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The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Probate Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, Cordova
Precinct, at Cordova.
In the matter of the estate,of Erma
Bell Walker, deceased. No. IFS.
The undersigned Administrator Of
the Estate of Erma Bell Walker. de-
ceased, hereby gives notice, that all
persons having claims against said
Estate are admonished and }reauired
to present the same with the proper
vouchers to the undersigned Admin
traitor of said Estate, or to the Judge
of the above named Probate Court. at
Cordova, Alaska.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska, this 18th
day of March, 1918
d. w. WALKER,
Administrator of the Estate of Erma
Bell Walker, Deceased.
First publication March IA, 1918.
Last publication April IS, 1918
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14

where | served. hospital arranged
for 5000 men, the death roll has risen
from one man every two days to three
and four day.
Prisoners put on government work
last about two months. The phrase
prisoners step has passed into the
language, so feebly do the gangs shut
tle along, without power to lift their
feet from the ground. Also. the Aus
trian soldiers are very cruel, shooting
or bayoneting prisoners for the slight
est infraction of rules"
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14

good grade of coke and they are ex-
pecting satisfactory results from the
tests which are soon to be made in
Tacoma.
The Alaska coal fields we're exam
ined by the United States government
in 1912. The first steaming tests were
made on the battleship Maryland and
the coal proved to be SO per cent as
efficient as the Pocohontas coal of
West Virginia-Tacoma News.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14
OLD CLOTHING WANTED

l can use to great advantage baby
garments and clothing for boys and
girls under the age of twelve years
The native mothers and children ap.
Dreciated your former gifts. If you
can further assist them phone 1853, and
Rev. Shriver will call for your clean,
cast-off clothing.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-14

Times want ads brings results.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
When Your Plow Turns
Up Unexploded
Shells

TN THE early days of the war, accord
ing to "The Electrical Experimenter, !"
it frequently happened that the French
farmers would run their ploughs into un-
exploded shells buried a few feet in the
ground, with oftentimes fatal results.
One of the French army engineers
thought Of novel electrical scheme for
accurately locating these buried shells,
thousands of which had landed in the fer
tile fields along the one-time firing line.
His idea involved the application of an
extra large size Hughes's balance, an in
strument we'll known to every electrician.
The exploring coils of this shell-locating
electrical balance are mounted on a light
two-wheeled truck, as shown in the illus
tration, so that the operatives using the
device can propel it over the ground at
fairly rapid rate. The exploring work
has to be done reasonably slowly in order
to note the indications of the instrument.
The necessary battery and current inter-
rupting devices are mounted in sub
stantial container on the chassis, along
with the locating coils.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
An Extraordinary Gun
by a Boston
Man

TIME powderless, centrifugal gun
4 has long been the laughing
stock of ordnance experts, ac-
cording to "The Scientific American"
in speaking Of the latest weapon of that
type. This is the invention of a Boston
man.
"This weapon which is driven by an cleo
trio motor, is said to shoot $4,000 round
steel missiles a minute, or 555 a sec
ond. At present the inventor is not in
a position to give details concerning his
gun, except to state that it operates on
the principle of a sling. Each bullet is
twirled on a disk at a great rate of speed
and then released. The ammunition is fed
through funnel-likc arrangement leading
into two veins which centre upon an
opening through which the missiles are
hurled with great velocity.
"In recent test, the inventor claims, the
gun was turned on to sheets of u inch stac,
several hundred feet away. The bullets
whipped through the steel as if it were
paper. The missiles small steel balls
similar to ball bearings"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

binding material, much as hair is used
in mortar; but such an explanation is
scarcely satisfying when it is remem-
bered that the straw fibre is very
weak one. Alexander Findlay says in
his "Chemistry in the Service of Man"
Iongmans, Green & co.,:
about fourteen years ago it was found
by DR.. E. G. Acheson, to whom we owe the
discovery of carborundum and the process
of making artificial graphite, that when clay
is mixed with a dilute solution of tannin
it becomes much more plastic, and the
strength of the dried brick is, moreover,
greatly increased. Although straw does
not contain tannin, it was found that when
straw is treated with water the extract OBJ
tanned has the same action on clay as
tannin has, the Elasticity of the clay and
the hardness of the brick being greatly in
creased"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Chain Armor to Protect
the Eyes From Flying
Splinters

