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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-09

been; nor does the chapter want determined n they shHh ~ y
to keep passing the hat" hampered In hlr thusaas
Those at the head of the Red activities by the lac OF money.
chapter in Goldield realize The following SHOWS Tn nan
than others the splendid work condition OF n GOdneld chapte
the women III doing, and they are of Jan. 81, 1918.
GOLDFIELD CHAPTER, A. r. G..
Receipts and Disbursements For January, 1913.
RECEIPTS:
CHAPTERS proportion of membership fees--$ 5476
Proceeds of Red Cross Ball ------------- 49n7b
Paid by Mrs. Moon, &C Junior Auxiliary - 5O75
Proceeds of Mrs. Blairs ravioh dinner -w- $500
Donated by Father Cronin oW
Proceeds of Juniors cafeteria dinner ---- 1900
War fund collections SoVV
Headuuarters' proportion of membp fees $3.50
ro., recents for the month s 10000
$2,23616
DISBURSEMENTS:
RENTED to headquarters ---------------$l9S.oO
Purchases of materials for womenis dept 1880
Rent -------- iooo
Expressage, postage and misc. expenses -- 2263
Total disbursements for the month y 3556S
Cash on hand Jan. 81, 1918 -------$1SSo4S
Owing by the chapter for materials purchased end
not paid for ----"---- ooV'o
Net assets, Jan. 81, 1918 - -------$1,22S.
ters membership roster.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-09
WILSON'S 1917

Mining Laws
Tribune Book & Stationery StOI E.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-09

determined that they shall not be
hampered in their enthusiastic
activities by the lack of money.
The following shows the financial
condition of the Goldfield chapter
of Jan. 81, 1918.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Robert Burns Never Went
To School, but Read and
Wrote at Very Early Age

Robert Burns, the patron saint" Of
Scotland and undoubtedly one of the
worlds greatest poets, never went to
school, relates London Tit-Bits. His
father, although his income probably
never exceeded the proverbial forty
pounds a year, was a man Of excep-
tional intelligence and great reader,
and the future poet of "The Cottar's
Saturday Night" could himself read
the Bible at an early age, and was writ
ing verses when most boys are learn
ing multiplication. 1t is quite possible
that had Burns had great advantages
instead of great reverses and hard
ships he would not have developed his
peculiar gifts.
Perhaps the greatest of Lloyd
Georges predecessors never went to
school. This was Pitt the younger, the
marvellous boy who talked on equal
terms with the greatest men of his
day at fourteen, and was prime minis
ter at the age of twenty-fOur, when
the average young man is just begin
ming to earn his bread and butter But
Pitt had the advantage of home edu-
cation which would put the best
schools in the shade.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Our National Songs.

The United States has three songs
which serve on occasions as national
songs, but by historic associations and
common consent one stands first, OBJ
serves a writer. This is the "Star-
Spangled Banner" written in 1914 by
Francis S. Key of Maryland, while the
British were bombarding Fort Henry,
near Baltimore, and when the Ameri-
cans did not know at what moment the
fort might be captured or the flag shot
GOWN. While 1t has never been official
~ adopted as a national song the cir
s.umstances under which it was writ
ten and its universal popular approval
cause it to stand pre-eminent. The
other songs of a national character,
but not so stirring or so popular are
"Hail Columbia" written by Joseph
Hopkinson, in 1888, and America"
by Samuel F. Smith, Baptist preach
er and poet, IN 1882. The 'Star-Span-
gled Banner" easily holds first place.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Musical Conductors.

