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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-23
LIFE is SAVED BY
HANDKERCHIEF

of n dead German. 1t took me min
ute to realize what was happening and
l awOke to the sound of bullets whiz-
zing past my head. That didn't disturb
me much, because | was wondering
why somebody hadn't buried the Ger
man. Looking around, however, all
could see was dead Germans. 1t sud-
denly dawned on me that | was in No
Mans Land. OF all the places there
are to land in France and Germany l
had to land between the two.
"Then realized what a predicament
l was in and began to think up some
way to get out of it. The thought came
to me that if l was nearer the German
lines than TO the French, l had better
get rid of those incendiary balls in my
pocket, for if the Germans catch you
with them you are shot at once. l
climbed back into my machine to the
tune of bullets and took out Il load of
over 800 cartridges, threw them on the
ground and then removed my compass
and altimeter.
1.-The first thing struck was grave,
unfinished, with two of the enemy in
it. l eased myself down into it, lifted
up one of the Germans and put the
cartridges beneath him. 1 started
walking back to my machine. AS l
got near ii the BOche lines started
their mitrailleurs and rifles at me, and
the French, unaware that was one of
them. also opened up. 1 had to walk
500 feet between the lines and 1t was
no joke with all that fire concentrated
in my direction. One bullet passed so
close to my face that really felt the
wind. decided that I'd have to go to
one of the lines, enemy or friend, but
Just then heard a machine overhead.
l looked up and saw white puffs break
ing out all around it.
ION the way the fire got so hot
had to fall face down, and l didn't
move for. guess. five minutes. There
being no good reason for my being
shot like q dog. yanked out my hand
kerchief and waved it at the French
lines.
They finally got it. after ten min
utes of waving. and l saw a French
officer beckOning me from a bit Of
woods. If there ever has been faster
5O-yard sprint 1 never heard of it. 1
ran so fast that ran right into the
officer, and very nearly knocked his re.
volver out of his hand. l showed him
my Identification card and then started
cursing him for shooting at me. He
had been taking pOtshOts at me out
there. He apOlOgized, saying that he
could only see my head, because his
position was slightly lower than No
| Mans Land.
"They took me up to the divisional
general. and reported that had seen
more than 300 dead Germans and only
| two Frenchmen. 1t made him so happy
that he gave me a dinner, and cOmpli-
mented me for being good soldier"
| fering from it is planned through 1900
local societies of the National Tuber-
| culOsis association.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-23
IS AS FATAL AS war
Tuberculosis Kills as Many as
Fall From Bullets.
Or. Livingstone Farrand Appeals to
People to Enter Battle Against
Disease.

New York.-MOrtality from tuber-
culosis among the civilian population
and in the armies of all the countries
engaged in the war has at least ap-
proximated the total number of SOL
diers killed in battle. according to Dr.
Livingstone Farrand, director of the
American commission for the proven
ton of tuberculosis in France.
That the people of America throw
themselves into the winning of the
war against tuberculosis with the same
zeal with which they have hurled
themselves against the Hun is the bur-
den Of en- appeal made by Doctor Far
rand on the eve of his return to
France.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-23

The first step in home canning of
vegetables or fruits is to make sure
that all the needed apparatus is handy
and i'm condition for immediate use.
AS explained, this consists of a hot
water bath outfit (such as n wash
boiler with false bOttom), or steam
pressure Gamer. glass jars, tops ana
rubber rings Cor cans and soldering
OUTFIT. a yard or two of clean cheese
cloth for blanching and dipping, and
the usual kitchen equipment of clean
enameled pans, knives, spoons, wood
en- paddle, and sugar, salt and other
condiments for favOring. Tables ana
all utensils with which the product Is
to come i'm contact must be scrupu-
lousy clean-preferably scalded with
boiling water.
Use Fresh, Sound Products.
The fruits or vegetables to be
canned must he fresh. sound and nell
Their too green nor too ripe. Young
vegetables give better results than old,
woody or tough ones. Aim to get the
products into the jars as quickly as Is
practicable. Every minutes delay
lessons flavor and adds To the difficulty
OF canning. Such products as green
peas or sweet corn are not fit to can
IL they are off the vines more than a
few hours. Peas for canning should
be picked early in the morning or dur
ing a cool spell and rushed into the
cans. Don't let peas stand after they
are shelled.
Prepare Water Bath and Empty
Jars and Lids.
Start your days canning operations
by putting your wash boiler or hot
water bath with its false bottom to
boil on the fire. Before the water In
1t gets too hot place clean empty jars
on their sides and put glass covers
or metal caps in the bath. the metal
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-23
PROOFS OF GARDEN TOLL.

