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FIRST USE OF GAS IN WAR
In Crude Form That Weapon Waa
Employed Centuries Before the
l '■ . Coming of Christ.
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The earliest use of deleterious gases
In siege warfare Is recorded In the his
tory of the Peloponnesian wars from
431 404 B. C. During this struggle
between the Athenians and Spartans
and their respective allies the cities of
Palatea and Dellum were besieged.
Wood saturated with pitch and sul
phur was set on lire and burned under*
the walls of these cities In order ttt
generate choking and poisonous fumes,
which would stupefy the defenders
and make the task of attacking forces
less difficult. Another form of th«|
same method of attack used about this
date was to (111 a caldron with inolteq
pitch, sulphur nnd burning charcoal,
and to blow the fumes with the aid of
a primitive form of bellows and nlr
blnst over the defenders’ lines.
1 Greek-flre, about which much was
heard In the wars of the middle ages,
was a liquid, the composition of which
ts now unknown, that was spurted
through the air, chiefly in sea fights,
In order to set fire to the ships of the
enemy, and It was used by the Byzan
tine Greeks at the sieges of Constan
tinople In the years 1261 and 1412.
INSECT POWDER GROWN HERE j
Americana Lost Nc Time In Devel
oping Industry Once the Secret
Was Discovered.
In onr grandfathers’ day the so
called Persian insect powder (com
monly sold nowadays under the name
of “pyrethram”) cost $16 a pound.
Pretty dear for a bug-killer.
The stuff was a mystery. Beyond
the fact that it was of a vegetable na
ture, nobody knew what It was.
As a matter of fact, It came from
Transcaucasia, where its production
•was a very important Industry. For
centuries it had been widely used in
Asiatic countries, and the source of
the material was a secret carefully
kept.
f Eventually the secret was revealed
by an Armenian merchant, who, trav
eling through Transcaucasia, discov
ered that the Insect powder was sim
ply the ground-up flower-heads of a
plant nearly related to our own field
•daisy.
Later on, attempts were made to In
troduce the plant In the United States,
but the seeds refused to sprout. This
(ms finally ascertained) wns due to the
circumstance that the persons from
whom they were bought had baked
them.
At the present time we grow all oui
own Insect powder In California.
Onion Taken Off Pedestal.
Another old-fashioned medical su
perstition has been exploded. The
odorous onion can never again be
used as a therapeutic agent In tu
berculosis. Old timers who have
■worn by the virtues of this tear
proilucing product have humbugged
themselves, for the onion has been
investigated, classified, analyzed
and everything else hus been done
to It that the learned men of sci
ence could think of, and In the end
It was found to he only an onion—
pleasing to the palates of some,
however displeasing to the noses of
their friends, but absolutely and
unqualifiedly without any medicinal
qualities or proprieties that maks
it an aid In the treatment of tuber
culosis. The white plague victims
may as well use boiled potato peel
ings or beet tops for all the good
it will do them.
Flower Friend*.
Flowers cost so little and they
mean so much. We need not go to
fash' able florists for our messengers.
One rose bought from a tray on the
street mny mean more than the hand
somest design on Fifth avenue. It Is
these little things, these beautiful per
sonal expressions, that make our flow
ers worth while. But they must have
n message or they cannot deliver it.
Remember that.—New York Telegram.
Destructive Grasshoppers.
Nowendoc. N. S. W., is periodically
plagued with grnsshoppers, and dur
ing their visits the local hen eggs can
not be eaten. Yolk and white are
blood-red. a result of the ftrwls swal
lowing the Insects.
Origin of "Lawyer."
The word lawyer is said by authori
ties to be a modification of the old
English “lnw-wer,” literally "law
man,” the second portion of the word
being a corruption of the Lntin "vir,"
man.
! NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTAN1
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happening* That Are Making Hlator)
—Information Gathered from All
Quarter* of the Globe and
Given in a Few Line*.
INTERM O'JNTAIN.
A strict quarantine lias been estab
lished at Camp Lewis, Wash., which
l'orbids soldiers, including officers, en
listed men and civilian employes, from
leaving the military reservation and
prohibiting civilians from entering.
Reports compiled October 18 by the
city board of health showed 1279 cnses
of influenza had developed in Salt
Lake since the outbreak of the disease
about two weeks previous.
Utah has been credited officially
with being the first state to complete
classification of 90 per cent of Sep
tember 12 registrants, forward records
to district boards and conduct physical
examination of at least 90 per cent of
Class 1 men in the last registration.
Arthur Morse Moon, Salt Lake actor
and playwright, died in Helena, Mont.,
a victim of influenza, being stricken
while playing on the Pantages circuit.
In spite of drastic action on the
part of state and municipal authori
ties the spread of influenza through
out Colorado continues.
