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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
OLDEST LOVE LETTER FOUND
Modern Scientist Declares II to Have
Been Written About the Time
of Abraham.

The oldest love letter in the world
has been found-and read by eyes for
which it never was intended. Dr..
Stephen Herbert Langdon, Museum Of
Art and Sciences, University of Penn
sylvania, was the man to find this
billet doux, written on a tablet of clay
about the time of Abraham. He also
has brought to life what Is said to be
the Oldest map in existence, drawn
about 1900 B. c. or another tablet Of
clay.
Here is the letter, which, sad to re-
late, is partly selfish:
ITO Kaka and Mirslia say:
"Thus saith Sin-magir.
MAY the Sun-dog give you good
health.
"How Is this business?
"For a whole month you have not
sem anybody to ask about my welfare.
Snow I direct Shamashepiri unto
you.
"Send me 80 pints Of barley meal
and ten pints of bean flour.
81 am in trouble.
"Give quickly.
"What you send deduct from your
tithes.
GAS to the rest, send 1t according to
future Instructions"
Evidently the writer was fond of
both Kaka and Mirslia, two sisters. Al
though the letter could scarcely be
called affectionate, as the present gen.
Grafton understands the word, its
translator assures us that 1t is a bona
fde crOss-your-heart love letter.
The map found by Doctor Langdon
was of Babylonian origin and indicates
a supposedly suburban district Joined
together by canals.-Rehoboth Sunday
Herald.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
SEPTEMBER SUGAR
SITUATION ACUTE
NEVADA'S ALLOTMENT FOR
MONTH is 35O,OOO
POUNDS 4

Nevada's allotment of sugar for
September being but 100000
pounds, strictest economy is neces-
sary in order that canning require
ments may be met, says a statement
issued today by the federal food ad-
ministrator for Nevada.
Many cases are known where
households have purchased sugar
for preserving and then have used
this sugar for table use and cook
ing. All such cases will be careful
ly investigated and the rules strictly
enforced. The rule of two pounds
of sugar per person applies to ev-
cry one in the United Stataes and
no hardship whatever is caused if
common sense and thrift are OBJ
served.
Sugar means ships, ships mean
soldiers; soldiers by the hundred
thousand now are worth millions
later; the end of the wal is brought
nearer with every pound of sugar
saved.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
TEACHERS
LOST FOR DAYS
IN VOLCANO
LOSE WAY IN GREAT CRATER
ON ISLAND OF
MAUI

HONOLULU, T. H., Sept. 10. =
Lost for four days in the immense
crater of Haleakala on the island
of Maui, the largest extinct volcano
in the world, a party Of four Homo
lulu school teachers, Henry Abel,
Hazel Abel, Edna Lockridge and
Elizabeth Appleton, have at last
reached the sea and safety at Kea-
nae, Maui, after terrible hardships.
That the three young women and
their companion escaped death in
the almost impenetrable jungles
through which they cut their way
for miles is considered remarkable.
They were completely exhausted
when they reeled into the settle
ment at Keanae.
The crater of Haleakala has an
elevation of 1902 feet and an area
within the towering rim Of 16 1-3
SQUARE miles. At one point 1t Is 20
miles from rim to rim. The floor
of the crater is a veritable wilder
ness.
Refusing the services of a guide,
the party entered the crater with
food for only one day and with lit
tie water. On this they sustained
life during the four days they
fought their way to the sea.
Going into the crater they had
planned to come out through the
Kaupo gap, a ~well-known trail, but
became lost when heavy clouds OBJ
scured all landmarks.
The intense cold of the high alti-
tude added to their sufferings dur
ing the nights they were lost, as
they had no blankets. Much of the
time they were without water and
after the first day they had no food
but berries and fruit.
They eventually got out of the
crater through the Keanae cut and
from there struggled to the coast
through the jungle. Old resident
declare this trip has been made only
once before, and then by an ex-
perienced mountaineer.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
ONLY BUSINESS THAT OF WAR
Parisians in Every Walk Of Life Have
But One Thought, to Defeat the
Hated Enemy.