You can brag about your gar
den all winter If you have your
canned evidence on the dinner
table.
Concentrate products. espe-
cially soup mixtures, so that
each cOntainer will hold as
much canned food and as little
water as possible.
Really there is nothing to can
ming fruit and vegetables ex-
cept fresh products, care. clean
illness. good jars, and sufficient
heat to sterilize products i'm the
closed jars or cans and insure
safety i'm keeping them.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-23
IMPORTANT TO SAVE MANURE
Necessity for This Sometimes Eoroo,.
ten by Small Farmer-Lessens
Need for Fertilizer.

prepared by the United States Denar,.
ment of Agriculture)
save manure. The necessity for
this Is sometimes forgotten by the
small farmer who Is just starting In
the business Of live stock production,
Fertilizer is scarce. high In price, and
hard to get for many reasons. There
fore. the more manure saved to apply
to the land the less need for fertilizer.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-23
Swedish "Rubber Baron Tells
How He PrOfited by Trad
ing on Frontier.
WAS CLERK BEFORE The War
Made His First elcney Dealing IN
Russian Rubles-Then Engages IN
Smuggling Rubber From Fin
land and Gets Rich Quickly.

Stockholm. Sweden.-"YOu want 10
know what people slnu""le? Go UP
the river then. and you will soon find
out. They ssIuggle nearly everything
50 il is rather difficult to answer the
question ofrhand." So said custom
house officer M lIaparanda. the httie
Swedish town on the frontier of FIN
land. to Herbert Ericsson. Swedish
writer. who went up the Tornea valley
to investigate the smuggling stories.
while I was waiting for the Over
Tornea train to start. motorcycle
chugged into the station yard SAID
Ericsson.
Tint is one of our rubber barons.
remarked an acquaintance to me-, "A
rubber baron. In Haparanda talk. IS
man who suddenly gets rich on
smuggling rubber in from Finland.
was i'm luck, for the baron-karlsson
! will call him-traveled north in my
compartment. He was a pleasant fel-
low. He did not remind me of the
smart spectators | had met in Norr-
land. He even looked embarrassed
when began 10 talk about smuggling.
Clerk Before the War.
"PreSently he told me that mt the
outbreak of the war he had been a
clerk in one of NOrrland's coast towns.
He had earned his money in rubles.
at is not generally known that
many hundred Swedes have made big
fortunes out of rubles. 1t happened
| like this: After the occupation or
| Poland and other regions of Russia.
the Germans found that the population
refused to take marks in payment for
such supplies as were Daid for. The
people demanded rubles, and rubles
the Germans did not have. The only
way of getting them was through
| Sweden. The Russian government
permitted no more than 500 to be TAX
| en out of the government by each
! traveller. hut with the incentive of n
| good reward smugglers were not lack
| ing. The Haparanda agents bought
up these rubles and sent them down
to Germany by bales.
"When the Germans had bought all
/ tie IuhltS tutN Nduttu hdiiSSo tii''
| to smuggle drugs to Finland. That
failed absolutely. He met with dis
aSter at the outset. His first cOnsign-
ment of several kilOs of acetylsalicy-
lie acid and 100 clinical thermometers
was seized by the Swedish customs au-
thorities and heavy fine was i'm
| posed.
$50 he got into touch with some
| Finnish merchants who, for price.
! guaranteed to have large Quantity
of rubber rings on the Swedish side of
the river at a certain minute on a GER
tain day.
Entering into relations with n firm
in Stockholm and finding that he could
make many thousand kroner profit
thereby, Karlsson told the Films to 60
ahead. One night he went to Mattila.
where the rubber was to he ready.
Matilda is Il tiny station on the Hap
aranda-Over-Tornea stretch of rail
way. and almost on the bank of the
| river.
"When he arrived there was no sign
of Russian custom house officer
across stream. TIE revolution has al
tered matters. The COssacks who
used to patrol the Russian shore had
disappeared. The new guards appoint
ed by the revOlutiOnaries found it more
interesting 10 stay in Tornea. Karlsson
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-23