The high Sierra Nevada mountains
west of Reno are white with snow, far
down their sides, that fell Wednes
day.
Dr. O. M. Lanstrum, candidate for
United States senator from Montana,
lins abandoned his speaking dates and
volunteered his services to the state in
lighting the influenza epidemic.
Utah’s shortage in sheep this wluter
will exceed 1,000,000. estimates .1. A.
Robinson, rancher of Green River,
Utah. Shortuge in fall feed and high
price of sheep is given as the reason
for the rush to market.
DOMESTIC.
"Public gatherings of all kinds" are
prohibited under the Spanish influ
enza quarantine order issued by the
Iowa state board of health, and this
includes football games and other out
door gatherings, it was explained.
Chicago & Alton railroad employes
at Bloomington, Ills., must work or
fight. Local exemption boards re
ceived instructions Friday to put men
fuiling to return to work in class Al.
Unless peace can be restored “upon
terras that will change the mental at
titude of the German people towards
Its own master and towards the rest of
the world” the war will have been
fought in vain, Henry Morgenthau,
former ambassador to Turkey, said
Friday at the Liberty loan rally at
Cooper Union, New York City.
Six sailors and soldiers are believed '
to have drowned In the sinking of the
army transport America at her pier at
Hoboken, N. J.
Charles Crozat Converse, lawyer, in
ventor, author and composer of "What
a Friend We Have in Jesus” and other
famous hymns, died Friday at his
home in Euglewood, N. J.
Declaring “the more coal you pro
duce the sooner we shall huve peace,"
General Pershing through a cablegram
to Fuel Administrator Garfield ap
pealed to the coal miners of the coun
try for increased production.
H. Rivera, a wealthy wholesale gro
cer of Douglas, Ariz., was arrested in
Augua Prieta, Mexico, charged with
complicity in the robbery on the night
of September 80 irf the Mexican stamp
tax office, when $8000 in American
gold was stolen.
A fund of $1,000,000,000. to be used
to finance the reconstruction of the
Jewry of the world, will be sought by
the joint distribution committee of the
American funds for Jewish war suf
ferers, which, it was announced at
New York, will undertake what It de
scribes as “the largest purely humani
tarian project In history to be at
tempted by individual effort."
Mrs. A. r . Kogers .was arrested at
Los Angeles on a charge of conspiracy
to defraud through the United States
malls In connection with the alleged
einbezzlemeut of funds of the National
defense league of California.
Influenza at Camp Kearny Is being
kept well In hand, the few cases that
have developed being of a mild type
and no deaths attributed to the disease
having occurred for the last ten days.
Shortly before the American trans
port America, formerly the German
truns-AtluntlC passenger steamship
Amerikn, was about to sail Tuesday
for Europe with soldiers and supplies
the vessel foundered at her pier at
Hoboken, N. J. The .’500 soldier
on board were rescued.
Tentative settlement of the govern
meat’s claim of $0,500,000 inheritance
tax against the estate of the luti
Henry Miller, California cattle baron
was made when Internal ltevenue pol
lector Warded accepted $2,500,000 fron
the heirs and trustees as an initia
payment.
Jack Burkholder, a farmer, who wa
charged with refusing to subscribe t
the fourth Liberty loan, was ntobbe
at Sterling, 111., by 500citizens. Hewn
painted yellow from head to foot an
,a bucket of paint was dumped upo
.bis head.
Officers and men at Camp Keornj
are being put through a rigorous
course of calisthenics dally (luring th<
period, of quarantine, with the Idea ol
keeping the men in the 1 est possible
physical condition.
One hundred German sailors In
terned at Camp Devens, Mass., for the
duration of the war, subscribed $50C
■ to the fourth Liberty loan.
In a Liberty loan address at Provi
donee, II. I. Theodore Roosevelt de
clared the "United "States will get
peace with a machine gun and not with
a typewriter.” “We are going to see
■ this war to a finish if it takes three
years more, our bedrock dollars and
the last man.” declared Colonel Roose
velt. - - *
Congressman Jacob E. Meeker died
at St. Louis, October. 10, of Spanish
Influenza, after his marriage at mid
night the previous night to his private
secretary.
WASHINGTON.
The $6,000,000,000 military de
ficiency bill was passed by the house
without a dissenting vote and sent to
the senate in practically the same form
..that it came from the appropriations
committee.
The senate finance committee in re
vising the war revenue bill struck out
house provisions taxing the salaries
of the president, members of the su
preme court and superior courts and
state officials.
Fuel Administrator Garfield has
lifted the request for gasolineless Sun
days effective at once. In announcing
tlie withdrawal of the request, the
fuel administration said through the
loyal response of the public 1,000,000
barrels of gasoline was saved for the
military forces.
Protest against the Americanization
of German-owned business concerns,
ships and other property by Alien
Property Custodian Palmer, has been
made by the German government to
tlie state department.
