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SAGE OF JAPAN
SAYS GERMANY
Will GAIN
PREDICTS TEUTON EMPIRE
WILL BECOME POLITICAL
LABORATORY
' «
TOKIO, Jan. 4. — Viscount
Uchida, Japan’s foreign minister,
recently declared that the United
States, after offering the world
every proof of their absolute Im
partiality and fairness, completely
startled it by the astonishing feats
of arms and of civil efficiency
which American troops and organ
izers have displayed.
The viscount was speaking at a
banquet held here to celebrate the
capitulation of Germany. The
function was arranged by the al
lied societies of Tokio and was
one of the most impressive ever
held here. Nearly all the leading
statesmen of Japan were present
as well as a large number of for
eigners, including Americans with
the American ambassador, Roland
S. Morris.
The speaker expressed the opin
ion that Germany may become a
political laboratory and the scene
of fruitful experiments in political
science, which, he added, is one
of the deciderata of our time. He
believed that the genius of Ger
many was not suited to centraliza
tion and military empire, but rath
er for ^variety and dispersion and
that Germany was “most herself
when she was most divided.’’
NEW MATERIAL FOR
CONCENTRATION USE
It has always been impossible tu
obtain a satisfactory covering for
concentration tables used in the
treatment of mineral ores. In lieu
of a better material, linoleum has
been largely used for the purpose,
but the abrasive action of the
ores and, in the case of ine waters
containing sulphuric acid, the cor
rosive action of the acid destroys
the linseed oil content of linoleum
, and necessitates its frequent re
placement. •
Minefab is the name of a new
material which has been specially
developed to meet the require
ments demanded of a concentration
table covering, and a recent service
testing program, carried on simul
taneously in a number of different
mining districts, has proved con
clusively that all objectives have
been attained. Minefab will give
longer and more efficient service
than any other material.
Minefab is made with a heavy
fabric base, coated on both sides
with an extremely tough, flexible,
protective film of pyroxylin which
ruggedly resists abrasion and is
highly immune to sulphuric acid
corrosion. The coldest weather
does not affect its flexibility and
it is absolutely waterproof. Being
white in color, the contrast be
tween it and the ore increases the
opportunity of recovering a maxi
mum of the metalic content from
the sludge.
Minefab fills a long-ftelt want in
the mining field and is destined
to have the widest use, not only on
account of the advantages above
recited, but also because of its low
replacement cost based on length
of efficiency and service.
IEVER AGAIN II
HOHERZOLLERN
BERNSTORFF SAYS FAMILY
WILL NEVER AGAIN RULE
GERMANY
LONDON, Jan. 7. — Von Bern
storff, former German ambassador
to the United States, in an Inter
view at Berlin with the Express
correspondent, said it was unthink
able that Wilhelm or any member
of his family would ever again
rule Germany. Asked if there
was no danger in Hohenzollern
being so near, in Holland, the
count replied: “Where in hell
were we to send him?”
CANADIAN CASUALTIES
THREE-FIFTHS ENLISTMENT
OTTAWA, Jan. 4. — Canadian
casualties total 320,182, with 60,
383 dead. This is more than three
out of five of those recruited in
Canada.
FOR THE FUND
By ALICE ROBERTS.
(Copyright, 1918, by McClure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
Helen's cheeks were very rosy and
she looked very happy as she came up
the steps of the little veranda. She
gave her aunt the small package of
mail without saying a word, and quiet* |
ly sat on one of the stiff-backed chairs.
She had Just returned from the post
office.
There was silence for a moment as
Miss Leonora read the first of the let
ters In her methodical way. Then she
sniffed a little primly, as they do in
New England towns.
"Land sakes,” she said, "here’s a let* >
ter from that young Adams feller from 1
Boston who used to spend his vaca- j
tlons with the Bakers before they
moved away, an’ he wants to know If
I could give him room an’ board for
two weeks. . . . He’s goin’ to have
his vacation soon. . . Well, I de
clare. . . . Just think of him goin’
an’ Imaginin’ that I was goin’ to take I
in any boarders. He ought to know
better’n that.”
Her niece smiled a little and for i
some reason she put her hand confl- ;
dently in her pocket. She seemed not
a bit surprised, but on the contrary,
rather bored.
“Why, the Idea. He ought to know
that you were not of the kind that |
would take In boarders.” She stopped. '
“But, aunt," she went on, as though a f
thought had suddenly come to her, “if i
you were to let him come here, the i
money he would pay you would be j
such a help to the Red Cross fund. Ton '
could donate it, you know.”
