TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. JANUARY 30,
1910.
CANINE HEROES HAD TO DIE VOYAGE OF HARD-LUCK SHIP
PHRASES HAVE BECOME OLD YOUTH IS PRIDE OF ITALY FRENCH DEVOTED TO HOMES WAR BROUGHT AN AWAKENINff
plre Necessity Foroed th« Monks ef
St Bernard to Put Their Doga
to Death.
Changes Demanded by Modem War
Have by No Mean« Kept Pece
With Other Matter«.
On Trip From Calcutta to United
8tatee She Had Many and
Serloue Trouble«.
A steamship that arrived the other
We lack the speed In changing our
day at an Atlantic port after a three phrases that we've shown In changing
months* voyage with 117 passengers the war game. "Over the top” sug
had troublous times logging the long gests parapets and purudoses, fire steps
course from Calcutta and South Africa, and traverses, barbed wire and No'
says the New York Sun. She strand Mun's Land—the wbole rigmarole of
ed off an uncharted channel of Mada- stabilization In ditches. Over the top
giiscar and wns forced back to Dur now goes for any sort of advance,
ban for repairs.
charging across wheat fields or deploy
She sailed again after three weeks' ing through thickets.
delay, returned because of a fire in
“It’s a hand grenade game," they
the jute cargo In her after hold and told use when we landed in France. It
finally got away.
Three days out wns then, “Forget that rifle stuff," they
Edward Gibson, automobile agent of said.
Detroit, died of Influenza and was bur
However, rifles were still being pack
ied nt sea. Then two Chinamen ed around. Nothing else had yet been
Indulged In a dispute about the mer Issued on which to fix bayonets. The
its of their respective tongs; one cut Yankees were willing to put some
the other In the abdomen, and believ smoke on the grenades and to try to
ing he had committed murder, jumped cut the plate under Instruction, but
overboard and was drowned.
they rebelled against the mental exer
Everything might have been placid cise of trying to forget how to shoot.
aboard ship thereafter had It not been A sergenat told me of the report some
for two “nationalists” from the Trans of the men brought back who had been
vaal, who noisily advocated the smash billeted with the British, the story of
ing of all flag allegiance and said par a Tommy who sprinted half across
ticularly hard things about the Stars Flanders dragging his rifle In his left
and Stripes and the British ensign. hand and trying to catch up with a
They were surprised when they were routed Heinle raider so that he could
held up and sent to Ellis island on hurl a bomb. The sergeant ended up,
the charge of uttering seditious sen “Say, believe me, remembering how to
timents. Their fellow passengers said I
shoot has allowed us to forget a lot of
they were among the I. W. W.’s of
that trench stuff in short order.”—L. S.
South Africa.
Kirkland in Leslie's.
Dr. James Denton of Stamford,
Conn., who had been 14 months in the
Belgian Congo helping to treat nbout PROFIT SHARING IN FRANCE
5,000 natives for tropical diseases,
praised the Belgians for their swiftness Idea Is More Widely Held In That
Country Than Any Other Part
CORNCOBS PUT TO GOOD USE in driving out the Germans and re
gretted that he had come back too late
of the World.
Belief That They Can B-' Made the > to join the medical forces In France,
ns was his Intention.
Nucleus of a Great and Profit
Profit sharing is being widely dis
Mrs. Edward Calvert, who Is known cussed in England now, in connection
able Industry.
as Mme. Gainsborough to folks ofCape with the nation's war activities, and
Corncobs—a great waste product in Toyn, and who coyly admits that she much consideration Is being directed
the world's greutest corn-producing na Is the “smartest milliner in South Af to experience in France, where it has
tion—have been made to yield adhes rica," comes here to buy goods.
been in operation for 70 years. There
ive gum and other useful substances
Is in France a society organized for
Ln quantities sufficient to convince LEFT BOTTLE AS SENTINEL the purpose of promoting profit slurr
chemists of the United States depart
ing. and this society has been recog
ment of agriculture that the nucleus And Two Weary Private« Had Per nized by the government as a "public
uf a profitable and Important Industry
utility.”
fectly Good Explanation of Where
lies In this direction.
