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The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Lusitania May Be Raised
BY a New Salvage Machine
That Also May Save Others

1t is not unlikely that one Of the first
great undertakings after the war will
be the raising of the Lusitania, notes
New York World. The vessel car
ried a huge treasure to the bottom of
the sea. Its value is estimated at $14,-
100000, of which 100000 is in gold
and silver, brass and copper; a like
amount in jewelry and other per-
sonal valuables; $5,0O0,OO0 in negot-
able and unregistered securities in the
ships vault, and cargo valued at So
100000. Much of the latter is be-
lieved to be uninjured.
The great ship lies on the shifting
sands at the bottom of st. Georges
channel, in 270 feet of water. Divers
and pontoOns cannot operate at this
depth, so an entirely new type of sal
wage ship has been designed by a ma
rine engineer, Carl ]. Lindquist. At
the surface it will be only about thirty
feet in length and half that in width,
but sweeping downward is hull
which may be extended to a length
of 300 feet, and which is mounted on
big wheels, resting upon the bed Of
the sea.
Near the bottom is large search
light, capable of Illuminating the wa
ter for a distance of thirty feet or
more, and by means of this the helms
man, far below the surface, will direct
the operation of hollow, flexible steel
Whnn hn chin &c Cd
| powerful stream of water will be
| forced through the rod, to clear away
| the sand which has drifted high around
| the lost craft.
-Four enormous perpendicular pom
| tOOnS of hollow steel will then be
sunk, two on each side of the ship,
| and to them will be attached huge
cables, passing under the sunken hull.
When all is in readiness the vessel
may be lifted to the surface. There
the gaping wound in her side can be
repaired and the ship floated into port
This is but an outline of a most in
genious plan, one single feature being
the hinged bases of the pontoOns
which permit them to sway back and
forth in stormy weather without re-
leasing their burdens.
Nor will their usefulness end with
the raising of the Lusitania. The ocean
bed off the west coast of Europe is
dotted with rich prizes. Near Havre, in
$50 feet of water, rests the Parthen0n
with 100000 cargo; the Healdton
an American ship, carried 100000
worth Of goods to the bottom off the
Dutch coast, while but ten miles from
the Lusitania the Arabic took hel
fatal plunge.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Food Administration Urges
Test for Wheat Waste; Tells
How to Rectify Operation

A matter of unusual Importance to
grain growers is the food administra-
TONS official test for clean threshing,
says Indianapolis News. By this
rule any farmer can test the work of
the threshing machine he has hired.
The test is made by directing the straw
blower against blanket, sheet or cam
vas during the time the weighing de-
vice trips five times, recording two and
one-half bushels. If more than one
pint Of wheat is winnowed from the
straw on the canvas, bad work is indi-
Gated. One and one-half pints indi-
Gates a loss of 1 per cent. If more
than three pints is found-which
means 2 per cent loss-reasonable
time should be given to correct the
bad operation, and a second test should
be made. If improvement is not OBJ
tanned, steps should be taken through
the county threshing committee to dis
continue operations until the avoidable
waste is corrected.
Most threshing committees have for
oISu ucCohOu iuieS LUZ the Sulu-
ance of threShing crews in effectively
stopping waste of grain. But more eff
fective than the rules and regulations,
the food administration believes, has
been the eagerness with which farmers
and threshermen have accepted their
harvest-time responsibility and the dill
igence with which they are now stop
ping every source of grain waste.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
What Is Sugar?
By the u. S. Food
Administration