4 N INGENIOUS improvement has re-
Gently been made to the already
familiar steel shrapnel helmet in use
lover there" says "The Popular Science
Monthly" 1t is designed to protect the
eyes and the upper part of the face
from splnters of wood, stone, sand and
metal thrown up by exploding shells.
The new device is merely an adaptation
of the chain doors which have been in
troduced into metal, chemical and glass
works in recent years to protect the
workers from the heat of the furnaces
and the splashes of molten material. 1t
consists of fringe of separate short
lengths of fairly heavy chain, which ef
fectively arrests the flying particles. On
account of its looseness, it does not seri-
ously interfere with the vision.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
A Bit of Dialect of the
Macon Variety

\HE Hon. Bridges Smith, of Macon
Ga, is the author of series of
dialect sketches which are pub-
llshed from time to time in "The Macon
Telegraph" and might some day be
done into book, if Mr.. Smith ever found
the leisure to attend to it. Most of tho
time Mr.. Smith is either city editor of
Inc Macon Telegraph" or Mayor of
Macon. and part of the time he is both.
and either job is enough to keep the
average man busy.
Here is one of his dialect stories.
When Henrietta carried in the buck
wheats steaming hot and butter-soaked. she
found the lady of the house doing some fig
urlng between nibblng her toast and sin
ping coffee. She had eaten her bacon and
eggs, and was now tapering off, as Hen
rietta once expressed it, on toast and coffee
while waiting for the cakes, and in the
meanwhile writing on piece of paper
Henrietta also noticed that the lady of
the house was looking serious that morning.
This and the writing at the breakfast table
being such an unusual thing, she was sore
ly puzzled.
us yer aint feeln we'll dis mawnin. Miss
Calline? ?"
"Oh, yes; but let me tell you something
Henrietta, we have just simply got to cut
down our grocery bill. The bills last week
were simply fierce, and if they keep up the
boss is going to jump on me with both
feet" said the lady of the house in seri-
Gus manner.
"Yassum, dat so. Er knowed wen yer wuz
awdrin dat shad fur dinner yistiddy de
boss gwineter kick. Yer knowed wot vcr
pay fur dat shad?"
GA dollar and half, and it seems
shame, but You must remember this, Hen
rietta, we don't have shad every day, and
certainly we ought to have at least one In =
season, even if it does cost SO much, and
besides we can skimp somewhere else: but
let us have that one shad."
Dat wild you, Miss Calline. Eff Won think
yer kin stan hit, taint muffin ter me. kase
nit don't come out'n my pocket, no ma'am!"
i was reading this morning what to have
to eat during the war and cut down the feed
bills. list of things for every meal for
every day of the week has been studied ont
and printed, and we are just asked to follow
the list. For instance, here is what the
paper says we should have for Sunday
feeding: Listen: For Sunday breakfast.
stewed prunes, stewed rasins, rice waffles
with syrup and cocoa. This is what thew
call war food breakfast"
"Yassum, er hyeerd yer. But~wot de boss
gwineter sayed when he sot down ter ar
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Trapping a Submarine

