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barrel being kept full of water. Sc
much heat is developed in the rapid
fire of the gun that its inventors have
FOUND the greatest difficulty in keep
Ing the water about the parts from
boiling. The air cooling system was
adopted by some. but with all its diff
culties the water cooled system APP
pears most satisfactory.
Lewis Gun
The famous Lewis gun is the inven-
ton of Colonel Lewis, who served in
the United States Coast Artillery, and
Is perhaps, the most popular gun now
in use in Europe 1t is the most
mobile of all weapons of this class. 1t
was refused for time by the United
States Government, but after both
England and France began to use
them in great numbers our own gov
ernnlent then put them in operation
on the Mexican border and in our
Army. The gun weighs only 25Ia
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manded the battery claims that 1t was
this heavy machine gun fire which
made 1t possible for the assault on the
hill to be carried through successfully
in a few minutes.
The records of the South African
War show that comparatively small
numbers Of machine guns We're used.
The armored train which took part in
the defense OF Mafeking, the first
sortie against the Beers. was armed
with two machine guns. a Maxim and
a Hotchkiss, but only a few other
times were machine guns mentioned
Machine Guns In Present War
The Japanese Russo War was the
first conflict in which machine guns
played large part for the Russians
had Maxim guns, while the japanese
had the Hotchkiss guns, of much the
same type as are now used by the
French Army. 1t. however. remained
for the present war to bring out the
real value of the weapon
Most of the guns are water cooled
BY means OF the metal jacket sur
rounding the greater part of the gun
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Kaiser May As Well Can Quits

IF lumber will win the war. the
Kaiser may as well call 1t quits. -
writes Lieutenant Colonel w. b. Gree
ley. who succeeded Colonel Graves in
/ France. The American lumberjacks
are on the Job in France, barring the
ninety-five who went down on the
Tuscania. Their April drive netted
l4S00. 900 feet Of lumber, $4,000
standard railroad ties. 103, 900 ties for
light railroads and $4,000 pieces of
piles. poles and small round products:
and we have hardly gotten started Al.
ready the shipping office which has
the hardest car supply Job a lumber
man ever tackled is working nights
TO keep the loading ground cleared
As a business concern we have an
organization which might draw the
envy OF Minnesota line yard com
pany."
As 10 the great variety of material
which they must supply. Colonel
Greeley says: They range from 100
foo: poles 10 fascines of six foot twigs;
from bills OF dock and bridge timbers
totallng five million feet to Eastwood
cants for the manufacture OF artificial
limbs by the Red Cross. Construction
lumber for barracks and warehouses,
standard gauge ties. and cordwood are
the great staples. of which we cannot
produce too much. Then come the
heavy plank for artillery roads. tele-
phone and telegraph poles, short ties
or light railroads and corduroy and
wire ENHANCEMENT stakes by the hun !
dreds of thousands of pieces. 1t Is
strenuous game. where lifelong train |
ing in business efficiency and economy
must be subordinated to the one goal |
of speed. But the American lumber !
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the greatest industries yet he mas
been working on gun Inventions since
he was a boy, and many Of these are
found on guns turned out by various
firms. Browning was honored with
title on the day his one-milllontn
pistol was made in Belgium. WheIe
there was a factory turning OUT ms
work. lie became a CheValler ue
order de Leopold, which emitted h4H'
to call himself Sir John NJ. Bro"nlhs'
but the wizard gun man torsoe u"
about It and went on making appH-
ances TO guns. Some ten years ago
the Kaiser gave him an honorary dec
Grafton. which the inventor has long
since trampled under his feet. HIS
inventions have been used IN every
land, in fact the half crazed Serbian
who killed the Austrian Archduke on
that fatal July evening In 1914 useu
an automatic pistol OF Browning's IN
vention. Fire arms Of his Invention
have played parts In nearly every
great event in the world and it seems
but fitting that an invention Of his
should END this awful conflict.
The machine gun can be moved
quickly from one place TO another
when any sort of cover offers. Each
gun has a squad Of about ten men
and should they find themselves too
closely pressed they pick up their
weapon, fall back short distance and
then open up again.
one military authority has declared
that one machine gun Is worth u whole
battalion armed with rifles. Few sol
diers can keep up fifteen rounds Il
minute rapid fire with a rifle, but
machine gun can discharge 500 rounds
in minute, and one of the machine
guns can discharge 1000 bullets with
out stopping.