Sugar is a food as well as a flavor.
One of the simple food lessons the
United States food administration has
driven home is Food Is Fuel for Fight
iers." Sugar is one of the conspicuous
fuel foods. Its great advantage is that
IT is quickly burning, and gives its en-
ergy to the body more rapidly than
other kinds.
The commercial granulated sugar We
buy at the store is mot the only sugar
on the shelf" Some of these other
sugars have popular names which de-
note their origin, such as grape sugar,
fruit sugar, milk sugar and malt sugar.
Their technical names are, in order,
glucose or dextrose; fructose; lactose /;
maltese.
The beet sugar or cane sugar that
we buy from the grocer is also an
'ose." 1t is called "sucrose."
The department of agriculture tells
us that while the canes and the sugar
beet are the only commercially i'm
portant sources of sucrose, this form
of sugar is also found in the stems
and roots of sorghum and cornstalks ;
In the carrot, turnip and sweet pota-
to; In the sap of some trees, such as
the date palm and sugar maple; in
almost all sweet fruits, and in the
nectar Of flowers.
When a sucrose, or ordinary SUI
gar, is taken into the body and goes
through the process of digestion, it is
changed into glucose and fructose.
Lactose goes through much the same
process, forming glucose and galact-
ose. Maltese, too, changes into glu-
coSe.
Glucose is a simple sugar very easy
to digest. AS it is manufactured to
day, it contains absolutely no harmful
substances.
We need to remember that all the
sweeteners the United States food adj
ministration asks us to use in place of
sugar" are sugars, too, and though
not always in as convenient FORM
they give approximately the same food
value and flavor.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Dogs and Cats Are Wanted
In Experimental Work by
The u. S. Dept. of Mines

The United States government wants
dogs and cats. The feline and canine
creatures have come into their own,
observes a Baltimore correspondent.
They are being taken in large num-
bers all over the country. Just what
use is being made of them is not
known, though some of the cats are
being used for experimental work in
the government laboratories.
The municipal dog shelter in Balti-
more is furnishing, on an average, rs
dogs week, and an effort is being
made to secure as many cats.
All dogs at the dog shelter on Co.
vington street were requisitioned by
the bureau of mines at Washington
six weeks ago when 112 dogs were Ia
ken. Since then all that have been
collected in the city have been turned
over to the government agents.
The bureau Of mines in asking for
them asserted that they would pay
all expenses Of shipping, which great.
ly lessons the burden here as the dogs
do not have to be killed as heretofore
Licensed dogs which are picked uI
are held for Is days before being sent
away, but strays are shipped as soon
as received. Sick or MANNED animals
are not wanted and they are killed.
Before the government asked fol
these animals, only dogs were taken
by the "dogs catchers' throughout Bal
timore. Now, however, the felines are
more desired by the government thar
are the dogs. Kittens are not desired
but especially are the nice fat tabhie:
wanted. So if any housewife desire.
to be really patriotic all she has to d.
is to put kitty in sack and call thu
"dog catcher"
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Mental Hygiene, Distinct
Innovation in Army Work

"For the first time in the history of
warfare" says New York Medical
Journal, mental hygiene as practiced
among the soldiers is given the prom
inence 1t deserves, and, profiting by
the experience of England and France
in the present war, the surgeon gen.
eral was impelled to inaugurate an
elaborate organization, both in num-
Der and plan, to take care Of any men
tai disturbances detected in the camps
or among the soldiers during the war.
This is a distinct innovation in the
army medical work, for the subjects
of mental hygiene and Of mental and
nervous diseases in general, as occur
ring among soldiers in war time, were
for many reasons either slightly treat
ed or neglected altogether"
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
JUST BE GLAD

Oh heart of mine, we shouldn't
Worry SOL
What we've missed of calm we couldn't
Have, you know!
What we've met of stormy pain,
And of sorrows driving rain,
We can better meet again,
If it blow!
We have erred in that dark hour
We have known,
When the tears fell with a shower
All alone
Were not shine and showers blent
AS the gracious Master meant?
Let us temper our content
With His own.
For we know, not every morrow
Can be sad;
So forgetting all the sorrow
We have had;
Let us fold away our fears
And put by our foolish tears,
And through all the coming years,
Just be glad.
James Whitcomb Riley.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Exalted Men.

Hollow trees are always the stiffest,
but the mightiest oak, If sound, can
bend. The more exalted man is by
station, the more powerful should he
be by kindness. There is no policy
like politeness, since good manner
often succeeds where the best tongue
has failed. Politeness is most useful
to inspire confidence in the timid and
encourage the deserving.-Magoon.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Bronze Powder Is Now Made
In America, Not in Germany.