Really great musical conductors are
few, and of these Hans Richter stood
in the forefront. 1t is difficult, saws
the Christian Science Monitor, to de-
fine just what differentiates a good
conductor from a mere time beaten, but
story that is told of Richter may
help indirectly. In the prelude to
Tristan und Isolde" occurs a beautiful
passage for the. oboe, which rises,
swells and dies away to a pianissimo
most effectively. To indicate the quail
ity of the playing which he wanted
from this instrument, Richter, beating
the time with his right hand, placed
his left hand over his heart, and the
oboe player at once responded to a
direction all-inclusive in its simplicity
and intelligibility.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Should Cease Our GrumbIing
Because of Inconvenience

There should be a damper put on
the grumbling disposition. Things cam
not run smoothly in these narrowing
days. Every one thinks that he could
manage things to perfection, but if he
had to confront the new set of cOndi-
tons he would likely change his mind,
asserts the Ohio State Journal. Here
is an institution that is ordered to cut
off light, heat and service, and yet we
wonder because we are disconnected.
There are new conditions confronting
US whichever way we turn, and they all
grow out of this horrid old war. They
cannot be helped, though sometimes
we think the situation might be i'm
proved, but we should not think the
improvement should come all at once.
When we get used to our incon-
veniences they will seem easier, partly
because they will be made lighter and
partly because we will become more
philosophical. But there is one sugges-
ton which is that no one should permit
the war conditions to stand in the way
of a wise and thoughtful management
of whatever interest he may control.
The war adds duties to authority as
well as to the people who bear the bur-
dens.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
How Cotton Is Utilized.

The United States is the '1and of
cotton Nowhere else in the world
is cotton grown in such abundance,
and put to such variety of uses, ac-
cording to Popular Science Monthly.
The fiber is made into cloth; the oil
from the seeds is used as a cheap
substitute for olive oil and as a basis
for lard, and now the seeds them
selves are being ground into flour and
used for food purposes. Gingersnaps
and jumbles are made from it, and it
is mixed with finely-chopped meat and
tied in sausage links. To make the
cottonseed sausage, three pounds Of
sausage meat is mixed with one pound
Of cottonseed flour. This -four is said
TO contain as much nutrition as the
meat which it takes the place of, and
to effect a saving Of 8 cents a pound
on the sausage.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Only Black Spot About the
Polar Bear Is Tip of Nose

It has been pointed out that were
polar bear of a darker color, it would
have no chance at all to stalk its prey,
especially seals. The only black spot
about it is the tip of it's nose, writes
Edwin Tarrisse. Sailors who first land
ed on the unexplored Arctic shores
stated that the bears used to take them
for seals and begin to stalk them at a
considerable distance, lying down fiat
on their bellies and wriggling along in
ihat position until they came to an ice
hummock, when they would get up,
peer over to see whether the 'seals"
We're alarmed, and wriggle on again.
The sailors said that they could al
ways see the black nose when the bear
got near, but vowed that the animal
pug its paw over its muzZle to hide it.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25

in the district told me nothing had so
angered and embittered his Poilus.
They accepted the rest as a natural
outcome of the war, and what an ex-
traOrdinary rest" it was. One has
to go far back to find anything to COM
pare with it. After Bannockburn the
Scots used to raid the adjacent parts
of England, so that for years it was
impossible to raise crops, and the
houses were so Systematically de-
StrOyed that the buildings of wood and
stone were ultimately replaced by turf
and waffle The desOlatiOn there in
the fourteenth century must have been
in the twentieth century by a nation
which counts itself cultured beyond
most And what was worse than dam
age to property was the carrying away
into captivity of the whole population,
excepting such as were too old to
work. Into what various regions they
have been scattered no one knows.
Very few have found their way back.
1t was, however, the preparation for
subsequent misery that inf1amed the
soldiery. 1 could see their eyes hard
en- and shine like steel at the bare
mention, and one effect has been that
the. French army will not be content
with any end of this war which is
not consummated on the further bank
of the Rhine.
Lieutenant Traffaut, with a touch
of satire, remarked that the Germans
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Uncle Sam Becomes Teacher
And Adviser to Every Home
On Materials for Household

