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The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Banyan Tree of India Will
Shelter Thousands Of Men

The most remarkable tree In the
world. perhaps, is the banyan of In
dia. A tree Of this species, on an
island In the Nedbudda river, is be-
lieved to be the same one that Is men
toned by Alexander the Great. The
branches send down numerous aerial
roots that grow down to the soil and
form props or additional trunks until
a single tree often covers 30 large an
area that, 1t will shelter thousands Of
men. At the time Of Alexander the
Greats visit, 1t sheltered 10000 men.
Under the protecting shade Of these
trees the Indian merchants still con-
duct their markets. The merchants
are known as "banians," because they
abstained from meat for many CEN
turtles, but modern customs have
driven out many Of the Hindu's ira
Home Journal.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
At the Peace Conference
More Than Fifty Tleahe. Will Be Signed

More than will be signed by the conference
being than fifty declarations OF war were
during human events that memorable Gay IN
1914 when declared The exact number OF treaties TO
promulgated hard to estimate writer In Leslie 1o tne cru
bling and of the German empire into segen and
fragments may drafting of extra treaties unthought OF
when President his fourteen points his address before
congress.
then AustraHungary had declared war hVe
times Bulgaria China twice. Cuba France 1o
times GERMANY five times four times Greece four times
1ay four times Japan once Montenegro twice. Panama
twice. twice. Roumnia Serbia twice. San Mrno once
Siam twice, Turkey twice and the United States twice.
But since these declarations made the whlgg Of time and
the changed the aspect of things materially Baden
Bavaria Wumbg saxny Hnngaryand perchance dozen other
demand and receive separate The
and ugoSa Palestine and the disntegrated parts OF
Eshona the Ukraine obtain separate treates 30
gigantic o of the Versailles conference done more
distinct international agreements may result
When all the completed they will be submitted to the
treatvakng the respective governments In the Unted
States president empowered make treaty. which must be a
fed by a two-thirds vote of the senate
In Great Britain peacemng prerogve sub
iect minister acting the collective advice
the cabinet. .
In France the president may negotiate and ra treaties according
Article of the constitutional law OF 1872 SUBJECT TO tne
the chamber of deputies.
Tn Iav Act of the statistics of 1848 the
king make peace communicating this fact to the chamber but not
requiring it's sanction . :,
In BELGIUM Article GO of the constitution OF 1885, the king
makes peace treaties. -
will accept the terms for Germany and Tor
prv It is difficult to say Germany days. happily re
ad into history the boundes under Article IL OF
the constitution the bunderah required give assent
and the rechstag had to validate treaties
In Austria under the constitution of 1867 the emperor
was the sole treaymaking power
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Pershing, Methodist, Born
inLinn County, Missouri,
ia Graduate of West Point

General Pershing belongs to the
Methodist Episcopal church. He was
born in Linn county, Missouri, Septem'
Der 10. 1860, and went to West Point
at twenty, from which military
academy he was graduated in 1885. In
the Spanish war he served
in the volunteer army as major. He
served eight years in the Philippines,
winning great fame. In 1903 he re-
turned to the States and was serving
on the general staff in Washington In
1905 when he married Miss Frances
H. Warren of Wyoming. After that
Pershing spent year or so as mill
tary attache to the American embassy
in Japan and two months In Man
churia during the Russo-Japanese war.
In 1905 he was made brigadier gen.
eral. Later he returned to the Philip
pines as governor of the Moros, but
he returned to the States again to take
command of the Eighth brigade, with
headquarters in San Francisco. he
went to the border, where he was
chosen to lead the raid to capture
Villa in March, 1915. In 1915, while
he was on the border Pershing's wife
and three children burned to death.
He has son left. Pershing was made
a general in October, 1917, after hav-
ing been sent to France as United
States commander in chief. He was
then major general.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Wireless Telephony Is in
Infancy and Distance May
Be No Barrier in Future