In the French profit-sharing plans
They Got the Champagne.
In addition to adhesive gum, experi
generally benefit funds are Instituted
ments have produced cellulose and glu
About 10 o’clock on the morning of to provide for emergencies In the life
cose, both of which have many com
| the brigade’s arrival at a beautiful of the workers. Ordinarily workmen '
mercial uses. The glucose so produced
I little town that looked, under the do not receive their share of the profit
crystallizes well, and it is believed can morning summer sun, an if it might be in cash, but In the form of a fund,
be used In the same ways as crystal a million miles from the battle front, which goes to purchasing shares in the
line glucose- from starch. Manufac the peaceful scene was accentuated business or to old-age pensions.
ture of alcohol by the fermentation of by two boyish privates of squad 17
There are various systems of profit
corncob glucose appears practicable If size, obviously strays from their com sharing in vogue In France. One of
sulphuric acid Is obtainable cheaply.
pany, at the side of the street just these gives a percentage of the net
To utilize corncobs commercially, around the Burner from headquarters. prefits over the wages, the manage
the chendsts believe, a large and cost
One was sleeping, as only a soldier ment, and the various benefit funds.
ly plant would be necessary, and the
who has seen five days of battle can Another bases the percentage on sales
bureau of chemistry does not advise sleep, his head dangling carelessly or total business done. Still other
any enterprise of the sort In war time. over a mud-stained pack. The other forms base the amount given the work-'
had one shoe off, and was regarding ers on the dividend rate, the amount
■xnlalnlng Shower ef Flehee.
ruefully, but rather listlessly, his cap of capital, or as a bonus at the d!»- ('
A recent shower of fishes at Hendon, ital wound of battle, a blistered foot. cretlon of the employer. Certain com
a suburb of Sunderland, England, oc Before them, as conspicuous as the top panies are able to share with their
curred about 8 p. m., during a heavy sergeant at morning roll call, stood, in workers any savings they may make
thundershower, and lasted about ten Its labeled and tinseled glory, an in the cost ef producing goods.
minutes.
A. Meek of Dove Marine empty champagne bottle. Every rank
labpratory, states In Nature that the from sergeant to brigadier general
Airplane Flares.
tat' was confined to an area of about passed them, tried to look ehocked, and
The announcement was recently
a third of an acre. The fishes were failed.
made by Maj. Gen. C. C. Willlama,
all about three Inches long and all
By-and-by
the
second
private chief of ordnance, of the perfection
sandeels, a marine species often pres stretched his foot over the curbing and the adoption by the army for
ent in great shoals along the English and went to sleep, too. It wasn't until use in France of an airplane flare for
bea.ches. The place of fall is a quar afternoon that a noncom. rounding up night bombing.
According to Major
ter of a mile from the seashore. It Is stragglers, awoke them.
General Williams, the flare is released
touBd probable that the fishes, num-
“Whore did you get that cham from a bombing plane by pulling a lev
beifing several hundred, were drawn pagne?” asked the noncom (with mo er. As it drops the resistance offered
by a waterspout from the bay to ths tives beyond question).
by the air sets the fuse mechanism In
Southeast and transported by the
“Well,” explained the smaller of the operation. The result is the emission
easterly breeze at least half a mile. pair, “we hadn’t had anything to eat of a powerful light of from 300,000 to
As the fishes were all dead the evi but Iron rations for five days, and not 400,000 candle power, which completely
dence that inland waters may have much of that, then we loot our outfit, illuminates the terrain below.
The
been stocked with marine forms from and when we landed here we started amount of light given is equivalent to
the air Is not conclusive.
out to buy something. The only thing that of a battery of from 160 to 175
on sale in the whole town was a bottle street arc lamps or from 15,000 to 17,-
of champagne, so we bought that.”— 500 ordinary incandescent lamp bulbs’
Useless Precaution.