In Paris n realized at last the
meaning of the business of war;" 1t
had entered into every phase of life.
As u men commute to business, so
the Poilus commute to the trenches,
each trip of uncertain length; and in
place of competition, financial or 9TH
erwise, they go to a business of life
and death, writes William Beebe in
the Atlantic Monthly.
Few men could show the same vigor
and enthusiasm as do these Poilus. For
years they had faced high adventure
that most men know, If Mt all, only in
an annual vacation. To myself and to
others whose life work carries them
into dangers from the elements and
from savage men, war held no absolute
novelty. (The writer is a famous
naturalist.) But think of the gunner,
formerly a travelling salesman for wom-
ems hosiery, of the stretcher bearer
ment store! Did the florist whom l
met ever conceive that he would be re-
moved from sausage-balloon duty be-
cause of un~conq1erable air sickness?
Think of the children in Paris old
enough to talk and walk, who have
never known a world free from univer-
sal war, and it will be easier to real
ize the daily, monthly, yearly labor
and worry which have worn for them
selves ruts deep into the life routine
and emotions of this Latin people. AS
the medical student loses all sensi-
tiyeness concerning the handling Of
human fingers and feet and hands, so
the participants in the a without
being really callous or insensitive,
come to take danger, wounds, disabil-
ity, as incidents, not finalities.
Ones geography Of Paris would
read: The city Is bounded on the
north by supply depots, on the south
by hospitals and on the west by air
dromes. Its principal imports and ex-
ports are bandages, Grape, wooden legs
and Colonials; its products are war
bread, war literature, faith and hope.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
IS YOUR DESK MAHOGANY?
More Than Fifty Different Woods Are
Put on the Market and Sold
Under That Name.

The name mahogany" is applied
commercially to more than fifty differ
ent woods. Perhaps half the lumber
now sold under hat name is not true
mahogany, for the demand greatly ex-
ceeds the supply.
The tree is only native to the limited
area between southern Florida and
northern South America. Nowhere else
does it really flourish. But the public
will have mahogany. Women want 1t
for furniture, business men prefer 1t
for office fixtures, and teak and mahOg-
any are rivals in the affections of ship
builders. Therefore substitutes -four
ish.
1t is not surprising that the real
wood is so expensive when it is learned
that it takes from 100 to $50 years for
a mahogany tree to reach merchant
able size.
Most of the substitutes bear little
more than a general resemblance to
the genuine wood. but skillful finishing
makes them very much alike. Experts
can usually distinguish between them
by the aid of an ordinary pocket lens.
The efforts of the superficial, however.
to judge the wood by its appearance,
weight, grain and color often lead them
astray.-Popular Science Monthly.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
AMERICAN LEADER
IS DESCENDANT
OF ALSAT|ANS
Is DIRECT DESCENDANT OF
FRENCH HUGENOTS OF
ALSACE

OKMULGEE, Okla, Sept. 7.-Ac-
cording to records in the posses
sion of Mrs. Hattie l.. Hagar of Ok
mulgee, General John j. Pershing,
commander of the American expedi-
tionary forces in France, is a di-
rect descendant of French Hugenots
of Alsace, the great-great grand
father of the present general hav-
ing been born within sight of the
Rhine.
Mrs. Hagar, who is a second
cousin of the general, has in her
possession the complete family tree,
from Frederick Pershing, born in
1874; down to the present genera
ton.
According to this record, Freder-
lex Pershing, great-great grandfath-
er of General Pershing, was born in
Alsace about three-quarters of a
mile from the river Rhine.
When Frederick Pershing came
to America in 1749 the family name
was "Pfoerchin," which in French
means silk" and in German
peach Some years later mem
bers of the family changed the
name to better suit the English Ian
guage and it became "Pershin."
Isaac Pershin, a prominent mem
Der of the family, added the final
'g." Descendants of Frederick
Pershing now are scattered through
the United States.
The Rev. Daniel Pershing, fourth
son of Frederick, and great grand
father of General Pershing, was a
Methodist preacher in Pennsylvania
in the latter part of the eighteenth
century.
The Rev. Daniel Pershing died in
Derry township, Pennsylvania, in
1888. His son, Joseph, was the
grandfather of General Pershing,
whose fathers name was John
Fletcher Pershing. General Perish
ing's father moved westward from
Pennsylvania in the early days and
General Pershing was born at Lac
lede, Mo-, according to Mrs. Hagar's
data. His birthday was on Sept. 13.
1860.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
AERIAL BOMBING
IS BECOMING
SCIENCE
COOL HEAD Is REQUIRED TO
MANIPULATE INSTRU-
MENTS