OF their ianu while they know that
tens of thousands of their fellow
countrymen are nearly starving and
that their government is sending out
commissions full of piteOuS appeal, To
other lands. America included. to spare
them little -four. Ii seems curiols
that these commissions could not have
tarried IL week ut the frontier and or
ganized Il guard to put a stop 10 the
drain of flour there"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-23

caps preferably in a piece of cloth
which may he lifted out conveniently.
Cover the Jars with water. put the lid
on the boiler. and let the jars boil
until you are ready to use them. They
should be allowed to boil for at least
Is minutes. As It takes time for a
big vessel of water to come To boil.
start this boiling of jars some time
before you begin actually to prepare
your fruit or vegetables. Try not to
have your prepared fruits or vegeta-
bles wait any length of time to be put
into the boiled jars.
Meanwhile start water for banching
to boil in clean enameled pail.
Use only new rubber rings. Shortly
before you will use the rubber rings
add teaspoonful Of bicarbonate
(cooking) soda To Il quart of boiling
water. Cleanse the rubber rings just
before putting them on the jars by
dipping them for one minute in this
hot soda water.
Cold Dipping.
II dipping in a cold water bath is
advised for the product. the moment
the bag of blanched material is taken
from the boiling water plunge ii into a
vessel of clean cold water-the colder
the better. Allow II to remain in the
cold water only for the time specified.
DO not allow 1t to soak in the cold
water.
Preparing Fruits and Vegetables.
Select sound. fresh fruits and vege-
tables and carefully wash in cold wa
ter. DO not put soft berries into wa
ter. Rinse them by pouring water
over the berries in Il colander. being
careful not To mash or bruise them.
Sort the product again and discard all
bruised or defective pieces.
With clean hands and scalded uten-
sils peel or scrape or cut up large
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-23
Never Heard of Draft.

Paris. nl.-A man who never heard
of the draft until arrested here is be-
ing held by police as Stacker. He is
William Lamphere, who claims Ma
comb county, Mich. as his home and
his age thirty-two.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-23

A resolution was presented recently
in the English house Of commons to
draft all unmarried women between
nineteen and thirty years for war work.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-23

A mantel clock and savings bank
are now combined.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-23

fering from it is planned through 1900
local societies Of the National Tuber-
culOsis association.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-25