A. German captain of engineers re- Stars and Stripes.
such as we used In the home. As soon
lat ts how he once sent a green cor
as the flare gets Into operation a huge
Perseverance Does IL
poral and three men back to the Rus-
parachute, made of the best qualityj
“It's the allies’ perseverance that silk, opens and holds the brilliant light
Maii lines with instructions to put a
ml'road station completely out of wen this war," said Senator Lewis.
in suspension In the air for a sufficient I
“The allies suffered defeat after de time to allow the aviator to select his
eot.tmlsslon so that It could by no
feat,
hut
from
each
jlefeat
they
learned
mt ans be of use to the enemy.
objective or target. The bombs then 1
Title corporal rejoined the command something.
follow.
“It's like the advice which the edi
In a surprisingly short time consider
ing the nature of the task. The cap- tor of the Cinnamlnsdn Scimitar gave
talig asked if he had carried out his to an unlucky wooer who had been Buddy Needed It Worse Than German.
Shaving off a week's growth of'
rejected by seven girls tn turn. The
Instructions.
beard
and capturing Germans at the
“3a wohl, Herr Hauptmann.’* said editor wrote:
" ‘Unlucky Wooer—Go ahead. Don’t same time would seem a difficult task
the corporal, "the Russians will never
be able to use that station again. You be discouraged. Never say die. You to most soldiers, but not so with one
See," pointing to a large sack on his must have learned a lot hy what you American doughboy who entered a
ba<;k, “I have carried away all the have gone through. Strikes us, you dugout just west of Thlaucourt and ,
must hold something like a record. found that he had walked into the '
tickets."—London Opinion.
Well, stick all your experience to temporary home of a German colonel
gether
and make love to the next girl whose retreat to the rear had been
A Cafe Placard In Egypt.
who
comes
round and takes your cut off by the barrage.
soldier who has spent many
The colonel was taking his dally
months on service In Egypt says that fancy. It she don't reciprocate try an shave. He was seated on a stool in
other.
Remember,
yon
only
want
one
•no of the strangest things he remem
front of a large mirror, his face cov
bers was a placard In a cafe chantant girl to say “Yes” and she’ll probably ered with lather.
last
your
life.
’
”
in an Egyptian town. It read:
“Now take that chair in the corner
“Every of the consummation of the
and let somebody shave who needs it,”
How It Would Help.
coldness, 1 piastre besides. Every of
the doughhoy commanded.
The "patriot” who talked a lot and
the claim to be address directly In the
did
very
little
was
holding
forth
as
direction. During of the repetitions the
Need for School« of Politeness.
price of consummations to be the same usual.
Many people laughed when they
“I’m thinking seriously of offering
that in every the other’s coffee."
my motorboat to the government,” he read that the London county council
T?he translation la:
was running a “school of politeness”
brayed.
“All Iced drinks, 1 piastre extra. All
“Do you mean the boat you had me for waiters. As a matter of fact, it
complaints to be made at the office.
would be an admirable thing If as
Notwithstanding the performance the out In last summer when the engine
soon as the war Is over, everybody
prices will be the same as those of stopped and we had to row ten miles
who Is still of teachable age were sent
beck.?” asked hie friend.
cither cafes.”—Liverpool Post.
for a term to a school of politeness.
“Yes, that’s the one.”
Few people can doubt that the
“Well, If you want to do your coun
Italy, U. 8. A.
standard of manners has fallen during
Did you ever hear of Italy? No, not try a service," said the friend earnest the war. (Coupon systems, food short
Italy In Europe, but Italy tn the state ly, “you should have given that boat
ages, overcrowded busses and trama,
of Texas? Scout Edward Hammer to the Germans.
and various other circumstances have
writes us from there, and from what
added to the irritations of life, to say
Portugal and Her Colonie«.
he says It must be some town. It has
The population of Portugal num nothing of the necessarily strained at
only 2.000 Inhabitants, yet within Its
mosphere in a nation at war.—London
limits there Is a cotton compress, an bers 5,057,985 and the area of the
Daily News.