A machine gun hidden in a shell
hole can do valiant work against
German airman. At the beginning OF
the present war the British had only
two machine guns to each infantry
while Germany had at least
a dozen. Today both the Allies and
Central Powers have special machine
gun corps besides those belonging &c
he infantry and men thoroughly
rained for the work. The machine
gun is now the most deadly weapon
both for land and air warfare.
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pounds 1t has an extraordinary air
cooling arrangement for securing the
| continuous application Of an air cur
rent to the cooling surfaces Of the
barrel. Its air cooling device is the
most notable part of the whole design
and might be regarded as separate
invention. 1t is a gas piston gun; the
gas is taken from the barrel near the
muzzle and actuates piston in tube
lying close beneath and parallel to it.
and the whole action is very simple.
1t is a light load for one man and can
be handled from the shoulder. The
air cooling device is an arrangement
for continually and rapidly changing
the air inside of II. An aluminium
casing is slipped over the barrel carry
Ing seventeen plates radiating from
1t about two inches across and running
the full length OF the barrel The
whole Is encased in light steel outer
casing. The firing of the gun produces
a continuous stream of air from rear
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estry Association. In a letter TO & =
Association. Lieutenant Howard Z.
Williams, chaplain of the Tenth En-! i
neers (ForesD says:
THE Welfare Fund is surely help
ing out a great deal. Have been ali e
the men, make short loans 10 mi N
going on leave and help in many II.
tie ways. Now that packages do not
come over from the States such fufd
is even more necessary, and we thank
you very very much for your energils
in our behalf"
No Waste
In the forestry work being done In
France there is absolutely no waste,
for all slabs and limbs are cut inlo
fuel wood" according to Lieutena!lt
K. II. Faulkner, who tells of what tie
goth Engineers (ForesO are dolng
there.
Gould any operator today in tie
United states of America" he writes.
make tour of the numbering opert.
uons of the Forestry Regiments, 10ih
and goth Engineers. in France. lie
would see economical operations CAP
rled out TO the minutest details. Aha
this Is not fantastical conservation. 4
is not conservation that adds excdb-
sively TO the cost, but it is due to sh
new spirit in numbering. tis
spirit Of the American forestry troopd
which tabOpS n bSOlutply the wgsta tt
any material which can be of usii.
And when this is said, in France. It
means the utilization of every part ~
the tree, down to branches only ot;s
and one-half inches in diameter"
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to muzzle of the gun through the
channel of the cooling arrangements
The Lewis gun is much used in aero
plane work.
| BENT. .Mercic
| The Benit-Mercie, an automatic ma.
chine gun or rifle used in the United
States Army and Navy. is one of the
general types OF gas operative guns
| and the maximum rate of fire Is about
| 400 shots per minute. 1t Is effective
| at about 1900 yards. The gun is air
cooled. 1t weights twenty seven
pounds and with a tripod about fifty
pounds. 1t Is usually carried on pack
mules. being especially popular with
the Italians in their mountain fight
ing.
Browning's Great Work
The Browning gun. recently tried
out, is expected to prove the greatest
of all machine guns and IS the work
OF John NJ. Browning. whose patents
are on nearly every machine gun al
ready In use. Two machine guns OF
the Browning invention were recently
tried out at the various cantonments
and proved such O success that the
manufacturers cannot turn them out
fast enough. The Browning guns to
be used by the United States Army
are two different types. One is known
as heavy, weighing thirty-four and
one-half pounds. including the water
for Its cooling system. 1t can be used
both on the ground and in aeroplanes,
where the high speed keeps 1t so cool
that the air Jacket can be discarded
as well as reducing its weight to only
twenty-five pounds. One of the things
which makes it effective is its sim
plicity and the number of shots per
minute which are six hundred Its
construction is so simple that any set
OF workmen can make three of these
guns to any one of other types.
Browning also has a light weight
rapid fire gun. which weighs only ff-
teen pounds and can be shot from the
shoulder like an ordinary rifle. BY
simply pressing a button one magazine
can be detached and substituted for
another. Each magazine carries
twenty rounds.
The inventor is known to his friends |
as "old j. NJ" and was born in Utah. |
where ordnance making is not one of !
