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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1916)
WAR REDUCES HUGE WASTE iffVdE world is learning the tm- ( porta nee of saving scraps. Mil lions of dollars worth of material t! has been reclaimed from America’s dump heaps in the last year or so /j □ AR stops waste! Paradoxical, perhaps: but true. It is the new principle of economics. The apotheosis of the junkman is at hand, says a writer in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Today there is invest ed in the industry of making-over scrap material the vast sum of $700, 000,000. The firms interested do a business of more than $100,000,000 a year. It is a business of little things, concerning itself with what most peo ple consider things of such insigni ficant value as not being worth think ing about at all. Yet a hundred mil lion a year! And how the war has boomed their particular business! Prices have been sent scaring. This has made it possible to transport waste from far-distant points that was never usable before. Despised junk is now rich raw material. Why, wool en rags are worth almost their w'eight in gold—they cost three times as much as they did before the war. Some rags have gone up 500 per cent. And so we get the strange anomaly that some rags fetch more than raw wool! Why? Because they hsve been dyed and dealers want those precious dyes back again (and they get them). With Germany blockaded, no dyes—of many of which they have a monopoly—can come out. Shoddy? You turn your nose at it! Do you realize that shoddy is the only thing that has enabled the poor to wear woolen clothing at all? Or that without deception (to the tailors) it is used to face some of the finest cloths in which the Beau Brummels today be fog themselves? This because it makes a better finish. Look at the romance of coal tar. j Once dumped into vile-smelling heaps of refuse or pumped into the river, to day it yields more than two thousand colors, besides drugs, preservatives, i medicines, explosives, flavors, syn thetic sugar and quinine, perfumes, 1 chemicals, and what not. There is a business of more than $100,000,000 in coal tar by-products today. And this is not a part of the business of utilizing waste, either, for coal tar is no longer counted as waste, but as a useful product from baking coal and mak ing illuminating gas of it. The 140 pounds of tar from every ton is the most precious of all the yield from coal. Germany is doing economical won ders with its war waste today. The ■'sammelstelle'' is the chief point of in terest to the visitor who can get be hind the lines. ‘ Collection point” it would be in plain English—junk pile, really. It contains the gleanings of the battlefield. Every conceivable ob ject, from bits of rubber to broken bayonets and pieces of exploded shells, are collected and sorted. Experts run over everything Car tridges are saved out, and water bot tles and clothes still fit to wear are piled up. The bayonets go to one place to be made over; the rifles are overhauled—every kind of make—and come back like new. Ripped and bursted auto tires go to the melting pot and come back as sound white ones. A big laundry cleans 100,000 garments every month. Damaged ar tillery goes to shops, where it is re paired. Wheels are remade; barrels rebored. A new gun is often made out of the undamaged parts of several guns collectively put out of business. Deather is set to other uses, shoes are repaired and straps that are torn are cut into other widths and lengths, and put to other tasks. And what do we do here ‘along sim ilar lines, in these piping peace days? Well, for example, we work over tin cans—a perfect mine of wealth—and iron scrap, and get back *14,000,000 worth of useful metal again. Our tin