A new book Just issued on Materials
for the Household is of interest To-
every family. 1t was prepared Dy Ihef
bureau of standards in popular IAN
guage to meet the need for rellaDle III
formation for home use and will be es-
peciaIly welcome to all who desire 10
manage the home as efficiently as
modern office or shop. In this work
Uncle Sam becomes teacher ana ad-
wiser to every household. Interesting
accounts are given of the great variety
of materials used in building and 1ur-
nishing the home and in the many
minor industries and activities OF the
household.
The circular is practical and aims to-
stimulate interest in household mate
rails (other than foods and drugs), TO
explain their desirable properties, ana
to aid in their intelligent selection, ef-
fective use, and preservation. A better
utilization of materials will aid the
efficient administration of the home
and promote the health, comfort, and
general well-being of the household.
Home economics is of universal and
permanent concern, and as it's impOr-
lance is more fully realized it will be-
come a vital factor in national we'll
being, says Commerce Reports. The
excellent instruction In the subject now
given in high schools and colleges has
begun a new era in home management.
This circular is contribution from the
bureau of standards TO the growing lit
erature in this field.
Household materials are of added in-'
terest to the housewife and student
from the fact that formerly many such,
materials were made up in the home.
The making of soap, candles, yarns
and fabrics leather, sugar, alkali, wax,
tallOw, pens and inks formed an inter-
esting group of the old-time household
industries. In fact, most modern in
dustries are the Outgrowth of what
were originally household industries.
The modern factory has taken up these
home industries, and already some So
cial control over the quality, form and
price of factory-made products is be-
ginning to be felt through agencies
such as the consumers leagues, coop
erative societies, publicity in the pub
lie press, misbranding laws, govern
ment control and the like.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
OUR FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS

very few who really showed up in a
real way. In a time of trouble char
acter really shOws!"
1--WE known you for long while" !
answered "a very long while When I
knew you first you were a butterfly,
with about as much feeling and as
much responsibility as a butterfly. ]
never thought you would amount to
anything! And then sorrow came, and
there wasn't any money. And I thought
again, That girl will go to the WALL
When you finished ahead of time, we
could scarcely believe 1t. And now we
are still surprised-but we're getting
gladden. about you every day."
The girl looked at me quite speech
lessly.
LIN time of trouble" I quoted,
character certainly shows!'"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Influence of Good Sense
Always Made Itself Felt
In Guiding the Russians

"NeXt to free speech and free listen
ing, free action is popular pastime,"
writes William G. Shepherd in an
article on distracted Russia published
in Everybody's.
anarchists have seized palaces and
newspaper offices and automobiles and
paintings and even wealth. But in the
midst Of this apparent anarchy, this
lack of government, there is always
and this is an astonishing fact that has
impressed the members of the Ameri-
can commission and all the other for
eign statesmen who have come to Rus
STA since the revOlutiOn-a checking
States call common sense
'There is always somebody in a
meeting who offsets wild speeches !;
somebody in a crowd who gives a
matter a second thought and offsets
and checks the man who wishes to act
without thinking. There is an unex-
pected hardheadedness about even the
mObs. The country districts Of Russia,
thousands of it's little towns, villages
and cities, were being governed, three
months after the revolution, by public
opinion and common sense alone-and
astonishingly we'll governed.
"But all this makes a weird world,
full of weird happenings.
Anything can happen In Russia
these days. But the point am max
ing is that in Russia the influence of
common sense has always made itself
felt from the first day of the revolu-
ton, and the council of workmen and
soldiers was a concrete embodiment of
this characteristic at time in Russia
when peaceful anarchy ruled; when
one opinion or theory was as good
as another and when there was a ma
chine gun behind every theory"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25

A new spare tire rim is hinged at
four points so that it can be folded
and carried in an automobile tool box.
THE messenger girl" for the first
time in the history of the government.
has made her appearance on the gov
eminent pay roll at Washington as
result of the shortage of boys and men
in the capital for that work.
Mrs. William Nickerson of Orwell,
Vt, has a hen which in the last few
weeks has laid two dozen eggs each
with a double yolk, the weight of
the two dozen being six pounds.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Young Woman Who Was Almost Oes-
titute, Learned True Meaning OF
the WeTl-known Phrase.