That was prim Miss Leonora’s vital
spot. She was always alert to do her j
bit for the cause. This seemed an easy :
way to earn something for the fund. !
She thought for a moment.
“Well, that’s so. I think Til tell him |
that he can come. But now If he
comes, Helen, you must be very care
ful how you act and what you say.
You know how the neighbors will
talk—how they talked last sum
mer when you an’ him went for a
walk. Lan’ sakes, we don’t want any
of the Knlttin’ club talkin’ about us
behind our bocks.”
“Very well, aunt," and straightway
she lapsed into silence.
Time passes slowly in those little
sleepy towns among the mountains.
The Monday came at last, however,
when “the Adams feller” was to ar
rive. Miss Leonora was surprised, and
the Knitting club, In session that
afternoon, was astounded, when he
drove up to the homely little cottage
In the glory of a great, sleek, power
ful roadster.
“Hulloa, In there,” was the cheery
greeting which brought Miss Leonora
—and soon after Helen—to the door.
“Awfully good of you folks to let me
come.”
Prim Miss Leonora received him In
her prim way. Helen’s welcome was,
if anything, even more prim than that
of her aunt. But Miss Leonota was
aoon ln rnntures over theJbeauty .Qf
the car. She did nof see the twinkle
newly come in Helen’s eyes, nor the
bloom which had come on Helen’s
cheeks.
"My goodness, what a lovely auto
mobile,” she said.
The “Adams feller” smiled at her,
not seeming to see Helen at all.
"Just let me throw this bag out of
the way. Miss Leonora, and let me
take you for a little spin. You’ll see
that it runs Just as nice as it looks;
that Is, of course, if you’d like me
to.”
Miss Leonora had already gone in
for her newest hat.
“Now, you see,” he went on, “the
car only holds two, that we can’t take
Hel—pr—your niece, along with us.
I’ll take her for a little ride when we ■
come back—er if I may.”
“Land, yes. It will do her good.”
The Wayfleld Knitting club rose in
a body, aghast, as they saw Miss Leo
nora driving through the town in the
“Adams feller’s” car. But when, not
long after, they saw the same car dart
past, ever so much faster, with Helen
sitting by the side of the “Adams fel
ler,” they laid down their work for
the afternoon and gave themselves up
to speculation on the meaning of the
event
“What a beautiful day It Is,” fi de
mure maiden was saying, when with
the town several miles In the back
ground the car slowed down so as to
make conversation possible.
“Is that all you have to say to me,
Helen?" Impatiently. “Didn’t you get
my letter?”
“Why, yes," quietly answered the de
mure little maiden. She seemed quite
Indifferent.
“Helen, you ve kept me waiting a
whole year. And this afternoon has
been Insufferable. Think, a whole year
without seeing you. You don’t real
ize how I wanted you. You can’t. Oh,
Helen, dear, I want you so much.”
“And you think that we’ve known 1
each other long enough?"
“Oh, I cannot get along without you. j
I—*’
“Well, then, I don’t see but that;
you’ll have to take me, Frank.”
The sun was setting as they drove
back very slowly to the little town.
The Knitting club was waiting wearily
to see If they were to return at all.
Many were their sighs and exclama
tions when the roadster passed by. A
few minutes later the “Adams feller”
was explaining to Miss Leonora some
thing about the engine stopping in
the woods and about the length of
time it took before be could start It
again.
SILVER COUNTRY
SHORT ON COIN
MEXICO FINDS WHITE METAL
HAS DISAPPEARED FROM
CIRCULATION
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 4. — In
finite annoyance to every resident
and an appreciable loss to business
houses has resulted from the vir
tual disappearance from circula
tion of silver coins. These com
prise half peso pieces and those of
20 and 10 centavos. The constant
ly increasing price of silver has
given speculators a chance to
make enormous profits by corner
ing the silper coins for sale as
bullion. When the shortage be
came noticeable, the capital press
printed stories on the disappear
ance of the coins. An immediate
rush to hoard what coins remain
ed then began.
Persons without change are un
able to make small purchases, as
many merchants will decline to
sell if they are forced to give sil
ver change for a 10 or 20 peso
gold piece. The government, to
relieve the situation, is rushing
preparations to mint a new gold
coin worth two and one-half pesos.
yOUNGMMMVEN
EDUCATION FOR
LOSS OF HIND
LESTER HALL TO RECEIVE
FIVE-YEAR COURSE AND
$0000
The Tonopah Times of today
has the following report of the
settlement proposed by the Tono
pah & Goldfield railroad company
with Lester Hall, the young man
who was knocked off an ore car
at the Mizpah mine last October.