BEHIND BRITISH LINES IN
FRANCE, Sept. 6. = Aerial bomb
ing is today far more of an exact
science than was supposed possible
a years and a half ago. In the
early days of the war dropping
bombs was largely a matter of luck,
and the straight eye of the aviator
was the only factor relied upon for
success.
Today, however, matters are en-
tirely different. Accurate bomb
sights have been produced which,
carefully used, are a guarantee of
the bomb falling on the object aim
ed at, within a very small margin
of error.
OF course, in the case of all such
instruments, the human element is
sometimes responsible for errors of
calculation, and a small error on a
bomb-sight at $4,000 feet will send
a bomb far out of it's course. In
the words of an American airman
who has done some splendid raiding
work in France: 1T is wonderful
what you can miss with a bomb"
From this it must not be thought
hat the majority of allied bombs
do not reach their billets in Ger
many or in the German lines; for
aerial photographs taken after raids
have shown hat they do, but en-
phasis is laid on the Importance of
the personal factor in bombing.
In the excitement of work of this
kind, often in the midst of heavy
shell fire, a cool head is required to
manipulate an instrument as deli
cate as a bomb-sight.
British airmen, for example, re-
ceive a very thorough training in
bombing before they are allowed to
proceed overseas, and must obtain a
certain number of hits before they
can graduate.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
Young Women Shine Shoes.

A bootblacking establishment, owned
and personally managed by a young
woman, and conducted exclusively by
young women, is the latest war nov
city ut Clarksburg. w. Va. Miss Helen
Saunders, until recently connected with
a restaurant, has bought a shoe-shining
parlor and all the young men employed
there have been replaced by young
women Young men of draft age were
thus released for military service and
for farm and industrial work.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
TWO PROMINENT
GOLOF|ELOERS
TO ENTER
ARMY
HAROLD A. MORRISON AND JOHN
MCCULLOUGH CALLED
FOR SERVICE

Harold A. Morrison received no.
tice yesterday from Major-General
William Black, chief of engineers
at Washington, to appear in Los
Angeles for examination Sept. IL.
He left this morning and will motor
to San Francisco by way of Carson.
If Morrison passes the examina-
ton successfully he will receive a
captains commission within two
weeks and enter officers training
camp in Virginia.
On the motor trip to San Fran
cisco Morrison is accompanied by
John Mccullough, who has been
summoned by the ordnance depart
ment. He expects to take his eX-
animation in San Francisco at an
early date. Mccullough has been
for several years in charge OF the
Consolidated company's assay office
and is we'll known in Goldtield as
an able and experienced engineer.
Morrison and Mccullough have
been close friends for many years,
having entered the university OF
California at the same time, gradu-
ating together in the class of 'O4.
Both men are enthusiastic over
the opportunity to enter the serv-
ice.
They are of fine physical and
mental type and should make able
officers.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
Practice Handwriting.

For years business people have de-
pended on the typewriting machine
for their letters, and have neglected
their handwriting. The dearth of ma
chimes is now being generally felt, es-
pecially in commercial houses. n
once more it has become necessary to
be able to write clearly and legibly.
For the first time the other day the
head of a big business firm took the
trouble to get specimens of the hand
writing of his staff of female clerks.
There were scarcely six who could
write a really good hand. people
won't take the time to read a bust
ness letter unless it is legibly written"
was his Q~uerulous comment.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
J.. Sis PREPARING
FOR CONFLICT
IN TRADE
SURVEY OF COMMERCIAL IN
TERESTS TO BE
MADE

