Beaver County Republican. (Gray, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1914 Page: 2 of 4
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BEAVER COUNTY REPUBLICAN. GRAY. OKLAHOMA.
BALANCE KEPT BY NATURE
tncnase of the Human Race Seems te
Be Regulated by Wars and
Other Devastations.
Kv< rv voar, according o scientists
> ho attempt to keep the general rec-
orus. at least 80,000,000 human beings
are born oo this earth sad 60,000,000
or 70,000,000 die. This indicates a
dail birth rate of about 220.000 and
a dtith rate of 180.000. The daily
Increase in population therefore la
about 40,ooQ. The total population of
the globe is estimated at 1,800,000,000.
The ravages of war do little to im-
t>ede the Increase. Far more effective
have been the upheavals of nature.
The Franco-Prussian war killed about
130,000 In seven months. The death
roll of the Russo-Japanese reached
about 200,000. A single earthquake
<1737, In India) has been estimated to
have caused 300,000 deaths. The fa-
talities of the Messina earthquake In
1908 cannot have been far short of
300.000. A tidal wave In 1896 drowned
27,000 persons In Japan, causing a
greater loss of life than the whole
war with China in 1894 The earth-
quake In Japan 1^,1703 Is said to have
killed 200,000 people. .The Lisbon
earthquake In destroyed HO,000
human lives, while 40,000 were lost In
the same year In earthquakes in Per-
sia.
FOUND TIME FOR AMENITIES
How British and Boers Exchanged
Compliments During the Long
Siege of Kimberley.
During the Boer war Mr. Rhodes
was shut up In Kimbarley, and the
Boers constantly shelled the town with
long-range artillery. They were not
very succeseful, for with 300 big shells
they only klUed 12 people.
Meantime. Mr. Rhodes accomplished
the extraordinary feat of getting a
rannon biiilt at his works inside the
town. It was a regular modern rifled
gun, and fired sheila—also homemade
- on each of which was stamped.
"With compliments of C. J. Rhodes."
The Boers themselves were not with-
out a sense of humor. During Christ-
mas. 1899, they were besieging Lady-
smith. and on Christmas eve they fired
ten plugged shells into the town each
with a piece of plum padding inside,
and each bearing the words, "With the
season's compliments."
Two of the shells were found by the
garrison, and It was discovered that,
like Mr. Rhodes', they were home-
made, having been cast In a foundry
at Johannesburg.
8afe Either Way.
A farmer in a cyclone district was
building a superb stone wall. He was
f>::ildlng the wall stanch and solid, five
feet across the base and four feet high
A stranger stopped his horse and said
to the farmer:
"You're taking a lot of trouble with
that wall."
"You bet," the farmer answered.
"I ni putting her here to slay."
"What's the good of that?" sneered
the stranger. "A eyefone'll come along
and she'll blow over Just the same "
"Well, let her," said the farnieV.
"She'll be a foot higher If she does."
—Minneapolis Journal.
The Tip.
"Study a child's character," said
Henry Ford in Washington. "Note
his proclivities. Then choose a trade
or a profession, for him accordingly.
"I eent a little boy out the other day
with a quarter to make a small pur-
<hase for me. On his return he told
me the article 1 desired was out of
stock, and handed back my quarter—
In the form of two dimes and a nickel.
WARSHIPIS BLOWN
UP IN THE MEDWAY
Magazines of Bulwark Let Go
and Nearly 800 of Crew
Killed by Explosion.
It Happened in Boston.
"Did your husband cut his false
friend with acerbity?"
"No, mum. wid a raznh."
Quick
Accurate
Thinking
— doe« much to make the
difference between success
and failure.
And the food a person
eats goes a long way toward
deciding the difference.
Grape-Nuts
FOOD
— with its delicious flavour
and rich in the concentrat-
ed, nourishing elements of
whole wheat and malted
barley, is the favorite
breakfast cereal of thou-
sands of successful men
and women —
** There'* a Reason"
for
Grape-Nuts
—sold by Grocers.