posal a supply of short-time Labor
which he pays only while actively
employing 1t. He escapes the burden
of boarding these 'rlaborers", and his
wife and family are relieved of their
care.
1t Is futile to speculate now on the
need Of women to take mems places
on the farm. Even before the war
farm-labor shortage was an acute
problem. With the cessation of i'm
migration, the call to voluntary SER
vice, the first draft and the demand
for men in munition plants and war
industries, the farm was almost de-
serted. Unskilled labor sought hign
wages in the city, and the farmer
was left practically alone, with the
demand for increased food produc-
ton laid upon him
The second draft will place the
burden of mans work at home
sQuarely on women's shoulders.
There is no time to lose now, accord
ing to managers of the Land Army,
before carrying out plans for extend
ing the movement to cover the en-
tire State.
In England the women have as.
sumed the work of food production,
and recent statistics show about 3O0,.
600 women doing farm labor. Ac.
cording to Miss Sophia Carey, a rep
resentative of the National Land
Council of England who is touring
the State in the interests Of the Land
Army Drive, the farmerettes there
have exceeded the ante-bellum food
production figures. Before the war
England only grew one-quarter of her
food supply. This year she will har-
vest four-ffths of the food required
for consumption.
The plans of the Land Army in
volve establishing 200 camps in the
State for the coming year. To do
his means raising fund of $500 900.
This covers the cost of securing and
equlpping camps, providing work
clothes for the girls and auto trucks
o carry them to and from their work.
Once established, the camps become
'elf-supporting. The farmers pay the
lamps 81 day for eight hours work
~ each girl
The State campaign organization
consists of General Committee ana
Executive Committee, headed by Mrs.
Charles s. Whitman, wife Of Cover
Tor Whitman, as Honorary Chairman,
md F. H. Betehell, first Vice-Presi-
len Of the New York Telephone
Company, as active Chairman.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-25
SHIP BUILDER WHO
. Is ALSO A POET OF
UNUSUAL ABILITY
(By Associated Press.)


San Francisco, Sept. 25.-Califor-
lila has shipbuilding poet who by
his enthusiastic words is inspiring his
fellow laborers to greater efforts in
their work to safeguard civilization.
Giants of achievement, who draw
from the elements their scourges and
harness the winds to their blazing
forges" are Americas war time ship
workers, as idealized in the verses of
Arthur Rupp, world wanderer and
now poet-in-overalls and wielder of
sledge and wrench in the Bethlehem
Shipbuilding Corporations plant at
Alameda, Cal, across the bay FROM
San Francisco.
, Arthur Rupp lives in a modest cot
tage at Alameda. Six days a week he
is "bolter-up' at a shipbuilding
plant, driving into place with hammer
and wrench the steel plates that make
the hulls of the ocean cargo carriers.
On the seventh day he becomes the
poet who envisages the purpose and
blazons abroad the lofty enterprise of
the grimy mechanics among whom he
works. In the quiet of his cottage,
where for four years he has lived
alone, the tumult of the "rivet guns"
the crash of steel on steel and the
clamor of the thousands of workers
take on the rythm of vast symptom,
through which runs the theme of vic
tory.
On "The Building of the Courag-
eous," big freighter now in course
of construction, Rupp wrote:
Giants are we in our work of
wonder,
Armed with the powers that circle
the suns;
We strike the steel till 1t roars like
thunder
And cringes before our riyeting
guns.
We draw from the elements their
scourges,
The bolts of Jove to our wheels
we grip;
We harness the winds to our blazing
FORCES,
And thus we are building the GAL
ant ship
Courageous.
Heroes are We in our place of duty
Graphing with dangers of pain and
harm.
We smooth the rough into lines of
beauty,
And beat the rude into forms of
charm.
We Chamber, and run, and haul and
tussle,
Where death entices our feet to t
slip;
But our hearts are brave and strong
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-25
For BiliOuSneSS
Take A Calotab
The New CalOmel Tablet That Is En-.
tirely Purified Of All Nauseating and
Dangerous Qualities

OF all medicines in the world, the
doctors prize calomel most highly, for
1t is the best and only sure remedy
for the most common ailments. Now
that all Of its unpleasant and danger
GUS qualities have been removed, the
new kind of calomel, called "Calo-
tabs is thoroughly delightful. One
Calotab at bedtime, with swallow
of water-that's all. No nausea, no
gripping nor unpleasantness. Next
morning you wake up feeling fine
live, wide awake, energetic and with
hearty appetite for breakfast. Eat
what you please, go where you please
no restrictions as to habit or diet.
Calotabs are sold only in original
sealed packages, price thirty-fve
cents. Your druggist recommends
and guarantees Calotabs. Money back
II you are not alphabetically
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-25
Is our muscle,
And thus we are building the noble
ship.

