GAS FOR RETURN TRIP OF THE DIRIGIBLE R-34
T'lis is one of :il)oiii 20 piles of hydrogen gas ••bottles" on Itooaevelt Held, Mineota,
refill the gas bog of the IJrltlsh dirigible R-34 for the return trip to England.
AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICERS DECORATED BY
Poison Root, the Wheat of
Barbados, Is Turned Into a
Wholesome, Nourishing Flour
The cassora root, or manioc, la tha
wheat of Barbados. Before tt comes
to be eaten. It suffers a strange con
version; for, being an absolute poison
when It Is gathered, the natives sub
mit tt to a process by which It Is
trans-substantlated Into wholesorafe
and nourishing flour. The outside of
the root Is washed clean and It Is
then held against a wheel, turned
around with the foot, the broad sur
face of which Is made rough like u
large grate. The grated root falls
down In a large trough, appointed as
receiver for the purpose.
The thus obtained powder, or pulp.
Is a rank poison, but It Is now put
Into a strong piece of canvas and
pressed hard until all Juice Is squeezed
out. This dried poultice Is then
spread upon a cloth to be yet more
dried In the sun, until it Is ready for
use. The dough, or “pone,” as the na
tives call It, Is then put In a kind of
pan standing on three legs, and about
six Inches high. This pan ls^ about
which are to be used to 20 Inches In diameter and slightly
hollowed In the middle. It Is hnlf an
Inch thick at the edge, but thicker to
ward the middle. When the pan Is
getting hot, the dough Is spread out
FRANCE
on It and the natives keep pushing it
down with their hands. This Is to
make It stick together, It being nearly
dry. They then turn It round and
round with a kind of battledore until
It Is done. The cakes thus produced
are about as thick as pancakes.
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I sto o d by th e o p en c a s e m e n t
A n d looked u p o n th e n ig h t.
A n d sa w th e w e s t-w a rd g o in g s t a r s
P a s s slo w ly o u t o f s ig h t.
S low ly th e b r ig h t p ro cessio n
W e n t dow n th e g le a m in g a rc h .
A n d m y so u l d isc e rn e d th e m u sic
O f th e ir lo n g tr iu m p h a l m a rc h .
T ill th e g r e a t c e le s tia l a rm y ,
8 tr e tc h ln g f a r b ey o n d th e poles,
B e cam e th e e te r n a l sy m b o l
Of th e m ig h ty m a r c h o f souls.
O n w ard , fo re v e r o n w a rd ,
R ed M a rs led d o w n h is c la n ;
A n d th e m oon, lik e a m a ile d m a id e n .
W a s rid in g In th e v a n .
Am. rlcuu nuv.. officers on the U. S. S. Pennsylvania receiving the Legion of Honor decoration lrom Captain De
Salnt-Slene. attache of the French embassy nt Washington. He Is pinning the ribbon on Rear Admiral Henry Mayo.
EXPERT LADY RIDERS OF ENGLAND
CORNELL HONORS FOUNDER
A n d so m e w ere b r ig h t in b e a u ty ,
A n d som e w e re f a in t a n d sm a ll.
B u t th e s e m ig h t be in th e ir g r e a t
T h e n o b le s t o f th e m a ll.
height
D o w n w ard , fo re v e r d o w n w a rd .
B eh in d E a r t h ’s d u s k y sh o re
T h e y p a s se d Into th e u n k n o w n n ig h t.
T h e y p a s se d a n d w e re no m o re.
N o m o re! Oh, s a y n o t so!
A nd d o w n w a rd Is n o t ju s t;
F o r th e s ig h t Is w e a k a n d th e se n se Is dim
T h a t lo o k s th r o u g h h e a te d d u st.
T h e s t a r s a n d th e m a ile d m oon.
T h o u g h th e y seem to fa ll a n d die.
S till sw eep w ith th e ir e m b a ttle d lin e s
A n e n d le ss re a c h o f sk y .
A n d th o u g h th e h ills o f D e a th
M ay h id e th e b r ig h t a r ra y ,
T h e m a rs h a le d b ro th e rh o o d o f SOUlS
S till k e e p s Its u p w a rd w ay.
U p w a rd , fo re v e r u p w a rd ,
I se e th e ir m a rc h su b lim e.
A r.d h e a r th e g lo rio u s m u sic
O f th e c o n q u e ro rs o f T im e.
A n d lo n g le t m e rem e m b e r,
T h a t t h e p a le s t, f a in te s t one
M ay to th e d iv in e r v isio n be
A b r ig h t a n d b la z in g sun.
—T h o m a s B u c h a n a n R e a d .
Sustained Nervous Energy
Always Demands an Outlet
Stntue of Ezra Cornell, founder of
Cornell university, unveiled during the
semicentennial exercises. Herman A.
McNeil of New York was the sculptor.
