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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

first, seemed no good at all. The
keen-eyed handy boy sees the
chance to make money here.
By the time he has made friends
with half a dozen janitors, or Wis
tied all the families in the block, he
will have secured for almost moth
ing enough furniture to keep him
busy for quite while. Tools, var
nish, and salesmanship will turn il
into money in a short time.
The boy who carries on such a
business is thrifty twice over. He
is saving furniture that otherwise
would have been thrown away. This
enables his customers to save
money. He is making his own in
come larger. This enables him to
save money.
Repairing as a Business.
Surely not moro than one family
in ten have a boy who is handy with
tools. How about the other nine?
Their chairs have been out on the
porch during the summer; they need
to be overhauled before they will
look well in the sitting room in the
winter. A dozen jobs are waiting to
be done. The handy boy sees the
chance to make money here, too.
Next week: Business Manager
for Parties"-another good one for
the girls.)
Boys and Girls Newspaper Service.
Copyright, 1919, by j. II. Mlilar.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24
AUTUMN"

When shadows fall low
On the grass thick and green
And leaves on the tree
No more cast a screen,
BY the wayside the shrubs
Are withered and scar.
The summer has gone
And autumn Is here,
When birds have flown south
That were wont to bring cheer
And butterflies gay
No more linger near,
And frost's in the air,
The winds sharp and keen,
Tho summer has gone
And autumn reigns queen.
--"BELLVIEW.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24
Facts IN the Sugar
Situation

New York. Oct. Ito the Editor
of The Bee: In view Of the current
excitement over the sugar situation
it 10 important to look at the facts:
I. The figures now available for
September show that there has been
delivered into domestic consumption
in the period. JanuAry-September.
1919, the enormous total OF $685.
900 long tons refined sglar as
against 2,661,000 tons in the same
period of 1918, an increase Of 600,-
900 tons, or 1,344,000,000 pounds
a 22.5 per cent increase. This is
entirely independent Of our exports.
2. The pre-war average con-
sumption for this period is about
2,900, 900 tons, 80 that this year We
have consumed over $4,000 tons
more than normal. an increase of ~
per cent.
8. This means that there has been
delivered into domestic consumption
III the first nine months almost as
much sugar as in the whole Of 1918
1.-The 1918 consumption was $780,
900 tons, while in the first nine
months of this year 1t was S,263,000
tons.0
4. The per capita consumption
IN IHeS0 HlHc lioAlAo ttdo UccA ~
pounds, as against Is pounds for
the whole year. 1918, and SO pounds
for the whole Of 1917.
s. Figures do not always express
the actual fact; it is best to use
comparisons. The consumption for
the whole year Of 1919 (Which will
probably be 100000 long tons) will
be over one half Of the worlds total
exportable surplus for 1919 and over
ons-quarter Of the worlds total
production. This statement ex-
presses the situation better than fig-
ures can express 1t.
8. In spite OF the shortage, there
remains SUFFICIENT sugar to supply
to the domestic trade about 100000
tons of refined sugar cane, $4,000
tons of Louisiana sugars and AGO.
900 tons of beet sugars-all this for
the last quarter of 1919. a total of
$4,000 tons. This amount added to
what has already been distributed
will give q consumption for 1919 of
100000 long tons. as against 81
100000 tons in 1918, and a maxi
mum Of 100000 tons in 1915.
There remains therefore, 100000
tons more sugar for distribution in
the last quarter Of 1919 than in 1918.
Z. Conclusion: In spite Of a
worlds shortage Of nearly 100000
tons in the world production, as
compared to normal, the American
people have been supplied with one
quarter Of the worlds sugar produc-
ton and one-half of the worlds ex-
portable surplus, while all the rest
Of the world, including our former
allies, France, England and Italy,
are all on short rations, clamoring
for sugar.
All this sugar has been supplied
at a wholesale price Of 8.S2 cents
per pound and the retail price of
about 11-12 cents per pound, while
French people pay 1873 cents whole
sale, England IAN cents and other
countries much higher prices.
American people want even more
sugar than they have received. The
question arises as to whether
we have the moral right to take
out of the worlds sugar cake"
more than we have already taken,
even IL more sugars were available.
UNITED STATES SUGAR EQUAL
IzATION BOARD, Inc. Statistical
Division.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24
Mining Engineer.

