The Democrat (Beaver, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 4, Ed. 2 Thursday, June 20, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
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THE DEMOCRAT, BEAVER. OKLAHOMA
LAYING AND TESTING A TRENCH CABLE
rhdto l>>
Western Kewapnpt
British Royal engineers are shown laying a cable along a trench una testing It; the photograph was taken on th«
French front.
SUBMARINE MENACE
IS DWINDLING FAST
Listening Devices, Depth Bombs
and Destroyer Fleet Beating
Submarines.
CONVOY SYSTEM EFFICIENT
Wrecks of Tirpltz' Terrors Strew Bot-
tom of English Channel and North
Sea Mine Sweepers do Good
Work.
London.—The menace of the Ger-
man submarines and mines to the
maritime commerce of the allies Is be
coming less week by week. The Im-
provement Is due chiefly to the devel-
opment of the listening devices and the
depth bombs carried on the swlft-mov-
lng destroyers. The hydrophone is the
most useful Invention that has been
discovered by the navy In Its antisub-
marine crusade, and It Is being Im-
proved upon all the time.
When a U-boat Is spotted from aloft
by one of the alert observers In the
seaplanes which wing their flight over
the North sea and the waters around
the British Isles, he signals the posi-
tion to the nearest destroyer. Direct-
ly he gets this Information her com-
mander steams at full speed In the di-
rection Indicated until he can hear the
submarine plugging along under water.
The destroyer follows the U-boat for
hours, If necessary, until the com-
mander thinks he has got the enemy in
the right position for a hit, and then
lets go the bomb.
While the number of enemy under-
sea craft that are sunk or captured
each month is not given out for publi-
cation It is known that it equals the
construction of submarines In Ger-
many. The greatest blow to German
hopes of destroying the commerce of
the allies on the ocean lies In the con-
voy system, which Is rapidly approach-
ing perfection. When the plan of es-
corting transports and supply ships
right across the Atlantic In large fleets
was first tried out there was consid-
erable delay on account of difference
In speed of the various ships of which
It was composed.
At the present time convoys are all
classified according to speed, and a
fast transport can make a round trip
In 30 days, while the slower class of
supply ships drift across the ocean at
a steady six or seven-knot galt«
The number of British and American
destroyers has Increased rapidly and
is still growing so that there are plenty
of these essential watchdogs of the sea
to make the passage of convoys across
the Atlantic and North sen secure. The
greatest percentage of losses by sub-
marines since January 1 has been In
the Mediterranean, and this is now be-
ing reduced by increasing the number
of destroyers in those waters. No sub-
marine commander will risk attack on
a convoy which is protected on all four
sides by destroyers and frequently ac-
companied by seaplanes.
Naval experts are confident that
when there are sufficient destroyers to
escort all convoys required to trans-
port troops and munitions from Amer-
ica to England and Frnnce the subma-
rine peril will be practically at an end.
This stage should be reached by Au-
gust. At the present time the U-boats
watch and wait for vessels which are
alone.
The sinking of vessels In the Irish
soa has been due to the fact thnt the
water there Is muddy and not too deep,
and a submarine can lie on the bottom
and come up at night. Quite recently,
In two Instances, when steamships
were torpedoed In the Irish sea, de-
stroyers blew one U-boat to pieces with
a depth charge and damaged the other
one so seriously before she could sub-
merge that the commander surren-
dered with his crew.
Pilots of seaplanes and airplanes
who fly over the waters around the
British Isles have reported numbers of
submarines which were sunk months
ago and are lying on the bottom of the
channel and North sea.
In addition to destroyers and patrol
boats which scour the surface in every
direction, there are all kinds of traps
and obstacles placed under water
which make the passage of Dover
straits and exit from Heligoland bight
a very complicated problem for a
U-boat commander to solve. Hundreds
of mine sweepers, mnijned by fisher-
men and sailors from the merchant
service, are at work day and night
making the ocean laneg safe for steam-
ships belonging to the allies and neu-
tral nations. Their crews have becomo
adepts In the art of finding and ex-
ploding German mines hidden below
the surface.
