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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-08-01
ALL BECAUSE JUDGE SMOKED
County of New York Is Threatened
With Action Which May Cost
the People Money. ?

Three lawyers have declined to bring
suit for a prominent New York bust
ness man upon the ground that it
would be "unethical," yet each admits
that the injury in the case cannot be
disputed and that there ought to be
some way in which the business man
could secure just relief. Should a
lawyer be found willing to bring the
suit, some extraordinary precedent
rulings may be expected.
Recently, says the New York corre-
spondent of the Cincinnati Times
Star, the business man bought a e're-
built motorcar. He found, first, that
it wouldn't run; second, that it diff
fered, mechanically, from a specific
promise in the bill of sale, and, third,
that the car delivered to him was not
the one shown him by the salesman.
He sued to recover the money he had
paid and the jury in the case, after
being out one minute, returned a
judgment in full for the amount
claimed. The firm which had sold the
car appealed for new trial solely
upon the ground that the judge had
left the bench for a few minutes while
the lawyers were summing up. After
the usual delay, the court of appeals
passed on the appeal and granted q
new trial. Meanwhile, the witnesses
necessary for the proof of the plain
tiff's case had disappeared, the most
important having gone into the army.
For years it had been the custom Of
New York judges to go out into their
private office to smoke during the
summing up Of unimportant civil cases.
No one had thought of making that a
ground for an appeal until about two
months before the trial Of the auto
mobile case, at which time an appeal
had been based on that ground and
had been granted. The judge in the
automobile case hadn't read about
this other case in the newspapers and
no one had happened to mention it to
him. Therefore, he went out to smoke
as usual.
The business man now IIonoses 10
sue the county of New York for dam
ages sustained through the incompe-
tence and carelessness of one Of it's
servants-the judge.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-08-01
HAVE QUEER PETS
Lonely Men in Signal Tower
Welcome All Sorts.
cockroach That Likes Tobacco and
Drinks Ink Is One Vfsftor-Toad
+. Came Regularly for Its
Feast Of Flies.

A Boston and Maine railroad signal
towerman tells this story of pets he
has made in his lonely perch above the
tracks:
At midnight nine months ago cock
roach crept out from under the tele-
graph desk and began to drink out Of
the fnkwell; just about that time laid
my cigar down on the desk and began
to work the telegraph key.
The cockroach walked over to my
cigar and sucked at the. moist end for
q second or so, then ran to the ink
well again and took drink, then came
back to the cigar; he repeated this
performance several times and stag
gered away drunk as lord. s...
Every night around midnight for the
past nine months this cockrOach has
drank from the inkwell on my desk
and either sucked the moist end of my
cigar or some moistened tobacco /
place near the inkwell for him.
One Of the boys found tiny musk
rat in the marsh back of the signal
tower one day, and he brought 1t into
the tower The muskrat became very
tame and proved most affectionate
pet. He slept on the desk near the
telegraph instruments for over two
years. Although he went out very
often, he wouldn't stay long, and
would scratch at the door until some
Of us would run downstairs and let
him in. Unfortunately our pet was
killed by a freight train while cross
ing the tracks near the tower one day.
After the muskrat died we brought
in tiny woodchuck that trainman
had captured out on the line, and he
became very much attached to all Of
us, and, like the muskrat, he became
very clever and amusing pet.
"Shuck' stayed with us two years, and
finally he disappeared one day. Pos
sibly some dog got him, or he may
have been crushed by train.
For the past 20 years an English
sparrow has nestled In the caves of the
tower, and this sparrow flies in and out
Of the tower at will, picks up bread
crumbs on the floor and catches an 90
casional cockroach. What worries the
tower men is that our pet sparrow may
some day eat our pet cockroach.
Last year a toad hoped up on to
the doorstep of the tower and sat there
blinking. One of the boys fed him
a fly and the toad gobbled it in an
instant, and every afternoon all sum-
mer long that toad hoped up on to
the step and ate flies as fast as the
railroad men would feed them to him.
The boys took turns and fed him in
relays; the yardmaster said the boys
were neglecting their work to feed the
toad; but he became so fascinated
watching the performance that he
caught flies for an hour one day and
fed the toad.
I'm afraid the toad will go hungry
this summer If he shows up, for we're
too busy moving war supplies to both
er with feeding pets around railroad
yard.
Every stray dog that ever wandered
into the ward has found haven in the
tower, and several filters of puppies
have been born there.
We've had cats galore; one cat in
particular was snake catcher, and
she brought in snake nearly every
day.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-08-01
Powerful ENGINES.

