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BED OLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF I y V Jcanfc H M $ I Vo S4S SsWaV Raising of Manu Sunken Ships bu England Helps to Defeat the German Submarine Campaign 1Q 3n rA ? WStf? W 9 Sfc UILUINO now ships to replace losses Is not tlio only v:iy to defeat tin Gorman submarine ciitiiii:tin. Saving ships tlmt hnve boon duin aged, lifting Miosis ovi-n. that have lii'i'ii Mini;, nnil restoring them to sougolns, condition, nit' among tin methods which linvi" gradually boon Improve! in Midland us the strin gency of the shipping shortage be came greater each month. The reason why the lirlll.sh iiuUinrllles were not fully equipped to rulso every .ship that was Mink lroin the very Mart of tin war Is purely commercial. Salving ships costs money. Untitling new ones costs money. Ho linn; as the cost of salving was equal or even slightly In excess of the cost of building. ho long It was not worlh the while of ownei.s to order salvage operations Just .so long were In vention and progress In the art of salvage de layed. When the, salving of ships hecame urgent in the course of 1010 Inventors of new appli ances and hew methods, salvage experts of many years .standing, set their hralns to work, and the result Is that today ships can be raised ami re paired frum positions that two years ago would have been abandoned as hopeless. As showing how need stimulates invention, 1 may instunco a discovery in chemistry which has proved to be of the utum.it value In salvuge work, writes II. C. Forruby 'n Country Life. It Is obvious that when a ship, laden with grain, beef, or other perishable stuffs, gets water-logged with seawater, something u?y unpleasant Is go lug to happen to her cargo. In point of fact, It turns Into miniature poison-gas factory, (iraln produces sulphuretted hydrogen, and the salvage men who stumble on a pocket of that in a beached ship would be seized with violent sick ness, would be partially blinded for some time, und would turn a dull leaden color in the fate. Experiment brought an antidote to this trouble, und now the cargo of u ship that Is to be halved can be sprayed with a bpeclal solution as soon us there is any reason to suspect poison gas. This spraying removes all danger. .Salvage work before the war was puiely a private enterprise. The admiralty had no salv age brunch, and when warships went ashore or were beached after collision the private linns, like the Liverpool Salvage association, were culled In. War altered that, like many other things In the maritime world, and today the whole of the salvage work mound the United Kingdom Is carried out by an admiralty dopait mem. Hut since the men manning that depart l cut are, without exception, the former heads of the salvage business, the difference is mainly In titles and not la methods. Warship salving hV confidential, and the work done by the department in MiN direction cannot be described. Its shine in keeping the allies supplli.d with merchant ships, howeer, Is not sociot, and the recoid of work done since Octo ber, llllfi, Is an excellent one. Down to the end of J017 the admiralty salvage section, under the guidance of dipt. J W. Young, had tescued :(! wrecked, mined or torpedoed ships und sent tin fit In for repairs. All that time t'u-lr cvporlouro was growing. .New material was being built for the work, new ideas were being put Into prac tical shape, and the result Is th.-i the jenr 11)18 has so far seen a romnikublo increase In Mm number of ships mived. 'J he figures for the eurly pint of this year are: January, 11; Febru ary, 41; March, 07; April, 0(5; Muj, 10; giving a total of 1 17. Thus In 02 months -107 slops have been restored to the world's mercantile tonnage. The Germans count ull these and sonic of them twice over, in their calculations of the tonnage loss inlllcted on the allies by the submarine lumpuign. Hvery salvage man will tell you that the only thing certain about It is that you never know what Is going to happen. A ship muy be ushoro la the simplest position, with just one big hole In her to be patched up, and it looks like a Job that will take a few days. In the end you are. perhaps, six months hanging around with that one ship before you can get her to (lout. Weath er, tides and the condition of the cargo nil pluy a lending part in the