During the year ending In April more
than 1,000 mines, which cost $1,000
each to construct, were exploded or
captured by the British mine sweepers.
The loss of mine sweepers was very
small in comparison. In one instance
a mine sweeper found a German mine
drifting In the North sea, and towed It
over well In toward the mouth of Elbe
under cover of fog. After pumping It
up the crew set the mine 20 feet below
the surface, und 12 hours later it was
struck by a German steamship hound
for Gothenberg from Bremen, and the
vessel and her cargo of iron ore went
to the bottom.
The Increasing hazard against sub-
marines ever returning to port Is mnk
lng It difficult for the German admir-
alty to get crews to man them.
CRAZY BOAR TREES OWNER
Oregon Man Saves His Life by Climb-
ing Up Out of Reach of En-
raged Animal.
Cottage Grove, Ore.—Jasper Patten
had a narrow escape from death when
attacked by a boar pig, which had
gone amuck. Only by climbing into a
tree and calling his dogs to his
slstance was he able to escape.
One of the dogs was torn to pieces
before the hog was run Into an In
closure.
A horse had been attacked by the
pig nnd Mr. Pntten was going to the
assistance of the horse when he was
attacked.
The Hospitable Gate
By ABBIE FARWELL BROWN
of The Vigilantes.
DIGGING A SAP
Canadian engineers digging a sap
while one of their number keeps
watch for enemy airplanes.
Millions entered by that Hospitable
Gate which America left open to the
strangers from all lands. Millions of
the poor, the friendless, the war-
weary, to whom America offered pros-
perity, friendship and peace. They
came from the ends of the earth. Ser-
bians, Greeks, French, Russians, Ital-
ians, Armenians, Poles—a hundred
races and more Jostled over the
threshold. We welcomed them all—
too readily, some thought, fearing for
our "unguarded gates," as one poet
called them. Many had not, as an-
other poet accused, sufficient faith In
the miscalled "scum of the earth."
Many of these became citizens, and
In turn helped to order the affairs of
the great government which had
opened Its door to them. Some re-
mained aliens. But all profited by our
laws and opportunities.
There came war! , The worst war
which the world has ever known. A
war of right against wrong; nnd pres-
ently America was in It. But first
by thousands our friends went back
through the Hospitable Gate. Serbians,
Greeks, Russians, French, Italians—
how many more?—returned to the
countries they had never renounced,
to fight for the freedom of small na-
tions against a tyrant foe who threat-
ened the very existence of liberty.
Out of our Hospitable Gate they went,
back to the ends of the earth ; carry-
ing to the desperately fighting lands
the news of what American democracy
means. They bore living witness of
the American Idea to the struggling
small nations. In the martyred small
nations they are spreading the gospel
of American brotherhood and hope.
In the trenches of Belgium; In the
hideous German prisons where Rus-
sian, Polish, French, Italian, English
prisoners are huddled, there Is secret
talk of what America does for her
friends; of her strength, power and
generosity.
It will not be forgotten. Echoes will
be whispered when their poor lips are
dumb. Serbian exiles talk it over in
their flight. Armenlnn refugees live
upon the hope of It. The man who
once blacked boots In New York gos-
sips secretly about It In the mountains
of Greece. The Chicago ex-waiter
whispers It In dissatisfied Hungary.
The former Philadelphia fruit mer-
chant tells of It In the streets of Rome.
The one-time rag-picker of Boston
sighs for It In the disorderly streets
of Moscow. They have known. They
can tell! Everywhere the news Is
sprending; even In muzzled Austria.
In Germany Itself, sealed to the truth
from outside, there are scared, whis-
pered rumors.
For Germans and Austrians went
home too, to tight against their late
neighbors. To fight at last against
America, the hostess who bad wel-
comed them kindly. That was tragic;
but It was not dishonest. (The dis-
honesty is In that "Invisible army" of
sneaks and spies who remained In our
midst, undeclared, to stab their adopt-
ed country in the Intimacy of a Judas
friendship!)