is used over and over. Before the war scrap iron brought $10.75 a ton; now it has gone up to *18.50. Melted back into ingots it is quite as good as ever. Steel rails discarded by the big rail roads are rerolled into rails for less important lines where lighter ones will do, or are bought by contractors for the use of their service lines on big jobs. Scrap copper today is worth almost as much as new metal. War boosted the price regularly, so that by the end of 1915 new stuff brought 23 cents a pound and the old fetched 19 cents, and a business of *25,000,000 in itl' Scrap zinc, once a drug on the market 'ifyrZZ, at 4 cents a pound, is 13 cents at this writing. Save it! Here are the figures in tons of '‘re covered” metal from Uncle Sam s junk pile for just a year: Brass, 99,000; copper, 58,000; spelter, 43,000; lead. 60,000; zinc, 3,914; tin, 12,000; anti mony, 5,300; aluminum. 5,400. The ' recovered" metals totaled $57,039,706. True, indeed, the statement of a busi ness genius that "our next great for tunes will be taken from the junk heap!” With crude rubber at $1 a pound now. and all the warring nations gob bling every ounce they can beg or seize or buy, no wonder there is a steady demand for old garden hose, rubbers, tires, arctics, tubes, auto peel ings. wringers, car springs, horse shoe pads, matting and packing, air brake hose, tire hose and tubes. Prices in these discards of life fluctuate daily, just as stocks and bonds do. All go to the melting pot at from 1 cent to 10 cents a pound and come back brand new! Vou haven’t a pound of old antimony lying around the shop, perhaps? The foxy Chinese have cornered it because of its great demand for munitions of war—to say nothing of type. Once it was worth $125 a ton; now you pay $600 gold a ton for the same. Why? Because it is mixed with steel for shells, making it more brittle. Thus it breaks into smaller pieces when it explodes. Nice thought for the men in the trenches; what? So they are working over old, worn out type, here and abroad, and explod ed shell fragments, to get back this near-precious metal. Tungsten is used in making tool steel, for which there is an enormous demand. Before the war it brought 60 cents a pound. Today it is $5 a pound, and a ton of ore brings $3,000. So precious is this metal that even the assay offices are being scoured for spe cimens, and every ounce of it is being reclaimed that can be found. Brokers do not sneer at a trade in one-pound lots, and to quote the Waste Trade Journal, "the purchasing agent of the Crucible Steel company is very grate ful if somebody can give him one hun dred pounds.” And, says the editor, "there's an overnight fortune for the man who can" reclaim it from old tools and such." A lot of clever men are trying, but noth ing doing yet. Rags are the Bethlehem Steel of the junkman’s trade. Two million dollars’ worth have just gone to England to make shoddy. Rags that brought four cents a pound now bring 14; tailors’ clippings, once quoted at 7 cents, are now 21 cents. Black worsteds, aristo crats of the species, fetch 32 cents a pound. England alone can use up 210. 000,000 pounds of rags a year! This country imports $2,000,000 worth of waste rags every year just to make writing paper. About 1,400,000 tons of flax straw have been burned or allowed to go to waste in this country every year. Not for much longer! Specialists in the employ of the department of agricul ture have shown that it can be used for making paper and fiber board. Al ready a demand for $1,600,000 worth of WORTH KNOWING There are 4,000 islands in the ter ritories comprised by the empire of Japan. An inventor has patented a guard to be fastened to the back of a man's head to enable him to shave his neck accurately and safely. In a Paris aerodynamic