work. The only tiling the salvage man has got to do all the time Is to be patient. That, pet Imps, Is why they all look ko tired. Walling Is a weary business. The weather is the worst enemy of salvage men. It Is very nice on a line summer's day to stand on the cliffs und look down at the busy humming workshops that we call salvage steam ers clustered round a wreck that shines red with rust In the sunlight. The motors of the pumps drone Incessantly, and the great liMneli pipes Kend out cascades of gray water whose stale scent travels fur helore It Is lost. The metal helmeted divers clamber up and down, sitting for a while In the sun to make report of their progress below, receiving orders for the next etuge, or Just resting. It Is different when the southwesterly gules blow, when rollers pour In from the Atlantic and pound down like. Nunsiiiytb hummers on the decks of tlio wreck. The sal vugo bouts and tugs all have to run for shelter, work has to bo abandoned, and only the still' silent hulk Is left to weather the storm. So long as she Is llrnily Imbedded In the sand or shingle however, and Micro Is plently of water insido her as well as outside, It takes a good many months of fitorma to knock u ship to pieces. It is ofteii necessury, In order to snve a wreck from the effects of weather, to Hood compartments In her that had remained watertight. Tlio problem of dealing with the water In wreckH anil In slilps (hat have been holed but are still nlloat has been advanced very fur toward solution during the war by tliu general adoption of a new lirltlsh Invention, which has beeu do ocrlhed ns a niiraclo of modem electrical engi neering. Described simply, It Is an electrically driven pump which run ho entirely submeigcd and will stllr pump ns elllclently as if u wero above water. The submersible pump, ns It Is called, does things Mint no one ever believed u pump could do. I saw one In the hold of a u-rock reccutLy, covered with a black, evil-smell- aw m m l e &$ ;n$n'. au WiMEMMk &U.YAG iyQKK AT JLOW WOf fsSMu ow wit&z . a wsScxsp cWGOSoAr s sxQff 'ffj; j lug oo.i, looking tor all the world like a bit of wreckage itselt. lint It had Just Mulshed a long bout of pumping under water in Unit hold, which was filled with lloallng buirels, beams, tangled Ironwork and n sludge that was indcsei limbic; and when It had been put over the side und hud pumped u tew tons of clean sen water through itself, that pump wns ready to start work uguin anywhere. The secret of the pump Is tlmt it Is not water tight which sounds absurd. It Is. Jiowever, per fectly true that the water can flow In und around the whole of the works of the pump while It Is at week. No one has ever hitherto succeed ed in .linking electricity work under water in this wr.y; but the uses of the discovery are plain even to the lti. mini. A ship litted with these pumps, for example, might never to sink. If she bus enough of them on board, hecnuse they can be set to work In the Hooded compartments and rump the water out as fast ns It comes In. Dam age to the engine rooms does not nlTect the pumps, because they do not rely for their cur rent on the ship's dynamos, but on their own portable outfit. Salvage experts tell one rather amusing tale of the versatility of the pumps. A tire broke out In the hold of a ship that was carrying a very valuable Inllainmable cargo. Two submersible pumps were on hoard, and the captain slung them over the side Into the sea, attached a good length of hose to them and set them going to pump water at the rate of about 050 tons an hour each Into the burning hold. They soon put the Ore out, and the captain then lowered the pumps Into the hold and made them pump out the water they had previously pumped in. INTRICATE WEAPON Hack of the torpedo Is Its iMi-shuped body, con taining all the nuuhinciy to drive and steer after It has been launched. From forward aft we Und compartments as follows: A compressed air res ervoir, an Immersion or balance chamber, englno space and a buojancy chamber. The tiny engine Is driven by compressed air, which Is compressed to a high degree, and It rotates the propellers whereby the projectile Is carried through Mm water. The immersion or balance chamber pro vides the means of maintaining the depth at which the torpedo shall tiavel through the water alter being launched. In the engine chamber there