WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC SUNK BY GERMANS
Steamer Arabic of the White Star line, torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine oil the South coast o.
Ireland as she was on her way from Liverpool to Boston. Of the 423 persons aboard about twenty are missing, and
two of these are Americans. The map shows where the Arabic lies, in relation to the location of the similar suc
cessful attacks on the Lusitania and the Iberian.
READY TO DEFEND THE ATLANTIC COAST
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UNCCfcV/OOO
Tliis is one of the many Ill-inch disappearing coast defense guns in the forts along the Atlantic coast It is at
Fort Wright on Fisher's island, off Vew London. Conn. At the right the coast defense division of the National Ouard
is seen at practice with this gun.
TEXAN RANGERS CHARGING MEXICAN BANDITS
Texan rangers have been very active in the frequent fights with the Mexican bandits, who have been making
raids on this side of the Rio Grande. Three of them are here seen in attack on the bandits north of Browns
ville. Tex.
OLD JAIL AT PORT-AU-PRINCE
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This is the antiquated jail at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from which a large
number of political prisoners were taken, lined up and shot by order of
President Guillaume Sam, who was assassinated immediately afterward.
OLDEST BUDDHIST PRIEST
At the right in the photograph is
( Rt. Rev. Sri Nazziniananda. said to h*
i the oldest living Buddhist priest. With
him is the maharajah of Sikkhim, in
dia. They are among the AsiatU-s
| gathered in San Francisco for a con
vention of Buddhist priests.
BLOOD RELATIONS IN FIGHT
Monarchs of Europe, Now in Fierce
Combat, All More or Less
Closely Related.
One of the anomalies of the present
war is the fact that the heads of
some of the nations engaged are close
ly related by blood ties or marriage.
This Is especially true of England,
where the royal family is connected
y descent or marriage with many of
the German imperial, royal and ducal
; houses. The king of England, for in
j stance, is a cousin of the German em
! peror.
King George is also at war with his
cousin. Duke Karl Eduard of Saxe
Coburg and Gotha; his second cousin,
Duke Ernest August of Brunswick; his
third cousin. Grand Duke Adolph
Frederick of .Vlecklenburg-Strelitz;
his third cousin. King Friedrich Au
gust of Saxcny; his third cousin.
Archduke Charles Francis, heir to the
j Austrian throne, and his third cousin,
I Ernest Bernhard, duke of Saxe-.Mein
ingen.
The czar of Russia is at war with
his brother-in-law. Grand Duke Ernest
Ludwig of Hesse. King Albert of Bel
gium. who is King George's second
cousin. Is at war with his brother-in
law, Prince Charles of Hohenzollem,
and King Albert’s wife Is a ducbess of
Bavaria.
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Good Idea for Currycomb.
An inventor's currycomb consist*
I of flexible loops of corrugated tnelc.1
i through which dirt passes quickly.
GOOD
ROADS
TO MAKE SMOOTH ROAD BEDS
Put Soil on in Layers, Not in Pile*—
Best Too1 for Road Improve
ment is Splitlog Drag.
The making of a smooth roadbed
requires that when the soil is put on
it be laid in layer- and not in piles
When dumped in piler some places
will be more packed than others and
there will likely be a difference in the
density, while if laid on in layers this
will be avoided. Each layer should be
harrowed, or better yet, disked and
packed before the next one is laid
down.
In this way a good roadbed is se
cured from the first, while if the soil
is just dumped on the road to be
leveled and packed by the traffic ovei
the road a good roadbed will never be
secured.
The best tool f ,r keeping the road
| well crowned and the surface smooth
1 is the splitlog drag. This tool should
' be used soon after a ram The soi'
is then loose and easily moved. The
drag moves but small amounts of soil
and smears it on the roadbed in thir
layers, which is just what is wanted
It cuts off any projections and fills
any low’ places.
SUPERIORITY OF WIDE TIRES
It Has Been Found by Actual Test
That Broad-Tired Wagon Pulls 6.2
Per Cent Easier.