Ice and water plnflt, a cotton-seed and country Is 35,41k) square miles. Her
oil mill, four gins and a grist mill. We dependencies are Cape Verde Islands,
Same Thing.
wonder If there Is any ehnnee for loaf Guinea, Principe and St. Thomas Is
"Didn’t you tell me your fiance was
ers in Italy? The town Is situated on lands. Angola Mozambique. Her pos
the banka of Houston’s creek, so named session In China is Macao and her an official in the food conservation
because General Sam Houston cnn.ped Indian possession Is Goa. The popu service?"
“Well, I am sure he wrote me he
there in his memorable retreat before lation of I he colonies Is 8,735,354. 14»-
was n member of the kitchen police.”
bon Is -the capital of Portugal.
Santa Anna.—Boys' Life.
All but six of the famous St. Ber
nard dogs kept by the monks of that
ancient monastery tn the Alps have
been killed. Shortage of meat caused
by the war led to this massacre.
The St. Bernard Dass Is of histori
cal renown. It connects the valleys of
the Rhone and the Dora Baltea. It
was traversed by Roman legions thou
sands of years ago. In medieval times
the pass served the armies of conquer
ors and tht* bands of mercenaries. Na
poleon crosset! the Alps at this point
In 1800.
The great monastery was built in
the middle of the sixteenth century. It
was maintained for the relief of trav
elers who were surprised by snow
storms while crossing the pass. The
8t. Bernard dogs were used to And the
frozen victims of the storms In the
snowdrifts. They were specially train
ed for this work of relief and carried
the first aid to the Injured In a little
basket attached to their collars. These
dogs rescued thousands of human be
ings, many of whom were of historical
prominence. And for the first time In
the history of this famous monastery
the dogs had to be slaughtered for want
of food. At other times a report of this
sort would create profound Interest in
Taris, but at present the human race |
Is thinking of its own necessities and
cares less about dog heroes living more
than 8,100 feet above the surface of
the sea.
Only Twelve Years Old, but He Haa
Wen Great Distinction as a
Brave Soldier.
T» a Breater Degree Than Perhap»
Any Other People They Love
Their Native Places.
Change of Heart That Cam» to IK»
Used Indiana Woman Remark.
able In Its Results.
On going to see the army of the
Grappa a writer for the Marzocco
met the smallest soldier In the Ital
ian army—a boy refugee of twelve. In
the telephone service. His uniform
beurs distinctive marks for wounds.
Besides he has been decorated. His
Dame is l’atrlarca. He wns born at
San Daniele of Friuli. Ills parents
died when he was very young ami he
worked in a carpenter’s shop.
After Caporetto he left ills native
country, and from thut day the war
began for him. In the retreat he Join
ed a detachment of ardltt, and with
them performed prodigies of valor.
On Monte Tomba, In November, when
tlie German hordes pressed on from
the Quero to overcome the defenses
of Mount Grappa and of the Plave at
one stroke, he went out in a squad
with several ardltl. He carried three
hand grenades, larger than his little
hands, but the ardltl had taught him
to throw them like stone« at the swal
lows.
He arrived at the lines and pushed
on to a point well within the enemy
lines till he reached a group of Ger
mans, comprising a Prussian officer
and three soldiers with machine guns.
A grenade shot out from his hund,
and It was well aimed. The officer
was crushed to eurth. The frighten
ed soldiers raised their hands. The
boy threatened them, gesticulating
with the other bombs.
He drove the three big soldiers be
fore him like sheep, dragging their
machine gun. This story, which reads
like a fable, is only a single pnge in
the marvelous military history ot Mas
ter I’atlarca.—Italian-American News
Bureau.