Telephoning may be said to have
reached the height of its power when
the latest accomplishment is related.
Already, observes the Des Moines
Capital, we have heard that commune
cation has been had from the ground
with airplanes going at considerable
speed. The distance Of communion
ton has been that Of only two miles
and then with the engine cut of.
Now the unprecedented record has
been made of talking with a machine
100 miles away. Lieutenant Com
mander g. D. Murray talked to a
naval airplane which was on its way
from Washington to Hampton Roads;
and the aviator heard what was said
distinctly and even recognized the
voice of the speaker.
The prediction is made that wire
less telephony is in it's infancy and
the successful experiment just con-
Quoted leads to the belief that event
ually it will be possible to talk at al
most any distance with an airplane
in full flight.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Leaping Tuna, Dolphin and
Marlin SWordfish Plentiful
Off the California Banks

Another world record in big game
fishing was shattered in the Catalina
island waters when James w. Jump
recently landed 314-pound marin
.swordfish in % minutes with light
tackle. Not only is this unprecedent-
ed with light tackle, but the fish was
near the Tuna club record for q sword
fish, on any tackle. The biggest one
ever caught was in 1916, which weigh
ed 1852 pounds.
Not in many years have the deep-sea
fighters been so plentiful as recently
or the famous southern California
banks. Great swarms Of yellow-tail
and other light tackle prizes have been
frequent. The leaping tuna, dolphin
and marlin swordfish, varying in size
from so to over 100 pounds. have been
plentiful. w. G. Boschen, of New York
is credited with capturing 80 tuna and
Is swortlfish for the season. His near
est competitor is James w. Jump
of Los Angeles, with SO tuna and IL
swordfish. Ralph Vandeni holds the
record for the season with the largest
tuna caught. It weighed 149h
pounds.
Prizes to be awarded by the Tuna
club for the largest yellow-tail. white
sea bass, bonita, albicore and tuna
sea bass will 60 to novices In the big
game fishing sport from all parts of
the country, some of whom have never
previously caught anything larger than
q fair-size trout.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Cotton Worth 81, 532, $4,000
Latest Statistics Show for
American Crop Of Year 1917

Final statistics of the American cot
ton crop of 1917, announced BY the
census bureau, place production at
11,248,242 running bales, equivalent
to II 800, 375 bales Of 500 pounds each,
gross weight, and worth 1852! $4,000
to the growers. Production Of cotton
seed amounted to 100000 tons,
worth 1898, $4,000. For the cotton
year." which ended July I, 1918, con-
sumption amounted to 6,566. $50 bales,
exclusive of linters; exports amount
ing to 4,258, 40 bales; net imports.
217, 1881 bales; stocks on hand at be-
ginning of year, 2,720.172 bales and
at the end of the year, 3,450,188 bales.
For the entire world the production
of lint cotton destined for factory
use, was 17,41O,OOO bales and the
mill consumption, 17,701. 600 bales Of
500 pounds net weight. 49,
Massachusetts, still retains its SUI
premacy in cotton manufacturing, the
report announced, with min con-
sumption during the cotton year OF
! ,493, lib bales, including Nnters.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Doughboy Thought He Saw -.
Boche Haunting Him While
Washing His Stolen Shirt

Near bridgehead on the Moselle
river. which marks the border of Rhen-
ish Prussia and along the banks Of
which the American army rested for
few days preparatory to its peaceful
invasion Of Germany, there sat a
doughboy on guard duty.
His assignment of two hours watch
was nearly up, but his eyes never left
the bank on the other side to glance
up the road to see whether the relief
squad was in sight. He muttered and
growled occasionally to himself and his
eyes took on a fierce CLEAN as he
watched the other side of the. river.
His whole attention was focused on
German soldier calmly washing an
undershirt at the river edge. The Ger
man rubbed and scrubbed, held the
shirt up, wrung 1t out and then rubbed
some more. He paid not the slightest
attention to the tense American dough
boy on the other side.
The doughboy looked over his rife
every few minutes and fingered the
trigger meditatively. Then along came
a Red Cross car with cigarettes and
other comforts following the, troops
into invaded territory.
y "What's the trouble" inquired the
Red Cross man noting the doughboy's
effectiveness to the figure on the op-
posite side.
'Well, I tell you," said the dough-
boy. I'm the Chateau-Thierry fighting
I took off my undershirt during q
short rest to hunt for several coolies
that were bothering me. The Boche
made counter-attack and took the
place before had time to put on my
shirt. One Of the Germans stole It.
I just got bunch that that guy on
the other side Of the river was the bird
that took it, and think he's washing
1t over there to tease me. He's been
washing that shirt for half an hour
now. And here I stand with loaded
gun and can't shoot. The war is he'll,
but this armistice stuff"
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE
Observation-Disclosures