laboratory for testing model aeroplanes wind speeds up tc seventy-one miles an hour are produced by ingenious machinery. Two cities in Colombia on opposite aides of the Andes mountains will be connected by a steel ropeway more than thirty-seven miles long which will transport both passengers and freight. A wireless receiver small enough to be carried in the pocket, but so effi cient it will pick up messages when connected to almost any metal surface Is the invention of a French scientist. After 15 years of experimenting a Dresden engineer has succeeded in perfecting a rocket carrying a camera to photograph objects and places over which it passes. It is returned to the ground by a parachute. In an Illinois inventor's double-act ing churn turning the handle revolves the paddles in one direction and the barrel in the other. Il> a new French process aluminum can be so. substantially nickel-plated that the metal can be hammered and bent without cracking. Production of copper in the United States is more than 25 times what it was in 1880. A new microscope to collect sounds and convey them to the ears of partly deaf persons by almost invisible wires is so compact that it can be worn under a man's necktie. Experiments by French scientists indicate that it is possible to increase the light from ordinary arc lamps by increasing the pressure of the electric current through the carbons. The artichoke, which originally came from Barbary, is not a botanical species, but a variety of the thistle, which grows spontaneously all along the African coast of the Mediterranean | from Morocco to Palestine. flax straw has sprung up. Once it was clear waste. Now it is—gold! Time was when yellow brass turn ings were entirely unsalable. Now they average 12 cents a pound. Old tinfoil brings 30 cents and siphon tops are w-orth a quarter a pound. When Tony gets through with his shoe rags he can sell them for 4 cents a pound and you may see them next :n some fine “bond" writing paper. liones fetch $25 a ton after everybody's picked 'em. Now hear Arthur D. Little of the United States Chamber of Commerce: “We waste 150.000,000 tons of wood a year. 1,000,000,000 feet of natural gas a day; 1,000,000 tons of flax straw a year. Our coke ovens flame for miles in Pennsylvania, wasting precious am monia and exciting no comment, while the burning of a $1,000 house would draw a mob.” Some experts have got the waste down finer than even Mr. Little. We waste 13.00(1,000 feet of lumber every year in old lead pencils by throwing away the stubs. Two girls earn for the government 100 times their sal aries just by going through the waste paper baskets in the treasury depart ment at Washington Their prize find was a $10,000 United States gold bond. Old corn cobs are now made into fuel briquettes and railway ties. Pot ash, mighty useful for war, is made from the moldering heaps of seaweeds tossed upon our Pacific coast. Oil is I now pressed from used cotton waste, renovated and used over again. It has been figured out by a junkman expert that this country loses $36,000, 000 a year in cotton wastage alone, after the last shred of the fiber has been saved that can be. And this is how: Wrapped in jute bagging and strapped with hoop iron, last year's baies aver aged 509 pounds apiece. Just 5,649,000 of these bales went to American mills. Actually there was spun into cloth and yarn the equivalent of 4.801,650 bales, because of 15 per cent loss. This is di vided into two classes, raw material waste and manufacturing waste. The first counts the bagging and Iron straps, included in the weight, the shrinkage and three pounds torn off in transit for samples. The second in cludes flying cotton lint, cotton dam aged in processing and the quantity that remains that is not spinnable. The