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.-Pre-
liminary to the training of an army
of young men and women for an
American trade drive after the war,
a survey of commercial interests in
Is large cities of the country will
be started this month by a COM
mittee of prominent business men
and educators, appointed by P. P.
C~laxton, United States commission
err of education.
The survey, according to John
Clausen, San Francisco banker and
member of the committee, will dis
close that qualifications will be re-
quired of applicants for foreign
trade specifications, and Will be
made the basis of an appeal to
American schools and colleges for
cooperation with American bust
ness in the contest for world trade
which will follow the war.
Mr.. Clausen said the survey
would probably be concluded by the
end of this year. Special training
for United States consular positions
and private export trade enterprises
will be recommended.
THE committee of fifteen" as it
is known, was named by Commits
sioner Claxton at the second pan
American conference at Washing
ton. Its chairman is Glen Levin
Swiggett, specialist in commercial
education, bureau of education, and
E. d. Adams, professor of history,
Stanford university, is a member.
Recently an advisory council of
the committee comprising 100 men
was named.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
MANY HUN PLANES
BROUGHT DOWN
BY BRITISH
GERMAN FLYERS FIGHT ONLY
WHEN IN SUPERIOR NUM-
BERS

LONDON, Sept. 6. = The British,
during the year ending June 80
last, brought down considerably
over 1000 German aircraft, while
British machines missing have only
slightly exceeded 1000, it is Off
cially announced.
German machines refuse battle
unless they have a decided superior
ity in numbers" it is added.
Where numbers are equal British
victory is assured; where numbers
are with the Germans. British vic
tory is very frequent"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
INTELLIGENT Nantucket Dog.

Whenever the steamer Gay Head
sounds her whistle at 6:15 mornings at
Nantucket, Harrigan, the town dog.
runs down to the dock and aboard the
boat, and then down into the dining
saloon for his breakfast. He knows the
sound of the Gay Heads whistle and
never shows up on the three mornings
when the Sankaty is at the dock. He
figures the time so carefully that he
always is through when the call comes
to 20 aShore.-BOSton Globe.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14

Phil Brown, manager of a local pic
ture house, got word the other day that
his film, Missing" scheduled for the
week of June %, was missing. Then a
day later he was glad to get word that
Missing had showed up and was no
longer missing.
Logically. missing" has always been
missing" 1t never was found again
because it had never been missing"
before. But what's the use?-Indian-
apolis News.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
AIR RAIDS
GREATLY DAMAGE
CENTERS
BIG FIRE CAUSED BY BOMBS
DROPPED ON THION-
WILLIE

LONDON. Sept. Z. - Evidence
of the destructive character of the
British air raids on Thionville, Ger
many, is afforded by aerial photo
graphs which have just arrived from
France.
The first photograph, which was
taken during the raid on Thionville
July Is, shows the starting of a
big fire caused by bombs, among the
rolling stock to the east of the
freight station.
The second photograph, taken by
British airmen over the same place
on the following day shows charred
remains of several trains visible
upon the track. The freight station
and nearby buildings have been
burned.
The original fire developed into
a huge conflagration, which was
only arrested ultimately on the riv-
er bank.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
ROYAL Academy Dean Is Eiohty.six.

hOydI NCduemy OcdH TO EIyHey-0INs
The doyen of the Royal academy Is
B. w. Leader, the landscape painter,
who, although eighty-six, is still going
strong and painting his lovely Surrey
downs as well as ever.
But there are others not far behind
him in age who write "R. A." after
their names, London Answers says.
G. A. Storey is eighty-four, G. D. Les
lie, eighty-three; w. F. Yeames the
same age, the president himself (Sid
Edward Poynter), eighty-two, while
Briton Riviere, Marcus Stone and Sir
William Richmond are far past three
score and ten, and there are a dozen
others verging on that limit.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
TONOPAH COUPLE MARRY

LIVE Cardelli and Miss Marie &c
noli, the former of Tonopah and
the latter giving her place OF resi-
dence as Goldfield, were married
this morning by Justice Of the Peace
Marvin Arnold in the justice court
room. Both have been residing in
r'u1opah.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
WORLDS ALMANAC

Tribune Book and Stationery Store.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
Junkers
H. on the Job