Tho Jester won to the mountain peak
And turned to gaze behind
WAS that path for q step SO Weak7
Thank God that I was blind.
1.-THE sunlit, stretch where I laughed 10
loud,
Did it skirt that precipice?
The bridge where I stood to sketch the
cloud,
Did it span that black abyss?
.'When turned aside to the little stream.
Was the somber tarn 30 near?
Was the eagles swoop in the evening
gleam
On the bones I see from here?'
He faced to the front again: his sight
Could scarce discern the track:
Tho slope on the left with mist was
white.
And the wood below was black.
In a hollow just ahead
The pathway crept along
Enough Is hid for mirth." he said.
And the curlew heard his song.
e. T. Hopkins.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
PROHIBITION
Text Of Amendment MAKING
u. S. Dry Nation

Following is full text of the prohibi-
ton amendment on which state legis-
latures voted:
Joint Resolution Proposing an
Amendment to the Constitution Of the
United States.
Resolved by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States
Of America in congress assembled,
tw0.thirds of each house concurring
therein, that the following amendment
to the Constitution be, and hereby is,
proposed to the states to become valid
as a part of the Constitution when rati-
fed by the several states, as provided
by the Constitution.
Section 1. After one year from the
ratification Of this article the manu-
facture. sale or transportation of in
toxicating liquors within, the importa-
ton thereof into, or the expectation
thereof from the United States and all
territory subject to the Jurisdiction
thereof for beverage purposes is here
by prohibited.
Sec. 2. The congress and the sew
eral states shall have concurrent pow
er to enforce this article by appropri-
ate legislation.
Sec. 3. This article shall be mop
erative unless it shall have been rati-
fed as an amendment to the COnstftu-
ton by the legislatures of the several
states as provided in the Constitution
within seven years from the date Of
the submission hereof to the states by
the congress.
- CHAMP CLARK,
Speaker of the House Of Representa-
lives.
THOMAS MARSHALL,
vice President of the United States
and President Of the Senate.
I certify that this joint resolution
originated I'm the senate.
JAMES N. BAKER, Secretary.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Gold Crop Of 1918 Lowest
in the Last Twenty Years

One annual crop, and highly I'M
portant crop, too, was considerably be-
low the five-year average in the United
States yield last year. The gold yield
from all the districts attached to or
controlled by the United States sent
to the mints during 1913 new gold to
the value Of $6S, 493 600, which, accord
ing to the statement of Director OF
the Mint Baker, is the lowest United
States output within a period of 70
years. -..
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
HOUSE. POULTRY
COMFORTABLY

Comfortable quarters should be fur
nished the pullets as soon as they are
ready to start laying. The poultry
house is both the home Of the hen and
the factory where winter eggs are pro-
duced. Unless it provides suitable liv-
ing and working conditions the hen
cannot accomplish satisfactory results,
says T. b. Townsley of the University
Of Missouri college Of agriculture.
Comfort is the important essential Of
a poultry house. To provide comfort
the house must be dry. well lighted
and well ventilated and have sufficient
floor space to furnish exercise by
scratching. It must also contain Sleep
ing quarters that are clean, well ven
tilated and yet free from drafts. All
these conditions can be met in one
room, thus economizing in the expense
Of building. .<.es-
Ventilation In poultry house II %
cured by leaving the south side rela-
lively open and making the other sides
tight. This provides plenty Of fresh
air without drafts. Where possible,
light should be admitted from all
sides. This prevents dark corners and
eliminates the nuisance of having the
litter all scratched to one side, which
occurs when light IL secured from only
one direction. Exercise Is insured by
keeping the floor covered with several
inches Of straw, and feeding all grain
n <haa 11%for Tho ronzfinU nnarfora
should be compact and comfortable.
They can be made easy to clean by
placing all roosts on q level at the
north side Of the house and by arrang-
ing q platform underneath the roosts
to catch the night droppings. ~
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
WITH The SAGES