latter is one of the new savings now. Suppose a two-inch length is required; some is not that long. This goes for a coarser yam to another mill, and the residue there goes to still another for even coarser products, and in the step-down from mill to mill the final residuum lands in a factory making wicking, mop yarns, etc. Actually, though there is a 15 per cent theoretical waste in a bale of cot ton, the total loss is reduced to a mini mum and only 3 per cent goes to the junk dealer to sort out and sell. In all the processes through which a bale goes but 2 per cent is irrecoverably lost in flying lint. Added to the 3 per cent which is the junkman's share, there is 5 per cent lost in manufactur ing and 10 per cent in raw material. In other words, the manufacturer loses just $9.16 to the bale. Center of Area. The center of area of the United States, including Alaska. Hawaii and other accessions, is in northern Kan sas, ten miles north of a place called Smith Center, in Smith county, in lati tude 39.55 and longitude 9S.50. The center of population is 657 miles east of the center of area—that is to say, around Bloomington, Ind. But She Didn't Know It. She—Before we were married you told me you were well off. It—Well. I was.—Judge. Not a Chronic Borrower. It is said of George W. Woolworth, one of the greatest merchants in the world and owner of the highest build ing. that in the days when he was get ting his business start, he never bor rowed money but once. That Was to buy his wife a new silk dress that she wanted. Sow Thistles Pood for Cattlft, George Livingstone Dodds of Win nipeg, Man., has taken out a patent on i a rrocess for making cattlefeed out of sow-thistles. MDDY’S EVENING mrm\ 0 MARY GRAHAM BONNER MR. SUN CHANGES HIS SUIT. "Mr. Sun was so proud some time ago when the Eclipse came,” said Dad ly. "What's an Ecl’pse?” shouted both Nick and Nancy in one breath. "An Eclipse,” continued Daddy, “is i darkness or stiange light over the Sun or Moon. When an Eclipse comes aver the Sun it moans that Mr. Moon has got in the way in his travels be tween the Earth and Mr. Sun. And The Fairies Were Watching. wtien an Eclipse comes over Mr Moon it means Mr. Sun has got in the way be tween the Earth and Mr. Moon. “The other day, you see, Mr. Moon was wide awake in the Daytime when he should have been sleep ing soundly. And Mrs. Moon was getting restless too. So they thought they would 'Eclipse' old Mr. Sun as they said. “And right in between the Eartn and Mr. Sun they went—just when Mr. Sun was shining down on the Eartn with all his might and main. “But do you think Mr. Sun got mad? No Indeed, he was delighted. He loved seeing all the People come out on their porcnes and out on the sidewalks and look at him. “Well really he was quite wonderful. All sorts of marvelous and queer Spots came out a', over.’ " 'That doesn’t sound very beauti ful.' said Nancy. ‘Spots are never nice, are they?* "Well, the SpotE on Mr. Sun were lovely indeed and quite unlike any other Spots you have ever seen. There i were red Spots, green Spots, and then every little while he would become 1 quite, quite dark and it would look as if Night were coming on. “When it became so dark the owls j in the Woods came out and thought it was getting-up time, and the little Birds all put their heads under their j wings and went to bed. “Then it would grow lighter and in j turn the different colored Spots would come on Mr. Sun. “Of course as you can imagine the j Queen of the Fairies and the rest of , the little Fairies, were all watching this from their corner of the big j Woods which loosed out on a wide, j open Field. " I know-,’ said one of the Fairies, i 'that Mr. Sun is having a fine old time today. He lust loves to change I his Suit like this all the