His Fatal Error.
photograph shot s some of the expert lady riders of Lieutenant
“Poor
old
feller!” sympathetically
Rltilngton's school at Parkgate, Chester, England. During the war Lieutenant
Rlnlngton broke In horses for the government and he now trains hunters und said the landlord of the Petunia tav
ern, as a funeral procession trailed by.
polo ponies.
“He was our last lingering horse doc
tor. For years he went around haul
lng open horses’ mouths and wagging
his head as If he hnd discovered some
MOUNTED POLICE BUSY IN WINNIPEG
thing absolutely unheard of In the an
nals of horse history. Probably he
didn’t really know much nbout horses,
but he loved to associate with them
After he had outlived his usefulness
and almost outlived horses he would
go poking around among the nutos and
muttering. And day before yester
day, when he found one standing
alone and unhitched, he went In front
of It and tried to open Its mouth, or
I something; anyhow, It gave a snort
and ran over him, and fetched his
checkered career to on end. Well,
I Doc was a pretty good sort of a feller,
' and he didn't owe me but $8 thnt I
remember of."—Kansas City Star.
M ils
Beet and Cane Sugar Cropa.
Beet and cane sugar combine to
make nearly an average production of
sugar In this country for the season
beginning In 19UL A little over a
j million short tons, or 1,007,050. Is the
total of the two crops, according to
| estimates, subject to revision, made
by the bureau of crop estimates. The
I average of the preceding live years Is
! 1.031,603 tons, or somewhat greater
j than the production of 1918.
The cane-sugar crop of 1918, how-
| ever. Is estimated to be 206.950 tons,
or considerably above the average of
the preceding live years, 248.400 tons,
Members of the Northwest mounted police dispersing a riotous crowd dur while the beet-sugar crop of T40100
ing the great »trike In Winnipeg. Ono man In the mob was killed and several tons Is below the five-year avernge of
wounded.
783,108 tons.
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It has been discovered that cases
of people who have been exposed to
the fear of being torpedoed nre suf
fering from symptoms suggestive of
shell shock. Doctor Clunet, In a com
munication to the Neurological society
of Paris, has described the mentnl
effects observed when on board a ship
which was torpedoed. After the first
excitement following the attack It was
observed that several passengers dis
charged guns Into the air or Into the
sen.
In other words, the sustained
nervous energy found relief In letting
loose the Immense energy concentrated
In explosives. Similarly, It was w p II
known at the front that a long day of
waiting In the trenches was productive
of more cases of shell shock than a
day of active engagement with the en
emy. Next there were a few cases of
suicide among the passengers. These
passengers were on the whole calm
enough, even on the life rafts. It was
only when they were on the rescuing
ship that psychoneurnl phenomena be
gan to develop. Including mutism, spas
modic weeping, laughter, tremors, spas
modic movements of the limbs, etc.
Where to View at a Glance
Scotland’s River System
If there be one place north of the
Tweed where, at a single glance, one
may view and comprehend the chief
river system of Scotland, Stirling Is
that place. From this point one notes
the main streams, the affluents, and
the gathering of the waters which
make the Clyde, the Forth and the
Tay. He can then realize how great
and Important In the political and eco
nomic history of Scotland has been
that great central valley, which
stretches from the North sea to the
waters of the Atlantic ocean.
The Rubber Tree.
The rubber tree was discovered by a
Jesuit missionary. Father Mancelde
Esperanca. on a Journey among the
Cambelas Indians of South America,
n e named It scrlnguetra, because he
remarked that the savages used the
sap of this tree, which hardens quickly,
to make rude bottles shaped like a sy
ringe.
1 ,2 0 0 ,0 0 0 Cases of
White Plague in U. S.
Tubérculo« is die C um of 150,000 Deaths Annually, According to
Alarmed by the loss of man power caused by tuberculosis during the
war, Uncle Sam is polishing up the M. D., which is among the many letters
that follow his name, and preparing to take a leading part in the national
program for the prevention of the disease.
Final tabulation of the draft reject slips, recently completed, reveals:
Sixtv-two thousand men were rejected when called for service in the na
tional army because medical examination showed they had tuberculosis.
Another 20,000 men were discharged at army camps for the same rea
son.
Six thousand, still in service, are now being cared for in the army’s
special tuberculosis hospitals.
As these figures show, the government, at a time of a great national
emergency, was robbed of the services of approximately enough men for five
army divisions by the ravages of this one disease. But this is not all, for,
although progress has been made in the control of the disease during the last
ten years, it still is the cause of 150,000 deaths annually in this country,
and as scientific investigation has shown, for every death from the disease
there are eight active cases.
This indicates that at the present time there are in the United States
at least 1,200,000 active cases of the white plague.