Is also the device for keeping the projectile to its designated path dining Its travel. This Is achieved by means ol a gyroscope. The buoyancy chamber, which Is placed aft of the engine cham ber, Is virtually a vacuum. Without this cham ber' the torpedo would sink. The propellers and i udders ure astern and outside the torpedo's body. WONDEnFUL RESEMBLANCE. Dion Houcicnult. the actor-drainatlst, was the' verv image of Sir Kenelm Dlgby, tlio seventeenth century philosopher. Douglas .lerrold und Mout golller, Mm Inventor of balloons, might have passed us twin brothers. .Montagu Williams had only to don a black periwig to become u perfect double of Charles 11 as depicted by Sir Peter Lely. The likeness between Uyrou and J. L. Mot ley, the historian of tlio Dutch republic, was de scribed by the poet's widow as "most wouder- ful." Charles MacFurlune in his "Komlnlscenees of n Literary Life," describes how, In 18U0, ho met Shelley In tlio Hoynl Hurbon musoum, Naples, and showed him n stntuo of Agrlppinn, the mother "7l ' -x iff i CrM Tmmnf' ' LfgLJI 1 II ; 7 Ww$ TfJMW?J&J!.'LCrAVCPJ!7,virW0M MSMtv mil x ifr JtviS m $3K9! cv -aifl Mrv Tw"'4"' . ,- - '4 WKM 'mmffiStih -8S& XSHSV PBWgWtWlBlil 2S iK'2SSBi9 v M.l ion . .v. A Fire at faca, collnlon, weather and other murine risks arc all dealt with by the admiralty sulvugo section JttRt ns much us war risks such as min ing and torpedoing; but It Is, of course, the war risks that provide the bulk of the cases. Tlio work of the section falls really Into three parts. There are, llrst of all, the rescue tugs. These proceed to an.v ship tlmt Is In distress, whatever the cause, and endeavor to tow her Into port, or at least to get her Into shallow water, where ulie can go ngrouud or even sink and still be sulvable. In tin- hitter case the second part of the section's work begins the patching up, einp t.vlng and lifting. This may take anything from six weeks to m months. When she Is lifted and afloat again nhe Is towed to the nearest sheltered anchorage, and there temporary repairs are ef fected, she Is i leaned up inside nnd her cupine room restored to .something like order. It Is the it tut. ns tar as possible, to enable her to proceed to a shipyard under her own steam. There are cnsn, of course, where the torpedo or the mine hn ploded Just by the engine-room and blown uvuyihlng to fragments. Then the hull, patched up, has to be towed to the repair ing yard; but m the majority of cases the dam age Is In the Imws or In the stern, und Mm vessel can limp aloii.' by horse'' after Inst aid from the salvage sectUm. lirlll.sh (salvage experts havo little hope of sulvlug nuy of Mu ships that are down In deep water. Tpe r''s,c'l limitations of divers nlono would malte It an Impossibility to rnlse, for e. a tuple, the Lusitunlu, and, so far, no mechanical devices that hnve been suggested or made hold out uny hnpt of doing the work of the diver with any success. of N'pi-o. "I i 'Id him that the Honnparto family considered il l the very Imago of their mother. When Miioai e Mere was In Naples, her daughter, Queen Cnrolla- Induced her to sit by the statue, and made n ln-ge party remark on the striking eseinblance." GREAV PLAY NEVER PRODUCED. (en. Low Wallace wrote a tragedy entitled "Coiniuodiis." ildch was founded on the story of Mutornti6. an escaped slave, who lebelled against his country, placed himself at the head of a band if outlaws, planned the capture or Homu und his wn elevation to the throne, but was finally l 'rayed and killed. It was never produced, but Lawrence ISurrctt, to whom It wns submitted, wivtc (ii'iieral Wallace that It was tho best play nln.- "IMchelleu," and that "both us a poem and us mi acting play 'Coinmodiis' Is tho best Kngllfh iniim," It was printed, but no-w staged.- Host mi 5Iobe. UP, SEE, UP. "It's Just oi.wied on mo why thoso trnpezo performers an- sech funny fellers," said the man ager of the i-p'ry house. "Wull, why is it, olo Smart Alec," asked tho sher'f of the tn un. "Why, cnuw tho dern cusses Is iillera nctln' up." FAIR TREATMENT. A beautiful .viing lady approached tho ticket window, and In a voice like tho rippling of u brook uskod the clerk; "What Is tho faro to the fair?" To wulch the clerk replied ; "Sumo as to tho homely, madam." EMPLOYERS HAVE DUTY SHOULD HELP IN WORK CLASSIFYING THE NEW REGISTRANTS. OF Pointing out the duty of employers of labor In assuming u i-tnpcr shut o of responsibility for the I isslllcatlon of new registrants under th. selective servic.