Maj. e. A. Bishop, an English flyer,
says in London Answers: 1.-THE mod
ern fighting scotland to my mind
the single-seater is the only real air
plane for offensive work-may have
the power of 200 horses throbbing in
its wonderful engine. Some of the
machines are very slender of waist
and almost transparent Of wing. Air
planes do not thrust their warlike ma
ture upon the casual observer. One
has to look twice before definitely To-
eating the gun or guns attached so
unobstructively to the framework and
synchronized, where necessary, to
shoot through the whirring propeller
in front"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-08-01
Brave Act Rewarded.

Arthur G. Palmer, a water tender
attached to the United States ship
O'Brien was overheard and strug-
Cling in the water. A strong ebb
tide was running and Palmer had all
he could do to keep from going down.
at the moment when he was near ex-
haustion David Goldman, machin-
lists mate, second class, jumped over
board and, beating his way through
the rough water, reached the man and
brought him to safety. He has been
commended by the secretary of the
navy for this action. Goldman enlist.
ed in the navy in 1911 at San Fran.
cisco.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-08-01
HGround in Hamburu."

One Of the curious news outcrop-
pings of the war comes from Shelf
field, the home of English cutlery. A
hollow-ground razor blade was ex-
hibited, and stamped on the shoulder
was the mark "Ground in Hamburg"
The explanation was that the Brit
ish public believed the Germans did
better work and demanded the Ger
man product, so the altruistic British
workman gave the Germans the benefit
of his own unrfvaled skill, apparently
unruffied by the attitude of his own
countrymen.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-08-01
Mus. Take Time to submerse.'

It requires at least five minutes Tor
submarines Of the latest type to SUD
merge. A submarine cannot dive quick
ly under the sea, because the water
which must be let into her ballast
tanks to make her heavy enough TO
sink must be let In comparatively slow
". If it were let in with a rush the
boat might not 60 down on an even
keel. but would heel over and be In
great danger Of disaster. Then, too
if water were let in too quickly there
would be danger of too much entering.
and in that case the submarine would
sink like lead to the bottom of the sea.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-08-01
Lonesome,

A soldier was on duty as night sem
try for the first time, and his post was
at a lonely place in the camp. He saw
a figure advancing and asked, "Who
goes there?' , q
E The answer came, "The officer of the
day." e.
The sentry, forgetting the proper
military reply in his relief at hearing
q human voice, called out, "Good-night.
I'm glad to see you"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-08-01
SHOWN TO CROWDS
How Germans Turn Their Cap
tives to Account.
Idea Is to Delude the People Into
Thinking That Military Victories
Are Constantly Being Won by
the kaiser's Soldiers.