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THE OLDEST Dogs

The grayhounds of Altcar and Wa
terloo Cup are the oldest of domestie
dogs. and they can be traced back hs
sculptures and frescoes for thirteta
centuries before Tho Christian era.
fine group OF grayhounds fondli1g
each other at the British Museum Is
claimed to be more than two thousai,i
years old. and some of the dogs dt-
picted in hunting scenes on the Egy'e-
tian monuments are of the grayhoufti
type. Grayhounds have been popular
in England since King Canute's timt.
but nobody but a gentleman or a
freeholder was allowed to Keep thers.
Even so recently as 1853 a license %
keep greyhound cost six dollars &,
England. which was nearly treble the
tax imposed by the state on o,he,
dogs.
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Ships and AirpIanes, Rail-
road Ties and Telegraph
Poles, Camp and Hospital
Buildings, Trench WaiIing
and Dock Piles, Artificial
Limbs and Wire Entangle-
menf Stakes = a Few of
the Uses of Woodin War
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ing. but no matter, standing order
was issued that no man should return
10 mess" without all the stakes he
could pack on his back In short or
ger stakes were pouring out Of the
woods in endless ant-like streams,
stakes were moving forward from ev-
cry quarter That the job was well
done was told IN the wire which soon
came back from the front: stop
sending stakes. can't use any more" 8"
This was before the rest Of the Amer
lean Fypeditionary Force knew what
the forestry troops We're capable Of
doing. The same thing happened
when an order came for poles. The
boys started to beat the Kaiser with
poles; and after about two days of the
deluge, the dispatch came: Flooded
with poles, cancel further shipments"
Colonel Henry s Graves. Chief
Forester OF the United States, who
went 10 France to organize the Amer
lean forestry forces and who spent
eight months there. said Of the Forest
Regiments upon returning 10 this
country: They are working 10 win
the war Nothing else enters their
thoughts. | cant say too much for
the spirit of the officers and the men.
We are going to unity our every ef-
fort and do our part in the inevitable
victory for freedom"
To show the spirit of these men
over There" they tell of one group
OF twenty-five men of one of the COM
panies who went out one evening
without orders and on their own free
and cut one hundred and
twenty-five ties. That is the way in
which the men behind the axe" are
working TO help win the war with
wood.
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ALL I. u weapons uN'h III 'i''
present war the machine gun
has unquestionably proved itself
" the most efficient" says a prom
inent military expert in his review Of
the weapons used In the present war.
When the casualties are summed up
his is found 10 be true, as statistics
prove that the greatest proportion or
losses. especially during the past few
weeks, have been caused by machine
guns. Any type of this weapon in the
hands OF skilled operator has the
same effect upon men moving in mass
formation that a keen edged scythe
has In a field OF ripened wheat. II
cuts broad swaths: nothing can stand
against It.
The machine gun Is a man saver in
warefare. not perhaps against the
mans own death but one man can do
the work of many men, as one Of
these weapons can do the same work
as one hundred men armed with rifles,
That Is. 1t can bring the same amount
OF fire to bear as one hundred rifle
men and will take up considerably less
room. Consequently, It is possible to
pTiuB d tremendous IRE 10 pear from
very restricted space. Imagine
machine gun which Is capable of do
Ing the work of one hundred men ana
requires a frontage Of only about
yard as reserve power. To bring one
hundred men across communication
trenches takes time and causes some
confusion The machine gun mounted
on tripod remains !nanimate during
the excitement OF the men in action
Machine gunsmen are trained special !
lists for their work and keep their |
weapons concealed as far as possible |
They are known as weapons of oppor- .
tunity and surprise and their hitting |
qualities under skilled men are very |
remarkable and are fired to the front
only. when a favorable target offers. .
A volley from machine gun will hit .
a man several times whilst he is fall /
ing, In the case OF gun catching men
obliquely Recently special training
has been given to men who compose
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Its Origin and Its Efficiency Both
On Land and In Airp1anes
Copyright, 1913. The International Syndicate.

/ machine gun companies. for only cool
reliable soldiers can be trusted with
these weapons to get results a man
! must know his gun Just as bird man
/ must know his aircraft. when and
/ how to shoot means much and this
/ old idea that you must wait for your
( opponent TO open fire is now regarded
as obsolete.
Many kinds Of machine guns are
used in the present war and it is nee
cssary TO go back through centuries
10 find their origin. Chinese gun
taken as prize in 1850 was found to
have been made in 1900 and consisted
of four barrels fired simultaneously
The "matrailleuse". twenty-five bar
rels thand operated) was kept as
great secret by the French until the
Franco Prussian War, when it was en-
larged and used as piece of artillery.