No further effort will be made by
congress to continue existing dnylight
saving law and the hands of the clocks
will -be turned back an hour on Octo- 1
her 27 as originally planned.
A nesv section providing for a tax
of 2 cents on all bank checks payable ;
on sight or demand was written into ,
the revenue bill by the senate finance !
committee Tuesday. The tax will ap
ply to the checks irrespective of their
value.
FOREIGN.
Allied forces have occupied the town |
of Kudish In the province of Arch
angel. and have advanced for a dis
tance of six miles to the south of tlint
place along the Archangel-Vologda rail
way, according to tin official state- ;
ment on operations in north Itussia.
Independence of the Czecho-Slovak
nation was declared formally on Oc
tober 18 by the Czecho-Slovak national
council, recognized by the United j
States and the entente allies as u
belligerent de facto government.
Arrangements for feeding the civil i
population-of Belgium as rapidly as!
lie allies take over the territory is be- !
ng made by the Belgian relief coin- i
nission. 1
Baron Burlan, the Austro-Hungarian
oreign minister, spoke in the most I
iptlmistlc manner of the prospects for 1
in early peace in addressing the for- '
‘ign affairs committee of the Austrian
lelegatlon at its meeting on Wednes
lay, says a Vienna dispatch.
Tidal waves which followed the
earthquake in Porto Itico added to the
loath toll and devastation. The city
if Mayaguez, the third largest in the
island, practically was destroyed by
the inrush of water, while the town of
Agudilla was badly damaged.
Austria-Hungary is in the throes of
a crisis which either will compel Ger
many to accept President Wilson’s de
cision or make it imperative for the
dual monarchy to act on its own ac
cord for peace.
A dispatch from Amsterdam says in
Prague the streets from the suburbs
to tlie city proper are occupied by
troops armed with hand grenades and 1
machine guns in consequence of a
tiireat by the Czechs to call a general
strike throughout Bohemia.
Emperor William has issued a decree
saying that martial law in Germany
can only be administered by un agree
ment between the civil and military
authorities, according to a report re
ceivea ui Amsterdam.
With the Berlln-Gonstantinople rail
road cut by the ullled occupation of
Nish, Germany Is relying upon its
ltluck sea fleet to hold Turkey In line.
Information has been received thilt
the 'furklsh government 1ms been told
by Berlin that the fleet will open fire
on the Ottoman capital at the first
sign of defection.
Refugees from northern France and
Belgium, who are fleeing before the
retreating German armies with the
hope of making their v*ay Into Holland,
may be taken cure of In eastern sec
tions of Belgium.
The Austrian emperor has declined
i to accept the resignation of the cabl
' net of Premier Wekerle, according to
I Budapest advices received here. The
emperor said he had full confidence in
the cabinet.
Another attempt has been made
upon the life of Nikolai l.cnine, the
■ Bolshevik) premier, l.enlne received a
. bullet in the shoulder from a revolver
In the hands of M. DwauiUke of the
i • Information bureau of the soviet.
1 j According to figures compiled at Is
! ,ny, Scotland, and carefully checked
* I with army records, the total loss ol
»1 life as a result of the disaster to the
1 transport Otranto Is These figures
* represent one American officer
I enlisted men, 184 of the Otranto's of
i I fieers and 'Tew, and six members ol
I the crew of u French fishing boat.
I GERMAN NOTE FAILS
TO ACCEPT TERMS
i UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER IA
NOT MENTIONED BY BOCHE,
WHO WOULD ARQUE.
Protests Against the Reproach oi
Illegal and Inhuman Actions on
Land and Sea, but Avoids Big
Issues In Replying to Wilson.
Washington.—Germany lias replied
i to President Wilson with a note which,
though no one is prepared to say it
will lead tiie president even to con
tinue exchanges- on the subject of an
armistice and peace, at least has
served almost to bring conviction here
that tiie people of Germany actually
are taking tiie reins of government
and sincerely desire peace oil any
terms the United States and tiie allies
are willing to give.
‘•In accepting the proposal for an
evacuation of occupied territories, the
german government lias started from
the assumption that the procedure of
this evacuation and of these condi
tions of an armistice should he left to
the judgment of the military advisers
and that the actual standard of power
on both sides in the held has to form
tiie basis for arrangements safe
guarding this standard.
“Tiie German government suggests
to the president that an opportunity
should be brought about for fixing the
details. It trusts that the president
of the United States will approve of
no demand which would he irreconcil
able with tiie honor of the German
people and with opening a way to a
peace of Justice.
“The German government protests
against the reproach of illegal and In
human actions made against the Ger
man land and sea forces and thereby
against tiie German people. For the
covering of a retreat destructions will
always be necessary, and they are car
ried out in so fur us is permitted by
international law. The German troops
art* limler most send nisiruciious u>
spare private property and to exercise
care for the population to the best of
tlieir ability. Where transgressions
occur in spite of these instructions the
guilty are being punished.
