Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 12, 1920, Page 7

many. sifow WAR'S APPALLING COST Figures Reveal Price World Paid to | Prevent Hunnish Hordes Extin. | \% « guishing Light of Liberty. - | ' ee | Some comparative figures which | force a realization of the magnitude of the world war ere given in Henry | Ford's Dearborn Independent, from which Is quoted: “There were 19 major wars fought in the world in the 117 years from 1793 to 1910. The late war cost 50 per cent | juore In lives and eost 700 per cent more In money spent than the whole 19 other wars put together, “The most costly in lives of the pre- vious Wers was that between England and France, 1793-1815, a total of 1,900,- vod men having perished. ext came the war of 185456, in which England, France, Sardinia, Tur- key, Austria and Russia fought; G09,- 797 men were killed, The more recent war between Rus: sia and Japan came third, claiming the lives of 555,900 men. “In our own Civil war both sides together lost 494400 men, rankin, fourth in loss of life in the great wars previous to the late one. “In the struggle between France and Germany, so disastrous to France and which played a very important part in the recent peace settlement, 311,000 lives were lost. “We Americans who remember or have read of the Civil war, of Gettys burg. of Pickett’s charge, of r mun's march to the sea, of Anderson- ville, have been wont to kon it as nd it was. more than men in the late both the North Civil war. than three times one of tefrible slaughter— “But Russia alone three times as many war as were lost by and the South In the y lost more lost “France lost nearly three times as many. “Great Britain lost nearly twice as “Austria lost nearly twice as muny. “So great has been the development Every Wa fn the engines of death that it Is al- most impossible to conceive the in : crease of fatalities in the late war us niture—finished w compared with previous wars. “There were 69 years of v the various natiogs in the prior to 1910, , “AS nearly a r amor org ye ma be learned, 5,098,- 097 men lost their lives in those wars. “That would mean 73,885 lives lost a year, or about 200 a day. “In the late war there were 200 men killed an hour, about 4,800 for every day of the war; a total of 7,450,200, according to the best available fig- ures. That would be about 1,750,000 a year. “In money cost of previous wars the French-English war, 1793-1815, comes first with its tux of 000,000." Alaskan Fur Seals. A tentative annual of Alaskan fur seals just made by Dr. G apd Hanna indicates the strength of the census he herd as 5: vompared with, “af 3.432 The number of pups born, to the number of breeding 157,172, an increase over 1918 of 10 per cent in each class, The aggregate figures for 1919 do not include the seals taken for their skins, According to the telegraphic reports, 22,027 fur-seal skins have been taken on St. Paul island and 4 on St George island through the regular kill- ing season ending Aug. 10, A special effort has been made to reduce the ex- cess of large male seals, with the re- sult that over 6,400 such skins have been taken. nimals of all ages, seals in 1918 equivalent cows, was Sympathetic Neighborhood. “How do you go about locating a ‘still!’ In these parts?” asked the stranger. “Be you a revenuer?” asked the an- cient mountaineer. “Oh, no. I'm a newspaper spending my vacation up here in the hills.” “Is that so? man, Weil, I never yet hearn tell o’ one o' yer paper fellers that didn't have a powerful thirst. You just set aroun’ a spell, sonny, an’ some o’ th’ boys’ll git se durned sorry fur you they'll come right up an’ offer to lead you to a ‘still.’”"—Birmingham Age-Herald, Agreeable Outlook. “I just now overheard an argument between a theorist and a hard headed business man.” “1 presume the theorist sald the bus {ness man lacked vis! “Oh, yes. That's phrase among theorists who can’t pay their board bills, but the business man said he could see a net profit of not less than $200,000 next year, with a little fling at Saratoga, Palm Beach or Mon- terey, and that was vision enough for him.” stock a Latest Excuse. The Missus (at 2 a, m.)—Nice hour to arrive home and a nice state to ar rive in, I must say! Explain, you brute! Himself—O!r friend asked me to help him gather ev'dence of vi'lations of the wartime pro’bition law, m'dear, an I jus’ (hic) couldn't refuse.—Buffalo Ex- press. Six to One. “Whet a wonderful family! A charming wife and five beautiful daughters, You must be a very happy “Yes, I suppose 1 ought to be, and I suppese | really am, but right now 1 want to say that I can tell you a Jot about the difficulties of being out- woted six to one.” Dutch Enamel, and Fleorlac, pre For making wal waterproof, wood furniture, these | ualled. eq A Finish For Are Your Teeth Bothering You? Nearly everybody has something the matter with the teeth, but keeps on postponing a visit to the dentist. ER) Some people are afraid of pain, some afraid of the price, and some don’t want to lose the time. All these people should know about the Registered Dentists using R. Parker System. First, there is no fear of pain when dental work is done under the E. R. Parker System. 