In counting the sorrows that have
fallen upon France one must remember
that her people, for the most part,
have nd wandering instinct tn their
-blood; various causes, temperamental,
economic, have made of them a race
that roots stubbornly. A race that
plans forward, that builds and saves
and stints; that has little careless
trust tn the future, in the haphazard
turn of events; that holds to what
it has and Improves It unadventurou»-
ly but steadily; a race, In the prov
inces especially, of small owner», small
landholders, small shopkeepers. With
such the roots are driven deep into the
soli, are entwined about the house they
seldom move from; for which reason
the towns tn which they and their
fathers have dwelt have a lasting Indi
viduality unknown with more emigrant
races. And for the same reason, I
make no doubt that when they are
driven forth by the chances of war
their suffering Is greater than that of
a people as instinctively emigrant as
ourselves. To the Frenchman, homo
is In very truth sn abiding place, and
the unknown and unsettled future a
greater dread than with us. Always I
shall remember the dulled, tight-lipped
faces of the older women of the town;
of one, In particular, who stared
through the splintered windows of the
little shop that was her home, not
seeming to hear while I stumbled
out my sympathy, resentful and si
lent In her hopelessness. The little
shop and the rooms behind it had been
life and the world to herself nnd her
husband for years. . . . None of them
was emotional outwardly; but their
mouths and their eyes were despair
ing.—Cicely Hamilton in the North
American Review.
Just outside of one of our Indiana
towns is a huuse which for twenty
years has been pointed out to all pass
ersby as a place of curiosity. The
woman who lives in it was jilted by
h«ar betrothed more than twenty yearn
ago. Angry at all men, she had this
house built several rods from the road
and there, with a maid, estab
lished her home. No man was ever
permitted to enter that domain. The
woman never left the yard becauM
she was determined never again to
look on any man, since they were all
"alike and unfaithful to any one or
anything," as she said.
But still she read the newspaper«.
They were her only way of communi
cating with the world.
A few weeks ago people were sur
prised by seeing this woman come to
Its main street. They wondered and
wondered until the woman herself told
of the attraction which had brought
her from her seclusion. She had come
to see the soldier lads leave. The
newspapers had told her stories of a
new race of men—young men who
above all other qualities, were true to
their country—true enough to die for
it.
She saw them leave. And then she
went to the Red Cross headquarter«
nnd got yarn to knit socks to send to
them. Now she Is helping keep the
booths in which Thrift stamps and
Liberty bonds are being sold.—Indian
apolis News.
QUIET AND PATIENT PEOPLE SAMPLE OF RED CROSS WORK
Capt. Giuseppe Bevlone, now In the
United States, has written n friend In
Rome as follows:
“America shows the friendliest dis
position toward Italy at present. Th»
change. If there wns a change, hak
been due to the astonishing Plave vic
tory. What I want to tell you, In or
der that you may repeat It to all out'
friends, is that America has thrown
herself In the war and Is lighting for
a full and complete victory with afi?
her Immeasurable forces and with ■
power of will which Is almost re
ligious.
“It is an apostleship of faith which
has occurred, as If by the appearanc»
of a new Messiah. But I swear to yott
that ycur faith will not be betrayed.
We do not realize the extent of this
world of limitless resources, Inhabited
and worked by a new, fresh people,
free and well disciplined, proud an#
resolved to make a sublime history.
We have only a vague, unclear andt
Inadequate idea of what lies beyond th»
seas.
“It Is necessary to come here; It Is
necessary to tread this generous soli,
which holds so msny treasures, with
our own feet. It Is necessary to
breathe this feverish air, to understand
and to believe that through th» final,
painful sacrificea, the reign of justice
Is biding Its time, to avert Its su
premacy In the world.”—Italian Amer
ican News Bureau.
-iwit*T*1
American Official in Russia Pays Trib Wounded English Soldier’s Mother
ute to the Good Manners of the
Made Glad by News of Son in
Street Crowds.
American Hospital.
In spite of the excesses that have
marked the ascendancy of the bolshe-
vlkl in Russia, the typical Russian is
a patient, kindly and orderly sort of
person. Mr. Greiner, who visited Rus
sia as a member of the American rail
way commission, tells the renders ot
Russia that he found Russians better
behaved in public than Americans
often are.