Once I knew a girl who was the
spoiled. and only, daughter of a rich
family, Margaret E. Sangster writes ID
the Christian Herald. She had always
been in the position of fairy princess
with a wishing ring. Anything that
she desired was brought to her as II
some magic genie waited for COM
mands.
And then her father failed in bust
ness and died. And her mother,
broken in health and spirits, soon fol-
lowed him. And the girl was left alone.
She had always had number of
friends-firm friends who accepted her
dinner invitations and her concert tick
cts. But when she lost her money and
was left alone, the girl found that her
friends were all marvelously busy
that they were too busy to see much
of her. 70 give her much advice and
help. With little money left from
the wreck of things she took a Secre-
tarial course in a business college. She
had to hurry. for there wasn't much
money, so she finished the course in
half the prescribed time. Now she
has very responsible position and a
very interesting salary.
Talking to me not long ago, she
laughed in not very humorous way
and said:
you know, I never knew the mean
ing of the term fair weather friends
until my great trouble; and then, when
I needed friends so very badly-when
life was so horrid and unfortunate and
sorry for mel found that there were
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Use Logging Cars.

In the serious shortage of railway
cars which has existed during recent
months the lumber companies, along
with other concerns, have utilized
every available resource to obtain
transportation facilities. A large lum-
Der company in Louisiana found way
out of the difficult situation by taking
so of it's logging cars from its logging
roads and making them up into one
long lumber train. By this unusual
arrangement it was able to transport
100000 feet of lumber in a single
trainload. The effort was so success
full that the train has made number
of trips to the North.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Clear Conscience,

Say, old fellow, don't carry the joke
too far. Send the umbrella TO Room
II, Fraternity Building. If the owner
is not in just set it up beside the door.
Or if you have that weak feeling and
are in need of tonic, and not able
TO climb the stairway, you can just
pitch the shower stick in at the lower
door entrance and return home. or any
old place you like, carrying a clear
conscience of one having done a good
and worthy deed. Try it oncs<-Win.
chester Sun.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25

trees in the middle Of a helu. Ihey
only put difficulties in the way VI
blowing, difficulties that Will De
greatly accentuated when the TRACTION
pillow comes into more general USE
He agreed with other experts with
whom I had an opportunity OF con-
versatiOn that the better plan was
to set about the planting of new trees,
which should be chosen with special
regard to their suitability to the SOIL
and the district, and to their useful
ness. For many years it has been
pointed out in vain to the French peas
ant, just as it has been to English
farmers and gardeners, that the old
messy trees, picturesque though they
may be, which are usually found in
both countries, could advantageously
be replaced by young saplings of the
best varieties.
But the French peasant is every bit
as conservative as the British farmer,
AS long as his trees carried annually
certain amount of i'll grown apples
that he could make into a very inditfer-
ent cider, nothing would persuade him
to remove them. He was equally deaf
to the argument that cultivation would
be easier if the trees were removed
from the middle of the field and plant
ed along the sides. Out of evil comes
good. A plan has been formed for re-
constructing these orchards on an en-
tirely new basis with the cooperation
of the British public.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
MUCH IN LITTLE

For modern requirements concrete
,,iles having a section less than IA
inches square or equivalent area
should never be used if more than 80
feet long.
The South station at Boston has
about 100000 more passengers a
year than the North station.
Manufacturers of rubber shoes IN
Sweden have notified their customers
that no more of these goods can De
delivered for this winters trade.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25

