
can and allied fighting forces. AS a
result the normal supply for home con-
sumption has been temporarily re-
duced. Lower prices are forecast.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
nine PAIRS SHOES
FOR PERSHING MEN
GENERAL ASKS FOR LARGE
FooTeEAR SUPPLY FOR SOL
DIERS IN FRANCE.
ATRPLANE MISHAPS ARE FEW
With Hundreds Of Men Learning to
Fly, War Department Records Show
Number of Accidents at Military AVI-
alton Fields Comparatively Small.

Washington.-Gen. PerShing has
requested shipment of 1880 pairs of
shoes for each $4,000 men monthly,
which is approximately nine pairs Of
shoes per man per year. This guam
tity is in excess of actual consumption
and is being used to build up a re-
serve for all troops in France. When
such a supply is accumulated, the
quantities per man will be reduced.
The quartermaster generals de-
partment now has on hand and due
on outstanding contracts, 7,564,O00
field shoes and 7,S73,000 marching
shoes. 1t will be necessary to secure
more than a million additional shoes
during the year.
Records of the war department show
that from the beginning of training in
June, 1917, to February %, 1918, the
fatalities at military aviation fields
in this country have been 81; 10 Of
ficers and 90 cadets killed in training
flights, and u men killed in u%nauthor-
lied flights and ground accidents.
Since the training began in the
United States, student aviators have
flown considerably more than 100000
miles. Hundreds of hitherto inexa
perienced men have been learning to
fly. Their early flights are under the
guidance of instructors, and prior to
these flights two or more months are
spent in preliminary ground work.
There zones a time, however, when
every student aviator must take his
machine up alone, and every precau-
ton has been taken to reduce the
number of accidents and safeguard
the aviator in his solo flights.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
Personal

John f. Redmond, the Irish leader,
died in London. Death was due to
heart failure following an operation.
He was born in 1851 at Wexford, Ire
land.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15

At each environment in the United
States a school has been established
where every officer and man receives
instruction in gas defense. The Ameri-
can gas mask, similar to the British, is
as mechanically perfect as the best
experts have been able to produce.
The face piece, with glass or celluloid
eyepieces, is connected by a flexible
tube with a canister carried in a KNAPP
sack. The incoming breath comes;
through the canister, which is filled
with several layers of chemicals which
neutraliZe or render harmless the gas
laden air. Outgoing breath passes
outside the face piece through a small
valve.
The student in gas defense soon
learns to get his mask on in a hurry,
six seconds being the standard time
when the knapsack containing the mask
is hanging at his chest in the "alert"
position. After intensive training a
gas attack is arranged. The class is
put in trenches, and without warning,
clouds of smoke and chlorine are lib
Grated by the instructors, masks are
hurriedly put on, alarms sounded, and
sleeping men in dugouts aroused.
When the attack ceases the trenches
are cleared of gas, the air is tested,
and permission is given to remove
masks.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-15
Whv Solitude Is Desirable.

Solitude is the chief support of the
affections; it would be impossible to
love your fellow man If you knew you
could never get away from him.-From
tiD Atlantic.