London and Petrograd Report 50,000
Germans Captured and Say that
Retreat Has Become Rout
of Great Proportions.
(Summary of Events.)
The British warship Bulwark
lias bean blown up in the Medway
river otf Sherness by an explos-
ion in her magazines. Only
twelve were saved out of the crew
of 700 or H00 aboard the Bulwark.
The explosion is believed to have
been in an internal magazine.
Whether it was caused by Ger-
man agents or was an accident
such as might have occurred in
times of peace, has not been de-
termined.
To Help England.
A brief dispatch from Lisbon says
the Portuguese congress has decided
that Portugal should co-operate with
the Allies. The minister of war has
called for a partial mobilization of the
army. The treaty by which Portugal
believes it is bound to aid the Allies
wan made in 1703 with Kngland. and It
provides that "each shall mutually aid
and help the other" In case of attack.
French Guns Near Met*.
Frenth artillery continue to bom-
bard Arnaville, only ten miles from
Metis, Germany. The development of
an offensive in Ixirraine has long
been expected, but to what extent it
may be carried was not indicated at
the war office.
From north of Verdun and south of
Met7. the German line extends in a
wedse into the Verdun-Toul defenses
of the French. The two sides of the
wedge are joined in the region of
Chauvoncourt and St. Mihiel, where
desperate fighting has occurred the
last week. It was at Chauvoncourt
that the French suffered heavy losses
through the explosion of (Jerman*
mines. The French have been unable
to drive the Germans Trom the pot
tlons that now hold in this district
and the movement upon Arnaville is
evidently a tightening of the circle
which the French are endeavoring to
drive about St. Mihiel.
Heavy Attack on Allies.
The Allies have been attacked in
forte from Ypres to l.a Masse. A
terlfHc battle has commenced. The
Germans have heavy reinforcements
and fresh guns for this renewal of the
efTort to cut through the Allies' line.
The FnKllsh artlilery, however, thus
far has thwarted all the German at-
tempts.
It is now said the plan Is to reach
the French coast by December 10. The
Germans shown few signs of being
staggered by their enormous losses
and dispatches from Merlin set forth
tllat the Herman troops are far better
able to stand exposure to the cold than
are the Allies. The forces of Emper-
or William are trained and clothed
fcr Just such an emergency, while
the troops of the Allies, from the
south of France, from Morocco and
from India must necessarily suffer
greatly.
Cold and Fatigue.
The extreme cold weather and the
exhaustion of the troops engaged
have virtually brought the battle in
Flanders to a standstill.
A desultory artillery duel continues
at some points along the wide front
and there has been an occasional In
♦antry attack, but for the last five
days the fighting has been mild com-
pared with the fierceness of that
which for more than a month pre-
ceded It.
Victory for Russians.
The Russians have won au import-
ant battle with the Germans between
the Vistula and Warta rivers in Po-
land
Official news received in Lon-
don declares that the rout of the
German and Austrian forces In Po-
land has been complete. The general
staff, however. Is not yet able to give
any details of this fighting. It is now
clear that the Russian victory in Po-
lund is decisive. The number of pris-
oners taken by the Russians is esti-
mated at fifty thousand.
Abandon Guns and Transport.
The Gertusns have begun a retreat
along the entire front, und in many
places the flight Is a disorderly rout,
marked by the abandonment of artil-
lery, maxims and transports. Rerlin
meanwhile is beginning to talk about
repulsing Russian attacks, which is a
Bubtle method of announcing that the
German troops are on the defensive.
The main Russian force is exclu-
sively engaged against the Plock
group, whose front is cut in halves.
Its right half is surrounded on all
sides and is vainly struggling as In an
I-a*. vise and striving to break through
i Jiv left wing at Lowlcz, which in
turn is battling unsuccessfully.
A Second Battle Probable.