- net, a communication trom Pro vost .Marshal (leneral Cnnvder has beeu made public. The points empha sized me as follows; I have mil Iced, In the gin-nil ex pressions of the public ntllttide which roach this olllce, two frequent features whli h lead me to the present com ments. One of these features Is the belief that the process of awarding do f'eired classification to a registrant re quires merely the filling out of the ipiestloniialre, und that the seli-llve service boards will perceive the pro prleiy of making (he deferment, with out the assistance furnished by the tcglstnint's formal claim Indicating the deferment desired. The oilier fea ture Is the eniplo.ver's failure to real ize his responsibility to Intervene in Hiding the board's determination, und I lien-fore to Inform himself fully on all the considerations which should alfect the decision as to deferment. 1. As to the llrst mentioned Viellef, It must be pointed out that If It were universally acted upon, the process of classification would be seriously hum peicd and delayed. Someone must In dicate that the Individual case Is one which should mi est the speclul utten lion of the boards In respect to the reg istrant's occupational status. The boards do not possess a superhuman oniulscence. Boards Will Make Examination. The boards will do all that they pos sibly can, on their own Initiative, to roach a Just decision by a complete ex amination of the ipiestloniialre, even where no claim Is expressly made. A registrant Is therefore nt liberty, If he sees lit, to trust to the scrutiny of the boards to discover the necessity for his deferment. Nevertheless, the boards will wel come and will need nil the aid Mint can be furnished by the Indication of a claim made for deferment. 1!. Why should the employer, or oth er third person. In such cases, make the claim? Hecnuse the employer In Mils situation represents the nation, because (In the statutory phrase) "the maintenance of the military es tablishment or of national Interest during the emergency" requires that some well-advised third person should look after that national Interest, which the registrant himself may not have sulllclently considered. It Is often forgotten that the selec tive draft Is only one element In the depletion of a particular Industry's man-power. A second nnd large cle ment Is found la the voluntary with drawals for enlistment ; how large this Is may be seen from the circumstance that the total Indiicllons by draft havo reached some 2,000.000, while the lotnl enlistments In army and navy nninunt to some 1 ,100.000 nearly three-quarters ns many. A third element, very large, but unknown ns to Its precise extent, has been the transfer of labor power from one Industry to another, namely, Into the 'distinctively war In dustries offering the Inducements of higher wages. How relatively small, In actual effect, has been the effect of the selective draft Is seen In the fact that, for all the occupations represent ed In the 8.700.000 classified regis trants of .Taiiuary, 1018, the percen tage of the entire Industrial popula tion represented by the class 1 icgls trants amounted to only (1 per cent. It ran as low ns it per cent for some oc cupations, and correspondingly higher for some other occupations; hut tho national avernge was only (5 per cent. An.v notably larger depletion In partic ular Industries must therefore have been due, partly to enlistments, and In probably greater degree, to voluntary transfers Into other Industries. Must Remember Nation's Needs. These other tntliiences nre theroforn to he kept In mind by employers und others, In weighing the question wheth er the best solution, In the national Interest, Is to usk for the deferment of Individuals or groups of men. Such deferments tna.v assist the Immediate situation In the particular establish ment ; but they merely force the army and the navy to seek elsewhere for the same number of men thus deferred. The quantitative needs of the mllltury forces ure known ami Im perative; and an.v given quantity of deferments will ultimately have to be made up by the depletion of some other occupation. Thus It becomes the employer's duty to consider these aspects of deferment, In