ship
Courageous.
Workers are we who grasp from the
ages
All that is potent in deed and
thought.
Hear me, We statesmen, poets and
sages!
Hercules never like one of us
wrought!
Rise from your keel, OH she'll o.
glory!
80 40 sing as the hammers trip.
Mighty be you in the worlds great
story,
For thus we are building the
mighty ship
Courageous.
Born in Syracuse, New York. As
years ago, Rupp is of Swiss ancestry
Although he has been in California
Tor the past 10 years of his life most
OF the time as a railway employe and
workman in can manufacturing
plant Rupp said the greater number
OF his years had been given to sea
Wherever have wandered the world
round my heart has been at home in
America" he said, "and to sing ber
place in the progress Of life and 70
teach the meaning Of her civilization
nave been among my greatest amb
tons" ''
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-03
Books That Fit Into Somebody's Pocket

but finally he grew too daring and at
tempted to put over bewhiskered story
with only the thinnest veneer of local
color. The editor regarded it as an insult
to his intelligence and so the reporter fell
into his bad grace and never landed in
the column again. But before the end
came the reporter sold thirty-seyen re-
written jokes from the 10 cent book, which
gave him net profit Of $500.
The question we raise here Is not
whether everything you read In the papers
is true, but how much our INSCRIPTIONS
friend might have made had he possessed
a copy of Best Short Stories, by Thomas
L. Mason, Just published by Doubleday,
Page & Co. Best Short Stories is joke
book de luxe. It can be had IN red flex-
ible leather covers and costs $1.25, true
aristocrat of its class.
Owing to its highly concentrated quail
ity the book should be taken IN small
doses, but it is all good reading and there
is at least one laugh to each OF its 252
pages
BEST SHORT STORIES. By THOMAS La
MASON. Doubleday, Page & Co. SIS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-03

devoted to The Ways Of Natioadlisw and
another to Catholic and Protestast. The
author sums up his conclusions as to the
Catholic in Irish politics in the observa-
ton, at is the absence of home rule that
has saved the church from anti-elerical
ism; once home rule is established the
church must be prepared for a new mood
in Ireland"
The middle section Of the work is de-
voted to the Consequences Of the events
thus narrated, and it is here he describes
"the insurrection of 1916" (which is u
ster, Sir Edward Carson and the "blocd
red hand"), sketches Unedseesed Ireland
and analyses The Irish Idyf with quality
of ironic vituperation not marked else
where in his pages
Naturally Mr.. Hackett would be false
to his self appointed task if he did not
suggest some social, economic and polit-
cal prescriptions for the long standing
ills of his native land. Briefly summed
up, he finds these to be striving for eco
nomic fitness; the entering of Ulster and
Nationalist Ireland into @their common
destiny; democratic minimum, full
fiscal autonomy and dominion home rule"
Political, economic and social doctors
can always prescribe remedies. But the
difficulty is to get the patient to take them.
IRELAND: A STUDY IN NATIONAL
ISM. By FRANCIS HAcKErT. B. W.
Huebsch. q.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-03
"Best Short Stories"
BY GORDON B. MOSS.

A CERTAIN staid, respectable news
II paper on Park Row once sought
to brighten its editorial page with a col
umn Of paragraphs concerning unusual
happenings about the city, anecdotes and
jokes that were original and bright with
local color. A notice On the bulletin
board informed the staff that all were
eligible to contribute and that the sum of
81 would be paid for each printed item.
A reporter who read the notice promptly
went out and for 10 cents purchased a
book Of jokes He set to work to rewrite
some of the stories that lent themselves
readily to his purpose. After dinner
yarns that were attributed to Andrew
jackson and Abraham Lincoln be credited
to Chauneey Depev and job Hedges; far
away places became City Hall Park, and
incidents that he would locate nowhere
else he assigned to the subway.
The villain boldly slipped the editor a
batch Of copy and most of it was printed.
He contributed more, with like success,