The trolley cars, he says, were al
ways jammed with people, mostly by
soldiers who did not pay fare. In
America, in such circumstances, we
find that ns soon as a car stops the
rule Is usually each man fur himself
and the devil take the hindmost. It
was therefore a surprise to us to ob
serve that In Petrograd the people
would of their own volition form a
line and take their turn In getting on
the car. We law the tame character
istic everywhere. Although there were
no traffic officers on the streets, ve
hicles of all kinds In the most crowd
ed thoroughfares worked their way
through without undue disturbance or
Interference with each other..
All Ruselans smoke elaarettea, and
the supply Is short. When a dealer
gets in a new stock he puts up a sign
to that effect; but the people do not
crowd into the store in the way that
American storekeepers like to see, but
form a long line on the street, each
person taking his turn In getting
Cigarettes, and ail without any confu
sion or apparent regulation. They fol
lowed the same procedure In getting
food, especially bread and milk; we
saw lines of people standing all night
long in order to get an early supply In
the morning
They talked to each
other cheerfully and constantly nnd ap
peared to be enjoying the occasion.—
Youth’s Companion.
New Alloy of Great Value.
On account of the high temperature
required for suitably hardening fine-
edged tools of tungsten hfgh-Rpeed
steel, Sheffield tool-makers have sought
a substitute muterial. A new alloy pro
duced by adding cobalt to chromium
carbon steel is reported to be best
hardened by a temperature not ex
ceeding 1,200 C. For most purposes
the hardening needed Is obtained
when the tool Is cooled naturally
in draft-free air. In a comparative
test saws of “cobalt crom,” as the
new steel is called, continued cutting
four days without regrlndlng, while
saws of tungsten high-speed steel were
dulled tn two days and those of car
bon-steel in half a day.
He sat n little apart from the other
men who crowded the receiving sta
tion for American Base Hospitals Nos.
23 and 20. There was a cigarette In
his mouth nnd a peaceful s-nlle on Ills
face tliat brought the American Red
Cross searchers to his side with a
query.
“You look as if you’re glad to be
here; are you really?” she asked. The
wounded man grinned Jeyously.
“You're Jolly well right, miss. I've
only just come from back of the Ger
man lines. This Is heaven."
Ills uume was G. Tully, and he be
longed to the British Royal Field ar
tillery. Three months previously he
had been taken prisoner by the Ger
mans and had been held just back of
the lines to work on the railroads and
ammunition trains.
When the Americana started their
offensive near Flame«, he and two
other comrades made a dash for the
American lines. The Tommies with
him fell, mortally wounded by ouiiets
that were meant for Boche«. Tully
eeeaped with only a slight wound In
the wrist and was sent back to the
baae with • trainload of American
wounded.
The Red Cross searcher at once sent
word to the wounded man’s mother. In
England, that he was safe In an Amer
ican hoepttal, and a short time aft
erward thia acknowledgment camo
back from the British Red Cross:
“We have today forwarded your kind
Information re Gunner G. Tully
to hie mother, who had Inquired about
him of ua for three months without
success. We cannot say how grate
ful we ere to you for having taken
so much trouble in his case and for be
ing of such material assistance to
our inquiry.”—From a Red Oross
Scrapbook.
Where a Motion Was Just as Good.
In the woods just west of Thlau-
court a lieutenant In the sanitary
corps went out to test the water In a
near-by spring. While he was on this
job he looked up just In time tt> see
two Boches advancing.
Although
armed with nothing deadlier than a
first-aid pouch, he made a motion
toward his right hip. Immediately
both Boches, catching the motion,
lifted their hands in surrender.
Other Bodies boob enme forward
from the woods, and each, coming sud
denly upon the officer still making
threatening motions toward his pistol
less hip, surrendered In turn.