There are degrees Of ability
for all things; and a man who
can do anything, however little,
should be made to do that little
usefully.-Ruskin. :
It is a good thing to be rich,
and a good thing to be strong,
but It is a better thing to be be-
loved Of many friends.-Eurip-
ides. -... pie. 5- ~
He that is rich need not live
sparingly, and he that can live
sparingly need not be rich.-
BENJAMIN Franklin.
Cheerfulness and content are
great beautiflers and are famous
peeservers Of youthful, looks
Charles Dickens. -.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Days of the "Dandy" Oven ;.
and Cause Is Ascribed 70 ~
:, Degeneration of Costume

It e a deplorable fact, but the reign
Of the dandy is over. He died with
Barbe d'Aurevllly, who had other IN"
terests and occupations than his cra'
watts and laces, and was rather an am"
ateur than practitioner in the art
writes Arthur Symans, in New Repub.
lie. The cause, or large part Of 1t,
is the degeneration of costume. A
man can be well dressed, in the after
noon If not in the evening, when the
mode leaves an inch of choice here
and there between one curve or an
other. But variety and elegance have
gone wholly out of the best-cut coat,
the more carefully calculated trousers.
With knee-breeches and silk stockings
and buckle shoes went every incite-
ment to dress personally and to out
do others in what was not q fixed
fashion. What form or substance OF
things could a dandy, in these days.
find to work upon? The tying OF q
white linen tie is no longer an art;
the stock, with its dignity, has given
place to the high, hideous, shining and
uncomfortable starched collar. And
the dullness Of the things that men
wearthe shapeless black funnel with
it's inch of irrelevant brim which we
cram discOmfortably ON our heads!
What dandy dare make himself con-
spicuous by even the extension OF a
brinn, or the loosening Of those. band
ages Of cloth which wrap our body
with q graceless rigidity7
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Clothing Price and Style
to Remain Same for 1919

[ Conservative members Of the Ma
tional Association OF Retail Clothiefs,
who recently held q peace time read
justment conference IN Chicago. de
clared there win be no advance in the
price of clothing for 1919. It was
said that the price levels Of the
fall of 1918 might be expected to be
maintained. One prominent manufAc-
turer said there Is no demand for
new styles In mems clothing, and that
the numerous styles that have been in
use will be continued with the mill
tary cut and belted models FREEDOM
mating.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Alaska Has Proved a Good
Investment for the y. S. 4.

Alaska has been worth much more
than its cost to the United States. A
half-century ago Alaska was purchased
at 4 cost Of $1,000, 900. and that orig
inal Investment has been returned to
the nation more than seventy fold. for
from the products Of the land and sea
Alaska has added to the national
wealth upward Of $50O.O00.O0O. the
greater part Of which has been pro-
duced during the last 20 years. Two
sources Of large and steady income are
copper ore and the fisheries.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Enough Candies to Keep One
Burning for $3.50 Years

The signing Of the armistice left the
American expeditionary forces In
France with enough candles to keep
one burning continuously without in
terruption for $3.50 years, according
to IN Official statement from the ONCE
Of purchase and storage of the war de-
partment. The primary use of the can.
Sles was to furnish lights IN tho
treoeAe0 and dusoutR
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Regarding Influenza.

Dogs sometimes contract flu, but
more rarely than cats. Birds, however,
can get it. In the great epidemic Of
1881, Il is on record that many birds
died, while the rest absolutely deserted
those parts Of the country where the
disease was 1t is woest.-Pearsou's
Weekly.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
TESTS AND JINGLES
y Sells HE Stuff,

IT'S Scribson a successful authorY'
II presume So"
"Why?"
HE seems to think magazine edi-
tors are an intelligent lot"
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
TO THE POINT

What's become Of the old-fash-
toned custom Of going home to
lunch? -.
Nothing beats the curiosity Of
a woman unless It be the curl
osity Of a man. ~
Every now and then we get
q laugh out Of seeing some one
who isn't dead sure that he's
right trying to convince the 9th
er man that he Is wrong.
If every day were Sunday q
lot of us might have to live up
to our religions. *.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20

Hopeless Caoe.
"Is the patient violent7 )
mo, he isn't violent, but there isn't
the slightest doubt about his being Is
crazy as q LOOM"
"What form does his insanity takef"
Ellis friends had him sent here when
they discovered that he was trying to
compile q who's Who in Russia"
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Mothers Cook Book

We know not what God holds IN store,
Nor what his will for each may b,
As pass we through another door
OF Nfe's untraversed mystery.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
or the Brew.