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Every Surface lished 238 Years Ago, and ts Still in Existence. The first number of the Gazette de France, the oldest newspaper in Fran was published 283 years ago, 30, 1631, under the editorial di- rection of Doctor Renaudot, This most powerful of the early Journalists of France was born in 1584 and, after graduating in medictue, established himseif in Paris about 1612, Richelieu and Pierre d’'Hoziner, the genealogist, are suid to have Inspired Renaudot in establishing the Gazette, which was published weekly and eanaisted of two small sheets, the first bearing the title of Gazette und’ the second Nouvelles Ordinaires de Divers Endroits, Doe- tor Renaudot established the prece- dent, long followed in European jour- nalism and by no means extinct, of presenting foreign news first and rele- gating domestic and local news to the last page. Soon after the establish- ment of the Gazette Doctor Renaudot was granted an exclusive monopoly of printing and selling newspapers ip France. When the founder died in 1653 the Gazette passed to bis, sons, The title of Gazette de France was first used in the middie of the eight- eenth century. It bas been published under that title ever since, with the exception of a brief period during the revolution of 1848, when the name was temporarily changed to Le People Fraucals. Looked Cumbersome to Her. downtown store is making an early display of blanket bath robes, An elderly woman going through the store the other day was attracted by the bold patterns and stopped at the counter to examine the garments. “Just what are these used for, may I ask she sald to the clerk, The clerk informed her that they + bath robes and (he prospective A co-operative Hnes. The blue Beveren and’ the Havana rabbits are the strain which the clut intends to rear. The fur of the blue Beveven is of lavender blue and f+ | lon, tustrous, fine and silky. T | of ihe Havana ts ef a rich choc } color and is thi fairly long | tue. 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The place has a population of about six hundred, two churches, a school- house, a home for poor children, three picturesque old mills and about 160 dwellings. All but the schoolhouse and the churches are to be torn down to make way for the enlargement of Valley Forge park, and the whole vil- lage is wondering where it is going to find new homes, A few years ago Valley Forge park contained only 250 acres. Somebody discovered that the act creating the park provided that it should lie with- in the outposts of Washington's en- campment. Port Ken y scems to come within that territory, although there has been considerable historical argument on the point. For some years the villagers have been fighting the plans of the com- mission to extend the park, but now they have given up. The Rey. Rhea Coffman, pastor of the Port Kennedy Presbyterian church, is leading the movement to establish a new cormmu- nity. “This presents a big problem to most of us,” he says. “The majority of Port Kennedy people earn their liv- ing at the near-by magnesia mills and getting away from here may mean serious financial loss. We have been organizing prospective lot buyers and have obtained an option on a )-acre tract that is still within walking dis tance of the mills; 41 of our people have agreed to buy lots there.”—Bos- ton Evening Transcript. New Cancer Theory. Contrary to general belief, Dr. L. M. Ottofy, a prominent St. Louis pbysi- clan, declared at a recent convention of the American Association for Met ico-Physical Research held in Chicago that the cancer is not hereditary, uct coptagious and is positively curable. of “odd na en ye bel letters of their wa ne off in a quarrel w Ww st a i a SSS SSS] SSeS] “One result of the great w sald, “has been the great prevalen of cancer, the result of wounds and other causes, eBut cancer is not con- tagious and, like leprosy, while it may be latent In the system, does not de velop in the offspring of the one af. fected. “Cancer is absolutely curable, in from one to three months, if treated in its earlier stages, and for this treat- ment I use a pus serum made from the afflicted patient and then reinject ed Into the veins of the patient from whom it is so obtained, The treatment 1s not painful and does not confine the patient to bed, but permits of the usu al work or duty each day while under treatment.” When Bitten by a Mad Dog. When bitten by an animal that is suspected. as mad, the best thing to do, nxecordiag to Drs. J. C. Re poand A, Silkman of New York, who di a recent case In Archives of Diagnosis, Is to squeeze the wound to encourage bleeding, wash it with a solution of mercurl¢ loride (1 In 1,000), cauter ize it with fuming nitric acid, und ap ply a wet dressing of the mercuric chloride solution, The wound should never be sewn up; if a deep punctured wound, it should be cut open with a@ scalpel. The sooner this treatment Is applied the more likely It is to be successful, Afterward the routine Pasteur treat- ment should be taken. Women Build Roads. Five hundred Armenian women em || FAMILY MARKED BY ODDITY London Newspaper Telis of