The United States industries use
practically 100000 pounds Of bronze
powder annually, and 80 per cent of
COR total consumption was formerly
imported from Germany, but it is now
made in America" For many years
German manufacturers have been
practically controlling the bronze
powder trade in this ceuntry, due to
the fact that they have been offering
prices which were less than those of
the American producers. Bronze pow
der is manufactured in over 200
grades, differing in color and texture.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Salads for the Family

SALADS TOR the Family.
The salad dressing is as important
in a good salad as is the combination
Of ingredients.
For the lover of olive Oil no dress
ing is as good as the French dressing
and mayonnaise. In the present con-
dition of the market when high grade
oil is so costly we will have to use
some substitute. Corn Oil is a fair
oil, of good flavor and may be used
in mayonnaise, giving us a most agree
able if not as fine favored a dressing
as olive oil.
Put yolk of egg with half tea
spoonful of salt, teaspoonful of
powdered sugar, a pinch of mustard
and cayenne with two tablespoonful
of lemon juice in a cold bowl, beat
with a dover egg beaten until thick
and well blended, then add a table
spoonful of corn oil, beat well and
continue to add the oil, beating well
after each addition until a cupful OF
the oil is used.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Words of Wise Men.

Keep thy spirit pure from
worldly faint by the strength of
virtue.-Bailey.
Be what your friends think
you are; avoid being what your
enemies say you are; go right
forward and be happy.-Pome-
roy.
The bigot is like the pupil Of
the eye-the more light you put
upon it the more it will contract.
Holmes.
A man can never be a true
gentleman in manner until he is
a true gentleman at heart
Dickens.
The price of liberty is eternal
vigilance.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
List of Foods Which the
u. S. Food Administrator
Advises Everybody to Eat

This is list of protective foods :"
Brussels sprouts.
Cabbage.
Caulifiower.
Celery.
Collards.
Lettuce.
Milk.
Onions.
Spinach.
Swiss chard.
If we include some of them in our
diet every day, we will be sure of get.
ting enough mineral matter. These are
all foods which the United States
food administration advises you to
eat.
BREAKFAST.
Hominy Grits With Top Milk.
Toast.
Coffee.
LUNCH.
Welsh Rarebit.
Buttered Beets.
Pear Salad.
DINNER.
Pan-Fried Perch.
Dreamed Potatoes.
Scalloped Onions.
Brown Betty With Cream.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
MERRY JESTS
D eeseeeseo o o Q 100000,
Their Real Worth.

Their Real Worth.
One day as leading lawyer and a
judge, both of Boston, were walking
together the lawyer said:
Judge, let's go into partnership
You furnish the money and I'll furnish
the brains"
The judge quickly pulled out two.
cent-piece from his pocket, and hold
ing it in the palm Of his hand said to
the lawyer: every well, old chap, GOV.
er that"
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Qualified.

sergeant tdIuer
investigation as to
parentage). Mon,
We seem to hae no
qualifications for
entrance into a
Scottish regiment
It h in k, moo,
think; hae We nae
property in Scot
land?
Recruit (hope-
fully. Well, yes,
hn-A n nnt~ ~
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18

'Neurasthenia," said Mrs. Biggums
to her cook, 81 think we will have
some chicken croquettes today out Of
that leftover pork and calves liver"
"Yes'm," said Neurasthenia, called
Teeny for short. San we got little
bread dressin' what went wild the pork,
mum. Shall I make some apple sauce
out'n hit, mum? h, sAa.s a
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Purchase Of Danish West Indies.

Under the terms of the sale whereby
the United States bought the Danish
West Indies-row called the Virgin is
lands-from L enmark, It was stipu-
lated that German vessels in the har-
bors Of the islands should not be COM
mandeered in the event of the United
Gtates going to war with Germany.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
French Increase Wheat Crop.

I The total production of wheat in
Efs4ce this year is estimated at Co.
10000 quintals (16S. 800. 900 busheIs)
Being an increase of more than Is per
cent over last years crop. according to
- Intransigeant.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Combination Salad.

Take two cupfuls Of chopped apple,
one finely diced banana, dozen chop
ped dates, cupful of chopped celery
and cupful of good salad dressing.
Mix well, and season with salt and
dash Of cayenne. Serve in nests Of
lettuce.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Mothers Cook Book.

Fatal effect of luxury and ease!
We drink our poison and we eat disease;
Indulge our senses at our reasons cost
Till sense is pain and reason hurt or lost
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18

ment for of subscribers residing In the eounyo be placed their
Six million of these
this ubserp
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
sweetbread and Almond Salad.