“Lester Hall, well known to To
nopahns by reason of having been
in the messenger service of the
Western Union Telegraph company
for a long period, and who had the
misfortune, on Oct. 28, to lose his
right hand two inches above the
wrist, as well as suffer the loss
of two fingers and the thumb of
the left hand, while in the employ
of the Tonopah & Goldfield Rail
road company, will be looked after
by the company with which he was
employed.
“M. B. Cutter of Philadelpha,
president of the Tonopah & Gold
field Railroad company, and W.
D. Forster, general superntend
ent, called upon the young man on
New Year’s day at the home of
his mother, Mrs. Lena Hall, on
Florence avenue, and made the fol
lowing proposition, according to
young Hall in a statement made
to the Times laBt night:
“The railroad company will pay
for five years’ schooling at any
school the young man may select;
pay him $65 a month for a period
of one year; pay all hospital and
doctors’ fees, purchase him an ar
tificial limb and allow him in
cash the sum of $9000.
“Young Hall 1b only 18 years of
age, and under the laws of this
state it will be necessary to have
a guardian appointed to look
after the $9000. The mother will
no doubt be appointed to look
after the boy’s interests.
“The accident which resulted so
disastrously to Lester Hall oc
curred when he was knocked off
an ore car by being struck by a
coal bin near the Mizpah mine.
From Oct. 28 until a few days ago
he was confined to the Mine Op
erators’ hospital, when he was dis
charged as cured and permitted to
return to the home of his mother.
That he escaped with his life was
considered miraculous. ’’
J. W. PIERCE IN
PROVIDENCE, R. I.
J. O. Walther, cashier of John
S. Cook & Co., received this morn
ing a New Years card from J. W.
Pierce, familiarly known in Gold
field as Joe. Pierce was in charge
of a hotel in San Jose, California,
when he was called east ^by the
sudden illness and death of his
father about two years ago. He
is now and has been for some time
connected with the Brown & Sharp
Manufacturing company at Provi
dence, R. I. The card contained on
the reverse side a picture of the
manufacturing plant, which covers
more than 20 acres.
THK CORPS MEN
WIU ORGANIZE
NATIONAL. FRATERNITY OF
“TANK OATS” TO BE
FORMED
CHARLOTTE, N. C.. Jan. 4. —
The “Tank Cats,” an organization
ot Chicago tank corps men, was
formally launched at a meeting
held recently at Camp Greene near
this city. The movement to or*
ganize members of the tank corps
into a permanent body is expected
to spread over the whole country,
as almost every large city is rep
resented in its personnel. Qualifi
cation for membership is based
on service in the tank1 corps dur
ing time of war.
The purpose of the organization
is to promote and maintain pub
lic interest in the tanks as an arm
of the service and to form a bond
between its members by means
of social and fraternal activities.
Similar meetings have been call
ed of men representing the cities
of New York, Philadelphia, Bos
ton, San Francisco and others.
When all these separate chapters
have been perfected it is planned
to call a general meeting of del
egates from each for the purpose
of forming a national organization.
Miilim
FOOD SHIPMENTS
EASTERN TERMINALS CONGEST
ED BY STRIKE AND OTH
ER CAUSES
NEW YORK, Jan. 3. — The
food administration has placed an
embargo on the shipment of all
classes of freight, particularly food
stuffs, for American troops abroad
and Europe’s starving populations,
intended for export through the
ports of New York, Boston and
Philadelphia. It is Impossible to
handle or provide cargo space for
the accumulated supplies, due to
the freight handlers’ strike, the
fact that many ships are being
drydocked and the holiday shrink
age in the labor supply.
statuTofboard
TO BE DECIDED
BY COURT
,The entire contention regarding
the legality of the new board of
county commissioners and of the
bills passed by the old board at
the meeting on Monday again came
up this afternoon and at 3:30 the
board adjourned, after deciding
to take the matter before the dis
trict court for decision.
The matter was brought to a
head when Mrs. Rose Malone ap
peared before the board and asked
that her position regarding the
drawing of county warrants for
the payment of bills be made clear.
After the various points had
been discussed at length, County
Clerk Roberson said: “We are
getting nowhere. The court is
the right place to settle this.”