BY II s. ALEXANDER.
Buck Evans worked for the Ber-
niuda Mining company. His father
was a foreman in the mine and
Buck worked in his gang, but he
wanted to be boss.
1.-THE best thing for you" advised
his father, is to 60 to good tech
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

One carload of 800 bushels is not sufficient
to meet the demand for potatoes in Omaha. The
city should try again. By the way, why should
we pay $40 bushel for spuds grown in Mich
igan or Ohio, when the Nebraska variety is
available at $150l
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

nical school and train for a mining
engineer"
Buck wrote to the American In
stitute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers, 20 West Thirty-ninth
street, New York, and from them
received advice and information. He
read book by Ernest Mccullough
on Engineering as Vocation" He
subscribed to the Engineering and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Three and half billion pennies arc in cir
culation in the United States, but with the
"sugs" in use on the trolley cars, Omaha doe:
not need so many coppers now.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24
Looks That Way.

1t is understood that Larry Sher-
man feels toward President Wilson
like the old maid toward the wo-
man who has had three husbands.
Los Angeles Times.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Secretary Lanes report on the industrial
conference that failed is awaited with interest
1t should give key to the Misunderstanding
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Is 'Ighness, the prince Of Hedjaz, is miffed
at the disposition made OF Syria by the SUI
preme council, and wants the United States to
intervene. This is an example of the requests
we will hear for many day to come.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

If Belgium doesn't watch carefully, she may
lose perfectly good king and America gain an
other splendid foreign-born citizen
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Knocking the stuf6ng out of straw men is
the satisfying employment Of our amiable Hy-
phenated contemporary. Witness the zeal with
which It sails into wars Of conquest" which
are not mentioned in the league covenant.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Reservations or nothing and it is now up to
the presidents group to say if the United States
goes into the League of Nations on reasonable
terms or stays out altogether. Time for dodg-
ing is past
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

King Alfonso is looking over the battlefield
Of Verdun, where the former crown prince
broke his pick. This is pleasure that was de.
MED to several lately crowned heads of Europe
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Be ready when the salesman calls to get
your subscription to the Ak-Sar-Ben stock issue.
This is no "blue sky" proposition, but for the
good of Omaha.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Czecho-Slovakia is considering the adoption
OF prohibition. And that is where we used to
get some of our "Pilsener!"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Denver insists on Scent fare and high
wages to the street railway employees. 1t is not
easy to have BOTH
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Chicago city employees are organizing "old
clothes" societies. They are far behind in this.
Most of US joined long ago.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Prohteers are playing their trunps right
now, and old h. c. of l. is marching merriy
along. Mr.. Ultimate Consumer will have
something to say later.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Sioux City's sheriff had better luck with the
bank robbers than did Nebraska officers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

With Ontario bone dry, life along the Cana
dian border loses some of its charm
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Americas sweet tooth is mighty expensive
member just now
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

II Mr. Wilson succeeds in putting Humpty
Dumpty together again, he is indeed we'll man.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

Opera made in Germany" is not extremel,
popular in New York just now.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24
His Choice.

His Choice.
ANY particular choice OF cut!"
asked the butcher.
YES" replied the customer" Ia
like a cut of about so per cent in
price,'-Boston Transcript.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24

The weather bureau is mussing up perfectly
lovely climate.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-24
What The Bee Stands For:

Hogs know that the war is over.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Old Timber for NewShips

A writer in "The Boston Globe" sub
mits the following as an interesting side
light on Americas great shipbuilding
industry:
According to the rings of the stumps
of big oaks cut at Winnegance, Me-, this
season for shipbuilding number of the
trees were from 100 to 1875 years old, and
some had been growing for $50 years. The
Morse sawmill at Winnegance has been
operated for more than 100 years. The
original frame of the mill is still there, as
sound as ever some Of the hewn sticks of
timber being eighty feet in length"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Via Dynamite