Deen Wrested from German control.
The destruction of the orchards is
described by a writer in Country Life
who went to France to learn what
plans were being made to restore to
prosperity the regions that have been
laid waste in war.
mo description in the newspapers
brought home to me so wildly as
personal visit did the heavy hand
which has been laid upon these re-
gions," says this writer. The one
phrase which kept rising in the mind
and ever coming to the lips was the
Scriptural one, '"There shall not be
left one stone standing upon another"
Before the war the, region, was one of
the most fertile in France. Agricul-
tural authorities assured me that the
best crops of wheat in the country
were raised on the wide fiat plains.
The land at present is growing only
thistles and other weeds. The ruin
here differs entirely from that seen in
such war-battered towns as Reims and
Vertlun. These have been smashed
and knocked about by shells and bombs
till they are but ruins of what they
once were. Still, there are houses
standing untouched amid the general
destruction, and they still are at least
the shells of towns. But, to take for
example the district around Noyon,
not only have the streets been wrecked
by fire and shell, but before leaving
them the Germans went methodically
ing up roofs, gathering up implements
into a heap for burning, and employ
ing a kind of battering ram for break
ing down the walls. So that to recur
again to the phrase that keeps we'll
ing up like the burden of a song, there
is really not one stone left to stand
upon another.
More may be said about that here
after. The main point today is to di
rect attention to what has actually
been done by the Germans in the way
of running gardens. orchards and
nurseries. Those who have been in
the country in peacetime will remem-
her the rows of apple and pear trees
that were grown along the straight
roads running between unhedged
fields. They will remember, too, the
groups of plantations of trees in the
fields, as we'll as the orchards and
gardens near the pretty rustic houses
characteristic of that French district.
III preparation for evacuation, the Ger
man soldiers appear to have been or
dered out with AK and saw to level
these trees with the ground. Wheth-
er it is that nobody has found time
to remove them or that the ruined
trees are preserved as a monument to
German brutality, there they are "
Ing as they fell. Some, and these the
most slender, have been clean sawn
through; others cut with the ak; a
few have been attacked with both ak
and saw. But there they lie dead.
Whatever there was of nursery or gar
den has been swept away. Even the
clutches where the rabbits were kept
nave not escaped destruction.
If one recognizes that these repre-
gent the chief elements in la petite
lcalture, in which a considerable pro-
aortion of the inhabitants were en-
gated. it will not come as surprise
chat the French officer commanding
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Modern Cookery.

Didn't 1 tell you to cook this egg
four minutesY
II did so, sir" answered the waiter.
at was just out of cold storage. Four
wasn't enough time to do much
more than thaw it nicely"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
JUstifiabIe Peace,

"Can separate peace ever be justis
fiable?" demanded the parlor orator.
Eyes" answered the man who wasn't
supposed to. 81 once knew a man who
made up with his wife, but kept her
mother out of the house."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
His Small Economy.

" M y fri e n d,
there is really no
excuse for your
not looking neat
and clean"
Sorry, mister"
explained Plod-
ding Peter, "but
I'm conserving my
bit along wit de
rest o. de folks.
You jes' happened
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Sayings of a Cynic.

A warm friend is one who is
willing to divide his cold cash.
The woman who heSitateS has
no secret to tell.
You can get insured against
any accident except marriage.
1t is natural for some women
to act unnatural.
Few students of human nature
ever graduate.
Most men are too polite to adj
here strictly to the truth.-Chi-
cago Herald.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25

who had gone out
to wreak mischief
on the peaceful
inhabitants had
unwittingly done
them a good turn.
M a n Y h a V e
pre- a C h e d f or
years t h a t the
time had come to
destroy and re-
pla n t t h e or
chards. They were
much too old for
grating. The va
rietieS g o w n
w ere not good
and, besides, it is
inimical to mod
ern s Y S t e M S OF
cultivation TO
have & TO u p S or
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25
Grounds for Fear.
81 wonder"

what are you
wondering abOut?"
eff this long,
cold spell is going
to spoil the ice
crop"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25

Didn't the suffrage pickets sue for
mercy when they were jailed?"
mo, but they're suing for damages
now.'
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-01-25

49, IL NSN ~ NAAA ~ y
The disclosure
of these cOndi-
ItiOns has result
led in the fOrma-
ltiOn of plans in
London for the
raising of funds
to be used in the
restoration of
{ h e S e orchards
and nurseries. 1t
is estimated that
about $5,OOO,O0O
will be needed to
C o N pl e t e this
work of recon
structiOn. Some
thousands of trees
h a We already
been dispatched
to France for
planting in the
district which has