time. He is as proud as proud can be. “ ‘And as for Mr. and Mrs. Moon they are having glorious fun, and consider this one of the biggest larks they have had for many a day. They love to travel, and an unexpected trip like this is just wr;at they enjoy above all things.' “At that very moment Mr. Sun be came quite, quite black again and once more all the little Creatures started to go to t-ed, and this time the Bats came out and flew- about. But then didn't that jolly Mr. Moon and his good-na tured Wife laugh! And as the Bats were beginning some good old races, a great red Spot almost cov I ered up Mr. Sun and it became very bright again. •'And all the Fairies watched Thought It was Getting-Up Time. and kept saying to themselves how glad they were Mr. Sun was having such a gay time wearing so many dif ferent Suits in one day!" JOHNNIE HAD GOOD MEMORY Easy for Him to Remember When He Was Told to Stand Up and Have His Eyes Put In. Bobbie (boastingly)—I’ll bet I kin remember farther back'n you, Johnnie! Johnnie—Huh! Let's hear you! Bobbie—Well, I remember when Uncle John took me in his arms an’ said, "My. what a bright little chap for a week-old.” Johnnie (with high disdain)—That’s nothin’. Why, I kin remember when they said, "Stand up Johnnie, and have your eyes put in!”—Exchange. WANTED HIS PIE FULL-SIZED — Bobbie Didn't Want to Be a Bother, but Preferred to Have His Pas try in Regular Dish. When Bobbie went to Bee his grand mother he was much interested in whatever went on in the kitchen. One day she said to him: “I’m going to make you a nice little pie in a saucer, all for yourself. Don't you think I'm pretty good to take bo much trouble?” Bobbie pondered. “Grandma,” he said, at length, "mother told me not to be a bother, and if it’s goin’ to be any trouble, you can just as well make my pie reg'lar size.” Just as Good. “How is your boy Josh getting along with his books?” “First rate,” replied Farmer Com tossel. “He’s learned a whole lot.” “Knows more than you do, I bet.” “I won’t say that. But he kin tell me a lot of things I already know in language I can’t understand.” Easy. Mother (annoyed)—I don’t see, El sie, how you can be so naughty. Elsie—Why, mamma, it isn’t a bit hard.—Boston Transcript. THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK May 22. 1915. British won north of La Bassee. but were repulsed near Neuve Chapelle. Russians took offensive on lower San and captured four towns. Germans defeated Russians at Shavli. Austrians in Bukowina retreated. Norwegian steamer sunk by Ger man submarine. German aviators dropped bombs on Paris. General mobilization of Italian army ordered and martial law pro claimed in northeast Italy. May 23. 1915. British advanced east of Festu bert and French near Notre Dame de Lorette and Neuville-St. Vaast. Russians recrossed the San in effort to outflank the Germans. Germans defeated Russian right wing. Italy declared war on Austria Hungary. Austrian patrol crossed Italian frontier and was driven back. Turks repulsed allies at Sedd-ul Eahr. Great Britain. France and Rus sia in joint statement, accused Turkish government of responsibil ity for massacres of Armenians. May 24, 1915. Germans attacked British near Ypres behind six-mile cloud of poi son gas. Russian movement upon Nisko compelled Mackensen to draw in his wings. Furious German assaults south of Przemysl. Austrian artillery shelled Italian outposts in front of Rivoli. Austrian vessels bombarded Ital ian coast towns. Turkish gunboat sunk by allied submarine. Austrian aviators bombarded many Italian towns. Germans at Monso, Kamerun, surrendered to French. May 25. 