Parboil pair of sweetbreads, and
stand aside to cool. Cut up in small
pieces. Blanch twenty-four almonds,
dry in the oven, then chop rather fine.
When ready to serve, cover dish with
crisp lettuce, mix the almonds and
sweetbreads, add a half teaspoonful
Of salt, dash of paprika, table
spoonful of Worcestershire sauce and
mix thoroughly.
Add a stiff mayonnaise dressing and
arrange on the lettuce.
Ceylon Tomato Salad.
Peel and chop three solid tomatoes
after removing the seeds, add a tea
spoonful Of salt, tablespoonful Of
lemon juice, tablespoonful Of chop
ped onion, the same Of green pepper
and half teaspoonful Of paprika.
Mix and turn into the dish In which 1t
is to be served. Stir coconut cream
until thick and pour four tablespoon
fuls over the tomatoes and serve.
To make the coconut cream, crate
a good sized coconut and pour over It
a pint Of boiling water, stir and let
stand until all the goodness has been
washed out Of the nut. Turn into q
cheesecloth and press dry. Let this
milk stand over night and by morning
q good thick cream win be formed
over the top. Remove the cream and
use the milk underneath for various
sauces.
Ness hle,k.ssep
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Art Of Substitution.

trousers at the Perth dye works.
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
Money That Flew.

Riches have wingsr'
"John," said the woman with the
weary voice, II wish you'd stop read
Ing about the reports of that airplane
investigation"
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18
At the Reception.

Professor Do
you subscribe to
the theory Of evo-
lutionY
Mr.. Newrich-f
don't think so.
Where's 1t pub
lished?
The Adair County news., 1918-09-18

Chapter From Revelation.
Els your husband member Of any
secret societyT
HE thinks he Is but he talks "a
his Sleep"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

America, the melting pot''-much
had been written about that pot, and
then the war. And when the war
came we found our admirable pot not
so admirable; somehow or other the
crucible had failed to work. Nor was
it the fault wholly of the newcomer
from Europe. Largely it was the fault
of those whose fathers had fought to
preserve the Union and whose fore
fathers had fought to establish it, says
Washington Herald. The pot was
here all right, but those who for gen.
erations had boosted themselves Amer
leans had failed to build fire under
it. Instead they had builded each his
own selfish fire. Love of the common
country, the cherishing and developing
of the principles and ideas for which
historically America stands. were out
of fashion. What could the newcom-
err learn Of our ideals when we our
selves had forgotten them?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

Major Bishop, the Canadian aviator,
has been appointed to the administra-
tive air board in London. When he
left the front and received his Victoria
cross some months ago, after shooting
down nearly fifty German planes and
two balloons, it was supposed that his
days as a fighting aviator at the front
were over; but he went to France
again as the commander of new Brit
ish squadron and is reported to have
added TO 49,; tring of victories. Major
Bishop won O. ,tinction by his combina-
ton of bravery with cool caution. His
victories were due not to reckless risk,
but to painstaking intelligence. He
has now reached the highest post at
tainable by a British war aviator.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27
GETTING results.

pofore the eyes OF the nations the
,-..,,c men of America are engaged
aotion that will build Americas rep
.,otiou-good or bad-as a fighting
TOO More than half century has
.oseed since the abilities of the men
{ our nation as fighters were tested
nd convincingly demonstrated to the
lid Yet the American stock since
non has had many and strange infu-
.,ons from abroad and has undergone
,onfrsing processes at home, says Chi
oso News. Consequently American
orowess or lack of prowess had come
= no an unknown factor in the reck-
nines Of modern war experts when
rorale. discipline, personal efficiency
and courage were taken into account.
Tho Americans fight for justice and en-.
auring peace. If their efficiency as
egbters shall be proved beyond ques-
lion in the present battle the cause for
which they fight will be more greatly
benefited than it could be in a hundred
rpars by all the pacifist theorists who
oyer gave the chautauqua salute.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27
WHAT YOU SAY.