At the annual meeting of the National Tuberculosis association in
Atlantic City a short time ago public health authorities outlined a co-ordi
nate national plan of battle against the disease. One result of this, it is
expected, will be the creation of a division of tuberculosis in the United
States public health service.
Already, as the government’s first step in protecting the nation’s
health during the reconstruction era, the United States public health serv
ice has been authorized to provide free hospital care for soldiers and sailors
suffering from tuberculosis, honorably discharged on or after Oct. 6, 1917.
These patients will be treated in government sanitariums.
The even graver problem of caring for the 62,000 sufferers who were
turned back into civil life by the draft boards has been assumed by the Na
tional Tuberculosis association in co-operation with the surgeon general’s
office, through 1,500 societies which are affiliated with the national associa
tion, and some 600 sanitariums and 500 dispensaries are already available
for the work.
The situation is so serious, however, that the national program calls
for hospital and sanitarium provision in every state in the Union that will
provide, as a minimum, at least two beds for every annual death, as well as
dispensary and clinic care so that every man, woman and child in the state
who has tuberculosis, or thinks he has it, or who may have been exposed to
it in any way, can secure free advice and treatment or treatment at moder
ate expense.
Famous Fielder, Ty Cobb,
Static Disturbances Might
Says He Will Quit Great
Be Far-Off Brotherly Hands
American Game in 1920
Knocking at Our Very Door
In Bunyan’s “Pilgrim's Progress”
there is a man who ran with his
fingers In his ears, shouting nt the top
of his voice, thnt he might not hear.
In developing the possibilities of ter
restrial communication It Is of con
summate Importance that we shall
find a way to put our fingers In our
ears and shut out the extraneous
noises of the “statics,” Buckner Speed
writes In Harper’s.
It Is a cheap fancy and unprofitable
science to muse about “high and far
off things” before we are ready for
them. We go on doing the thing next
to us, doing It well, conquering the
obstacles that it Is profitable to con
quer, and we do well In doing so; but
little by little In doing so we are un
questionably reaching and feeling our
way toward the ability on our own
part to be cognizant of voices em
anating from spheres other thnn our
own ; and If there nre beings of like
or greater Intelligence than ours else
where, we shall In time certainly be
In communication with them. It may
he even now that some of these static
disturbances which we try so hard to
shut out are far-off brotherly hands
knocking at the door that we now hold
fast closed.
Ty Cobb announced his retirement
from baseball not during this present
year but at the end of the 1920 season.
“I won’t be a has-been, so I am go
ing to retire In two more years,” said
Cobb In a printed Interview. “I’d
rather step out with cheers than
Jeers, step out before I am forced out.
Some Curious Experiments
With Both Flame and Air
“One of the many curious experi
ments made with the purpose of secur
ing long-range and reducing air re
sistance resulted in a “flaming shell,”
writes J. H. Van Deventer in Every
body’s. “The forepart of the shell con
tains a mixture of phosphorus and cop
per oxld, which Is Ignited as the shell
leaves the gun; not, strange to say, for
the purpose of setting fire to the ene
my’s works or trains, hut simply to
increase the range. Experiments have
shown Increased rnnges of almost 20
per cent for these flaming shells. The
explanation seems to be thnt the gases
given off coat the shell with a sort of
frictionless gas film. Wind-tunnel ex
periments show that air resistance Is
cut down almost 75 per cent by these
gas films.”
and It’s about time for someone to
fill my shoes anyway. At the end of
the 1920 season I will celebrate my
fifteenth full season as a major
leaguer.
“That’s long enough for anyone.
The game has been kind to me. It
gave me an opening to fix myself for
the remainder of my life financially,
and I won’t forget the pitchers who
fanned me with three on, nor the fans
who cheered this stunt.
“I feel my ankles stiffening and the
arm going back a yard or two on the
throws. A fellow can’t last forever,
and I don’t Intend to stick around as
long as Hans Wagner, Cy Young and
some of the other boys.”
SHORT AND SNAPPY
United States Mints Break
Records in Making Pennies
Never Judge a woman’s
thoughts by what she says.
Instead of trying to kill two
birds with one stone use a shot
gun.
No man need hope to reach
heaven hy walking over his
neighbors.
Almost anybody would rather
have a steady Job than steady
work.
A man thinks that his neigh
bor has no right to hold wrong
views.
It doesn’t require a genius to
make trouble or create a dis
turbance.
Ty Cobb.
United States mints established a
new record for monthly output In June
by turning out 98,161,000 pieces of
money. Director Ray T. Baker an
nounced. Of the total coins, 91.364.-
000 were pennies, which was 13,000,000
greater than the previous record made
In December, 1917. The remainder
consisted of 6,427.000 nickels and 370,-
000 dimes.
Fue Oil in Colombia.
Fuel oil of a good grade and suffi
cient quantity to supply the river
steamers of that country has been
found In Colombia.