1915. Vcn Mackensen took six fortified villages north of Przemysl. Russians won in Opatow region. Italians crossed Austrian frontier on 67-mile front. American steamer Nebraskan struck by torpedo or mine. Italy declared blockade of Aus trian and Albanian coasts. Austrians sank Italian destroyer. Allies bombarded many Asia Minor coast towns. British battleship Triumph sunk in Dardanelles by German subma rine. British coalition cabinet an nounced. | May 26, 1915. ' British made further gains near La Sassee. Germans forced passage of the San River. Italians seized various towns in the Trentino. British submarine sank Turkish gunboat close to Constantinople. Zeppelin bombarded Southend. England, and later fell into sea. May 27, 1915. Belgians repulsed two German attacks near Dixmude. Teutons forced another crossing of the San, broke through Russian lines near Stry and forced Russians back. Russians won fights on Upper Vistula and near Dniester marshes. Italian invasion of Austria con tinued; battles west of Praedil pass and at Plocken. Allies in Gallipoli carried five lines of Turkish trenches with bay onet. British auxiliary ship Princess Irene blown up; 321 killed. British battleship sunk by Ger man submarine at Dardanelles. Allied aviators bombarded Lud wigshafen and Ostend. May 28, 1915. Fierce fighting north of Arras. Russians drove Germans back across the San, but Austrians ad vanced fa her. Italians occupied Monte Baldo and crossed Venetian Alps. Austrians sank Italian destroyer and Italians sank Austrian subma rine. Five allied steamers sunk by Ger man submarines. SOME INTERESTING FACTS Malaria is spread by a special mos quito. Fingers, flies and food spread ty phoid fever. Forty-eight different materials are used in the construction of a piano, which come from no fewer than 16 countries. Every day the River Thames scoops 1,500 tons of earth from its banks. A full-g~own elephant yields 120 pounds of ivory. The Right Attitude. "I see Mrs. Flubdub has her chil dren’s pictures in all the Sunday pa pers.” "The right spirit, 1 think. 1 know it is unfashionable to have children, but if you have 'em make the best of it, say L” One to Order. “Nurse, you must stop telling little Tommy those hobgoblin stories. Why, the child’s hair is standing on end." “I thought you wanted to have a pompadour, mum.” X>icfe 2lbtejtung ift fiir bic ^amiliengltcber, treld?e am licbften Deutld? lefen. 2*om Sdiaub'.fltic 6k curoudiiriicn fBolfcrfricgK. 21m Cfiermoniag begaun gang pld$hd) ber Mumpf urn bie irifdjc &rcil)cit. Sic ffrafchdrlcr, bie 10,000 illiann ftarf maren, bc fcutcn in gaits furjer ^eit allc mich tigen IBld^e unb ©ebdube in ber tr ldnbifcben ^auptftabt lubltn cut fd)liefjlidi 'loftgebdnde. Sdjlof), (four Courts unb St. Stephens Cireeu. v>n ben Straiten murben 23arrifaben gcbaut, Sdjiifcengrdbcn aufgemorfen, Irahtpcrhaue gelcgt unb ber Stampf cntbrannte. ^rlaub murbe jur SJcpuDlif erfidrt unb -vS. Pearce sum 'Irdfibcuten crnannt. Irofcbem ber 'Rufftanb fid) fchncll aud) auf anbere '-Itropiusen ausbehn te unb bie Jreifdjdrler mit lobce-pcr* achtung fdmpften, muBte ber Slampf bod) baib eingcfteUt merben. (9rof;c britifche Iruppcnmaffcn mit ffelbar tillerie unb 'JRafcbiucngcroetiren tin terbriidten bie iRcbeilion. Ite ffiit) rer ergabett fid) unb murben fofort nadi (fnglanb genommen, mo ite uadi fitrscnt Itrosef) Pont ilriege-ge rid)t nerurteilt unb rcenige Stunben barauf erfd)offcn murben. lie Sebeutung bcr iriidjen Crhe fmng tjdngt nidit pop beren 2liisgan ge ab. sl>iag fie and) hlutig unter briidt morben join, bie lat fache blciht beftehen, baf) Cng lanb, rodhrettb e3 ben ft amp f urn feinen Jfortbcitanb als 2i<eltmad)t fiibrt, im cigencn §aufe feine 9hthc 311 halteu pcrmodjte. So fehr nun ein gliidlidjer 'Rue-gang fei nes 23efrciungc-Derfud)C3 ^rlanb 311 miinfdjcn marc, fo rcenig fattn man thn itjm perfpredjcn. <5s ift \a nidit bcr erne 'Herfud) 1594 9lufftanb, Don Spancicrn unternuht, crit 1602 unterbriidt. ^m ^sahre 1641 folgte cine meitereCrbebung gegett bie Cng lanbcr. lurd) brei ^ahre, 1649— 1652, bluiigeUnterbriidung be§ 9(uf ftanbee burdi ben liftator lirommcll. lamals murbe bie ^nfcl tatfddilid) entPdlfert. 