The same dispatches that tell of
Von Hindenburg's reverses, however,
say that the German re-enforcements
were being brought up so that another
great battle is likely to develop on a
line nearer to the frontier of Posen,
where the Germans will have the
Fame chances of renewing a vigorous
offensive as had the Russians In the
present instance.
General Von I linden burg has about
400.000 men. but If the Petrogrnd re-
port can be accepted, they have been
separated, badly cut up and thousands
taken prisoner, so these German forces
will require reformation and rest.
Another Russian army Is operating
along the border of Bast Prussia, and
a third one is pursuing a vigorous
campaign in northern Austria. It
was said by military experts that the
purpose of the Austro-German sttack
and pursuit of the Russian center
was to draw off the second and third
armies from East Prussia and Galicia.
What these lesser Slav forces are do-
ins has not been revealed.
Przemysl About to Fall.
A dispatch from Petrograd says
that it is announced there that the
siege of Przemysl appears to be rapid-
ly approaching its end. The trenches
surrounding the fortifications are in
the possession of the Russian troops.
Many of the trenches are filled with
lime, confirming statements of pris-
oners that cholera is raging in the gar-
rison of Przemysl.
Austrians Tell of Success.
Reports from Vienna tell of success-
es in Galicia, Including the occupation
by the Teutonic allies of Tarnow and
Wieliczka.
Turka Are Winning Fast.
Official reports given out in Con-
stantinople relate the continued suc-
cessful Turkish advance upon Hatum,
the Russian port on the Black Sea.
All the territory between the Turko-
Russian border and the River Chursk
is in Turkish hands, while a Turkish
force in the southern part of this ter-
ritory has taken Artwin. The Turks
declare that the English losses at
Shatt-el-Arab amounted to 750 dead
and several thousand wounded.
Russian Port Bombarded.
The Turkish cruiser Ifamldieh, fol-
lowed hy a flotilla of torpedo boats,
appeared off Tauhse, Russia, and
opened fire, hurling 12.1 projectiles
into the neighborhood The Russian
artillery Immediately replied with a
very effective fire.
Turks Reach Suez Canal.
An official Turkish statement says
that the Turkish troops have reached
tlie Suez Cinal. In fighting near El
Kantara the English suffered heavy
losses and took flight.
Riot in Constantinople.
The British embassy in Constanti-
nople has been sacked and the Rus-
sian hospital pillaged and all foreign-
ers have been more or less Beriously
abused.
May Attack Italy.
The Italian government is aware
that Austria is doing Its utmost to
induce Turkey to attack Italy, but
none the less hesitates to believe the
report that has just come in from one
of its most reliable agents that com-
mon action of the combined Austro-
Turkish squadron is to be expected
against Italy at a very early date.
GENERAL YOUNGBLUTH
_ t«v<r
HERE and THERE
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHS
Among the Belgian commander*
who have gained distinction in the
i war is General Youn^biuth. aide-de-
camp to King Albert.
GERMANS IN DESPERATE
ATTtMPT TO REACH COAST
London.—Behind all bluster of the
German press we may .read a resolute
Teuton determination to continue at-
tacking and a coulldonce in ultimate
triumph of Germany which are almost
sublime. An effort Is to be made to
burst through to Calais. Upon this
task one-half million German troops
will be engaged within the next few-
days.
Perhaps one hundred thousand Gar-
.mans will lay down their lives In the
frantic effort to form a pathway for
their survivors in obeying the kaiser's
desperate order that Calais be taken
by December 10. Germans know how to
| file and the legions marching across
I Belgium to Join battle with the Allies
I'm the surely decisive contest in this
region know that ror tens of thousands
[among them there will lie no return
There are two dominant impulses
which make Hermans fling themselves
. upon death with such recklessness.
I One in a devotion to the Fatherland.
I the other terror of their officers.
Washington.