Lantllady (presiding ut the turkey
DO you prefer light or dark meat,
Mr.. Leighton3
Boarder Extraordinarily Make
mine a shot o. Scotch!
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Food for the Family.

Food for the Family.
If one can by a change of seasoning
or a bit of garnish change an ordinary
dish into something worth noticing,
the housewife has something to her
credit.
Onions with Peanut-Butter Sauce.
Peel and cook enough onions to
serve six. Make one cupful Of cream
sauce, beat into it one-fourth of a cup
full Of peanut butter and pour over the
onions. Open each onion q little at
the side, that the flavor Of the sauce
may penetrate it more thoroughly.
One Ego Cake. 49,.
Beat one-fourth Of a cupful Of short
ening to q cream and gradually beat
in one-fourth Of cupful of sugar and
one-fourth Of 4 cupful Of honey, add
one egg beaten wen. the grated rind
of lemon, half a cupful Of milk and
one cupful of wheat -four. one-fourth
of q cupful Of rice flour and two tea
spoonfuls Of baking powder sifted
with the flour. Bake In q sheet.
Chicago AausHne -. -.
Sift together one cupfa al wheat
-four, two cupfuls Of cosnmeal, two
tablespoonfuls Of sugar and ha2f . tea
spoonful Of salt, with ok teaspoonfuls
Of baking powder; add three table
spoonfuls Of corn oil and three eupfals
Of milk. Beat well and pour into hot
mufin pans and bake Is minutes. 4,
Banana Charlotte RUsoe. -,
Cut one-half q banana II slices,
squeeze over 1t little lemon juice
and set aside to chill. S<rape the
coarse threads from two bananas and
the half andl press them through
ricer. There Ahould be one cupfd Of
the puree. Scald the puree with the
rest Of the lemon Juice over hot water,
add one tablespoonful Of gelatin soft
ened in one-fourth Of . cupful Of cold
water. Put three-fourths Of q eupful
Of corn strip and one-f0urth Of cup
full Of sugar In q double boiler with
the whites Of two eggs Beat and cook
the mixture seven minuteA Spread
half Of this frosting On paper in the
form Of lady fingers have the paper
fastened to q board, dredee with sugar
and bake In q moderate oven until
slightly colored. About hah IN hour
win be needed. Beat the rest Of the
frosting into the banana MIXTURE, STIR
over ice water until It begins to thick
en-, then fold In . cupful Of cream
beaten very light When quite firm
put It into 2 mold lined WITH the
sliced bananas and the neziasue lady
fingers. 20
! M. h.t~,,e
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
RetrouSse.

8 h e. 7 o d
needn't make fun
of my nose: I
didn't choose It.
Her Brother
That's all right,
sis; 1t turned up
unaSked.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20

TVOO TOT SU0 UUStSys
If one can by change of seasoning
or a bit of garnish change an ordinary
dish into something worth noticing.
the housewife has something to her
credit.
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20
Time to Disposs o..

Cant you stay
a little while long
err asked the
criminal as his
kind friend was
about to leave.
NO, Bob, I
haven't time today.
"Well," said Bob,
IT axe som e Of
mine. I've got ten
years more than I
want here"
The Tomahawk., 1919-02-20

Used 10 It
you say he had no special bra
verys Yet he single-handed fought
a whole squad Of Huns" E
Il know, but he has been married
fOase ts.>-S $3.50. . -s4
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-05-05
FITS FOR US"

If we don't finish the job in this war-and finish
it right-our victory will have been bubble and
the blood Of such as these will stain the battle
fields of the future