By the time a sergeant and five
Yankee privates came along the lieu
Berman War Gardens.
tenant had a bag of 19 German prison-
In the German army, as in the Amer era to turn oveF to them.—Stars and
ican, garden patches supplemented the Stripes.
food ration. German military gardens
In the reclaimed salient, however,
Hew Germans Obtained Fat.
were so numerous and of such size
No method of obtaining fata haa
that the Impression the Americans got
was that the German soldiers In this been neglected In Germany. A Char
sector depended largely for food upon lottenburg chemist has patented a
what they themselves produced and process of obtaining fat from growths
upon what was grown by the French of microscopic animal forms which are
natives forced to work in the fields cultivated on rxltublo waate materials,
such aa decaying mushrooms nnd non
for three sous an hour.
edible
fungi, putrefying meat, gutter
Our captures Include several thou
sand acres of gardens, and, although refuse and stale yeast. On trltutrnt-
it Is rather late In the season, the pick Ing the cultures with water nnd heat
ings will he far from poor for many ing, the fat may be skimmed off, or It
resourceful mess sergeants. — Stars may be sepa- ited by a solvent.
and Stripes.
Horseback Wrestling.
A new sport which became very
Personal Reasons.
The Liberty bond squad had some popular among the soldiers In n Cana
Interesting experiences. "I am not dian training camp is horseback wrest
subscrblng for this $50 Liberty bond ling, says Popular Mechanics Magazine
to please you,” explained a woman, as In an Illustrated article. Two teams
doleful as sbe is wealthy. "I am do of ten men are mounted bareback at
opposite sides of the field. At a given
ing It to please my own self.”
"Make It $100,” said the young so signal they charge toward each other,
licitor, “nnd give yourself one roarlug. the object of each team being to dis
mount all of Its opponents.
rousing good time.”
HIGH TRIBUTE TO AMERICA
Visiting Italian Recognizee Disinterest
edness and High Ideals of the
People of Our Country.
Rubber In Fiji Island*.
According to a published statement
of his majesty’s trade commissioner
to New Zealand, who has lately visited
the FIJI Islands, the rubber Industry
Is receiving much attention In those
Islands, and New Zealand farmers
have planted large plantations there
that have produced quantities of rub
ber reported to be of very high grade.
It is claimed that there are thousands
of acres In the FIJI Islands that are
well adapted to this Industry, end It
Is expected that extensive develop
ments will follow. The price of rub
ber at present seems very low, sine«
the market Is so greatly restricted be
cause of the war. but It is expected
when normal conditions are restore*
thnt this will be come a profitable In
dustry in these Islands, where labor Is
comparatively cheup.
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Luckily, He Wasn’t Fired Upon.
There was one Yankee private In
Thlaucourt who took a chance, but
he couldn’t resist the temptation.
When his mates first saw him they
were uncertain whether he was th»
kaiser or the crown prince as they
rushed forward to make the capture.
For he was riding a German officer's
*1$ Jr-il 011 a Q*rmsn officer's
helmet, "andon Xis chest was pinned
the iron cross, al! left by German offi
cers In their rush to safety. The Yanh
squad, bent upon making an Impor
tant capture, were a trifle disgusted t«
find that It was only Private Jones of
ths Infantry.
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Little Pickup for Edison.
Thotnna A. Edison made $3 when he
motored In from his Orange (N. J.)
heme to New York to appear as a wlt-
nes in a $250,000 commissions suit
brought by Archibald M. Ostrom of
Brooklyn In connection with British
contracts placed with Mr. Edison
through J. P. Morgan & Co., agents for
the British government. As he was
leaving court the Inventor was handed
a subpoena and $3 mileage.
“Thanks, young man," said the elec
trical wizard, stuffing the money Into
a pocket. “Any time you have any
more money for me Just wire me where
to come to get it."
Powerless Wealth.
“There are some things wealth can
not buy.”
“That’s right,” answered the man
who Ilves In a hotel. ”An extra lump
of sugar In your coffee, for lnstanc»,"