NJ EW methods of trapping the u
boat are constantly coming to
light in spite Of the secrecy maintained
IN British naval circles regarding means
to defeat the submarine. The following
vivid account is quoted by 'The Scien-
titic American" from "The Liverpool
Journal of Commerce.:
"A scaplane had spotted a submarine
lying on the sea bed Instantly the OBJ
servers fnger commenced to tap a key,
and ten miles away long, lean destroyer
and four squatty trawlers detached them
selves from a pack of hounds working a
covert and hastened to the kill. Meanwhile
the seaplane circled around, but when the
surface ships arrived her instructions, de-
llVered by wireless, were curt and precise
Acting upon them, the trawlcrs stationed
themselves at the four corners of wet
quadrangle, while the destroyer kept her
guns ready to talk to the enemy should hc
appear above the surface.
1.-The trawlers at the corners of the quad
rangle got out their sweeps-long wire
tawsers of an incredible stoutness, with q
heavy Kite in the centre to keep their
bghts down on the sea bed-and CON-
menced to steam toward each other AS
TIE pairs of vessels met, their wires stimuli
taneously engaged themselves under the
U-boat's bow and stern and commenced to
work their sinuous way between her hull
and tho sea bottom.
"Then the strange thing happened. Two
round black objects seemed to detach
themselves from her hull and float surface
ward, to hover a second and then to COM
nence bobbing down the tide-bobbing
down lane much frequented by those
ships that brought food, munitions of war
and hundreds of other things to England's
shore.
"'Mine layer, eh? called the seaplanc's
observer.
"That's it, lad came the tclephored an
swcr but her eggs can wait for uinlte.
"The trawlers now crossed their de-
pendent cables and thus held the C-boat in
kind OF cats cradle. She seemed sud-
denly 10 fyakn uu to her danger, for with n
bound she tried to dsengage herself from
the meshes which held her. But it was
no use; The trawlers had been too long at
The game to leave any loopholes and tho
submarine was doomed.
"'Got him. signalled the seapane
"'Thanks, replied the destroyer.
"'Wc'll give him five minutes to come
,p and breathe. but no longer That time
passed but still the submarine made no
further move.
"At tagged signal from the destroyer
the port foremost trawler and the star
board after one clipped small red tin
Of high explosive to the bartaut wire and
allowed it TO slide down till it touched the
U-boat's hull. 1t was the seaplane's turn
to wave flag and Immediately there fol-
lowed the crashing of two fists upon two
firing keys; the uprising of two gray
mounds of water and rumblng, mutrlci
explosion.
"Thc seaplane circlcd twice above the
pntch Of rising oil, asccrtsined that the
German had bscn DESTROYED and natided
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Methodist Union Again

ssIT>HE two great bodies of Methodists in
l. the United States, who separated in
1874 over the question of negro slavery,
are trying to get together" says an cdi-
torial in "The ST. Louis Republic" Abou.
all that separates them now, it seems. is
the same thing that first caused the split.
the negro. The Methodist Episcopal, or So
called Northern Church, has negro bishops.
while the Methodist Episcopal Church.
South, has none. Continuing, the editorial.
declares:
"For many years leading men Of both
churches have labored to bring about orr
ganic union. There are no doctrinal or
other important differences, while the
geographical considerations are all in favor
Of it. Sectional bitterness has disappeared.
In many border communities, where each
denomination formerly maintained an or
ganization, practical union has already
been effected by the appointment of only
one pastor and the merging Of the two
congregations.
"The joint commission Of the two Meth
odisms, appointed for the purpose of agree
ing upon a basis of union, will hold its
fourth and last meeting in st. Louis thie
week, before making report to tks Gen.
eral Conference of the Southern Church,
which meets at Atlanta in May. 1t is 5
body Of distinguished men, including
number OF bishops, pastors of leadins
churches and prominent laymen, Of whom
former Vice-President Fairbanks Is one.
The sentiment Of the commission is said
to be decidedly in favor Of the union, and
it Is now laboring to bring abou. basis
Of agreement that will be approved by both
general conferences.
"If such q basis is reached. it will un.
doubtedy meet the approval Of Methodists
everywhere and the Christian world in
general. The war has brought q demand
for united effort in religious work, just ss
it has burned away the non-cssentisls that
hampered progress and beclouded oee
vision in many other directions"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
An Electric Shave Light

THE latest trench comfort is an cleo
trio shave light, according to "The
Electrical Experimenter," illustrated
herewith:
"The outfit consists Of a high grade
safety razor, with six crucible steel blades;
the electric light attachment that attaches
to razor handle, stroppcr, battery that will
supply light for one hundred shaves, high
quality aluminium trench mirror--all COM
plete in compact khaki case. The light
attachment can be used on fountain pen or
pencil for writing where light is dim or
wanting-aso for reading"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Statistics