Tes, even through Germany seeps
the news of democracy, that went
back through the Gate, once so hos-
pitable to all! Those devoted, mis-
guided soldiers, sacrificed by the hun-
dred thousand to Prussian ambition
echo It In their broken-hearted diaries.
Those quieted revolutionists, watching
the starved children nnii desperate
women In the empty Austrian market
places, will remember it. The wound-
-ed Hungarians will whisper it in the
Red Cross hospitals. Nay, the haughty
Prussian officers will meet It at lust
in the steely eyes of our young Ameri-
can heroes. They will recognize It in
their defeat
For out of the Hospitable Gate has
gone another vast horde; a dedicated
army, a consecrated navy. They are
steaming to the very frontiers of au-
tocracy, tyranny and greed. With the
Invincible sword of liberty they will
enforce the principles which thai
Hospitable Gate has always symbol-
ized. as the entrance to a safe haven
of democracy.
So this Is what our Hospitable Gate
has njeant, both ways. It is an ave-
nue for the distribution of the Ameri-
can Idea. We did not realize that in
the old days, did we?
We need not have feared! Our free
hospitality was part of the heaven-
ordered plan.
A Word of Precaution.
TUST wherein lies the reason for the use of vegetable preparations for infants
J and children ?
Why are any but vegetable preparations unsafe for infants and children ?
Why are Syrups, Cordials and Drops condemned by all Physicians and
most laymen ?
Why has the Government placed a ban on all preparations containing, among
other poisonous drugs, Opium in its variously prepared forms and pleasing tastesf
and under its innumerable names?
These are questions that every Mother will do well to inquire about.
Any Physician will recommend the keeping of Fletcher's Castoria in tha
house for the common ailments of infants and children.
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Letters from Prominent Druggists
addressed to Chas. H. Fletcher.
S. J. Briggs & Co., of Providence, R. I., say : "We have sold Fletcher*®
Castoria in our three stores for the past twenty yeara and consider it
one of the best preparations on the market."
ManBur Drug Co., of 9t. Paul, Minn., says : "We are not In the habit
of recommending proprietary medicines, but we never hesitate to lay •
good word for Castoria. It is a medical success."
Hegeman & Co., of New York City, N. Y., say : "We can say for your
Castoria that it is one of the best selling preparations in our stores.
That is conclusive evidence that it is satisfactory to the users."
W. H. Chapman, of Montreal, Que., says: "I have sold Fletcher's Ca*
toria for many years arid have yet to hear of one word other than praise of
its virtues. I look upon your preparation as one of the few so called
patent'medicines having merit and unhesitatingly recommend it as a life
household remedy."
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS BEARS
the
Signature
of
Easy Money.
Having taken her subscription for a
Liberty bond, the banker turned to the
sweet young thing nnd asked, "Now,
infss, how would you like to pay for
It?" "Charge it, please," was the
prompt reply.
FRECKLES
Now Is the Time to Get Rid of Theie Ugly Spot.
There's 110 longer the slightest need of feeling
•shamed of jour free kirn, as Othlne—double
•trength—U guaranteed to remore these homely
•pots.
Simply get am ounce of Othlne—double
•trength—from your druggist, and apply a little
of It night and morning uud you ihoulil noon see
that even the worst freckles liuve begun to dlB-
•ppear, vtlillc the lighter ones hijfe tanlsbed en-
tirely. It Is seldom that more fnnn on# ounce
Is needed to completely clear the skin and gain
• beautiful clear complexion.
Be pure to ask for the double strength Othlne,
as this Is sold under guarantee of money back
If It falls to remove freckles.—Adv.
Mean Thingl
"My denr, did you make this pud-
ding out of the cookery book?"
"Yes, love."
"I thought I tnsted one of the
covers."
SWAMP-ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS
Th'ere is only one medicine that, really
stands out pre-eminent as a medicine for
curable ailments of the kidnej-B, liver
and bladder.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has proven
to be just the remedy needed in thou-
sands upon thousands of distressing cases.