1689 unb 1690 ?fui nano uitier viafob II. nut Trangott-j idien £>ilf#trnppcn unb Iangc v,abre binbnrd) gcfjcimc 3Berfd)tborungcn | mit blutigen ©fflralttaten. 1796 abermal# Hufftanb untcr 53cibiilfe bon 25,000 pfrangofen; 1798 none Hufitanbe unb Erftidung bcrfelben in 3?Int. Hndi SPiitte be# borigen ^abrbunbert# ©emalttaiigfcit, 23on> fott li. f. w, ?Ibcr ber ©rut ber Jvreibeit Icbf roarer unb cine# Stage# roirb audi Tsrlanb bom $od)e Eng land’# bcireit. Secte ttBodje bcridjteten rnir, daf) bie Sage ber ioumftjenb Hrmee in Sut*cl-Hmara fririfdj mar. iatfad) lid) Ijatte ber ©encrnl fid) fdjon erge ben ebe biefer i!erid)t unferen Sefern | unterbreitet rourbe. ©encrai Xorcn- j fbenb liatle bie 2tabt 143 2age Iang gegen ben Hnfturm ber Ziirfcn gebalten. SUIangcI an Seben#mittcln unb bie Unmbglidifcit eincr gMlfe bon auBen gtrangen ibn bann gur Uebergabe. 13,000 'Jiannfdjaften, barunter bier ©cncrale, 240 briti fdje Cffijiere unb 270 inbifdje C’fi 3icre, fieleu ben iurfen ai» ©efait* gene in bie £>iinbc. SSermutlid) Ijatte Joronfljenb nod) einige Xage au-rbaltcn fonnen, toenn c# gelungen rodre, il)in ?2at) rungSmittei gugufdiicfcn. IRadjbem aber bie Stiirfen ein ben 2fig> ri# tieraufgefdjidte# 2d)iff mit | foldjcn berfenft batten, tear bie-i je tpoffnung boriiber, unb bic Ucber* gabe mufete crfolgen. giir bie 3?riten befonber# befdjamenb ift, bafe ba# j Entfatihecr feit SSodjcn nur einige 20 iDieilen bon Slut lag, aber burd) bie borgugiidjen StcQungcn ber Xiir fen nid)t burd)jubrcd)en nermod)te. HI# 1914 bie Expedition Stclbnjljenb bom iPerfifdjen ©olf au§ ben iigri# binaufgog, rarurbe ibre 3“bl auf 50,000 fUJann angegeben, aber fie ift tpabrfdjemlid) fleiner getbefen, oiel Ietdit nur 35,000; bie SBerlufte burd) ©dbladjtcn unb ba# furdttbarc filima miiffen enorm gemefen fein. 5m Xejcmbcr 1915 batte Xatm fbenb beinabe iPagbab erreitfit, alS er 18 iPJeilen bacon, bei fftcfipbon,! eine fdirocre 'Ttieberlage erlitt, fid) nad) ftut juriidstcbcn mufete unb bort eingcftbloffen tcurbe. 3Tur burd) brabtlofe Xelegrapbie mar er nod) mit ber 2IuBcnroeIt per bunben. Stdnbig fanbcn @cfed)tc jmifd)en ben 2?riten unb ben Xiirfcn ftatt, aber lebterc blicbcn bie Sie* ger, aucb al* eine Gntfaparmee ben Xigri§ binauffam. Xie Gefamtccr Iuftc ber Gnglanber in bem gan*en j mefopolamiidicn fyelbguge miiffcn 25,000 iiberfdiritten babcn. SSie auf Gallipoli, murbcn biefc Xruppen cincm con ?lnfang an falfd) bercd) netcn fycib3ugc geoprcrt, ber, iiber eilt, faum cin guteS fHefuliat batte i baben fbnnen. Xenn baB nun ber Jvclbwg cnbgiltig fiir bie Xiirfen gemonnen ift, bebarf feiner roeiteren Grlduterung. Gin nidit ju untcrfdjdbenber ^ort* fdiritt liegt barin, baB feine ?faiio nen mebr ju finben finb, bie fiir Gnglanb bie fiaftanien au§ bem Seuer bolen mollcn. 1 Sir bclnncrtcn 5tr. Staatnu Sie SHagctt roerben bcflanbig t)du figer unb tauter, baB bie amerifant fdjc ^nbujtrie fid) in einem bod)it ge fdljrbetcn ,-)uftmtbe befinbct, rocil entroeber bic iRoljitofie utterfdjrotng lid) teuer roerben ober ciillig audblct. ben. Sub ber Mrieg ba» ocridjulbet. rodre cine ebenjo oberfldd)iid)e, rote trreiiibrenbe Grfldrung. Ssitr fbnn* ten trot; bed ilrieged bte SKarcn, be rett rotr bebiirfen, erlar.gca, roenn bte oUuerteu itiadjtc c» n:d)t Dcrljinbcr ten. Odire ^lotten blocficrcn mtfer Sanb, aid roenn fie mit bicicnt tin &rtege ftdnben nitb tavern aile SSa ren, bie aud bett oerbiinbeten San beru fomnien unb ed finb bad 2i;a ren, bte roir felbft nidjt berjuftellen Dcrntogett unb obnc roeidie bte 3,ubu* ftrte nidjtd fabrijierett