Ivan S. Rossiter, Canadian soldier,
has Just been in to see me. For a
year he was German prisoner. When
the Germans caught him he was badly
wounded in the right hand. They
took him to hospital, where, without
the use of an anesthetic, they cut off
one of his fingers and removed five
pieces of bone from his mangled wrist.
They said that they had no anesthet-
les to spare for use on a "schWein-
hund," and added that they were saw
ing their anesthetics for their own
wounded soldiers. Rossiter showed
me what is left of his hand. 1t isn't
much, and what is left is of no use,
except as reminder of that German
surgeon who operated without giving
an anesthetic. =.
While Rossiter was in Germany he
was moved about from one prison
camp to another until he and other
prisoners were exchanged for German
prisoners held by, the allies. This
moving-about process was the most
interesting thing he described. He
was never allowed to stay in one place
more than a few weeks. In the year
that he was there he was in nine diff
ferent prison camps, located in vari-
Gus parts of Germany. On each trip
the train that was transferring these
wandering prisoners stopped at every
station. German officers got out ev-
cry time the train stopped and told
people that the prisoners were all new
ones-just taken! Rossiter says that
one excursion of this kind began at
four o'clock in the morning and lasted
until late at night. And always at ev-
cry station were crowd of people to
jeer at these new" prisoners, many Of
whom were French and Belgians who
had been in captivity for two years.
1t got to be like a theatrical troupe
playing one-night stands-only far
more boresome, for the prisoners were
never allowed to leave the trains or to
communicate with the crowds that
came to see them. Rossiter says that
one company of British artillery
stakes the palm" for touring Germany
in the guise of new" prisoners. They
were captured in the fall of 1914 and
they are still playing to packed
houses.
In other words-to fool the people
is Germany's policy. Bismarck be-
lieved in that idea. He once said that
it Is impossible to overestimate the
stupidity of the human race. No
doubt the kaiser feels just as con-
temptuous about us. In his mind, men
are nothing but SO many tons of flesh
and bone to be used to push back
boundary lines.
This war is for the purpose of pre-
venting human beings from becoming
as boneheaded as the German emper-
or would like them to be. 1t is war
against the thick skull. On one side
are those great nations whose policy
is to teach the people to think for
themselves. On the other is the Ger
man autocracy, which says: Believe
what I tell you" Imagine trying in
this country to palm off trainload of
veteran prisoners as new ones.-John
M. Siddall, editor of the American
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-08-01
Concrete Ship In Norway.

Commercial Agent Norman L. And
erson reports the launching Of a GOO
ton concrete ship from the Fougner
yards at Moss, Norway. The ship has
four water-tight compartments; the
engine, 220 horsepower Bolinder mo-
tor, is placed aft. The boat has two
large holds and two matches, each
equipped with a two-ton motor winch.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-25
V-shaped Flume Used in sIuicinq.

penSive. In this case much wider
trench should be dug, filed with the
best material available, and carefully
puddled and rammed.
Packing Materials.
In building q reservoir embanl1ment
of earth many farmers and not a few
engineers fail to understand the differ
ence between an embankment capa-
bic of withstanding a load such as is
placed upon it by the passage of a
locomotive and one compact and stable
enough to hold water. In highway and
railroad fills little, if any, attention is
paid to packing materials, but in the
case of earth fills to retain water,
packing is necessary. Experience has
shown that one of the best ways to
pack ordinary dirt which does not con-
tain too much clay is to dump it into
water and let nature do the packing.
When this method is not feasible the
earth should be placed on the en-
bankment in thin layers and each lay
er moistened and rolled or otherwise
compacted. In some cases the earth
can be moistened before it is removed
from its natural site.
Cause of Failure
AS has been stated frequent cause
Of failure of such dams is faulty waste
ways. The dams being built for the
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-25
Upsettlng the Law.

4 class at Harvard university has
been told by its instructor that a nor
mai woman in good health can endure
more pain and fatigue and expend
more muscular energy than a man of
like ge and condition, says the Hart
ford Courant The point was empha-
sizet' by way of showing that women
shou make as good soldiers as men.
The 0eaker added what was not es-
pecia Y complimentary when he said
that, hiologically, woman is more of
a say ge than man and, therefore, has
great physical endurance.
If II should be generally assumed
that is is true, an effect of it would
be to overturn cherished theory of
the cCurts-that being that the woman
is the weaker and, therefore, when
husband and wife are involved in an
accident which proves fatal to both
the probate court will assume that the
husband survived his wife unless evil
dence to the contrary is produced. 1t
is necessary in order TO avoid endless
tangleS to assume that such deaths
are not simultaneous, and the courts
have given the husband the benefit of
the doubt. Cases involving this theory
are not rare.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-25
HUNTED BY WILD ELEPHANT
Carl E. AkeIey, Naturalist, Relates Ex-
perience of Being Attacked by Mas
siVe South African Beast.