Commissioner Rochford replied:
“Very well, let us take it there.”
It is understood the district at
torney will prepare some action,
probably mandamus proceedings
of a friendly nature, and that the
matter will go before f the court
within the next few days.
A number of mothers’ pensions
were before the board this after
noon, with the result that one was
cut from $25 to $15, one from $40
to $20, and three, totaling $45,
were cut off entirely.
MONTEZUMA LODGE
INSTALLS OFFICERS
The annual installation of offi
cera of Montezuma lodge No. 30,
F. & A. M., was held Monday
night. The following officers
were installed: H. W. Newton,
master; Joe Jonasen, senior war
den; E. McC. Moore, junior warden;
J. O. Walthers, treasurer; D. S.
Ward, secretary; Geo. Yount, sen
ior deacon; W. H. Bourquin, jun
ior deacon; Charles Buzzard, sen
ior steward; K. L. Scoones, jun
ior steward; Dave Aspland, mar
shal; R. T. Armstrong, chaplain;
Alex Drennen, tyler. Following
the installation ceremonies a ban
quet was served.
SOLDIER THE 7TH
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS.
(Copyright, 1918, by McClure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
Lucinda purled tbe last row on her
seventh sleeveless sweater.
Six of the boys she had grown up
with already had their warm khaki
sweaters ‘‘somewhere in France,” and
this seventh on* she would send to
John Watson.
When It was finished, Lucinda put
a suggestion of sachet In the woolly
folds. It would remind John of fem
ininity. She felt sure be would like
that familiar scent Also she tucked
In some chocolate and many packages
of his favorite cigarettes.
Her letter was long and gossipy.
Lucinda tried, in all her letters to the
soldier hoys, to give them a touch of
home; a feeling that they were still
near and dear to her and a part of the
dally life at home.
It seemed an unusually long time
before she beard from France. She
supposed John’s regiment bad gone
Into action. Perhaps that was the de
lay.
But when word came from the
sweater It was In another handwriting
than thut of John Watson.
Lucinda’s fair head dropped for
ward and she shook with terrific sobs.
John was the first of her seven brave I
fighting friends to fall In battle.
When her tears permitted her to
continue the letter she found the con
tents peculiarly touching.
He, the soldier who had written it,
was John’s closest pal. They had stood
side by side In the trenches.
“—and I wish the shell had taken
me rather than John," the letter rnn.
“He had much to live for, while I’m
one of the lonely soldiers you read
about. John has spoken of you to
me and I know you’re the kind of girl
that would want me to take the sweat
er you made for John. I need tt
badly and know he would want me to
have It. The package came just after
John fell. I read the letter and
sbnred the cigarettes ami chocolate
with the rest of the boys. If you
have a moment for a lonely soldier
pleuse write me as you would have
John."
She wrote back a long letter and
sent more cigarettes and chocolate as
well as wristlets and a helmet. She
made minute inquiry at to any spe
cial requirements he bad and thanked
him for the plots he had sent.
While letters and messages were
crossing the wide oeean Lucinda wrote
a story' that brought her In tbe biggest
cheek she had received from any
magazine. The vivid bits of life that
David McLeod, the seventh soldier,
had sent her had added a strong touch
of reality to her work.
She Wrote him of the success of the
story and told him that she was put
ting half the check in a little bunk.
“When you come over to Aroerlcu
after the war,” she wrote, “we will
spend all your half of the check mak
ing you forget the tragedy of war. I
am spending mine all on soldiers—do
ing Just the little things that I can.”
Lucinda and David continued their
strange correspondence and found
much pleasure In it. Her stories im
proved. wonderfully and. the. small
6anfc*Tor the returning soldier became
bulgy with checks.
But the day came when Lucinda
waited In vain for an answer to her
letters.
After long days of depression, when
she had quite given up hope that
David was one of tbe living heroes, she
lind a letter from a hospital in France.
“They almost got me,” he wrote,
“but I’in pulling through like a team
of American mules. Guess It takes
more than a bunch of Boches to kill
this globe trotter. I’m coming over
to your country when my wounds are
sufficiently healed to let me travel.”
Lucinda put down her head again
and cried. The tears were happy and
might have sent tiny flowers spring
ing up had they fallen on earthly gar
dens.
Her stories were decidedly happier
now—the endings more complete. In
the little bank a considerable sum
awaited David. Lucinda realized that
it would take a lot of going to spend!
all that on making David forget.