what result from what you saw is
ilo4 ; important than what Won mean
b., what you say, says Chicago News
Thus in everyday language may be ex.
pressed the theory on which the United
States department of Justice bases its
claim that more rigorous federal
statutes are necessary in order that
propaganda injurious to the conduct
OF the war may be successfully com.
dated. A memorandum of the depart.
ment says: "All questions of motive
should be most carefully excluded from
those provisions of the statute under
which the more subtle, dangerous and
effective types of antiwar propaganda
VIII have to be fought" 1t is pointed
out that the practice of courts in the
Interpretation of war statutes is to in.
struct juries ito be careful and not mix
motive with intent" This is>clear. II
means putting acts of the civilian DOB.
ufation on practically the same basis
as acts of the military, when those acts
bear upon the success or injury Of the
conduct of the war. The sleeping SEN
try is seldOnl-almoSt never-guilty of
intent to help the enemy kill his soldier
comrades. And there are civilians
thoroughly sincere in their affection
for America and possessed of profound
hatred for Prussianism who let their
tongues wag, who prattle and proclaim
things helpful to the enemy. The rea-
soning of the department Of justice is
that the one who is Internationally
pro-German must be held responsible
without relation to motive, precisely
as the army holds responsible the SEN
try who did not mean to go to sleep on
duty.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

This is Gerald Stanley Lees recipe
IN Saturday Evening Post for ending
me war: ''The war turns on making
The Germans afraid. They are afraid
already. They are merely more afraid
m Ludendorff and the kaiser than they
ere of Foch. Germans are born licked.
And it's because Tudendorff and the
kaiser have licked them and kept them
licked that the Germans like them.
When we begin to Ludendorff the Ger
mans, and when we once start up be-
Inc their Ludendorff for them, they will
be meek in a minute" This, of course,
applies to the Germans who stayed in
the fatherland, not to the Germans
who left Europe because they didn't
want to be licked. 1t begins to look
ps if the Ludendorfing of the born
licked kind had begun.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

The movement to teach humanity
In public schools is one worthy of all
cOmmendation and of general support.
1t will correct. tendency too common
among children to exercise cruelty to
animals, a tendency coming more from
ignorance and thoughtlessness than
from innate brutality. 1t will also
educate the better and higher in
stinct4, and with greater regard for
the suHerings of the lower creation
will bring a higher idea of kindness
toward humanity in general.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

There is less excuse for the German
misconception about the Americans be-
rause they had previously admitted
their parallel blunder about the Brit
tsh armies. Contempt, first for the
British armies, and then for the Ameri-
cans, sprang from the same cause-a
feeling that only militarized nation,
In the grip of military caste, with an
hereditary aptitude and taste for war,
can successfully make war on the mod
ern scale. They knew nothing about
the fighting power of aroused democ-
racies, says Vancouver Province. But
they are learning, with most Of the
lesson yet to come.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

Concerning President Wilson as a
golf player, Massachusetts caddy is
credited with observing that "his direc-
uOn on drives is good and that The
Keeps his eye on the ball" That his
nients in these two lines are not con-
nhed to his work on the links, friends
nd foes across the sea can amply tes-
tfy.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

A British airplane is said to have
remained in the air for two hours af-
ter it's occupant had been killed. Even
the dead Britons refuse to surrender.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

The German woman who lost nine
sons in the war has received a pho
"graph of the kaiser. If she takes
sOod care of it, she will have some
tAlng to throw things at as long as
she lives.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

General March says with 100000
meh we can go through Germany's
me wherever we please. Well. make
II 0OO0,000 and let's break through a
"'ue sooner than we please.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

1t appears that the work-or-hght rule
applies to all except those too OLD
or too young to work and alien enemies
in internment camps.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

toilet soap is S1.35 a cake in Ger
-1y' If that report is accurate it
-. - oe that soap has acquired a food
'alue in Germany.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

An express company is said to have
ordered its employees not to carry
trunks downstairs. Our experience
has been that they merely rolled them
down.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

Experts say that the American gas
mask will work, no matter what kind
of gas the Germans turn loose. When
the propagandists hear this, they may
well despair.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

Somebody says rats will not stay in
a room where mosquitoes are. Well,
mosquitoes won't stay in room where
bats are and bats won't stay where rats
are, so what are we going to do about
~
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-09-27

NOW and then one meets patriotic
''laie who can't can any fruit be-
t t-uSe sic is too busy saving the coun-
- - cong service rallies.