T~HE UTILITY of dynamite in re-
storing the orchards of France
to the fiourshing and fruitful
state they enjoyed before the
advent of the Hun has been advanced
by Andre Piedallu, and is described as
follows in the February issue of "The
Scientific Americana:
"The process consists essentially in using
dynamite for the double purpose of breaking
up the earth and securing an intimate mix
ture of the required fertilizers with it. The
author had noticed the specially vigorous
development, of wild plants around the edges
of old shell holes and old trenches which had
suffered from heavy firing. He attributed
this vigor Of growth partly to the fssura-
ton of the soil and partly to its impregna-
ton with heterogeneous subjects. This view
was supported by some experiments made
several years ago in the western part of
the United States, in which wo-year-old
cnerry trees planted III holes excavated by
dynamite reached the height Of three metres
(about 10 feet), while similar specimens
planted by a spade remained spindling and
grew scarcely half as tall.
an. Piedallu applied his idea by placing
a suitable amount of fertilizer in con-
tainer surrounding the explosives, in such
a way that the force of the explosion would
drive the former into the minute cracks
produced, thus forming an ideal medium for
the growth of the young tree. The formula
of the explosive is not given, but it is stated
that it is not affected either by conclusion
or dampness, is capable of being moulded, is
completely free from CELEBRATES (Which might
injure vegetation), is highly energetic in
small volumes, and cannot be detonated ex-
cept by Illuminating cap. The fertilizers
employed are chosen with special reference
to the character of the earth and the needs
OF the trees to be planted.
"The compressed fertilizer moulded around
nucleus of the explosive is placed In the
bottom Of a tube of celluloid, paper or card
board. The cylinder Of explosive. which con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

tains cavity for the Illuminating charge, is
then placed in the top of the tube, the hole
being closed by stopper pierced by hole
through which passes Citing tightly
piece of Bickford cord connected with the
cap. Both the explosive charge and the mass
Of fertilizer adjoining it are covered with
paraffin. The application of the charge is very
simple and is said to save both time and
labor. hole like one used for placing a
mine is bored with pointed stick or iron
rod, somewhat larger in diameter than the
cartridge. This hole should be 60 cent?
metres deep (about 2 feet.)
"The explosion produces spheriodal cav
ity some 80 centimetres in depth (about 80
inches.) The earth absorbs the vapors liber-
ated and the young tree is then placed in
the hole and its roots covered with the
earth"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Did Gargantuan Squids Dev0urtheC ,vc10ns?

Elsenach, had described monstrons animal
which occasionally rose for plumber along
the coasts of Lapland and Finmark-so
enormous thatA regiment of soldiers could
conveniently maneuvre on it's back.
Less conscientious and more creduIous
than the Norwegian episcopal advocacy is
the testimony of Denys De Montfort. nigh
century later, beside whose Colossal
Poulpe,' the gigantic and predatory animal
described in the classics by Pliny was
mere pigmy.
DE Montfort gravely declared that six
men-o'-war captured from the French by
Admiral Rodney in the West Indies April
IL, 1882, together with four British ships
detached from the fleet as CONVOY were
suddenly engulfed by colossal cuttlefishes
He also records statement of Captain Jean
Megrus Deus by repute a respectable and
veracious man, trader to China, of an
instance when the captain was becalmed
and having his vessels bottom painted
while crossing from St. Helena to Cape
Negro.
1.-THE story runs that three men were
standing on planks slung over the side
when an enormous cuttleish rose from the
water and threw one of it's arms around two
of the sailors, whom it tore awav with
the scaffolding on which they stood With
another arm it seized the third man, who
held on tightly to the rigging and screamed
for help. His shipmates ran to his assist
ance and succeeded in rescuing him by cut
ting away the creatures arms with axes and
knives, but he died delirious on the follow
ing night. The captain tried to save the
other two sailors by killing the animal, and
drove several harpoons into it, but they
broke away, and the men were carried down
by the monster. The arm cut off was said
to have been twenty-five feet long and as
thick as the mizzen yard and to have had
on it suckers as big as saucepan lids
"The means of observation on the dura-
ton of growth and life in the cephalopods
have been difficult to obtain. From watch
ing the rate of increase of size in young
specimens De Ferussac, D'Orbigny and other
naturalists have arrived at the conclusion
that they sometimes live for MANY wears
and continue to grow till the end of their
lives. That some, therefore, attain to a
considerable magnitude is hardly surprising.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Mr.. Noble writes:

about the only possible explanation in
capable of contradiction is that Gargan-
tuan Squds-monster cuttlefish-treated of
in fiction and in fact may have reared
themselves out of the sea and, instead Of
winding their tentacles around the hulls
and rigging and crushing the structure to
matchwood before dragging it to their lair
at the bottom, may have helped themselves
to the ships people as delcately and
effectually as one plucks gooseberries off
bush-then sunk out of sight and left
scarcely a ripple behind
"The history of the ancient belief in the
existence of gigantic cephalopods is some
what obscure. All we know Of it is in
passages in the works of few old Greek
and Latin authors and series of Scandi-
navan traditions.
eric Pontoppdan, Bishop of Bergen, is
generally regarded as the inventor Of the
fabulous Kraken, and is constantly mis-
quoted by writers who have never read his
history of Norway.
"But fifty years or more before Pontop-
pidan, Christian Francis Paullinus, who was
born in 1913, physician and naturalist of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

all parts to terrestrial view. AS only
little over one-half is visible it must TO-
tate" But this inference is erroneous, for
it only admits of one alternative There
are an infinite number Of axes besides it's
own on each of which the moon might turn
and still exhibit the same popularity.
l have stated in my article that the moon
rotates about an axis, passing through the
centre of the earth, which is not strictly
true, but does not vitiate the conclusions
have drawn. 1t is we'll known, of course
that the two bodies revolve around COM
mon centre Of gravity which is at q dis
lance of a little over 1880 miles from the
earth's centre.
Another mistake in books on astronomy is
made in considering this motion equivalent
to that of a weight whirled on a string or
in sling. In the first place, there is an
essential difference between these two de-
vices though involving the same mechanical
principle. If metal ball attached to a
string is whirled around and the latter
breaks an axia rotation of the missile re-
suits which is definitely related in magn-
tude and direction to the motion preceding.
BY way of illustrations: If the ball Is
whirled on the string clockwise, ten times
a second, then when it flies off it will
rotate on it's axis twenty times second,
likewise in the direction of clock Quite
different are the conditions when the ball
is thrown from a sling. In this case q
much more rapid rotation is impaired to it
in the opposite sense There is no \true
analogy to these in the motion Of the moon.
If the gravitational string, as it were would
snap, the satellite would go off in a tangent
without the slightest swerving or rotation,
for there is no momentum about the axis
and, consequently, no tendency whatever to
spinning motion.
Mr.. Manerre is mistaken in his surmlse
as to what would happen if the earth we're
suddenly eliminated. Let US suppose that
this would occur at the instant when the
moon is in opposition Then it would con-
tinue on it's elliptical path around the sun,
presenting to it steadily the face which was
always exposed to the earth. If, on the
other hand, the latter would disappear at
the moment Of conjunction, the moon would
gradually swing around through 1870 do
grees and, after a number of oscillations,
revolvc again with the same fdce to the sun.
In either case there would be no periodic
changes, but eternal day and night, respect
lively, on the sides turned toward and away
from the luminary.--NIKOLA TESLA.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Zeppelin Flight to East
Africa

Information regarding a remarkable flight
of German Zeppelin has recently been
reported by British correspondent who
learned the facts since the coming of peace.
German airship, it is said, left Bulgaria
carrying crew of twenty-five men. tons
of munitions, and medical supplies, bound
for German East Africa, which is APPROX
imately 1900 miles from Bulgaria. Ac-
cording to the account, while the ship was
flying over khartum, it received a wireless
message ordering it to return, the Germans
having learned that the majority of their
troops in their African territory had sur
rendered.--From Popular Mechanics.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
The giant cuttesh the 'Poulpe Colossal described by De
Montfo supposed by ancents disappearance of
ships F he National Marine