Wide tires build up roads and save
horse labor, according to the depart
ment of agricultural engineering at the
lTniversity of Nebraska. They have
the same effect upon a country road
as a roller on a plowed field. On the
other hand, the narrow tire cuts up
a road like a disk.
It has been found by actual test in
i this department that the wide-tired
wagon pulls easier in nearly all cases
than the narrow-tired wagon. In deep
mud on a country road the wide-tired
wagon pulls 6 2 per cent easier.
On a country road with a thin sur
i face of mud or deep dust, however.
the narrow tires pull 4.9 per cent eas
: ier In a corn field the wide tires pull
:10.5 per cent easier, in a dry alfalfa
field 17.7 per cent easier, and on a dry
country road 10.2 per cent easier.
BETTER ROADS IN MISSOURI
Movement Has Passed Boom Stage
and Become Fixed Policy—Good
Advertisement for State.
When the public roads bureau ot
the department of agriculture made
its study of roads covering a period
w hich ended in 1913, Missouri did not
figure among the leading states either
in it£ mileage of improved reads or
in progress made in road building,
while some of the southern states
w ith smaller resources in a financial
way showed striking evidences of
progress, says Farm Progress. They
had been building cheap.roads of such
materials as were immediately at
hand, and that is what Missouri is
doing today with such energy and en
thusiasm that the next survey of the
road situation is sure to tell a differ
ent story. This will be a good thing
for state pride and as a state adver
tisement. but vastly more significant
is the direct benefit derivable from
roads that can be traversed at all sea
sons with full loads. Every good road
that is built today and tomorrow and
every road that is improved will go
to make Missouri a better state in
Good Roads Day in Missouri.
which the people nay live their nor
mal social life, a oetter state for the
school child, a better state in which
to spend a working life and live out
a contented old age. The good reads
movement in Missouri has passed the
boom stage and become a settled pol
icy, finding its strongest reason for
being in the silent argument of good
roads already built Its goal is a state
in which every market shall be ac
cessible to the farmer's wagon the
year around and a public sentiment in
favor of good roads so strong that no
other condition will be tolerated.
A Good Roads Advocate.
"Aren't you in favor of good roads?"
"Of course I am,” answered the toll
gate keeper.
"Rut this road of yours is miser
able. ’
‘Maybe. But I'm in favor of good
roads. If the road hadn't been pretty j
good this far you mightn't have got j
here to pay your toll.”
Road Drag an Aid.
The great farm builders are live
stock, alfalfa and silage, aided by the
manure spreader and the road drag.
Setting Bush Fruits.
When setting any of the bush fruits
the top should be pruned to corre
spond to the root pruning the plant
gets in transplanting.
Hog in Good Pasture.
A hog in a good pasture or one that
is fed regularly seldom does much
damage by rooting.
Insure Healthy Litters.
Watchful care and good judgment in
handling the sows will insure healthy
litters.
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The Goody That's Good For Them
The best way in this world to spend a nickel
for refreshment is to get
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It is the longest-lasting, most beneficial and
pleasant goody possible to buy. It aids appetite
and digestion, quenches thirst, sweetens mouth
and breath.
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handsomely illustrated booklet in colors that will amuse
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all the old familiar Mother Goose scenes to the
“tune” of new jingles. Address Wm. Wrigley
Jr. Co., 1312 Kesner Building, Chicago.
Chew it after every meal99
TONKA BEAN IN COMMERCE'
Product of South America That Has
Become a Matter of Much
Importance.
Grass, freshly cut or otherwise, has
had nothing to do with the production
of the perfume labeled “New-Mown
Hay." The source of the essence is ;
really the tonka bean, found in the
tropical countries of South America,
chiefly in the valleys of the Orinoco, 1
Caura. and Cuchivero rivers in
Venezuela and certain sections of
Colombia and Brazil. The tonka-bean
tree in some cases reaches a height of
sixty feet. It has pinnate leaves and
large panicles of flowers, which are
succeeded by a pod containing a single
seed. The odor, which is remarkably
strong, resembles that of sweet clover
new-mown hay. and is due to the pres
ence of cumarin, a crystallizable. vol
atile. neutral substance which is solu
ble in alcohol or ether and somewhat
so in boiling water, from which it
crystallizes on cooling. The beans
are often frosted with crystals of this
substance, giving them the appear
ance of being sugar-coated. In Venez
uela the tree is known as serrapia.