The old Prusslan spirit did, in fact, wake
up surprisingly. 1t seemed to have all the
potent influences of the nation behind it,
and it made the Hertling government
look like spineless, foundering thing. 1t
scored grandly at -Litovsk, KuhI-
mann went there to make peace with Rus
STA, ostensibly at least, upon the basis of
the Reichstag's peace resolution but he
was overruled by the military authorities.
and peace was forced upon Russia which
amounted to the annexation of the Baltic
provinces by Germany. The Prussian junk
ers were playing for fresh political recruits
from the little cotere of German aristo-
Gratis who arc the great landowners in
those provinces. But the Brest-Litovsk
lists; they never ceased to denounce it "a
contrary to the spirit Of the Reichstag res
olution, as serious obstacle to peace. and
as injurious to Gcrmany's real interests.
President Wilson had in the meantime
begun to pelt the German people with his
notes. Especially after his fourteen peace
conditions were announced, on january &,
1913, the German Socialists began to nav
most serious attention TO his uttoranccs.
While not committing themselves fully to
Nil of the Presidents conditions, thew saw
in them hopeful opening for peace. His
various uttcrances aimed ut tho Kaiser
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

eral elements of Germany at moment
when hunger was pinching and military de-
feat was writ large upon the Western hori-
ION.
That was the situation when the Main
Committee of the Reichstag met on Sep
tember "a, meeting which was looked for
ward to on all sides as certain to mark
the beginning of new era in Germany.
1t was obvious to nearly everybody except
Hertling himself that radical transfer
nation of the government was at hand
The Socialists saw it, and they also saw
that the time had come for them to take
hand themselves in working out such
transformation. Accordingly they laid
down certain conditions upon which they
would be willing to accept Cabinet posi-
tons. Their conditions called for outright
parliamentary government and the firm
control OF the military by the civil authori-
ties. Their conditions met with opposition
at first, and it seemed that the majority
parties could not be brought to accent them
as a basis of action; the Socialists accord
ingly said that several weeks would elapse
before the reorganization of the govern
ment in accordance with their ideas could
be effected
BY the end of that momentous week,
however, Hertling saw that he was at the
end of his resources. He resigned and in
duced the Kaiser to issue his decree Of
September 80 stpulating the establishment
Of parliamentary government. In agree
ment with the majority parties of the
Rechstag, Prince Max of Baden was made
Chancellor on platform which had been
adopted by the Socialists, Catholics and
Progressives (Radicals). Socialists for the
first time accepted important Cabinet posi-
tons, and nearly oil Of the new ministers
were selected from the Rechstag
Not month had elapsed, however, be.
lore 1T became obvious that this coalition
OF the majority parties was inadequate to
deal with the new situation that had aris-
en-. Germanys plea for peace, made when
Max took Office, together with tho rapidly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

progressing breakdown of Germanys mill
tary power, greatly fostered the develop
ment OF the most radical or even Bolshevist
views. This showed itself first at Kiel on
November with mutiny in the navy. It
began on the battleship Kaiser by queer
freak Of poetic justice; the seamen OF that
vessel overpowered thein officers and hoist
ed the red flag. The mutiny spread rap
idly within a few days, until large part
OF the navy had gone over to the Reds.
Meanwhile the Socialist leaders at Ber
In saw the chance to set their battering
ram in operation. The Kaiser had more
clearly than ever become grave obstacle
to peace. The Socialist managers there
fore sent to Prince Max an ultimatum de-
handing the abdication of the Kaiser. On
Thursday, November 7, he refused, on the
ground that che could not at the moment
Of peace undertake the terrible RESPONSE
bility of handing over Germany to the En-
tente and delivering up the country TO
anarchy" William had not yet learned that
n Germany purged of the Hohenzollerns
would fare better with the Entente than
II they remained in power, and that he in
particular was by no means protection
against anarchy. But he was predestined
by his character to misread this tremen-
dous situation; with virtuous gesture Of
self-abnegation he tried to keep his selfish
monarchical interests in the foreground
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17
NTapoleonic Wars
~ Best Precedent

The Russo-Japanese war was brought to
IA end by the intervention of President
Roosevelt in June, 1905. He suggested to
both sides that here should be a peace
conference and both sides accepted Desul-
tory fighting continued however, until
after the peace delegates met at Ports
mouth on August s.
Perhaps the best precedent for the pres
ent war. is furnished by the Napoleonic
wars of century ago. That was another
case of one country against many and
when the war was ended by the defeat
and abdlcation Of Napoleon all that re-
NAMED was for the Coalition to impose
their terms on France and divide up the
rest OF Europe among themselves They
met with very brief delay in Paris and
signed treaty of peace, which was after