Kaiser Has a Maxim Patent
Sir Hiram Maxim Travelled over Eu-
rope showing his gun to officials of
various governments and when the
Kaiser saw the gun fired on the field
outside of Berlin he at once exclaimed,
This IS the only gun" but all his
military men did not agree with him
and the machine gun used by the Ger
mans is only part Maxim. Maxim
patents are now being used on the
Nickers guns by the Allies.
As early as 1891 England began TO
use Gatlings. Nordenfeldts and Gard
ners. Even before this time Gatling
guns invented by Or. r. j. Gatling. OF
indianapolis, were used by the Peru
vians in the War with Chill. There
was a battery of four Gatllng guns
with General Shafter's Army during
the Cuban campaign of 1898. They
were improvised after landing and the |
gunners had only 4 few days training. ,
Nevertheless the guns did some eff
fective work. AT u critical moment Of 7
the battle before Santiago the guns |
were pushed into the firing line and |
opened fire on the Spaniards on San .
Juan Hill. Three guns fired 5000 |
rounds each and the officer who com
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"RASII. down falls an ancient
~ monarch of the forest This one
is IN Oregan, that one in The yell
~ low pine belt Of Louisiana, an
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-14
Copyright, 1913. by TIE International
syndicate

@RASTT. down falls an ancient
IL monarch of the forest. This one
is IN Oregan, that one in the yel-
~ low pine belt Of Louisiana, an
other in the forests OF France. All
are intended for use in the war.
Stretching away half way around
the globe American foresters and
lumber jackles are cutting and saving
logs. driving spikes and shaping tim
bers. guiding them TO the mills and
through the mills and turning them
into all sorts and sizes. They are
getting the material needed for ships
and for aeroplanes, for railroad ties
and for camp construction, for trench
walling and for dock piles, for artifi-
cial limbs and for wire ENHANCEMENT
stakes. and for a thousand other uses
to which forest products are being put
TO help win the war. There IS no
other substance that is being utilized
In such variety OF ways in the war
as wood.
Both here In the United States and
in France strong, stalwart untiring
American workers are Telling the
trees. hurryIng them to the mills by
stream and wagon road, rail and
truck: and rapidly whipping them
into the desired shape.
Order Quickly Filled
send us some ENHANCEMENT stakes
quick" was the wire which was
flashed recently from up Front" TO
an American contingent of foresters
who had just arrived in France. The
boys started in. They tackled the job
with mighty little equipment: wagons.
horses and motor vehicles were lack
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it is estimated that more than $780,
000,0 900 feet of fir from the forests OF
the Northwest and more than 375.-
600. 900 feet of yellow pine from the
forests of the South, will be required.
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AF ALL THE weapons used in the
present war the machine gun
has unquestionably proved itself
" the most efficient" says a prom
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LHeNI. CnIH>S G~eeIST
NAH2 CAN~&e ZSG&-
nHIzz/<A~eT TI<SrZpa~H
N2 <waZ|2Ce

jacks are right on the job"
From the eagles OF the sky. the
American aeroplanes which are now
soaring in greater and greater num-
bers over tire enemy lines. to the ships
which are Transporting the men and
supplies to France; from the boards
used in making trench mats" which
are made into walks, TO the heavy
poles for dock and railroad construc-
ton work; from logs which weigh
many tons TO the fine twigs which are
fastened together for various uses. tn,
American lumbermen are devoting
themselves wholeheartedly TO the task
of winning the war
A Mighty Work
The vastness of the work IS almost
incomprehensible. When it is remem-
bered that for one purpose alone, that
of building warehouses in France
which stretch for miles. millions OF
feet of lumber had to be cut; and
that construction camps, hospitals,
railroads, trenches and hundreds of
other kind Of construction require vast
amounts OF forest products. some idea
may be gained of the Importance of
wood.
For shipbuilding in the United
States alone during the present year.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-07
Money-M -Money-Money.