ESPITE the exhaustive search
4 by the United States navy of
~ every nook and corner of the
Caribbean, the loss of the naval
collier Cyclops still remains a mystery.
The usual explanations for the loss Of
vessel last seen almost year ago, sail
ing apparently under perfect control with
a complement of 295 men and with such
a modern appliance as the wireless, do
not suffice for the Golfers disappearance.
If prize of a German raider, it would
have been learned by now; if victim of
a German submarine, wreckage would
have been found; which is true also if
the vessel had struck one of those un-
charted rocks. Was the Cyclops, no
tably a top-heavy ship, sunk without
all trace by laundering in one of the
heavy tropical storms? Or shall the
theory be accepted which George Noble
advances in 'The National Marine" that
the Cyclops has sailed away to join those
other seventeen ships of our navy which
have disappeared just as mysteriously
since 1881?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
x RAY

sN VARIOUS types of X-ray appara.
tus were developed and used in
the army during the war with the most
gratifying results" declares an edi-
torial in "The Army and Navy Regis
ter which continues:
each type was subjected to the most
thorough tests in actual service and proved
its usefulness. Special mention should be
made of the portable set which was in
stalled in motor ambulance and moved
expeditiously to the advanced lines, where
it rer cred inestimable service to the sur
geony. Of equal value has been the bed
side set, a small, portable affair, which
can be carried by hospital attendant Or
rolled on casters directly to the cot of
patient This set has been utilized on a
large scale in the treatment of influenza
and pneumonia cases; in Walter Reed Hos
pital 1900 patients suffering with the cpl
demic have been photographed, the pict-
ures being taken without disturbing the
patient In the slightest degree. The value
OF the X-ray in the treatment Of pneumonia
has been amply demonstrated and there is
no doubt that the use of these handy sets
in active use at Hospital No. IL, Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Ga; at Camp Devens, Camp Lewis
and various other places with excellent re-
suits At Camp Lewis record in exami-
nations was made which has probably
never been exceeded; no less than 10000
exposures were made of which 14,0sO were
chest cases. All previous records were
broken in the number, as we'll as the
promptness of examinations to detect, not
merely the presence of disease, but of
foreign bodies of broken parts, etc. Both
these A-ray sets are purely American in
ventlons, developed entirely by Americans.
An achievement in which the officials re-
sponsible for it take pride is the fact that
not man serving in the American army
IN France who needed an X-ray examina-
tion failed to set 1t and within y very
short space of time"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
The Chameleon:
Science

NCIENCE, declares Professor George
T. w. Patrick in "The Scienr1n>
~ Monthly" has indicated itself in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

at Copenhagen and at Marseilles. In No
vember, 1874, the Rev. M. Harvey, a Pres
byterian minister Of St. Johns, New
foundland, got possession of a squid, or
caIamary, as the English sometimes call
them, which three fishermen found en-
tangled in their herring net in Logic Bay,
about three miles from st. Johns.
"The body of this specimen was more
than Seven feet long and the caudal fin
twenty-five inches broad. The two
tentacular arms were twentyfour feet long
each and the eight shorter arms six feet
long each, the largest of the latter being
ten inches in circumference at the base.
What couldn't such monster dol"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Underwood
The collier Cyclops which disappeared last March, is
generally supposed have foundered tropical storm

SOS between Hillsway and Scallaway, on
the west coast of Shetland, of which the
tentacles were sixteen feet long and the
pedal arms about half that length. The
largest suckers we're three-quarters of an
inch in diameter
ITO the Paris Academy of Sciences was
reported a huge squid, met November 80,
1861, Between Madeira and Teneriffe, and
stated by the officers and crew of the
French dispatch steamer Alecton to be
of deep red color and from sixteen to
eighteen feet long without reckoning the
formidable arms. Harpoons thrust into the
beast drew out of the soft flesh. A rope
with running knot was slipped over it and