Owing to the low price of cotton and
the restricted export demand for it,
many Southern planters desire to
plant grain on parts of their cotton
lands, and to facilitate the movement
the Agricultural Department has Is-
sued several special bulletins treat-
ing of the growing of winter wheat
and winter oats in the cotton belt.
+ + +
Applications by naturalized Ameri-
cans tor passports to visit their na-
tive lands are frequently meeting
with rejection by the State Depart-
ment which is enforcing strict appli-
cation of the new passport regula-
tions, recently promulgated by Presi-
dent Wilson.
♦
The Crockerland expedition, after
its long trip of twelve hundred miles
from Etah to the point where Rear
Admiral Robert E. Peary said he
sighted the great and unexplored con
tlnent supposed to exist in the north
polar regions, found that Crockerland
was not there.
+ + +
President Wilson will not adopt the
suggestion of the American Federa
tlon of I.abor that steps be taken to
have a receiver appointed for the Colo
rado coal mines involved in the strike,
with the purpose of having them op-
erated hy the federal government.
+ + +
General Villa has ordered an attack
on Tampico. His army is operating
from the city1 of San Luis Potosi,
which was occupied without firing a
shot. Official dispatches received here
say the people received Villa with an
ovation.
+ 4* +
Concluding chapters in the story of
American pluck and perseverance that
made possible the construction of the
Panama Canal are written by Col.
George W. Goethals, governor of the
zone, in his' annual report JuBt sub-
mitted to Secretary Garrison.
+ + +
Argentina's new grain crop will al
low it to export 4,200,000 tons of
wheat, 2 million tons of corn, 1,200,000
tons of oats and 1.160,000 tons of flax
according to official government esti-
mates cabled to the Argentina ambas-
sador.
+ + +
President Wilson has issued a proc-
lamation laying down rules and regu-
lations to govern the use of the Pan-
ama Canal by the warships of bellig-
erent nations.
+ + +
Officials of the Treasury Depart-
ment are planning k vigorous nation'
wide campaign for the detection of In
come tax dodgers and the collection
of unpaid taxes which may amount
into millions.
+ * +
Domestic Items.
Will C. McRrine, former warrant
clerk In the Oklahoma state auditor's
office, must serve five years in the
penitentiary at McAlester. He was
found guilty of forging state warrants.
+ + +
Prison doors < t McAlester and Gran-
ite, Okla., will open for nearly one
hundred state convicts who will be
given expiration pardons in time for
them to spend Christinas at home.
+ -ir +
Death from pneumonia has ended
the sixty-fourth years' service of John
Law, aged 93, as register of deeds of
Orange County, N. C.
+ *
The twenty-first annual convention
of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy has come to a close at Sa-
vannah, Ga. The 1915 convention will
be held in San Francisco.
+ + +
Secretary Daniels has cabled Cap-
tain Decker of the Cruiser Tennessee
and Captain Oman of the cruiser
North Carolina, in the Eastern Medi-
terranean, giving them authority to
deal with emergencies that might
arise in protecting American citizens
and their interests in Turkey.
+ + +
The army transports Cristobal,
Knnsan and Sumner, bearing General
Funaton and part of the Fifth Brigade
troops which have occupied Vera Cruz
for seventh months, have arrived at
Galveston.
+ + +
A distressing lack of medical sup-
plies for the wounded of the battle
fields of Europe is shown by appeals
received by varioiiB relief organiza-
tions and by the tremendous orders
received from the warring nations by
American manufacturers of such ma-
terials.
+ + +
llritlBh orders for more than $15,-
000,000 worth of vehicles—motor cars,
wagons, sleds, harness and equipment,
were brought back by Frederick S.
Fish of South Bend. Ind., who has Just
returned from England
4- + 4.
A chair of Russian language and in
stttutlons will be established this win-
ter at the University of Chicago by
the gift of Charles R. Crane of Chi-
cago. Samuel N. Harper, late lecturer
In the School of Russian Studies at
Liverpool University, England, will oc-
cupy the new chair. A feature of the
course will be lectures by Russian
scholars.