The hunter and taXidermist, Carl r.
Akeley, who has spent great deal of
painstaking effort in preparing the
wonderful animal groups at the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History, is
known throughout South Africa as an
elephant hunter. He has had many
thrilling experiences, one of which he
describes in the New York Sun as fol-
lows:
Elephants are no more conspicuous
in their own country than jack rabbits
are in theirs. They are the color OF
the shadows in the forest and almost
as indistinguishable. Intelligence and
vindictiveness are two of their most
prominent characteristics. When one
knows he is being hunted he will lie In
wait, still as a rock, and looking much
like one, and will hunt his hunter as
a dog hunts rat.
had cut big bull out from herd
and was following his spoor, knowing
well enough that he was lying in wait
for me somewhere. The big beast, as
it turned out afterwards, got my wind
as I was stalking him, and was search
ing for me.
must have got within ten or twenty
feet of him, because I remembered
afterward that / heard a swift rush
but did not catch sight of him coming,
The first l knew of his presence was
quick vision of his trunk as he
knocked me down. Then l caught one
glimpse of his little eyes as he curled
up his trunk out of the way and tried
| to iInpale me with his tuskS.
had just time to grasp a tusk with
my left hand and twist myself 50 that
my body was between the two shafts
of ivory. 1 felt the impact of his tusks
as they dug into the ground on either
| side of me, and his heavy nose crushed
against my chest. That is all I re-
member.
My hunter fortunately shot him dead
/ as he was preparing for another
| thrust. / was unconscious as they car
ried me TO the camp, where ! lay for
three months. with my chest SO
crushed that it was doubtful whether
or not l should live.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-25
HAR-LY POSSIBLE FOR HIM
Reason Why One Man Was Unable
tC Wear "SmiIe That Won't
Come Off"

Fifty-Eeven grown-ups and three
juveniles recently gathered in Plod-
more's village hall to hear what lee
turer had to say on the subject OF op-
timism. The visitor was full of wis
dom and sage advice.
Don't look on the black side" he de-
clared. Cultivate the happy heart
and the smiling face. Smile at misfor-
tune and difficulties; smile whilst you
play, and always go smiling about your
business"
A mournful-looking gentleman, wear
ing side whiskers, shook his head in
disagreement.
"Do you doubt. my friend?" asked
the lecturer. The sad one nodded
"Give the smiling face a trial for a
week"
Another shake of the head came
from the gloomy man. 'Dussn't risk
it, mister" he answered in hollow
tones. Il be undertaken in these parts,
an there's hepidemic on. Fancy me
with face like a chessy cats walkin'
afore funerals London Tit-Bits.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-25
Section of Dam.

tions to the flow of water caused by
driftwood and clogging by fish screens.
Such features of this type of reser-
vOir as inlet and outlet pipes, slope
protection and the like have been dis
cussed in Farmers Bulletin No. 82S.
Commonly Used Method.
In the early days of mining in Cali
fornia, someone evolved the idea of
washing down the gOld-bearing sand
by means of powerful streams of wa
ter directed against the banks and hill
sides. This practice has been i'm
proved and extended and now is q COM
monty used method of building earthen
embankments and of loosening and
transferring earthly material for other
purposes. In making use of this
method an ample supply of water is
necessary. What is called the cutting
stream" is under high pressure from
60 to 100 pounds per square inch. The
pressure may be obtained by gravity
fall or by pumping, and the water is
conveyed to the material to be eXca-
waited in a pressure pipe of suitable
diameter. The end of the pressure pipe
terminates in a giant from which
stream is directed against the
bank of dirt. A large stream of wa
ter, but under little or no pressure,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-25
CHAPTER III-continued