fann. ^u* meift finb es lbbcntifalien. Siefe ivielen bcfanntiid) im ntobernen ^a* brifbetrieb cine feljr trodittge Nolle. Xatfdd)iid) gibt ed fetjr trentge 'siibn ftricn, bie nidjt ber in Scuifdjlanb bergcftcllten djctnifdtcn tflravarate be biirfen nnb roenn biefe au»blciben, finb bie iibrigen 9?ot)ftoffe roertlod. Sedroegcn Itabcn bercitd cine tllnjalil ijjabrifcn ibren Sfanferott angefiin bigt. rocil ite burdi bad Jluobicibnt ber bciitfdicn (Sbentifalien ben i;c trieb nid;t fortfeben fonnten unb ed ficbt bettor, bafj fid) aud biefer llrfa dic ein i'iaffen - IBarferott ergibt, aid teentt rotr mid in eitter groBeii ?i nanjoanif befdnbcn. Siefe iModierttng be? antcrifani fdicn .^anbeld gcht nodi rocitcr unb gcftaltet fid) 311 eitter befonberd feinb iicben .vronblung baburd), baft und auai nidjt geftattet roirb, Saren aus unferent cigencn Sanbe nad) neutra len Sdnbertt unb nad) ben Sanberit ber beutfdien SSerbiinbctcn 3U fdjiden. J\iir ba-:- Gritcrc ift iiberbauvt cine Nedjtfcrtigung nidjt bettfbar, ba ed gegeu ailed ‘Solferrcdit ocrftoftt, ben a it del jroifdtcn neutralcn Sdnbem 3U uuterbinben unb bad Iefttcre iit cbcmnQs nidjt gercditfertigt, fo lange feinc gcfcfclidje SModabe beftebt. Sad Ncfultat ift bemnadi. baft roir non ben Sllliicrtcn in eincr SSeife bcbati belt roerben, aid roenn fie unfere^eir be rodren. (iiclbbcronr fiirditrn SJrrlnft. %\c fd)Icd)tcr c§ ben Siliiicrtcn er» gebt, befit) ftdrfer ti'irb ber Xnicf ber tiiefigen Jvmcnijfretje, bie tljr (f5clb ben Sltliiertcn geiieljen baben, unb bas fie bet einciit entfdiiebetten £iege Xcutfd)ianb5 unb Cefterreid) - Un gams 311 ocrlieren fiircbtcn, auf bie Slbmiuiftration uub lcitcnbe Sion* greBabgcorbiteie. Xefto ftdrfer audt bie Slttgft alitr bcgeiiicrten SSritcn frcunbe uub befto bringenber iljr Sihtnid). an 3eite ber Miicrtai in ben firicg einjutreten. Xie fsinatt3 freife tnoflen bas non itjnen Xarge Iiebcne burd) StnerifaS ?«inan}fraft gefidiert feben, unb boffen mil ben iibrigen Sfritenfreunben, burd) ben Gintritt ber i'creinigtcn 3taaten in ben ftampf, ben SIrieg fo ju neridn gem, bag trofe after SSaffe’ncrfoIge Xeutfd)Ianb§ fdjliefjlid) nadjgcben ntufc. Xtr inrtftfprndiigr fioinpngnir. Xie meiftfpradjige fiompagnie con alien §ccrcn ber tSelt, unb babet roofjl ein3igartig in biefer 3onbet barfeit, befinbet fid) in ber Xdbntei 3er Stance. (is ifi bie 4- ilompag nie bc§ 91. ©raubimbener fyiifilicr bataillons. £,n biefer Siontpagnie nterben nidit treniger .ala fcdj» 3pra* cben Pott ber i'iarniidba't gefprodien. namlidj Stalienifdj, Sranjofifd), Xcutfd), fRotnanifd) ttnb Dcrfd)tcbene SKunbarten biefer 3prad)cu. Xie tpauptfpradbe, in ber bie Siomman bo§ erteilt trerben, ift Xcutfd), unb roenn aftc aud) biefc SronttnanboS ocr* fteben. fo fdttnen bod) auger biefett Si-ommanbotDorten tticle fein SSorl Xcutfd). amcrtfifS Supfcrprobuftion. SSafbington. ^nfolgc ber butd) ben europdifdien JJrieg berur fadjten ungebcuren 9?adjfrage ift bie fiupfcrprobuftion in ben 33er. ©taa* ten auf mebr alS 5toeitaufenb Sftillio. nen 'Pfunb geftiegen. 'Jiadj cmer 3“ fammcnfteQung be§ geologifdjen 2?u reaus bcr Sfegierung, loeldje foeben befannt gegeben rourbe, betragt bie gcfamte Supfergeroinnung fiir 1915 2,026,000,000 iPfunb. !Tie iProbuf tion ber Sdjmcljroerfc crrcidjte cine £jobe Pon 1,388,000,000 ipfunb im SSerto bon $242,900,000 sum Durdjidjrittspreife bon 17.5 dents ba§ ipfunb. £rofc ber 9tot. bie infolge bcr nun mebr fdjon fiinf ^sabre bauemben iRe nolution in SKcrifo berrfdjen mug, baben bie bort toobncnbcn Seutfdjen 28,000 SKarf fiir bie Unierftiibung ber SSitmcn unb SSaifen beutfdjer ftrieger nadj Xcutfdjlanb fcnben fdn ncn. Ta§ berbient fidjcrlidj bob* Slnerfennung. iparis ocrtraut auf bie franaoft* fdjen Stanonen. Sludj Slntroerpen batte fid) auf feinc ftanonen berlaf fen!!