>HERE are no official statistics of
the churches in America. be-
cause, as "The Pathfinder" saws. .sthe
government pays no attention to
religious matters" The churches have
different ways Of reckoning and keeping
their records, and the Church Council
has depended for religious statistics on
DR.. H. K. Carroll, whose figures are
widely quoted:
his report shows that the net increase
ol church membership in this country for
l9Ii was $4,000, which was $4,000 less
tnan IN 1915. The Catholic growth, accord
ing to the editor of the Catholic DIRECTORY.
was only about 175,OOO, or less than taif
what II was the year before The churches
that have large following among people
OF foreign extraction have suffered most
by the casualties of war
lhere are 167 church denominations
llsted, and besides these there are scores
OF others which are too small to be counted
The total number of church members is
now about forty millons-40,515 900, ac-
cordlng to the 2glres The Catholics in
this report are credited with I.,e63 900.
The Methodsts, counting the sixteen differ
ent bodies, come next, with 7,7s2,o00 The
Baptists, with fifteen bodies, follow, with
6,542,O00. Thus, the Catholics, Methodists
and Baptists combined form about twenty
eight millions or 70 per cent Of our total
church population.
The other denominations are much
smaller The Lutherans, with eighteen
bodies, have 2,461,O0O members. The Pres
byterians, with eleven bodies, number g.
226,000. The Disciples of Christ are grow
ing rapidly, and now have 1895 COG; the
Episcopalians, 1,083,0O0; the Reformed. 514.-
600; the Eastern Orthodox, 100000; the
Latter Day Saints, (Mormons}, APO, 600; the
United Brethren, 36S, 900; the Evangelical
Association, 200, 900; the Dunkards, 1873 600:
the Friends (Quakers), 10000; she Ad-
ventists, 10000; the Mennonites. 81 900:
the Scandinavian Evangelical, $4,000, and
SO on down.
The number Of churches is now 22s.sOo.
or an increase during the year OF "a little
over 1000. The number of ministers is
$4,000. an increase CT over 1900.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

brekfuss lax dat? Stewed prunes! Rice
waffles! Cocoa! Soons de boss sot down
ter de table an er fotch in dem stewed
prunes he sho gwineter call me. An he
gwineter tell me ter fotch in dem aigs an
dat brekfuss strip an take dat cocoa ter de
kitchen an fotch in de coffee. Dat wot he
gwineter do, an yer knowed hit Miss
Callne"
eyes, that's about what he will do, but we
must educate him up to making his break
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Around the World and Back A6ain

paper. This war has brought out many new
dishes."
"Wot else deys gwineter make yer eat."
For lunch you have spoon corn bread,
home-canned spinach with egg, apple sauce"
"Dat all deys gi' yer ter eat? No COL
lards, no turnip greens, no bile ham, no
roas' beef, no little pig roas', no roas
chick'n, ner hummer dat wot US has envy
day? Wy, Miss Calline, don't yer krowed
ef dat all yer gwineter sct on de table fur
de boss ter eaf dar gwineter be er rippit ?
You knowed de boss KANT stan fur no
chilluns playhouse grub lax dat"
"It does look skimpy, doesn't it! But
suppose he will get used to it."
"Yassum, yer kin sit used ter most evvy-
thing Of yer sot ye mine ter hit, but you
knowed de boss sames me do, an eff dar is
anything he do lax in dis wul hit sump'n
ter eat. Dis kiner mess LAX stewed prunes
an Gavin chowder and spoon Gavin braid
ainter gwineter SCOT de boss, an he gwineter
kick lax er steer, kick right over de dash
bode. Better not start dat kiner foolishness
wild de boss, Miss Calline, er tell yer dat TO
yer gifts any furder. De boss is er eatin
man, he s.'
"Probably when we show him how much
we can save on the grocery and meat bill
he'll make up his mind to stand for it. I've
or over $500 year"
"Yassum. Is you doin dis fur jess de
boss, er is hit fur you an me, too?"
"Of course, if we adopt this war schedule
it is for US all. We would not adopt it for
the boss by himself. You are not much Of
an eater no way, and you wouldn't mind it
l know if we could save over $500 year.
You know yourself, Henrietta, our meat and
! grocery bills are getting to be outrageous,
| so big they scare me-"
"Yassum, but yer gwineter skyeerd de
| boss er heap wuss'n US is skyeerd, yer sho
is. Sides dat, Miss Calline, er amt nevvy
| gwineter git used ter stewed prunes an de
lax er dat Er mout jess ez we'll quit catin,
| eff dat wotter gotter eat Wen yer gwneter
shot down on sump'n ter eat lax yer saved ?"
81 don't know. I was just figuring to see
| how much we could save in a month and
then tell the boss about it.'
bout day 70 yer start it. Den er gwineter
F, look roun fur ernuvver job er cookin. Mer
mar nevvy fotch up ter stew prunes,
much less eat 'em two times err day. One
time munt nuff fur dis chile. Spec de
boss gwineter tell yer. de same thing Wen
yer tell him bout hit. Err hate ter scsso,
Miss Callne, but yer sho is fixin fur de boss
ter quit YER kase he amt no man ter stan
fur dem stewed prunes fur he brekfuss
longs yer kin git aigs an battercakes. An
dat spoon Gavin braid-oh, my, Miss CAL
| line!"
Until that morning the lady of the house
had been looking on the patriotic and eco
nomical side of the question. Henrietta had
aroused her from her dreams. She put up
the pencil, tore UP the paper, and while she
said nothing Henrietta knew there would
be no stewed prunes and spoon corn bread
in that house.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The Hardy Charcoal