II HERE are some obligations-social
kindness extended, hospitality
given, and the like-which one can
school oneself to own without loss OF
seli-respcct One can even accept fl
nrncial help from a friend perhaps, un-
der some circumstances. For It is often
an act Of grace to take a proiiercd
kindness
But there are tunes when 10 ask from
certain quarters is un,hinkabc. TO
trade, for example. upon a friends OBJ
legation, as Edgar had done in the case
Of the Icnns To Edgar Flowert5n,
however, the need for mdhey to COM
plctc his Invention was as compelling
as the necessity Of caring for public
health or providing food for the needy
He regarded his water-heater as a sort
OF public utily-somcthing the COM
munity should take a hand in develop
ing il necessary To Ned the end was
the main thing to consider. The means
TO It was purely a detail and didn't
matter.
of bis borrowing m,n.y ,r,m , m,r
,rba o,eJ ~, ,e,,. oi,Io ;n ,hs ,a,,.
munity TO the Fcrrols' heiricndlug him,
A man who in ali decency could no, re-
fuse the aid va, A burning disgrace.
The money Edgar had borrowed from
Fem became a nightmare OF worry
Once more the old problem of money
became a poignant torment t. Edith
Fcrrol Added 10 'he weight Of the
deb, 10 Fem was the certainty that a,
soon A, her husband discovered where
Ned had got the money there would
he an ou,bur,, from him. Iohn's p,-
,ience was already exhausted Edith
well knew. II would not surprise her
IT, outraged al Ncis failure to keen
M, promise, John sen, him on, of
their home
1r b.r ,r.r,y ~ w,,r;n.r, Fl,h
,;l,,rsI bs- br,,b.r h.r "i,,ti. hoy ~"
y, en-. ,,,.,,, ,b,ngh, af him sJr;i, i,
III. ,yor,J g.;,b",, ,,,oey 60, brrr;ry
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GRAIN MARKET
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

CHICAGO, Nov, 7.-Reactiona took
place % the corn market today from yes-
tcrluys wild advance. Efforts to realize
profits explained much OF the selling
Opening prices. which ranged from Nc
to Size lower Win December Sl2OL to
81 2l ana january fL2l 10 {lala.. we're
followed by additional declines.
oats Jagged with corn. After opening
unchanged 10 iec lower. with December
,Uhc To 1O'gc, the market underwent n
moderate further setback
Provisions we're irregular and dun
HG breaks iu prices on change re-
suited today Com unconnrmcd reports
that tho armlstlco with Germany had
been signed. Corn plunged down about &
cents hushel During the excitement,
many bngs Of grain were hurled into the
trading pits 10y enthusiasts among The
brokers'
In the last few minutes Of trading n
complete rcyulslon of sentiment de-
velopod. Uud the market rehouuIrI fur
thcr cyon'ihan II had dropped TN, finish
wus unsettled, with December corn az
exactly tho same Bs - hours before, to
Iqc higher at fl2lA. 10 N.22
Rallies ensued, but violent breaks
amounting In some cases 10 more than 6
cents subsequently resulted from Rsscr-
uUus that Germany had signed an arWis-
r.gc Before the end Of the session how
Hycr, most OF the loss WAS reEuined The
close was unsettled. 34c net lower 20
- advance with December fl-ll, 10
81 % md January tl23A TO 81
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mighty effort to prepare and publish
Miss SeIden's book then the coming Of
her brother with all his strength and
wea knesSes, his promising talents and
his broken promises; and now-another
desperate clawing and digging for
money money money to help him
through the crisis!
Some boys are ruined with too
much money" Edith muttered resent
fully thinking Of the worthless spend
crS who swarm the white lighted path
OF Broadway, and some with the lack
OF il, ! must find a way out
! must be smart enough to think Of
some way to cara bit OF money quick
ly-l must-l must
As she paced the floor forcing her
brain from sluggish, houScwiicly chan
nels OF thought into the foreign realm
OF though, into the foreign realm ol
commerciaism, in came Lillian Blake.
who, with matchmaking eye on her
debutante niece and Edith's handsome
young brother. was being super.iricndly
these days.
why hello, dearie what the mat
ter: You look like something the cat
brought in Betcher In. some kind OF
trouble--Come.' she added. in a kind
hearted voice, tell old lii"
10 Edith's own astoniShmcnt snc
found herself contding in her nlghty
but philosophical neighbor
"IIuh-so it's money agaiu" COM
men,ed ILL., We'll. EH moneys about
the easiest thing to gSt. II YOU know
how to go about it. and amt too iin-ky
Now listen to me, Eide, and try 20 have
a little sense"
ITO ke continued