+ + +
A contract for $.\'>o0,000 worth of
rifle cartridges has l.een awarded to a
Swanton, Vt., company by an Euro-
pean nation.
LookOut forROU P
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These are roupydiys. Use Pratts and keep your hen* well.
PrattS, Poultry Regulator
Makes hens lay now when egg prices sre highest.
Keeps feeding cost down. Shortens molt and wards of!
disease. Money refunded if you are not satisfied.
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Domestic Menace.
On mattera of feminine dress we sel-
dom venture to express an opinion un-
less it be occasionally a word in de-
fense of that liberalism which permits
a woman to consider her freedom and
comfort as well as her appearance.
But we are prompted now to utter
protest against the progress of Amer-
ican fashion designers, who, with a
free field for the first time in history,
can think of nothing better than to
mimic the military uniforms of Eu-
rope.
Is it not enough that we Bhould have
the horrors of the war thrust upon us
by the news, filling our Imaginations,
coloring our dreams? Is It not enough
that there Bhould be signs of a mili-
tary epidemic in all our magazines,
articles on strategy, stories of fight-
ing and bloodshed? Must we have the
world's nightmare intensified by the
very clothes the women wear?—Chi-
cago Post.
Starting the Day Wrong.
There wae a gloom on the face of
the New England farmer.
•'What's the matter, Elijah?" asked
his nearest \Qelghbor. "Flapjacks giv-
en out over to your house?"
"Worse'n that," said Elijah. "You
know, 'twasn't apple year, and wife
says we can't have any more apple
pie for breakfast."
"Can't you make out if you have
apple pie noon and night?'
I can, because I've got to," said
Elijah, "but, 1 tell you, it upsets me
starting in the day wrong like that."
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agents, you will never be annoyed by pim-
ples, blackheads or facial blemishes. If
not satisfied after thirty days' trial your
dealer will exchange for 50c in other goods.
Zona has satisfied for twenty years—try it
at our risk. At dealers or mailed, 50c.
ZONA COMPANY, WICINTA, KANSAS
PATENTS
Watson E. Coleman*
Patent Lawyer, Wash 1 tipton.
D.<". Advice and took* frva.
Kale* reasonable. Highest reference*. B«l services.
Wichita Directory
TflUA DOLLS. BOOKS. KODAKS.
I || WV SPORTING GOODS. ETC.
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SUITS
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Ben<l fur sample ami nelf-
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Com, oats, wheat, cotton meal
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Any man might conquer the world
If he had half as much perserverance
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Hanford's Balsam Bhould relieve
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The golden calf used to get a lot of
worship that 1b now devoted to the
silken calf.
Will Trade Wichita Residence
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12 MH>ms. large bum; located 1127 N. Tupeka Arr.
I Basil? worth IIO.W*). Will trade on a busis of t.iu*
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ctr
Canada is CallinAbu
to her RichWheat Lands
She extends to Americans a heartv in-
vitation to settle on her FREE Home-
stead lands of 160 acres each or secure
some of the low priced lands in Mani-
toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
This year wheat is higher but Canadian land just
as cheap, so the opportunity is more attractive than
ever. Canada wants you to help to feed the world
by tilling some of her soil—land similar to that
. which during many years has averaKi'd 20 to 45
v ul hushels of wheat to the acre. Think what you
'ifV can m!,ke with wh«at around $1 a bushel and
land so easy to get. Wonderful yields also of
Oats. Barley and Flax. Mixed farming
is fully as profitable an industry as grain
growing.
The Government this year is asking
farmers to put increased acreage into
. . _ — , grain. Military service is not com-
pulsory in Canada but there is a great demand for farm labor to replace the many
young men who have volunteered for service. The climate is healthful and
agreeable, railway facilities excellent, good schools and churches convenient.
Write for literature and particulars as to reduced railway rates to Superintendent
Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to
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I2S W. Oth SL, Kansas Clly. Mo.
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