“The German government further
denies that the German navy In sink
ing ships has ever purposely destroyed
lifebonts with their passengers. The
Herman government proposes with re
gard to all those charges that the facts
De cleared up by neutral commissions.
“In order to avoid anything that
night hamper the work of peace the
Herman government has caused nr
lers to be dispatched to all submarine
■omnianders precluding the torpedo
ng of passenger ships without, how
»ver. for technical reasons, being able
o guarantee that these orders will
each every single submarine at sea
lefore its return.
“As a fundamental condition for
teace, the president prescribes the des
ructhm of every arbitrary power that
an separately, secretly and of Its own
ingle choice disturb the peace of the
vorld. To this the German government
•eplles:
“Hitherto the representation of the
leople In the German empire lias not
ipen endowed with an influence on the
Formation of the government.
‘The constitution did rifit provide
bir a concurrence of representation of
Ihe people of decisions In |ieace and
war. These conditions have just now
undergone a fundamental change. A
new government has been formed In
complete accordance with the wishes
(principle) of the representation of the
people, based on equal, universal, se
cret. direct franchise.
1 he leaders or the great parties nr
the relehstag are members of this gov
ernment. In the future no government
can take or continue In office without
possessing the confidence of a majority
of the relehstag.
‘The responsibility of the chancellor
of the empire to the representation of
the people Is being legally developed
and safeguarded. The first act of tin
new government has been to lay before
the relehstag a hill to alter the con
stitution of the empire so that the con
sent of the representation of the people
Is required for decisions on war and
peace.
“The permanence of the new system
Is, however, guaranteed not only by
constitutional safeguards, hut also by
the unshakable determination of the
German people whose vast majority
stands behind these reforms and de
mand their energetic continuance. «
“The question of the president—with
whom he and the governments asso
ciated against Germany are dealing—
is, therefore, answered in a clear, un
equivocal manner by the statement
that the offer of peace and an armis
tice lias come from a government which
Is free from any arbitrary and Irres
ponsible influence. Is supported by the
approval of an overwhelming majority
of the Oe. -an people.
Finish "aurteen Ships in Week.
Washington.—Fourteen steel nnd
wood vessels of 77,150 deadweight tons
were delivered to the shipping hoard
during the week ended October 1ft.
Nine of 50,150 deadweight tons were
steel and five of IS.ihxi tons were wood.
Merchant Killed, Wife Hurt.
Santa-Fe, N. M.—C. K. llutton, aged
75 years, a retired merchant of Glande,
Cal., was killed and his wife was se
verely Injured when their car skidded
at a turn and tumbled down an em
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Leek Lovelier Than Lily.
Vegetables are not usuully regarded
a subject for eloquence. But Sir
Charles Wakefield certainly uttalned
some fine flights recently on the pre
sentation of q basket of fruit ,ir|d
vegetables to the lord mayor of Lon
don. The master of the Gardeners’
company first declared that the pos
session of un allotment was an almost
certain test of good citizenship, and,
growing alliterative In his enthusiasm,
said he saw more beauty In the potato
than In a pansy, more loveliness In a
leek than tn a Illy, more honor In cul
tivating the humble cabbage than In
causing (he cultured carnntion to fur
ther displays of pride. It Is to he
noted, however, that the delegation to
which Sir Charles acted ns spokesman
presented the lady mayoress with n
bunch of orchids and not of leeks such
as Sir Charles’ statements might have
led the lady to expect.
Discouraged Frenchmen.
A Frenchman complained that he
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No Competition?
If anyone thinks there is no competition amongst
the big packers he ought to go through a day's
work with Swift ft Company.
Let him begin at the pens when the live stock
comes in; let him try to buy a nice bunch of fat
steers quietly and at his own price without some
body’s bidding against him.
Let him realize the scrupulous care taken at the
plant that not one thing is lost or wasted in order
that costs may be held to a minimum.
Let him go up into the office where market
reports are coming in,—and reports of what other
concerns are doing.
Let him watch the director of the Swift Refrig
erator fleet, maneuvering it over the face of the
country like a fleet of battleships at sea.
Let him take a trip with a Swift 6c Company
salesman and try to sell a few orders of meat.
Let him stay at a branch house for an hour
or two and see the retail meat dealers drive their
bargains to the last penny as they shop around
among the packers’ branch houses, the wholesale
dealers, and the local packing plants.
And then, when the day is over, let him have
half an hour in the accounting department, where
he can see for himself on what small profits the
business is done. (Less than 4 cents on each dollar
of sales.)
If he still thinks there is no competition in the
meat business it will be because he wants to think so.
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