"If you don't like my manner"
Barrow retorted stormily. Then he
cut his sentence in two, and glared at
her. The twin devils of jealousy and
distrust were riding him hard, and 1t
flashed over Hazel that in his mind
she was prejudged, and that her ex-
PLANTATION, If she made 1t, would only
add fuel to the flame.
She turned abruptly and left him.
What did it matter, anyway? She was
too proud to plead, and it was worse
than useless to explain.
Even so, womanlike. she listened, ex-
pecting to hear Jacks step hurrying
up behind. She could not imagine him
letting her go like that. But he did
not come, and when. Mt distance of
two blocks, she stole q backward
glance, he had disappeared
She returned to the boarding house.
The parlor door stood wide, and the
curious. quickly averted glance of a
girl she knew sent her quivering M to
her room. There was only one cheer
full gleam. She loved Jack Barrow.
CAit utiAcNNu AAiul Aic lONCu hCAs anu
she could not believe-she could not
conceive-him capable Of keeping
alOof, obdurate and unforgiving. once
he got out OF the black mood he was in.
She was still sitting by the window.
watching the yellow crimson of the
sunset, when someone raped at her
door. A uniformed messenger boy
greeted her when she opened it:
Package for Miss Hazel Welt"
She signed the delivery sheet. The
address on the package was in Jacks
handwriting. A box Of chocolates.
or some little peace offering. maybe.
That was Ike Jack when he was sorry
for anything. They had quarreled be-
forever tri1es, too.
She opened It hastily. A swift heart
sinking followed. In the small card
board box rested folded scarf. and
thrust In II a small gold stickpin-
the only thing she had ever given
Jack Barrow There was no message.
she needed none to understand.
The sparkle Of the small diamond
on her finger drew her gaze. She
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-25
MANURE TO INCREASE CROPS
Application of Six Tons Was
Better Than Ten.

Stable manure has long been con-
sidered very valuable fertilizer. 1t
is usually thought by farmers that the
larger the application of manure the
greater the crop increase. Experiment
tai data shows that such is not the
case. At Pennsylvania it was found
that an application of six tons per
acre gave return of $500 per ton as
compared with 1929 per ton when ten
tons per acre were used. This is dol
lar ton in favor of the lighter appli-
cation. At the same rate the farmer
who has hundred tons of manure to
spread can save nearly enough to pay
for his manure spreader. Hand spread
ing could hardly put manure on at the
rate of six tons. This is not an iso-
lated case. Other work has shown an
actually smaller yield with a large
amount than with smaller amount of
manure.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-25

manent residence there Dirast}y op-
pOsite Briggs boarding house stood
building labeled Regent Hotel" Ha.
zel could envisage it all with a half
turn of her head.
From this hotel there presently ia-
sued Il young man dressed in the Ordi-
nary costume of the countrywide
hat, flannel shirt, overalls, boots. He
sat down on a box close by the hotel
entrance. In a few minutes another
came forth. He walked past the first
u few steps, stopped, and said some
thing. Hazel could not hear the words.
The first man was filling his pipe. Ap-
parently he made no reply; at least,
he did not trouble to look up. But
she saw his shoulders lift in a shrug.
Then he who had passed turned
square about and spoke again, this
time lifting his voice a trifle. The
young fellow sitting on the box in
stantIy became galvanized into action.
He flung out an oath that carried
across the street and made Hazels
ears burn. At the same time he leaped
from his seat straight at the other
man.
Hazel saw it quite distinctly, saw
him who jumped dodge a vicious blow
and close with the other; and saw,
moreover, something which amazed
her. For the young fellow swayed
with his adversary q second or two,
then lifted him bodily off his feet al
most to the level of his head, and
slammed him against the hotel wall
with sudden twist. She heard the
thump of the body on the logs. For
an instant she thought him about to
jump with his booted feet on the pros
trate form, and involuntarily she held