and the men engaged in the collection
of the beans are called sarrapieros
These collectors in Venezuela and
Colombia usually set out for the for
ests in February, when the fruit be
gins to ripen. They go up the rivers
in cauoes or skiffs by the hundreds,
stopping wherever the trees are
plentiful, and when the fruit begins to j
fall, the pods are gathered and taken
to some open space where sunshine is
plentiful, and there carefully crushed
and the beans extracted and then
spread out to dry. When thoroughly j
dried they are loaded into the boats
and transported to Ciudad Bolivar, or t
some other convenient port, where !
they are sold to the exporting mer
chants. Here they go through the j
process of crystallization by being
steeped in strong rum or alcohol for
about twenty-four hours, and then
again dried. They lend their fra
grance to high-grade tobacco, fine toi
let soaps, to ' brilliantine" and other
hair dressings and dyes, to cosmetics,
to flavoring extracts used in confec
tions. and to many other things that
gratify the sense of smell.
Tommy's Eighteenth Question.
“Pa. who was the roost patient
man?”
“Job used to be.”
A married man imagines he is hat
ing a good time when he does any
thing he knows his wife wouldn't ap
prove of.
When It Is.
"Pa. is marriage a failure?”
“Usually, my boy, if a man marries
'at money.”—Detroit Free Press.
The Paimya Palm.
Though a Tmail poem enumerates
800 ways in which the Paimya palm
may be used, one of its most interest
ing uses is the production of a sugar
called jaggery. This is the result of
boiling down the fresh juice, and is
one of th" chief sugars of south India
Four or five quarts per tree per day
is the yield for four or five months.
Once in every three years the sap
drawing process is omitted, as other
wise the tree would die. The tree
begins to yield at fifteen years and
continues for about fifty years. The
female tree yields about twice as
much sap as -the male. Three quarts
of this sap make one pound of sugar
or jaggery, which is the chief sugar
used by the poor classes of India.
. HIDDEN IMPURITY «
"If American women knew how
much of our Coffee lies on the ground
for days, before the berries are finally
swept up and harvested, greater care
would be exercised in purchasing
this food. For this Coffee is impure.
But its moldy color is lost in the roast
ing. and the partial decay is concealed
until it comes up harsh and bitter in
the cup This fact is not generally
known to importers, for few of them
have studied conditions existing prior
to the arrival of their ships in port."
So writes F. C. Harwood. And Mr.
Harwood knows. His long experience
in the tropical coffee growing coun
tries. his deep intimacy with planta
tion owners. hi6 close study of their
customs, their methods and the
‘‘Tricks of their Trade" has acquired
for him a fund of knowledge which
places him far in the leadership of
coffee connoisseurs, both here and
abroad.
Denison’s Coffees are selected by F.
C. Harwood, personally, and it is here
that his power in the Coffee Industry
manifests itself to the qualification of
Denison's Brands. His wisdom and
critical discrimination is appreciated
by Coffee Growers the world over, and
their respect gives him first choice of
the world’s finest crops. Thus, only '
pure, hand-picked berries find their
way into Denison Coffees. His care i
is your safeguard against impurity.
Try Denison's and realize your ideal ,
Coffee put up in Cans, Cartons or i
Bags. Ask your grocer or write Den
ison Coffee Co., Chicago, for the name
of the nearest dealer.—Adv.
Misbranded.
"You don't call your husband honey'
any more."
"No; 1 found he was only glucose."
At Cambridge university 2,000 out
of 3,500 undergraduates have gone or
are going to the war.
Some girls are relegated to the spin
ster class because of their cuteness.
Seasonal Misfortune.
Museum Manager—Whores the hu
man fly’
Attendant—Can t perfor m today. Hla
wife's been swatting him
Rod Cross Bali B1 >e. made or America,
tlieiefore the iiest, delights the hiunewife.
Ail good grocers. Adv.
South African business is severely
depressed by the war.
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