Swamp-Root, a physician's prescription for
special diseases, makes friends quickly be-
cause its mild and immediate effect is
soon realized in most cases. It is a gen-
tle, healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at all
drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medi-
um and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binjzhamton, N. Y., for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.—Adv.
Chief Object of Matrimony.
Bessie—You going to get married
when you grow up?
Jessie (resignedly)—Oh, I s'pose so.
You can't get your alimony 'less you
do.
Equivocal.
'My wife tole me to engage a plain
cook."
"Face or cooking?"
An Astounding Dissembler.
"What do you think of a man who
will constantly deceive his wife?"
"I think he's a wonder!"
War and Birth Rates.
In his recent'presidential address to
the Royal Statistical society, Sir Ber-
nard Mullet declared that the United
Kingdom has lost by the fall In births
during the war more than 500,000
potential lives. During the same period
he estimates thnt Germany has lost
2,600,000 and Hungary 1,600,000. The
great decline in the birth rate In the
central powers is ascribed to the fact
that the poorer classes in those coun-
tries have suffered greatly In health
nnd vigor on account of the war, while
the corresponding classes in Great
Britain have actually enjoyed more fa-
vorable conditions than in tlmp-of
peace.—Scientific American.
known tonic properties of Iron and Quinine. Yuu
can feel its good effect on the Blood after the llrst
few doses. PrlcoOlo.
Deadly Parallel.
Soldier (describing Hun attack)—
They were like b<?es out of a hive,
and our fire simply withered them up.
David (in l'snlm 118)—They com-
passed me about like bees; they are
quenched as the fire of thorns.—Bos-
ton Evening Transcript. *
Nothing of the Kind.
"My poor man, aren't you something
of an Invertebrate?"
"No, ma'am; I never tech a drop."
Many a man skins the truth, stuffs
It and sets It up as his ideal.
Take Car* of Your Hofiail
Nothing else will do a* muea t
keep them In fine condition aa
Or. David Hobart**
PHYSIC BALL and
HORSE TONIC rr&SN
once every three months—mafcas •
sleek ooat, prevents worms, etc.
Read (be Practical Home VHeriaarhe
Bm<I for (m kMkM ea iWrttaa laM
If no dealer In roar town, writ*
Or. David Robert!' tit. Co.. 100 Gnri iimi. Wiutetto, Vfc
Cuticura Stops
Itching and
Saves the Hair
S«*p 25c. CiatMDt 25c tn< 50c
SOTS
HAIR
parntlou ...
... odlcate dandruff.
For Restoring Color aa4
Beauty toGray or Faded Hail
6Qc. and ti OOat Uruyglata.
Kill All Flies! ™MsT°
liar attracts au<J kills
convenient aad cbaap.
dkusesi^iB^
VDaisy Fly Killer
HAROLD BOM CM, ISO DC KALB *Vt„ BROOKLYN, N. V.
C. J. Mustion Wool
Commission Co.
16th & Liberty St a., Stock Yard* Station
KANSAS CITY, MO.
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-|;HdwEx-Senator,
Ifilnished
iStomach
Trouble
| A Wonderful Testimonial
indorsing EATONIC
J Gentlemen:
I h-ve used EATONIC tablets in my
family aiu! find it a most excellent
remedy for dyspepsia and all forma of
indigestion. Yours respectfully,
W. V. SULLIVAN,
When Your Eyes Need Care
Try Murine Eye Remedy
Jto Smarting — Just Bye Comfort. (0 cents at
DrogKiata or malL Write for Free ft to Book.
tfURINK UK KIMKDK CO.. CHICAGO
W. V. SULLIVAN
Former U. S. Senator
From MiaaiaaippL
(FOR YOUR"!
At All Druggists
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Dyspepsia, Flatulence, Heartburn, Sour,
Acid and Gassy Stomach
Here's the secret: EATONIC Drive* the Gas oat
of the body—and the Bloat goes with it. Guaranteed
to bring relief or money back. Get a box today.
Costs only a cent or two a day to use It.
8«d for th. "B.tp" Book. Addim E.tonic Krandy Co.. 1018-24 So. Witaab A.—.., Ctlcw. IB.
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