Strange humpbacked and Ine and was killed, ed, covered, ferent places on the same day; 1 in a fairly good state The idol is supposed to be hawahine, Her haunts are the springs at Pauku- kalo, the Kauaha pond, and the mateh- less around those and around the Fate That Pursued Group Both In Life and Death, There lived at Ipswich in the reign William III a family known as the family,” a most appropriate me, as the following facts prove, London Answers states: Eve it bad or indiffer- family in an odd ry event, good, Aine to that ar or an odd day of the month, and y person was odd in manner or havior or appearance. Even the Christian names al- AYS amounted to an odd number, The father and mother were Peter and Rahab; their seven children (all boys) bore t kiel, and Solomon, only names of David, Eze- Jonas, Matthew, Roger The husband sessed one leg and his wife only one Solomon was blind In his left and Roger lost his right in an rcldent; James had his left ear torn Matthew's left hand fingers. James, nd but three Jonas had a stump foot, David was czeklel was 6 feet 2 sat the age of nineteen, Every e of the children had red hair, not+ ithstanding the fact that the father’s hair was Jet black and the mother's hite, Strange rangely. The father fell into a deep sawpilt the wife died five days vation, Ezekiel enlist- was woun in 28 places, but re- Roger, James, Jonas, David nd Matthew died In 1713 in six dif- Solo- ion and Ezekiel were drowned in the hames in 1723, at birth, «all died as fier from st RECALL LEGENDS OF HAWAII Two Idols, Recently Unearthed, Bring to Memory Folklore Tales Almost Lost to Memory. Of the two old Hawaiian idols lately found concealed in the earth at Hook- supu, Paukukalo, one, a female idol, Is of preservation, that of Ki- of Maul myths, the Undine pools in the wooded glens Pilholo, Makawao, The legends about her compare with of the German fairy folklore, charms of her person aus she sits combing her wealth ef golden tresses at the edge of some bathing pool is woven many a half- forgotten Mauri folk tale. In some of the latest ones she 1s reputed to have lured two haoles at different times on a merry chase only to see her disappear in one or another the deep, clear-water pools among the wooded Jens of Pilholo. One, a doctor, ended his aimless wande to her glenwood haunts by be a paralytic, the other, a woodcutter, never ceased to describe the charms of this “wonderful woman with the gok den hair,” always able to elude his ein- brace, but ever oning him on to her lalr among the vines and trees and pools and crags of the glens about Pilholo.—Watlaku Ui L) Times. The Cynical Actress. The late Oscar Hammerstein be- Heved that the actresses should lead & pure life, “Cynical, disillusioned actresses are no good,” he once sald at a Minner, “I remember an actress of mine some years ago who fell dowo badly in a part I'd given her. “‘Look here,’ I said the morning after she fell down, ‘all the erities say yeu don’t show half enough emotion in the scene where your husband leaves you never to return.’ “The cynical, disillusioned creature gave a tart laugh. “Oh, 1 don’t, don’t 1? she sneered. ‘Well, look here, Mr. Hammerstein, I've had six husbands leave me never to return, and I guess I know how much emotion ought to be shown in circumstances as well as any- Safe Light for Miners, Nowadays the up-to-d miner car- ries a package of electricity about with him while underground, It Is a small storage battery attached to the back of bis belt, and is connected by a cord with a lamp fastened to the front of his cap, The lamp, provided with a reflector, throws quite a flood of light in front of the miner. But its chief advantage is absolute safety. In olden days miners (who must, of | course, have light) carried about with them v-flame lamps. These caused innumerable disastrous dents through ignition of coal dust or gases, Sir Humphry Davy's invention of u safety lamp whose flame was protected by a wire gauze saved an tuomense pumber of lives, It is In common use today, but the electric mine lamp 1s better and more convenient. Death Took Old and Young. During the war the London Times, either wittingly or unwittingly, pub- items about the ployed by the American Red Cross] lished innumerable have bnilt 100 miles of stone roads] yery old men and women in the Brit- and reconstructed several steel! ish empire who were dying off. Their bridges in this section within the last four months, an Associated Press dis their longevity, formed a contrast to the slanghter great age, nelancholy patch from Marash, Mesopotamia, | ot youth then going on In Europe. Dur- says. The roads were rebuilt in order | ing six months in 1918, 812 persons to fuctlitate transportation of Red] over one hundred years old died in the Cross supplies. There were no male! British isles, but the figures of young Ed laborers to be employed, so Capt. ward Bickel of Seattle, who had charge of the engineering work, emgaged the women, whe were glad tu have em ployment of any kind. a; ten Who fell during that time before the guns of the enemy and who died with influenza mounted toward a mil- lion. Not one of the old, be It sa’d ta passing, died fr