seeking that solution of his own problem which best comports with the national Interest. The keynote of purpose for all of us ought to be, and I am sure will be, that wise and ptofoumlly significant phrase In the act of congress under which we operate, "the iiinlntenance of tho military establishment or the effective operation of the military forces or the maintenance of national Interest during the emergency. nrw J3 Suffered For Years Back and Kidneys Were in Bad Shape, But Doan's Removed all the Trouble. "My kidney wero no weak that the Ifnut. nnlit I enllt.tit .. mtl.l irAni If ... ... . .,, il IH.LV IIIUIII F and Rtait uiy back ncliiuu until II cmiiu nanny eniliim tlio misery," nays Mm. I). C Uo, 073 Fulton St., Hroolc lyn, N. . "In Mm morning when 1 mm Ruu up, niy oacK wat) no lame, I could Innlly hcnJ over and any wove arnt dirta of pain thioURh my kid m-va. It win hard far mo to ralW up ttairn or t"?P , and to move wlnlo lyitiR down neat darU of pnia tUrouuli mo. "IT., i.i.i..... t oiis were Kcnnty and dintrcfHinK ni the water temaitied in mv svntiin. mak. iiig mv fret and linuili mvcll. Thfcre vi ere dark circles under mv cyea Mjd I bocmio oo dim- 1 could hardly tte. I hnd rlieiiinatio palm in my knees jnd It w-aa nil I lotild do to pet nrbtul. lor j cars I w.m in tint Klinpp tnd I wore plnMera nnd unci! all kUdi of medicine to no nvail until I tried Doan's Kidney Pills. Thev ".1 me of tho tiouli and ntronRtliMicd my bick and kidiu-j a. When I hve taken Joan's nitiee, they have aw.y bene lited me." Kicorn to beforr me. L. N. VAUGI1AN, Xotary Public. Gt Doan't at Any Stre. GOc Box DOAN'S "iSSE rOSTEU-MlLBUItN CO., BUFFALO. N. Y. & MRS. KOSV jvv'aO Skin Tortured Babies Sleep After Cuticura' AXfihU: SMtH.OInkrfaitZBinild.TmlaimX Sl weh in t "tUtlmy. . , PiWn ,r GRAND, GLORIOUS FEEUNG Moment In the Life f an Aviator T,t Makes Up ftr Much He Has Endured. When you hnve been on pntnrt a long way behind the enemy lines, shoot Ins up towns and camps and railway trains like a pack of nerlal cowboys; when, on yur wny home, you hnve df llberntely disobeyed orders nnd loafed n long way behind the other members of your Krotip In order to watch tin pretty sunset; and ns u punishment for tills esthetic Indulgence havo beei overtaken by darkness and compelled to land In strange country, nly to hnve your machine Immediately sur rounded by Oermnn soldiers; then, having taken Mm despcrato resolve that they shall not hnve possession of your eld battlc-scnrred avion as wll as of your person, when you nro about to touch n match to It, If the light glistens n n long French bayonet and you learn that the German soldiers hnve Imi-11 prisoners slnco the battle of the Somme, and hnve Just finished their duy's work nt harvesting beets to bo used In mnklng sugur for Frendi pollus nh, Isn't It a grand and glo. rlous feeling? To which I would reply, "Mills out mon vleuxl Mais oull" Juntos N, Hall, In July Atlantic. No Trlfler. 'Too ninny of you fanners mnkv a practlco of coming to town to whittle and yawn," said the hypercrltlcnl tour ist. "Mchby some do, but I don't," rcp.la Gap Johnson of Itumpus Hldge, Ark "I cun do that at home without bclroj bothered. I don't come to town, skurcr ly ever, unless I've got sotnothlng rlghi Important on hand, like being drug la by the grand Jury, or to hour whaVx new In politics, or to talk horse swiUp, or something thut-u-wuy." Kunftu City Star. Vagabonds havo no coupons attach ed and are Irredeemable. Success Is tho ono crime that soma folks refuse to forgive In their f deads, ' New York's Systematic Growth. A remarkable forecast of population of New York Is brought to light In copies of the Sclentllle American for September S. 1SIS0, A statistician for the manual of the common council shows the population of the city to Increase until lOOo would have mado tho population of New York r.-I.7.-llKi. u llgure almost In accord with the cen sus of that time. Optlmlotlc Thought. When one scleuco is learned others occutne easy. III Take P0STUM! you hear it more ana more when one is asked what he'll hove for his morn ing drink. Delightful aroma and xaste.and free dom from the dis comforts that go with coffee. Nourishing health ful, economical. NoWASTEatall an important item these days. Give INSTANT POSTUM atrial iTfl ' il t i trj'fl I ' s; m vi $ M .' t . I aagwuryym "yyM jreve?