T LABORATORY experiments con-
IL Quoted of late have shown that a
candle flame will become extinguished
when the oxygen content Of the atmos-
phere in which it is burning falls to
about Is per cent. Sulphur stops burn
ing when all but 1876 per cent of the
oxygen in an inclosed space, has been
exhausted. The case of charcoal, how
ever, is notable. Combustion continues
until only 9 per cent Of the oxygen re-
mains.-Pop1tLnr Mechanics.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

of butter. You know butter is IS cents
pound, and we up a pound to butter our
buckwheats. This substitute for butter costs
about Is cents a pound, so you see what a
saving there is in the butter line alone"
"An dis hyere Gavin chowder, wot dat :?
Hit sumpn moo ter me. Err knowed wot fish
chowder is, but er nevvy hyeerd tell er Gavin
chowder fo dis"
Couldn't tell you what corn chowder is,
Henrietta, but that's what is printed in the
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

fast on prunes and waffles, because they are
war food, and besides there will be big
saving in the weeks bill"
"Wot hit say US muss has fur dinner?"
Let me see. Well, what we call dinner
is just lunch, and what VIC call supper is
dinner, but it says for dinner: Corn chow
der, Graham bread and margarine, stewed
prunes with Cottage cheese balls and coffee"
"Wot margarine, Miss Calline? ?"
"1t must be a stuff that takes the place
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Why 1t Is That Bricks Are
Made With Straw

LIVERY ONE is familiar with the
- story of how Pharaoh commanded
his taskmakers to increase the burdens
laid on the Israelites by withholding
bricks; and doubtless many have won
dcred wherein the hardship lay, says
"The Popular Science Monthly" By
most people, probably, the view has been
held that the straw was added as a
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
God and
the
DeviI
War, Wax Candies and Gospel
Missions
ERE is letter sent by E. H.
Dance to "The Nation
1ondon):

Social life in the army is made uni
versity of the whole mass of English man
hood, and discussions are now universal
which before were confined to the few who
had wide opportunities for the interchange
of ideas. Young men everywhere are cry
ing out at the failure of the churches to
supply what they want; they ask either,
to be given religion which is free from
inherent absurdities or to have none at ALL
They are thinking men, and they are con-
fronted by solid obstacles to Christian be-
lief; but they have neither the time nor
the desire to read up theology and they
look for assistance to those whom they re-
gard Gotten with too little Justification as
experts in religious theory and practice.
Everywhere they are discouraged In
the Church they find either blndfold de-
votion which declines to look at facts which
they themselves simply cannot ignore, or, at
the other end, quasi-rational exposition
OF the faith which is concerned with pre-
senting a homogeneous case for Chris
tanity rather than with tackling frankly
the root difficulties.
Until it has been decided that the Resur-
rectlon was physical and not merely spirit
ual, the Church and its religion has no
justification for their existence. Among the
Non-conformists, on the other hand, there is
for the most part no intellectually at all,
while the creed they offer is little more
than set of arbitrary and not necessarily
consistent beliefs
Meantime, Christian ministers haggle
about ordination the abolition of deans.
little realizing that :ne average man, who
is no theologian and no churchman unless
ne sees good reason to be one, usually has
the vaguest idea of the ecclesiastical con-
ceptlon of apostolic succession, or else dis
.,l
again, he knows what they are) he regards
as not worth abolishing What he is con-
cerned with is his own spiritual efficiency.
ana until that is catered for by means other
than wax candles or gospel missions he will
nave little to do with the churches"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
In the Great Workshop Of Science

the destroyer of the fact. Then, with her
observer slipping a drum of cartridges into
his machine gun, she sped on after those
objects bobbing down the tide burst of
rapid firing and the first of the DEVILS
eggs, it's buoyancy chamber punctured, sank
with a gurgle; the second gave a better
show, for it exploded grandly and harm
lessly as the bullets reached it,