He had told her to look for u one
legged man when It came near time
for his arrival, and when he stood out
side her studio door Luclndu gasped
with Joy at his neurness. Duvld had
told her the exact date. His crutches
for the second tore at her heurt,.for it
meant that he had suffered and suf
fered dreadfully.
“Here, here,” he said brusquely,
wanting to hide his emotions. “I’m a
soldier with a grand medal—not a
baby doll.” This war when Lucinda
fluttered about doing the thousand and
one things an ultra-feminine woman
must do for a soldier who has fought.
She blushed hotly but continued, for
in David’s eyes she read the hunger
for mothering and home. She felt in
stinctively that her seventh soldier
needed her more than any of the oth
ers. In fact, Lucinda felt many things
—among them that her own need of
David was going to be great. She had
written of so many fine men, but David
embodied the finest of them all. She
hoped desperately that he would fall
in love with her.
“We'll write plays together and nov
els and do all sorts of big things,” he
said, voicing her very thoughts. “And
some day, when yon’ve used up all
the plots we will globe-trot—for more.
You see,” he added tenderly, “a lonely
soldier gets a great chance when a
knitted sweater arrives.”
“FLU” EPIDEMIC
IN IONOPAH
SCHOOLS REOPENED — ONLY
FOUR NEW CASES
REPORT E3>
The “flu” epidemic at Tonopah
j has abated and the schools will re*
' open there on Monday, according
I to the Times of this morning.
At a meeting of those interested
held yesterday afternoon at 1:30
o’clock in the office of Dr. C. J.
Richards, county health officer,
and which was attended by County
Commissioner Thomas Lindsay, R.
B. Davis and W. J. Douglass,
School Trustees Thomas J. Lynch
and Fred Ninnis, Dr. Richards and
Professor George L. Dilworth, it
was decided that the schools
should reopen on Monday morning.
Rules and regulations were dis
cussed which will properly con
serve the' health of those attend
ing school and it is believed that
by adhering strictly to the rales
laid down, all danger of contagion
will be eliminated.
Professor Dilworth, on behalf of
the teachers of the schools, sub
mitted a proposition that met with
instant favor. The idea is to di
vide the pupils of each room into
groups of not more than seven
mid that each group be notified at
what hour to appear. Masks will
bt worn'by both teachers ind pu
pils.
The teachers have willingly vtl
lir.teered to tender their services
for one-half day each Saturday for
the balance of the school year,
while they have also agreed to
teach one week longer than would
have occurred had not the epidem
ic of influenza visited this city.
In this way they hope to make up
a goodly portion of the lost time
occasioned by the closing of the
schools on Oct. 28.
Four new cases were reported in
Tonopah yesterday. The disease
seems to be in a milder form than
in the first attack.
LIEUT. P. I SOMERS
WITH S.O.S. SERVICE
In a letter to the Goldfield coun
cil, Knights of Columbus, of which
he is a member, Lieutenant Peter
J. Somers, with the American forc
es in Prance, states that he also
landed at Brest, although of course
when he first set foot on French
soil over seven months ago he was
not accorded a reception anything
similar to that with which the
French people greeted the presi
dent.
He says in a letter dated Dec.
12: ‘*As for my part in the ^ar,
I have been entirely in the S. O.
S., or service of supplies. I land
ed over here May 10 on the steam
er Great Northern, which used to
be in the Pacific. We landed at
Brest, the same port at which
President Wilson is expected to
land tomorrow morning. It is
some place, too, but I guess the
president will not have to stay in
the same barn we did, the one in
which Napoleon used to keep his
best horses. Pontagenon barracks
is a rest camp, if you can rest
sleeping on a board.”
Lieutenant Somers, after one
week at Brest, entrained, and of
the train he says: “No matter
when you get on one, or where
you are going, you always ride
right over a flat wheel. This Is
the truth.”
The Goldfield soldier finally
was stationed at the famous Canjp
St. Sulpice, about 14 miles from
Bordeaux, when there were only
17 warehouses in the camp, but
“today we have over 144, with
over 90 miles of railroad track.
This is a wonderful place and
gives a fine idea of what the
Americans have done over here.
It is truly marvelous.
“Every day for the past five
months we have sent up 400,000
rations, each ration being the al
lowance for one man for one day.
We have also supplied enormous
quantities of clothing and miscel
laneous army supplies, including
over 90,000,000 pounds of oats
and over 55,000,000 pounds of hay
for forage. So you can see we
have not been idle.”
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